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Recent content by Ella S.

  1. Ella S.

    The Post Religious Desert

    Do you take recovering alcoholics to bars, too? Coming back to this site was a mistake. Here I am, fighting against the ugly truth when I should be coming to terms with it. It took you offering the metaphorical drug for me to snap out of my senses and realize what I'm doing. Aron Ra is right...
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    The Post Religious Desert

    That was my impression when I first heard about it, too. Those groups are simply the highest at risk. I think they might also be the hardest to treat. I think those groups have it particularly rough because they have a hard time with the usual therapeutic approaches to treating the issue, which...
  3. Ella S.

    The Post Religious Desert

    For me, it's losing the belief that good will eventually win in the end and that everything that seems to be bad is actually a part of some greater plan for good. It's realizing that we are not unified in substance, there are no benevolent, powerful beings that intervene to give us a helping...
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    The Post Religious Desert

    I don't think that we can ever spend too much time "throwing stones at oppressive religious belief systems." As long as they exist, they have to be opposed. They might not be abolished over night, but the more we chip away at them, the more people can realize what's going on and make better...
  5. Ella S.

    Human ‘behavioural crisis’ at root of climate breakdown, say scientists

    "This happens with climate change for example, which is too often blamed on evil oil companies when in reality it is the way we have chosen to live that is primarily responsible" Chosen? Who's at fault for car pollution? Is it the people who need to use cars to drive to their jobs so that they...
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    Why does God prevent us from helping one another?

    The slaughter of non-combatants in Ukraine, Israel, Palestine, Afghanistan, etc. is fairly well known at this point. The news publishes more death and tragedy every day. People in countries I can't reach suffer from poor infrastructure and corrupt governments. In fact, people suffer from that...
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    Why do christianity get so much hate?

    I can't tell if you're being intentionally disingenuous or if you just haven't thought this through at all. You know you can condemn someone for something you expect from them, right? Like, I'd expect a serial killer to continue murdering people, but that doesn't mean it's weird for me to...
  8. Ella S.

    What Part of Your Religion or Worldview Brings You the Most Comfort or Reassurance?

    None of it. My worldview is bleak and horrifying. It doesn't give me comfort or reassurance, only depression and anxiety. I'd willingly give it up if I could be convinced of a more pleasant alternative, but I've had this same worldview for years now despite trying my hardest to challenge it and...
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    Why do christianity get so much hate?

    It's bizarre that people have moral disagreements with those that don't adhere to the same morality as them? Is it really? @Starlight @Saint Frankenstein , you actually liked this drivel? Why? Can you explain what I'm missing that makes this seem so deep and insightful to you?
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    Why do christianity get so much hate?

    I agree. That said, the Christians that I know in real life constantly talk about their persecution in Asia and the Middle East, so. I don't think it's being ignored by Christians, at least. The real question is why you don't see so much concern about this outside of Christianity, but...
  11. Ella S.

    Why do christianity get so much hate?

    Because it's tied to politics that affect non-Christians. If you notice, smaller religions that don't have as much political sway like Eckankar or Mazdaeism are hardly ever mentioned.
  12. Ella S.

    What is "Power" and what is anarchism and is it even possible.

    I find this to be a fair and articulate point. This is going to sound really awful, and that's why I'm bringing it up. I want you to disprove it. I have this uncomfortable feeling that the majority of people simply don't have the cognitive faculties to be anything other than sheep or, at best...
  13. Ella S.

    Trivial Facts

    The 8086, for which the x86 architecture is named after, is sensibly named so because it came after the 8085. Except the 8085 came after the 8080, and the 8080 came after the 8008. Most of the numbers are symbolic, and they don't actually correlate with any kind of linear sequence. They're only...
  14. Ella S.

    Damnation

    Or, more likely, an anthropomorphic personification of the natural world. The concept of God developed out of an anthropomorphic personification of the sky. The top god slowly absorbed all of the offices of the god underneath him until he ended up being seen as the agency behind everything...
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    the good of the Abrahamic religions

    It's not just "no human sacrifice," it's also no more animal sacrifice. In fact, no more burnt offerings of food, either. Christianity did, in fact, effectively wipe out many harmful pagan superstitions and practices. Of course, Christianity also replaced them with new ones. Mortification of...
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