(4/5/21) #Delafina777-Christianity #Delafina777-politics
There is a big difference between pluralism and secularism.
In the context of head coverings:
Pluralism: wear whatever you want
Secularism: no "religious" wear (i.e. you must dress like a white Protestant)
There is a big difference between pluralism and secularism.
In the context of head coverings:
Pluralism: wear whatever you want
Secularism: no "religious" wear (i.e. you must dress like a white Protestant)
December 23, 2024 at 6:01 AM
(4/5/21) #Delafina777-Christianity #Delafina777-politics
There is a big difference between pluralism and secularism.
In the context of head coverings:
Pluralism: wear whatever you want
Secularism: no "religious" wear (i.e. you must dress like a white Protestant)
There is a big difference between pluralism and secularism.
In the context of head coverings:
Pluralism: wear whatever you want
Secularism: no "religious" wear (i.e. you must dress like a white Protestant)
#Delafina777-Christianity #Delafina777-Judaism #Delafina777-politics
Oh boy do Inhave thoughts, which I’ll detail later.
In short, this feels like par for the course with Brooks. I’m happy he’s happy, but this seems on track for a guy who always seemed surprised when he had an emotion.
Oh boy do Inhave thoughts, which I’ll detail later.
In short, this feels like par for the course with Brooks. I’m happy he’s happy, but this seems on track for a guy who always seemed surprised when he had an emotion.
Hoping @delafina777.bsky.social has something to say about David Brooks's column today. I find it, like so much of his work, verbose but without clarity or substance. It's like he's been waiting for a Xian awakening, but Jews don't have that obedience to authority he was looking for.
Opinion | The Shock of Faith: It’s Nothing Like I Thought It Would Be (Gift Article)
The word “faith” implies the possession of something, whereas I experience faith as a yearning for something beautiful that I can sense but not fully grasp.
www.nytimes.com
December 22, 2024 at 4:41 PM
#Delafina777-Christianity #Delafina777-Judaism #Delafina777-politics
Oh boy do Inhave thoughts, which I’ll detail later.
In short, this feels like par for the course with Brooks. I’m happy he’s happy, but this seems on track for a guy who always seemed surprised when he had an emotion.
Oh boy do Inhave thoughts, which I’ll detail later.
In short, this feels like par for the course with Brooks. I’m happy he’s happy, but this seems on track for a guy who always seemed surprised when he had an emotion.
(11/7/22) #Delafina777-Judaism #Delafina777-Christianity #Delafina777-politics
Jews hold 1.1% of the world's wealth. We're 0.2% of the world's population.
Christians hold 55% of the world's wealth. They are 31% of the population.
And you think the problem is Jews?
1.1% of the money vs. 55%.
Jews hold 1.1% of the world's wealth. We're 0.2% of the world's population.
Christians hold 55% of the world's wealth. They are 31% of the population.
And you think the problem is Jews?
1.1% of the money vs. 55%.
December 24, 2024 at 2:01 AM
(11/7/22) #Delafina777-Judaism #Delafina777-Christianity #Delafina777-politics
Jews hold 1.1% of the world's wealth. We're 0.2% of the world's population.
Christians hold 55% of the world's wealth. They are 31% of the population.
And you think the problem is Jews?
1.1% of the money vs. 55%.
Jews hold 1.1% of the world's wealth. We're 0.2% of the world's population.
Christians hold 55% of the world's wealth. They are 31% of the population.
And you think the problem is Jews?
1.1% of the money vs. 55%.
(10/20/21) #Delafina777-games #Delafina777-politics #Delafina777-Christianity #Delafina777-Judaism
When you consider how many gamers think:
-that LG is the "most/stricted good" alignment
-that LG = obeying systems/not trying to change them even if they're harming people
...
When you consider how many gamers think:
-that LG is the "most/stricted good" alignment
-that LG = obeying systems/not trying to change them even if they're harming people
...
December 23, 2024 at 5:23 AM
(10/20/21) #Delafina777-games #Delafina777-politics #Delafina777-Christianity #Delafina777-Judaism
When you consider how many gamers think:
-that LG is the "most/stricted good" alignment
-that LG = obeying systems/not trying to change them even if they're harming people
...
When you consider how many gamers think:
-that LG is the "most/stricted good" alignment
-that LG = obeying systems/not trying to change them even if they're harming people
...
