LemmynySnicket

That's no fair. There was the weekly posts of "this sub is stupid" or "just got gold and saw this sub, what's it about?". I don't know how I'll survive on lemmy, without quality like that.

I found this weird on desktop too. On straight mobile you see upvote downvote. On desktop I see only the difference. Tis a weird choice.

and inversely proportional to how tolerant they are to extreme views..... just to be balanced

Ya I hear that, and I have no interest in twitter or anything like it and don't know how mastadon is used. So It could kill mastadon, but that could happen federated or not. If it does kill, You either die by the frustration when meta federatedly screws you, or by people just moving to threads. I don't know which is more likely as I'm not versed in matadon.

But I see no utility to lemmy/kbin from federation with threads, so sure block it. I'm not seeing the doom for lemmy/kbin though, unless they make a clone of us next. Then I'd block them, because they could do the evil.

If they have any access to data through federation they could have just quitely made a small instance and stolen all the data. So while I 100% won't be creating an account over there, and might block the instances myself, I don't see the need to proactively do it.

That would scare the birds more than the cats tho

I disagree on the whole, but agree with some caveats. Any rational person who has freedom of time and who knows some history and reads any religious text with intelect arrives outside religion and is smarter. Atheism is growing though, and as it grows kids will be athiest at birth. So we will see a new wave who may be idiots, we don't know. Choosing to be athiest after being led to a religion requires critical thinking, being brought up athiest requires teaching critical thinking. I do have hope tho

True, which puts them above catholics in my book, but the Bible was cobbled together from any who wrote something they wanted (timothy is straight out), so we can assume either

1. Man has screwed up religion except for the books chosen for the Bible and the translations they chose to use because God violated free choice just for that

Or

2. It's probably as screwed up as the rest of religion

Break just to try to make formatting work

Even if divine inspiration comes into play instead of divine fiat. You still choose to believe the men in the room who had shown want to help themselves, decided to follow that inspiration. It's possible, but I don't find it likely. Theism or atheism is the only choice I can logically come to. Any book or religion just seems massively unlikely.

Shit in my life had made me hyperraltional with all the bad and the good that entails. I just can't understand how anyone doesn't care about the history of their church. Like southern Baptist sect only exists because they liked slavery and didn't like being told slavery was wrong. Catholics added hell into the Bible to sell indulgences and launched wars to protect their power and unite fraying catholic countries from violating their pledge not to attack other catholics. Those seem obvious errors that make those sects "majorly influenced from somewhere that isn't god". I don't know the history of all of sects though, i admit.

Elbowed her in the face while having first sexy time. Some other fumbling involved and she later told me "well that was the funniest sex I ever had". It didn't bother me at all at the time but I look back on it often and think, how did that not hit harder?

It makes me confused why this was even needing Supreme Court unless lower courts just ignore the wedding cake case? Can't the Supreme Court just say see such and such ruling, and not even take the case? Just overturning it?

I love when people who don't know me find out I went to catholic school for 13 years. I tell them i learned evolution, and religion was left to religion class, but the most important thing it taught me was that aethism was correct. Like what did they think we'd learn when taught the history of the catholic church and religion as a whole? The closest conclusion to religion you could come to was that there could have been some truth at some point, but human hands have spun and edited it to meaninglessness, but aethism seemed better.