That’s the thing I was wondering about the TACO meme. Is it good to mock him on chickening out when it is best for everybody that he does chicken out?

But you still read it! Just kidding, I totally get your point. Howver I never really know how to do annotations online. Another response to your comment seems kinda weird, too. I like to group together what belongs together as this way it also perfectly shows the time/history. I’m open to suggestions on how to improve on such things going forward.

Now you got something wrong there. One can very much obey the commandments, but for me the possible existence of a god isn’t a good enough reason.

I obey societal rules if they align with my sense of morality, not because somebody demands them of me. My motivation comes intrinsically, not extrinsically. I was treated VERY badly and had a TON of shit happen to me. This has shown me that I want to be somebody who is good to people in general, as I do not want others to suffer as I have suffered.

I get why shit that happens tends to get people to believe in a higher power, as they lack other explanations. I on the other hand have a more scientific (for lack of a better word) approach:

Our planet and the universe is driven by collision upon collision, the earth has been hit by meteor after meteor and the surface has been re-formed repeatedly by volcanos. All of which is pretty random but follows certain rules that humanity has yet to fully figure out.

Humanity is no different. There are billions of us out there and looking back there have been such an enormous amount of people, it is unfathomably. We all interact with lots of different people who all have their own history, society is as complex as it gets.

Now take these two together: A planet that creates an ever-changing environment for an enormous amount of people. Like Murphy’s law states, what can happen will happen. Even if it seems ever so unlikely.

Our human brains tend to see structure where there is none. To me, thinkung up a god or several gods is humanitys way of coping with all this, to make sense of all the chaos. And that is not a bad thing. However, it is ever so often misused to mistreat people and have an excuse or salvation afterwards.

Edit: Upon re-reading your comment, you perfectly showcase something else.

And not to mention the entire feeling "there must be a God, just look at the beauties of life, even if your life is miserable, like mine.

This is a prime example of confirmation bias. You want or better NEED to believe in something, so you welcome any “sign” that points towards confirming your belief. Again, I do not care about your faith, everybody is free to have their own version of the truth, however I feel it is important that we reflect upon our foundation of thoughts, as otherwise we can never improve ourselves, and wouldn’t that just be sad to be stuck in the same pattern for our whole lives and not being open to new experiences and maybe through those a new view on life?

Most religions are institutionalized and have a ranking structure with multiple levels and a head such as the pope. That is what I mean by mean by “organized” religions.

Religion is for the 90% of times for oneself. The rest should be gently incouraging others to have a openind, etc.

Seriously fuck that. You should not “gently nudge” others to get on board with any religion. It’s annoying as fuck. You can however tell others why you think something is bad/good/morally correct to do. However “because god wants you to” is never even in the slightest any good enough reason. Instead, you should point to the benefits and losses for society or individuals.

Lets be honest, you just came, just from what I wrote hahaha

I had a good chuckle from your original comment. Also, I’m just always up for a good, productive discussion.

Please note my edit that I wrote before I saw your answer, as I think this is an important part to keep in mind, too.

I honestly don’t care what you believe, as long as you try to make the world a better place or at least don’t make it worse. The problems with religion are IMO mainly two-fold:

• Some if not most people tend to see themselves as better than others, and try to force their world view upon others. Just let people be, and that goes double for sexuality and gender related issues. If you don’t understand an issue regarding any of this, either let it be or ask nicely. Don’t judge.

• Organised religion tends to be structured in a way that demands obedience, not only to the rules but to the people. People fail, power corrupts and attracts people that want to abuse said power. This is also true in politics, at work or anywhere really. Unchecked power will ALWAYS be abused at one point. Don’t blindly trust authority figures.

Edit: With people fail, I don’t just mean the offenders. I also mean that offences will be swept under the rug with false pretenses, e.g. keep quiet so that others don’t loose their faith in the religious organization or even more “noble” causes.

This reminds me of an interesting take I have seen somewhere, which was basically a mixture of philosophies of Marx and Nietzsche:

Religious people are more inclined to accept bad circumstances as they have the afterlife to hope for, while atheists don’t have this, thus try to create paradise on earth.

Your level of sarcasm is uncanny

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c785n9pexjpo

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/20/explainer-chinas-covert-overseas-police-stations

https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/beijing-s-long-arm-china-s-secret-police-stations-in-europe-a-d6732094-ca32-4c0a-8e6f-58b395b946aa

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/12/04/world/china-overseas-police-stations-intl-cmd

• Build huge spy army including secret police stations in other countries tasked to even spy on chinese people living abroad

• Get your people treated as potential spies

• Use a tragic suicide to complain that your people are being treated as potential spies

• ???

• profit

And somebody will then rickroll [email protected]

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Yeah of course, now the big importing companies get billions of dollars… oh you meant to the consumer, tough luck.

Yeah that’s well known by now. However, safety through additional radar sensors costs money and they can’t have that.

Of course that’s bad. That’s exactly why it is important to know how the system can be exploited. From the headline it sounds like the failure is on the delivery system to the military.

Deeply misleading headline. Just the manufactorer also produces for the military aand are also allowed to sell to private entities, who then smuggled the ammunition to Mexiko.

Don’t feed the troll. Just look at the username andrewta(te)

No he wasn’t. I never said that. I was just giving the answer to the questions in the meme.

Since you already added facts, here’s another: The word in question is “Mitläufer”, which translates to Nazi sympathizer. Sympathizing with the general goal of Nazis more than with their victims is IMO just as bad, as they rationalize all the bad as “a sacrifice worth the goal”.

I think it’s a sign of good character to not be able to fathom doing this. Unfortunately however, we have to keep in mind that humans can be manipulated to anything, given the according circumstances.

LOL I did and these fuckers decided to disable my widget. It only shows my inbox as empty. Yeah I definitely need to continue my de-googlifying.