GreenShimada
@GreenShimada@lemmy.world
- Comment on 17 hours ago:
Not at all. Owning a home and a car didn’t used to equate “wealth” in the 60’s. But the middle class and lower middle class certainly perpetuated things like Red Lining and segregating communities. Sure, they got fucked by the Vietnam war, but they also got a Constitutional Amendment to vote starting at age 18 in 1971 and elected fucking Nixon in 1972! Boomers were the fuel for the socio-economic disaster of the 1980s.They invented “greed is good.” They gave up on the dreams of the Hippie movement and sold out.
- Comment on 1 day ago:
It’s that Boomers have participated in, and been behind the wheel, of most of the stupid, enabling moments of the 20th century. They built this world and got pissed when inequality they built to lock up money for themselves wasn’t sustainable.
Then they blame everyone else because they have no self-reflection due to lead levels in their blood causing cognitive impairment and aggressive behavior. My favorite was a meme all over facebook saying “Back in my day we didn’t have plastic soda bottles…” Yeah, who TF changed it, genius? YOU ALL. Sure wasn’t me running all that stuff when I was 6 years old.
- Comment on We always hear/read about Goverments cencoring the internet. What is something that the US is not knowing is being censored? 2 days ago:
The metric system
- Comment on A hypothesis 2 days ago:
Well, it’s really more that pain is part of the human experience. Suffering is our reaction to the pain. We don’t have to suffer when we experience inevitable pain if we are enlightened.
In context: Using Windows 11 is pain. Continuing to use it by choice is suffering. Accepting Linux into your heart and treating the inevitable tweaks like no big deal is enlightenment.
- Comment on A hypothesis 2 days ago:
Also Apple IIe to start then Power Mac briefly, thanks to school. Later at home Windows 3.1 - Windows 7 I think, Back to OS X, Back to Win 10, Win 11, terror and enlightenment, now Linux.
Knowing how awesome a computer could be with the Power Mac made me demand more from a Windows machine, and then understand early on the disappointment with Windows that would last most of my life.
- Comment on What do you call the beleif that gods are just higher beings on other planes of existence? 4 days ago:
Apparently not many anthropologists or people interested in history on Lemmy.
There’s a few options, and it depends on what you mean by “gods.” The overall category you’re looking for is called “Folk Religion” which means it’s not organized beyond what local groups chose to believe are the “rules.” Without more details, anything below might fit.
Animism is a starting point, in which you believe that everything has a “spirit” or is otherwise alive in a spiritual dimension. There aren’t gods, per se, but elemental forces are higher forces that are semi-sentient. So, for example, the Sun would be alive, Earth would be alive, the elemental force of water is alive, and each has some sort of sentience, but it’s sort of too high to directly “Talk” with people, but you sort of communicate with feelings.
Shamanism is animism with more nuance. Gods, demigods, demiurges and the like exist - basically there are non-human, non-corporeal entities that operate in a spiritual realm, as do humans, so a shaman does negotiation as a middle-man because they have learned and been trained to be able to operate in both our realm and theirs. While not an organized religion, most forms of shamanism have similar rules and standards. Which is surprising considering that many cultures developed shamanism independently of each other.
As a sort of more detailed step towards specificity, you then have specific things like Native American traditional religion, Shintoism, many African traditional religions, Druidism and European pagan traditions, modern wiccan or other witchcraft-oriented beliefs, where local gods and spirits abound and are deserving of worship and veneration from everyone, not just having the shaman interceding on your behalf.
Slightly more organized, but not really, are polytheistic religions. Hinduism, Hellenism, the Roman Pantheon of gods, etc. Westerners think of these as “organized” but they really weren’t/aren’t in the way that we typically think. There was no main “Church of Zeus” and then after worshiping him, you go to Athena or Nike. A person and household had their god and they gave sacrifices, then also did the same for other gods if they needed their help. It was very ad-hoc, and sort of interesting, as the Greeks and Romans went around the ancient world meeting other cultures, they would find another polytheistic religion and not say “No, our god of war is Ares, and she’s stronger than your god of war.” They assumed that the gods were the same globally, and it was just the names that changed. So more like “Oh, you call the god of war Kartikeya? Cool, we call him Ares. You know him, too, awesome.” So the dogma is actually quite light.
