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the epicurus quote is alright but I prefer carl sagan's 'dragon in my garage'

phew i was seconds from becoming an atheist but then a really dumb child on youtube made a bad argument using a book in the bible that didn't exist and now i'm christian again

>>822596
>the epicurus quote is alright but I prefer carl sagan's 'dragon in my garage'
the religious cope for sagan's garage dragon is that god is not part of the universe, the universe is an artifact of god. the universe itself is their proof that god exists. every single thing in reality is proof god exists. there's no need to throw flour on the floor to catch the dragon's footprints or spray it with paint to catch it floating in the air. for the religoid, god is not a dragon in someone's garage, he's the very principle that made the universe possible. he's the only explanation for how something could come from nothing. now when you start probing about why he has a gender (male) and a name (yahweh) and a chosen people (jews) and arbitrary physical appearances (burning bush, pillar of fire, etc.) in some stories… well then they start pulling out the allegory cope, or they just say god can do whatever he want, including decide his own gender (which is funny because that's pretty trans if you think about it, even though religious conservatives don't usually think humans, created in gods image, can pick their own gender even though god did).

>>822197
There were critics of the Greek notion of God in ancient Greece, like Xenophanes.

>>822858
never thought of the gender thing before. i cannot wait to use it on some chuds (they will ignore the point and call me a jewish beautiful lady😍🥰 shill)

i can kindof see it

>>822739
>How is snoopy a beagle? He's the least beagle looking dog i've ever seen!
Black and white beagles are real, just very rare. Besides, drawings are not and can not be a 100% reflection of reality.

The droopy ears you moron

>>822822
A lot of dogs have droopy ears

what else would he be?

>>822749
I don't understand… Post more pictures?

>>822752
eh, Elk-bro was first male character introduced later into FEH who had an actual design (in Book 8? I think), wasn't killed off after a season and people actually liked him. Despite the fact, that (even though fairly tame compared to girls in FEH) he doesn't look like "generic japanese guy" and has miniscule traces of sexualisation.

I am nominating him precisely, because other games do guys like this pic, and it clearly panders do the gays instead (not that I mind it, I love it).

>>822761
>I am nominating him precisely, because other games do guys like this pic, and it clearly panders do the gays instead (not that I mind it, I love it).
No, I meant sexualized characters done by female fans, that's something new. I don't mind characters that pander to gays either but it's not the same.

>>822762
Yeah, as far as I am aware Elky had some female fanbase, so it would be easier to filter out fag art and focus on fan art. I am not sure if fujo fanart can be trusted though.

You think THAT's big?

>will the revolution be televised?
No
>what do we have to lose other than our chains??
Nothing
>has war changed???
Yes
>will something happen in the future????
No

It should, but the revolutionaries in charge will be moralfags (a good thing) and keep it on the low
Nothing
War, war never changes. (I can't make the mgs4 script with leftists edits sorry)
There are decades where nothing happens, and weeks where happenings congregate

>>822666
I think this dude was trying to get into a boy band but got caught with All Qaeda instead. He was to embarrassed to leave so he just went through with the plan.

>>822573
it sent a cloud of asbestos outward for miles

>>822573
>i think the yanks were done a favor tbh
by who? the bush administration and their wahhabist-zionist allies in the middle east?

bad taste

>>822755
also he didnt show up to work the day of for some odd reason. its such a coincidence that so many rich people forgot to show up to work on that fateful day

I think the closest equivalent moral panic would be the long-standing “x minority are borgeousie because of this reactionary person I found of that group”
You don’t really see this with serious theorists though.

How does spirituality work for Marxists?

Do Marxists even have spirituality as a dimension?

>>822368
didnt adorno hate it bc it could be " mass produced". man he'd hate soundcloud rappers

>>818507
Your mind should be put in a jar and studied.

>>818393
>Is it regressive to

everything that people say on this site is regressive. every discussion is armchair intellectuals marching backwards full speed ahead and getting dumber by the second.

>Why do so many leftists believe cultural progressivism is incompatible with capitalism?

