sleeplessone

On its own religion arises & develops naturally and, if left alone, is ultimately harmless in and of itself.

How does religion develop naturally and be left alone when it's inextricably tied to reality, especially when the only societies that have existed for the past several millennia were class societies?

Also, how do we reconcile materialism and the militant atheism that's been part of the foundation of ML parties with atheism being a bourgeois invention to flatten people into soulless automata?

I've been having a crisis of faith in dialectical materialism lately, especially the latter part. I've been an atheist for my entire adult life and all I have to show for it is empty comfort and self hatred. I've seen the downright miraculous transformations people have when they re-establish their relationship with God. It's indisputable proof that God exists, that He cares for us, and that the evangelists the reddit atheists would always argue with were right: only a fool says in his heart there is no God. Why should anyone treat the material as primary, let alone all that exists?

Yet, as far as I can tell, this is incompatible with Marxism-Leninism. Even people who are both religious and committed MLs, like Lady Izdihar, offer explanations that try to reconcile the two that aren't convincing to me.

Update: Everything past the first two paragraphs was basically a mini-crashout. I've been having my bouts of intense rumination, irrationality, and hopelessness increasingly often. For the most part I've at least had the good sense not to post through it, but I made that mistake when I made this comment. I think I need to get away from social media (even the FOSS kind) for a pretty long time.

For what it's worth, regarding the "God" question, I find the idea of its existence to be ridiculous if I put in even the tiniest amount of thought about it, but the overwhelming majority of people I have to interact with in real life take it seriously. It gets to the point where I start thinking I must be the wrong one if so many people disagree with me, and the mental stress of trying to jam the square peg of society's belief into the triangular hole of my mind makes me desperately try to convince myself something is true even if I fundamentally cannot believe it.

Ultra memes are cursed

A bit of tangent, but I've always hated the framing of "small/less government" vs "big/more government". As if "amount of government" is what determines the system it uses or whose interests it serves.

I have no employable skills! How am I supposed to make money now?

Literally every CEO ever, but somehow only applicable to the woke caricature.

I leave Chudyphus at the top of his home feed. One always finds one's burden again. But Chudyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the wokes and posts cringe. He too concludes that all is well. This universe henceforth without a master seems to him neither sterile nor futile. Each character of that post, each seething hater of that cringe-filled feed, in itself, forms a world. The struggle itself toward the depths is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Chudyphus happy.

I made it halfway through the video before I had to stop so I don't die of second-hand embarrassment. The bit about the DEI college admissions not letting a light skinned Black guy into college because he's not dark skinned enough really shows the utter detachment from reality this guy has.

FF IV remake starring Joachin Phoenix as Kefka.

Holy shit they unironically spell it "ruzzian" 😂

I'm surprised to hear the Destruction of Reason (a piece of theory I don't hear mentioned much around here) and Losurdo in the same sentence without mentioning Losurdo's work on Nitezsche.

Never thought I'd get so much mileage out of this image.

They just need to fuse now.

Sucking yourself up from your own penis is the new pulling yourself up by your bootstraps.

Bit idea? More like Brit idea.

MF is creating the diamond-water paradox in real life.

Even non-chuds that I know take it as a rule that you should only donate food directly to beggars because if you give them money they'll 100% use it on drugs (as if staving off withdrawal was a bad thing). Even had someone tell me that money should only be donated to charities because they'll actually know how to spend it, unlike the homeless people themselves.

It's ridiculous.

I'm going to say it.

The Face Eating Leopards Party has a face eating leopard problem.

We'll see if people are even still playing Arc Raiders at the end of the month.

So this is what Trump's McDick's summit was really about.

Okay, but have you considered that the 90% of those 1.3B Chinese residents who like their government and want to keep it are simply brainwashed, ignorant, or stupid?

Silly tank E. The thought police, which are totally real (trust me bro), will come after any who dare express dissent. This is why we enlightened westerners with our Enlightenment(TM) values need to support the US invasion of China across the Taiwan Strait while also pretending it was actually China who struck first (just like the heckin' unwholesome Vietcong 😡 did at the Gulf of Tonkin) and that Taiwan is actually a sovereign state fighting off an imperialist invader instead of a puppet government for the wholesome keanu chungus defenders of democracy.

Slobber Tie Won! Down with Zizzy Ping!

I cannot tell the difference between them if I just see one in the wild.

Authoritarianism is when you're a dick. Stepping in to use authority to deal with someone who's being a dick? Somehow not authoritarian.