MayorofOysterville
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MayorofOysterville
15d ago
Religion isn't an a la carte thing, it's part of a cultural and often ethnic identity. Whatever your personal metaphysical beliefs are does not really move the needle for anyone but you.
This really depends on time and place, in the Roman Empire, Historical China the Modern West and many others Religion absolutely is/was a la carte because it's not the baseline value of society so people are free to mix and match as long as they maintain a few festivals and civic virtues. In highly sectarian societies like Northern Ireland and Lebanon it's exactly as you say but whether it is or isn't depends on time and place and is definitely not a universal.
MayorofOysterville
15d ago
Yeah, and as someone who likes talking to/is a weirdo I don't get it. A majority of Westerners who live in say Dubai aren't monarchists yet seem to manage just fine. IDK I disagree with a lot of modern politics but also being a modern westerner is fairly easy. IDK why these types can't just be like "the world is fucked, fuck the powers that be" I'll tend to my own family and my own garden.
MayorofOysterville
15d ago
Is it your opinion that women can't do maintenance work? If there was such a shortage of men I think the free market would raise wages enough to find enough people.
MayorofOysterville
15d ago
Many women get butthurt that a large part of women’s bargaining power with men for long-term relationships and marriage is the prospect of children. Women are clearly so Wonderful that men should want a lifelong commitment with them even without such a prospect. He’s TA if he wants biochildren when he can just adopt or enjoy the privilege of being with her without children in the picture (ugh, stupid men and mUh lEgAcY). Women also don’t like reminders that having their FUN and FREEDOM when they’re young before settling down after they’ve Had Their Fun can have opportunity costs—or that their desirability in general goes down with age, such as illustrated by the infamous OKCupid graph or the Bruch-Newman paper.
This is just as common from the female side of the dating market. If you go places where women talk about dating the guy who dates too long without proposing who won't commit to marriage or kids and wasting her fertility and leaving her with little time to find a husband. I really don't think there's significantly more young men then women who want to marry youngish and have kids. In fact I'd guess that surveys would show that more young men would like to sow their oats compared to young women as in general young men prefer casual sex much more than young women. Regardless given in todays dating market many people don't want marriage or kids these are important compatibility issues that need to be figured out early. Also serious people are much easier to find off the apps. Regardless though this is a caricatured, women overall like children, it's not hard to find women who want commitment and kids.
MayorofOysterville
16d ago
She's from the Balkans so I can see it.
MayorofOysterville
16d ago
Kamala flamed out last time she actually faced a primary and is a horrible candidate, not to mention a loser. She checks the right boxes but without a coronation she's not going anywhere. All this speculation about her being the nominee is always from people who dislike her. It reminds me of all the Berniebros and MAGA types who were convinced Hillary was going to be the 2020 nominee.
MayorofOysterville
17d ago
Kamala is not going to be the nominee regardless.
MayorofOysterville
18d ago
But that's kind of my point? 25% of men are plenty to do the jobs that need doing and most of those jobs women can do as well. There's really only a handful of jobs that require enough strength women actually can't do. Plenty of women can drive Amazon trucks and change tires.
MayorofOysterville
19d ago
I'm very skeptical that women couldn't do any of those jobs, indeed there are some who do most of them now. Raw physical strength isn't that needed in modern society what with all the tools and hydraulics we have. And even so wouldn't that just let young uneducated men command a premium? Even at a ratio of 75% women to 25% men I'd still expect there to be plenty men to do all those. You'd have less young men working at Fast food or retail but it'd work out fine because they'd have more gainful employment. 25% men is easily enough to fill those jobs because very few jobs these days really require raw strength.
From a purely utilitarian perspective Nazi medical experimentation on live prisoners was an unalloyed good as they greatly expanded our understanding of phenomena like Shock and Hypothermia. This understanding has, without doubt, saved many more lives than those experiments consumed.
I realize I'm going off topic here but the idea the Nazi medical experiments provided some amazing medical advances is a myth based on the just world fallacy. You're right about them helping us understand shock and hypothermia. However, most of their experiments were closer to macabre torture porn then proper science. The vast majority of their experiments weren't rigorous or documented enough to be of any use.
MayorofOysterville
19d ago
There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise. -Galatians 3:28
I feel like pretty much the entire New Testament, is focused on judging people based on their character and faith rather then their race.
