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MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
6hr ago
I don’t take this account literally. I don’t believe that Adam was real, which means I don’t believe that he was the first prophet of the “true gospel”. Because I don’t believe this part of the claim, the rest of it can only be interpreted symbolically or esoterically. The way I approach the idea of a “restored gospel” is informed by conversations I have had with intelligent Catholics and Orthodox, in which their account of what they actually believe about God and creation and the nature of the cosmos is so wrapped up in mysticism and symbolic reinterpretation and thousands of years of commentary by church leaders that it becomes totally impenetrable and incomprehensible. I do not want to have to sift through 2,000+ years of biblical hermeneutics in order to even begin to grasp God’s plan for my salvation. By clearing away those millennia of cruft and theological rabbit-holes, the LDS church can return to a reading of the Bible which embraces plain language and concepts that normal people can work with, while also building a High Church structure similar to Catholicism without all the historical baggage. It’s a sort of “post-Protestantism” that takes what works about Catholicism and Orthodoxy, discards what clearly doesn’t work, and allows for a 21st-century reinterpretation of Christianity.
I mean the problem with this approach is that the church fathers have written down things from the beginning. We have a pretty good idea of what they believed about the gospel, Christ, sacraments, church structure and so on. It does not match with Smith’s restoration. Ignatius of Antioch refers to Christ as God before we have a codified New Testament. There are references to bishops in early Christian texts, there are references to sacraments. The earliest known Christian catechism is the Didache, it’s pretty short and you can read it online. It’s not Mormon. There’s no mention of preexisting souls, God once being a physical being, or Christ and Lucifer being related, etc. it’s not present in the early church.
This makes even a metaphorical restoration nonsense.
BurdensomeCount
Unable to escape TheMotte's cycle of Samsara...
6hr ago
Jackson was one of the worst US presidents ever, he was a racist even for his own time, which is saying something. He shouldn't be on any US currency and ideally his grave and memorials get turned into spots commemorating his victims instead of him, a bit like what was done here: https://youtube.com/watch?v=nrATA8gWdaQ
BurdensomeCount
Unable to escape TheMotte's cycle of Samsara...
6hr ago
Eliminate all coins other than the quarter. Inflation has made pennies, nickels, and dimes worthless. Half dollars are extinct, and every attempt the government makes to introduce a dollar coin ends in failure because there is already a perfectly good dollar bill. But the quarter is still useful to pay for laundry.
Completely agreed. Get rid of the quarter too, dollar bills are perfectly fine for laundry machines to take. Here in the UK I just physically handled my first Charles III coin this week two years after his coronation, and it was a special edition sold by the royal mint as a collectible.
Pass a law that businesses must advertise after-tax prices, not before-tax prices.
Again completely agreed, it's weird how the USA seems to be that one single country in the world where the price you see on labels is not the price you pay.
Introduce a $200 bill. Inflation means that the $100 bill is no longer as useful as it once was.
Nah, if anything scrap the $100 and $50 bills, larger denominations just help with money laundering. Take a page of out India's book when it scrapped its high value notes.
phosphorus2
6hr ago
The year is 2010. The Los Angeles Department of Water & Power (LADWP) publishes its initial environmental study on a large power infrastructure maintenance project. A portion of the project involves replacing about 200 wooden power poles that run through Pacific Palisades. The California State Lands Commission reviewed the initial study and requested that LADWP provide a Native American Ground Monitor during any digging to ensure that cultural resources are not inadvertently damaged or destroyed. By the final EIR in 2016 LADWP decided that replacing the all of those +70 year old power poles was no longer necessary.
The year is 2018. The Camp Fire ignites in northern California. It's cause was the failure of a 100 year old power line. By early 2019 LADWP decides to replace those 70 year old powerlines running through Pacific Palisades, they're in a now deemed high fire threat area. The California Public Utilities Commission has recommended they be replaced as soon as possible. Work is to start in 2019.
July 7th, 2019. LADWP has started work to replace the powerlines, as well as leveling and grading new fire roads. Amateur botanist and avid hiker David Pluenneke is hiking in the area. David is a member of the California Native Plant Society. He sees that LADWP has trampled the endangered Braunton’s milkvetch. In all, 183 milkvetches were murdered. He is livid:
Our hero David reports LADWP to the California Coastal Commission. The CCC is not happy, with unpermitted work done within their fiefdom. In order to get a CCC approved permit to replace the wooden poles LADWP must:
- Submit a detailed pre and post construction vegetation survey for the entire 2.5 mile stretch. The surveys need to identify the type and location of any and all sensitive species (all birds, shrubs, milkvetches), and it needs to show their location on a detailed map.
