Those guys sure are pressing up their lower lips. They look like they have a lot of resolve.

Yup I have it.

On the phones making the calls. The FBI is Trumplandia.

Yeah the US has been far far more outspoken about defending Taiwan than Ukraine.

Well, I installed Firefox on all of my devices after finding out about the DRM plans, mostly through lemmy.

So you got one person.

I use emacs as my lemmy client

I do think we are responsible for each other though, humans are social creatures.

“Benign religions that aren’t hurting anyone”

Ain’t. No. Such. Thing.

Religions cannot exist without an outgroup to reject together.

Just like you can’t become a Dolphins fan without hating the Jets (or Spurs/Arsenal or whatever rivals you have locally).

I was in Istanbul and there are shisha places and coffee shops everywhere. There are dudes walking around with giant urns on their back who will sell you a cup of tea for a nickel (and then take the cup back and wipe it with a rag for the next customer).

I think your info on Muslims not smoking or drinking caffeine is not correct.

I was married into a Hindu family for 20 years. Yoga as practiced by most in India is literally a physical form of Hindu practice, just way better for you than Christian practices like going on pilgrimages on your hands and knees. It is essentially praying with your body.

If you’re really really serious about not practicing other religions do pilates.

Tarot gave us Stardust Crusaders, so that’s good. It’s also the basis for the Deck of Many Things in D&D, and plays heavily into Last Call which is a really good supernatural Poker novel.

This reminds me of a massive deadhead I knew in college, hugely wasted all the time. But he was about 6’5", birth control glasses, fairly muscular, cropped hair.

The other psychonauts always made him wait to meet up with them at a show because the unofficial vendors refused to deal with anybody near the guy.

They’re wrong, I’m actually very very bi.

This is all religions, and many sports fandoms…go sing a River Plate song in front of some Boca Juniors fans and see how that works out for you.

Realizing that Christianity was essentially a religion commissioned by an emperor to consolidate his rule, then that the most common version today was commissioned by a king to consolidate his rule… Yeah, kind of makes you skeptical.

Francis Collins is an excellent science administrator and also a young earth creationist. It’s wild, he talks about going to try to talk to his coreligionists about vaccines and they just tune him right out.

Mother Theresa of Calcutta for one.

Strangely it was just absolutely necessary for Big Mo to have ten wives, when everybody else had to stop at 4.

I’m sure that was an action motivated entirely by social necessity, not powerful men being horndogs.

Was Epstein Island socially necessary? I guess in 1000 years the Church of Trump devotees will be making similar arguments.

Religions of peace get extinguished by the violent ones. That’s why you don’t see any.