MothmanDelorian
@MothmanDelorian@lemmy.world
- Comment on The one change that worked: I set my phone to ‘do not disturb’ three years ago – and have never looked back 1 month ago:
And it’s great my buddy’s first thought was that my dad lived a block away and is a doctor.
- Comment on The one change that worked: I set my phone to ‘do not disturb’ three years ago – and have never looked back 1 month ago:
As a Dr’s kid nothing you have said sounds unusual for your job. My dad didnt like getting calls asking for free care but he was more than happy to run to the neighbors house when my buddy, aged 5, called at 3am and said “The baby is blue!”. That baby is 45 years old now and not blue.
- Comment on It's impossible to defend any amount of alcohol consumption without sounding like an alcoholic. 1 month ago:
I think you need to learn what non-problematic drinking is. Most people do not have a problem and your responses ITT are quite childish and ignorant
- Comment on It's impossible to defend any amount of alcohol consumption without sounding like an alcoholic. 1 month ago:
That would be an extraordinarily rude response to those statements and I would seek to stay way the fuck away from anyone with that obvious of a behavioral issue.
- Comment on It's impossible to defend any amount of alcohol consumption without sounding like an alcoholic. 1 month ago:
“I drink infrequently”
“I drink a few drinks a month”
“I dont drink more than a few times a year.”
Nah, there are lots of ways to do this
- Comment on Shovel Knight artist says throwback games need 'retro authenticity' but can't coast on nostalgia alone: 'Part of the appeal of the NES era of game making was that everything was a new idea' 1 month ago:
Adam’s Family Fester’s Quest deserves mention for unconnected to IP
- Comment on Leo knew it was a joke and laughed because it was just a joke 1 month ago:
“What too challenging for ya!”
I fucking love James Acaster
- Comment on Far to many people think that Jesus from the Bible was light skinned, even though he grew up in what we call the Middle East. 1 month ago:
Go read all of Matthew 10. It might take 2 minutes tops. It’s very clear. It isn’t violent in a “imma kick your ass violent” it is about breaking apart families that refuse to follow Christ which IMO is a different problem.
John 14 makes sense in context and at the time it was written the Church was poor.
I think your perception of John is colored by a misunderstanding if the place slaves had in society and how they were viewed. Jewish slavery laws are NOTHING like chattel slavery. Slaves were humans and while less than their master it isn’t as evil as a modern American might think. Literally every society had slavery at this time.
The don’t look off to you because you don’t see them in their fuller context and you seem to not understand how specific things like slavery were different.
- Comment on Far to many people think that Jesus from the Bible was light skinned, even though he grew up in what we call the Middle East. 1 month ago:
That’s my understanding for mostcultures outside of cultures like the Inuit who died younger due to the lack of plants in the extremes they lived in.
- Comment on Far to many people think that Jesus from the Bible was light skinned, even though he grew up in what we call the Middle East. 1 month ago:
Your posts are proof you have an axe to grind and hold illogical views. You are writing off all the events of the Bible because you have decided that your bias is truth when we don’t know what the truth is. That’s not an indicator for being informed on a subject.
- Comment on What can I actually do with 64 GB or RAM? 1 month ago:
More than I could do on my Apple IIe at 64k.
- Comment on Far to many people think that Jesus from the Bible was light skinned, even though he grew up in what we call the Middle East. 1 month ago:
In this case Im not though. You just have an axe to grind against Israel and take that to an extremely illogical and uninformed direction.
- Comment on Far to many people think that Jesus from the Bible was light skinned, even though he grew up in what we call the Middle East. 1 month ago:
Source for life expectancy being much shorter?
- Comment on Far to many people think that Jesus from the Bible was light skinned, even though he grew up in what we call the Middle East. 1 month ago:
First no you don’t know this otherwise you wouldn’t be making such an overtly ignorant claim.
We have no idea if it is a fabrication. We have no evidence that supports the idea that Hebrews and Judeans were enslaved by Egypt but we have nothing that refutes it either. Most of the forms of evidence you would expect to find would not survive thousands of years. We suspect it did not happen but we don’t know.
Why would it matter? Most nations and people have inaccurate understandings of themselves and theor neighbors.
- Comment on Some examples of video games with an UI layout ripped off of another game? 1 month ago:
Because Sierra games were doing it in the 1980s?
- Comment on Some examples of video games with an UI layout ripped off of another game? 1 month ago:
I think one of the point and click Sierra games came up with the hotbar or at least that’s where I saw it.
- Comment on Some examples of video games with an UI layout ripped off of another game? 1 month ago:
This is why Im glad they just got rejected in almost all of the patents filed in the Palworld suit.
