Ifera

Easy, because most people do. Be it by indoctrination of their children, justification of atrocities, or by feeling self righteous, it is almost always a tool of coercion.

And people who think they're above of it all, and who think their lukewarm faith is the answer, are disgusting to the creature they claim to serve, as per the Book of Revelation, chapter 3, verses 15-16.

Very easy to cherry pick when you ignore the book of Joshua and Deuteronomy. Which include genocide, enslavement, ethnic cleansing and other atrocities, all committed by direct order of that deity.

Personally, because I take offense at anyone who proudly worships the creature who killed tons of babies and kids, just for being the firstborn of a culture and not taking in the religion of another group just for being the correct one, imposing rules on a whim and turning those who failed into salt, testing faith by asking someone to kill their child, burning up cities because it disagreed with with how some of the people in it lived, and many other atrocities.

But more to the point, because I think it is disgusting to worship a creature so powerful and stubborn that after so much interference, now allegedly just says "I'm a hands off parent now, I don't care if you poke your eye out, commit Holocaust or poison and kill men, women and children by pretending to be acting in my name, I'll just judge you after you die, k, tks, bye"

You claim to be against the sins that form the basis of your religion, and I respect that, but one can't turn a blind eye to what the scriptures say.

With love, a former seminarian.

Both points are true. Honestly, I pirate stuff wildly, but donate to the authors or buy their stuff and donate it to my local library if I like it enough.

Absolutely based take, I applaud you and your nuance, darling.

Kinda funny how a lot of people downvote and denounce AI religiously for some things and not for others.

For me, this pic is just good fun.

I wasn't /s

But seriously, it is far easier being on the outside, pointing and casting blame, but for us old enough to remember all the people who were blackballed, run out of the business, and even murdered for exposing sexual abuse, it is hard to tell.

And on top of that, there are cases where a third party has exposed the abuse, to which both the victim and perpetrator deny the accusations, and it just ends up terribly for the whistleblower.

Yet, back to the point, we're on ~~reddit~~ lemmy, where nuance goes to die.

Allegedly, he was aware of Harvey Weinstein's abuse, at least according to Rose McGowan. And since a lot of people are reactionary as fuck, since she accused him of being aware, then they act and behave as if he was undoubtedly aware and complicit in it.

I fully agree with that first half of the statement, and seeing women as nothing but things, incapable of evil, of plotting, murdering, mass murdering or any other distasteful thing.

But then on the next few lines you show similar views with collective responsibility, on how straight men have a terrible history, and that we're doing far too little to grow out of.

People are not monolithic, and while sure, you can state statistics, judging everyone for the crimes of many or few they share characteristics out of their control with, is a very fucked up thing.

Edit: The argument about women being incapable of things should also some of the fucking amazing things women can do, and achievements that history and sexism have tried and often succeed at burying. Honestly, humans are both magnificent and horrifying, no matter what gender they are.

Or as if gay porn wasn't a thing. It is funny when you realize how anti-men people do mental gymnastics for this kind of stuff, yet on the same breath state that sex work is real work, when pointed at OF "models", or anything that is lucrative for women.

Odd, none of the pics you post load for me, even tried with a browser instead of Sync, and can't get them to load

It actually works for some, but not for the reasons people think it does.. If there is going to be a promotion, happy, or at least happy looking people are far most likely to get it, so they can motivate others. In most cases, this selection is based on internal biases rather than explicit requirements, but there are many people in power who actually consider it as a factor.

Another one is the impostor syndrome, those techniques make you believe you deserve anything good coming your way, and think yourself responsible for anything positive that happens in your life, so just like religion, if you got it it is thanks to you for believing in that higher power, and if you didn't, it is beecause it wasn't the time, your deity of choice has something better waiting for you, because ultimately it wasn't going to be good for you, or because you didn't pray/believe/manifest it good enough.

They try to cover self doubt with a bandaid and confirmation bias, which can work, and make the people who follow those tenants more secure, more willing to take risks, and more easygoing, but also makes them far more prone to mistakes and being too stubborn.

For the most part, keeping a happy face works just the same, and people who believe this things are so delusional, multiple people at work told me it was because of my change in attitude that I won a raffle, when that change in attitude was not because of that bullshit, but because I had given up and was already looking for a new job, and completely stopped doing work stuff on my free time just to keep up.