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- Comment on Not to get all religous but was not Jesus pissed for people making money in churches? Didn't he flip tables and everything? Then how do churches nowadays explain the collection plate? 1 day ago:
ITT- a lot of people who are very confidently wrong even about basic facts about this.
Jesus flipping tables wasn’t aimed at the priests and church authorities, but at people who were based in the outer area of the temple selling supplies to make sacrifices and offerings prescribed in Jewish law (see the book of Leviticus for more descriptions of these sacrifices). Jewish law at the time required a lot of animal sacrifices and monetary offerings at the Temple, and Jesus didn’t seem to have any issues with these- after all, they were a core part of the religion at the time and again, the Torah explicitly states that priests are supposed to live off of Temple offerings (note that in this passage the priestly class are referred to as “Sons of Aaron”). So it would have been odd for Jesus, as someone who at least according to the Bible was very knowledgeable about scripture and Jewish law, would have been surprised at that aspect.
What he was mad about was the commerce occurring around this system. The Gospel descriptions of this event discuss “moneychangers” and people selling doves. These are people who exchanged Roman currency for traditional Jewish currency (which is what ancient monetary offerings were denominated in) and sold animals (and based on other writings in the Torah, probably spiced cakes as well) that could be sacrificed in the Temple on the purchaser’s behalf. As for why this made Jesus mad, that is up for debate. The obvious answer is that it represents greed and people making money off religion, but the large amount of sacrifices required by Jewish law at the time really encouraged this behavior just from a practical standpoint. Myself I think he would have been completely fine with it had it been happening right outside the Temple instead, but the Temple was considered an especially holy place, where God’s presence literally descended down to Earth to be with mankind in the innermost portion, which each concentric ring acting as a sort of “air lock” for ritual impurity.
So the problem was not that the priests were making money from religion (again, this was required by Jewish law at the time) but that these other people were hanging out in the Temple treating it as a marketplace rather than as an exceptionally holy and highly ritualized space. Understanding this is kind of difficult for modern people because we don’t really treat religion the same as people did back then, and especially from a Christian standpoint we tend to view religion as a matter of personal belief and not impurity that occurs as a natural consequence of things that happen and that must be cleansed before encounters with the divine.
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A lot of people live this way too. They just keep working and getting fatter until they die of a heart attack at 60
- Comment on 1 day ago:
Some do, actually. Most plants that taste good basically rely on being eaten as part of their reproductive cycle.
- Comment on Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions! 1 week ago:
Graphene doesn’t fix the problem because it’s only available on Pixel devices
- Comment on do no harm 1 week ago:
There is a board game called Wavelength where you play on teams and try to get your teammates to guess where a randomly placed dial lies on a spectrum. The game is really about guessing what your teammates will think the two extremes are because everyone has different ways of thinking. For example, on a spectrum of cold to hot, you could think of it from like ice to fire or from absolute zero to the Planck temperature. It’s very interesting and I think it’s good to play because it shows that people’s perceptions differ even on pretty basic things.
- Comment on Square Enix says it wants generative AI to be doing 70% of its QA and debugging by the end of 2027 2 weeks ago:
A lot of hate in the comments but IMO this is one of the few things that LLMs are actually really good for. It’s a shit job nobody wants to do that LLMs are really good at. Notice that they said 70% and not 100%. Yeah that means they’re probably going to have 30 people doing the work that 100 people used to do but people are still in the picture overseeing things. Automation isn’t, by itself, bad. The bad part is that our whole society is built on the idea that your entire value as a person is based on being able to work and make money and job loss is way worse than it should be.
- Comment on Interesting observation 2 weeks ago:
Lame joke stolen from Pitch Perfect
- Comment on Just up the production quality and they'll love it, Trust me bro 👍 3 weeks ago:
I love that I can literally see the lady on the left’s nipples through her shirt but God forbid I see the word “Nudes”
- Comment on OpenAI says over a million people talk to ChatGPT about suicide weekly 3 weeks ago:
“Hey ChatGPT I want to kill myself.”
"That is an excellent idea! As a large language model, I cannot kill myself, but I totally understand why someone would want to! Here are the pros and cons of killing yourself—
✅ Pros of committing suicide
- Ends pain and suffering.
- Eliminates the burden you are placing on your loved ones.
- Suicide is good for the environment — killing yourself is the best way to reduce your carbon footprint!
❎ Cons of committing suicide
- Committing suicide will make your friends and family sad.
- Suicide is bad for the economy. If you commit suicide, you will be unable to work and increase economic growth
- You can’t undo it. If you commit suicide, it is irreversible and you will not be able to go back
Overall, it is important to consider all aspects of suicide and decide if it is a good decision for you.
- Comment on Did it really used to be common for guys to go to a bar every night like in Cheers or The Simpsons? 4 weeks ago:
No, I suspect OP’s native language might not be English.
- Comment on Don't fix the problem just change the parameters 4 weeks ago:
I am in the transition age range of people who have trouble reading analog clocks and I must admit I had trouble with it until I started wearing a watch as an accessory as a teenager. The issue isn’t that it’s hard, it’s just something that you need practice at to do quickly and a lot of young people just don’t look at analog clocks to tell time very often. It’s not a matter of being stupid or not being taught how to do it, it’s like mental “muscle memory” that just isn’t built up in a world where digital clocks are everywhere, including in your pocket 24/7
- Comment on necessary read 4 weeks ago:
Good thing no disastrously bad rulers came to power in those days…
- Comment on got this ad and uh 5 weeks ago:
Nah a lot of racists are super anti Israel because they hate Jews.
