If it wasn’t for the genocide of the Native Americans I likely wouldn’t either, or at very least be a different person. That doesn’t change one’s subjective experience or the objective facts of either things.
If it wasn’t for the genocide of the Native Americans I likely wouldn’t either, or at very least be a different person. That doesn’t change one’s subjective experience or the objective facts of either things.
This isn’t even Socialism, this is just a basic provision against being a Dystopia.
Nope, American exceptionalist Supremacist drit. You get the American flag and reference to the American god stamped on your head./s
The world would be so better off if the dystopia would just Balkanize already. Saying that as an American.
I don’t think he quite realizes tattoos can be modified… or removed. It’d be easy to have it modified to be the American flag on fire and the text disparaging their vile deity.
Yeah, I’ve taken to replacing ‘United States’ with ‘American Dystopia’ in my vocabulary. At this point I wouldn’t be surprised if Brave New World would offer a more pleasant life.
Nice thing about not being tied to the Cult of Capital. Free sharing of things… at least the things it hasn’t figured out how to enforce monetization of, yet.
The issue is that they don’t care. They don’t care if the Bible says anything at all about the subject their on about or even if it contradicts them. What the Bible actually says is irrelevant to them, it’s only what their glorious leaders pastors say it says matters.
The root of faith is authoritarianism, not any branch of morality or reverence or regard for history or their mythology.
If you’re going to rebuild this place with realistic infrastructure I’d love to see a before/after of this disasterpiece.
What’s the purpose of this building?
It actually looks pretty decent so if you have a significant internal space you may just want to leave it open or give it a flat glass roof for a skylight.
Shedu if fits my style nicely… maybe not always aesthetically but my gameplay style. It’s a launcher, firing explosives but it does so at pinpoint accuracy so you can readily get headshots.
Feels so nice to use. Feels so painful to get though.
And good riddance to the world’s largest apocalyptic death cult.
Dogs, I just like having backup when I’m out on an adventure.
That’s the thing though, all religions are control schemes. Christianity especially. It has nothing to do with being moral and everything to do with being obedient to a particular authority. The core of the faith is authoritarianism, not any branch of morality.
My response;
How do you handle death being the end?
It’s something of a relief to me. I won’t be around to worry about projects left incomplete or things not done once I am gone. The sense that there is some great finality to the presentation that is my life is nice now that I’ve gotten over being told there would be otherwise as a child.
Seriously, what’s the point in living?
I don’t know about you but I enjoy what I do and further enjoy it when it’s helpful. Books, movies, video games… most things, really, end. People still enjoy them and I’m treating life the same way. I’m enjoying mine while it lasts.
Why be good if there is no Hell?
I don’t get off on other people’s suffering and to the best of my understanding, including some understanding of computer models, cooperation works better than trying to cheat everyone. So, I’m good because it’s the sensible course of action. I don’t need a negative incentive when there’s already positive ones and all of this being on top of Humans being a social species such that most of us can share in the joy of others, especially if we have contributed to it.
You seriously don’t understand God.
Well, if he’s got the powers you describe him as having then he doesn’t want me to understand. How am I meant to believe in an entity with perfect ability to hide from my perception? If it’s so important that I believe in him maybe you should tell him he’s won this hide-and-seek game and he can come out now.
‘Yeah, you’d be surprised how good you are when you’re doing good for the sake of it rather than trying to earn some reward.’
TBF at least one of those has a known answer, it’s just a matter that the problem fundamentally is that those who can meaningfully influence the problem want the problem.
No. My statement is that I’ve yet to receive any kind of response to any inquiry directed toward Jesus while I have never been just wholly ignored by a search engine.
How 'bout that I’ve never gotten no response from Google, or any search engine for that matter, and that is the only result I’ve gotten from Jesus?
atheism@lemmy.world… and you’re supporting one religious state because you don’t like it’s neighboring religious states. I don’t see the sense in that.
Thought-crime and pre-crime. Two fundamentally important aspects of Christianity as they ensure guilt that they are conveniently the monopoly on forgiveness/absolution of.