milkham said:
Still amazing.
There are very damaging underlying psychological and sociological dynamics involved. Everything good that can be found in religion can be found without it without its poisonous effects.
Hey man, I don't hate her for it, I was just saying he would understand where anti-religion people are coming from. Personally, I know how fucked up it is and it is sad to see that she is wrapped up in that.
I personally wouldn't call it creepy, but then it is familiar to me. The kind of endorsement for blind, unquestioning faith in God to grant what one asks for in prayer that she is making has major problems in it. This kind of trust in prayer has an inherent denial of reality to it, it's a prime manifestation of confirmation bias and illusory correlation, which does spill over into everything in life. "Simulacrum" is a handy reference word to study the phenomenon. It also inevitably leads to cognitive dissonance, which is often resolved through a lot of doubt/blame/shame being internalized to explain why the prayers were unanswered.
Dice biased on religion? Well I never!
My personal experience with thousands of Christians across dozens of sects and ministry formats? Sorry, I am too far gone on this issue. I think the effects are not recognized by many, but definitely present. The simple fact of "needing" it as you mention is a patchwork job over a failure in philosophy. It also ignores the negative purpose that it serves as an opiate. Many people find themselves very dissatisfied and even trapped in terrible systems of society but escape this by hopeful belief in the afterlife. It may be true that it services their malcontent in some fashion, but it does so at the expense of demotivating them from actually changing those circumstances of society for the better. The notion of eternal justice mutes the call for present justice, or even patient effort to secure a greater justice that only future generations will see. It is extremely accurate to call it an opiate of the culture, a mild cognitive enslavement to pacify concerns of all the treacherous exploitations of the people.
I agree with this, but it is hard to put all the blame for "spoiling it" on them as free individuals when you see their holy book specifically instructs them to "disciple" in this manner all throughout. To whatever extent someone is moderate, they are ignoring many of the scriptures they say they believe in, so I would say it is a problem with the religion itself. If you think that is not true because everyone ignores some passages and there is thus no solid form to the thing, and it could be anything people choose it to be, then it is reduced to nothing but a title you place on a social movement and we have ceased talking about religion and are discussing a vague notion of spirituality.
It's "shoving it down your throat" just because I have a weighted and multifaceted opinion that I expressed? I've gotten this kind of response in other places when I've talked about mental illness/depression, feminism/rape culture, socialism, ecology, military action, etc and I really don't get it. It seems like a cheap way to blow someone off and avoid discussing things by any meaningful measure.
See, i'm not even reading that dice, and i can already tell the content.
So you have been sarcastically attacking, assuming, dismissive, willing to provoke rather than request to drop or change the topic, but then unwilling to listen or communicate to understand each other or come to terms. Yes, you are really making yourself out to be a reasonable person and enlightened agent of social harmony here. If your only goal, at the expense of any other, was simply to annoy the fuck out of me so I don't want to talk about it anymore, mission accomplished.
Yep, they are her muses. There to give her inspiration only
Yep, they are her muses. There to give her inspiration only
i didn't know perfection = anorexic #gotemDon't hate on perfection
I was obv joking but anorexia isn't funny.
Eunji's crying somewhere now from that comment TT lolomggggg ram i wasn't being serious
Yeah that photo was inherently creepy. I don't get the whole kpop tape measure around wait thing, it's odd. Those abs though, damn.
A 2 is pretty generous lol.
"I want a career in the U.S." Life after Soshi. Has this come up before?
