LillyPip
@LillyPip@lemmy.ca
- Submitted 1 day ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 7 comments
- Comment on Remember: You are loved. 1 week ago:
Those arms are clearly useless for anything but hugs.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
So far.
- Comment on I am a solo developer creating a horror game where you can pet your cat to restore sanity! Here is the new trailer for The 18th Attic! Let me know your feedback :) 1 week ago:
Looks awesome. I love the cat mechanic, does the cat react to things? Animals reacting to things adds a level of creepiness, imo.
The overall ambiance looks good. Is this an escape room type thing? I’d love to check it out.
- Comment on Could we survive eating only humans? 1 week ago:
But what about a bit of human now and then, as a treat?
- Comment on Not to get all religiony but why in the old testament God was all fire and brimstone and fatal consequences? But the new testament God is all about forgiveness and such?? 1 week ago:
God is not about forgiveness and such in the New Testament. That’s a retcon by later Christians to make it more palatable.
He preached violence:
Matthew 10:34: Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
He was just as happy to send people to hell:
Matthew 13:41-42: The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity; And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Every single horrible decree in the Old Testament still applies in the new (despite modern Christians trying to redefine what ‘fulfil’ means):
Matthew 5:17-18: Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
That’s last one includes all the slavery, rape, genocide, etc. Jesus could have spoken out against those things, but instead he said all those judgements were just and should be continued.
Matthew 10:21: And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.
Pretty violent, and not very loving.
And let’s not forget the revelations, in which Jesus will doom billions of people to a horrific existence followed by eternal hellfire, not for doing wrong things, but merely for not being devoted to him. Even the devout and righteous of other religions, and even babies who haven’t had the chance to sin.
Remember, Jesus is the same god as in the Old Testament – if god is eternal and unchanging (which the Bible says he is), he is literally the same entity who committed atrocities before he decided to wear human skin and sacrifice himself to himself.
This is not a loving god.
- Comment on 1919 (correctly) 1 week ago:
And that was young, fashionable people whinging about having to memorise things that were written down.
- Comment on oui oui 1 week ago:
Violence baguettes violence.
- Comment on 1919 (correctly) 1 week ago:
Reminder that Socrates was said to have hated books because they corrupted the youth, weakening students’ faculties by removing the need to memorise information.
Every single generation since records have existed thought the new tech was ruining us.
Now get off my fucking lawn.
- Comment on Trump says TikTok should be tweaked to become “100% MAGA” 1 week ago:
Moisturise me!
- Comment on Cracker Barrel Outrage Was Almost Certainly Driven by Bots, Researchers Say 1 week ago:
Most right-wing outrage has been driven by bots for a decade. Yeah, what’s new?
- Comment on WACK. 2 weeks ago:
Oh good lord.
- Comment on WACK. 2 weeks ago:
Isn’t a wildflower mix mostly weeds? Or am I being whooshed?
- Comment on proof of wormholes 2 weeks ago:
I’m not ‘lumping all Americans’.
I’ve lived here for decades. I’m quite solidly informed.
- Comment on So she's saying that she's a sexual bull? 2 weeks ago:
She lusted after lovers with genitals as large as a donkey’s and emissions like those of a horse. – Ezekiel 23:20
- Comment on Extremists are using Discord to radicalize American youth, officials warned this year 2 weeks ago:
Are the authors of this new to the internet?
This warning is like 15 years too late.
- Comment on proof of wormholes 2 weeks ago:
Americans barely know ‘acetaminophen’ , too. Some, sure. Most know Tylenol.
- Comment on proof of wormholes 2 weeks ago:
Literally no Americans know what paracetamol is. Randomly ask anyone.
Americans know brand names: Tylenol, Advil, Prilosec, Ambien.
I’ll bet you could survey Americans and 999/100 have never even have heard the word paracetamol. Or zolpidem. Most won’t have heard anything but the brand names, and the brand names have been drilled into their heads by way of constant advertising.
US brands have spend stupid amounts of money making sure people think of their propriety name instead of the real name of any drug.
- Comment on WACK. 2 weeks ago:
My neighbour has raised concerns about me because I’ve stopped trimming parts of my lawn to foster the bees. Apparently it’s weird and concerning to let some areas grow wild.
I was going to buy a wildflower mix, but that will be too unkempt.
Fuck HOAs.
- Comment on proof of wormholes 2 weeks ago:
And before that, it was all kinds of slurs I shouldn’t say. It’s been here forever, we’ve only developed empathy for it recently.
- Comment on Wobble wobble 2 weeks ago:
That’ll happen when you set the baby scale to 13,200 rpm.
- Comment on Wobble wobble 2 weeks ago:
Whoa.
- Comment on Can't argue that. 2 weeks ago:
1: it’s not last, and 2: it’s not sad, because 3: people aren’t reading the source material. I love xkcd, too, but that doesn’t apply here.
We don’t need to throw satire pies in the just because results don’t match expectations doesn’t mean we should throw pies of satire in their face. This is actually interesting.
- Comment on Wobble wobble 2 weeks ago:
Lemmy needs /c/writteninblood. That sub was one of the highlights of education in reddit.
- Comment on Wobble wobble 2 weeks ago:
Science is a whole lot of adjusting after someone died. Like, it’s mostly been that.
- Comment on Wobble wobble 2 weeks ago:
Panel 3 makes sense both ways. x_x
- Comment on Can't argue that. 2 weeks ago:
I agree with you, but I wonder how much of this is that most of us are worked to our last nerve until we’re at least 65, so many of us don’t have the luxury to maintain our brain plasticity? Once we’re 70ish, if we didn’t have that opportunity when we were living hand-to-mouth, and our brains are kind of set by that point.
We all have the potential, but not the opportunity until it’s kind of too late?
- Comment on Can't argue that. 2 weeks ago:
I think the people who are lifelong learners don’t stand out to us as much, because they’re not pig-headed cunts. Thus the societal bias.
And perhaps I’m an optimist because all the elders in my family are the plastic sort (my 89 year old father still works as an avionics engineer and still builds his own computers, for instance).
Anyway, I was talking about potential, not statistics.
- Comment on Can't argue that. 2 weeks ago:
As long as you continue to learn new things, then no, it doesn’t become harder with age. In fact, studies show that people who are lifelong learners can actually increase their ability to learn as they age. Learning, for example, a foreign language in later years has been shown to be just as attainable as in childhood, and might even give some protection against dementia. Your brain can actually become more plastic as you age if you continuously push it to do so, and it can actually become easier to learn if you train yourself to do so.
The idea that learning capacity diminishes with age seems to be a widely accepted myth (which may have roots in sociological and cultural biases), and the opposite may actually be true.
- Comment on Wobble wobble 2 weeks ago:
My thought at the first panel was ‘welp, time for the Motrin’. Then ‘ohhh’.
