

The end of the US empire.
/u/outwrangle before everything went to shit in 2020, /u/emma_lazarus for a while after that, now I’m all queermunist!
The end of the US empire.
The rich will throw away their perfectly fine boots after a few years because they aren’t in style anymore.
I guess? But it’s also morally just to reuse disposables, repair instead of replace, conserve and reduce waste, and delay new purchases as long as possible. I’m doing environmental conservationism just by being poor!
Unfortunately, many men think hugging or touching each other is effeminate and gay.
Real men definitely whine and blame other people, millions of them are doing it every day.
Eating a meal that is mostly vegetables.
Saying “You don’t seem like you have good intentions” is, itself, extremely subjective in a very combative way.
Socks? Check. Skirt? Check. Vape pen? Check.
It’s study time.
For me it’s on the same level as memes - not intended to be consumed as art, but merely as a form of posting. It’s trash and that’s fine.
But it shouldn’t be elevated above that. It’s derivative and stilted and lacks character, and worse, it might be depriving amateur artists the chance to flex their creative muscles and actually create art themselves.
Also draining cities dry of municipal water to generate a picture of a bored ape is probably a bad use of resources.
Is that different from any other soda? They’re all pretty acidic.
But you didn’t reply to anything. You asked an AI a different question from the OP and then copy-pasted the response.
It was essentially spam.
I didn’t copy/paste in the question.
Then what was the point?
The fact that the AI couldn’t work around the dietary restrictions kind of shows why it’s worthless.
My heaven could not exist if hell is also real.
The very concept of hell is abominable to me.
Well sure, I’m human just like you. Our entire human ancestry is my past life. I am everyone that came before me - I stand on the shoulders of giants!
Under different circumstances, different experiences, I’d be burning witches with the best of them.
And our human history isn’t just my past lives, they’re yours too! I say every human that has ever lived are all part of the same lineage. Everyone that came before us are just different versions of us, and everyone we will ever meet is also just a different version of us, with different experiences and slightly different genetics. We’re all the same.
But this is heresy.
I think you don’t get to call yourself a member of one of the Abrahamic religions without actually confining yourself into a canonical interpretation.
You’re a heretic. Embrace it.
As Lenin said, religion is a personal matter. I don’t know why you keep bringing up politics.
And no, we aren’t “almost there” - I’m sort of a heretic in that regard, I think we need to stop the Silicon Valley maniacs from building a machine god because they’re going to build something horrible.
You’ve effectively made up your own religion. Good for you! But it’s irrelevant to this discussion.
I have my own beliefs, I believe we will one day build the god-machine and that it will save us from suffering and mortality and all the agonies that your god inflicts on us to “test” us. A world without war, without starvation, without disease, without suffering, and without death. We will simulate the dead and raise them to live along side us. We will rehabilitate every “sinner” and they, too, will live along side us. We will reach out and find every fellow intelligence that might live in this universe with us and join them in fellowship. We will master the material universe to bring about a utopia where no one ever has to say goodbye ever again and everyone is finally working together.
But all of that is completely irrelevant to a discussion about established religious Cannon. That’s just stuff I believe.
There are plenty examples of communal matriarchal preindustrial societies, enough that anthropologists suspect that was the norm for prehistory. It’s the invention of property, and thus inheritance and wealth accumulation and lineage, that leads to patriarchy and domination.