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"Price of waging war..."

Indiscriminate bombardment of civilians is not "war" Joe, it's fucking terrorism and genocide.

"But I have no confidence in the number that the Palestinians are using,”

Of course! Indiscriminately shelling a densely populated civilian population for weeks surely couldn't add up to such numbers! Let's just split the difference and call it two or three.

Yes, Hamas is a terrorist organization, but Israel is a terrorist state. Civilians are caught in the middle because we allow the terror to continue.

Do NOT apologize for mass murder and coordinated, deliberate terror.

“You are free to say only the things I want and allow you to say.” - Republicans in a nutshell

“Banning the bans are the REAL bans!” - Fashservatives

And then there is Firefox, which isn’t evil at all. Lets not settle for any level of evil.

So… barely a tap on the wrist… and after his SECOND violation, no less.

"Insurrectionist traitors vote in favor of fellow insurrectionist traitor, because they all support insurrection, treason."

I really wish Nightdive was a little more ambitious with these.

The System Shock remake looks exactly how my rose-tinted memory remembers it.

This, however, looks awful. This is not how I remember SS2, even if it's literally how it originally looked. :-(

It'll be fine. Surgery is neat. If they put you under, one second you are awake and counting backwards... and then you are suddenly waking up.

The most important thing is do exactly what they tell you... especially any and all rehab afterward. Take the rehab seriously, because if you shirk it, you are very likely pay for that for the rest of your life.

We should not be helping Israel kill more people. You never support terrorism, and when the response to terrorism is more terrorism, you don't support that. Other than sending humanitarian aid to regular people caught in the middle, this is something we should stay the hell out of.

ESH, and it’s the ordinary, innocent people caught in the middle who pay the most greatest price.

You're right. I read $16m per day and grossly miscalculated. It's even worse.

You are correct.

Remember kids, the singular is semite, not semete. Hence, semitic, with an i.

That is $5,8 billion per year.

I misread $16m per day. It's $16m per HOUR. $140.2 billion/year.

I'm not especially religious. I was raised in that environment - the vengeful hellfire version, no less - and repeatedly found that it did not hold up to even a little scrutiny. And when I challenged the fact that the scripture I was being told to read outright condemned the behavior, teachings, and interpretations that were being foisted on me at home and on Sundays - it was not those vile teachings that were the problem... it was me.

I'm more an adherent of accuracy in all things, and I will call out things I know to be false. My loves how, around Christmas, I repeatedly remind them that Jesus was most likely born in Sept-Oct and that Christmas and all it's traditions are wildly pagan, and wish them all a Happy Yule.

But yeah, Jesus/Yeshua was a humanist. Even the flipping tables and whipping happened against people who were taking advantage of others. I can imagine him, Carl Sagan, and Siddhartha Gautama getting along famously.

I do not disagree. But I also like to remind people that "The Bible" isn't a singular work. It's a collection of many historical texts by many people over from many different cultures and regions and situations covering a wide variety of topics.

I think there are valuable philosophies to gained, but there are certain things you can point to as "foundational" - and no matter what you are reading you always have to go back to those foundational concepts. Those are:

1. The Noachide Laws
2. The Teachings of Yeshua

The Noachide Laws essentially boil down to:

1. False Gods: Don't worship inanimate objects.
2. Blasphemy: If YHWH reveals themself to you, remain reverent.
3. Murder: Do not kill unless there is no other choice.
4. Dangerous Sexual Behavior: Rape, incest, promiscuity; selfish behaviors that place others at risk.
5. Theft: Do not steal.
6. Animal Cruelty: Treat animals humanely, particularly those used for food.
7. Justice: Establish and maintain courts and systems of justice.

The Teachings of Yeshua boil down to:

1. Always show YHWH love, respect, reverence, and deference.
2. Always treat others with love, respect, reverence, and deference... even actual enemies.
3. Worry about your own shortcomings, not others.
4. 2 & 3 are the outcomes of #1, and #1 is the outcome of 2 & 3. They are inextricably linked.

Everything else should be taken a historical document, not an universal omnicontextual moral precept; Yeshua states as much more than once. You do not need to be religious at all to find philosophical value in the foundations... and as far as the scripture is concerned, that is perfectly fine.

