Skyknight

@Skyknight

Fatwa No:8050 #fundie #racist #conspiracy

He at least has right that scribes did alter bits of the Tanakh. But it may not have been especially meaningful, as those alterations seem to have been non-Torah sections thought to be disrespectful of God and such. Habakkuk’s prophecy is one example; in it, Habakkuk says to God “you shall not die”. Associating God with mortality, even in such a clearly negatory sense, seemed disrespectful, so the scribes changed it to “we shall not die”. Although in context, Habakkuk is bothered by God’s cavalier attitude about using Akkadian conquerors to shut down Hebrew classism, so he’s basically saying that if anyone needs to take the human fear of death seriously for once, it’s God. (And as Ezra & Co. proved, the classism still stuck around; God’s stratagem didn’t work.)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiqqun_soferim

EDIT: Okay, there are three Torah alterations…

Otnesse #racist #fundie #magick #psycho

John Donohue #elitist #mammon

@Anon-e-moose #111319

…Why are you assuming he’s a Christian? This is an objection to the castigation of Rand. So he’s likely an atheist.

Modi, and other Hindu extremists #psycho #racist #fundie

@Vgal #111068

That would be the Thousand Hills in the post you’re responding to.

Otnesse #racist #fundie #magick #psycho

@Spacewyrm #111048

Because they’re confusing general Good with the punitive side of Justice (i.e. without the more important succoring side), I suspect. At the very least, they don’t expect El to skimp the punishment of Lucifer—even if it would require greater mortal perdition? (Expect a lot of guesswork in that previous sentence.)

There do seem to be theologies, though, that posit God’s holiness is such that anything he creates at all, just by being distinct from him, “deserves” perdition lest he be polluted somehow. Putting soteriology aside for now, this means that God’s holiness is the ultimate good, outweighing Kindness, Love, etc. by several googolplexes. At least.

Mazdak X #psycho #sexist

@AlpacaLynn #110868

I think it’s the worst of both worlds. They see others as human—they just don’t see that as disqualifying others as playthings, because playthings should be all that Reality beyond themselves is good for.

Modi, and other Hindu extremists #psycho #racist #fundie

What would be the need for pure Hindu, anyway? Never mind I have a hunch that they don’t regard, for instance, Saktah as “truly” Hindu.

I’d certainly also be worried about Christians, Jews, atheists, and perhaps even Buddhists. And back to the above, this also sounds a little like the Tokugawa bakufu and/or Co-Prosperity Sphere trying to standardize Shintou (they got the idea from the kind of power the Papal States had enjoyed in Europe), and thus effacing quite a few traditions.

VeganPotatoMan #moonbat #dunning-kruger

Let’s see what they make of cats effectively domesticating themselves. That, and I greatly doubt there was any malice involved in dogs partnering with humans, certainly not at the onset. I can understand looking askance at selective breeding, but not at the existence of domestic dogs.

Robert Stacy McCain #transphobia

@arp #110885

Or worse, they do know what ethics are, and deem them undesirable for themselves. We’re probably talking people don’t think any one person should be both bound and protected.

Saruman #crackpot #conspiracy #magick

@Sasha #110829

Except I don’t see any outside parents; this isn’t like Ivo. Perhaps a yearning to somehow recapture that past splendor and glory, assuming reincarnation is involved here.

storyending #moonbat #sexist #transphobia

I’m guessing she has no faith in the existence of anything remotely resembling Free Will. Never mind that I wonder how pacific she thinks women are by default.

Saruman #crackpot #conspiracy #magick

Two miles tall…? I don’t think our atmosphere or gravity were ever amenable to that, even before taking the Square-Cube Law into account.

What yearning is this sort of hyper-mythical past conceit supposed to fulfill, exactly?

Andrew Anglin #homophobia #kinkshaming

Unnamed murderers #fundie #homophobia #psycho

@Titania #110231

Depends on which conjured which, between the machismo and the religion.

Terhemen Anongo #fundie

And now I have some strange thoughts that we’re looking at a transwoman whose culture forbids even imagining the idea, with or without Anongo’s piety concern.

Dr. Georgi Alexandrov Stankov #crackpot #magick #ufo #dunning-kruger

@Timjer #110250

Nn, it’s just that given the intentionally fantastical nature of pokémon, I wasn’t sure what GameFreak and/or Creatures Inc. intended. I can see the poster still failing to properly understand that this isn’t evidence that photons can form crystals.

@Timjer #110241

I doubt the crystal portions are literal light, even putting aside pokémon being much like extra-benign fae.

On a tangent, I’m not sure if light actually counts as a plasma, or should be treated as its own class—that’s why I had the “or” up top. Go figure.

Crystalline light…? But crystal is a trait of a solid, not plasma or photons.

Terhemen Anongo #fundie

Unnamed murderers #fundie #homophobia #psycho

I get the unpleasant impression that even if they were convinced that Alireza didn’t choose to be gay, they’d still see themselves shamed—by not noticing and expunging the “impurity” that had spontaneously manifested in their bloodline any earlier.

