Nazis
Young earth creationism and flat earth
Young earth creationism
What I hate so much about that, is all the “evidence” just points to some near extinction level event that humans worldwide suffered.
And obviously for that to have happened, it means there had to be a lot more people.
Like, entire cities/tribes/whatever were wiped out everywhere, but some had individuals survive. Which explains how “the last two people” could have kids who just happen to later have spouses and kids of their own without any explanation for where the new people came from.
They were just outside of walking distance.
Over the 300,000 plus years anatomically modern humans have been on Earth, that’s probably happened a bunch. Hell, we’ve had 2-3 actual ice ages over that span.
We don’t know shit about 250k of those years.
From what I understand (and as a Christian), it’s those Christians that take a literal reading of the Bible, not understanding that those parts of the Bible aren’t meant to be read literally but are about the WHY of creation rather than the HOW. It’s about WHO God is rather than how He did things.
Either that or Genesis is just an explanation made up by a people group that had little to no idea how anything in the natural world works lol
I always thought 2 Peter 3:8 basically addressed this issue.
Child labor.
Despite progress, child labour still affects nearly 138 million children worldwide
https://data.unicef.org/topic/child-protection/child-labour/>
Affects is such a strange way to put it. Like, “they caught a case of child labor.”
I get you, but how would you phrase it? I expect, BTW, that it might be intended to cover both the extreme of children forced to work in a sweatshop 12/7 and children who have to help their parents with some subsistence tasks.
Those two should not be counted in the same category.
Maybe not, but the boundaries can be fuzzy, and statistics tend to get built on technical language that may not treat the fuzziness the way you or I would agree with. So I get the urge to use vague language like ‘affects’ or the difficulty in finding language that is general enough without sounding mealy mouthed.
Religion
I kinda get it. Everyone needs something to look forwards too. Sadly, for some, there’s only the idea of afterlife for that.
Religion isn’t necessarily the problem, people (as usual) are.
All religion is baseless bullshit, so yes, it is problematic in itself.
It is divisive by nature/design.
And it is made worse by people abusing it for power over others or discrimination.I think it’s a bit of a stretch to say it’s all baseless. It could just as easily be the passing down of allegorical tales — stories seeded by some guiding or controlling force countless generations ago in our collective development. There are even arguments for things like a collective consciousness or sub-atomic networks, suggesting that our linear experience of time might just be a way of processing information.
Honestly, who really knows? But speaking as someone who has oscillated between Christianity, Buddhism, and atheism in my youth, I’ve come to see atheism as just as much of a limiting dogma as any other belief system.
After posting my comment, I figured the baseless part might get some critique, but I decided to leave it. I meant it as ‘not based in realty or not based on facts’, if that helps clarifying.
Also, if you heap in atheism with Christianity and Buddhism, you don’t understand what atheism is.
Christianity and Buddhism are actual systems of belief, while atheism is simply a lack of belief in any god or deity.
Anyone who does not believe in some god/deity/greater power, is an atheist. Whether they like it or not, that’s what it is. A simple definition about a persons lack of belief. It does not come with any other rules or dogma. No rituals or leadership at all, so it can’t be a system.I wouldn’t say I heap them in together. At times in my life I have rejected a belief in anything ‘higher’, which fits your definition of atheism, although perhaps my mindset was closer to an agnostic atheist stance, which to me is more along the lines of ‘I don’t believe, but I can’t be certain as there’s a limit to my knowledge’, as opposed to being a strong proponent of the belief that there is nothing beyond death.
Fair point. No one can be sure about there being anything after death. For me it’s like the safest and most logical bet that there won’t be anything. All other ‘options’ come across a lot like wishful thinking. No one is going to believe in anything that doesn’t fit their own narrative.
Personally, I would not be able to believe Santa Claus is real, so why would I believe in anything supernatural? I’d rather find answers in science.
Also, the idea of there being eternal life after death would just terrify me. It would be the most boring and useless way to spend time. It is the notion of my time being limited that gives it value. When time is unlimited, everything loses meaning.I hear you. But then does the existence of some sort of higher purpose/unknown science necessarily imply everlasting life?
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@MotoAsh@lemmy.world @TomMasz@lemmy.world
Firstly, it’s obvious “believing” means “zero evidence”. If a belief had any solid evidences, it wouldn’t be a belief, it would be a peer-reviewed scientific paper instead.
That said, you’re conflating “belief” with “religious hierarchy” when, in reality, belief isn’t necessarily dependent on hierarchy. I believe in Lilith and Lucifer, and I have no one “above me” except for Her and Him. In fact, the belief I follow on my own isn’t even compatible with any kind of hierarchy, because these entities represent independence and rebelliousness, so it’d be quite paradoxical for me to have a leader/master/priestess/whatever.
Finally, I challenge you to point out any kind of “humanity’s ill” inflicted by Luciferianism and other left-hand path beliefs, even those who actually have hierarchies (e.g. Quimbanda).
So, I sincerely remind you, don’t generalize and attack every single religion and belief system on Earth because of a half dozen big ones who actually are to blame for many historical wars (“Holy wars”) and their interference on scientific progress. Don’t demonize the demons and demonesses, we’re friends of scientific inquiry. Beware not to do friendly fire.
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@MotoAsh@lemmy.world Where in centuries of human history were there any wrongdoings stemming from Luciferianism and other leaderless occult belief systems? Where in centuries of human history did Luciferianism and other occult belief systems interfered or tried to hinger with scientific progress?
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Go on then try to explain how pagan religions that boil down to “don’t fuck with nature, it’ll kill you” are damaging?
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my point that it doesn’t matter which religion
idk man saying it doesn’t matter what religion you’re talking about sounds like you think they’re all equally bad to me.
