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[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 187 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (6 children)

Sounds like a resignation speech to me.

And judges who respond to voices in their head should never be allowed to hold office.

internal screaming in Americanese intensifies

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[–] mrdown@lemmy.world 164 points 1 month ago (6 children)
[–] FelixCress@lemmy.world 105 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Immediately. Judges should be impartial.

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 48 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

They should also not be suffering from extreme mental illness, like she is.

The fact that this person is an ICJ judge shows you that we are living in a clown world. Our entire civilization has no clothes. We are talking chimps conducting a reckless, unplanned terraform of spaceship Earth. Our intelligence is no match for our hubris. If you haven't figured it out yet, we are approaching our great filter and the perpetrator is ourselves.

As she said, we are approaching the "end times", except what comes after is the eternal nothingness of the void; the only remanence being another dead rock hurtling through space.

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[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 month ago

And not insane.

[–] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Out of a cannon. Into the sun.

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[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 83 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

What a ridiculous thing for a judge to say. It's amazing that people can seemingly rise so high up in the field of law, only to become extremely biased and do the exact opposite of what they're supposed to be doing.

[–] fartographer@lemmy.world 68 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oh good, another accelerationist in power who thinks they're the catalyst for the rapture.

The thing that confounds me the most is that these people have been rejecting our experienced reality and believing in some post-apocalyptic utopia for CENTURIES. But belief upon belief, attempt after attempt, they have only shown that their belief-system has no foundation or champion whose power they can invoke. But, instead of saying "we have the resources to make utopia exist here and now," they say, "we must not have pleased our friend who hasn't shown his face in MILLENNIA. But I know for a fact that he's real, so we just gotta cause a biblical apocalypse for all the chess pieces we feed and employ."

[–] Saleh@feddit.org 39 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I am religious. I find the idea of purposefully bringing on the end of times strongly contradictory to my understanding of the Abrahamic religions. It is not the place of humans to decide, when the end times come, nor do humans have the power to do so. And the idea that purposefully bringing on the end of the world would be rewarded, instead of punished, by God is incomprehensible to me.

There is a narration both in Judaism and Islam, that emphasizes this:

https://bliis.org/essay/planting-a-tree-in-the-end-times-an-analysis-of-an-islamic-and-jewish-saying/

“If the [Day of] Resurrection were established upon one of you, and in his hand is a sapling, then he should plant it.”
عَنْ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ إِنْ قَامَتْ عَلَى أَحَدِكُمْ الْقِيَامَةُ وَفِي يَدِهِ فَسْلَةٌ فَلْيَغْرِسْهَا[1][2]

“If you are holding a sapling in your hand and someone tells you, ‘Come quickly, the Messiah is here!’, first finish planting the tree and then go to greet the Messiah.” – Rabban Yohanan ben Zakkai (30 BC – 90 CE),

[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'm reminded of the quote by Heraclitus: "Though reason is common, most people live as though they had an understanding peculiar to themselves." Religion is not immune to this, with people often twisting it to suit their own goals.

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[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If it’s not our place to bring on the end times, then it’s also not our place to stand in the way.

That’s the problem. These people are telling themselves “if this is how it happens, who am I to stand in the way?” Think about it: if you see events in motion which could be the stirrings of god bringing about the end times, how could you possibly act in a completely neutral way, neither hastening nor hindering? It’s too fine a line for an humble mortal to assume they can walk.

So while I appreciate your thought, unfortunately your thinking is far too easily flipped around. The base problem is believing any of this stuff to begin with. Once you do, that’s it.

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (4 children)

If it were the end of times made by gods, a person shouldn't have any ability to stop it.

Sounds more like their God is testing them on whether or not they are a good person, and they are failing spectacularly.

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[–] mlg@lemmy.world 57 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Judge Julia Sebutinde says signs of the end times 'are being shown in the Middle East'

Why tf would anyone want to fulfill the prophecy of the antichrist.

"Yeah let's accelerate this genocide so that the entire world can get screwed over"

[–] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 1 month ago

They think this life is a transitional state and accelerating toward their mythological end times gets their sky wizard's kid/avatar to come back. This we all get to be happy, except those that aren't Christian. We're all fucked. These fuckers are insane.

[–] zqps@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Believers of a death cult promising salvation in the afterlife.

[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

What i'm not getting is why these Christians in the US want the last judgement to arrive at all.

The way they seem to treat everyone, with cruelty, a cold heart, and lots of violence, is basically a guarantee they're not gonna go to paradise. Why, then, do they wish for the last judgement?

[–] mlg@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Right, imagine standing in front of God and saying "Yeah I did all those horrible things since it was a sign of the end times".

Like why do they think that somehow qualifies them getting into heaven.

Even best case scenario, you still have to deal with essentially the apocalypse on Earth before you even reach the point of judgment.

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[–] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 54 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Reason #N+1 weird-ass cultists should be disqualified from all leadership positions.

[–] SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

Alt textI do this constantly

Source: xkcd #37 (28 Oct 2005)

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Ass cultists at least make sense.

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[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 41 points 1 month ago (3 children)

How does one know what lord wants?

[–] Jolly_Platypus@lemmy.world 60 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Easy. It's the same thing you want. Every time.

[–] MBech@feddit.dk 6 points 1 month ago

Well obviously. I am the best person and made in the image of the "lord", therefore the "lord" MUST think like I do. My thoughts aren't my own, they're the "lord's". Or something to that extend.

[–] D_C@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

INCORRECT!!

Anyways I'm off to the kitchen, the lord has instructed me to have a cookie!!

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Truth is nowhere to be found, and whoever shuns evil becomes a prey. The Lord looked and was displeased that there was no justice.

He saw that there was no one, he was appalled that there was no one to intervene;

-- ~~The Prophet Isaiah~~ Clearly Some Hamas Supporter /s

[–] Gympie_Gympie_pie@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 month ago (10 children)

Deeply religious people should not be judges. Their judgement is inevitably biased. People’s lives should not depend on the religious choices and opinions of people in power.

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[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago

Pychotic death cult

It's certainly the last days for the muslim children getting bombed by Israel.

[–] splashgarden@lemmy.zip 19 points 1 month ago

someone so clearly admitting their own bias should not be allowed to serve on a court. that's like the whole point of a trial. not to mention just how horrifying the end times/rapture zionism ideology is in general

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 16 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Yahweh is rather war-mongering.

[–] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

Yahweh was a war god before a schism in the faith. "He" consolidated power and did away with the other gods.

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[–] HasturInYellow@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

I suppose she wouldn't mind going to meet this Lord a little early then? Seriously every single person that espouses something like this, should be immediately expelled from any government position.

I am at the point where if someone is openly religious, I OPENLY avoid them. I don't want anything to do with these delusional psychopaths.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 12 points 1 month ago

Did he tell you so directly?

[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 month ago
[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Judge Sebutinde, your eschatology is bad. But your paterology is even worse. You might be a heretic; whoever taught you this nonsense definitely is.

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