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Baxter Williams @trustbelieveknow.com · 3h

"text elemental" is so good

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Baxter Williams @trustbelieveknow.com · 01/10/2026

what about terry pratchett? Googling his name and "allegations" is not bringing anything up for me.

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Baxter Williams @trustbelieveknow.com · 01/10/2026

How am I in my mid 30s and still pulling an occasional all-nighter when I procrastinate on my work? This is college brainrot behavior. Why can I not do what I know is better for me??

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Baxter Williams @trustbelieveknow.com · 30/09/2026

The degree to which I have my life together is directly proportional to my Wordle streak. My current streak is 2 days.

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Baxter Williams @trustbelieveknow.com · 30/09/2026

Contradictions can always be made to be "only apparent".

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Baxter Williams @trustbelieveknow.com · 30/09/2026

I forgot this was an OG protestant book and was jump-scared by the Pope Cave Monster.

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Baxter Williams @trustbelieveknow.com · 27/09/2026

I've liked everything that I've read by CSL so I imagine I would enjoy it

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Baxter Williams @trustbelieveknow.com · 25/09/2026

But, uh, books do that too... But for most people books aren't that addicting to the point that it is genuinely difficult to get someone's attention so frequently. And if it is that bad for someone, then I think books would be seen negatively for that specific person.

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Baxter Williams @trustbelieveknow.com · 25/09/2026

It comes from screens making people asocial to those in their immediate vicinity. (imo)

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Baxter Williams @trustbelieveknow.com · 25/09/2026

He is a motherly hen at one point, but I'm afraid that's as close as we get.

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Baxter Williams @trustbelieveknow.com · 25/09/2026

I'm only 45 minutes into Pilgrim's Progress, but I gotta say it's a little too on the nose. Like if you told an allegory of baseball with a main character named "Batter" who used a "stick" to hit a "round object".

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Baxter Williams @trustbelieveknow.com · 25/09/2026

There is only 3 types of cause-and-effect that are conceivable. 1) Determined 2) Uniformly random 3) Random but within a determined non-uniform distribution If dualism is true, surely it is (1), but maybe (3).

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Baxter Williams @trustbelieveknow.com · 24/09/2026

All I want is for there to be a deeply interested researcher who is neither for or against Christianity. I have such a hard time trusting the conclusions of Christians who have a moral obligation to spread the gospel and atheists who come across as obviously biased against it in their writings.

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Baxter Williams @trustbelieveknow.com · 24/09/2026

I'm officially committing to a deep dive into historical critical study of "Hell". Here's one of the spreadsheets I've started during the research phase.

a spreadsheet with columns for different translations of "Sheol" across the years. In view are the Masoretic text, LXX, and Vulgate.

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Baxter Williams @trustbelieveknow.com · 22/09/2026

Wait, why did this result in them blocking me? :(

post I had originally quoted. From @puppermoder.bsky.social

It says "Holy fuck how many oz books were there"

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Baxter Williams @trustbelieveknow.com · 22/09/2026

I ended up getting the entire Oz collection on sale for like $5 and listened to 7 of them. I think my favorite lesser known one was "Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz", which is book 4. The Valley of Voe was very interesting.

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Baxter Williams @trustbelieveknow.com · 21/09/2026

This just seems like another case of "this has already been concluded by past fathers so we are just doing our best to meet it by redefining words from their normal usage" Love is better defined as "intending the good of another" regardless of whether it happens to deprive of joy.

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Baxter Williams @trustbelieveknow.com · 21/09/2026

Perhaps they mean that anytime I find joy in giving up my time or identity for another, it's not really love because I have a self-interested aspect to it??

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Baxter Williams @trustbelieveknow.com · 21/09/2026

The key Catholic argument is that there is always some amount of suffering because love always involves "self-giving" or losing some of yourself. But I just don't buy that self-giving is accurately characterized as suffering in *all* cases.

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Baxter Williams @trustbelieveknow.com · 21/09/2026

What is stopping people from saying "Jesus wasn't actually endorsing a future kingdom of heaven. He was just establishing God's dominance using the expectations of the day."?

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Baxter Williams @trustbelieveknow.com · 21/09/2026

And, crucially, they are the pool from which national candidates arise.

