scoobdog

Don't know about the well liked thing, but Pelosi has endured hundreds of time the slander of any other politician in modern history and still did a good enough job to be elected to the speakership twice.

Saving this post for later evidence of potential greatness.

This really could kill the mid majors.

I’m holding you to it.

Are you going to be the fun Anthony?

Happy Birthday!

No, it’s not good. Introducing millions of gallons of water into sandy soil could cause the soil to liquify and result in building collapse. If you recall, one of the biggest underground bunkers is under the hospital.

Damn it. Stop being profound.

It's a truck that flips itself without any help.

If the Republicans know how to do anything, it's set poorly disguised traps. Can't wait until it passes with the entire Dem contingent voting present, only to have the Senate send it back saying "Cool, but what about the funding for Israel that goes with it?"

That’s a fine looking cake.

How does he still get women?

That motherfucker cut and ran before anyone had a chance to jump, further cementing his legacy as that one dude who never gets caught farting in the elevator.

Prosperity gospel is heretical in just about any sense of the word. Historically, Roman Catholicism has been used to propogate atrocities on the poor and adherents of other faiths with unflinching regularity, and always with a strict delineation between what was man’s domain and what was God’s. This level of hypocrisy is how a shadow nobility was able to maintain secular power while professing to be poor themselves: God doesn’t have any want or need for wealth but His acolytes need that wealth to support their ministry. Prosperity gospel preached by Joel Osteen and his ilk contradicts itself in an important way by openly suggesting that God is willing to buy the loyalty of his faithful. The connection is tenuous; they’ll often argue that God isn’t granting people this money as much as unlocking their potential to achieve success. Presumably this means a successful person is obligated to return the rewards to God through his church. However, that is never explicitly defined and, even if it were, it doesn’t resolve underlying paradox between wealth defined in rescources and defined in spirit.

Why would Larry Scott be at the PAC-12 championship?

Karma has a secular and religious meaning. We can establish that the Buddhist karma is not contradictory to Christianity, but what about the secular meaning? At face value, the idea that one can believe that the Christian God will forgive any and all sins with one act of sincere contrition would subvert a karmic system that rewards good behavior. However, karma as is defined colloquially doesn’t extend into the afterlife. It’s mostly transactional - each consequence is tied directly to a behavior - and it exists as a way to frame morality socially across multiple faith systems ( which are individual). When God is offering forgiveness, it’s exclusively postmortem and unique to that person’s journey through the afterlife. It points to a need for regulating communal morality, in a space where one’s deeply held and personal values are expected to support an atheistic social order.

That’s a human thing, not just American. And, you’re right: karma is about not creating suffering in the sense of having attachment to one’s own existence, which does have analogs to other religions. Arguably, the point of separation between Buddhism and Christianity would be how the final destination is loosely defined. In both, the simplified ultimate goal is to completely divest yourself of your identity; you either become the perfect extension of God or become one with the undefined expanse of nothingness. Even the idea of reincarnation is intrinsic to Christian faith even if doesn’t reveal itself in the same explicit way. It’s understood that one does not simply end up in heaven; even one who leads a saintly life is usually unfit for heaven and has to be “reincarnated” in purgatory. Rather than reflecting some kind of shared value, it’s more likely that the true founders of Christianity were aware of the Buddhist faith through Rome as a major nexus point and incorporated elements of the much older faith. Nonetheless and to Buddy’s first question: someone who believes in Christianity should theoretically be adhering to the basic principles of karma already. To be clear: karma isn’t social currency in the sense one can use it to earn enlightenment. It’s a process one undergoes to achieve enlightenment, not a device to earn enlightenment with.

Don’t be ridiculous… Dancing With The Stars already called.

Except for the part where Mike Tyson is loveable and Musk is the exact opposite of loveable.

Because you can’t destroy Hamas unless you completely flatten Gaza and eradicate every living thing within its walls?

Most cults of personality aren’t like Trump’s, but you’re right not to overlook his. That being said, Elons fanboys are essentially Trump fanboys now. Twitter tarnished his reputation as an innovator, leaving his “reputation “ as an unfiltered turd and all the people that matters to. Cult of personalities only work when the image can be maintained. In Musk’s case, he found a new one to replace his old one, but that isn’t usual. It’s also not usual for someone with a cult of personality to actively sabotage his image.

It’s getting to the point where he needs to eat Trump ass if he wants to continue having people willing to believe him.

Not narrative media because thats mood related and the weather here doesn’t really change enough to effect mood. But, I do change my listening habits seasonally based on daylight.