MayorofOysterville
21d ago
Have you ever read any Gnostic Christian texts? You're approaching some of their ideas and I think they did have neat answers to the problem of evil. Certainly better than any existing denomination in me opinion.
MayorofOysterville
21d ago
It's a real pity we can't see current dating app data. Just for science I'm sure theres all sorts of interesting things that could be noticed.
MayorofOysterville
21d ago
I think I agree with you, even more than who you were responding to, because I feel like these conversations always mix the personal with macro level problems and even those problems may be a vocal and significant minority rather than the majority. As you said it's fairly easy to structure your life to have essentially zero contact with these types. And all but one of male friends have paired up with women who are also not like this, even if some may be a little woke, and only one or two ever spent significant time on the apps the rest just met at work or school like the old days. I feel like half of these critiques imply that the only type of women are the pretty but annoying ones on tiktok and instagram or the mid versions of the same. But America is way to diverse for that to be more than an own goal. and you can always cheat and look abroad. IDK I feel if most men put half the money, time and thought they do into their career into finding a wife they'd see good results. But it also requires a clear headed view of what you want.
MayorofOysterville
23d ago
The potential benefit to America winning this war is huge. We defeat an ancient enemy that has killed American soldiers for fifty years. We create a new order in the Middle East that turns a black hole of money and blood into an oasis of energy and peace. America acquires a dominant controlling position over global energy markets. We control the major global choke points of shipping. America eliminates the artificially cheap source of oil China was using to industrialize at our expense. America eliminates a major provider of arms to Russia. America remakes the entire global order and neutralizes one of our most intransigent foes.
This is almost word for word what people said in the lead up to the second Iraq war except the names of the adversaries are different. And hey we won! Iraq is a mostly democratic country. Was it worth it? no. The Europeans and the Chinese are able to do business with the Middle East without constantly bombing it. America should do the same.
The Middle East that turns a black hole of money and blood into an oasis of energy and peace.
Dubai was an Oasis of energy and peace. Now the influencers are dodging drones and blocking their condo windows with mattresses. Pre-war the Middle East was at peace except for Israel's borders and Yemen. Now the entire eastern half the formerly peaceful Persian gulf region is on fire and half a dozen countries have been drawn into the conflict.
MayorofOysterville
23d ago
One of the things I liked about Trump was a promise of no new wars. You can't just say it's TDS people that will oppose Trump no matter what when no new wars was a huge campaign point of his.
MayorofOysterville
23d ago
You could do that without Nuking Tehran.
MayorofOysterville
23d ago
Starting an aggressive war and then going nuclear is in my opinion a terrible idea. We've kept the nuclear genie in the bottle. Setting it free for marginal gain is a horrible idea. And I'm pretty sure nuking Tehran, might end up with Trump in the Hague and would be much more unpopular then a ground invasion. So why not send in the Marines rather then killing 10 million men women and children and still not getting the straight open.
I don't think you can pay for assassinations with Monero either.
MayorofOysterville
25d ago
They? I just meant the drug but there is a whole woo culture around it. I guess you can go to South America to do it. My unreasonable hyper specific guess was Teal Swan but that didn't fit with the grammar. I suppose you could have written "the completion process" (her centerpiece treatment) which would be unreasonable and hyper specific.
Also now I think you should go take one or two Scientology courses and write an article about your experience.
MayorofOysterville
25d ago
A mortal sin though...
MayorofOysterville
25d ago
My guess was ayahuasca.
MayorofOysterville
26d ago
Well sure but the Israelis also control the other side of that wall. They control the borders of the West Bank and have a whole hodgepodge of fully integrated settlements on the other side of that wall. and they've had fifty years to enunciate some sort of borders.
Does still married matter if they are separated and your family will beat him if he ever shows his face at Thanksgiving? That doesn't seem like a successful outcome to me. And I don't think that attitude has much effect. Middle class American young women and girls tend not to have family with that attitude and they don't get pregnant out of wedlock or indeed get pregnant much at all anymore.
A lot of lowerclass and working class young women with protective family attitudes like that do end up pregnant out of wedlock because single motherhood is accepted in their social milieu.
I'd say 16 and 20 both were they both had strong contenders and states going to the opposition 2020 especially had many contendors. And if you look at 08 you can see that the pattern isn't the DNC gets who they want it's whatever candidate Black Democrats support gets the nomination because they vote as a block while White Democrats split their votes.
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