Let go and let entropy. 🌌
Where’s the strength in a strike if a court can just order people back to work…?
Super cute. My partner crocheted a similar style bag for myself a couple years ago. I love it. 💜
May it be so.
I think it’s a great addition, but it sure does eat up a lot of space. Any way it can be condensed to the absolute basic information?
This is what it looks like for me on Boost:
Sounds like something a bot would ask. 🤔
It’s terrible how companies like this can do anything they want with impunity.
This tool seemed so beneficial.
That’ll show’em.
I’m surprised I watched the whole video. Haha. Mildly interesting. Maybe slightly more than mild. 😁
You’ve touched on a number of the things that give religious organizations cohesion and strength. The indoctrination is important when it comes to reinforcing those things and building on them. Health cooperatives, college scholarships, support when life circumstances hammer you into the ground… there’s a lot of benefits to being a part of the system. Most people never realize how much they’ve lost by being a part of the system. Why? Because they’re kept ignorant of the things they’ve lost. Keeping that knowledge and experience away from them is important to maintain the desired control.
PS. I’m truly sorry that your nephew didn’t get to realize his dream. I’m in a similar circumstances where I gave away decades of my life to these kinds of teachings and beliefs. Goodness, what I would give to go back and make different choices. But… I’ve still got a lot of years left, so I’m trying to gain my footing and make the best of this life.
Christianity is quite broad and this question will yield a different answer depending on the variant.
The example tract you shared looks like a Chick tract (or similar). That’s a specific breed of American Evangelicalism. Unfortunately, the number of followers in this brand of theology is quite numerous in the United States.
Evangelicals are definitely proponents of education, but very specifically things that align with their theology. So education in dogma, apologetics, and their brand of theology is heavily pushed.
Unfortunately, education in the sciences (particularly biology) is actively fought against because their theology and the sciences conflict on a number of matters. So long as the science agrees with their theology, they’re okay with people being educated in it. That which disagrees with their interpretation of scripture, is interpreted as lies from Satan polluting people’s minds and turning humanity from God.
These Christians will always speak of how important education is, but it takes the form of indoctrination. The more they can solidify people in their beliefs, the better and more “truly” educated they are as a result. If you believe in the sciences of evolutionary biology, then you’ve been deceived and misled.
With that said though… it’s important to remember that there are quite a number of Christians that are not adherents of this form of evangelicalism and who are strong proponents of the sciences.
Religion is about control. The more fundamental the religion is, the stronger that control needs to be. This isn’t a Christian problem or even an evangelical problem. It’s common with numerous religions and why so many devastating wars I’ve been rooted in religion. This problem is a religious problem.
I wonder if he’s the kind of maniacal leader that puts maintaining power and control first because he genuinely believes he has a plan to better his people, or…
is he’s the maniacal leader that puts maintaining power and control first because… power and control are simply all that matters…
I wonder which is more dangerous.
I wonder if it matters at this point.
This is a preventable apocalypse. 😖
Is this good…? Do they have enough influence to make a difference.
Hell of a cliff hanger for a paid article.
“Scientists find three ancient viruses. They think they can infect modern human cells with them.” The end.
Wtf. Are they gonna accidentally murder humanity next? What happens after?! Are we gonna die!?
To be continued…
Trunk Monkey Mobile would have been better. 🐒
The portal is a genuinely fun idea. I’d love to see those all around!
But… people being people got to ruin all the fun. So… I don’t suppose I’ll be seeing one of these any time soon.
Blah.
I’d hate to know how they’d feel if they knew how humans would respond to this…
Genuinely interesting. Perhaps they’d have something to teach us. We humans could use the help. 😏
Why is this number so drastically higher than other numbers I’ve seen? I thought it was in the 40 thousands?
(Not like that’s any better. Genocide is genocide. I’m just a bit perturbed by how different the number is then when I last heard.)
UPDATE: Further along in the linked document it clarified…
That figure is an addition to the 42,000 that have died from the violence.
Holy hell… 😭