"I've got a bad feeling about this."
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
"Get busy livin', or get busy dyin'.'"
"Now that's a real shame when folks be throwin' away a perfectly good white boy like that."
Rhaedas
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The socialism that Jesus taught would carry over to cover medical care that simply didn't exist at the time. It's funny how "socialism" is used by some as a bad thing...there is nothing wrong with society taking care of the citizens, it's sort of the point of having it.
First we were shocked. Then we went aww...
The military establishment is really enjoying their moment in the spotlight, aren't they? Look what they can do, wow. Great that there was no questioning the rational of making the world stage even worse. Good job, everyone.
Or put back on a cross. To paraphrase the comic about aliens asked about knowing Jesus, "Yes, he always comes back around to visit every year or so. We gave him donuts. What did you guys do?"
Imagine being responsible for hurting so many people and turning around and think you're a good Christian quoting Bible crap. I wish Jesus was real and coming soon, so he could slap you in the face. This is not what he meant (or the writers of what he said about loving each other, anyway).
Have to add another one that I saw sort of recently: A reaction video from a channel normally about craftsman work, but he was watching video of the building of the Empire State Building in 1932. His professional amazement and constant pausing and commenting gives so much more than the original video, which is great in of itself.
Moving History is an interesting channel that recently has been using the latest AI to bring old pictures to life. All of the videos are great with minor nitpicks from the commentary on how smiles, teeth, and other details are a bit too perfect and similar due to limitations of that AI. But this one was probably my favorite, not just from the animation of the oldest photographs we have, but from the existential thoughts given:
Almost all of us are in the same boat of living our brief lives and then after a while being forgotten. We're not famous enough to be preserved in some history book. These people only had a couple of minutes of their time preserved in a single picture, but only seen by few, until now. Now they're remembered by thousands or more, anyone who sees the video.
Also been seeing a lot more of vintage footage circa 1900 on Youtube of video of various things, almost lost but recovered, enhanced, and colorized by AI tools. This is a good purpose for that technology.
Correct. Same reason why most products in cans or bottles come in similar sizes. The cost for packaging and shipping has been minimized over time. There will be outliers, usually to try and stand out on the shelf. For unseen online shipping, the cheaper mass production is best, even if they're shipping air and it's wasted space. It cost them less.
Yes. That's why I said what I said in the parentheses, different beliefs have different afterlife ideas, some may not have a hell but might have other punishments. The point was a relationship where one or both thinks the other is going to suffer later but is okay with it can't be very deep. If it's a religion where there isn't such a thing, then there isn't a conflict (at least not in that sense).
I think the biggest problem is when one partner believes that the other is condemned for eternity in some way (not just a hell, but also other forms like reincarnation to a lower state or anything else deemed bad)...and either they spend the relationship trying to change the other person and probably ruining it, or worse, they accept that fate for someone they claim to love.
As an atheist, I don't have that concern that my loved one is doomed to torment somehow, I just have the here and now to try and make their life with me as pleasant as I can. There is the issue of whether or not an atheist could live with someone whose rational is governed by beliefs that affect their judgement, either like mentioned above trying to convert them for their sake, or in other ways where religion steers them vs. having their own thoughts. But for what I think is a large majority, religious people mostly go through the motions if any just to fill some subconscious uncertainty and it's not enough to threaten a relationship with a differing viewpoint.
The human brain is very good at compartmentalizing things to help us get through the day.
Beans were a good nonsensical way to show people how this whole federation thing works, and to start something rolling. Other memes haven't quite hit the same mark, as they're trying to redo something already done. The moth thing though, I've seen some pretty good ones among the expected. One doesn't create a great meme, it comes to life on its own, often after a lot of misses.