dandelion

@dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Interesting analogy⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  right, but since representing Jewish people as lizards is an anti-Semitic trope, representing Zionists as lizards is an obvious blunder if it wasn’t an intentionally trying to be anti-Semitic

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Interesting analogy⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  My point is that your baseline for legitimacy and moral acceptance is based on the attitudes taken by the colonizers, then and now. It’s only seems like a defensible position because the “ex”-colonizers (the U.S. hasn’t been decolonized, has it?) broadly agree with your position, but Zionism is a clear contradiction.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Interesting analogy⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  colonialism was the norm and in no way internationally frowned upon

  When you mention colonialism wasn’t frowned upon, who were the people that did not frown upon it then?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Interesting analogy⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  yes exactly - don’t use an anti-Semitic trope when criticizing Zionism, lest you be confused for an anti-Semite; this weakens the meme significantly and for no good reason (other than maybe to pick up support from conspiracy nuts and right-wingers by using a dog-whistle while still being palatable to people who don’t see the dog-whistle)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨how badly could a pelican fuck me up in a fight?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  lol, this is just a great sentence is a great post

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is non-sexual masochism a thing?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  yesss

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does it seem most people, mainly conservatives, against Trans people? Unless I am wrong I never heard of one shooting up a school church or whatever. The ones I have met have been pretty cool.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  yeah, was going to say - there have been trans mass shooters, lol

  Another notable case:

  en.wikipedia.org/…/Colorado_Springs_nightclub_sho…

  Aldrich’s attorneys have said in court documents that their client identifies as non-binary and uses they/them pronouns, preferring to be addressed as Mx. Aldrich. Neighbors allege Aldrich to have made hateful comments towards the LGBT community in the past, including frequent usage of homophobic slurs. Aldrich never mentioned being non-binary prior to the shooting and was referred to with masculine pronouns by family members. Police testified they found rainbow-colored shooting targets in Aldrich’s home. Experts in online extremism have voiced the possibility that Aldrich’s proclaimed self-identification could be disingenuous, while the Center for Countering Digital Hate acknowledges the suspect’s past actions and impact on the LGBT community.

  I am personally inclined to agree that the self-identification is likely disingenuous, a stunt for the courtroom.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do the majority of women still take their partner's last name?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I took my partner’s last name because I like their family more than mine, and I liked the idea of no longer being associated with my family.

  But I think most people just want to do what is normal or expected of them, so I would imagine that is why most women change their name. Not doing so would go against the grain, putting them in awkward situations where they have to explain they didn’t take the last name.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Since I transitioned I’ve been thinking a lot about how little I knew about trans people until I realized I was one and took seriously educating myself.

  It makes me feel ashamed because of how little I understand so many other oppressed groups, and how little true empathy I have. Even if on the surface I have respect for people and consider myself an “ally” to various groups, I feel I should do more than just signal respect and support. Maybe it’s an unrealistically high bar, but my conscience certainly thinks I need to do more to empathize with and better understand other groups.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s OK, being closeted was worse. :-)

  I didn’t realize having the wrong sex hormones in your body can mess up your mind - I was struggling with depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation, etc. for decades that were entirely unnecessary. A socially harder life with the right sex hormones is still much better than a closeted life with the wrong hormones. It was a hard lesson to learn, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  especially when they’re also privileged and unaware of what it’s like to be a minority - I don’t really know how to cross that divide, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I accept at this point that everyone is a hypocrite, including myself. I still tend to think some people are worse hypocrites than others, lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨how did you master splits (for flexibility)?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  old.reddit.com/…/dont_know_where_to_start_click_h…

  Splits

  This splits routine was created for the 90-day challenge and will give you quick results by stretching every day.

  If you just want to take it a bit slower, here’s a follow-along video for every other day.

  Hit a plateau in your splits training? Try these brutal but effective loaded progressions. Here and here. Oh, and here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  agreed, the title should be edited

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The general advice is if you are wishing to avoid a pregnancy, to assume estrogen won’t make you sterile (and use protection), and if you are hoping to have kids assume it will make you sterile (and get fertility services like freezing sperm before starting HRT).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  don’t forget Bill O’Reilly

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  yeah, was going to say - being trans did get me shunned, lol

  (not that being trans is a bad thing, I can’t help it and I’m not harming anyone)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does hair in food carry any health risks?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  honestly I think it is less about health or safety and more about the disgust people feel - it really might just be irrational and nothing more

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gem Beetle⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  this makes me feel something, like a weird nausea

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the term for someone that likes Jesus of Nazareth, but doesn't identify with church, religious dogma, or whatever?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  oh interesting, TIL: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_John#Historical_r…

  Thanks! I’ll have to read the book of Mark and see how it compares (esp. I wonder if the events depicted in John 6 occur in the book of Mark).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the term for someone that likes Jesus of Nazareth, but doesn't identify with church, religious dogma, or whatever?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  not sure what you mean

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the term for someone that likes Jesus of Nazareth, but doesn't identify with church, religious dogma, or whatever?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe I’m losing the context, when are you using this term? If you wanted a simple term to get the idea across you could just say you’re a “Christian atheist”, no? Most people probably don’t care tbh, so it’s unclear when you need to be making these distinctions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the term for someone that likes Jesus of Nazareth, but doesn't identify with church, religious dogma, or whatever?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Right, I’m not trying to indirectly make a point about Christ not being likely to have existed or anything, just making a point about the language: Christ’s existence hasn’t been scientifically proven, it’s just that historians agree that it’s a reasonable guess based on the texts that were left behind and mentioned him.