(3/3/23) #Delafina777-politics #Delafina777-Christianity
pretty convinced at this point that the Protestant Work Ethic is one of the most toxic, destructive ideas in Western history
pretty convinced at this point that the Protestant Work Ethic is one of the most toxic, destructive ideas in Western history
December 20, 2024 at 8:15 PM
(3/3/23) #Delafina777-politics #Delafina777-Christianity
pretty convinced at this point that the Protestant Work Ethic is one of the most toxic, destructive ideas in Western history
pretty convinced at this point that the Protestant Work Ethic is one of the most toxic, destructive ideas in Western history
(10/9/22) #Delafina777-Judaism #Delafina777-Christianity
I wish supposedly progressive Christians understood that very little about 1st-century, Roman-occupied Judaea maps directly to 21st-century America in politics/religion/economics/etc & attempts to equate them end up villainizing the victims.
I wish supposedly progressive Christians understood that very little about 1st-century, Roman-occupied Judaea maps directly to 21st-century America in politics/religion/economics/etc & attempts to equate them end up villainizing the victims.
December 24, 2024 at 2:50 AM
(10/9/22) #Delafina777-Judaism #Delafina777-Christianity
I wish supposedly progressive Christians understood that very little about 1st-century, Roman-occupied Judaea maps directly to 21st-century America in politics/religion/economics/etc & attempts to equate them end up villainizing the victims.
I wish supposedly progressive Christians understood that very little about 1st-century, Roman-occupied Judaea maps directly to 21st-century America in politics/religion/economics/etc & attempts to equate them end up villainizing the victims.
...then you're not going to be as pissed as you should be about how our country is holding you away from the basics of stability.
#Delafina777-politics
#Delafina777-politics
December 20, 2024 at 6:20 PM
...then you're not going to be as pissed as you should be about how our country is holding you away from the basics of stability.
#Delafina777-politics
#Delafina777-politics
(11/9/22) #Delafina777-politics #Delafina777-Judaism
re: Jews and the slave trade (TL;DR Jews were *underrepresented* among American slaveowners compared to the percentage of the population they represented, not overrepresented, so stop spreading those antisemitic conspiracy theories)
re: Jews and the slave trade (TL;DR Jews were *underrepresented* among American slaveowners compared to the percentage of the population they represented, not overrepresented, so stop spreading those antisemitic conspiracy theories)
December 24, 2024 at 2:00 AM
(11/9/22) #Delafina777-politics #Delafina777-Judaism
re: Jews and the slave trade (TL;DR Jews were *underrepresented* among American slaveowners compared to the percentage of the population they represented, not overrepresented, so stop spreading those antisemitic conspiracy theories)
re: Jews and the slave trade (TL;DR Jews were *underrepresented* among American slaveowners compared to the percentage of the population they represented, not overrepresented, so stop spreading those antisemitic conspiracy theories)
(12/16/20) #Delafina777-Judaism #Delafina777-politics
Useful chart from the NCRI on permutations of antisemitic conspiracy theories.
networkcontagion.us/reports/anti...
Useful chart from the NCRI on permutations of antisemitic conspiracy theories.
networkcontagion.us/reports/anti...
December 24, 2024 at 6:33 AM
(12/16/20) #Delafina777-Judaism #Delafina777-politics
Useful chart from the NCRI on permutations of antisemitic conspiracy theories.
networkcontagion.us/reports/anti...
Useful chart from the NCRI on permutations of antisemitic conspiracy theories.
networkcontagion.us/reports/anti...
(8/7/23) #Delafina777-Christianity #Delafina777-politics #Delafina777-gender
Boomer feminists rail abt barbaric treatment of women in Muslim countries while living in Christian country where doctors reassure men that, in repairing their wives’ bodies from childbirth, they’ve added a husband stitch
Boomer feminists rail abt barbaric treatment of women in Muslim countries while living in Christian country where doctors reassure men that, in repairing their wives’ bodies from childbirth, they’ve added a husband stitch
December 21, 2024 at 5:33 AM
(8/7/23) #Delafina777-Christianity #Delafina777-politics #Delafina777-gender
Boomer feminists rail abt barbaric treatment of women in Muslim countries while living in Christian country where doctors reassure men that, in repairing their wives’ bodies from childbirth, they’ve added a husband stitch
Boomer feminists rail abt barbaric treatment of women in Muslim countries while living in Christian country where doctors reassure men that, in repairing their wives’ bodies from childbirth, they’ve added a husband stitch
(2/14/17) #Delafina777-politics
Propaganda isn't designed to persuade. It's designed to overwhelm, exhaust, and desensitize.
