• theneverfox@pawb.social
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        5 months ago

        Yes, the magic of an impromptu potluck

        Literally the whole point of this “miracle” was to show how if everyone pools resources, there’s more than enough to go around

        But that didn’t fit the message the Romans were going for, so they magic’d it up

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          The only food mentioned is the little kid fishes and bread. If it were more, pretty sure they’d mention it as well.

          The whole point was that they were far away from the nearest place to buy food and money for feeding about 15k people would exceed even a yearly salary

          Literally there was not enough food in the whole group for a “potluck”

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            5 months ago

            Jesus made a speech, they passed around the baskets his group had for the meal, and suddenly they more than enough

            Do you think they had grocery stores? That they catered events? That they even had a salary, and carried money instead of food?

            I don’t even know where all these numbers and money focus are coming from, but they weren’t in the text

            Everyone shared their lunch… That was the whole thing. They shared the food they were initially unwilling to share, and when everyone was full (including those who came with nothing) they had baskets of leftovers

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      5 months ago

      when the far right says, “Who’s gonna pay for it?!”

      It’s funny, the obvious answer is “rich people who have magnitudes more money”, but plenty of poor stupid people respond “BuT tHeY aLrEaDy PaY mOrE” as if someone with 100000x as much money as you should get off paying maybe pays 100 or 1000x when you’re paying 25% and they’re paying 5 or 10% of take home.

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      5 months ago

      When they’re asking genuinely, I don’t mind giving a genuine reply. But when it becomes clear they’re doing the online equivalent of filibustering? “You, you specifically are going to pay for it, and I hope it makes you go bankrupt.”