JohnnyEnzyme

@JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to respond to societal collapse | Sarah Wilson | TEDxSydney⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  While I’ve been thinking about this kind of thing for years, it’s still a bit startling to see it addressed so frankly in front of a large audience, and of course further spread to many more people via video archival. I don’t know how many potential viewers are quite ready to see this without reacting pretty badly, but of course… she certainly does speak facts.

  That said, I’ve no argument whatsoever for her and anyone else doing whatever feels healthy and right in the face of collapse, but really, there’s much more to address here, as in– what it’s like to live when an AI singularity really gets rolling, or when dictatorship becomes that much worse, or when simply trying to exist gets much harder and more dangerous. To me, all that’s kind of the undropped shoe of a discussion, so to speak.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Money Did Not Come From Barter - It Came From Blood Feuds⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m already in the middle of a video lecture. Is there a TL;DR?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Jane Goodall’s Breakthrough Began with a Chimpanzee in Tanzania | The Walrus⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nice, but I thought it was going to get it in to how the talk went that night. Oh well.

  I read a couple of Jane’s books some years back, and found them enthralling. The distinct personalities of the various chimps came through very clearly, and I might as well have been reading any gripping drama about significant humans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not to get all religiony but why in the old testament God was all fire and brimstone and fatal consequences? But the new testament God is all about forgiveness and such??⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you mean, being just like you… my fellow freakazoid? :D

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not to get all religiony but why in the old testament God was all fire and brimstone and fatal consequences? But the new testament God is all about forgiveness and such??⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Congratulations!
  Not only do you manufacture stuff that never happened, but you’re about as disingenuous a religious creep as I’ve ever encountered, so far upon the FV.

  Hehe, the ‘donkey-ears’ fit well, amirite?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not to get all religiony but why in the old testament God was all fire and brimstone and fatal consequences? But the new testament God is all about forgiveness and such??⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, but why are we ‘bickering’ in the first place, and why the need to accuse me of re-editing a comment? (which never happened)

  What you are seemingly trying to tell me here, “PhilipTheBucket,” is that you’re not really able to countenance the actual arguments I’m making above.

  Now would you say that’s a fair or unfair statement? If unfair, could you give me some facts & reality-based reasons as to why not?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not to get all religiony but why in the old testament God was all fire and brimstone and fatal consequences? But the new testament God is all about forgiveness and such??⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Except for the fact that… I did indeed present multiple arguments, and the fact that at no point did I ‘signal victory?’

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not to get all religiony but why in the old testament God was all fire and brimstone and fatal consequences? But the new testament God is all about forgiveness and such??⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Almost like every lauded, ‘perfect’ figure across history?

  In fact, “The Messiah” is a concept that certainly goes back long before some dude allegedly named “Y’shua” was branded that way.

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messiah

  Now, modern humans being ~300Kyrs old, I would guess that it’s not just an ancient fixation, but even endemic to our very species… our very way of hoping and wanting and longing for a return to ‘the good times,’ directly embodied in a mythological figure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not to get all religiony but why in the old testament God was all fire and brimstone and fatal consequences? But the new testament God is all about forgiveness and such??⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  (Edit: Also I think it is dishonest of them to edit their comment…

  Dude, I did nothing of the kind.

  Wow, it’s almost like you managed to copy-paste the known fact that the body of Christian scholars agrees that someone existed, later known as “Jesus,” and then seemingly couldn’t deal with a rebuttal upon your notion of ‘that clearing up everything.’

  So now you’re getting weird about the fact that I had to re-do my comment, simply because I responded to the wrong commenter at the time? So, did not see my rebuttal at all? Did you not see my attempt to explain that?

  Go ahead, tho– consider this your opportunity to fairly reply to what I said above. Sound good?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not to get all religiony but why in the old testament God was all fire and brimstone and fatal consequences? But the new testament God is all about forgiveness and such??⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You are thinking about this the wrong way.

  I consider that a terrible way of framing things, and then to make matters worse, you propose only a binary set of conclusions.

  Please do better then that if you want to debate fairly.

  Thank you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not to get all religiony but why in the old testament God was all fire and brimstone and fatal consequences? But the new testament God is all about forgiveness and such??⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As I see it, there’s pretty much a landslide of evidence, from almost every studied angle, that points to what you just postulated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not to get all religiony but why in the old testament God was all fire and brimstone and fatal consequences? But the new testament God is all about forgiveness and such??⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Whoops; apologies.
  I borked up my last reply-comment, and so deleted that, and re-created from scratch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not to get all religiony but why in the old testament God was all fire and brimstone and fatal consequences? But the new testament God is all about forgiveness and such??⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Which is fine as far as it goes, yet does very little if anything to address the body of the above concerns.

  While “Jesus” likely had something with an actual person who once lived, nailing down the details of his life and history seems highly problematic from a scholarly & historical POV, and as for embellishment, amalgamation and distortion… all such things are highly possible, and even highly likely, AFAIK.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not to get all religiony but why in the old testament God was all fire and brimstone and fatal consequences? But the new testament God is all about forgiveness and such??⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I like this reasoning a lot, however:

  #2. In terms of there being a real-life Y’shua, AFAIK it’s hard to know if such a person ever really existed in the first place, or if they were in fact more of an amalgamated ‘King Arthur’ / ‘Robin Hood’ type, very much inspired by earlier legends & mythology, and greatly elaborated upon in later years, via oral traditions, before finally being documented hither & tither by various writers scattered around the region.

  AFAIK there is no archeological evidence whatsoever for that exact person’s existence, and no contemporaneous writing from the time, describing his life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree with the people urging you to do your best to take care of your sublemmy once you create it. On top of that, I also feel that most types of communities need you and/or others to be motivated promoters and content creators, even if you're just pulling 'best of' content from elsewhere.

  So-- IMO it's generally best to think of it as a volunteer job. And from what I've seen, most community founders don't necessarily realise that, and aren't actually up to the task, hence the # of abandoned subs across the FV (fediverse).

  IME one thing that really helps with growing subscribers is that due to the current size of the FV, almost any small community posting content on a regular basis is going to be seen by a fairly large proportion of the FV via the "ALL" feed. Whereas for example, that's almost impossible on Reddit. It really helps!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alpha Male Primates a Myth, Researchers Find in New Study⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  From the couple of books by Jane Goodall I read, there absolutely was a 'top dawg' male in the Gombe chimp troop for as long as she was around to study it.

  Sometimes it would be based on force of personality; sometimes on strength & size, sometimes on wiliness and psychological tricks, and another time due to two brothers teaming up together. Regardless, after the fall of one, another would inevitably take its place.

  IIRC Sapolski also observed that most baboon troops indeed had a heirarchy, with the top dawg there typically taking out its frustrations on the next-ranking member down, and so forth down the line. That said, he also observed that when the most aggressive males sometimes died off due to disease / etc, the resultant troops could function remarkably differently, in which there was more of an egalitarian matriarchy.

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