Propaganda isn't designed to persuade. It's designed to overwhelm, exhaust, and desensitize.
December 20, 2024 at 5:28 AM
(2/14/17) #Delafina777-politics
Propaganda isn't designed to persuade. It's designed to overwhelm, exhaust, and desensitize.
Propaganda isn't designed to persuade. It's designed to overwhelm, exhaust, and desensitize.
(12/21/21) #Delafina777-politics #Delafina777-religion
maybe we could talk abt the things we know religion often *provides* that lead to happiness & ask how we can provide those things to more people
e.g. community, social safety net, sense of purpose, ritual, celebration of life milestones, etc.
maybe we could talk abt the things we know religion often *provides* that lead to happiness & ask how we can provide those things to more people
e.g. community, social safety net, sense of purpose, ritual, celebration of life milestones, etc.
December 24, 2024 at 2:07 AM
(12/21/21) #Delafina777-politics #Delafina777-religion
maybe we could talk abt the things we know religion often *provides* that lead to happiness & ask how we can provide those things to more people
e.g. community, social safety net, sense of purpose, ritual, celebration of life milestones, etc.
maybe we could talk abt the things we know religion often *provides* that lead to happiness & ask how we can provide those things to more people
e.g. community, social safety net, sense of purpose, ritual, celebration of life milestones, etc.
(9/22/23) #Delafina777-politics #Delafina777-Christianity
You should listen to the @yourewrongabout.bsky.social ep in which Sarah explains "The Sound of Freedom" to Michael, because it gets at why the "child sex trafficking" furor is the newest edition of the Satanic Panic.
You should listen to the @yourewrongabout.bsky.social ep in which Sarah explains "The Sound of Freedom" to Michael, because it gets at why the "child sex trafficking" furor is the newest edition of the Satanic Panic.
December 21, 2024 at 5:20 PM
(9/22/23) #Delafina777-politics #Delafina777-Christianity
You should listen to the @yourewrongabout.bsky.social ep in which Sarah explains "The Sound of Freedom" to Michael, because it gets at why the "child sex trafficking" furor is the newest edition of the Satanic Panic.
You should listen to the @yourewrongabout.bsky.social ep in which Sarah explains "The Sound of Freedom" to Michael, because it gets at why the "child sex trafficking" furor is the newest edition of the Satanic Panic.
(5/15/23) #Delafina777-politics #Delafina777-games
I have often wondered why gamers who claim to love games so passionately hate the people who make them. But it’s not just gamers. It’s fandom (especially geek fandom, to the extent that it still exists and hasn’t been mainstreamed) in general.
I have often wondered why gamers who claim to love games so passionately hate the people who make them. But it’s not just gamers. It’s fandom (especially geek fandom, to the extent that it still exists and hasn’t been mainstreamed) in general.
December 20, 2024 at 11:59 PM
(5/15/23) #Delafina777-politics #Delafina777-games
I have often wondered why gamers who claim to love games so passionately hate the people who make them. But it’s not just gamers. It’s fandom (especially geek fandom, to the extent that it still exists and hasn’t been mainstreamed) in general.
I have often wondered why gamers who claim to love games so passionately hate the people who make them. But it’s not just gamers. It’s fandom (especially geek fandom, to the extent that it still exists and hasn’t been mainstreamed) in general.
(1/18/19) #Delafina777-politics
it's weird that conservatives refer to the left as "libs" but we don't return the favor and refer to them as "cons" because honestly no abbreviation has ever been so appropriate
it's weird that conservatives refer to the left as "libs" but we don't return the favor and refer to them as "cons" because honestly no abbreviation has ever been so appropriate
December 22, 2024 at 6:02 AM
(1/18/19) #Delafina777-politics
it's weird that conservatives refer to the left as "libs" but we don't return the favor and refer to them as "cons" because honestly no abbreviation has ever been so appropriate
it's weird that conservatives refer to the left as "libs" but we don't return the favor and refer to them as "cons" because honestly no abbreviation has ever been so appropriate
(4/11/23) #Delafina777-politics
Screaming YES at this Atlantic article:
web.archive.org/web/20201020...
