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- Ramanisky29
What a fucking Legend.
- +1maquito
- I had the pleasure of seeing Carlin live on two separate occasions back in the 90's, unforgettable experiences.elahon
- ^ awesome, wish I had gone to see him live. Always watched his specials on HBO as a teen.Ramanisky2
- utopian6
- Fair enough. Case closedPhanLo
- very reasonablepango
- God is an asshole, if he’s real.monospaced
- see definition: TerroristBabySnakes
- If we allow people to bypass vaccinations and health treatments because it’s against their religion then surely this is ok too_niko
- drgs0
- Humans have evolved the need for religious/spiritual experience. In it's absence something or someone invariably takes its place. Communists replaced the holy..Morning_star
- ...trinity with the Communist Party.Morning_star
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Secularization in first world countries is a result of better, more predictable lives.drgs - https://colinmathers…drgs
- I'm not 100% sure how the commies did it, but I don't think anyone really worshipped the communist partydrgs
- I don't believe humans "evolved" a need for religion or spirituality as much as a need for a shared experience with their kin. Sports is like that.monospaced
- For me, specifically, I get my full dose of spirituality from the awe and wonder of the natural world and the deep understanding that I am a natural part of it.monospaced
- No supernatural aspect required for full spiritual experience and fulfillment.monospaced
- +1 mono
see you in hell brother!GuyFawkes - There you go again Mono 'believing' ;) However, it is scientific fact.Morning_star
- I’m not so sure I’ve said anything that is a mere belief. Just an opinion like yours, and my own perspective.monospaced
- Some science may point to the idea that we evolved for a spiritual need, but that is an interpretation of what is a fact. We want connections and meaningmonospaced
- Religions provide human connection and some “meaning” to life. So does communism or sports fandom. And so does straight up nature for some.monospaced
- We seem to agree they are filling the same gap. I’m simply saying it isn’t a need for the supernatural type.monospaced
- Agreed.Morning_star
- Morning_star1
@drgs Communism as religion:
"This premise is unquestionable. You cannot refute it, or you stop being Communist. If you employ all your scientific Communist methods, and then come to a conclusion that points away from Communism, your science is worthless. You must retrace your steps and find the point where you have deviated from the only correct path.
This is exactly how theology works, and science doesn’t.
Your faith in Communism must be all-encompassing. If not, you’re tapped for your revolutionary force, you lose that passion that drives you to achieve the extraordinary thing your lowly bourgeois incarnation would never be able to do.
“The teaching of Marx is all-powerful, because it’s truthful” (V.I. Lenin).
From here, the entire paraphernalia of the Communist religion emerges.
Scripture: the corpus magnum of Marxist books that defines the foundation of Communism and is used to define what is true Communism and what is Communist apostasy
Prophets and saints: Marx and Engels (with addition of Lenin, Mao, Marcuse, Kim, Che Guevara, Chávez, or other immortal authoritative figures, according to your preferences and party affiliation)
Objects of pilgrimage and adulation (statues, museums, and mummies of Lenin, Mao, and Kim)
Factional and national conflicts camouflaged as battles against Communist apostates: USSR vs China, China vs Vietnam, Vietnam vs Kampuchea, Soviet vs Yugoslavia, Albania vs everyone else, as well as all the exclusions and purges within the parties
Tradition of passing the torch of true faith to the descendants of prophets (Korea), or disciples anointed by them (Venezuela), or to godly men vetted by an assembly of elders (mostly Politburo)
Legitimacy of power derived not from majority vote or a line of royal provenance, but from the authority of true faith and devotion(Consider ISIS as a vanguard party of Muslims, armed with the only truthful understanding of Quran, which gives it the moral and political authority to enforce on the rest of the community any laws and moral guidelines they find expedient, and you have the exact mirror of Bolsheviks)."
- Nairn3
A Tunguska sized airburst destroyed Tall el-Hammam a Middle Bronze Age city in the Jordan Valley near the Dead Sea
- _niko2
- There's a subpar movie with the gorgeous Rachel Weisz in about this..
https://en.wikipedia…)Nairn - oh shit you're the second one to mention that film to me in the past week, I didn't clue in the first time my friend was telling me about it._niko
- There's a subpar movie with the gorgeous Rachel Weisz in about this..
- grafician3
- What's their goal?drgs
- Propaganda and societal disfunction. They aim to push those on the right further right and those with moderate view into more extreme positions. Polarising...Morning_star
- ...a population is good for instability. It's worth looking into the influenece these sites played in BLM/Capitol protestsMorning_star
- it's because fb is the last bastion where you always find enough people to troll.
and also creates collaterals like this article :-)uan - hah, was looking for where it said 19 out of 20... that drop cap jaysuskingsteven
- I was looking at some of the timelines on sorryantivaxxer.com and it's all FB posts.mathinc
- it doesn't benefit Moldova or North Macedonia in any way so they're probably proxies for the Russians. unless they're selling them useless religious shit too._niko
- makes sense since bible thumpers are obviously the most gullibleGuyFawkes
- Interesting this is a small, Christian website sharing this. 30k shares of that piece compared with 402 shares of next most popular piece.sarahfailin
- https://www.relevant…sarahfailin
- The Lord works in mysterious waysnb
- Ramanisky25
- Amen....tell your wife to say hi to her friend Frank from me. And tell your husband congrats!utopian
- just look at that christian whoreGuyFawkes
- Sterile? where's his fucking maskfadein11
- lol faith is so stupidmonospaced