“It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions.” ― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
RoundSparrow
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Defend the Great Seal, Carl Sagan Pale Blue Dot Skywalkers!
Joy!
KSP2 is Spamming the Windows Registry Over Weeks/Months Until the Game Will Stop Working Permanently
All the Unity game engine self-destruction choices got to them ;)
giving any direct answer on his actual religious beliefs is to highlight how “true in a sense” the stories are.
They are true, metaphorically. Just as much as Star Wars is true to the mass mind (hive mind, collective unconscious, whatever you call it) of the human experience. Just as much true as The Simpsons, Finengans Wake, Shakespeare, etc.
I think a lot of people avoid very basic things about religions: 1) They are learned much like spoken languages. 2) people have trouble learning second languages much like religions. 3) You can translate religion to religion, there are a lot of common concepts, even if often inverted. Take marriage, funerals, and holidays for examples.
“Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.” ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
It's taking Fox News literally, it is taking Star Trek literally, it is taking fiction stories as fact / literal that's the problem.
who? I've never heard of him in context of studying world religions.... i was quoting an expert on Comparative Mythology.
"his views on cultural and political issues which have been described as conservative or right-wing." - I don't think "all religions are non-literal" sounds like conservative in any way, shape, or form.
“All religions are true but none are literal.”
A Russian claims on Facebook that he got a Twitter direct message in 2012 from Trump that started the whole Russia + Cambridge Analytica combo: https://washingtonmonthly.com/2017/11/24/a-trumprussia-confession-in-plain-sight/
Are we blocked from editing communities that we created? I tried to revise the sidebar of https://sh.itjust.works/c/jukebox and the "save" network works.
most likely, yes. There was no notice of a planned outage, and the timing of them both going down within 15 minutes of each other. Lemmy server programming code isn't very robust when it comes to performance, it is possible to busy up the database to a point that the site become unresponsive. I don't know what is going on with lemmy.ml being entirely unreachable, the devs who run that server don't normally work on weekends... and normally nginx responds with an error at minimum. Nothing at all is loading
lemmy.world is reachable, but no database connections, it has an "Error" page on every post I try to load. Which this post itself on Lemmy.world serves as example: https://lemmy.world/post/1578844
Lemmy.world down now for over 30 minutes, Lemmy.ml over an hour (I created this post on Lemmy.world before it went down). Distant Early Warning Sign: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrDj5XvZXX4
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“It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions.” ― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business