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[maklodes]

Being part of a culturally normative religion -- being an Italian Catholic, or a Thai Theravada Buddhist, or an Egyptian Sunni -- is cringe because it shows you're a conformist sheeperson who can't think for yourself.

Being an atheist or skeptic is cringe because, what, you think you're hot shit, smarter than anyone else? Because after Dawkins and Harris held your hand, you were able to get to the conclusions of Charvaka and Lucretius more than two millennia ago, and now you think you might as well have proved the Riemann zeta hypothesis? Get a grip.

Being part of a culturally non-normative religion like Wicca, or Neo-Pagan revivalism, or UFO cults, or whatever, is cringe because you're a kook. No one even forced you into it -- you don't have the excuse of being a Provo-raised Mormon or a Gujarati Hindu. You just went off the deep end yourself.

Being avowedly agnostic is cringe because you're so open-minded your brain fell out. Your response to one person saying π = 3.1416 and another person saying π = 15 is "neither of those are really the ultimate true value of π, which is fundamentally beyond what we humans can easily express, so the best we can do is seek the wisdom in all perspectives and stay open minded." You dodge judgment and discernment like they're Touhou bullets.

Being silent on religious matters is cringe because it shows you're either a coward who is afraid of revealing what you really think for fear of being offensive or cringey, or you're a vapid idiot who has no real thoughts on the Fundamental Nature of Reality, and only cares about shit like which graphics card can give you the highest frames per second on your shooter games, which basketball teams will make it to the playoffs, which skin-care products/mascara/lipstick will make your face the prettiest, etc.

[caprice-nisei-enjoyer]

I've been doing this really cool Vampire: the Masquerade hack where I use it to simulate a combat-heavy, survival focused dungeon crawl

[max1461]

Everybody's basically Chinese because obviously East Asians are Chinese, and then Indo-Europeans are basically Chinese (because they come from the steppe, like the Mongols, who are basically Chinese), and Native Americans are basically Chinese because they migrated across the Bering Strait. So everybody's basically Chinese except Africans, Papuans and Aboriginal Australians. Even Papuans and Aboriginal Australians are definitely Chinese adjacent like they're definitely a little bit Chinese, over there near China. Middle Easterners didn't start out Chinese but got Chinesified by the silk road and shit so let's say they're half Chinese. There's two races African and Chinese.

[that-starlight-prince]

If it's possible for people to make decisions they might regret or might feel pressured into making, the obvious solution is to simply take away that person's freedom to make the decision in the first place. No decision, no problem!

[sabakos]

Nothing you do should ever make you uncomfortable btw. You are a little puddle and so should not exceed the boundaries of the crevice you were born into.

[misanthropiccatboy]

if fundamentally people do often try to be good and intend to be, and every villain thinks themselves in the right, then being a 'good person' is not a matter of feelings, values, or intention, but one of self-critique, clarity, and awareness

[o-craven-canto]

Three attempts at mapping the major cultural spheres of the world from the mid-20th century (though replicated on maps with modern borders), found in Broek (1973), The Geography of Mankind.

For comparison, the infamous "clash of civilizations" map by Huntington (1996), which seems clearly based on the previous, particularly Toynbee's (both Toynbee and Huntington lump all Muslim-majority areas into a single "Islamic civilization", despite being places as different as Morocco, Somalia, Kazakhstan, Bangladesh, and Indonesia, and both dubiously combine all Buddhist-majority areas outside of China's historical sphere of influence):

For a more recent, and IMO more plausible effort, here's the Country Similarity Index map, made a few years ago by one Jeff Jones who came up with an algorithm to calculate the cultural, geographic, political, economic &c similarity between any two countries:

[catch57]

Um. April’s doing WHAT?

this post is about simon and garfunkel

[straightlightyagami]

if c++ was a person id shoot them

[selfmaderibcageman]

the real flaw in deindustrialization is that it allows for people to not feel that they have to chase education in order to avoid being condemned to a life of agrarianism or factory labor & premature death

[toy-sitting-anon]

it's called wife-eye because the internet is for looking at women

[maklodes]

Has anyone talked about the idea that it's advantageous for straight guys who have no intention of giving up women themselves to encourage others to go MGTOW / for straight girls who have no intention of giving up men themselves to encourage others to go 4B?

[caprice-nisei-enjoyer]

Reblog if you believe that Kamala Harris deserves an entire harem of geriatric white beta male politicians as her vice president

[max1461]

there's another thing outside the ∀ but you can't get to it. it's outside of the ∀. and there's something underneath the ∃ too and you can't get to it either. just thought you should know.

[that-starlight-prince]

Annoying how I get more work done when I don't spend most of the day with Tumblr open 😾

[sabakos]

the arc of history is muddy. it's why we know so much more about ancient egypt and so much less about ancient india. because it rains more often in india