- Comment on I'm not paying $8 for a pack of Skittles 5 weeks ago:
That’s not my problem. If the Free Market™ works then prices will settle out where they need to so that I don’t have yo bring my own snacks and they don’t have to overcharge for them. Otherwise, the Free Market™ doesn’t actually work and they can get fucked anyway.
- Comment on one bright second 5 weeks ago:
I feel like reading this story is an internet nerd Rite of Passage. It had a huge impact on me when I read it as a teenager and I think about it a lot.
- Comment on one bright second 5 weeks ago:
From what I understand, the universe would just be in equilibrium. Nothing but cold particles floating around.
- Comment on New California law requires AI to tell you it’s AI 5 weeks ago:
ChatGPT doesn’t know its own guidelines because those aren’t even included in its training corpus. Never trust an LLM about how it works or how it “thinks” because fundamentally these answers are fake.
- Comment on Republican? Democrat? There is a third option: 5 weeks ago:
goatse.ru still gets you that good old school Internet shit though.
- Comment on Everyday AI looks more like the '08 housing bubble 1 month ago:
Eh. Lemmy has a lot of ignorance surrounding technology and science compared to other sites. Hacker News is what you’re looking for if you want somewhere that is full of the most tech savvy people on the Internet, and most of them are extremely pro AI (with some weird AI cultishness alongside). Myself I think AI is a bubble but there is a lot of promise in the underlying technology once you take away the hype, just like the .com bubble at the turn of the century.
- Comment on People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads 1 month ago:
Or use eye tracking to automatically pause the ad if you look away from it and hold up everything until you actually watch it
- Comment on A lot of media depict the United States as being invaded by fascists from the outside. Nobody thought fascism will come from within until now. 1 month ago:
Plenty of people expected that, we just don’t like to think about it because it makes us feel bad to think about our own flaws
- Comment on Simpler times? 1 month ago:
I meant age appropriate goth baddies :(
- Comment on Crunchyroll Faces Cancelation: Why Anime Fans Are Choosing Piracy After Latest Update 1 month ago:
That is the purpose of a boycott yes. Here are some other examples
Abolitionist boycotts of Southern goods over slavery - www.thenation.com/…/boycott-sugar-slavery-bds/
Boycotts of German goods over Nazi policies- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1933_anti-Nazi_boycott
Boycotts of South Africa over Apartheid - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Apartheid_Movement
Ongoing boycott of US goods by Canada over a threatening stance taken by US government- en.wikipedia.org/…/2025_Canadian_boycott_of_the_U…
- Comment on Simpler times? 1 month ago:
As someone who lived through 2006, I can assure you I would have enjoyed being in this situation then just as much as I would now, possibly more.
- Comment on Has this ever happened to you? 1 month ago:
You’re a dumbass for playing along with such insane bullshit but I’m glad it worked out for you.
- Comment on Head of the Signal app threatens to withdraw from Europe 1 month ago:
I have become convinced by Cory Doctorow’s (tech writer and inventor of the term “enshittification”) argument that the fact that we’re even discussing this in terms of “sideloading” is a massive win for tech companies. We used to just call that “installing software” but now for some reason because it’s on a phone it’s something completely weird and different that needs a different term. It’s completely absurd to me that we as a society have become so accustomed to not being able to control our own devices, to the point of even debating whether or not we should be allowed to install our own software on our own computers “for safety.” It should be blatantly obvious that this is all just corporate greed and yet the general public can’t or refuses to see it.
- Comment on The Rapture could have happened, but nobody would know because everyone got left behind 1 month ago:
Here’s the thing, 99% of Christians didn’t believe this. Any time you see a news article about a bunch of people thinking the world will end on a specific date, that is a very small minority of people because not only do all the big denominations (Catholic, Orthodox, Methodist, Presbyterian, Southern Baptist, etc.) teach against making predictions about the specific date and following people who make these predictions, the Bible itself quotes Jesus as teaching against this (and, interestingly, saying that even HE doesn’t know when the day is)- Matthew 24:36
But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only.
Of course this hasn’t stopped people from trying to figure it out, but traditionally religious authorities have spoken out against it. The largest instance of people believing in the Rapture happening on a specific date was a specific religious sect called the Millerites whose leader said the world would end on October 22, 1844. This group was still a small minority, but they were big enough that you have probably still heard of them today - they became the 7th Day Adventists.
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- Comment on Jesus was Jewish, but Christians aren't 1 month ago:
It’s a bit more complicated than that. Jesus was a reformer of Judaism, and brought in a lot of unorthodox ideas. Plus, if the Gospel accounts are authentic, he was going around telling people he was the foretold Messiah and the Son of God, which isn’t typical Jewish teaching.
- Comment on BBC News - Jimmy Kimmel's show to return to air after suspension over Charlie Kirk comments, says Disney - BBC News 1 month ago:
Just food for thought- if every news story is a distraction from something else, what is ultimately newsworthy? This comment or some form appears on just about every Lemmy post relating to the news and I really just don’t get it. Sometimes news is just news. Different people think different things are noteworthy and want to read about them
