Zucky is feeling insecure.

I’d say provide links (maybe in an escape hub page) for all the Meta main service pages, to assert dominance.

If you want to be nasty, track how often those links have been clicked. (Meta can’t win. If it’s too low, it shows nobody wants to go there. If it’s too high, it means people are using the page as a Meta hub.)

Except in crisis, a society benefits when everyone does nothing renegade.

The problem is we’re in crisis, largely due to a lack of information about the scope and breadth of that crisis.

Since I have been talking about LOTR lore in other comment threads, you totally threw me.

YHVH is biblically the god of earth, and that is a promotion from god of Israel.

Only in the last few centuries has our understanding of the scope of the universe expanded to make that infinitesimally insignificant in the scope of the universe, even if the earth is still critical to us.

Sadly, the dominionists may drive us to extinction.

New gospel: All Gods are real

That’s the old gospel. Even at the time of the apostles polylatry (like idolatry, but different). All the gods are real but this god is your god. Hence all the proscriptions against idolatry and other gods.

And they fought in spirit and by archons. When David slew Goliath (or his chroniclers stole valor from Ethanan), that was a contest between gods, even as modern interpretations of the fight coach it in materialist terms.

The rising denial of gods via monotheism occurred after Caesar became Christian since prior Caesars got into the habit of persecuting those who didn’t worship Caesar’s god, or eventually Caesar, himself.

Yes, the link is this:

When all the adults in the household have to work 40+ hours a week, plus commute, plus all the adulting…they get sad since this is fucking toxic.

Also no one has time for civics.

Also no one has time to parent, so the kids are sad too.

If we’re looking at mental health problems, lets look here first.

I bet Mr. Gruff (and while I’m at it, Baphomet) has goat powers like being able to digest just about anything, and walk up slight inclined walls and cliffsides.

If you see someone who is grumpy and bitter rather than trying to witness to them (which doesn’t work — we all force-fed Jesus the way we force feed geese) try bringing them cookies or inviting them to the community barbecue.

I know at least two who are in my coven / crew who play MMOs.

I don’t like MMOs myself, but I’m way neurodivergent and do a lot of single-player and small-group co-op.

I think I steered away from pub games around the rise of gamergate and the alt-right. Folks got scary.

Yes, and corrected.

Though viscous seems applicable as well.

I want this to be the next mystery drone scare, the next spooky clown sightings, the next run of monolith discoveries.

We need to not just make dozens of dinosaur costumes but dinos in cocktail dresses and with boobs. And then get the group to hang out in red light areas long enough for candid snapshots.

We can do this!

Fixed!

A friend of mine raised snakes and raised bunnies to feed the snakes. I like the snakes, but I also like the bunnies.

In 400 years (if civilization still is around) people will believe this.

God as in the omniscient prime mover was a philosopical god in contrast to the Olympians and chthonic deities (Not to be confused with the Cthonian deities) who were sustained by the temples for commoners.

I can’t speak to Epicurus, but Socrates’ charges of impeity and corrupting the youth with perverse ideas were at least partly to do with showing the philosophical theist positions that were antithetical to devotion to the common ministries.

It’s much the way only scientists and deep academics in the 20th century were openly atheist. The rest of us skeptics were members of liberal ministries, and may not have gone to church much.

I assume a material, godless world, but most theistic possibilities fall into the malevolence category.

It’s a big category. It includes:

• God has no plan. God’s just a kid with an ant farm…
• God’s plan is incidental to us. Were mice in the walls.
• God’s plan is antagonistic to us. Were roaches jamming up the card reader trying to keep warm.
• God’s plan utilizes us as an intermediary resource expended to serve Their final goal. We’re Rocket Raccoon helping the High Evolutionary fix his perfect society, before he incinerates us and our friends and destroys this iteration for the next. Or food for Great Cthulhu when He awakens from his slumber feeling peckish.
• Added We are playthings for God’s entertainment, meant to be showered with drama and misfortune like Job Jonah in the belly of a great fish. Or Truman Burbank in the eponymous TV show.

In fact, the problem of evil is only a problem to a specific set of theistic models. We just happen to like those models because we get to be special.

The horror of nihilism is that we humans aren’t special. That nothing is special is incidental. We’re just that self-centered.

I can’t speak to the context but assuming this is not a reverse lesbian cure with porn latitude, there is the possibility of situational sexuality, most evident in:

• Prisons
• Traditional (men only) navies
• Gender-isolated schooling
• Cloistered communities where celebacy is mandated.

So the non-rapey possibility is that they’re isolated from men for long enough for attitudes to change.

Here in western (Christianity-informed) society our squeamishness about sexuality only exacerbates the effects of situational sexuality. The Navy will literally awaken your gay. (assuming you have a normal libido.)

I was thinking Immorten Joe’s warboys from Mad Max / Furiosa ( Witness Me! ) rather than Space Orks. They don’t have any ambition (nor are really allowed any in the States) except to throw themselves into the breach and hope for to be judged worthy by V8 / God-Emperor Trump.

And to be fair to them, our neglect to confined education to bottom-rung worker / soldier employment pipeline – in which they’re regarded generally as ineligible for human relationships – really screws them over and our educations system cranks out these guys by the millions.

(I was one in the 1980s, before there was internet or alt-right and social media was local or constrained to tech nerds on BBS. But I was sexually frustrated enough to be a social hazard, and in retrospect, wonder how they figured I’d be able to learn math. As a neurodivergent, I eventually learned how to human through 12-step programs when I was 25. The education system has only gotten worse since, so the alt-right is flush with recruits like the Rebel Alliance after Alderaan.)

Apparently soccer is offensive even though I grew up in AYSO. i got in the habit of calling them association football and gridiron football, respectively.

I thought the corruption of the leagues and the fanatcism of the US is bad and scary. Then I learned about FIFA. i had no idea.

Was Popeye’s spinach the first catch-trope powerup?

Rules are consistent with the Pac-man powerup

My feed today is getting a few glitches in the matrix.