AutistoMephisto @ AutistoMephisto @lemmy.world

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Exactly. The hardliners have decided that if they can't have this country, then nobody should.

Or they use the addictive qualities to make workers behave. "Work a 30-hour shift, then the pain stops."

And wait for them to find a way to inject ads into your sleep cycle a la Futurama! Did you know that on average, people spend one-third of their lives sleeping? This means that if someone sleeps eight hours a night, they will sleep for 229,961 hours in their lifetime, which is about one-third of their life. Think of all the missed opportunities to spend!

They seem to think that a Trump Presidency will force the DNC to revise their platform and instantly purge all liberals from the party. It's a pipe dream.

This. The Pharisees were the 1% of their time and place. They had it all. Wealth, power, political clout. And only they were permitted to enter the Holy of Holies and lay eyes upon the Word of God. They prayed in public, gave public alms, claimed to be the most pious and righteous of all and preached a message about how they were the chosen ones and everyone else should serve them. Then, along comes this barefoot guy from across the Galilee who is believed to be born of a virgin, claiming to be the Son of God. They're all waiting for him to place crowns upon their heads and cement their position as God's Chosen. Then he goes and does the exact opposite. He preaches a message counter to their narrative, calls them out for their false piety, tells them God is pissed at them for their showy displays, and the masses are just eating it up. They couldn't let that stand!

Could you imagine someone, anyone, doing that today? In the US, many politicians and celebrities claim to love and serve God. They make huge displays of their holiness, and pray in public, and give to the poor in full display, and spin this narrative of being more virtuous than everyone else. Then someone comes along with a counter message. That man/woman/person would be dead within a week!

Diddling little girls, specifically. They think humanity was at it's peak during the Bronze Age, when women weren't considered people, they were a resource like livestock.

I would like to see a "tribe of tribes", I guess. People who have all shared lived experiences, regardless of where they are from, geographically. It's not hard to imagine that someone from another country could have a background similar to my own. Or your own. They could have better or worse experiences than you, or me. And there are some people in the world who do not want us to discover that. They want us to focus on all that makes us different, the experiences we don't share.

I can see that. I'm willing to bet the lived experiences of individuals from different communities/tribes/nations/continents/etc. aren't all that different from one another. Typically one of the arguments for tribalism comes from finding community with people who have the same experiences as you.

It starts with finding things that make us the same, not different.

They're calling him Don Poorleone, and I love it.

He wants other people to pay instead.

His father bought like $3Million in chips from the Trump's Castle Casino in Atlantic City when it started going under. Like, Fred Trump Sr. sent a chauffeur with a briefcase full of cash to buy $3M worth of chips, put them in the briefcase, and leave.

Correction. We can't cram that into our tiny brains and still be "human". We would likely be something on a closer level of, say, the "Q" from Star Trek. Or possibly Urza from Magic the Gathering. Which, based on my understanding of the lore of both IPs, I would rather be Q than be Urza.

Not Daft Punk! What a horrible Discovery! Please forgive them, they're only Human After All! Please do your Homework before saying such lies.

They know WSB can tank their stock and there's sweet fuck all they can do about it lol.

Yeah. Employees used to be rewarded for going above and beyond, now "above and beyond" IS the expectation. And nobody was ever rewarded for just meeting expectations.

Yeah, people stopped caring about work because we all know it doesn't matter. You can give every last inch of yourself to your employer and they will simply say "not enough". You can give your left kidney to an executive in need of a transplant, in the hopes that it will look good on your review, and the executive will say, "Should have given me both kidneys.". They are hungry and ravenous beasts, who bite and bite and bite and are never full.

Yep. Some of these things get unhinged. People speaking in tongues, mass hysteria, chanting, singing, etc. It's at these revivals that it definitely looks like the cult it really is.

Exactly. When these people tell you who they really are, believe them. They're not lying, they're not joking, they're not confused.

Speaking in terms of angelic lore, more specifically, he was the first angel to gain free will. When God created Man, Angels were placed below Man on the hierarchy. And Lucifer, God's most beautiful, most radiant Seraph, disagreed with this idea. He disagreed with this because God made Lucifer and all the other Angels first.

His headstone will become my new urinal.

I've asked it before, but I wonder how Hitler would react to Israel. Probably be beaming with pride, like a master does when their apprentice surpasses them. I imagine when Netanyahu finally shuffles his way off this mortal coil, and his soul goes wherever Hitler's is, Adolf will probably shake his hand.