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As Jesus Himself once said too, then made conditions for women better than they had ever been before.

Anyway "magic" is simply something that has not yet been explained. Fire. Electricity. Herbs. All were magic at one point, to those who did not know how they worked.

Begging your pardon, but the likes of CS Lewis, Francis Collins, and Jesus of Nazareth would like to have a word with you about that... e.g. 1 Thessalonians 5:21, "be skeptical about everything", and John 13:34 "be ye not giant dickeths to one another".

Or there's 1 Timothy 5:18 "the worker deserves their wages", or Deuteronomy 24:15 "pay your workers the very same day" (literally: "before the sun sets, bc they need it"), or James 1:27 "offer healthcare regardless of ability to pay", and so on.

It turns out that religious numbnuts who refuse to read anything at all but keep making up new rules to add to the pile (heaping heavy burdens onto people without bothering to lift a finger to help)... don't really know much of anything? Not about what "freedom" is, or "love", or "religion" either. Go figure!? 🤪 Maybe it would help if instead of listening to child rapists who just want their money (and children) they would instead pick up a book - any book - and read it!?

So yeah, fuck religious hypocrites. Seriously, Jesus in Matthew 23: 1 - 12 says exactly that too:

do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they preach.

and

You brood of vipers! How can you speak good, when you are evil?

You... on the inside are full of the bones of the dead and everything unclean.

I find that people of any faith whatsoever - Christianity, Muslim, Jewish, atheist, Buddhist, Hindu, etc. - share a lot in common if they are not extremists. And right now there's a lot of value in atheism since nearly everyone is "first generation", but eventually atheism will fall prey to the same fate as well - it's human nature, and no system or belief is perfect. But I do think it helps to accurately diagnose the issue and point the blame more squarely where it belongs, i.e. the tribal "in-group=good but out-group=bad" is something that would be fantastic to get past as quickly as possible.

Bc to me your words seem to line up perfectly with 1 Thessalonians 5:21, hence you even agree with Jesus that most people calling themselves "Christians" (or "patriots" or whatever) are fucking idiots, however strange that sounds.

Oh dear let's see if I get banned for this?

You got THREE WHOLE days off?

Here in the USA the only time off I got was the actual day of Christmas. Also on Christmas Eve I was forced to show up at work... only to be sent home after a couple of hours without pay for the rest of the day - not enough customers, which you would have thought they could have guessed at that in advance but... no, they wanted to have their cake and eat it too (and b/c of the power imbalance, they got it).

And I also worry about my personal job in January, plus there's a nonzero chance that my entire country could literally engage in an actual, not-joking, full-on real & bloody civil war by then. Except that's far more unlikely now b/c we simply & preemptively surrendered to the side that was pushing to do it. So... yay? (now, trans people will still be murdered, but we won't call it that, b/c it'll be "legal" - see the difference? yeah, it's actually far worse in its way)

I'm honestly not trying to engage in a "life sux" competition with you - but rather trying to help show you that some things in your life are good, even as other things are surely bad, and while anyone's feelings must always be treated as valid, I hope that you take into account the good things you have as well as the bad. B/c there ARE good things that you have, even as there are definitely also bad. You can make yourself feel worse by ignoring the former and focus exclusively on the latter, or some people do worse and reverse that, but if you want, you can be happier by aiming somewhere in the middle?

e.g., you don't have to tell us, but if you want, you could try to find one thing that you enjoyed about those three days? Like, just before you lose your job (possibly, which you cannot control), at least you got to rest up a bit, which will help as you scramble to find a new one? Meh, you do you, I genuinely don't want to come across as trying to tell you what you "must" do. But I did want to say that you could do that, if you wanted... and doing so might help you to be happier, which you do seem to want?

That, I feel, is entirely up to you to decide:-).

That's a really good perspective that comments may be inherently more "welcomed" than posts. At least I do feel exposed to less toxic responses whenever I comment as opposed to post.

