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- Comment on Finish the story, chat. 2 days ago:
…In a vacuum.
- Comment on Asleep at the switch 5 days ago:
First time at a state fair then?
- Comment on Anon is Banished 2 weeks ago:
Alrighty, might give that a try then, thanks!
- Comment on Anon is Banished 2 weeks ago:
I finished the first book and it was pretty “meh”.
In what ways does the 2nd book pickup?
- Comment on what are in you're top 3 favourite games of all time? 3 weeks ago:
Updoting for Chronotrigger. Always at the top of my list. Every list.
Except worst lists.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
babby accidentally logged into UO
- Comment on Title of your s*x tape 4 weeks ago:
Do Christians not believe in sex then?
- Comment on Lever reloads 4 weeks ago:
Bro trying to make DOTA even more challenging somehow?
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Not too young. People will tell you you will regret it, but they aren’t you. Maybe you will, but regretting a child you don’t want and cant care for is worse.
This is the better path today.
- Comment on Creative writing 5 weeks ago:
What if he was spongebob tho
- Comment on US education 5 weeks ago:
Man, I’m trying to help out here, but you’re making it difficult by conflating these things.
They are not the same. You seem to be on the same side as everyone else here in terms of disliking/hating organized religion. With you on that. I have a deep, deep, deep hatred and mistrust of that given my upbringing in the US.
However, it is not a fair comparison that the Vatican or the way religion in Western Europe is in any way similar to what’s going on in those evangelical revival tents/places.
I’ve been to and lived in/through both, and so have a lot of people replying to you. It seems like your first hand experience with religion in Western Europe is perhaps extremely limited and you’re looking at extremely superficial similarities (like the opulence of the Vatican or how it’s basically its own country, sort of thing).
It’s tradition. You’re looking at things from the times during the crusades, sort of thing. What’s left in Europe is mostly just traditional religion stuff, that’s more about ceremony and habit than any actual true fanatical belief in anything.
There are no preachers on street corners in Europe that I’ve ever seen or heard of. There’s no big tent revival things. There’s no people shoving their religion down your throat. There’s no crazy mega-church speaking in tongues shit.
That’s largely contained in the US. Whatever superficial similarities you’re seeing between the two regions is just that, superficial.
I encourage you to go over to Europe and visit these sights.
I’ve been to the Vatican. It’s basically just a bunch of money thrown at artists during the Renaissance period because the church had too damn much money. It’s an attraction. It’s a circus. A sideshow.
Even the devout Catholics over there keep it to themselves. They’re science focused (generally), and tend to not let it affect their social discourse too much. Nobody ever asks for your religion over there or assumes you’re a Christian.
Europe has an absolute shitton of non-believers, especially depending on the country we’re talking about (Norway/Finland/Iceland are some of the highest number of Agnostic/Atheists).
There’s not many other ways I can explain this right now other than you are wrong. It’s understandable why you think what you think, because on the surface you could make these connections, but I absolutely promise you, if you were to go and live in Western Europe for even a week or more; you’d learn quickly how little religion plays a part in anyone’s life over there.
- Comment on US education 5 weeks ago:
What they have on the books and what they enforce and how people live, are two very different things.
I appreciate that link, it’s enlightening, I didn’t know some of those countries still had it on their books.
However, the actual people living in Europe (at least Western Europe) ignore pretty much all of that. Everyone blasphemies all the time, nobody cares.
If anyone’s religious, they generally keep it to themselves in the EU.
If they’re religious in the US, they talk about it as if everyone else is as well, and pray for you and will pray to God to heal you from whatever affliction you have.
You pretty much cant’ escape the religious fanaticism that exists in the US from the people. It’s got nothing to do with the laws on the books (yet, but give the Christo-fascists time…), and everything to do with the insanity that is being religious in the US and making it a part of every aspect of your life, and forcing everyone else around you to participate whether they want to or not.
I’ve spent a good bit of time in Europe, and never once, not even remotely, have I ever been asked anything religious or had anyone talk about God, or Jesus, or offer to pray for me, etc.
I met a Tattoo artist the other day that said he’d pray for me and that Jesus can “do all things through Christ” (which I guess is Jesus doing everything through himself?) completely unprompted and without displaying anything other than a plain black t-shirt.
This happens constantly. Everywhere in the US. And if you’re anywhere near a mega church, holy shit, those people are pure insanity. I’ve been to sermons where people are speaking in “tongues” and yelling jibberish, flopping about on the floor during a big tent-revival thing, hitting people to smack the “demons” out of them, screaming and rolling on the ground to escape demons (or praise God, it’s difficult to tell sometimes), etc.
Nothing like that exists in western Europe to my knowledge. Or if it does, nothing even close to the scale it’s displayed in the US exists.
- Comment on US education 5 weeks ago:
As an American raised in a religious household who’s extremely familiar with European culture, people, and living; you are unfortunately wrong.
American Christianity is its own brand, and Europe has absolutely nothing like it. Nothing. Not at the scale of US religion absurdity.
- Comment on Are a few people ruining the internet for the rest of us? 1 month ago:
I see what you did there
- Comment on it's a war out there 1 month ago:
The gymnosperms also did not survive anti-aircraft fire.
- Comment on How does AI use so much power? 1 month ago:
This is a pretty great explanation/simplification.
I’ll add that because the calculations rely on floating point math in many cases, graphics chips do most of the heavy processing since they were already designed for this pipeline in mind with video games.
That means there’s a lot of power hungry graphics chips running in these data centers. It’s also why NVidia stock is so insane.
- Comment on King forgot his crown 1 month ago:
Seems to fit the official definition pretty neatly. Colloquially, I tend to agree with you, there’s a spectrum for fraud. But this still counts as fraud. It’s a fraudulent misrepresentation of the truth to convince others to part with something of value (a gift).
The fact that it’s a gift doesn’t change that this is fraud, only the severity of fraud in a legal sense. Image
- Comment on Why don't Americans use electric kettles? 1 month ago:
That’s very true. With that said, I still find 110v kettles to be pretty fast for my needs. Especially if just making a single cup.
- Comment on Why don't Americans use electric kettles? 1 month ago:
I…what? I do, most of my friends do. They’re amazing.
- Comment on Blobfish 1 month ago:
“eye popping ape”
- Comment on Oatmeal 1 month ago:
Awww, he’s such a cute little protein shake.
- Comment on Wake up babe new shape just dropped 1 month ago:
And the right angles are supposed to be inside, not 2 out 2 in
- Comment on I watched several videos on a Combine Harvester's inner workings and I still don't understand how this thing works. 1 month ago:
It is the savior of mankind.
- Comment on Guess I'm banned by Know Your Meme now. [yippee.wav] 1 month ago:
And also a huge issue for anyone using a VPN to browse the web
- Comment on Why do so many homes in rural areas have a front yard full of junk? 1 month ago:
That’s wild and awesome, TIL, thanks!
- Comment on Jupiter 1 month ago:
Ah, got it, thank you!
- Comment on Why do so many homes in rural areas have a front yard full of junk? 1 month ago:
Is that a reliant robin? Badass.
Wasp nest was definitely worth it, agreed.
- Comment on Jupiter 1 month ago:
I don’t get it, do you mind explaining?
- Comment on Anon has a warning for incels 1 month ago:
This was a test. You failed.
And by that, I mean you passed.
- Comment on Size Matters 1 month ago:
Its the consistent part that’s important. Everyone exaggerates by about 15-20%. Everyone.
That actually makes the self reported study accurate, if you account for that happening across all countries.
