Seems like ever years he’s injured, and it’s hard to believe he’ll ever sustain the excellence we expect from him. Who is equal value to him, currently, considering his injury history? Or is he still a premium get and worth the risk?
What would be a good price to buy/sell him at? Two first round picks?
He’s averaging 17/10/2/1 shooting 47% from the field and 36% from 3 (5 attempts per game)
Only other centers to average at least 17/10 while shooting at least 35% from 3 are Joel Embiid, Nikola Jokic and Jonas Valanciunas
He’s only 26 but his long term fit with the Rockets is in question because of Sengun and the upcoming draft that is stacked with big men
If Rockets decided to cash in on him, what would his return look like?
PJ Washington + a protected 1st? THT straight up?
Value, particularly in the ethereal and metaphorical sense, is a tricky thing. It is largely subjective in the context of this post. There's no way to measure how much someone values their material life and there's no real helpful way to compare the different amounts between people. So this argument aims to do away with the 'Person X values life more than person Y' approach and instead, focus on how certain beliefs limit your ability to value life, rather than outright devalue life.
Fortunately its a simple argument. If you believe in an eternal afterlife, then that afterlife, by necessity, is going to be the more important life. Only a fool who has no idea what 'eternity' means would argue otherwise. This is the limitation placed on the value of material life by Christian theology. It is a limitation of hierarchy. Material life cannot be the most important life, because it by necessity needs to be less important than the eternal life.
"That may be the case," I hear you saying, "but even still, since the eternal life is so important, it makes material life important since that's your test of whether or not you get into heaven." And sure. That's true, material life is still important to a Christian. However, that material life's value to you is limited, since it must rank lower than the eternal life.
Material life is a means to an end for the Christian. It's value only comes from the existence of the eternal afterlife to a believing Christian. We see this all the time. Christians making the argument that life is meaningless without their religion being true. Take away their afterlife, and they have no value for their material life.
A person who does not believe in the afterlife, by contrast, therefore has no hierarchical limit on how valuable material life is. There is nothing that must be more important than material life, and so the non-believer is free to value life in the highest hierarchical slot they choose. Life needs to play second fiddle to none for a non-believer. A non-believer can value material life higher than a dogmatic Christian can in terms of hierarchy. It is possible for nothing to be more important than material life to a non-believer, where as a Christian must have something valued higher than their material life.
So to be clear, though I still expect comments that don't understand this nuance here: this does not mean non-believers do value life more than Christians. I can't prove that and I don
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I hear conservatives say this all this time and I just want to know the best way to object to this argument
I am asking to see the individual choices. Every religions values change over time especially as culture shifts but for the Christians now. What would you, specifically, list as important Christian Values? The things that make you a good person in the eyes of the Christian god and/or Jesus.
*Bonus for also listing what specifically makes you a bad person in the eyes of the Christian god.
Edit: There was some confusion due to the way that I phrased my question. I am not asking what gets you to heaven or what makes you a Christian. I am asking what your particular deity would consider to be a negative or positive action (extreme examples: saving a bus full of children or murdering a stranger).
Why is it that churches often follow the perspectives of one or two pastors? What happened to commonly accepted Christian views on how to treat others?
I'm in a ten-team H2H points league. Wood's a baller but with the Rockets taking L after L I'm concerned about his minutes down the stretch and wondering if this is a 'sell-high' moment for him.
Obviously I'm hesitant to give up a guy who can consistently put up ~40FPPG, but he's had injury issues and the Rockets are hot trash - seems like now might be the time to try and snatch another Top 40 player with less risk attached to him.
What do you think? If you had Wood, what would it take for you to give him up?