- Any work must be supervised by an on site project biologist, or biologists if the worksite is large. These observers will make daily surveys of sensitive wildlife species and they have the authority to stop any work that could result in their harm.
- LADWP agrees to excavate the new powerline poles by hand, with shovels. Workers will walk to the site. Helicopters will bring in the new poles and remove the old.
- No construction activities that generate noise above 60 dBA (loudness of an average conversation) may take place during bird nesting season, which runs from mid February to mid September. Of course this requires another observer biologist, a bird biologist, to verify.
- Pay $1.9 million in fines.
- All newly constructed fire roads must be unconstructed and returned to their original condition. Milkvetch and all.
- Etc.
I wasn't able to find if / when this particular project was completed by LADWP. But overall there are 300,000+ power poles in LA. As of 2019, 65% of them were older than the average lifespan of 50 years old. In 2024, LADWP replaced just 2743 poles. Their average cost to replace a pole in the same year was $69,300. At their 2024 rates it will take LADWP over 70 years and $14 billion to replace all past lifespan poles.
To relook at the culture war angle - why was their a fire in Pacific Palisades? Maybe Jonathan Rinderknecht will be found guilty, maybe he won't be. But Jonathan didn't create a massive tinderbox in the LA hills for ideological reasons. Jonathan didn't let firehoses go without water while they sat a mile away from an empty 100 million gallon revisor. Jonathan didn't empower a council of retards at the California Coastal Commission to nuke every project from orbit at the behest of any and every nature activist. LA burned with or without Jonathan, the parallel Eaton fire was just as destructive and (as to current knowledge) not caused by him.
There will always be Jonathan Rinderknechts. We won't fix them by grasping for the very abstract universal meaning, or high-minded civic metaphysics, or better pathways, or whatever. If we need to have a confrontation with modern liberalism, it shouldn't be because it "prizes the autonomy of the individual above the stability of society". It should be because it fucking sucks. It empowers tiny little bean counter despots to make sure your critical infrastructure construction isn't too loud for the little fishes. It sets environmentalists as legally proscribed tattletales against those that produce and build. It fails to build and maintain basic infrastructure, and housing, and anything that isn't a patronage network. We should ask "Why there was a massive tinderbox outside our second largest city", instead of "what can we do to make sure every young man feels special."
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
6hr ago
I say keep that along with the quarter, eliminate the $1 bill and move Washington permanently to the dollar coin, and cycle through all the presidents on the quarter. Replace the half-dollar coin with a $5 coin, and put Lincoln on it.
I don't get this notion that the US needs dollar (or $5) coins. The last $1 coin program was terminated early and ended up with billions of coins in a warehouse.
It isn’t that I have literally no use for it, I just use it a lot like the poster above (ie as a substitute for something’s I would have googled before).
Also thanks for actually including your conversation history. I’m not enough of a mathematician to follow all of it but it was nice to see how you prompt it.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
6hr ago
We should put Denali (the mountain, currently back to being McKinley) on the $500.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
6hr ago
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε, ποίησόν με ὄργανον τῆς ἀγάπης σου
6hr ago
Yeah I have to agree with this, both of the examples seem fine and like men who were confident in what they were talking about. Blue tribe men often sound high pitched and fake.
ulyssessword
6hr ago
I wouldn't call it a pure medical board anymore, regardless of what its name is. If you know of any medical and telecommunication boards, let me know, and I'll say everything they do is either medicine or telecommunications. Otherwise I'll chalk it up as an absurd hypothetical.
MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
6hr ago
Reddit is generally for various forms of failsons who want to seem smart but don’t want to do such things as read real books, get a real job, or leave the house. There are a few users, mostly on the tech subs that know a bit about technology, but most of them barely have help-desk level tech knowledge. The Reddit users I’ve known generally know nothing, but believe they are gifted, and are therefore super smug.
faul_sname
Fuck around once, find out once. Do it again, now it's science.
6hr ago
My understanding is that this is basically accurate and that by redefining certain types of speech as "professional conduct" states can indeed regulate those types of speech. But that the courts will slap them down if they try to push it too far.
That said, I am not a lawyer, this is not legal advice, and the fact that you see that disclaimer everywhere is a case in point.
Corvos
6hr ago
The big issue with processing rare earths is the pollution AFAIK so yes, Europe probably not a great place to start. Though I bet the Poles or somebody would be happy to stick some factories in a less-used area and reap the increased influence and military protection that comes with it.
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
6hr ago
Which is funny since the progressive approach to trans issues is analogous to them cutting off an anorexic's body parts to help them lose weight.
