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[symphony-calamity]

Do you think they realize how much cooler that makes it sound?

Like. I'm not even an apotheosis type of guy. But you do know that makes it sound so much cooler right?

[dunmertitty]

[whatladybird]

Your god is Old. He killed children in Egypt, murdered lovers in the night, swept sinners dead in a righteous wave. He told Eve she would die if she ate the apple, knowing that he had already planted the seed  of the tree of Knowledge inside her. He lied. He stole. He coveted. Just because you create something, doesn’t make it yours.

I will not be Job. If god tries to tear down my house, I will not weep. I will build it up again myself, with my own hands.  That god is not my god. I am New. I will walk with children. I will love and learn to swim. I will eat apples and drink coffee and build towers. I will wear flowers from that old tree  in my hair.

[princesstigerbelle]

If cats knew what sin was they wouldn’t even care

[blackpyrefly]

I don’t care either fuck trigonometry

[toskarin]

"none of these words are in the bible" you're not even reading the secret part of the bible. with all my posts in it

[yaoist]

-- Joseph Smith

[millennial-review-deactivated20]

[bryanrl]

[ninjaeris13]

That little girl is going places

[redpillwolf]

I know more about economics than AOC and my knowledge on economics is on a high school level. Its actually embarassing how little she knows about this shit. But hey, expecting a socialist to know about economics is like expecting a fish to know what a desert is.

[donutcourse]

Much of the ocean is a desert

[an-aura-about-you]

You know what? Let’s use the allowance example again to make it even clearer.

Let’s pretend we have an allowance tax bracket with a 70% tax on money received after a certain point. To keep things simple, we’ll make the limit $90.

If a kid does chores and earns $10 in allowance, they get $10. They’re not going to be affected by the 70% tax.

If a kid does chores and earns $50, they get $50. They also aren’t in the 70% tax bracket, even though they make five times as much money as the kid making $10.

If a kid does chores and earns $100 in allowance, then they’re in the allowance tax bracket with the 70% tax.

$100 minus $90 is $10. This is the part that’s going to be taxed 70%.

70% of $10 is $7.

So the kid getting $100 in allowance will have $93 after the 70% tax takes its share.

Now, I’d never impose such a thing on actual kids. All of this is a thought exercise.

But if it were real, the kid making $10 and the kid making $50 would probably be kind of mad if the kid getting $93 was bitching about being short $7.

[spookyfbi]

Also, can we talk about how taxes are used to pay for things for the benefit of society - roads, schools, libraries etc. so to further the above example, the parents aren’t just pocketing that money themselves just to be mean and selfish, they might use it to pay for a Netflix subscription that the whole family can watch.

[parkchanwoohoo]

Idk like imagine you're like broke and struggling and trying to make a good life for yourself and it isn't easy but like, y'know, you try to make do. And then someone breaks into your house and kills your family.

You're like, holy shit, what the fuck, and the murderer is like "Hey man. I'm just trying to afford college. Have you seen tuition rates? And like. I didn't know I'd be in charge of murdering your family. Honestly I thought I'd be like, maybe doing some kind of deskwork to help in the larger project of murdering your family, I didn't think I'd be holding the gun! I don't wanna be doing this either, man"

And then the driver who delivered that person to your house specifically for the mission to kill your family is like "Yeah dude, take it easy. We're ALL victims of capitalism here. You think he KNEW he'd be killing your family? You think I knew I'd be driving him to your house to kill your family? We were exploited. They said by doing this we'd be able to avoid student debt. Don't be angry with us, be angry with the system."

And then the guy who killed your family starts weeping and freaking out because like, holy shit, how is he supposed to live with himself? And he goes "Ugh it's gonna be so hard to get through college with all this trauma. This isn't easy you know" and the driver is like "There there. We didn't even want to do this. We were trying to get the people in the neighboring house anyway"

And if you say anything about how maybe the real victim is you, with the broken in house and dead family, and that perhaps you ALSO would like to afford college and how would they feel if YOU were offered a free ride in exchange for killing their families, but it's too late and they're already gone and years later they make a movie about all the people who were involved in breaking into your house and killing your family and how they were exploited actually

[positivelyatheist-old]

A person who grew up in a racist household may not be racist forever.

