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Ok, my next thought... LOL sorry.

What does it mean to somebody or another to "Take the good with the bad?" It means different things. Atrocities have been committed in the name of nearly every religion, nearly every national sovereignty, etc. (1) We accept the facts, yes. (2) But there better be some reckoning beyond forgiveness for "past sins." Atonement isn't just between a mortal and their god.

Atrocities were committed in the times of the OT. In the informed opinion of many, the Israelites were not exempt, as victims of course, but also as perpetrators, urged by a god who does not resemble the one spoken about by Jesus.

Long story longer, I was interested in the comment to the OP, so looked up "cafeteria Christian." It seems like any Christian could rightly refer to others with that term. How many Christians follow Leviticus to the letter, 100%? And those who follow any of it, do they abide by Jesus' teachings? How can someone stone someone to death without judging them? ???

Pick and choose, by all means. But choose Jesus' teachings above Leviticus, for Chri- ... crying out loud.

“The ones destroying the Bible for the best part of 2000 years have been Christians ironically enough, or at least rewriting it every couple of centuries or so.

And if we are mentioning violent psychopathic Roman Emperors, let’s not exclude one of the bloodiest of all: Constantine, who had more than 50,000 people executed (not counting wars). Some just because they disagreed with him over the right interpretation of the scripture of the new religion he imposed on Rome.”

– DJ THE TRAINMAN WALKER

Nobody alive follows Xianity. They follow the reboot of the remake of the rewrite of the adaptation based on the characters from the manuscript originating from a story inspired by a revamped earlier draft from a reworked previous version of a local oral tale.

It’s not remarkable that Xians have changed Xianity over time based on the secular morality they deny. It’s not even remarkable that they have the power of creation over the same god they invented. The only thing remarkable is that they know so little about their own religion that they think it’s “true.”

They, as much as anyone else, behave as if it isn’t true, when they decide the intentions of the eternal master and creator of the universe, what it means when it does nothing, what it will be okay with, what it won’t, when an exception can be made, when it can’t, what the bible really means, what applies, what doesn’t, what’s a metaphor, what isn’t.

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Wait, is that why so many Christians blame the Jewish authorities for the execution/ assassination of Jesus, instead of the Romans? Pontius Pilate, for example? I mean, fair enough, Jesus had a problem with authority all around. But Pilate didn't take him at his word when Jesus said he took no umbrage with the government (or whatever they called it). Where's what I want to know if I'm missing: Is there any reason to believe that Pilate was influenced by the pharisees? That doesn't seem plausible. He was either Roman, or answered to the Roman leadership. Anyhow... thanks.

I think it's important to exercise our right to critique and question, as Jesus would agree, as Jesus did. Also, we can critique churches, specific sects, practices, and at the same time appreciate the teachings of Jesus and the gospels. There is a lot of secular and agnostic appreciation of Jesus' teachings. I particularly like his parables. Teaching by example, by analogy is one of the most effective tools of the greatest teachers. The other is discourse, dialog, with listening, instead of continual lecturing.

And why secular appreciation should itself be appreciated is two-fold:

The teachings must have value, even without necessarily having faith, or what others may see as faith. Who is any mortal to judge? The teachings are good, no matter what. Right?

After all, how can non-believers join the faithful without reading the teachings? The teachings are good and they are meant to influence everyone for the better, to turn our hardened hearts and so forth.

“The ones destroying the Bible for the best part of 2000 years have been Christians ironically enough, or at least rewriting it every couple of centuries or so.

And if we are mentioning violent psychopathic Roman Emperors, let’s not exclude one of the bloodiest of all: Constantine, who had more than 50,000 people executed (not counting wars). Some just because they disagreed with him over the right interpretation of the scripture of the new religion he imposed on Rome.”

– DJ THE TRAINMAN WALKER

Nobody alive follows Xianity. They follow the reboot of the remake of the rewrite of the adaptation based on the characters from the manuscript originating from a story inspired by a revamped earlier draft from a reworked previous version of a local oral tale.