because capitalism is effectively just private sector authoritarianism. under a capitalist system you don't have any rights at work, you don't have any kind of leverage at work, you have bosses and they have bosses and there's a whole chain of command all the way up to the owners/ceos and they are all completely unaccountable and you must do what they say at all times, the place you work in and the computers and the software and the tools and the machinery and the office chairs and the file cabinets and the red swingline staplers and all the other things you use for your work are all company property and you don't control any of it, the company knows who their competitors are and what options you have for other sources of employment at any given time, they know exactly what options they have when it comes to replacing you at any given time, they know exactly how much you earn after taxes and what kind of house you live in and what kind of car you drive, they know you have a mortgage and a car loan and bills and expenses and maybe even a few kids at home who are depending on you for everything, they know how precarious your position is and how disastrous it would be for you to lose your job and how sickeningly terrified you are of that eventuality, they know exactly how much wiggle room they have with what few flimsy legal protections you do have, they know that are just a person and you don't have a legal department like they do and you don't have the time or the money to hire lawyers and file lawsuits and spend years of your life arguing in courtrooms, they know that even if you did sue them and win that you would effectively be blacklisted from any future employment in your career field and no company would ever hire you again, and they know that you know all of this too. and this is where you spend most of your waking hours, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm monday through friday and maybe weekends too, this is the bulk of your life and the time you have to yourself after work you are physically or mentally exhausted and you don't have the energy to do much else but eat dinner and have a few drinks and watch tv or play videogames, and all of the money you earn that doesn't toward paying your loans and your bills or putting away in your savings you spend on buying things you need, or things you don't need, from a handful of other unaccountablePost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>822703
This has nothing to do with "cultural progressivism"

>>822705

do you not see the connection between regular mainstream cultural majority working people being deprived of basic human dignity and autonomy, and marginalized cultural minorities being deprived of their dignity and autonomy? or the whole ingroup-vs-outgroup dynamic at play and how the mainstream cultural majority and their ingroup status and the limited privileges that it provides serve as a very effective form of leverage for cajoling them and manipulating them and keeping them in line and even turning them into a mercenary army against the aforementioned outgroup, and that the outgroup simultaneously serve as a very convenient lightning rod for the ingroup's dissatisfaction? or how behavioral conformity is a key component of any kind of authoritarian system, including capitalism, and that to control people and exploit them and enslave them and advertise to them and mass-market products and ideas to them, you need them all to look and behave and think alike, or at the very least be easily categorized?

you've got westoid pedantic neckbeard thinking that operates on rigid predetermined paths and separates everything into neat discrete categories and never dares to connect dots or color outside the lines or see the wood for the trees. you've got to get out of that, forget about the rules, tear up your books and throw out the pages, run naked through the streets screaming and throwing your feces at people and smashing windows on police cars, be wild and free and let your imagination soar.

Autists are fascist

Consistently the most chad poster on this site.

certified banger opinion fact

>>822714
What is this? Has anyone tried it because I'm not.

hey anon, did the donkey show even really exist?

fuking marxists going after donkey kong now

>>822701
read this in bobby baccalas voice for some reason

>>817311 (me)
I think people kind of underestimate how much improvement there has been in the standard of living in the third world, not just China, so that's where most of the wrong answers might come from.

>>817298
Yes that's the intention of the quiz, and they're also right. There really has been a huge improvement in QoL in poor countries.

I think where people in rich countries falter is that they don't realize poverty is a huge spectrum. From rich country POV, you only have poor country where people live in slums, middle country where people live in small apartments and minimal treats, then rich country with clean cities and lots of treats.

But the reality is that the widest part of this spectrum in the poor country part. There is a wide gap between the standard of living between someone from Niger and India. There is another wide gap between India and Botswana. There is another wide gap between Botswana and Thailand. All of these are just classified as third world, but the difference between each pair is bigger than any differences between first world countries and second world countries.

>>817180
I got 2/13.

My result is so good that the message I got is shittily written because the person designing this did not expect it :D
<Your result is 13 / 13.
<Wow, this is impressive.
<You responded to 13 question(s) out of 13. No answer was regarded as bad answer in your result.
<See above to compare your answers with correct ones. If you want to try once more, please click reset button.

>>817311
Damn I'm not the only one.
>Im a STEMlord but I do enough reading of demographics just for fun that I knew the correct answers
I do know that some things aren't as bleak as online doomers have it because of Steve Pinker. I don't read Pinker, but I have read China boosters being mad at Pinker for not giving proper credit to China on these issues. Remove China from the picture and the trends don't look nearly as good. The animal question I did not know about, so I was doing reverse psychology: So I'm designing a contrarian quiz… The thing about natural disasters I did not know either, I just reckoned about how important communication technology & speed of transport is to improving the reaction.

Here is my impression of Factfulness, the 2018 book by Hans Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund and Ola Rosling, whose work was the basis for this quiz.

On the back is a blurb by Bill Gates praising it, inside Rossling is praising the philanthropy of Gates. It would have been a good book if not for the misleading representation of income inequality downplaying differences especially within nations. In chapter 1, you get shown several graphs "proving" that when it comes to income, most humans are part of the big, healthy, juicy, middle. But the money axis is logarithmic! The text around these graphs does not explain or even acknowledge that choice. Then later, at the end of chapter 3, Rossling suddenly drops the wisdom that what matters to you is your income changing in terms of proportion, and then instantly moves on to something else. So that was the "explanation".

I got another graph for you.