Baphomet_The_Blasphemer @ Baphomet_The_Blasphemer @lemmy.world

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You can't use reason to convince someone out of a position they didn't reason their way into... I agree that should still be the first step, but I wouldn't expect it to work for the majority of them. Cognitive dissonance is a bitch to overcome, especially if they aren't willing to accept the possibility they might be wrong.

The only thing a tolerant society can't tolerate is intolerance. Nazis have no place on American land and either need to be driven from it or buried in it.

Ok, but should we still banish people from society if they have sex during a menstrual cycle as leviticus 20:18 commands?

How about we start calling them out on all the foolish things the Bible forbids, but they ignore and do anyway such as:

• Wearing clothing made of blended fabrics - leviticus 19:19
• Wearing ripped or torn clothing - leviticus 10:6
• Eating shellfish - leviticus 11:10
• Eating pork - leviticus 11:4
• No short hair cuts, and no shaving beards - leviticus 19:27
• No tattoos or piercings - leviticus 19:28
• No alcohol in church - leviticus 10:9
• No working on the sabbath - leviticus 23:3
• No divorce - mark 10:9
• No wearing jewelry - timothy 2:9
• No lying - leviticus 19:11
• Don't mistreat foreigners - leviticus 19:33-34
• Buying or selling land - leviticus 25:23

I could honestly do this all day as there are so very many things to write here, but I feel this is sufficient to demonstrate my point.

Don't let these people use their faith as justification to be terrible humans until they follow every word "written" by their infallible god in their hypocritical self contradictory book that none of them have actually read.

Changing their plug design with every new generation of products has created a lot of e-waste as the older plugs are no longer usable, as well as some countries have deemed this practice as a form of planned obsolescence which they have policies/laws against. So the EU basically told Apple that if their new products didn't switch to a universal standard plug design (currently being the usb-c), then they would not be allowed to sell them in Europe. I'm guessing Apple is now trying to pass this off as their idea.

Update: I played for around 8 hours yesterday and can now say that once you get through the whole "tutorial" bit of the game, the story starts to become more evident, and I no longer feel like it's a worse version of no man's sky. After the first hour or two (depending on how quickly you play), it starts having the type of Bethesda RPG vibes you'd expect from a Bethesda RPG. I've been enjoying it.

I plan to play some more today, so I will happily give you my impressions once I've gotten into it a bit further.

I think this game will have more story focus to it than no man's sky, which is why I'm hesitant to make such a snap decision as I've barely gotten into the story.

My experience is much like the others are saying in here. My initial response was oh wow it's like no mans sky, but worse. I'm mostly underwhelmed with it after a few hours of game play, and I'm torn between grinding along, hoping it gets better, or getting a refund before I've played for too long.

The two topics I usually argue with my Mom about are why I feel the need to own guns because they're scary and should be illegal and how the fascists want to overthrow our democracy. I'm always confused about how such an intelligent person can't see the folly in this line of thinking. Why would you want to ban the very tool necessary for protecting our freedoms from those who want to take them from us through force and violence. Stay armed, and stay safe. The world keeps getting scarier.

I'm a white disabled combat veteran who had hoped to be done fighting, but this is not the America I fought for. I will gladly take up arms again to defend our democracy from those who wish to destroy it. You will not be alone on that field if the day ever comes.

This is just a friendly reminder that 71% of global emissions are created by just 100 companies.

Girls are important for the continuation of our species, don't make the same mistakes China made.

They seem to believe that the power of elected officials is only vaild when they wield it.

There have been over 18,000 different gods, goddesses, and various animals or objects worshipped by humanity since we started writing our history, and likely countless more that have been lost to time. The majority of these worshipped deities are no longer believed in, and the fact we as a species have been unable to move beyond the fairytales of omnipotent gods told during the bronze age will never cease to amaze me.

Religion in all its various current forms is a tool of manipulation used against the masses to keep them complacent and scared. That being said, even though I tend to lean towards an atheististic view, I will concede that the possibility exists of a higher life form we may consider as a god. If such a life form does exist, it would be so far beyond our ability to comprehend that any claim to know what it expects of us is pure human foolishness or intended maliciously to control the ignorant.

I live my life by the simple principle that if a god exists and is a just god then I'll be judged by my actions in this life, whether I caused harm to others or lived well doing what I'm able to make the world better, and not on whether or not I believed in and worshipped them. If a god exists that would punish me for all eternity for not worshipping them, then they are not a just god, and as such would be unworthy of such devotion. Bottomline is we will never know as long as we live, and with as short as our lives are, why waste them worrying about what we can never know. Just live your life well, be kind to others, and be the best you that you can be.

Edit: fixed a typo

He did nothing to stop the disease and actively rejected treatment and advice from medical professionals because he thought he knew better. So while this isn't the same as actively killing oneself, he is still more than likely responsible for his own death due to his own actions (or inaction).

He had a very treatable cancer that was found in the early stages and was given an excellent prognosis, but in his infinite megalomaniac manner he decided he knew better than the doctors and opted to treat his cancer at home with homeopathic remedies. His home made new age "cures" clearly didn't work and by the time he finally decided to get proper treatment his cancer had metastasized and he was beyond help... sounds to me like he played a large hand in his own demise so the joke plays.

The US only said it didn't have any evidence it was caused by a missile... which should be read as we don't want to acknowledge our information gathering network has info about this incident so we saw nothing 😉

As a silly goof I freely flow between them.