I'm on Gitlab for the moment (I refused Microsoft's forced 2FA, so I no longer can login). I've considered self-hosting, but I have gotten some contributions in the past and at least want to make that friction-less. But yea, I gave up on putting new stuff on Github a while ago.
but ... aren't McDonalds still operating in Russia? Their supplier and distributors were all still in place; they just ... change the name and no longer have to pay franchise fees, right?
Also fuck McDonalds. I got fired from their insane marketing contractor who expected 80+ hour work weeks for their stupid fucking Monopoly game backend services and I've never eaten that shit since. McDonalds can go rot in hell.
Ukrainians worshiping it is ... symbolistic perfection.
I'm American. 100%. I'm not a "pajeet" as I can't speak any Indian language. I've only spent 2 months in India. My nephews/niece haven't been at all. They only follow Christ.
I have no problem with you friend. I don't quite understand why you hate. The meek shall inherit the earth. Maybe you're learn one day, or maybe you'll just die miserable.
What about Mormons? Jehovah's Witnesses? or are they not real Christians because they don't believe in the real teachings? Paulian or Gnostic?
It's something Christians cannot accept, but there is no determination for a true Christian. If that god does exist, it's literally between an individual and God.
Satan's been around forever and is present in the gospels
No. There is no Hebrew word for "Satan." It's "adversary" and translated Satan some places and enemy or adversary others. It's arbitrary.
In Greek, it's diablos. It's not a god or demon. It literally just means "to throw across one's path" ... e.g. a trial or adversity. When Jesus says "Get behind me Satan" to Peter, it could have just as easily been translated "Get behind me my enemy" or "Get behind me you who causes me to stumble."
Even the "Satan in the desert" story uses the word as adversary. The Jews/Greeks had no concept of "The Devil." The entire origin story of Lucifer is formed from a single passage in Isaiah and Ezekiel ... and it was formed by the Catholic church well after the time of Jesus.
Christianity today is entirely unrecognizable from the Christianity of 200AD. Paul and the apostles would probably not even consider your a Christian. It doesn't appear Paul even knew Jesus preformed miracles. The entire concept of the rapture or Satan didn't exist in 100AD at all.
There is no such thing as "not a true Christian." The only requirement is to self identify oneself as a Christian. It's the reason trasngenderism is a religion; it follows the same principals of declarations of faith.
Now you make think a Christian insincere, but by the doctrine of Christianity, even a true follower of Christ does not know about anyone else's relationship with God. When we die, the only thing the Bible says is man will be judged.
There are people there who do that and drink cow piss. It's an embarrassment, and not respected at all by people who have left. I think the number of people/villages who participate is exaggerated a bit. I never saw it (or the "shitting streets"), but I did see the poor shanty towns and open sewers and people bathing in the polluted Ganges outside of Red Fort (which is insanely beautiful piece of architecture from another era).
My sister feels this is due to there being no grace or mercy within Hinduism (she's an evangelical Christian) and that their culture chases status and influence. Honestly it's not that far removed from what China has become, except without the authoritarianism to build infrastructure (which was originally not bad in China, but now it's full of tofu cities).
Another issue is that India is not one unified culture. A lot of people in the South can't speak Hindi and people in the north don't know Tamil. It honestly would have been better off it had been partitioned into more nations. The Rupee has "Bank of India" written on it in 14 different languages.
djsumdog (djsumdog@djsumdog.com)'s status on Wednesday, 08-May-2024 11:44:13 JST
djsumdogIf an incel is involuntary celibate, and a monk is a voluntary celibate for religious reasons,and MGTOW is voluntary celibate for personal growth reasons ... then was is being voluntary celibate out of a general indifference to other the hell that is the other people of our shared humanity?
Climate alarmism is absolutely insane. The idea that human CO2 production can affect the cycles of heating and cooling that have been present on this planet for billions of years is the real hubris. Most people don't even realize the total percentage of CO2 in earth's atmosphere is 0.03%. The climate alarmist will claim it's gone up from 0.01% in pre-industrial times, a _fact_ that's completely unmeasurable unless you believe in the magic of "ice core samples" 🙄