- Comment on Far to many people think that Jesus from the Bible was light skinned, even though he grew up in what we call the Middle East. 1 month ago:
There’s a fantastic book called “Lamb” that is all about this from the perspective of Christ’s bestie Biff. It’s hilarious.
- Comment on Far to many people think that Jesus from the Bible was light skinned, even though he grew up in what we call the Middle East. 1 month ago:
Those events would have been centuries apart. This is like saying that because Romulus and Remus weren’t raised by a she-wolf you don’t believe in Rome.
- Comment on Far to many people think that Jesus from the Bible was light skinned, even though he grew up in what we call the Middle East. 1 month ago:
I figure if you look at the Mizrahi Jews from Morocco he looked like that.
- Comment on Far to many people think that Jesus from the Bible was light skinned, even though he grew up in what we call the Middle East. 1 month ago:
Sicilians weren’t seen as Italians by other Italians because Arabs had held Sicily for centuries. This is also why some did not see the Spanish as white.
- Comment on Far to many people think that Jesus from the Bible was light skinned, even though he grew up in what we call the Middle East. 1 month ago:
The Ashkenazi Jews seem to have bred with people in the area of Russia/Ukraine millennia ago and that’s why you have more Eastern European looking Jewish people. It isn’t because of climate per se.
- Comment on Far to many people think that Jesus from the Bible was light skinned, even though he grew up in what we call the Middle East. 1 month ago:
This is more “there’s thousands of people following a guy who was crucified named Yeshua” vs “we have proof of a guy named Yeshua”.
What historians seemingly agree upon is that there was a guy who preached something that was probably reformist in nature named Yeshua. We don’t have much more than that.
- Comment on Far to many people think that Jesus from the Bible was light skinned, even though he grew up in what we call the Middle East. 1 month ago:
I grew up Christian and no longer believe but with the exception of Matthew 15:21-28, which you only quote a piece of, you are taking these out of context.
Matthew 10 is Jesus sending his apostles to preach his word. The bit about not bringing peace but a sword is a reference to the changes he promised and the suffering he tells the apostles they will face for preaching his word. This is also where Jesus tells them to separate from family that turns their back on Jesus’ word.
It’s not an endorsement of violence.
John 14:6 is properly read in context. You cannot follow a path different than the one Christ set and get to heaven. The guy who constantly steals, cheats, abuses people, and only pursues wealth or the praise of others isn’t a “good guy” in most religions. This isn’t as controversial as you make it out to be.
Luke 12:47-48 is part of a parable which discusses how since you cannot know when Jesus would return you always need to be ready.
This isn’t an endorsement of slavery nor is it a refutation of it, rather, it is part of a metaphor and wasn’t taken literally. If you got this one off a website or infographic rather than your own knowledge of the texts it’s a trash tier source. If this came from your own knowledge WTF this is one of the most famous passages in the whole book you shouldn’t be fucking this one up if you know the NT.
The last part is the only thing actually taken correctly in context. Jesus wasn’t there for the gentiles. The idea he was here for all comes from all the Paul related writings aka the gentile who never met Jesus IRL.
When you see something that looks as off as these quotes do you should look at the larger passage because they rarely mean what the atheists think they do.
- Comment on Far to many people think that Jesus from the Bible was light skinned, even though he grew up in what we call the Middle East. 1 month ago:
Do you think Ancient Jewish people were black? Have you ever met anyone who lives around the Mediterranean? He would look like a version of that guy who worked outdoors. He was from the Levant not sub-Saharan Africa. He wouldn’t be “black” rather he would be seen as Middle Eastern.
- Comment on Far to many people think that Jesus from the Bible was light skinned, even though he grew up in what we call the Middle East. 1 month ago:
We have no idea if he was apocalyptic. We suspect he was a reformer as reformist movements were popular at the time.
- Comment on why do people say annoying/rude stuff and then tell you “it was a joke!” 1 month ago:
Good to know. Thank you!
- Comment on Are mood problems a “turn off” for people even when they’re hard to manage? 1 month ago:
“…when I’m upset (which is admittedly ~90% of the time but I can’t control that).”
You should note that you are talking about your anger which you recognize is a problem for you and others. Yes it is a turn off.
You might currently lack the awareness and skill set to control your mood but this is something you can develop through therapy. It is literally what therapy is for. I hope you find what you need to resolve your anger.
- Comment on What does Lemmy think of Daniel Supernault or on mastodon? 1 month ago:
If you only contacted them once and then they banned you across several platforms ypu really had to cross a line.
I get that you are striving to find a way to make yourself out to be in the right but with every comment you make it clear that isn’t the case. Your behavior here really supports the notion that you just don’t understand how far off the mark you were.
- Comment on why do people say annoying/rude stuff and then tell you “it was a joke!” 1 month ago:
No assholes like this are parts of both parties.