When boiled down, religions are essentially just a way of coping with the unknowable. The exact specifics of our origin, what happens to the thing we call “ourselves” after death, and usually an idea of how to be a better person. These themes are pretty consistent across everything we’d colloquial agree is a “religion”.

The issues only really arise when someone insists that these unknowable, unquantifiable things that they believe in MUST be the only way, and anyone who doesn’t believe the same way is somehow a threat. I believe that ones beliefs with regard to these unknowable things are deeply personal. They’re arrived at by understanding one’s self, and a LOT of introspection. It’d be weird if any two people managed to arrive at an agreement on everything, and that’s okay because the beliefs are built on internal factors rather than external.

Organized religion, then, is bullshit, yeah. Anyone pushing answers for questions unanswerable is pushing an agenda. I doubt anything approaching the level of group think that is modern abrahamic religions could ever exist without some kind of power struggle.

As someone who loves parentbeticals (and ellipses, asides, and similar) holy crap that hurt to read hahah

Having data to back up my claims is always nice.

Yeaaaah that upward mobility isn’t a feature of the system, it’s a bug, and they’re working on patching it constantly.

It’s never been easier to be a billionaire. It’s never been harder to be a millionaire.

No evidence for my claim, however I think a lot of the not noticing bikes while driving is just an expectations thing. People expect large metal boxes with 4+ wheels barreling down the place. They don’t expect something smaller, with fewer wheels, and in some cases completely silent. Because they don’t expect it, they don’t process it.

What’s this mean? Well, for one it means we don’t simply “ignore” people on bikes. That’s a facet of our limited attention and expectations. It also means this trend can be changed. If we condition people to expect and look out for bikes/motorcycles, people will probably be FAR less likely to not see them.

Point being it’s a last resort. I’ve lost all other options, may as well at least get someone there to ID the body or somesuch.

I get that, and I don’t disagree, but my point is that the venn diagram of “shoots up schools” and “shoots up political targets” don’t really overlap. Kids don’t kill people for political reasons, they kill because they’re in pain. Yes, they have a “better” target but that target isn’t causing them active daily suffering.

One day, when I’m in actually GOOD shape, and have a bit more grey.

Assuming it’s school attendants themselves, then they probably don’t have a direct reason to shoot up anywhere but their school. Maybe their home. Their school is probably the thing that’s causing them direct issues in their life, it’s where their anger is aimed, and people don’t often consider better options when they’re that level of angry. I just don’t really see these two things having enough overlap for that to be a thing.

Obviously, it’s a very different scenario when it’s not someone who’s enrolled at the school. That’s a level of dysfunction that I can’t even begin to look at the world through the lens of. I don’t think that kind of dysfunction is the one to take suggestions of better places to shoot up, though.

Joining a sword fighting gym. Absolutely fantastic community, and while I’m currently laying in a hot tub to soothe my absolutely dead legs, I’m definitively in the best shape I’ve been in in my adult life.

The best decision I’ve made in the last… Year or so was paying for my piracy. Hopefully the shutdown of a certain french-hosted platform continues to be overstated, but even if not, another will take its place.

Implying management is human work?

To be fair, aren’t almost all school shootings done by attendants of the school? At least all the ones that have stuck in my brain are ones committed by current or previous students of the school they shot. And I can’t think of how to verify that either way this morning. In those cases, though, it’s probably not entirely political, but personal.

I feel like someone should compile a list of suspects (read: denied claims) and read them off loudly at every memorial event for him.

Oh for sure. I don’t disagree in the slightest.

Fair. I think proper sports play is more akin to an art, but no doubt your physical prime is past you at a certain point.

I feel like this is just a sign of good growth. I’d be AMAZED if any single person looks at work they did 20 years prior, and said “yep. That’s my best work.” Maybe arts, where there’s no objectivity, but anything you can actually quantify?

That’s either an SSRI or an SNRI.

Denuvo is also subscription based. It’ll be pulled off the game eventually. I can wait.

I love that elsewhere, someone says anon should have taken more showers, then we have “stinky” with this insightful post.

I don’t think it’s anything more than coincidence, but it makes my brain feel good.