  Archaeologists might use scientific methodologies, e.g. carbon dating, to estimate how old a text is, for example, but I wouldn’t consider this scientific proof that someone existed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the term for someone that likes Jesus of Nazareth, but doesn't identify with church, religious dogma, or whatever?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  yeah, at least not according to him; but his moral teachings got a lot of people in the door and interested in following him, and the whole “faith without works is dead” thing (book of James is pretty lit tbh)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the term for someone that likes Jesus of Nazareth, but doesn't identify with church, religious dogma, or whatever?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Eh, ironically it’s the Lutherans who still believe in transubstantiation, which means communion is not a metaphor and the essence of the bread turns to Christ’s flesh and the essence of the wine turns to Christ’s blood, the cannibalism is more literal for Lutherans than some denominations.

  Either way, Christ could have qualified his statements if he was speaking in metaphors, as he does in other passages, but he was strangely literal about eating his flesh and blood, and again that whole chapter reads like Christ was wanting to alienate his followers because he had amassed a crowd that he didn’t want to deal with.

  And yes, lots of scripture is interpreted as not having a literal interpretation, that everything has hidden and layered meanings. This was used a lot by Christians to re-interpret the Hebrew bible as foretelling Christ as the Messiah, and before Christ the priests and interpreters wished to breathe life and meaning into scripture by finding meanings in there that weren’t supported by a more literal or direct reading. Still, this seems like addled religious thinking to me, strangely disrespectful of the scripture and motivated by a need to resolve cognitive dissonance when passages don’t make sense or contradict something the church wishes to change their minds on (such as the way the Roman Catholic Church re-interpreted Christ’s messages on poverty and wealth).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the term for someone that likes Jesus of Nazareth, but doesn't identify with church, religious dogma, or whatever?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t see the point in policing whether he is referred to as Christ or Jesus from Nazareth - is there some meaningful distinction here?

  Also documents are not scientific evidence. The documents are enough evidence to consider it a historical fact, but that’s, again, not the same thing as a scientific fact, and it is not backed with any material or physical evidence. Not that we expect or demand such evidence, I’m only pointing this out because you claimed there is scientific proof where there is none.

  Regardless, I would be curious to get your receipts on those documents referencing Christ that predate the gospels, I hadn’t heard of that before!

  Speculation about the resurrection being faked with sedatives is irrelevant to this discussion, but since you brought it up, why not entertain more likely alternatives: towards the end of the book of John, Mary saw the resurrected Christ in the tomb and was the first to see him, yet she did not recognize him:

  “They have taken my Lord away,” she said, “and I don’t know where they have put him.” At this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not realize that it was Jesus.

  He asked her, “Woman, why are you crying? Who is it you are looking for?”

  Thinking he was the gardener, she said, “Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will get him.”

  If he took sedatives, why did he look like a different person such that she thought he was the gardener? Why not think the resurrected person was just falsely claiming to be Christ, since he didn’t look like him anyway? Why resort to more elaborate explanations when we have more simple ones at hand?

  There is also the issue about how Christ supposedly survived being eviscerated and tortured before being hung on the cross, even if he did have access to sedatives. It’s just not likely he survived that, and the sedatives don’t explain that away.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the term for someone that likes Jesus of Nazareth, but doesn't identify with church, religious dogma, or whatever?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We have no direct evidence of Christ’s existence, there is no “scientific proof” of Christ’s existence as a person. Instead what we have is historical evidence, i.e. people wrote about him, so he probably existed. It’s the best evidence we have that Christ lived, and it’s generally good enough in the discipline of history - but it’s not the same standard of evidence as used in science.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the term for someone that likes Jesus of Nazareth, but doesn't identify with church, religious dogma, or whatever?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What part does it exclude?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the term for someone that likes Jesus of Nazareth, but doesn't identify with church, religious dogma, or whatever?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I recommend you read the book of John!

  I wrote a longer response to Kolanaki if you want to read that as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the term for someone that likes Jesus of Nazareth, but doesn't identify with church, religious dogma, or whatever?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was thinking John 6 is pretty nuts tbh. There are a lot of problems with Christ, like how quiet and accepting he seemed about slavery, or how fragile he is about his ego and being respected as God, the central message of Christ is about his divinity, not about moral teachings. He threatened anyone who disagreed with his divinity with eternal damnation and so on. Just not the kind of person you would think of as a “chill dude”, rather the description “crazy” comes to mind when I read the book of John especially.