While there are zero prophecies left to be fulfilled, AND like five of them have been fulfilled in the last decade, if there is a supernatural Jesus to come back, we still have a long way to go to match the worldwide suffering seen in Revelations before Jesus’s return.

Not exactly wrathful, more like, he shows up when there’s a lot of ambient wrath going on. Mainly he just resurrects all who died in faith and sets up a judgment throne.

And he won’t kill them, just they don’t get heaven. The sheep and goats judgment. The section that “What you have done to the least of those, you have done to me” comes from there.

Honestly I think the existential suffering brought about by realizing that they have no place in heaven after a lifetime of religious lip service is FAR more poignant than any death could be

Not that most lemmings think this is anything more than a long repeated fairy tale, granted

Pretty sure if Jesus came back today conservative evagenlicals would send him to a concentration camp

Why would you consider it weird?

Conservatism is an exclusionary framework, it divides sharply ‘us’ vs ‘them’

When we say “Maybe poor people deserve medical care too”, they hear “I will have to work to pay the bills of someone I hate”

So, yes, inclusion is directly contrary to their core values, and they have learned that whenever they shout the word ‘Political!’ it gets people to back down, so they use it ALL the fucking time

they’re already foolish enough without you having to strawman them…

It’s not stupid, it’s an effective tactic because dems are obsessed with appearing proper

the right doesn’t even care about the correct meaning, all they know is that whenever they shout about it dems back off

It’s how they roped Biden into going ‘tough on crime’ in the 90s

It IS ideological that we demand due process, because our ideologies support freedom and personal expression, and it IS abhorrent to them that we have ideologies strong enough to fight over

Their ideologies all form around harming others, of COURSE anything humane will piss them off

The world would be so much better if they stopped being so concerned with what other consenting adults are doing in private.

You have just figured out 40% of GOP insanity right there.

“How does he get to be a pretty woman when I cant? Well I’ll show him!” (the misgendering was intentional and hypothetical to make a point, mods pls)

I think the more complete question is: Is sexual repression common among conservatives the root of their infantile lashing out against LGBTQ+?

We wouldn’t be here today if the DNC didn’t cripple Bernie’s primaries

histrionics

You really don’t understand how fucking sexist that word is, do you?

What a stupid comment to get blocked over

Sure would be nice if people like you didn’t meme the rise of fascism in America

Palantir is actively collecting a database of dissenting social media accounts

We are not safe and you are naive as fuck if you think we are.

same

And if I were there for Diogenes’s chicken caper my eyes would have been a-rolling…

Philosophers of that era spend a lot of time drunk.

I mean who the fuck dies from laughing to death at a donkey eating figs?

Science is only one facet of life where definitions are important, and arguably not even the most daily impactful.

Also science is one of the few arenas with any real interest in a rigorous epistemic framework so that same concept of advancing definitions doesn’t work with social values, political situations, and most media where definitions are changed or co-opted for convenience and leverage rather than objective rhetorical value.

Pretending they do leads to things like ‘we will become more progressive over time as a society’ being accepted as truisms of human nature instead of the long-term efforts of hundreds of thousands of highly motivated and violently targeted individuals working to better the world for people they will never meet.

So yes, rigorous definitions in science is important, and thankfully we have developed many useful frameworks to ensure that no matter where in the world scientists share knowledge that it can be held to certain standards of rigor and objectivity

Literally no other facet of life has that same kind of special protection.

Feynman was good with both…

there is no definition that someone can’t fuck up, that’s the point of this exercise, not to find a perfect definition

But as usual 70% of you miss it