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ntnsndr, 4 months ago to random

Any media/tech scholars interested in reviewing Governable Spaces ntnsndr.in/govbook for a prominent journal? DM me!

DenisCOVIDinfoguy, 4 months ago to ireland

🇮🇪Ireland: "Emergency departments see 80% rise in patients with flu or Covid, HSE figures show."

🔹There are currently 30 outbreaks of COVID in hospitals and 24 in nursing homes.

#COVID19 #Ireland #COVIDisNotOver @auscovid19

Source: https://www.irishtimes.com/health/2023/12/28/emergency-departments-see-80-rise-in-patients-with-flu-or-covid-hse-figures-show/

RickiTarr, 4 months ago to random

It still blows my mind that Richard Dawkins, an EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGIST, is a Transphobe. Imagine how much of your life's work you have to ignore to justify that!

juergen_hubert, 4 months ago to random German

It's three days since I've developed symptoms of a cold.

It's six days since I've last had contact with lots of other people (a lengthy train trip), so now I am finally confident that I haven't contracted #COVID again.

But I really hate that you have to live with the uncertainty for so long.

danluu, 4 months ago to random

"Unfortunately, a recent software update was not successful. Your vehicle cannot be driven.

Please call customer support"

melissabeartrix, 5 months ago to random

Broadway Sydney shopping centre update, Not as many people as last year

Line out side Annandale post office non existent, very strange when last year it was a down the street with people directing

Hugz & xXx

Ooze, 5 months ago to random

Timely.

#substack I'm looking at you.

kissane, 5 months ago to random

I needed to understand the angles on Threads federation in a more rigorous way, so I took a few days to think through and write up my sense of the benefits, risks, and available risk mitigations, along with loopholes that need closing and questions to discuss with fediverse administrators.

This is a blisteringly hot subject for me, so it's hard to keep my head cool enough to understand other people's trade-offs, but I'm trying.

https://erinkissane.com/untangling-threads

thenexusofprivacy, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to fediverse

Embrace, Extend, and Exploit: Meta's plan for ActivityPub, Mastodon and the fediverse

https://privacy.thenexus.today/embrace-extend-and-exploit/

1. Embrace #ActivityPub, , #Mastodon, and the #fediverse
2. Extend ActivityPub, Mastodon, and the fediverse with a very-usable app that provides additional functionality (initially the ability to follow everybody you're following on Instagram, and to communicate with all #Threads users) that isn't available to the rest of the fediverse – as well over time providing additional services and introducing incompatibilities and non-standard improvements to the protocol
3. Exploit ActivityPub, Mastodon, and the fediverse by utilizing them for profit – and also using them selfishly for Meta's own ends

hanse_mina, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to Ukraine

Serhii, Valeriia and Bohdan tell their story on how they were taken by Russian soldiers and what happened to them next.

"They found out that I was a footballer and started beating me on the legs"

Always remember these 3 short stories when someone says there needs to be peace where Russia allowed to continue their occupation.

https://nitter.net/bkb_ua/status/1737406922628706521

#Ukraine #Russia #RussiaIsATerroristState

Fury, 5 months ago to random

I can smell rain in the air. It’s just dropped a few degrees. I think we’re in for some rain. It’s been unseasonable wet and cold this last week or so.

Ooze, 5 months ago to gardening

Home

In my vege garden today.

#gardening #Farming

aidybarnett, 5 months ago to random

I have a PhD scholarship to start in early 2024 in Brisbane. The aim is to detect fraudulent papers that were created by paper mills. The project will involve working with large data, text mining, and prediction modelling. It is part of a larger project on detecting problematic papers. Our group has many other PhD students working on health and economic projects, and a diverse staff of economists, statisticians, clinicians, and implementation scientists. Please get in touch if you’re interested.

drmobs, 5 months ago to random

Welcome swallow chick not happy at being out of the nest

coolandnormal, 5 months ago to random

Hanging out on the ancap website for fun

fraying, 5 months ago to random

Lord save me from people who think maintaining separate accounts to access different community spaces is somehow the greatest tragedy to befall the internet and such a terrible infringement on their convenience that to suggest it has some good effects is some kind of personal blasphemy.

You've never had an identity you had to hide for your own safety and it SHOWS.

Ooze, 5 months ago to photography

Home

#photography #tasmania

Ooze, 5 months ago to photography

Home

Tree people I live with.

#photography #tasmania

Ooze, 5 months ago to mastodon

I would be most grateful if anyone can help me please.

I have just migrated from mastodon.social to aus.social. When I have seen the profiles of others who have migrated instances there is a link at the bottom of their posts that says something like, previous posts were made at another instance, and there is a link to the old profile at the old instance. This is not showing up for me. Is there something I haven't done right in my migration?

#mastodon

Ooze, 5 months ago to religion

https://ooze.net/dogmatic-religion-is-a-bitch/

Dogmatic religion is a bitch. It destroys the very core of people.

Humans are social creatures. So when our cherished others share with us that it is possible to know the love of a perfect being, to be enfolded in the bliss of union with it, if only we follow some rules, we naturally strive to seek this perfection. But the rules are the thing. When we submit to rules we want to know that they are justified. That they will be efficacious. But dogma, the insistence on unquestioning faith, does not give us such reassurance.

Any dogmatic set of rules is functionally unattainable in the long term because of the power of doubt. Dogmatism is not a natural part of what it is to be human. We thirst for understanding. And, while there is a great truth in not being a slave to the why of things, in sometimes accepting things as they are even though we cannot yet understand them, we will never cease completely to ask why.

