gedaliyah
@gedaliyah@lemmy.world
- Comment on Check mate, atheists. 4 hours ago:
I’ve shared several peer reviewed papers that show the opposite.
- Comment on Check mate, atheists. 12 hours ago:
Science doesn’t take anecdotes.
Most food pantries and beds for the homeless in the USA are faith based. Here are the scientific papers that show it.
Assessing the Faith-Based Response to Homelessness in America: Findings from Eleven Cities
- Comment on Check mate, atheists. 12 hours ago:
People claim money actually exists, too. It’s not an inherent property of human existence. It’s just an organizing principle that helps us coordinate resources.
It would be stupid if the main argument we had about money was whether on not it “exists.” By “stupid” I mean that it is counterproductive to the goals of bettering humanity. We don’t get anywhere with that discussion. Instead, we talk about how we should use use money as a tool to better organize our society. We talk about equity and advancement and poverty.
It’s the same with religion. It’s been well studied that religion offers social benefits:
Association between spirituality/religiousness and quality of life 2021
Assessing the Faith-Based Response to Homelessness in America Image
63.2% food pantries are identified as being faith-based food pantries
With this being Lemmy, I don’t have to highlight the negative consequences of religion.
The point is that we should be advancing beyond the kindergarten level discussion about what’s real and what’s make-believe. Intelligent people should instead be engaging on how we can ensure religious beliefs are fostering social trust, or how to recognize and combat religious extremism.
- Comment on People like this 15 hours ago:
On other people’s stuff
- Comment on People like this 16 hours ago:
Personally, I agree (we would never do this in a large community for the record). But yes, there are people who think that they can “kill” a small community with downvotes because they don’t like the topic.
The sad thing is, it’s true. In a community where most posts have under 5 or so votes, one person coming in and systematically downvoting every post will keep people from seeing it who may be interested. If someone doesn’t like a topic, they can block the community, but when they take steps to prevent others from seeing it, that’s toxic. It’s bad for the health of the platform.
- Comment on People like this 20 hours ago:
Nothing against downvoting in general, but some people are extremely toxic about it. I don’t get the point.
Please don’t do a witch hunt - it was censored for a reason. Sorry I didn’t do it thoroughly enough.
- Comment on People like this 20 hours ago:
Oh weird
- Comment on People like this 21 hours ago:
You have to select “user” and enter the format exactly as shown. There are some servers that don’t work though. Yours should.
- Comment on Check mate, atheists. 21 hours ago:
Why make an ideological argument against ideologies?
Science also led to eugenics and atom bombs. Religion also builds food pantries, wells, and hospitals. It is not about the tool but how we choose to use it.
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- Comment on Check mate, atheists. 22 hours ago:
What a stupid premise to begin with. God is at least as real as money, love, or America.
All of these are useful ideas to describe things that cannot be “proven” with objective evidence, but still have a meaningful impact on the reality of our lives.
Arguing about the objective existence of God is a red herring. I wish we spent as much time talking about the very well studied social benefits and harms of religion. Then we could start talking about meaningful reforms.
- Comment on who was the aggressor in cold war? 1 day ago:
Two powers wanted to build a politically favorable buffer zone, but it was the same buffer zone.
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- Comment on The ghost farms choking Greece’s coastline 2 days ago:
“The entré this evening features an artisinal spook imported from the Grecian coastal region.”
- Comment on Can someone ELI5 RSS/Atom feeds? 4 days ago:
It can absolutely be local.
For podcasts I use AntennaPod, for news I use Feeder. Whatever your use case, there is probably a local, well-made FOSS option.
Nonlocal uses have additional capabilities, such as syncing across multiple devices. I also use gpodder.net for podcast syncing, although there are self-hosted options for this as well.
- Comment on AI Electric Bills 4 days ago:
Yep. It’s the same reason everyone has to pay more for RAM now, even though consumers didn’t cause the shortage.
- Comment on AI Electric Bills 4 days ago:
Naw, they’ll just declare bankruptcy and the municipalities will foot the bills for the infrastructure debt.
Basically, have you even seen the Simpsons monorail episode? It’s that.
- Comment on How about the digestive system? 5 days ago:
Topologically, people are toroids.
- Comment on Peak technology 1 week ago:
Actual photo of my mind.
- Comment on Tthe happiest meal! 1 week ago:
I hate these old pictures that show the prize but never the meal.
- Comment on Gotta Catch 'Em All 1 week ago:
There are two very narrow bands of people who would pass this test.
- Comment on How come hypothetically if I make meth in my home. Knowing full well it could explode and take out my neighbors houses, why am I not charged with attempted murder? 1 week ago:
If someone were killed, you could be charged with murder because you’re taking actions that could reasonably result in death.
IANAL
- Comment on How come hypothetically if I make meth in my home. Knowing full well it could explode and take out my neighbors houses, why am I not charged with attempted murder? 1 week ago:
There are all sorts of additional charges that might be piled on, like reckless endangerment or child endangerment if there are any children in the immediate vicinity.
- Comment on Anish Kapoor 2 weeks ago:
Vanta sushi
- Comment on Walk with out rythem and you wont attract the cat 2 weeks ago:
One worm, two worm, spice worm, blue worm
- Comment on Beans n Corn 3 weeks ago:
I have no Idea how we got from bean memes to corn memes, but this is my new headcannon
- Comment on Do you ever feel like your life is "scripted"? Like everything is written by some entity controlling your life? Like you live in a fictional universe? Is this feeling normal/common? 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on WHY??? 4 weeks ago:
TLDR That’s what happens when circles get squished together.
- Comment on Do you feel the spirit??? 4 weeks ago:
In this economy, that’s the one present everyone can afford.
- Comment on Black printhead was clogged. I replace it and now the color printhead is completely missing 4 weeks ago:
I’d put anything related to HP printers directly to !actually_infuriating@lemmy.world