It’s not remarkable that Xians have changed Xianity over time based on the secular morality they deny. It’s not even remarkable that they have the power of creation over the same god they invented. The only thing remarkable is that they know so little about their own religion that they think it’s “true.”

They, as much as anyone else, behave as if it isn’t true, when they decide the intentions of the eternal master and creator of the universe, what it means when it does nothing, what it will be okay with, what it won’t, when an exception can be made, when it can’t, what the bible really means, what applies, what doesn’t, what’s a metaphor, what isn’t.

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Warhol Christ, 2022

Thank you computer.

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This is actually a great example of how heckin capitalism and religious organizations fuck everything up

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The takeaway:

You don't owe ANYONE attention.

Or your time.

Or grief.

They are abusing you.

Block every single one. Fast.

Do not engage.

Do something else. Self-care especially.

If you call this "victim-blaming", then you are part of the problem. We all have the right to defend ourselves. Abusers cunningly trick targets into forgetting that.

You have every right to protect yourself. Don't let others waste your time. They're the monsters. They're not there to help you.

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This puts my brain into a small frenzy.

I know the general phenomenon or tactic or personality disorder, however:

All political variations have members (?) who do this. Last time it happened to me, it was a right-winger (supposedly), and they were claiming that being in favor or raising the minimum wage made ME (specifically) a nazi (specifically not, simply a fascist) because there were eugenicists in the '20s and '30s who argued for the minimum wage because their theory was that a minimum wage would further oppress immigrants and expunge them from the US. It's a lot to untangle, which is part of the tactic. Invoke an irrelevant, obscure factoid to badly support an obtuse claim, scapegoating your opponent with a rambling and unending straw-man red herring. Wastes huge amounts of time.

I believe that the only end results (intended by design or not) of these tactics are:

Waste a lot of people's time.

Generate more conflict, whether between widely opposite sides, or between thin slices of a group.

Splintering any group or camp into smaller and more disparate factions because they are increasingly intolerant of difference of perspective, experience, opinion, priority, etc.

It's all a pile of dysfunctions. Dysfunction breeds dysfunction. When I (try to) debate someone who has no knowledge of (or refuses to follow) standards of debate or rhetoric (evidence, logic, relevance, ethics/good faith), it drains me of time and energy. I become stressed and frustrated that people are so ignorant, full of shit, stupid, etc.

It's. A. Waste. Just Don't. Stop. Leave the thread. Block them if they stalk you with their inane questions and accusations. You're not obligated to be drawn into endless stupid bullshit. You've got much better things to do with your time.

Those who can tolerate one another are the ones with numerical superiority. This does NOT require group-think. It IS difficult. The only way past this scourge is huge improvements to our education. An average reading level of 8th grade is unacceptable.

I fucking love that tumblr people will use words like "abuse", "gaslighting" and similar words, and claim people are guilty of using these tactics, without have a rats-arse of a clue what it really means, while themselves being the actual people who use these things. It's like watching a cat his a reflection of itself, and then trying to slap another cat for it, which was sitting in the next room sleeping.

The irony of Tumblr users throwing incorrect meanings and examples of gaslighting and abuse around, yet being massively abusive gaslighters, is incredible.

“Sea-lioning” was a popular term for a little while, and honestly, I actually think it’s a great term for how some so-called “reasonable SJWs” behave.

It originates from this comic:

But really, it can be more like this:

where you’ll be saying something innocuous that doesn’t take away from your support of a group at all (i.e. “Anti-black racism is evil, but I think BLM hasn’t been helpful,” or “Transphobia is evil, but no one is entitled to relationships or sex,” or “Bigotry is evil, but [specific instance] is really reaching and I don’t think it’s a real issue because of X, Y, Z”) and someone else pops up to say that your valid criticisms somehow means that you’re a genuine bigot (i.e. “You criticise BLM? You just hate black people?” or “You just hate trans people and want them to die alone?” or “You don’t even believe that bigotry exists at all, then?”) and it’s just ridiculous.

