What are you having trouble with and how can I help?

Hey thanks for doing this! I realized after I'd gotten banned from the .ee one that you can't block comms you're banned from. Which seems like a real lemmy oversight, gotta say!

Fucking hell, against my better judgement, I'm going to try just one more time to reach you.

Even doctors washing their hands between patients was a major controversy among doctors even though the statistical evidence proving that washing hands saves lives was very clear.

How do you think this changed? It wasn't the pro-hand-washing doctors throwing up their hands and saying "you're all idiots and incapable of understanding the truth". If they'd done that, hand washing would still be controversial. No, they explained, they did experiments, they argued, they used evidence. It's hard, people suck, people are stubborn, but if your message is worth sharing, it's worth sharing in a way that doesn't immediately make people roll their eyes and stop talking to you. And your method of communication does exactly that.

I was a math teacher for many years. Do you know how frustrating it is to try and teach kids what a derivative is? It's so fucking clear and obvious. Derivatives are rates of change. They're the slope of tangent lines, how the hell can I make this any clearer?!? And yet. Some portion of them don't get it. So, as a teacher, do I throw up my hands and say "fuck it, this student is mathematically incapable, get them out of my class". Absolutely not. I try again, with different words, a different picture, a different context. And if they still don't get it? You guessed it, you try again. And you start asking them questions to try and figure out what is causing the misunderstanding. You ask them to tell you what a function is, what a slope is. You ask them to tell you everything they can glean from a diagram. You do the hard work to figure out where exactly the disconnect is and what you can do to fix that.

Prophets aren't so different from teachers. You have wisdom you want, or need, to impart, and there are people who could learn from your wisdom, I guarantee it. But people don't want to learn from an asshole. Especially not an impatient asshole. And that's what your posting style says to me: you're an impatient asshole. Now that may or may not be true, and I've dabbled in assholery myself, believe me (or just check my post history, there's a lot of assholery there), but you don't have to post like an impatient asshole. And you'll get better engagement, more people willing to listen to you, if you don't post like an impatient asshole.

Well, I've done all I can here. Good luck with your life as a prophet! You'll either learn how to explain your ideas to people or you won't, and clearly nothing I can say will make any difference.

Of course you did. But look at the responses you're getting, people aren't convinced! So the way I see it, you have two options: continue as you are, jumping down people's throats the instant they push back on your claims, pushing people away and making it harder to spread your message, or, explain more, again, in a different way, never stop explaining. If people need to hear your message, if god wants you to spread it, then you gotta do it in a way that gets people to listen, right? And immediately going on the offensive the second you get any pushback isn't going to work! You've got to do the hard work of gentle persuasion.

Well, I read your post, it doesn't seem very explanatory. It reads like someone just making claim after claim, with no backing for any of them. And sure, maybe the backing is "god told me this in a conversation we had last week", but then I feel like maybe your job needs to be to take what god tells you and find textual evidence to support it in the bible. You have very little of that. You're "connecting the dots" in a way that I'm sure feels true and obvious to you, but to the rest of us, your connections are not at all obvious, and instead of trying to explain them, you just call people idiots or say you're not surprised they're mocking you or say you've already explained.

Hey buddy, I'm an atheist. I don't believe in god at all, so of course I don't believe you're really hearing the word of god. I'm sorry you're insulted by that, but friendo, as a prophet you're going to have to endure way worse treatment than just some random atheist on the internet not believing god is real. You might practice not letting the non-believers (it's me, I'm the non-believer) get to you. If you know you've been contacted by god, what the fuck does it matter whether I believe you or not? Believe in yourself and your message enough to be willing to explain it, over and over and over again, because as a prophet that's what you're going to have to do.

If you get insulted so easily that you immediately go on the offensive and refuse to explain your revelations at the first sign that someone doesn't believe you, you're simply not going to be a very effective prophet, that's all I'm saying.

So that's a yes then. Wild! At least that explains why you're so unwilling to back up your claims! You're expecting all of us to simply believe you immediately because you're god's chosen or whatever. You do you, of course, but I'd suggest being a little more willing to meet people where they're at and actually explain where you're coming from rather than trying to browbeat them into agreeing based on nothing other than you stating you've experienced divine revelation. Alternatively, be a little more up-front with the fact that you feel you're god's chosen so that people know they're not going to get an interesting conversation about bible scholarship with you, but instead your interpretation of the revelations you've received, with no discussion.

Holy shit, are you a prophet?

I don't actually care about your reasons for eating the corpses of sentient beings. If you think I'm "impolite" for asking you to stop, that's fine, but it's still true that you pay to have sentient beings murdered so that you can eat their corpses. That's just a fact.

I want you to stop paying for murder.

ProfessorOwl is not using alts, most of the quick upvotes have come from me, because I'm lurking this thread, because I have nothing better to do at the moment.

Please don't eat animals.

I didn't know about this! I already use rofi for a few different things, so I'm going to get rofi-calc working too, it'll fit perfectly into my workflow. Thanks!

I think my favorite might be "please wait warmly, folks are making tea". I don't know why, but it always gives me a little giggle

Please don't eat animals.

Carnists get so fucking mad when you point out that they're eating literal dead babies. Fucking snowflakes. You don't like being reminded you're eating the corpse of an adorable baby? Well, maybe you should stop doing it then, no one is forcing you to eat animals, you can literally just not do it

I think that if someone gets instance-banned (as that account did), that admins can purge some or all comments at the same time, and this doesn't end up in the modlog.

I don't actually have any real knowledge here, I'm mostly trying to comment something incorrect to bait someone who actually knows into making an informative comment to correct the misinformation in mine

What the fuck kind of chart/graph is that?! It arguably gives less information than a simple sentence containing the two percentages.

I hate journalists so fucking much