My wife and I have been talking about the concept of forgiveness.
Thing is, you can't truly forgive someone unless they're repentant. If they don't think they've done anything wrong then you really can't forgive them because in their minds there's nothing to forgive.
Considering that we can see right now they're still doing the same things they did during COVID just in other areas of life, they're completely unrepentant. They want to be 'forgiven' because they're done with that particular thing but they're still using the same tactics for all the stuff they're still interested in, forcing what they want down everyone's throats the same way.
Everyone remembers "Judge not lest ye be judged", but few people remember the next part: "Go and sin no more".
It might be that you have to let go of old hatred for your own sake even if the other person is unrepentant, but that's much different than giving someone who is unrepentant full amnesty for their actions. It's a big difference, and the two forms of forgiveness mean something quite different in practical terms.
Thing is, you can't truly forgive someone unless they're repentant. If they don't think they've done anything wrong then you really can't forgive them because in their minds there's nothing to forgive.
Considering that we can see right now they're still doing the same things they did during COVID just in other areas of life, they're completely unrepentant. They want to be 'forgiven' because they're done with that particular thing but they're still using the same tactics for all the stuff they're still interested in, forcing what they want down everyone's throats the same way.
Everyone remembers "Judge not lest ye be judged", but few people remember the next part: "Go and sin no more".
It might be that you have to let go of old hatred for your own sake even if the other person is unrepentant, but that's much different than giving someone who is unrepentant full amnesty for their actions. It's a big difference, and the two forms of forgiveness mean something quite different in practical terms.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9oCywrlUW4
Viva Frei seems to think that it's just intended to get idiots to do something stupid because a lot of people know full well what's coming
Viva Frei seems to think that it's just intended to get idiots to do something stupid because a lot of people know full well what's coming
I saw a thread today where someone was calling the common man stupid for not wanting to do more about climate change, and specifically mentioning the recent cop28 held in Dubai.
It's an easy thing to just assume people are stupid. It makes the world nice and simple and if only people would stop being stupid and start being smart (smart like you, obviously!) All the problems of the world would be solved.
For a lot of people, reality isn't so simple. The common man is already struggling. Throughout history, the age people get married and have kids has been indicative of the stress civilizations are under, and many people aren't having kids before they get too old to have kids because that's the level of stress the common man is under. Global civilization is facing a demographic bomb as every continent except Africa is facing a massive reduction in population in coming decades because nobody is having kids because life is so hard.
As a study in contrasts, just look at wages vs. rent while I've been an adult. Minimum wage went from 11/hr to 15/hr. Meanwhile, my first 2 bedroom apartment was 350/mo, and today you can't get anything for less than 1200. A few years before I rented, there were decent houses available for $50,000 and today the average house price nationwide is $800,000. (Not the US, obviously)
So when a bunch of the business leaders and politicians who magically seem to get richer every time something is done "for our own good" -- politicians who make as much as a senior engineer on paper but all of whom seem to become fabulously wealthy regardless (huh wonder where all those extra millions came from) while the common man has suffered -- get together to figure out new ways to squeeze the common man, is it really so stupid to be skeptical? "Don't worry everyone, we're going to make your life even harder but it's all for your own good."
Having the summit in Dubai is fitting -- a city of extreme inequality, paid for with oil money, built by slaves, ruled by kings.
You can try to guilt and shame people into not caring about basic biological drives, but you actually can't. Entire generations of people have been pushed so far that their family lines will end with them. It's comfortable enough -- like being in a pool of comfortably warm water right up to your neck that you can't escape from, but when you can see people plotting to add more water to your pool the next step is you drown.
In previous eras, common people being this stressed out led to the fall of the Roman empire, the French reign of terror, the end of the Romanov dynasty in Russia or the rise of Adolf Hitler in Germany. While you call people stupid for not listening to their leaders, historically speaking those same leaders will be lucky to keep their heads on their shoulders.
It's an easy thing to just assume people are stupid. It makes the world nice and simple and if only people would stop being stupid and start being smart (smart like you, obviously!) All the problems of the world would be solved.
For a lot of people, reality isn't so simple. The common man is already struggling. Throughout history, the age people get married and have kids has been indicative of the stress civilizations are under, and many people aren't having kids before they get too old to have kids because that's the level of stress the common man is under. Global civilization is facing a demographic bomb as every continent except Africa is facing a massive reduction in population in coming decades because nobody is having kids because life is so hard.
As a study in contrasts, just look at wages vs. rent while I've been an adult. Minimum wage went from 11/hr to 15/hr. Meanwhile, my first 2 bedroom apartment was 350/mo, and today you can't get anything for less than 1200. A few years before I rented, there were decent houses available for $50,000 and today the average house price nationwide is $800,000. (Not the US, obviously)
So when a bunch of the business leaders and politicians who magically seem to get richer every time something is done "for our own good" -- politicians who make as much as a senior engineer on paper but all of whom seem to become fabulously wealthy regardless (huh wonder where all those extra millions came from) while the common man has suffered -- get together to figure out new ways to squeeze the common man, is it really so stupid to be skeptical? "Don't worry everyone, we're going to make your life even harder but it's all for your own good."
Having the summit in Dubai is fitting -- a city of extreme inequality, paid for with oil money, built by slaves, ruled by kings.
You can try to guilt and shame people into not caring about basic biological drives, but you actually can't. Entire generations of people have been pushed so far that their family lines will end with them. It's comfortable enough -- like being in a pool of comfortably warm water right up to your neck that you can't escape from, but when you can see people plotting to add more water to your pool the next step is you drown.
In previous eras, common people being this stressed out led to the fall of the Roman empire, the French reign of terror, the end of the Romanov dynasty in Russia or the rise of Adolf Hitler in Germany. While you call people stupid for not listening to their leaders, historically speaking those same leaders will be lucky to keep their heads on their shoulders.
Season 1 TNG, back before that series had the smug self satisfaction turned down several dozen notches.
"Numbah one, I simply don't understand why anyone would be opposed to the economic system that caused 100 million deaths. We don't have any wars over Janewayism, and that's caused way more deaths, and that's just in this timeline!"
MP3 is already a file format so old it has made it through several waves of crippling existential angst. "Holy crap I'm 30 what the hell have I even done with my life?!?"
Geez, if you put most canadian cities on the list it wouldn't be flattering. "Come live somewhere freezing cold where food is super expensive at only the cost of over 100% of income for most people in the world just to cover rent!"
The famous White cliffs of Dover gain their white color from a well-known compound: chalk. CaCO3. Absolute mountains of the stuff. Mountains that were formed by billions of years of tiny life forms with tiny little limestone shells dying and falling to the bottom of the oceans. The White cliffs of Dover are one example of this, but by far not the only one. There are chalk deposits all around the world. One microorganism, and then more microorganisms one at a time over millions of years microscopically living and dying and becoming mountains. This helps illustrate the impossible nature of geological time-frames.
Nobody I know who took the vaccine died. However, there was a high incidence of getting really sick -- I did, my dad did, a bunch of my coworkers did. After my second dose I eventually became really lightheaded and afterwards slept for 24 hours, only waking up long enough to wolf down a meal.
I'm confident that someone in their 80s who was hit with the same level of illness could be in danger of death.
The relatively young age of women who died is surprising. What's unique that meant such young women died?
I'm confident that someone in their 80s who was hit with the same level of illness could be in danger of death.
The relatively young age of women who died is surprising. What's unique that meant such young women died?