YHVH is biblically the god of earth, and that is a promotion from god of Israel.
Only in the last few centuries has our understanding of the scope of the universe expanded to make that infinitesimally insignificant in the scope of the universe, even if the earth is still critical to us.
Sadly, the dominionists may drive us to extinction.
New gospel: All Gods are real
That’s the old gospel. Even at the time of the apostles polylatry (like idolatry, but different). All the gods are real but this god is your god. Hence all the proscriptions against idolatry and other gods.
And they fought in spirit and by archons. When David slew Goliath (or his chroniclers stole valor from Ethanan), that was a contest between gods, even as modern interpretations of the fight coach it in materialist terms.
The rising denial of gods via monotheism occurred after Caesar became Christian since prior Caesars got into the habit of persecuting those who didn’t worship Caesar’s god, or eventually Caesar, himself.
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When all the adults in the household have to work 40+ hours a week, plus commute, plus all the adulting…they get sad since this is fucking toxic.
Also no one has time for civics.
Also no one has time to parent, so the kids are sad too.
If we’re looking at mental health problems, lets look here first.
I bet Mr. Gruff (and while I’m at it, Baphomet) has goat powers like being able to digest just about anything, and walk up slight inclined walls and cliffsides.
If you see someone who is grumpy and bitter rather than trying to witness to them (which doesn’t work — we all force-fed Jesus the way we force feed geese) try bringing them cookies or inviting them to the community barbecue.
Fixed!
A friend of mine raised snakes and raised bunnies to feed the snakes. I like the snakes, but I also like the bunnies.
God as in the omniscient prime mover was a philosopical god in contrast to the Olympians and chthonic deities (Not to be confused with the Cthonian deities) who were sustained by the temples for commoners.
I can’t speak to Epicurus, but Socrates’ charges of impeity and corrupting the youth with perverse ideas were at least partly to do with showing the philosophical theist positions that were antithetical to devotion to the common ministries.
It’s much the way only scientists and deep academics in the 20th century were openly atheist. The rest of us skeptics were members of liberal ministries, and may not have gone to church much.
I assume a material, godless world, but most theistic possibilities fall into the malevolence category.
It’s a big category. It includes:
In fact, the problem of evil is only a problem to a specific set of theistic models. We just happen to like those models because we get to be special.
The horror of nihilism is that we humans aren’t special. That nothing is special is incidental. We’re just that self-centered.
Was Popeye’s spinach the first catch-trope powerup?
Rules are consistent with the Pac-man powerup
My feed today is getting a few glitches in the matrix.
My head leaks like a sieve.
I’m covering my ass, AFAIK.
Speaking of which, Allegedly and Alibi are great girl’s names. So is Agenda
Yeah, when I was fifteen, I came to realize parents and teachers alike were willing to pile busywork on me in order to retain the position that I needed to work harder. I just quit right there, which turned into a PTSA crisis.
Curiously, when I got into clerical work, I noticed the exact same methods were used to keep workers feeling inadequate, either to keep them from asking for wage increases and promotions, or as an internal political mechanism to prevent rising competition.
Oh yeah, our capitalist system works on forcing the working class to compete with each other to get a limited number of jobs (and the economy is managed in order to keep jobs scarce), which is a means of allowing companies to underpay their labor and clerical staff. It also allows upper management to abuse their labor pool while keeping them too afraid to lose their jobs to actually report the matters.
So the whole system is designed so that workers will forever be compensated for less than they’re worth. When the communist revolution comes, we really do have nothing to lose but our chains. (And curiously, Marx predicted all these dynamics in Das Kapital )
Here in the states, leading-edge teaching scientists are reviewing the way we’ve been teaching math for centuries as super ineffective, and are now looking for better ways to teach our kids STEM concepts.
So if your kid is like me and enjoys math but finds some aspects and operations to impenetrable < cough > computing integrals < cough > there is definitely still hope on the horizon.
Most powerful man is a monarchist. Being a Nazi sympathizer is incidental and naturally follows.
Oh! did you accidentally vote in monarchists to let them do what they want, and discover it’s not quite what you want?
The face eating leopards are hungry tonight!
or (for a different allegory) Heron is king now and it’s frog season!
I didn’t see that.
Add 20% to the demands. +20 if they balk or engage in any other shenanigans.
FYI: That is statistically not good for you or your boss. People who take lunches and breaks (even when forced to) are more productive than those who don’t (on average) enough to offset lost time.
Also you should check social media and connect with loved ones between tasks to maximize your morale and productivity.
I was recommended RiMusic from Lemmy, using the YouTube music selection.
It has a radio function but it makes wierd presumptions: say I radio off a synthwavey film soundtrack song, it’ll favor more show music that has little in common with the original selection. Maybe it’s just me.
Since I have been talking about LOTR lore in other comment threads, you totally threw me.