Christianity has a core problem in that its holy texts can be interpreted in a myriad of ways.

Only if you completely ignore all context, as modern Christianity has done. With even a little historical and cultural knowledge, the context makes the vast majority of it quite clear. That clarity also stands in stark opposition to a vast swath of modern Christian dogma and teaching, so there is a vested interest to keep the context out of mainstream discussion.

What you left out, is the part where it says both shall be killed.

Because that's not relevant to the discussion. But since you brought it up, remember that I explicitly mentioned that the context is "cultures that would be alien and barbaric to us now." So let's keep that context in mind. Chattel slavery was normal.

So, what is punishment for having sex with an animal? A slave is like an animal. It has been made unclean and unfit. But in this case there is a very specific prophetic context that we'll touch on shortly.

Since we're on the topic of familial/household abuses, note that the concept of "consent" does not exist here. Re-read Leviticus with that in mind, especially when reading about having sex with the neighbors wife, the daughter-in-law, or the father's wife (which is not necessarily your mother). Consent is not a prerequisite to any of these offenses.

Now also remember, I said these two things:

1. "...they were written by and for ancient ethnic and religious Jews..."
2. "When you keep the context in mind, most (not just much - most) scripture is abundantly clear... not just on the WHAT... but the WHY."

One thing neither of us has addressed here is the WHY. You shifted from Lev 23 to 20, but missed this: the scripture spells that out the WHY clear as day just a few verses later...

"Therefore you shall observe and obey all of my rules and all of my rulings so that the land where I am bringing you to live will not spit you back out."

YHWH/God is not arbitrary, I think there's a good chance we can agree on that. So, YHWH placed a specific context on these rulings and edicts... the preservation of the Israelites, YHWH's own people, during their wanderings after exodus from Egypt.

Ok, so in that case, what’s the male slave to do?

He cannot disobey his master, as the bible tells that he should always obey him.

But, if he is raped, he will be killed.

That doesn’t seem very fair, or even neutral about homosexuality. It’s negative.

Yes, you got all of this right. Again, the slave is chattel and is handled like any other property. By modern sensibilities this is horrific, but this is a historical document that is not by, for, or about us (westerners living thousands of years later in an unimaginably different world and culture). You must consider the original intended purpose of the command within it's own context, you cannot remove it from that context without fundamentally changing both it's meaning and purpose, which is what modern Christianity has done.

In that case, what about the part in the new testament?

That was supposedly written for us, right? It doesn’t use the “as with a woman” phrasing.

Yet it also clearly has negative things to say about homosexuality.

Paul was a rabbi of the Pharisaic school, of which Jesus/Yeshua was also a member. His statements do not modify or supercede the Torah or the teachings of Jesus, but merely reiterate them. Paul was further challenged by working with Hellenists... yet another culture that would be alien to us, and decried a wide variety of activities he saw as sexual abuses; from temple prostitution, to slave abuse, to pederasty. And note that he did not demand that anyone engaging in those things be "put to death" - but to change their ways.

Now, remember this, because it is VITAL:

The Pharisees, having heard how Yeshua humbled the Sadducees (priestly caste), gathered together. One among them, an expert and lawyer of Torah (religious law) sought to test him.

"Rabbi, in all the Torah, which commandment is the most important?"

And Yeshua said to him: "You shall love, respect, and cherish the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your being, and all your thought. This is the most important and fundamental commandment.

But the second is equal to the first: You shall love, respect, and cherish your neighbors no less than you love, respect, and cherish yourself.

These two commandments are the foundation on which all the Torah and all the teachings of the Prophets are based.

Whenever you read scripture - any of it, even Paul - and even if you ignore all the other teachings of Yeshua Hamashiach, remember this one and contemplate what it means for all other teaching before or after Yeshua's ministry.

Yes and no. The AI is significantly better… but it’s still not great. Case in point: cops will chase you now, but it doesn’t take long to get a feel for how to fudge their pathing and lose them.

“People won’t let us install our totalitarian dictator, so we think it’s time to try straight-up mass murder.” - Republicans

I am so happy for them and proud of them. This is the correct response to unnecessary layoffs or any other worker abuse. I hope more people in the industry will follow their example!