And I bring all of this up because it’s a subtly abusive and well-used tactic in social justice circles.

If you have a genuine question because you’re confused, you’re attacked and told that your confusion and not automatically knowing the answer is proof that you’re a bigot. If you have an even slightly different opinion over even a tiny issue, then that means that you’re a bigot. If you disagree with someone, then that’s bigotry and you being abusive.

And it’s an incredibly effective tactic. It forces people to walk on eggshells. It forces people to shut down and abandon having personal thoughts in favour of having others make their opinions for them, because they second-guess and stop trusting themselves. Start hating themselves for reasons that they can’t control. The abusers, the genuine abusers, are seen as “helping” their victims, and that’s absolutely gaslighting.

For example:

A: “Don’t you think quotas for women is a bit misogynistic? Like people think that women can’t get to where they want to be without the bar being lowered for them?”B: “Excuse me?”A: “I was just thinking…”B: “Wow. I can’t believe you hate women.”A: “I don’t hate women! It was just a thought!”B: “Women need those quotas. You just don’t want women to succeed.”A: “I do! I do want women to succeed! I just thought it sent the wrong message!”B: “If you care about women, you’d support quotas. If everyone else could see how misogynistic you were being right now, seriously. You need to stop talking.”A: “I don’t understand how my thought was misogynistic, though!”B: “Of course you don’t understand, because you just don’t get how hard it is for women. You need to shut up and just listen and support.”A: “I just don’t…”B: “Do you support women?”A: “Yes! I promise I do!”B: “Then stop being sexist. You don’t want me to tell everyone how sexist you are, do you?”A: “No!”B: “Quotas are important so women can succeed. And as a supporter of women, you need to support quotas, too.”A: “I… okay.”B: “You know, I didn’t need to waste my time explaining this simple thing to you. You could have Googled it.”A: “I’m sorry. You’re right. Thanks for helping.”B: “You’re welcome.”

Obviously that’s dramatised, but it’s a kind of abuse. “If you don’t do as I say, you’ll be punished.” “If you don’t think the exact way that I want you to think, then you’re evil and you deserve to be hurt.” “I know what’s best, you don’t and you need to remember that.” There’s a reason that so many people on this website have some level of anxiety, and it’s not just because they happen to have anxiety, it’s the aftermath of seeing others being hated and abused and fearing that the same will happen to them.

It’s a cliché to say how much of a cult mentality Tumblr has, but it’s frighteningly real. If someone doesn’t think The Exact Right Thing, then they’re abused for it. If they have The Slightly Wrong Opinion, then their beliefs and motives are twisted and manipulated so much that they’re perceived as being a genuine and serious bigot and/or danger, and therefore open to dogpiling and even suicide-baiting.

And obviously I’m not talking about real bigots or actually dangerous people, but just ordinary, decent people that don’t quite fit the “right” mould.

I mean, some slightly paraphrased from Robin Stern, Ph.D, for signs of being a victim of gaslighting abuse:

You are constantly second-guessing yourself.

You’re always apologising.

You frequently make excuses for others’ bad behaviour.

You have trouble making simple decisions.

You have the sense that you used to be a very different person - more confident, more fun-loving, more relaxed.

You feel hopeless and joyless.

You feel as though you can’t do anything right.

You wonder if you are a “good enough” member/ally of a group.

Look at the standard “SJW”-type of person and tell me that they don’t usually fit into most of those categories when you look through their blogs.

It’s true that there’s a whole lot of abuse all over Tumblr. But it’s not the “evil cishet white men” behind most of it. Not by a long shot.

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This gif that represents very well the kind of leap-frogging involved in un-fucking ourselves. We decrease our drain on industrial resources, which reduces our drain of natural resources. At the same time resource chains have to re-evolve. We can't stop everything in one week, one month, one year, or even one decade--but we have to start now. The alternative is to fully accept that our planet will become more and more quickly uninhabitable for a larger and larger majority of the human race.