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Baxter Williams @trustbelieveknow.com · 21/09/2026

I don't call them more important I guess, but I certainly think each vote is more impactful there. If we should apportion our energy to things we have more control over, we should apportion more energy to them.

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Baxter Williams @trustbelieveknow.com · 21/09/2026

Woah, automatic thread numbering is cool. Awesome feature

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Baxter Williams @trustbelieveknow.com · 21/09/2026

What if the ascension was placed deliberately in the narrative before Paul had his revelation in order to discredit Paul's authority?

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Baxter Williams @trustbelieveknow.com · 21/09/2026

This is apparently the orthodox Catholic position. Weird implications for heaven obviously, but I'm ignoring that for now. Just thinking about it in terms of mortal life.

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Baxter Williams @trustbelieveknow.com · 21/09/2026

Mulling over whether love can exist without suffering.

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Baxter Williams @trustbelieveknow.com · 16/09/2026

Luke 17:20-21 is pretty crazy. Saying that no one will be able to point to the kingdom in the sense of observable things.

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Baxter Williams @trustbelieveknow.com · 16/09/2026

pyromaniac Jesus who feels tied down by baptism.

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Baxter Williams @trustbelieveknow.com · 15/09/2026

Reading all the gospels again to make a parallel reading of every statement made by Jesus that is plausibly about final judgment and I swear this is the first time I've seen this verse. Crazy depiction of Jesus, without parallel elsewhere.

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Baxter Williams @trustbelieveknow.com · 11/09/2026

If Bryan Johnson is right about one thing it is this.

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Baxter Williams @trustbelieveknow.com · 11/09/2026

I'm in Ireland and a 22 year old bartender has just told me that Donald Trump is "deadly" (praise, apparently)

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Baxter Williams @trustbelieveknow.com · 11/09/2026

At this point this website is the place I go to for the opinions of trans-people-with-religious-trauma on religion. ...and little more than that.

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Baxter Williams @trustbelieveknow.com · 02/09/2026

I've had a bunch of Catholics tell me that a grave sin is only when you do something with the full awareness that it is morally wrong. But Socrates says no man desires evil. So either Socrates is wrong, or Catholic Hell is empty.

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Baxter Williams @trustbelieveknow.com · 01/09/2026

Confirmation bias is genuinely helpful in religion. But those archeologists and geologists looking for the exodus and the flood had their worlds absolutely rocked.

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Baxter Williams @trustbelieveknow.com · 01/09/2026

"seek and you shall find" is both boosting and extremely damaging to the Christian case.

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Baxter Williams @trustbelieveknow.com · 01/09/2026

Bishop Barron is a universalist???

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Baxter Williams @trustbelieveknow.com · 31/08/2026

It's funny to imagine a UU member who secretly believes in Hell. Like a secret universalist among the pews in a Roman Catholic church

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Baxter Williams @trustbelieveknow.com · 31/08/2026

It's embarrassing that I haven't read the didache yet. Fixing that this week

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Baxter Williams @trustbelieveknow.com · 31/08/2026

I don't know what my grandparents believed either but I'm allowed to make an educated guess based on context clues. Get off my back

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Baxter Williams @trustbelieveknow.com · 31/08/2026

I considered (and am still considering UU) mainly because I truly think Jesus didn't believe trinitarianism. I don't think Jesus believed universalism, but it is possible I suppose.

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Baxter Williams @trustbelieveknow.com · 28/08/2026

Yes, I am as cringe millennial as I depict myself

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Baxter Williams @trustbelieveknow.com · 28/08/2026

I remember a time when we were a significantly disproportionate population of reddit users, and this was my go to GIF (my reddit account is 13 years old, wow)

static.klipy.com

Minnesota Karma Train

ALT: Minnesota Karma Train

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Baxter Williams @trustbelieveknow.com · 28/08/2026

Anyone says they use bayesian analysis but won't publish their spreadsheet of priors and calculations is just doing seemings. Don't be fooled.

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Baxter Williams @trustbelieveknow.com · 28/08/2026

Chaos and it's unfair consequences are the price paid by existence for the ability for multiple souls to exist with the capacity to love each other. That is pandeism. We endure because love is so great, both to receive and more importantly to give.

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Baxter Williams @trustbelieveknow.com · 28/08/2026

Perfect justice should make one feel joy, not despair. If you feel despair at people being annihilated or going to Hell, it's because it doesn't seem like perfect justice.

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