VoxelVexillologist
Multidimensional Radical Centrist
6hr ago
Andrew Jackson belongs on US currency for irony's sake because he'd be dead set against the existence of the institution that prints it.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
6hr ago
I read the first half of this thinking it was about the Judge Goodstein fire mentioned downthread. I was like “of course they went to a lot of trouble! It’s too close to home!” Whoops.
BahRamYou
6hr ago
Apparently most $100 bills are used in the black market: https://www.moneyandbanking.com/commentary/2017/11/12/cash-is-king-but-100-bills-are-for-crooks
Returning to the present, why is 90 percent of the U.S. increase in circulation accounted for by $100 bills? ... To put it simply, most of the U.S. currency in circulation is almost surely being used by criminals.
Which to be fair, could just as easily be things like non-licensed garage sales and used car sales skipping sales tax. But that's still a crime, and you can see why the government isn't eager to make that stuff easier. But hey, maybe if inflation continues, the $100 will soon be as practical for normal purchases as the $20.
OliveTapenade
6hr ago
Not a right-winger either, but I have noticed a number of subtle speech habits or audio cues between each wing?
You're right that the generic right-wing affect is a kind of aggression or rage. It's not that they're all shouting all the time, because they're not, but they often speak as if they're about to. They tend to have some visible signs of masculinity or working-class LARP (the baseball caps, the beards, etc.) and their visual style is deliberately un-classy (that guy's video is plastered with garish ads, which for some reason I see a lot among right-wing commentators, but lefties seem to avoid).
By contrast I find the generic left-wing affect to be... one of two, it's either an affected sense of superiority (the I-can't-believe-I-have-to-explain-this-to-you style), or it's a kind of fragility? I don't know how to describe it, but if the right-winger feels like they're about to start screaming, the left-winger feels like they're about to start crying. There's a kind of insecurity. In my experience the superior, smug style is more common among men, and the fragile, desperate style is more common among women.
In both cases this is a generalisation and you can find counter-examples on both the right and the left all day.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
6hr ago
I’m not sure it qualifies as concept creep, but you can get countless examples if you search “wolf inflation.”
anti_dan
6hr ago
You have to call back to the original post. One of the questions that the Supreme Court is wrestling with in the case is "what is medicine". /u/cjet79 proposed the definition of:
Is it licensed and regulated by a state or federal level medical board? If yes then it's medicine, if not then it's just speech.
What this implies, is that a state could give itself the legal power to suppress any form of speech by merely making whatever form of speech is in question require a medical license from the state medical board.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
6hr ago
…and some, I assume, are good posters.
I’ve been annoyed, on this site, by people complaining that the left calls everyone fascists. I figured it was hyperbole, maybe a bit of a persecution complex. After reading this blogpost, I recognize my mistake.
self_made_human
amaratvaṃ prāpnuhi, athavā yatamāno mṛtyum āpnuhi
6hr ago
I wouldn't trust Europe to figure out a way to manufacture toilet paper really. Low cost manufacturing or processing just isn't their strong suit. Either way, no matter where it happens, it'll take a while to even begin to catch up with Chinese output.
I suppose a great deal hinges on how targeted China wants to be with the restrictions, and how capable other states are at circumventing them. A queer state of affairs, but we're setting a thief to catch another thief. If China sticks to crippling specific competitor industries, such as the automotive or military sectors then they should be able to do plenty of damage for little pain. I don't think they really care about the fridge magnet market.
I do wonder how easy it will be to... divert less valuable end-products elsewhere. Are we going to see children's toys selling at record rates so they can be stripped for parts?
His manner of speaking doesn't come across as right-wing principaliter to me, it comes across as uncoordinated and aggressive. I think that's where your feelings of "this is like a drunken man" come from. It feels like he's rocking around and can't sit still. It comes across as sketchy to me -- I'm don't know the man, I'm just expressing what my snap judgment of his presentation says.
Where the feelings of aggression come in is he has a very intense stare, and I really do feel a sense of "this is an angry person looking at me with aggression" when he looks into the camera. This is a startlingly aggressive gaze for a youtuber to be making into the inanimate object of a camera. And the shadow that his ballcap casts onto his face doesn't really help.
I come from red country; the conservative men I know don't give off "aggressive, uncoordinated," vibes, but rather "more coordinated and chill than average." The feature that distinguishes a lot of the young conservative men I've met is they just feel calmer and pursue traditional milestones (marriage, children, etc). While there are lots of tells that this specific video creator is a right-winger, if you took the hat away I could easily see him being a Democrat, or a Libertarian, or a radical Socialist. He just feels like "angry man with bone to pick", not so much "proud conservative."
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