Honorable mention for Taoism and Buddhism, which both can incorporate varying levels of animistic beliefs. However, as philosophies-cum-religions go, there’s much more dogma and convention in play. However, both are Gnostic, in that personal experience plays a role in shaping a personal dogma. I’m not familiar with the Taoist angle there, so I may be wrong about that to some degree.
There are subsets of monotheistic (primarily Abrahamic) religions that are mystical and are less dogmatic. Sufis or Kabalists or Christian Mystics. They sort of do their own thing, and typically are seen as maybe heretical, maybe not, by the mainstream elements of the same religion. This crosses over the last line of what you mentioned about dogma, but worth mentioning.
Finally, the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is just about anything you want it to be, and there’s also a Church of the Invisible Pink Unicorn.
- Comment on Drink up 4 days ago:
Bone sauce?
That’s soup. Bone broth is literally bone extract juice.
- Comment on Evangelicals in the US vs Protestants ib Europe? 1 week ago:
US Evangelicals at this point are one big core group with specific branding and associations that uses the mass of people that go to their churches as a financial and political machine, which their leadership wields to their personal benefit. Anyone outside of the mega-church group are marginalized, with some smaller churches on the fringes.
With the larger group and brand, the Bible means nothing beyond cherry-picking verses to make any point you want. No learning is needed, and everything is how you feel (how the Spirit moves you!) as long as it agrees with what the church says and you tithe. These people would appear as downright heretics to any Christian from the 1800s or before, and have more in common with the Pharisees that Jesus went to Old Timey Israel to call out for being dicks than Jesus himself. Prosperity Gospel, the idea that Jesus gives one money and power if they want it bad enough (entirely heretical), is a big deal for American Evangelicals, as is making a big show of sermons and prayer, something Jesus said was wrong.
It’s entirely about money and politics, selling books and media, making people feel like they belong, and wrapping people and their families up in the brand, making other denominations out to be not even Christian, so if you leave the church you’re abandoned. I’ve had Evangelicals tell me that Catholics and Orthodox denominations aren’t Christian at all, and that the Pope has Satanic symbols on his hat. Seriously. Conspiracy theories abound and nothing is done to discourage them, which is why the Evangelicals won’t turn away Creationist types, but typically don’t confirm that either way. Very little is actually pinned down in terms of religious beliefs, unless it’s something that is a political policy matter.
Since everything comes down to national-level politics and the whims of your local pastor, who often has a high school education at best, sermons can swing wildly around any topic, contradict each other, and provide zero real insight about the Bible or their religion. They’re entertainment the same way that Fox News is opinion-entertainment (so says Fox News in court documents to avoid lawsuits). Leaving space for people with mental health issues, corruption, schemers, idiots, and general human slime to prey upon the church. And it’s a constant parade of those types, pushing people to go out and say and do anything they feel like, and which usually pushes along the financial and political machine.
- Comment on Excellent scale 1 week ago:
6 Still having coffee
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Your ironic comedy is lost on them. If you had pasted an image of a dolphin tamagochi where the actual Flipper is, maaaaaybe through would have understood that it was a joke. Maybe.
- Comment on I just spent my entire rent money on vintage 240p JPEG files of soup, and I've never been happier. AMA. 1 week ago:
I recently received a similar email from LordSoup420.
Am I going to get scammed? It sounds like you have all of the vintage 240p JPEG files of soup. What’s left?
Did they offer you images of croutons as well? I have a few myself and was looking at getting serious about my collection.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Yeah, this infuriating mayonnaise article is from 2018. Had to backdate a touch.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
It’s like traditional media figured out in 2016 Boomer ragebait is the only thing they know how to do anymore, and just keep doing that when they’re out of ideas.
