[-] Samvega@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 hours ago

Wait for the next installment in a week where, again, nothing much happens.

[-] Samvega@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 hours ago

Still plenty of people being spiritual 'in their own way'.

[-] Samvega@lemmy.blahaj.zone -1 points 2 hours ago

I'm a queer disabled immigrant. I know that humans generally hate me. If you wait long enough, though, humans will destroy themselves.

[-] Samvega@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 12 hours ago

Multiple cultures were well organized and thriving before established religion was forced on them.

I don't choose to pretend that previous e.g. animist spiritual systems were not religions. This is because I define religion by human practice and adherence, as humans define religion in a world where they invent it.

[-] Samvega@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 13 hours ago

The world is blowing up. But it's blowing up because of human economic activity, which is 'good', so therefore that isn't seen as 'extremist'.

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Israel, apparently, is a country that can only exist if it crushes the innocent. After all, when I question the killing of innocents, I am told that I am imperilling the existence of Israel, and therefore all its citizens, by not supporting these actions.

[-] Samvega@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 13 hours ago

You might also point out, for balance, that the opposites of those things can also be expected within religious frameworks.

With or without religion, it is people who purposefully carry out those actions while more often than not being aware they can be conceived of as harmful. You can try to take religion away from people, but don't expect hate to go with it.

[-] Samvega@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 14 hours ago

There can't be war crimes if no one exists to remember the war crimes.

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"I attached my own ass to my face, and my ass is a leopard, and the ass-leopard is eating my face, and our/my shared ass-leopard/human stomach is digesting my face, and I love it."

[-] Samvega@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Clearly, day-to-day life is organised such that people who believe absolute bullshit can cope with it. This might be because the human world is built on bullshit, such as the concepts of:

  • humans being superior to other species ("so I'm a winner")
  • constant economic growth being possible ("so we can keep winning")
  • the world remaining roughly as it is in a way that suits humans ("so winning will go on forever")
  • able-bodied people being more important than disabled people ("winners contrast with losers, and I'm not a loser")
  • also, various forms of difference being disgusting (there's a lot on the theme of "winners contrast with losers, and I'm not a loser")
  • the possibility of some kind of immutable 'strength' vs a lesser 'weakness', ignoring the fact that all living beings die, so neither strength or weakness make an objective long-term difference ("my winningness is part of my strength that will not leave me, losers are gross and should be dominated and treated like shit")

Society is literally purposefully organised to entrench privilege in a way that maximises the ability for some to oppress others. That's why you have people who say they 'care about children' while children on their street are abused, or go without food. Humans visibly put more effort (as a group, some individuals are different) into pretending and rationalising rather than actually improving things. They can even rationalise the killing of children in various, pathetic, ways.

All these, and more, are ideological positions that give false and meaning to human existence. If there were a button that slammed objective reality into everyones' brains, even if it would kill 90%+ of the population from the sheer terror of the realisation that humans are not important, I would not hesitate to press it.

[-] Samvega@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 16 hours ago

Hatred being a legitimate political position which attracts votes and is therefore of interest to those who want power is what has created harm.

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Last I heard you write comments starting 'last I heard' to pretend that you heard something devastatingly interesting had happened when it, factually, did not, and that you do this in order to pretend to have something beneficial to say when, factually, you do not.

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Carol Higgins was 15 when she first reported her father’s abuse to the police. They told her he wouldn’t be charged. But she refused to let it rest until he finally stood trial

Higgins gave a 17-page statement, signed it and was given a painful internal examination. At the end of it, she was informed that Appleyard would not be charged. Apparently, the case wasn’t strong enough. There was no forensic evidence. The police told her that because her brother, who was 14, was a minor, his account was inadmissible. They said that, should the case reach court, her name and sexual history would be dragged through the mud. Could she handle it? Higgins said she couldn’t.

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In January 2019, after more pushing by Higgins, who refused to let it rest, Appleyard finally stood trial. It took the jury less than two hours of deliberation to find him guilty of 15 sexual offences against her, including rape and sexual assault. He was sentenced to 20 years. Earlier this year, Higgins also received £15,000 compensation and a public apology from West Yorkshire police, acknowledging that her “extremely serious and truthful allegations took too long to come to justice”.

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Temperatures above 50C used to be a rarity confined to two or three global hotspots, but the World Meteorological Organization noted that at least 10 countries have reported this level of searing heat in the past year: the US, Mexico, Morocco, Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iran, Pakistan, India and China.

In Iran, the heat index – a measure that also includes humidity – has come perilously close to 60C, far above the level considered safe for humans.

Heatwaves are now commonplace elsewhere, killing the most vulnerable, worsening inequality and threatening the wellbeing of future generations. Unicef calculates a quarter of the world’s children are already exposed to frequent heatwaves, and this will rise to almost 100% by mid-century.

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Here is a picture of a frog. (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

The frog that is in this picture is the subject of the picture, which is why it is a picture of a frog.

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"Israel presents itself as an LGBT haven in the region, but for Palestinians it offers neither refuge nor solidarity"

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