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LacklustreFriend
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2hr ago
Yeah, they're called Islam and Mormons the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
I'm only half joking. And Mormon theology is really wack. Interestingly when Islam first emerged, the original view of Christendom was it was a heresy, not a distinct religion.
Some Unitarians in eastern Europe (Hungary) might be more conservative, I don't know.
Other major contemporary (socially) conservative non-Trinitarians (if not specifically Unitarians) include Oneness Pentecostals, and Jehovah's Witnesses. There's a whole range of smaller denominations that are anti-Trinitarian in various ways that you may have heard of, generally they're pretty crazy and their theology is a joke.
As a general comment, I understand why people have problems with the Trinity, but at the same time it is the orthodox Christian position for a reason and does have intellectual weight behind it.
orthoxerox
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2hr ago
I've experienced frisson from music or speech. I've never seen how ASMR as a media format ties these experiences together or delivers them.
Neither have I. I know that I can reliably experience frisson by attentively listening to Stairway to Heaven, right around the moment where Page's guitar solo peaks and Plant starts to sing "and as we wind on down the road" is when it hits me. I can even trigger it by thinking about listening to the song. But this has nothing in common with what most people consider ASMR triggers.
One hypothesis is that I have high sensitivity to this kind of stimuli. There are people that are into tickling and find it erotic. Many people find body kisses or balls licking erotic. I find these activities so ticklish that I automatically violently recoil and my wife stopped trying, fearing for the integrity of her nose. But one or two times everything was just right and I could understand how a gentle kiss on the ribcage, just shy of triggering the tickling reflex, can be pleasurable. Just like the right amount of heat in a dish or the right combination of a hot sauna and an ice-cold shower or popping a stubborn, but not too stubborn pimple can be.
So all these people subscribing to ASMR content producers must have an unusually wide gap between the threshold of pleasure and the threshold of disgust/pain, just like these people who blanket their food with cayenne powder or subscribe to /r/popping do.
quiet_NaN
2hr ago
In my world model, there is a wagon fort mentality in the respectable medical community. They know that the crazies will eventually get their hands on every paper they write and thus try to proactively avoid anything which can be used as an argument-as-soldier by the anti-vaxxers.
This is of course bad for truth-seeking. It will also erode what little trust there is between the anti-vaxxers and the medical establishment. It is a bit of a catch-22: research and publish without bias and your papers will be quoted prominently by a crazy influencer with millions of views, or have some bias and get accused of hiding The Truth from an unsuspecting public.
Personally, I trust the medical establishment to eventually find the correct answer, even if hampered by these considerations. But yes, I would price in that papers which show genuine problems with specific vaccines are probably less published than they would be in Dath Ilan.
faul_sname
Fuck around once, find out once. Do it again, now it's science.
2hr ago
Your most downvoted comment ever was this one, which as far as I can tell is trying to say that intelligence is a bad trait because being intelligent increases your ability to do things and some of those things are bad? Not really sure, some of the context is deleted comments.
Your second most downvoted comment ever is the comment I'm replying to right now, complaining that people downvote you for bad reasons.
It does seem like your takes on Ukraine in particular don't land with this audience. Aside from that it seems like you mostly get downvoted when you make low-effort dunks. And you just genuinely don't have that many downvoted comments.
All that said it seems like you genuinely do have different perspectives. I don't know that we have very many people who are fully immersed in Russian culture on here. I bet a lot of your stuff would land better if you expanded a bit on the things that seem obvious to you but which the rest of the people here seem not to be taking into account, particularly the things where mottizens are pushing for policies where there's common-knowledge russian history of how that went horribly wrong.
Southkraut
The rain fell gentlier.
2hr ago
Well she just told the whole world.
Southkraut
The rain fell gentlier.
2hr ago
As a culture warrior, this seems like an eminently disadvantageous move. Attempting to lose gracefully when both sides' blood is up and they're out for more of it just means that your side gets plowed under more easily. Specifically, the Left can leverage this as "stop arguing about this, see how the widow takes it, there's the moral authority you must now follow, cease your fighting", and then turn around and promote more violence against the Right, while the Right sends conflicting in-group signals about whether they should fight back or lie down and let themselves get trampled harder.
I'm sorry, but for me the Culture War doesn't become less damaging when the Right just forgives the left for literally murderign their spokespeople. I'm sure the Widow is quite distraught at present, and not obliged to serve my political cause, and perhaps it is the Christian thing to do, but strategically it's downright stupid and, if it does anything at all, will only invite more attacks.
MadMonzer
Epstein Files must have done something really awful for so many libs to want him released.
2hr ago
If real fascism is in the offing, you should oppose it effectively - which doesn't necessarily mean violently. The moral imperative to be effective is as strong as the moral imperative to oppose fascism in the first place. Empirically, disorganised political violence in a democracy is an ineffective tactic.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
2hr ago
Funnily enough I like oden but not everything in it. It's best in winter after a night of drinking beer with friends. You then drink more beer and eat the oden and eat the daikon radish with a bit of mustard. But you may be onto something.
Lizzardspawn
2hr ago
My broader goal here is to build a good social life in the EDM scene and get a raver gf.
Go to rave parties, ask for their instagram and dm them. Girls don't care if you have any content on your insta.
