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zloubida

@ zloubida @sh.itjust.works

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  • Do people actually call their parents by their name (as in First-name basis)? Have you ever done that? Or witnessed someone doing that?

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  • In Swedish it's also different. Mor is mother, far is father; mormor is the maternal grandma, farmor is the paternal grandma, morfar is the paternal grandpa and farfar the paternal grandpa. I love this system, it's almost the only thing I remember from my study of Swedish 😅.

  • Why do you personally believe in your religion?

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  • I understand the reaction. The Bible is sold by a lot of churches as “the word of God”, and if it's the case, God is a lying asshole. But nowhere in the Bible it is written that the Bible is the word of God; according to the Bible the word of God is Jesus-Christ so… it may not be the right approach according to the Bible itself.

    I love the Bible, I read it (almost) every day, I use it as a guide in my material and spiritual lives, I studied the story of its interpretation in the university, I even thought about making that my speciality. Yet I don't understand how someone could believe in biblical inerrancy. It's very clearly a human work, written by error-prone normal humans. I believe that God spoke to its redactors, but it's still a human work. And ours is (according to me) to listen to the voice of God through the human form; and that's why we have the Church, as it's not something one can do alone.

  • Why do you personally believe in your religion?

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  • I do not really know. I was not raised in a practicing family, and my country is very secular.

    Philosophically, I'm agnostic. I'm not convinced either by arguments for or against the existence of God. I think a being which could exist outside time and space is not approachable by our reason.

    But I can't stay neutral, the question is too important. And I feel the presence of God in my life. This feeling came first, and when I tried to understand it, I went to the culturally nearest place of worship, and it was Protestantism, and I felt at home. I read the Bible, not as a theology manual, but as the story of people who try to understand the presence of God; sometimes they're right, sometimes they're wrong, but their quest is mine, and theirs inspires mine.

  • Parents, do y'all love your children more/less depending on if they reciprocate it? Or do you love your children the same regardless, even if they hate you?

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  • No, I love them unconditionally. But the level of affection I show change according to certain parameters, one of them being how much they are affectionate themselves. Affection is not the only way to show love, though.

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    Is it common for family members to spy on each other's sexual behavior to find evidence of "degeneracy"? Or did I grow up in hell?

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  • I agree with your message, which seems to confirm mine. How yours makes mine a strawman?

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    Is it common for family members to spy on each other's sexual behavior to find evidence of "degeneracy"? Or did I grow up in hell?

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  • Only religion? The State is 1000x worse in this regard, and it doesn't need religion.

  • "You can always trust your mother to be on your side" -Actual phrase my mother said

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  • I agree. I yell on my children on occasion, but it's a thing I regret every time, yelling is not okay.

  • Something that happened to you but no one believes you?

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  • I saw a guy dressed as a moose carrying another guy who looked stoned get almost run over by a ship.

  • I ditched Linux for Windows 11 for one week - and found 9 big problems

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  • No, but he explained that the problem would have been easier to solve on Linux.

    Not sure it would have been for a normal computer user though; I for one know how to SSH on my homeserver, but I don't know how to do that on my desktop Linux.

  • I went to an anti-tech rally, where Gen Z dressed as gnomes and smashed iPhones. Here's what I learned. | Business Insider

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  • Done :-)

  • I went to an anti-tech rally, where Gen Z dressed as gnomes and smashed iPhones. Here's what I learned. | Business Insider

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  • I went to an anti-tech rally, where Gen Z dressed as gnomes and smashed iPhones. Here's what I learned. | Business Insider

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  • Strange, it's not paywalled for me. Does this community allows to paste whole articles?

  • I went to an anti-tech rally, where Gen Z dressed as gnomes and smashed iPhones. Here's what I learned. | Business Insider

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  • One attendee told me they heard about it through word of mouth, which makes sense.

  • One is not like the others

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  • 🥰 he loves you, he just refuses to show it 🥰

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  • But in reality, there can't be two perfectly good options. Without evil at all, there's always only one option. And God doesn't give options, he gives freedom. In that allegory he gives a fork and money to buy lunch. Humanity chose instead to buy rope and use the fork to kill the neighbour's child… God can't be accused for that.

  • 🥰 he loves you, he just refuses to show it 🥰

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  • Imagine you have two meals before you, a pizza and a burger. You're free to want either of them, you're free to say what's your preference is, but I physically restrain you and force you to eat the pizza whether you prefer it or not. Would you consider yourself free?

  • 🥰 he loves you, he just refuses to show it 🥰

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  • Evil actions are, but not will. Will is what command the choice between different physical actions, some good, others evil. If you retire evil from the equation, you have only one option and then, no choice, and then no will, thus no freedom.

  • 🥰 he loves you, he just refuses to show it 🥰

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  • That's not what I said, and you're anthropocentric again. Could the world have been less harsh? Possibly. The truth is that we have no way to judge that.

    And we were given the means to fight evil, we could stop wars, hunger, a lot of epidemics… we choose as a species, not to. We should stop blaming God for.our shortcomings.

  • 🥰 he loves you, he just refuses to show it 🥰

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  • This makes no sense. To do evil is nothing like a physical ability.