Article tl;dr “Kids today are traitors to the nation because they aren’t Stephen Miller, drinking mayonnaise by the gallon, because it’s not threatening to people with fragile egos and no sense of curiosity.”
Plus, trashing ajvar and chimichuri? How bold of you, Sandy. How courageous to turn up your nose at flavors that you were not exposed to in some midwest surbabn bubble. When you die and your spirit is flung into the void between lives, where you learn how you’ll be reincarnated as a racoon for 20 lifetimes because of the karma you accrued just from penning this single article, I hope the spirits of your Lithuanian parents remind you that judgement like this poisons the soul slightly more than mayonnaise does.
- Comment on 7 days! 1 week ago:
They joy is not in the destination of the growing darkness, but the journey.
- Comment on Back in my day... 2 weeks ago:
In that golden moment when the Blackberry was the hottest hot shit
- Comment on Professor Obvious 2 weeks ago:
Have you seen Jeff? 100% confirmed Eggman.
- Comment on Kaiju.meme 2 weeks ago:
This might end up being the White House Christmas Card this year.
- Comment on yo: sup? 2 weeks ago:
What kind of humor is this?
Answer: Odin’s chosen humor
- Comment on Baseball 2 weeks ago:
And now, neither can I.
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- Comment on Jesus hates American "Christians" 2 weeks ago:
The toxic manipulation of how American Evangelical churches teach the Bible is to intentionally remove context and just point to a through-line of whatever supports the topic of the week. The same out of context OT verse can mean 30 different things to these people.
- Comment on Jesus hates American "Christians" 2 weeks ago:
It’s like the challenge was how to hold in one’s mind “being Christian” and simultaneously going down a checklist of actions and words listed as defining Christianity and doing the exact opposite. Though, By 320 CE, that was the status quo.
Jesus’s whole way at talking truth to power was to acknowledge and show compassion for those marginalized and hated by the Romans and the Pharisees. His main problem with the Pharisees was literally the hypocrisy of them saying they follow the laws of the religion, and then not doing any of that. It was dangerous to call them hypocrites due to their political power.
Sound familiar yet?
- Comment on Anon uses GOG 2 weeks ago:
GOG is awesome!
- Comment on Jesus hates American "Christians" 2 weeks ago:
Thanks for reminding me of every Thanksgiving since 1996.
- Comment on When are we getting a Nicholas Cage Linux? 2 weeks ago:
I wanted to call it “TayLinux Swift” at first, but MinTay is so much better.
- Comment on Jesus hates American "Christians" 2 weeks ago:
I’ve never understood things like pervasive distrust of Jews, but blanket approval of all things done by Israel because Jewish people are “God’s chosen people.” It’s so much mental gymnastics to selectively justify hating Muslims and any Jew living in a large city, and completely ignores the point of the NT, which was to not make the religion tied to blood lines.
- Comment on Discuss 2 weeks ago:
The same idiots that say this are the ones who think Nutella is some transcendental ambrosia even though it’s more palm oil than either hazelnuts or cocoa.
- Comment on When are we getting a Nicholas Cage Linux? 2 weeks ago:
OOOoooooooooooh. MinTay Linux is solid.
I looked at this once when Hanna Montana Linux was memeing around a few months back, and it’s basically just branding the installer and making the default themes in Cinnamon refer to specific starting points. Sounds easier than it likely is, but it certainly didn’t sound impossible.
- Comment on Score! 2 weeks ago:
I love when they bring you the receipts in the same email thread, and just didn’t even bother to read the words that they think didn’t apply to them.
- Comment on When are we getting a Nicholas Cage Linux? 2 weeks ago:
I’m on board.
Though, if we want the year of the Linux Desktop, someone needs to just take Mint and slap a Taylor Swift wrapper and wallpaper on it, call it “TayLinux Swift” and you’ll just fucking CRUSH through maybe 4.5% market share in days.
- Comment on Nobody ever remembers Gen X 3 weeks ago:
Hey, blame Kurt Cobain about why Gen X takes it too seriously. You also can’t joke with them about using too much heroin without a diatribe about Kate Moss and Anthony Kiedis