Prestige-killers really can’t understand a person as being their own purpose, can they? Or maybe “has a priority higher than the glory of the clan/family” is the mortal insult to them…(Except that doesn’t explain having a religion of any sort.)

Hulk Hogan #conspiracy #wingnut

I can understand that at that age, the stress of any new vaccine might have been more than their immune systems could work with. But with lives that long, dying just shouldn’t be seen as unusual. Or have you forgotten 2016’s Celebrity Death March?

GalvaEmperor #crackpot #conspiracy #pratt

Fat Tub of Lard #dunning-kruger

@SpukiKitty02 #110049

He’d probably object on account of neither the Co-Prosperity Sphere nor al-Qaeda being right-wing enough.

Robert Stacy McCain #transphobia

Galighticus Services #crackpot #magick #mammon

Jerry Derecha/YeshuaBenDavid #crackpot #conspiracy #racist #magick #fundie

The one time the Bible used gematria (the Apocalypse of John), it was just to hide the equation of Nero with Lotan/Rahab from authorities. No mystical/foreknowing intent.

Putting aside that this kind gematria cannot help but imply that God planned a great deal of everything that transpires and transpired. Considering what that consists of, how do you exonerate him from sadistic crimes et al., considering that Free Will is incompatible with Fate?

Malevolencel #sexist

@AlpacaLynn #109775

I also wonder if he sees other men as people. Or himself as a person, truth be told.

Feynman and Coulter's Love Child #sexist #transphobia

Galighticus Services #crackpot #magick #mammon

Convict Creations #dunning-kruger

@Anon-e-moose #109605

You do realize they think peer-review is undependable precisely because of their (apparent) support of the majority view, yes? We’ll need some other tactic.

That said, it’s only the last bit that really strikes me as troublesome—that humans originated from Australia, not Africa. I don’t think the indigenous of Kenya, Uganda, etc. are going to be impressed with that.

wiki4men #pratt #sexist

How are the things you name not sexual assault? Even if they’re on a slightly lesser scale than full rape, the desacralization of bodily and intimacy sovereignties, for example, is still there.

Prussian Society of America #quack #dunning-kruger

@Bastethotep #108590

If he denies evolution and theism alike, then what does he think his extolled White Race’s origin was? Manifesting fully formed from the aether?

Dr. James David Manning #crackpot #fundie

@TheKingOfRhye #108427

This is Manning we’re talking about. I’m not sure who or what he doesn’t hate beyond (maybe) himself.

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/James_Manning

Fschmidt #psycho

I wait to see when he renounces Islam as too mutable in turn, and declares himself Prophet and Hierophant of the One True Religion (up to now extinct from before Cro-Magnon and Neanderthal melded together)…

Edmund_Kemper #sexist #wingnut #crackpot #psycho

Dr. James David Manning #crackpot #fundie

Donald Trump Jr #wingnut

Edmund_Kemper #sexist #wingnut #crackpot #psycho

Asexuals and demisexuals will not be impressed with this scheme. {carefully hides plans for making humanity as a whole demisexual at “most” for perpetuity}

Meanwhile, given how long it takes for the brain to mature, we’d probably be better off dissuading as much pre-25 sex as possible, hormones be condemned.

Donald Trump Jr #wingnut

@SpukiKitty02 #108262

And, tacitly, anything prophesized by Amos, Micah, and Isaiah. I’m not sure what that leaves for preceding divinities to honor. Maybe Mars for his connection to Rome’s imperatores?

Vladimir Putin #dunning-kruger #fundie #transphobia #wingnut

Scott Lively #homophobia

Vladimir Putin #dunning-kruger #fundie #transphobia #wingnut

Donald Trump Jr #wingnut

quora user #conspiracy #crackpot #wingnut

You seem convinced that communist (as long as we’re talking some form that doesn’t owe anything to Lenin or Engels, anyway…which, given Engels, would probably “just” be socialist) governance wouldn’t be an improvement on capitalist governance. But I’d certainly like life to be less uncertain for the lower economic echelons.

Vladimir Putin #dunning-kruger #fundie #transphobia #wingnut

@Malingspann #108085

Where does that leave those of us who’d rather there be no overarching hierarchy, considering the woes its very existence conjures?

CBC MEDIA #fundie #crackpot #ableist

dreadthefuture #dunning-kruger #racist

CBC MEDIA #fundie #crackpot #ableist

@pyro #107946

I think you need to be lucid to write an apocalypse properly, actually. They’re supposed to look lurid and bizarre to people outside the writer’s culture, but make perfect sense to those within it. What would you otherwise expect a coded condemnation of Roman imperialism to look like?

Eugene Gant #homophobia #racist

@JeanP #107783

This is VDare, not American Renaissance.

(I’m going to guess their go-to for a “greater Negroid race”…and I think my fingers need a splash of holy water after typing the second word…is the Ethiopians, if only for being long-time Jews and Christians?)

Sydney Watson #ableist #dunning-kruger

I can see the contempt for even noblesse oblige from here.