Whenever there are rules they are broken. Always. If there is a rule, someone is breaking it. But with dogmatic religion it is always the rules held in the highest regard that are broken. Not just broken, smashed. The most proscribed precepts serving only to indicate the nature of the depravity of the oppressors. Our tender bliss seeking hearts recoil from this hypocrisy. And we instantly see the deception that these others have perpetrated upon us. And we hate them for it.

And if we are hurt enough, we defensively reject the entire possibility of the blissful union ever existing at all. We want our money back, because the thing they sold us does not exist. Or so we think. We think this because the hypocrites who taught us are hooked on the idea that there is only one way to characterize the perfect thing, and it is their characterization. All the other ones are evil. The god of Abraham boldly declares that all other gods are evil and untrue, false and deceiving, or even, the big lie, simply nonexistent. Like a spoiled toddler, his every utterance an insistent cry of There Can Be Only One.

This is often the first clue to us that the god of love they say they are recommending might not be quite as loving as they make him out to be. Even though we reject them once we see their hypocrisy rear its so, so ugly head, we have been so traumatically conditioned by the purveyors of the One True God™ that we can’t easily escape from the bounds of monotheism. Once we have found that particular god lacking we fall back on that conditioning and we believe that there must be no gods at all.

But the blissful union with the perfect thing is still there! If we continue to be prisoners of the conditioning foisted upon us by the damaged peddlers of the one single truth lie we shall be forever beholden to their conceptualizations. Forever locked in a trap of their design. Forever believing that it is their way or nothing.

#religion #theology #philosophy #pagan

CharismaticBatman, 11 months ago to random

@benjaminhollon

Here's the spiel ;)

Which is why I'm curious how you'd address it. (If you're comfortable sharing that, of course.)

As in, how I would address it if someone young in the faith asked me?

Firstly, as a tangential answer (getting something important out of the way): beware of fear.
Fear of failing, fear of being led astray, and especially anyone who peddles fear as a means to manipulate -- people like Jonathan Cahn. I don't know if he truly feels that he is doing the right and noble thing, but from where I'm standing, he's a fear-peddler, and what he does is inexcusable. Just personal experience talking (regarding all of the above).

If someone young asked me "What about the genocides in the Old Testament?"

Hmm...

There's no easy answer, and if your eyes are focused on that evil, then no answer can ever satisfy but a ringing rebuke -- of Moses, of the oral tradition of the ancients, or even of God himself. But if we are willing to get past our personal offense that that would even be represented as God's will, we find ourselves boxed in by two extremes:

Tossing the baby out with the bathwater, throwing out the bible, and either cutting it up (like Thomas Jefferson) until only what pleases us remains, or simply doing what is right in our own eyes (the way 90% of us live anyway -- Christian or no).
In the opposite extreme is the nightmarish twisted visage of white-knuckled dogmatism that grimly smiles with unworldly glee at every malice and cruelty permitted in the name of their religion.

Where do we find ourselves then? Not completely understanding, but beholding, through the Gospel, "the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ" -- "The radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature." (2Co 4, Heb 1)
We gaze upon Him who is "fairer than the sons of man," and "like an apple tree among the trees of the wood." (Psa 45, Sos 2)

There's no way I can possibly apologize or atone for the murder of innocents, especially children. That's not to say I won't try, or that I'll blithely ignore it, but I recognize the enormity of the flaw.
It's one thing to say that what Elisha did to those kids with the she-bears is "just Elisha," and the bible is recording his failings and flaws faithfully. That's pretty common in scripture -- historical recording, minimal moralizing.

But a command directly from God to destroy entire nations? And not just once, but several times in different parts of ancient Jewish history? How do we even parse that?

Interestingly, Jesus never tells us how. He never mentions it. But what example does He give?

"And when His disciples James and John saw this, they said, 'Lord, do You want us to command fire to come down from heaven and consume them, just as Elijah did?'
But He turned and rebuked them[, and said, 'You do not know what manner of spirit you are of. For the Son of Man did not come to destroy men’s lives but to save them].' And they went to another village."
Luke 9, NKJV
(Note that the part inside the [brackets] is not in every manuscript. The message of the verse isn't changed, but the uncertain part does help explain what is happening in that situation (why the Sons of Thunder are getting doused with cold water ;)

When it comes to the issue of eternal punishment (or merely separation), I think it's healthy to take a humbler tack. He created us, gave us every good thing, and is alone qualified to judge humanity. How fortunate it is that He revels in mercy, even at the cost of judgement. I think if a person is unable to see that, to understand the need for humility -- if they lack eyes to see the just Judge of the world, then they're not yet ready, and not yet seeing things clearly (from my perspective at least), and we should be gracious and open with them, not trying to constrain any kind of theological assent to something they're just not ready for yet. They may not be able to see it yet, or we may simply be terribly wrong. Humility is needed all around.

But when it comes to atrocities done in the name of God IN the Bible -- the best answer I can give is that we have a book full of great spiritual principles, but not an actual Law that were were meant to follow (except the law of love).
Jesus fulfils the requirements of the law, satisfied them on our behalf, and leaves us two standing commandments: Love God, love your neighbor. "On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets." (Matthew 22).

If those troubling portions of the bible were a mistake, an error, or even some kind of divine deception (?!? -- 1Ki 13), we simply do not know.

What we DO know is this: pursue love, peace, and mercy with all. Be willing to learn how to be every bit a servant-of-all as Christ displayed on His life on earth.

Be patient with those angry and offended, understanding that two thousand years of Israeli and two thousand years of Christian history is a lot to roll up into a single conversation, and lots of room for plenty of human error, vice, and cruelty.
If someone is angry with the church because of an evil done by her to them or someone they care about, mourn with them. We don't love the church for who she is, but for WHOSE she is, and what she will become. Sometimes the church is every bit the missions field as the University.

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