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thepersonalwords · 3 months ago
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My question to the atheist is, do you want an atheist world or a peaceful world? And to the believer, do you want a religious world or a peaceful world? Religious orientation doesn't define peace, but the answer here may define one's true nature.
Abhijit Naskar
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quotelr · 1 month ago
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Keep trusting God. He will lead you in every step of the journey.
Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
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creantzy · 9 months ago
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CW: religious symbolism, mention of suicide, severed arm
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Speaking to the memory of him.
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typhlonectes · 1 year ago
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the-cybersmith · 2 months ago
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I think we're all being rather too blasé about the fact that most of the anglophonic population doesn't seem to believe in democracy.
I'm not using "believe in" as a synonym for "endorse", to be clear.
I mean the general sentiment is that the nominally democratic institutions of our societies do not represent the will of anyone but a small, ideologically captured elite who do not share our interests, and who do not respect the values important to us.
Democracy has been elevated to a near-sacred status. It is preached in th schools, and the voting booths, and the civic offices, and in the courts, and in the town halls, and in the hallowed halls of legislatures.
It is the value upon which our system of rule justifies and legitimises itself.
In some sense, it replaced the divine right of kings. That failed when people ceased to believe in God.
What happens to our modern civilisation when we no longer believe in democracy?
Neitzche saw the downfall of the old order in Apostasy.
A new Apostasy is upon us. An Apostasy fuelled by increasing evidence that the god of the public will is illusion, and that the heavenly throne of electoralism is empty.
We are carried forward by momentum, not fuel.
The world as it has been suffered a bevy of wounds, and soon it will bleed to death. I know not what will be born from the carrion of Democracy, but I think we are all being unreasonably calm about it.
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perhaps-relax · 1 year ago
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Religious alignment chart w/ internet quotes
I am not a theologian, hope this helps
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Gnostic Theism: “Tell me the name of God, you fungal piece of shit” @personsonable on tumblr [link]
Anti-gnostic Theism: “If the zoo bans me from hollering at the animals, I will face God and walk backwards into Hell” @dril on twitter [link]
Agnostic Theism: “I don’t care where the sun goes at night, he’s an asshole” Firebringer by Starkid [link]
Gnostic Deism: “When I kill God, I will find the spigot from which he measures out grace and smash it permanently open” @Linux on twitter [link]
Anti-gnostic Deism: “God may not have to beg my forgiveness, but He’s got some ‘splaining to do” -Robert Semple on Quora [link]
Agnostic Deism: “I guess I would scream too-ie if I knew a God could hear me”  @soupygarbagejuice on TikTok [link]
Gnostic Anatheism: “Humanity named kindness, it must know kindness” @realbrucespringsteen on tumblr [link]
Anti-gnostic Anatheism: “Wide-eyed and hackles raised, I will conquer the Devil and rid the world of doubt.” @little-tunny on tumblr/@itslittletunny on twitter [link]
Agnostic Anatheism: “I need to sink my teeth into the material world and unmake God’s creation” @chaumas-deactivated20230115 on tumblr [link]
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365filmsbyauroranocte · 2 months ago
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Road (Alan Clarke, 1987)
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buddhistmusings · 10 days ago
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I'm not Christian or Jewish so take what I say with a grain of salt.
But I think a big stumbling block in interfaith relations between Christianity and Judaism is the Christian practice of back tracing Christian doctrine into Jewish texts, cultural motifs, and practices.
Like somebody opening up the Tanakh and looking for the Trinity or Christ would probably irk me a bit. Or seeing a Christ where there emphatically is not one. It all sort of suggests that Jews are doing Judaism wrong.
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seraphim-eternal · 6 months ago
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For I will not leave you until I have done what I promised you.
Genesis 28:15
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aeshnacyanea2000 · 2 months ago
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This is very similar to the suggestion put forward by the Quirmian philosopher Ventre, who said, 'Possibly the gods exist, and possibly they do not. So why not believe in them in any case? If it's all true you'll go to a lovely place when you die, and if it isn't then you've lost nothing, right?' When he died he woke up in a circle of gods holding nasty-looking sticks and one of them said, 'We're going to show you what we think of Mr Clever Dick in these parts . . . '
-- Terry Pratchett - Hogfather
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spotsupstuff · 16 days ago
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Gold is often connected to divinity in rl religions. In Buddhism, it indeed symbolizes enlightenment and such, and it is often kept pure in order to not ruin its brilliance. In Tibetan Buddhism, statues are gilded with it and the 5 tonne Golden Buddha statue in Thailand is composed of 18 karat gold, almost fully pure.
Within this world, I like to think that gold has caught the eye of the Anemons in a religious sense upon the (,,re/")discovery of the Void Sea. The golden waves of it shaped the perception of their world, from explaining the sun as coated in a layer of Void, to giving an idea of what "cleanliness of soul" should look like. Wheel Flowers are also attributed to the Void as sprouts of it, because of their ethereal gold coloration.
The feeling of the divine has however faded when the motivations behind handling of the Void went terribly south, replaced by the extremist corruption and greed of High castes.
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In other words, I wanted an excuse to draw Euros as a šarkan/змей.
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quotelr · 5 months ago
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Only that 'holy' book which teaches you to love all beings - animals or human things - read. Another one, idiots do, You let go, God speed.
Fakeer Ishavardas
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dionysian-mystery · 9 months ago
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Screaming crying throwing up.
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typhlonectes · 1 year ago
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liberatingreality · 1 month ago
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It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
J. Krishnamurti
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lazyyogi · 5 months ago
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from Tantra Illuminated by Christopher D Wallis
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