Also idk who’s beliefs you think I’m making a strawman out of but I was refering to my own beliefs that help me to actually go into nature as I can at least 4 times a year to help with my depression, maybe I’m more open to it because up until a few years ago I was studying to become a conservationist but it’s certainly better than back when I also thought that anyone who believes in something is a dumbass
Don’t demonize the demons and demonesses
You are all following demons. Self-proclaimed Satanists, Atheists, “progressivists”, billionaires, nazis, racists, bigots, child molesters, and rapists. Men who abuse women and women who abuse men. And those demons hate you more than anyone else can. They’ll lead you to the everlasting hellfire. They won’t be your friend.
we’re friends of scientific inquiry.
Christians basically invented the scientific method. It has never rejected science apart from some fringe beliefs.
Where’s the evidence that your partner loves you?
Also, there is evidence for the resurrection of Jesus, people just reject it because it doesn’t fit their desires and makes them cry like a waa waa baby
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at best its a waste of human energy and maybe good for those that require that emotional crutch
your argument is the same for guns, which we as a species should also mature out of
That’s essentially the same as saying guns aren’t the problem.
Tips. How ridiculous is it that restaurant owners guilt us into paying their employees salaries because they are too cheap to pay them a living wage? How unjust is it that we chose to tip the people who bring our food from the kitchen to our table and leave the hundreds of other service workers without tips?
A better understanding will flow from knowing that federal minimum wage for tipped employees is $2.13 per hour.
So there is specific legislation in place to abuse restaurant workers, restaurant owners take full advantage of this.
Here, the minimum wage for servers is $17.20, same as any other worker.
It is the same in Canada. However, there are still special provisions that 2nd class the labor rights of restaurant employees.
In Ontario, minimum wage is the same for all.
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Thank the fucking tax software lobbies for that. Assholes
The complication is mostly determining what actually counts as income and the insane amount of deductions and credits you might be eligible for.
For most people a simple standard deduction is very easy to file, and can be done on paper in 15-30 minutes. But I agree that this is still too complicated.
Racism, but here we are in 2025 it being more prevalent than ever.
IPv4! Hail IPv6
Every single fucking isp (at least in the states): nah
Really? Both my home internet and my mobile phone internet give me ipv6 addresses.
My cellular yeah, though I don’t consider them an isp since most throttle or deprioritize data after ~50 gigs. But both isps I’ve had, and all of the friends who I’ve helped with networking stuff (basically all of them), IPv4. Sometimes, some janky ‘conversion’ at the modem that leaves them with just v4 anyway. That was with their isp-supplied hardware…
but IPv4 is so much nicer to read :((((
/s in case it’s not obvious
Private health insurance.
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Religion.
It served a purpose when societies were first moving from hunting and gathering to agriculture. A community needed to coalesce around something tangible for resource sharing, protection, decision making, etc…
It’s why, from a societal evolution perspective, we went from totemic religions based on fertility and family groups, to mass religions with defined hierachies and roles, because the evolution or religions reflect that evolutions of society at the time.
We don’t need that anymore. It does more harm than good in the modern world.
People used to need religion to stop them from functioning the same as animals back then, but in this century, if someone needs to be told by a religion that murder is bad to stop them from doing it, then they should be locked up.
Also so much molesting goes on at religious places that people just sweep under the rug. And what batshit crazy is going on with women in religions? Like there is a stoning sentence for a married woman who cheats, she just cheated! Get a freaking divorce and move on.
Cults get so much shit but what exactly is the difference between a religion and cult? They sound pretty similar if you look from an outside perspective.
The most important thing is we gotta think about the children. Just imagine how cruel it would sound to an alien.
“We make our 9 year Old daughters up before sunrise every morning to pray but our sons can avoid that till they are 14”
“We make our kids go without food or drinks for 16 hours everyday for a month every year. It is good for their body! (Kid passes out in the background)”
“My daughter is having her first child too late. She is 14!”
“So we send our daughters to be nuns, they will live there until they die.”
“I cut my son’s dongdong.”
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Did you say “meow?”
mrrrreow mrrrreow meow :3
Did I say wHat, meow?
Love the H
Heroin is a hell of a drug.
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Charlie Kirk
On that note, Ben Shapiro as well.
Andrew Tate, though that may be dangerous as he’ll probably turn into a martyr.
There’s a good list forming here.
You know, I actually don’t think it’ll be a good idea to kill people who are only powerful because they can talk. The more I think about it, the more I think they’ll be turned into martyrs by their followers. It’ll only embolden them.
So, something that really upsets the world in a tangible way would be…
Shooting more CEOs. And bankers.
😬🫥
I would be inclined to believe you, looking at these protests and manifestations that happened in London after the Kirk shooting. Scary works right now.
I still want to believe we live in a world where there are more welcoming people than there are hostile people. Otherwise the world is truly lost.
Billionaires, government officials owning stock, private campaign finance, the two party system, racism, sexism, health insurance, private equity, for profit prisons, for life Supreme Court appointments, Nazis, Zionism, Wall Street, unregulated banking,jobs that don’t pay a living wage, unaffordable housing, student debt, the police state and lobbyists
I thought phone numbers and traditional telephone service would be dead by now. Instead, purely internet-based communication services often use them as an identifier.
telephony only uses a subset of internet things so building just telephone lines is cheaper, which matters especially in the global southI’m no expert on the subject, but it’s my understanding that mobile networks are being deployed much more widely in the global south than wired telephone lines, and they’re usually internet-capable.
wait, you’re right. not sure what i was thinking of… then i guess it’s an easy way to get a unique human-readable subscriber identifier?