You can do whatever you want... however, so too can they. I may or may not agree with either side (fwiw Drag is obviously trolling, though that also seems entirely irrelevant?), but I defend blahaj's right to do as they please on their own instance - which they pay for and maintain with little help from others on the Fediverse? - and the post "Neopronouns are not trolling" seems fairly clear to me.

My problem lies rather with how that is not communicated clearly to people. It is not linked in the sidebar, it is not pinned even on lemmy.blahaj.zone, it is in a community that I at first thought was Local-Only b/c it was difficult to find from Lemmy.World (b/c of the different display "Blahaj Lemmy Meta" vs. link-to names !main@lemmy.blahaj.zone) - although it also seems cross-posted to 196 (but why MUST someone be subscribed to that one?) - and especially: when you visit that (cross-)post from some other instance, let's say lemmy.world via this link, the only text you see on the sidebar is for c/196, not the sidebar of lemmy.blahaj.zone, or from this link the text for the Meta community is equally uninformative, plus most apps don't show any sidebar text by default anyway, either burying it behind several button presses or perhaps not making it available at all.

So if you just wandered into a post federated and therefore hosted elsewhere, you may have no clue what is going on there? This is exasperated further by the sidebar text of !196@lemmy.blahaj.zone or !main@lemmy.blahaj.zone stating "other rules" which links to Lemmy.World, even when visited while on lemmy.blahaj.zone!?!? And then that post says nothing whatsoever about neopronouns - the closest mention is "prejudice of any kind" is banned but this is definitely a more contentious issue that those 4 words do not next to nothing to clarify. Also I don't see much of anything in the Lemmy.World ToS that would apply - possibly the text about "misinformation" but again, that seems far from clear, and more for an issue where the admins of Lemmy.World and the admins of lemmy.blahaj.zone would need to come to some kind of mutual agreement or at least understanding.

The tools made available on the Fediverse to help guide people into understanding what the rules are are abysmally inadequate. Ada can run their own instance however they wish, though it sure would be good to find better ways to communicate the expected behaviors rather than "ban people" or "not ban people" after waiting for them to walk into this issue unknowingly. I guess there is also "defederate from lemmy.blahaj.zone" vs. "not defederate from lemmy.blahaj.zone" as well - though it sucks that no other options in-between have yet been presented here. Beehaw at least has its core principles statement, though it too is not linked to from anywhere unless you visit the instance explicitly in order to investigate it (except from PieFed, where a message is presented - that's fucking awesome!:-D).

Things like this are why imho the Fediverse is not at all like merely using emails. There you simply click "Send" and it goes off to wherever it needs to be, but to navigate Lemmy without being banned for some off-hand remark requires quite a bit deeper knowledge than that.

So like, if you had read the aforementioned post about "Neopronouns are not trolling", then YDI (which b/c people won't read the sidebar even in this community, stands for "You Deserved It":-D) for inciting drama? However, if you had not, I definitely see why it at least comes across as a BPR ("Bait-Provoked Reaction"), coming a day or two after that "announcement" had been made (which again, how were people supposed to have known that?). Therefore it is at least possible that you are both correct, and merely talking past one another, each not willing to find common ground with the other.

I REALLY hope that we don't. But... https://theintercept.com/2024/12/18/trump-fisa-surveillance-spying/ does so make me worry.

Then again, perhaps I shouldn't, for the simple reason that e.g. if being woke is a crime then I'd rather face the music than get off scott-free? :-P

You may enjoy this rant on the subject.;-)

If you are burnt out then perhaps don't read this, but for anyone who wants to know... https://theintercept.com/2024/12/18/trump-fisa-surveillance-spying/ - it doesn't seem to say much of anything though still it makes me worry. Clickbait? Obviously. Merely clickbait or not though I don't know.

It is foundational. So long as this remains Lemmy rather than Sublinks...:-). But also with the cultural divisions going on now - which instead of lowering seen to have risen after the election - I am not sure how much it would even help. I see so much content across Lemmy that I do worry about surveillance wanting to take us down or some such in the future. Like this one:

But we'll see how things shape up in Donald Trump's America.