Do you ever feel like the messages you're getting from aliens must be distorted over all those lightyears of transit? Because when you try to lay out the whole thing and actually deliver that collection of wisdom, there are all these twists and turns that make it difficult to really put together.

Like, while you're getting the messages, it all seems so clear and simple. If course humanity doesn't have to keep mistreating itself. Peace, love, and understanding are such simple things to choose. Who would choose anything else? The most important part is the easiest to understand. But maybe that's because we already know it. How it's all supposed to come together never seems clear enough the next day. Like, even people who live in the same exact town or in the same exact neighborhood often don't speak the same language, even though they do in the surface. Family members that have known each other their whole lives often don't speak the same language. Like they both speak American Midwest English. But a bunch of words are used differently. Some things are conflated, or confused, or disconnected. We repeat ourselves, try to explain it a different way, and they just say, "That's not how it works, because ___________ isn't how you _________ the __________." But that's not what I was saying. I said "flower", not "flour." I didn't say the cause of, I said caused by. I said mandala, not Mandela. Stars are comprised of space-dust, they don't comprise it. Stars don't return to dust. That's what I'm trying to say. So, one, that's part of why astrophysicists can't get a handle on dark matter. Their hung up on a simplistic understanding of the laws of thermodynamics. Matter isn't destroyed, naturally. Or unnaturally, for that matter. Well, sometimes it is, but that's not important here. But once matter coalesces into a star, most of it never returns to solid matter, not the kind we see and touch every day.

Right, the expansion of the universe and the questions about dark matter and dark energy. We're going to be chasing our own tails for centuries on this. Well, not centuries, but I don't want to worry anyone about that right now. Our vague notions about how matter and energy are supposed to balance out in the universe are so uptight. And if something disappears, then "it must have traveled through a wormhole." Yeah, sometimes, but not usually. That's more of a stop-gap measure.

What's my point? I'm getting to it. Well... you see- as a matter of fact, I'm missing some of the most critical parts of the message myself. In one hand, humanity could stop destroying the planet and itself any old time. Well, first we simply decide to stop. What "deciding to" looks like and how it happens is a whole other story, and I'm missing some volumes on that, really. But after we stop destroying, never mind the repairing yet, we have to operate with almost entirely different systems. If we don't modify our systems and make some new ones, then millions lose access to every modern resource. Millions starve, lose their heating, and all kinds of other disasters. But warfare steadily slows back down to a crawl.

Right, enough of that. There's supposed to be very basic ways to change our relationships to resources. Some have to change very fast. Billions of people have to learn how to do quite a bit that our ancestors did ten thousand years ago. At the same time,

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Do you ever feel like the messages you're getting from aliens must be distorted over all those lightyears of transit? Because when you try to lay out the whole thing and actually deliver that collection of wisdom, there are all these twists and turns that make it difficult to really put together.

Like, while you're getting the messages, it all seems so clear and simple. If course humanity doesn't have to keep mistreating itself. Peace, love, and understanding are such simple things to choose. Who would choose anything else? The most important part is the easiest to understand. But maybe that's because we already know it. How it's all supposed to come together never seems clear enough the next day. Like, even people who live in the same exact town or in the same exact neighborhood often don't speak the same language, even though they do in the surface. Family members that have known each other their whole lives often don't speak the same language. Like they both speak American Midwest English. But a bunch of words are used differently. Some things are conflated, or confused, or disconnected. We repeat ourselves, try to explain it a different way, and they just say, "That's not how it works, because ___________ isn't how you _________ the __________." But that's not what I was saying. I said "flower", not "flour." I didn't say the cause of, I said caused by. I said mandala, not Mandela. Stars are comprised of space-dust, they don't comprise it. Stars don't return to dust. That's what I'm trying to say. So, one, that's part of why astrophysicists can't get a handle on dark matter. Their hung up on a simplistic understanding of the laws of thermodynamics. Matter isn't destroyed, naturally. Or unnaturally, for that matter. Well, sometimes it is, but that's not important here. But once matter coalesces into a star, most of it never returns to solid matter, not the kind we see and touch every day.