TowardsPanna
2hr ago
It's prudent. And healthy. Forgiveness is not primarily for the guilty party to benefit from. It's for your own good. Carrying hate is bad for the body, mind, spirit. You gotta forgive to move on and create space for new love. You don't have to tell the criminal or anyone else you've done it.
Lizzardspawn
3hr ago
But the fact that Erika Kirk, his widow, stood up and forgave the man accused of murdering her husband is staggering.
Not nearly. Christians to get a mental hard on from this things. (not saying anything about her sincerity, just that it is in character)
orthoxerox
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3hr ago
You never know what you might like. I considered Western art music to be either boring or contrived until I went to a company training seminar where they mixed practical sessions with various invited guest speakers. One of them was a pianist who talked to us about modern art music. When he played Phrygian Gates by John Adams, my reaction was normal: politely trying to look attentive and respectful of his effort. When he played a few fragments of Steve Reich and Philip Glass during his talk to illustrate something about minimalism, it was as if I was struck by lightning. "This! This is what music sounds like!" I thought and looked around me to see if everyone else was as shocked as I am. Nope, everyone else in the room that I could see was politely trying to look attentive and respectful of his effort.
My MIL (a big lover of art music) looks at me like I have two heads when I listen to music for 18 musicians, but I don't care, I love it.
MadMonzer
Epstein Files must have done something really awful for so many libs to want him released.
3hr ago
Pentecostals have rock-concert services at which they seek to demonstrate a set number of 'signs of faith' listed in the bible. 'Speaking in tongues' is the most popular of these. Snake handling is a popular way to make fun of them, but is a fringe movement therein. Politically conservative, they might have women clergy, and moral theology varies a fair bit. They take the bible 100% literally and hold a variety of post-biblical supernatural beliefs, but usually less firmly than Catholics.
How black is Pentecostalism in the US? In London most of the Pentecostal churches are ethnic churches for some African or Caribbean country.
functor
3hr ago
I have hired 10+ devs in the past few months and interviewed hundreds.
The job market is turning into tinder. We post one small add and get bombarded with a thousand applicants who haven't bothered to read the job description. The applicants are like guys on tinder swiping on thousands of profiles while treating it like a numbers game. The hot women employers are using algorithms to cleanse out most of the applications and rejecting profiles after viewing them for seconds.
My advice is to network as much as possible IRL. This can meet tech meetups but try other venues as well. Try to find people not working in tech and hang out with them. Do not spend time at home. Meet as many people IRL as possible.
As for resumes, I have to go through hundreds of them. I am not going to read through them all in detail. It has to be easy to take a quick glance and for something to catch the reader's eye. As for the competition it is easy to be better than 95%. Assuming you aren't Pakistani with broken english with a tad of frontend experience you are above average.
Southkraut
The rain fell gentlier.
3hr ago
Who the hell knows? People may as well have looked down on the nazis for failing to defend their own. Or cheered for them getting killed. 1920s Germany was a society at war with itself.
orthoxerox
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3hr ago
I've been reading about Japanese food (the one that doesn't get served in Japanese restaurants abroad) and I've come to the conclusion that it's self-inflicted patriotic torture, just like traditional Japanese housing. People eat it only because they grew up eating it and think it makes them more Japanese.
Every culture has dishes like these, but Japan probably has the highest proportion of them among the developed countries. I'd rather turn to the Dutch cuisine than eat oden or zenzai.
FistfullOfCrows
3hr ago
Are there even any churches that aren't progressivism lite and don't follow the Trinitarian thing? ( I have my own personal gripes with the whole trinitarian concept, I guess I'm not really a "christian" as I don't consider Christ to be God himeself.)
Southkraut
The rain fell gentlier.
3hr ago
wat
Lizzardspawn
3hr ago
how hard is it to destroy a port?
Fairly easy. Just sink the docked ships. They will create barriers with their hulls.
orthoxerox
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3hr ago
I remember reading an OK Cupid blog post that said exactly this: tattoos and piercings are very divisive, but when they work, they work.
orthoxerox
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3hr ago
For the other direction... I don't have the same variation-desire most people seem to have, especially around food. Every time I run into someone that makes a decision around not wanting to repeat something they did the day before and liked, it's a bit of a non-sequitur.
My wife loves eating the same thing at the same place if she liked it, while my modus operandi (again, parental influence) is "you're on vacation, you have to try as many different things as possible!". We compromise on going to the same place until I complain that I've tried every thing that caught my eye.
Botond173
3hr ago
Assassinating Nazi activists or officials in 1928 would’ve most likely resulted in the following:
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Increased attention and sympathy for the Nazis on the part of more moderate nationalists who’d otherwise not have harbored such sentiments, at least not to a significant degree
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Increased overall hostility towards, or at least increased alienation from, whatever political force the assassins belonged to
MadMonzer
Epstein Files must have done something really awful for so many libs to want him released.
3hr ago
And you just refuted the transactivist point of view by making an obviously correct argument about the meaning of words.
That's an interesting claim, considering that it came significantly out of atheism. E.g.:
I'm pretty doubtful that if one examines the continental->critical philosophy pipeline that may have undergirded some of the trend, one would find a pool of Christian heretics, either. I guess if you say that all the atheism is just Christian heresy (would be quite a claim) and that Wokism is just atheist heresy, blink and imagine some form of transitive property, you might be able to think that Wokism is just Christian heresy.
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