You’re in Ohio, right? I’m seeing exactly the same thing on my facebook feed and I’m wondering if we’re in the same group.
I mean the economy is fucked and the hospitals are full of insanely sick people. You have to wear a mask everywhere, even in red states basically… and schools are absolutely not opening in the fall anywhere.
Like this shit is not going well guys. Not even a little bit. The examples you use in arguments with these people keep getting closer and closer to home. It used to be ‘but what about brown kids in cages’ and now it’s ‘your kids aren’t allowed out of your house for the forseeable future and grandma’s best friends funeral is next week, she was pretty spry for her age!’. Those are just two totally different arguments. They shouldn’t be morally, but practically even for the most enlightened person they clearly are.
Cults implode. Eventually reality seeps in and ruins everything. For the record this death cult thing has been going on since at least the Bill Hicks death cult routine in the early 90’s (where it was already obvious enough for Bill Hicks, admittedly a real truth to power type, to point it out and do ten goddamn minutes on it). It’s not going to last forever, every human entity that ever existed has eventually ended. The internet is absolutely face wrecking religion in general, which is why this board is probably majority atheist/agnostic.
Religion as a determiner of ‘what is’ is done. A lot of religions are going to reform into something barely recognizable over the next 50 years… mark my words. It’s happened a lot of times, this is not a crazy prediction.
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Yea and reality hits when you quote Trump about 15 cases soon to be zero. Like, they BELIEVED that.
Yeah exactly. And I mean think about how people on this board feel about HRC… Like I fucking hate her. I won’t pretend like I don’t because it’s going to trigger some of you… I’ve looked hard at how we got into this situation and she’s got more responsibility for Trump being president than Trump does.
I think the line between ‘supports Trump’ and ‘joins an armed mob to go lynch Trump’ is a lot thinner than most smart people think. These people trusted him, praised him, and really stood up for him with their actual loved ones. He’s going to be as popular in 2025 as Hitler in Germany in 1950.
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Nazis didn’t see the error of their ways in 1945. They only learned to be more discrete.
He lost an awful lot of support when all those Germans got maimed, raped, and killed while presiding over total destruction of most of the infrastructure in the whole country.
Like this is what I mean about reality slamming into you hard. I’m not saying it doesn’t miss some people, or that some people don’t seem to have a bottomless capacity for self delusions… but most people get their ass kicked hard enough in real life they learn some kind of lesson.
In-person casting and production is happening regularly. Not full swing, but it’s happening. I know somebody who caught COVID after shooting a music video.
People in general are taking it less seriously. More people having parties, going places, etc. Some people I love very much and think of as sane went to Catalina last weekend. My wife’s best friend is currently visiting from SF. Honestly it seems like everybody I know is doing stuff.
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Also, false positives are relatively rare.
Let’s form the National Association of Politics Forum Post Writers and add our support to this.
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All religion has localized syncretism–geographically and in a historical context. It’s lingering power will be preserved mainly by its practitioners ability to compartmentalize the epistemology that leads them to hold those beliefs. One of the biggest obstacles to the USA#19 response to covid is evangelicals’ scorn for science. The response to the pandemic is like a tiktok version of how we have failed to deal with climate change long term. The growth of evangelical christian faith groups in Latin America and Africa are especially concerning considering well over half of the worlds births will be taking place in those areas by 2050.
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Another example in biology that get what you select for. You make antibody production the measured output, then that’s what you get, likely at the exclusion of T cell mediated immunity effects.
I assume that we will get works sorta Ok vaccine in 2021 that requires annual or biannual boosters and then something much better on - more of 4-5 year timeline that gives lasting protection that will become the standard going forward.
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Many religions were pretty explicitly racist. I think the Mormon reforms were in there past 30 years.
The same will happen with homosexuality.
Just more evidence that truth isn’t absolute and that for generations the dogma can shape the popular opinion and then something happens and a generation changes the dogma. Of course that cycle is never ending and never acknowledged that it means the whole thing is a house of cards.
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I’m going to need target numbers for cases and deaths to root for so that reality sets in for enough people to give Dems control of the Senate.
Yea seriously wtf at this sentiment? Are you guys for real?
I’ve been lurking and reading this thread since the start, been thinking for a while some of you are just hoping beyond hope that this gets even more horrible. It just reeks throughout some of your guys’ posts.
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I used to listen to a now-defunct podcast from some ex-Mormons. I don’t remember much of anything except the now-revised scripture to be “whitesome and delightsome,” which IIRC they quoted as “whiteful and delightful”
Like other religious groups, Mormons have a complicated history around race. Until a few decades ago, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints taught that they “shall be a white and a delightsome people,” a phrase taken from the Book of Mormon. Until the 1970s, the LDS Church also restricted black members’ participation in important rituals and prohibited black men from becoming priests, despite evidence that they had participated more fully in the earliest years of the Church.
Green : You write about how the text of Book of Mormon helped to create a racialized culture—based on the text, Mormons aspired to being “a white and delightsome people.” How do these notions of white purity end up in a sacred Mormon text?
Mueller : Whatever you want to say about the origins of the Book of Mormon, it fits its time period really well. It’s very American. It tells a story of racial schism and how it came to be, dividing the world into a hierarchy of races, and that’s a standard American story—especially the idea that people born to a so-called darker-skinned race could not be redeemed.
America deserves this. Tell me I’m wrong.
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This seems bad even by Florida standards.
I can’t think of anything that would make a group of people “deserving” of a massive economic crisis and several hundred thousand dead or permanently damaged.
Each one of those lives has a family attached to it, and they are mourning. No one deserves to lose a husband/wife/child/parent/grandparent prematurely. Nothing about this is deserved.
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Rebekah Jones was ranting about this yesterday.