Can I have the Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, baked beans, and Spam without the Spam?
Can I have the Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, baked beans, and Spam without the Spam?
Right. Try to buy clothing that doesn’t have slavery somewhere in the supply chain. It’s impossible. Same with chocolate.
Hey folks, nothing to see here. Just the .ml account telling us that Russian influence in the US is overblown! (Just as the DOJ shows us the tip of the iceberg of Russia desperately trying to get Trump elected.)
They are paid for their services!
Ok, a pro-ricecake comment from an actual rice cake. Sounds suspicious! 😄
Aren’t those low-fiber and high carb?
I found your comment just now, and it’s awesome! 😎👍
Probably not.
“Mind your own damn business!”
I can’t believe it’s not coal!
Dammit! I was just about to do that, but it’s illegal!
Is there any way to not view or collapse posts that are rated below a certain threshold? I’m not sure how the collapse/show logic works in Lemmy.
First off, holy crap, thank you for sharing this site. I had no idea about it! I will definitely check it out.
Second, this seems like something I would pay for, to get more space. Is that available? I could not find that on their website.
It’s a ridiculous self-depreciating meme. It’s funny because it contrasts with Biden being old and frail.
QAnons actually believe their shit.
They shouldn’t have driven near the exploding spatulas.
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
I came here for this. Thanks for delivering!