Wouldn't it be better to go back a little further back in time, and give the weapons before the flogging and rapes?
All that stuff about turning the other cheek and going the extra mile-- it’s not saying to just put up with abuse, mistreatment, and injustice. It’s talking about what people like Martin Luther King and Gandhi did, using oppressors violence and mistreatment against them.
Doesn't it? I think when Jesus said "But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also." Matthew 5:39 he meant put up with abuse, mistreatment, and injustice - do not resist an evil person and do not retaliate when attacked.
I think when Jesus said "love your enemies [...] Be perfect" Matthew 5:44, 48 he meant love your enemies and be perfect.
I think when Jesus said "If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor" Matthew 19:21 he meant sell your possessions and give to the poor.
A lot of supply-side Jesus followers say Jesus supports the troops, and that the eye of the needle the camel needs to go through isn't actually the eye of a needle - but a gate.
I think the above quotes are good things to do, eventho I'm not an ethical enough person to do them. I also think all the supernatural things Jesus is quoted as saying is bullshit, and that it's better to be honest than to repeat a bunch of stupid fairy tales.
Answer: "The lifespan of these wasps is only 5 days"
"it's brain cells get rid of their own nucleus and all its stored maintenance information. The neurons already exist, so maintenance is the only task [...] requiring DNA, and they don’t live long enough for that to matter at this point"
"No nucleus or DNA frees up half of a neuron’s volume"
“Everybody complains about politicians. Everybody says they suck. Well, where do people think these politicians come from? They don’t fall out of the sky. They don’t pass through a membrane from another reality. They come from American parents, and American families, American homes, American schools, American churches, American businesses, and American universities; and they are elected by American citizens. This is the best we can do folks. This is what we have to offer. It’s what our system produces: garbage in, garbage out. […] If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you’re going to get selfish, ignorant leaders. Term limits ain’t going to do any good; you’re just going to end up with a brand new bunch of selfish, ignorant Americans. So, maybe, maybe, maybe, it’s not the politicians who suck. Maybe something else sucks around here… like, the public.” - George Carlin https://piped.video/watch?v=cBrbXOmnW70
It's like 99% of the Christians I've met have never read the Bible, or think no-one else has ever read it:
In Luke 6:29-30 "If someone slaps you on one cheek, turn to them the other also. If someone takes your coat, do not withhold your shirt from them. Give to everyone who asks you, and if anyone takes what belongs to you, do not demand it back."
Luke 6:35 "love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back."
Luke 16:13 "No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money."
Mark 10:21 "Go, sell everything you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me."
Another animated movie, Antz, was released the same year:
Worker Ant: A worker? That's impossible. A worker can't do anything, except work.
Female Ant: Yeah. It's not like we got a choice.
Azteca: We do have a choice. [...]
Worker Ant: Wait a second. You're tellin' me, I don't have to be here?
Female Ant: We've got a choice?
Worker Ant: The authorities don't want you to know, but
we don't have to work on the tunnel any more.
Worker Ant: It's the workers who control the means of production.
"Please stop torturing us to death." - 2 trillion fish per year.
"Please stop enslaving us in torturous conditions." - hundred of billions of factory farmed animals per year.
Maybe the ones who got it wrong is because they got their copy from Reuters who got it wrong:
https://www.reuters.com/world/india/india-counts-down-crucial-moon-landing-2023-08-23/
(tho these 2 have maps showing all the landing locations)
No they're not - having a kid in an overpopulated world is 2 orders of magnitude worse in the USA.
- 2.4 tonnes of CO2e released per driver per year with the average fossil-fuel powered car.
- 1.2 tonnes of CO2e released for electric car users in most countries.
- 117.7 tonnes per kid per parent per year. Wynes et al. 2017
Human overpopulation is not only the biggest contributor to push us over climate-change tipping-points, it's also the root cause of almost all other causes. It's also the root cause of unsustainable habitat loss and pollution. It's also the root cause of factory farming and industrial fishing, which causes more pain and suffering every year than all other atrocities ever committed in all of history combined.
If the Lemmies end up like 2023 reddit, then maybe what you're looking for is tildes.net which seems to be more like r/AskHistorians meets pre-September Usenet.
It used to be mostly smoking; now it's mostly eating animal products and processed food, and poor sleeping. The advice given for decades is still valid: only whole-plant food and water, lots of exercise, and proper sleep.
Possible reasons listed in article: