• Dizzy Devil Ducky@lemm.ee
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    10 months ago

    I’d probably squander these questions because if it’s the Christian devil, I’m not sure whether or not to trust him or not.

    1. What’s my name?

    2. What’s your name?

    3. Did you know I’m asking these questions because I don’t know whether or not to believe you?

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      10 months ago

      “Your name is Joshua”

      “That’s not my name. My name is Sam!”

      “Sam is the name that your parents gave you, but it’s not the name that God gave you”

      “…”

      “Anyway my real name is Larry”

  • TIL Satan is a genie.

    Also, in these games, the folks going for “more wishes” are shooting low. The only wish you need, which also defeats the monkey’s paw, is “grant me omnipotence.”

    But: this is Satan we’re talking about. The Deciever, The Traitor. Not only is this a monkey-paw situation, but a Christian Satan is going to actively try to decieve you.

    I don’t think I’d even trust his answer about whether there’s a cost, so I’d pass on the winning lotto numbers, too.

    I’d say, “no thanks” and immediately convert to Catholicism, start going to church, and lead a clean life from here on out. If the orthodox Jews are right, I’m fucked anyway since my mother isn’t a Jew, so Christianity is the best bet.

        • Overpopulation. An eternity of Trump running for president again. Countries saddled with dictators who never die.

          We’d have to solve a whole lot of other issue, of the kind we’re proving incapable of addressing right now, without the benefit of having the old guard die off and giving a new generation a chance. Plus, all the fucking extra amount of people putting more load on an already strained ecosystem.

          We’d have to implement Carousel, but good luck with that: it’s already almost impossible to evet get a senile senior’s licence revoked in the US.

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            All your points are kind of fair to be worried about, but they have also all being debunked.

            Overpopulation? Were having an underpopulation chrisis in the west.

            Trump? You already have him! Making billions of people suffer didn’t fix that already.

            Etc.

            What’s Carousel BTW?

            • Developed countries often have flat or negative population growth. Even so[ the population of the US is still growing; we gained 1.2 million people between 2020-2021. However, it doesn’t matter, because most of the peopl in the world don’t live in “the West”. There are 300M people in the US; India, alone, has a population of 1.4 billion. India’s population grew by 11.2 million in 2020-2021.

              The total world population grew by 68 million in 2020. Where in the world did you hear that we’re having an underpopulation crisis in the West?

              Yes, we have Trump. But someday, we won’t. We won’t have Putin, or Kim Jong Un. Old age, and death by it, doesn’t guarantee that a country’s leadership will get better, but for some populations it’s their only chance.

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                10 months ago

                Europe and Japan.

                Are your +1.2M also not immigration?

                And yes everyone isn’t in the west but eventually they’ll be developed nations too and then people have less children.

                You’ll have another Trump of Reagan or whatever anyways, it’s a democratic problem, not something being old solves. Doesn’t stop either if the two USA pretenders eh.

                Curing aging doesn’t make people immortal or something, it just cures that particular disease. Like we have cures for lots of other diseases.

                Idk who down voted you btw.

                • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍@midwest.social
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                  10 months ago

                  Japan is not in “the West.” It also has a relatively small population; it’s only a third of the size of tye US, and less than a tenth of either China or India. Germany’s population is flat, but it’s even smaller than Japan. France’s population is growing. Spain’s is declining slightly, but its even smaller than Germany - half the population size! Overall, the total rate of population change in the combined EU is a fraction of the number of new people the US added, and a drop in the bucket compared to the total growth of the overall World population.

                  Were you suggesting that anti-aging technology should only be available to people in the wealthier countries? Because those are almost the only ones with flat or negative growth. If everyone has access equally, then there will be a population explosion and crisis, because the countries adding the most people to the world right now are also the largest - by orders of magnitude.

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    10 months ago

    Why is your father such a childish fuckwit?

    Why does he let you act equally/more powerful?

    Can I have an Audi RS6 Avant with unlimited fuel and tyres?

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    10 months ago

    How do I know it’s the devil OP? Couldn’t it be God or some other entity? How would I know?