Jerkface (any/all)

It’s not a tu quoque when NK isn’t hurting anyone but themselves and the Americans are burning down the fucking planet. One is an urgent situation, the other is political theatre that most of us are unqualified to even analyze due to the embargoes, censorship and pervasive propaganda.

Being worried about rumors that:

they also execute/punish people(and their family members) for trying to leave the country for good or talk shit about their supreme leader

from a tiny, insignificant backwater nation when the so called leader of the free world is disappearing people from potentially every country on Earth, when the most powerful trading nation is intentionally destabilizing the global economy, well it reeks of looking for a distraction. The US government has as much to do with what is happening to NK people right now as the NK government does.

If you are an American, eat what’s on your plate before you worry about NK.

We all see and hear what goes on over there.

Bullshit.

We’re in for a long arc.

I’m so sorry, so deeply grieved to tell you, yes, it is. Please educate yourself. It’s life and death for hundreds of millions of vulnerable individuals.

It’s also horrific animal abuse. Actual atrocity.

Sooooo… he’s NOT leaving YouTube?

You’re not going to satisfy unmet emotional needs with logical arguments.

Ran an ISP on a Pentium 90 and a few 486s. Linux and FreeBSD!

An “off” switch… She’ll get years for that! Off switches are illegal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9AZZVnNw60&t=26s

When it’s bad, it’s life changing in a traumatic way.

When the original authors of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John wrote their words in the original Greek, they were not imagining blindness to be a metaphor for clinical depression. Or even for feeling sad, if that is what you mean. While many people understand these passages as referring to literal blindness, blindness is often used as a metaphor in the Bible, for example for ignorance, pride, deception, and unbelief. You can attempt to take it as a metaphor for the modern concept of depression (which of course they did not even possess) but to do so, you are clearly reading into the text. And it’s not clear how the message of Jesus is meant to cure your depression, the way it can presumably cure you of spiritual ignorance, unbelief, etc.

I’m trying to understand if you are advocating reading into the text intentionally, but it’s not even clear if you’re aware and accept you’re doing that at all.

I’m going to claim brain fart. I’m horrified to find I had thought that it was about, like, modern Israel. Dumb.

OTOH, it sounds like you are suggesting taking interpretations like that; reading things into the text and adopting the symbols for our own purposes. Blindness wasn’t a metaphor for depression. You have to insert that as a modern reader. The text doesn’t fully support it and you have to creatively interpret at times. I don’t think that’s very satisfying.

Genuinely, that’s not how literary criticism works.

Yes, yes. Very clever. Not contributing but don’t you look smart.

The point is that they are fucking miracles. It doesn’t matter whether they are “impressive” or “lame” when they prove that the natural laws of the Universe do not apply. Whatever the effect of the miracle is less significant than the simple fact of it and what that implies.

What’s it about when he curses that fig tree cuz I heard some stuff about the non-literal symbolism.

It is much better for the working class to weild its authority than the Capitalist class.

Unfortunately, I don’t believe that. Humans don’t come in two flavours.

I think unfettered capitalism and the systems of power that you propose are both hostile, inhuman systems. I think that meaningful voluntary social systems have to be able exist within that context, and cannot replace it. I don’t believe that eight billion humans can form a single community; our capacity to be social breaks down, and we collectively become something else that we don’t really have a lot of power or comprehension over. I suspect that attempting to work on that superhuman scale can only bring greater conflict and chaos. I think that the enlightened human has to disengage from it, stop identifying with it, and instead find human-scale social constructs that we are capable of existing socially within, that are voluntary and free of coercion, and that seeks to address the social deficiencies of the ambient environment, whether that’s an empty wasteland, or a metropolis.

Jesus, it was your word. If you didn’t want to be pinned down to it, why apply it to yourself in the first place. Feel free to pick a better one, I’ll wait.

You know what the single most powerful force in human history is?

Organization.

This is a subjective statement.

Organization. Which is always hierarchal.

This is an untrue statement.