Yeah, I don't think being asked is a problem in the context of conversation but if it's a trap kinda question then you need to be talking about her insecurity not her hot friends
Also i think anti drug types tend to picture getting high like in movies or when you're 16 and giggling, stumbling over the place, and getting everything wrong. I and plenty of people I know smoke while coding, doing woodwork, or similar.
Corinthians 10 through 13 are widely considered to be written later than the first half of the letter, all Christian documents are heavily edited to try and prove their faith which is one of many reasons to acknowledge they could easily have rewritten early history of spiritual belief to apply to a fictional person.
plus he even sounds like he's talking about a spiritual Jesus from heaven not a born son - receiving the spirit is how you meet spiritual Jesus, the only Jesus Paul knows - isn't it weird he doesn't say 'other people talking about Jesus are liars, we have living people who knew him in person'.. but actualy, where are those people? Why don't the apostles establish the religion? Peter might have existed maybe for a bit but really in actual history there's no sign of any affect from any of them - Paul is the first significant figure we can really see and feel in history nut he never met him - all the churches and gospels come from his actions.
We know why there are 12 apostles, no one actually believes Jesus met the magic number of guys and they followed him instantly, they're not real people and they don't act real either - but surely Jesus would have had followers so why don't they run the religion instead of someone who doesn't even pretend to have met a physical Jesus?
Paul went far far away from anyone that would know the truth and told his story, Christianity developed from these places, highly educated Greek scholars write the books of the Bible from Paul's teaching - a man who never met Jesus, who only claims to have met James (inconsequential meeting) and Peter though mysteriously doesn't even mention Peter when writing his letter to the Roman's...
The bits of the early church we have historic evidence for all come from Paul, if Peter existed the biblical version of him certainly isn't true and there's no roman record of him until it's invented much later and sites are 'found' for his resting place - again even the Vatica scholars n accept this.
When you really look at it there's no room for a historical Jesus but a perfect pathway for a man we know invented his part of the story for personal gain (maybe he had an episode that put the idea of Jesus in his head but it wasn't based on physical reality)
Bringing in the non canonical books is funny because you have to accept most the stories are made up, if they were so happy to make up stories what's to stop them making them all up?
He didn't definitely exist and pointing to an outdated consensus does nothing to prove it.
Scholarship is evolving as religious institutions lose control of biblical academia and we're seeing the envelope get pushed further and further back. Go through a list of things the Bible says about Jesus and modern academics can demonstrate where they came from and that it's not history. Scholars accept that virtually every aspect of Jesus life and acts is made up so it's actually a tiny step to accept he was invented as a spiritual being just as the early writings seem to talk about him.
If lemmy was as popular as Facebook then exactly the same thing would have happened. Lemmy is designed not to have the top down control which the article says Facebook should have used to hide posts.
You can't blame Facebook for something if you support an alternative where it wouldn't even be possible to avoid that thing.
If you're willing to acknowledge that we can move on and you can try and say in simple terms what you think meta did to obstruct the ICC, try to be accurate and concise.
I'm massively optimistic about the rate of tech development, I think we'll have some really world changing things in twenty years but I really cant see brain implanted AR being a thing for a long time
It's funny to me how many big flare-ups and popular issues have been about defederating or controlling other instances but we've not really had a single popular event where users work on anything together to benefit community.
Individuals have made tools but there's not been calls to action and mass cooperation events for anything beside silencing unpopular groups. No community design discussions devising and implementing tools or features, no group efforts to catalog or document or display useful data...
I don't know if it's just that people here haven't considered the possibility of doing something positive or that outrage about others is just so much more compelling
The thing is your article blames meta for not doing something that would be impossible on lemmy by design. Meta didn't act to silence messages calling for violence but there is no mechanism to do this top down on lemmy only by defederating instances or individual communities/instance admin banning posts. Exactly the same thing could happen here, if the user base ever got large enough.
Oh I'd be interested in reading her work, there is absolutely some weird puritan thing in a section of those in their twenties but also an equal group that are kinda sexual obsessive.
Life isn't as black and white as you want it to be, sometimes having nice things does help you feel better about life. You can't buy your way to happiness but you won't find it in austerity either.
Yeah, I don't think being asked is a problem in the context of conversation but if it's a trap kinda question then you need to be talking about her insecurity not her hot friends