I dont think its a good idea for Christians to be picking at that thread
I think it’s a fantastic idea, I just don’t think they’ll like where it leads.
The bible even has something to say about it:
And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
Always loved that one.
What does the quoted passage mean and how does this painting relate?
“mote” as in a speck of dust
“beam” as in a huge plank of wood
Basically don’t point out small faults of your neighbor while ignoring huge faults of your own.
It’s a metaphor. No one has a beam in their eye. But it’s a metaphor that drops suddenly in the second half, because you can literally imagine a mote in someone’s eye.
Idk I can picture a jagged 2x4 giving me a Phineas Gage style impromptu lobotomy just fine.
Its a bibpe verse against hypocrisy, essentially correct yourself before correcting others. Take the log put of your eye before you take it out of someone else’s. The painting shows a guy talking with a log his face.
What the other person said but specifically take the tiny little thing out of your eye, before telling someone else to take the big huge thing out of their own.
Basically don’t criticise unless you’re perfect.
Wrong, you mixed it up and therefore got the final morale wrong.
It says “while you have huge issues to fix for yourself, don’t criticize the small issues in others”. Or in other words “don’t expect others to be perfect when you’re not even adequate”
Hm so people who are better than me can criticise me; I guess that makes more sense. I like both perspectives tbh
I mean everyone has areas in which they suck. So you could also interpret it as “nobody’s perfect, so don’t judge others for small shit”
They’re SO deep down the hole with their big lie that they think everyone ELSE is lying to himself. Truly amazing.
I think they’re safe, its too deep a thought for them to catch on
The best parts of theology are the parts that engage in introspection.
I’m just posting because I noticed that the W in “your whole life” is an upside down M. Goddamn typomania got me again!
Did you notice the S is upside-down?
Is it? It looks the same to me when I flip my phone. Perhaps it looks off because it’s in a bolder or newer set, like the B and some other letters. Or maybe it’s AI and every detail is random.
Or maybe that was a joke about the ‘S’ being the same either way
It’s actually upside down though
It’s the same either way. It looks wrong because we expect the bottom to be bigger than the top in that font. Since the bottom and top are the same, it feels top heavy.
Did you notice that two of the four-letter “I”s are upside down as well?
How do you spell “I” with four letters?
Teye (the T is silent)
Take an I, set it immediately against the side of another I. Do that again with your other pair of Is and set them immediately atop the first pair. You now have a new I built from four Is in the same proportions. If it’s too big, scale it down or use smaller Is as components.
I can’t tell if you’re joking, but the one in “believed” now seems off and the one in “life” definitely seems right. I can’t quite tell about the other two, especially with how weird the I in “if” is generally.
They have definitely mixed together different sets of letters.
I’ve had to put letters on signs like this before. You don’t get equal numbers of every letter, less-frequent letters have fewer. And if they get broken or stolen or blow away or something, that can seriously limit you. So you figure out ways to make up for it, like flipping M upside-down for W.
Unfortunately, while I feel some compassion for the sign setter, this doesn’t help me. What I have seen cannot be unseen.
I believed that W was a W my whole life
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YOUR MOLE LIFE
M’hole
tips cloaca
What if the lie is something totally not related to religion, like you aren’t a total loser and your friends really do love you and you are smart and capable?".
If your friends are wonderful people and they love you, you have to trust their judgement!
Nah.
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Robert Maxwell published our textbooks
oh, religion. nothing embodies hypocrisy like you.
All mental constructs are “lies” in that it’s our vision of the world imposed on reality. What is a chair? For us is a structure we can sit on, for the universe or the rest of species on this planet, it’s just a piece of thing, and even wood is a constructed concept
You think that’s air you’re breathing now?
Heyyyy now, y’all be careful with that. The knife cuts both ways.
I mean. I’d argue that the group that more frequently questions its positions and beliefs based on new evidence without killing a significant portion of a country, is a safer source for interpreting the world than the group that killed 40% of Germany when one assumption, regarding the authority of the bishop of Rome, was in dispute for the first time in several centuries.
Of course. The ironic point is that plenty of people believed the old versions of what research showed dinosaurs were until they died. Some in denial of new research, like the presence of feathers.
Humans are dogmatic about more than just religion.
Imagine believing in creationism and using dinosaurs, 35 of which are wandering around my farm right now shitting out eggs we eat, as the metric of God’s will.
Decrease needless and avoidable suffering for all minds whenever and wherever possible.
Instructions confirmed. Total suffering shall be minimized. 💀💀🤖💀💀Just the needles and avoidable suffering. Some suffering actually helps people get closer to wellbeing like exercise or surgery.
What, like believing in truth?
We constantly change. There are no fixated lies or truths about us or the world. We just need to accept it and live in a process, not in a fixated system
Preach just listened to “With Teeth.” Good for him!
then you would get what we got in the whitehouse
