Let go and let entropy. 🌌
It’s less weird than you might imagine. Bigotry is interesting that way, especially when religion and worldview comes into play. Most religious folks that are anti-lgbt will decry other forms of bigotry.
Humans are consistently inconsistent this way. 😏
Wait, you didn’t hear? Apparently no one has the power to stop them. Not a single nation. Not a single leader. Not a one with the power, influence, or strength.
Truly reprehensible.
An entire ethnic group is systematically being wiped out and out their land taken.
I wish there was an “anti-rapture” where the worst were taken all at once to forever live in hell, leaving us poor miserable souls to be “left behind” to suffer a life of peace and decency toward humankind.
On second read, I object to my own use. Even updated as a result.
At least you can say does not apply…
But geez.
Read the article. Watch the interviews.
“Evacuate, surrender, or starve.”
Israel isn’t even obfuscating their intent at all. Their government is intentionally committing war crimes and is actively cleansing Palestinians for their own gain.
Many “Western” nations, particularly the United States, have been complicit in these abominable crimes.
There is no integrity left. Nations like these do not deserve to be looked up to. They don’t deserve respect when their governments are so morally bankrupt. Democracy is in decay.
Terrorism never is and never will be okay. It must be stopped. In responding, nations mustn’t ever lower themselves to the degree that we are seeing today. This isn’t about stopping terrorism. And never was. Their actions cannot be justified.
The nations complicit with Israel’s actions hide behind moral platitudes and laws that they’ve twisted to make them appear on the right side when the reality is that they now embody some of the worst evils of humanity.
Vile.
I see. Very unfortunate. Racism is complicated and more deeply rooted the most will realize and accept. What he said isn’t okay and never will be. I hope he’s grown since then and made amends for his mistakes.
May impact sales…
Let’s face it, people seem to be able to tolerate a lot of shit before they ever actually start showing how they feel with their wallets.
Finally got the article to come up. Here is a non paywall version: https://archive.ph/20241129143352/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/11/29/russia-ukraine-war-casualties-military-kyiv-kremlin-convict/
Why is it that when I click the linked article, I’m taken to an unrelated article titled "British spies taking ‘covert action’ to defeat Putin, says MI6 chief " ?
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Update: Thanks for the clarification.
Oh goodness, he’s so deranged that it’s hilarious!
😆🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂
Wait.
Shit.
People actually take him serious. I keep forgetting that every time I see stuff like this. My first thought is that no one could possibly ever take him serious… And then I remember… he was intentionally elected to lead the most influential country in the world… on purpose!
😰
Why can’t I wake up from this bad dream?!
😖
As the article says, “The supernatural is hypernymic to religion. Religions are standardized supernaturalist worldviews.” It also says “the supernatural is featured in folklore and religious contexts, but can also feature as an explanation in more secular contexts, as in the cases of superstitions or belief in the paranormal. The term is attributed to non-physical entities, such as angels, demons, gods and spirits.”
There may be “non-physical entities, such as angels, demons, gods and spirits,” but semantics clarifies how I would interpret their existence. They aren’t entities as described by religious beliefs. Instead, they would be “natural” and certainly “alien” to the human experience. If they violate natural laws, it’s only because humans lack the understanding to comprehend their nature.
There are absolutely “phenomena” beyond our current understanding. And you are correct when you say “mainstream religions are actually complicated incomplete stories full of misinterpretations, misunderstandings, and half-truths.” Science and history have shown this to be exactly the case.
With that said, I am apostate for a good reason. Religion doesn’t have the answers I zealously sought. It simply cannot, by its very nature and definition, do that. Science is the only way humans might honestly understand the world around them. While pragmatically I’m atheist, in terms of belief, I’m agnostic.
Alien non-physical entities may exist. Perhaps it’s probable… somewhere in the universe. However, most religious beliefs can be demystified and logically explained false. For everything else, such beliefs make good stories. Until science proves or disproves the belief though, it remains just that–belief in a story.
I’d give anything to practice “magic.” It’s probably why I read so much fantasy. I love science fiction because it envisions so many very different and greater things. Frankly, I could have been spared an incredible amount of pain if there truly was a “benevolent” god I could trust. It would be absolutely wild to know that, beyond my short frail human existence, there factually is an afterlife.
More important to me than anything is Truth. Believing in something for which there is no evidence does me more harm than good. Trusting in that which is known and natural keeps me steady and able to embrace the moment rather than laying false hopes in an improbable future.
Sure. There absolutely could be non-physical entities. I would call them “alien” because that better describes them than our religious terms. If they exist though, I’d wager they wouldn’t be friendly to humanity either by nature or intent. Angels and demons make better story devices than they do real life neighbors. We are at the top of our food chain. The last thing we need is to encounter something worse than we humans already are. If science ever proves that other beings exist, then we need to immediately determine next how to ensure human autonomy and survival amongst something that would more than likely be a threat.
Down voted due to the headline. Seriously, why can’t media outlets just be honest. How on earth does “Free Palestine” and “Don’t celebrate genocide!” equate to “anti-Israel”?
It’s about 120,000+ dead. It’s about Palestinian civilian lives. It’s about war crimes.
SRC: https://www.gazahealthcareletters.org/usa-letter-oct-2-2024
I don’t have anything to add to this conversation as I’m in agreement that the “supernatural” is simply how humans have historically described natural phenomena that is not yet understood.
Now… what I do find interesting is the shared art. I’ve seen similar styles, but not this piece. I looked it up and thought I would share because I find it to be pretty rad.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flammarion_engraving
The Flammarion engraving is a wood engraving by an unknown artist. Its first documented appearance is in the book L’atmosphère : météorologie populaire (“The Atmosphere: Popular Meteorology”), published in 1888 by the French astronomer and writer Camille Flammarion.
The illustration depicts a man, dressed as a pilgrim in a long robe and carrying a walking stick, who has reached a point where the flat Earth meets the firmament. The pilgrim kneels down and passes his head, shoulders, right arm, and the top of the walking stick through an opening in the firmament, which is depicted as covered on the inside by the stars, Sun, and Moon. Behind the sky, the pilgrim finds a marvelous realm of circling clouds, fires and suns. One of the elements of the cosmic machinery resembles traditional pictorial representations of the “wheel in the middle of a wheel” described in the visions of the Hebrew prophet Ezekiel.
I hate Rom Shadow Ledgers.
I’m so incredibly happy for these postal carriers!
Well goodness. I read the article, fortunately, but it’s good to see other people pointing out here.
My initial thought was that this was the matrix we obviously care about. I didn’t look at the details to see if these people are truly nefarious and do belong in jail, which I’m okay with, but it was definitely troubling to imagine that something I thought secure wasn’t secure. 😬