Ultimately, it comes down to which Christians are willing to accept that the Bible is a product of the culture of its time

A major aspect of Jesus and his teachings were very very anti-establishment. Like it was the entire point. It’s why they killed him. Talking shit about slavery would 100% have fit his alleged M.O. (who knows, maybe he did and the authors, translators, and editors of the Bible chose to remove it. This is assuming he existed in the first place but that’s a separate discussion)

It’s just so disappointing to see so many people accept this about their religion. We need to do better.

Edit: I forgot we were talking about LGBTQ, not slavery. I got my problematic Christian beliefs mixed up when replying. My bad.

I’d end up breaking the thing, for sure.

I’ve already gotten my moneys worth of the thing, and much more. If the wireless charging stopped working, I’d prob just buy a new device.

Not cheap, but man it was a game changer. Concentrates are very affordable as well if you’re willing to fuck around a bit with Monero and Tor

Fighting it is a new thing for me. It’s not really even fighting it, I’ve just chosen a “default” song that, as soon as I notice I’m starting to repeat an unwanted melody or lyric in my head, I’ll start thinking intently on my “default” song and it basically forces the other song out.

Then I have the intro to “Good Times, Bad Times” by Led Zeppelin (my “default” song) in my head for a few min before it fades away. I’m not sure how I came up with it, but it’s something I only thought about doing in the last few years. It kind of works usually.

I will often swap lyrics with other songs, or just make up my own which sometimes makes me giggle.

Have you ever done psychedelics? Is the experience for people like this purely visual and tactile? Or do wires cross and you get a glimpse into what people mean by internal visualization?

It’s not all sunshine and roses. My brain is like a broken jukebox that’s permanently on and set to random. I’ll start singing a song that I literally haven’t heard in 15 years, and next thing I know it’s stuck in my head.

It can be maddening, though I have developed some coping mechanisms to “reset” if I can’t get a song out of my head.

I can’t imagine what it’s like;

I think the Buddha called it “enlightenment” lol

He’s like the definition of smarmy rich liberal.

And yeah, he’s anti-trans. Which needs to become a nonstarter for Democrats

I don’t care whether you do or don’t,

We can fucking tell. Go away.

Turns out a lot of hippies were just there for the vibes. They just wanted to get stoned and listen to good music.

As I said in another comment, it taught me that my father apparently only cared about the aesthetics of being a hippie, but there was never any deeper political ideology or understanding underpinning it.

I imagine this was the case for a lot of ex-hippies.

It’s honestly fucking tragic.

But it has taught me that my dad cared more about the aesthetics of the hippie culture, but never actually stood for any real ideology. Just shallow bullshit like music and fashion. And acid.

I suspect this is probably the case for a lot of ex-hippies.

Real fucking shame.

And don’t get me wrong, the music was fucking awesome. I just wish there was more substance.

Interestingly, this made me think of George Harrison talking about visiting San Francisco in, I think 1967. He was struck by how vapid it all was.

However, he turned to spirituality instead of rationality.

What? How are they twisting the word, the person they replied to said murder was a form of theft.

It makes what Valve was able to do with the Steam Deck even more impressive imo. You can suspend mid game, like a Nintendo Switch, and it just works.

I’ve got Sony Bluetooth earbuds a few years back and I guess they have something called “multipoint” where they can connect to multiple devices at once. I had to Google why anyone would want that, but I guess it’s to make switching between devices faster.

Sometimes I’ll be walking down the sidewalk with my earbuds in, connected to the phone in my pocket, and they’ll just randomly make the sound it makes when connecting or disconnecting. Like I’m connecting to the BT of a random house or business I walked past that I never explicitly paired with.

I can’t exactly put my finger on why, but I find it very unsettling every single time and wish I could turn that feature off.

That was the peak of pre-iPhone cell phone tech imo

Good

This has to be bait.

Blues and soul singers figured this one out like 80 years ago

I use a Carta 2, and the little session counter stopped going up after like 3300. That was like 5 years ago lol. The USB port doesn’t charge anymore so I need to use wireless charging, but other than that, the thing is a beast.

I haven’t smoked cannabis in nearly a decade

I haven’t plugged the thing into a computer since I bought it and was told I needed to update the firmware, but I’m kind of curious if it has accurate stats about my usage…

I thought that said “Chomsky foxes”