Screaming YES at this Atlantic article:
web.archive.org/web/20201020...
What if Friendship, Not Marriage, Was at the Center of Life?
“Our boyfriends, our significant others, and our husbands are supposed to be No. 1. Our worlds are backward.”
web.archive.org
December 20, 2024 at 11:30 PM
(4/11/23) #Delafina777-politics
Screaming YES at this Atlantic article:
web.archive.org/web/20201020...
Screaming YES at this Atlantic article:
web.archive.org/web/20201020...
(1/7/22) #Delafina777-Christianity #Delafina777-politics
A thing we need to reckon with, in the US, is that we can't just handwave things like Jan 6 away with "they don't represent Christianity any more than the Taliban represents Islam."
That's a comforting framework, sure.
A thing we need to reckon with, in the US, is that we can't just handwave things like Jan 6 away with "they don't represent Christianity any more than the Taliban represents Islam."
That's a comforting framework, sure.
December 21, 2024 at 9:22 PM
(1/7/22) #Delafina777-Christianity #Delafina777-politics
A thing we need to reckon with, in the US, is that we can't just handwave things like Jan 6 away with "they don't represent Christianity any more than the Taliban represents Islam."
That's a comforting framework, sure.
A thing we need to reckon with, in the US, is that we can't just handwave things like Jan 6 away with "they don't represent Christianity any more than the Taliban represents Islam."
That's a comforting framework, sure.
(5/10/23) #Delafina777-politics
I don't know where this originally came from, but the best description of Bitcoin ever:
Imagine if you kept your car idling 24/7 so it produced solved sudokus you could trade for heroin
I don't know where this originally came from, but the best description of Bitcoin ever:
Imagine if you kept your car idling 24/7 so it produced solved sudokus you could trade for heroin
December 22, 2024 at 10:49 PM
(5/10/23) #Delafina777-politics
I don't know where this originally came from, but the best description of Bitcoin ever:
Imagine if you kept your car idling 24/7 so it produced solved sudokus you could trade for heroin
I don't know where this originally came from, but the best description of Bitcoin ever:
Imagine if you kept your car idling 24/7 so it produced solved sudokus you could trade for heroin
(5/14/23) #Delafina777-politics #Delafina777-Christianity
Just going to point everyone to J. Kameron Carter on whiteness as a product of Christianity.
www.amazon.com/Race-Theolog...
Just going to point everyone to J. Kameron Carter on whiteness as a product of Christianity.
www.amazon.com/Race-Theolog...
Race: A Theological Account
Amazon.com: Race: A Theological Account: 8580000036473: Carter, J. Kameron: Books
www.amazon.com
December 21, 2024 at 12:06 AM
(5/14/23) #Delafina777-politics #Delafina777-Christianity
Just going to point everyone to J. Kameron Carter on whiteness as a product of Christianity.
www.amazon.com/Race-Theolog...
Just going to point everyone to J. Kameron Carter on whiteness as a product of Christianity.
www.amazon.com/Race-Theolog...
(11/30/16) #Delafina777-politics #Delafina777-gender #Delafina777-Christianity
Thinking abt people doubling down when told they said racist/misogynist/homophobic/otherwise problematic.
And I honestly think, at least in America, it's got something visceral to do with Christian notions of sin.
Thinking abt people doubling down when told they said racist/misogynist/homophobic/otherwise problematic.
And I honestly think, at least in America, it's got something visceral to do with Christian notions of sin.
December 20, 2024 at 4:48 AM
(11/30/16) #Delafina777-politics #Delafina777-gender #Delafina777-Christianity
Thinking abt people doubling down when told they said racist/misogynist/homophobic/otherwise problematic.
And I honestly think, at least in America, it's got something visceral to do with Christian notions of sin.
Thinking abt people doubling down when told they said racist/misogynist/homophobic/otherwise problematic.
And I honestly think, at least in America, it's got something visceral to do with Christian notions of sin.
(1/20/19) #Delafina777-politics
We're getting another round of "education will fix racism" and that's utter bullshit. And I will come back to what I said after the Pittsburgh shootings: people aren't abusing marginalized communities out of ignorance. They're doing it out of hate.
