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Maybe if Russia wasn’t in Crimea, they wouldn’t have to worry about getting bombed?
Crazy idea
Maybe if Russia wasn’t in Crimea, they wouldn’t have to worry about getting bombed?
Crazy idea
Or more likely, Jesus was an eminent rabbi of the era, that oral stories expanded for hundreds of years, until he became a literal avatar of a god.
Or maybe he was a fraudster like another magician of the time - Simon Magus, who is mentioned in the Bible. Simon was an escape artist, and had a levitation illusion. That’s not far from water to wine or walking on water.
Show me 12 guys that experience something absolutely world changing, and none of them write anything about it for decades and then tell me they were factually motivated
Literacy and writing were uncommon then, though.
I agree with this and do not dispute it.
However, I think there is value to the human mind in performing ritual, meditation, and positive thinking. We can think ourselves into feeling better. The placebo effect works, even in you know about the placebo effect.
Jesus didn’t know about these things 2000 years ago, but the stories about him make him seem like a worldly rabbi. He might have seen evidence of people getting better from disease through the power of prayer. (Never amputees, though.) The human body can fight disease; it can never regrow a limb.
The human mind also tends to remember positive experiences, and tends to ignore things that don’t seem to work. This is how fake psychics and cold readers work. You send out a bunch of guesses, and get a couple of “hits”, and the client remembers the hits. We all remember the hits. It’s harder to remember the misses. (Side note: I experienced a palm reader at a party and experienced this first-hand, and despite knowing their techniques, I still felt it a little.)
All this makes me believe that our brains are generally susceptible to a construct like religion. And that there could be some value in meditation, ritual, and positive thinking. However religion is frequently a grift and makes people do bad things - it doesn’t have to be, though. Being quietly spiritual is ok, which is what Jesus taught.
People should tip their servers, what they can afford.
It’s worth it
You are not even answering the questions that you are being asked!
How much can I pay for this service, and can you make it a subscription?
Smedley Butler was right. It is a racket.
What would you do with the guns? What will they do with the guns?
What is the envisioned game plan here?
Yes, but glue is the surprisingly tasty ingredient on pizza too keep your toppings from falling off.
Just be sure to use non-toxic glue, because the other kind tastes terrible.
How will arming up help anything? Honest question.
folks said the first American civil war was going to be short, too.
And we’re still going through it! 😭
Fedilab already works as a PeerTube app. A good one!
Yeah, what about their Second Amendment Rights in other countries? /s
I think he’s always been kinda like this. The magician community has known for many years.
Career dead? No way. That dude’s Vegas act is still running. He’s working full time, almost every day, last I heard.
He’s also got a supermodel wife, but also pulls this shit? What a fucking moron.
Maybe web rings are due for a comeback.
Every time someone says LEMMY IS JUST LIKE REDDIT a puppy dies.
We need a human-curated Internet search. A wiki of good web content.
Clojure is a Lisp and a damn fine one,
That is uplifting news! Thanks for sharing!