A person who grew up believing they were their announced gender at birth may not be that gender forever.

A person who grew up in a christian household may not be christian forever.

With enough effort, people change. It’s a long and difficult process, but not impossible. Stop forcing people back into their past lives. You have no right or authority. Leave people alone.

[nick-nellson]

THE OFFICE 2.10 Christmas Party

[d59op]

[im-just-an-angel]

god is my estranged father who only exists so i can talk shit about him

[atheist-freethinker]

[depsidase]

[fuckyeahreligionpigeon]

This needs to happen.

[caesarsaladinn]

“the mind of a medieval person was foreign and incomprehensible” factoid is false. the average medieval person was pretty normal. the chivalric death cult, whose members were known to literally die if prevented from riding to war, was an outlier and should not have been counted

[caesarsaladinn]

On hearing of Anjou’s death, a tailor of Orleans named Guillaume le Jupponnier, when “overcome with wine,” burst into a tirade in which can be heard the rarely recorded voice of his class. “What did he go there for, this Duke of Anjou, down there where he went? He has pillaged and robbed and carried off money to Italy in order to conquer another land. He is dead and damned, and the King St. Louis too, like the others. Filth, filth of a King and a King! We have no King but God. Do you think they got honestly what they have? They tax me and re-tax me and it hurts them that they can’t have everything we own. Why should they take from me what I earn with my needle? I would rather the King and all kings were dead than that my son should be hurt in his little finger.”

[worse-than-konstantin-levin]

'Dead and damned': medieval commoners' wonderful hatred of royalty | David Forbes

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I went looking for more information on Guillarme le Jupponier, and found this article, which points to a slew of similar speeches in European and US history-- and, crucially, the fact that Guillarme le Jupponier was released after that speech, not tortured or executed, because it was acknowledged that his sentiments were extremely common.

[caesarsaladinn]

Studying nearly 1,100 rebellions in France, the Low Countries and Italy stretching back to 1200 the historian Samuel Cohn discovered that instead of hat-in-hand deference, “genuine, heartfelt hatred for a king or queen is easy to find.”

can we pause on that? 1100 rebellions?!?

[goose-onthe-loose]

I love you apostates I love you sinners I love you "lost lambs" I love you everyone who is forging their own path instead of the one "God" had planned for them.

[depsidase]

[biocheminpics]

I want to expand here.

The whole point of an economy is to facilitate the human experience. Economies are a forum to exchange goods and services for society to operate etc.

If the economy has to run at the expense of human experience, that system has failed in its only purpose and must be replaced.

[jezunya]

So my mom is a primary teacher, specifically bc she asked for a ‘Sunday only’ calling, because she’s also a middle school math teacher with an hour commute each way five days of the week, and has several painful & exhausting chronic illnesses including EDS. So she teaches a primary class & takes her turn doing sharing time on Sundays… and also does Young Women’s activities. During the week. On Saturdays. At girls camp over the summer. It’s not her calling. She has had YW callings the past, so they often just ask her to do this stuff too. In addition to her actual calling. In addition to her job. In addition to her illnesses. Regardless of her request for ‘Sunday only’ church work because of said job and illnesses. But she also doesn’t say no when they ask her to do all this extra stuff, because, as she and many other church members have said, if the bishop asks you to do something, it’s based on divine revelation, so it means that you must actually be able to handle this, regardless of illness, disability, or anything else going on in your life. And that the only reason you would refuse is if you’re unworthy, or maybe you’re just selfish which makes you unworthy. Turning down the bishop is a sure sign that you’re a sinner. So my mom runs herself ragged and makes herself more and more sick because the supposedly compassionate Christian members of the LDS church don’t care to respect her requests or needs & they’ve manipulated & brainwashed her, like so many members, into feeling like she can’t ever say no or else she’ll be branded a sinner.