We're getting another round of "education will fix racism" and that's utter bullshit. And I will come back to what I said after the Pittsburgh shootings: people aren't abusing marginalized communities out of ignorance. They're doing it out of hate.
December 22, 2024 at 6:05 AM
(1/20/19) #Delafina777-politics
We're getting another round of "education will fix racism" and that's utter bullshit. And I will come back to what I said after the Pittsburgh shootings: people aren't abusing marginalized communities out of ignorance. They're doing it out of hate.
We're getting another round of "education will fix racism" and that's utter bullshit. And I will come back to what I said after the Pittsburgh shootings: people aren't abusing marginalized communities out of ignorance. They're doing it out of hate.
(2/13/23 re a now-vanished article on The Male Loneliness Epidemic) #Delafina777-politics #Delafina777-gender
The article notes that ace people exist & is like “so people who don’t want more sex MAY exist but even those who don’t want more sex should try to be less apathetic about sex,” and
what?
The article notes that ace people exist & is like “so people who don’t want more sex MAY exist but even those who don’t want more sex should try to be less apathetic about sex,” and
what?
December 20, 2024 at 7:47 PM
(2/13/23 re a now-vanished article on The Male Loneliness Epidemic) #Delafina777-politics #Delafina777-gender
The article notes that ace people exist & is like “so people who don’t want more sex MAY exist but even those who don’t want more sex should try to be less apathetic about sex,” and
what?
The article notes that ace people exist & is like “so people who don’t want more sex MAY exist but even those who don’t want more sex should try to be less apathetic about sex,” and
what?
(5/21/23) #Delafina777-politics #Delafina777-AI
“It’s legal to use AI that steals from artists so saying it’s bad is classist/ableist” is a helluva take.
You get that just as visual gen AI is trained on art w/o artists’ permission, gen voice AI is trained the same way on voices?
Legal != ethical
“It’s legal to use AI that steals from artists so saying it’s bad is classist/ableist” is a helluva take.
You get that just as visual gen AI is trained on art w/o artists’ permission, gen voice AI is trained the same way on voices?
Legal != ethical
December 21, 2024 at 12:43 AM
(5/21/23) #Delafina777-politics #Delafina777-AI
“It’s legal to use AI that steals from artists so saying it’s bad is classist/ableist” is a helluva take.
You get that just as visual gen AI is trained on art w/o artists’ permission, gen voice AI is trained the same way on voices?
Legal != ethical
“It’s legal to use AI that steals from artists so saying it’s bad is classist/ableist” is a helluva take.
You get that just as visual gen AI is trained on art w/o artists’ permission, gen voice AI is trained the same way on voices?
Legal != ethical
(1/7/20) #Delafina777-politics
Do you ever worry that those "What are 5 things about you people don't know?" memes are fishing for personal info that can be used for shady things?
Do you ever worry that those "What are 5 things about you people don't know?" memes are fishing for personal info that can be used for shady things?
December 22, 2024 at 6:25 AM
(1/7/20) #Delafina777-politics
Do you ever worry that those "What are 5 things about you people don't know?" memes are fishing for personal info that can be used for shady things?
Do you ever worry that those "What are 5 things about you people don't know?" memes are fishing for personal info that can be used for shady things?
(5/24/23) #Delafina777-gender #Delafina777-politics
Wonder if people from across the political, orientation, & gender spectrums all get mad at ace people for existing bc our existence challenges the idea that sexuality is inherent to humanity & that idea is their bulwark vs inherited Puritan shame.
Wonder if people from across the political, orientation, & gender spectrums all get mad at ace people for existing bc our existence challenges the idea that sexuality is inherent to humanity & that idea is their bulwark vs inherited Puritan shame.
December 21, 2024 at 12:37 AM
(5/24/23) #Delafina777-gender #Delafina777-politics
Wonder if people from across the political, orientation, & gender spectrums all get mad at ace people for existing bc our existence challenges the idea that sexuality is inherent to humanity & that idea is their bulwark vs inherited Puritan shame.
Wonder if people from across the political, orientation, & gender spectrums all get mad at ace people for existing bc our existence challenges the idea that sexuality is inherent to humanity & that idea is their bulwark vs inherited Puritan shame.