Right, the expansion of the universe and the questions about dark matter and dark energy. We're going to be chasing our own tails for centuries on this. Well, not centuries, but I don't want to worry anyone about that right now. Our vague notions about how matter and energy are supposed to balance out in the universe are so uptight. And if something disappears, then "it must have traveled through a wormhole." Yeah, sometimes, but not usually. That's more of a stop-gap measure.

What's my point? I'm getting to it. Well... you see- as a matter of fact, I'm missing some of the most critical parts of the message myself. In one hand, humanity could stop destroying the planet and itself any old time. Well, first we simply decide to stop. What "deciding to" looks like and how it happens is a whole other story, and I'm missing some volumes on that, really. But after we stop destroying, never mind the repairing yet, we have to operate with almost entirely different systems. If we don't modify our systems and make some new ones, then millions lose access to every modern resource. Millions starve, lose their heating, and all kinds of other disasters. But warfare steadily slows back down to a crawl.

Right, enough of that. There's supposed to be very basic ways to change our relationships to resources. Some have to change very fast. Billions of people have to learn how to do quite a bit that our ancestors did ten thousand years ago. At the same time, a world population of 8 billion (as of 7:17 AM, Dec. 15, 2023, give or take five minutes) can't switch over to hunting and gathering in less than ten-fifteen years. We'll have to stagger our way from industrial, to agrarian, to partial hunter/gatherer. There will be small-scale livestock ranching for at least a century more, most likely 120-130 years. Of course, hundreds of millions of family/community farms will have livestock indefinitely. Nearly a billion people will become successful hunters by 2049.

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Much of humanity's problems are entirely due to lack of appreciation, understanding, and connection. Why don't certain people appreciate, understand, or connect? That's difficult to answer, but they don't want to understand because it takes something of us to appreciate and connect. They are selfish and slothful. It's sin defined by any spiritual tradition you could name.

I Am Somebody dir. Madeline Anderson (1970)

In 1969, 400 poorly paid Black women - hospital workers in Charleston, South Carolina - went on strike to demand union recognition and a wage increase, only to find themselves in confrontation with the National Guard and the state government.

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Institutions are literally asking for this, this war against them. If people don't change their evil, abusive, treacherous ways, then destruction will be visited upon them. Justice will be done on this Earth. It Will Be.

February 4, 2020 - Amidst a call for a general strike on university campuses demanding an end to the ongoing sexual violence on campus, students in Mexico City marched to the Rectory’s office on the main UNAM campus. There, protestors smashed windows, threw Molotov cocktails, graffitied the building and shouted with rage against the macho violence endemic in Mexico. [video]/[video]

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Foxy Brown (1974)

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Jesus, dude, that's astounding!

👀 The flower 🌺 buzz cut  at the 0:40 second mark 👀

Amazing psychedelic animal print buzz cuts

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Wasn't sure it fit my blog enough to share, but Jesus, dude! This was a wild ride!

Cast photos looking like whacky sit coms

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Documentary sequel to “The Most Unknown” where all the scientists are climatologists, meteorologists, and others in the field, including technicians, etc. Some of them would talk about where they grew up and what brought them to their work and bits of their lives. The work of each one would connect to the next. They may find surprises, good news, bad news. Explore any of the interviewees’ philosophical, spiritual, and/or religious lives.

Follow up TV series with three scientists per episode. We get to know how they do their work and a little about their personal lives, their experiences with education, in school and teaching at colleges and universities vs community colleges and high schools. Series could later continue with teachers of the humanities, trades, social sciences, fine arts, etc.

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I paid too much for my car. How dare you ask for your money back for your broken car.

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god i love being part of the internet’s most monetarily worthless user base. i love going to bed knowing that at least one social media site isn’t making shit off my presence.