Adderbox76

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[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Does anyone want him back? His run was pretty forgettable if I remember correctly.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 21 points 2 years ago

Straight Capitalism without a strong socialist underpinning is seriously fucking insane.

Some things just shouldn't be privatized, period. America is seriously fucked up.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago

A degree in classical archaeology is more than enough education versus someone who read a couple of articles online. But keep on believing what you want. Enjoy your day.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Dude you literally just said it yourself;

"formally organized beliefs and practices typically centered around the worship of supernatural forces or beings"

What do you think is taking place when they are sacrificing a bull or a lamb to Zeus, or visiting the temple of Dionysus. Romans (since we're using them as an example) had very structured forms of worship around their gods. So how exactly is that NOT a religion in your brain?

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Things aren't suddenly called mythology once they're not believed by a lot of people.

No...that's pretty much exactly how that happens.

Religion is ritual devotion to a higher being. Full stop. The fact that the Greeks and Romans worships a pantheon instead of a single god makes no difference whatsoever.

I majored in Near Eastern Classical Archaeology and that came with a heavy does of anthropology. What you're saying is meaningless pedantry that ONLY comes from people who are too insecure to admit that their own Monotheistic religion is in fact just a made up mythology like every other faith that's ever come and gone on the planet.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago (9 children)

So you're saying I'm weird because I love history for history's sake and not any particular political reason?

I am interested in the world wars, among many other things. Everything from 1940s/50s Hollywood scandal and crime to The Bronze Age Collapse and lots of other stuff in between.

I majored in Near Eastern Classical Archaeology, but I never equated any of it with particular personal beliefs.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 years ago

I don't think "Downfall" means what this dude thinks it does...

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

In Alien 3, not only was it a good thing that Hicks and Newt died in the beginning, but that it was absolutely necessary for the film to thematically fit the trilogy.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 23 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Thanks for proving my third statement.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago

Because it's not a bug, it's a feature.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago (11 children)

Never found a free one that works as well at blocking ads and trackers.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 22 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I worked in the cellular space for about 20 years off and on before moving to other pastures. I guarantee you that maybe one in a thousand think like you.

BY FAR the average buyer that Apple targets come in two flavors.

First, the "I'm cool and all my friends are doing it" and second is the "I'm the father, I don't personally give a shit but my daughter/son wants us all to be on iMessage."

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