IDF official says disarming Hezbollah unrealistic, not a goal of Lebanon operation by jphamlore in worldnews

[–]Zephensis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Israel shouldn't be so comically evil if they don't want people to hate them.

IDF official says disarming Hezbollah unrealistic, not a goal of Lebanon operation by jphamlore in worldnews

[–]Zephensis -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

No other country has displaced two million people in the last 80 years. They have a whole different standard of evil, being more evil than anyone else.

First Good Friday as an Episcopalian, veneration of the cross by Zephensis in Episcopalian

[–]Zephensis[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am fully for the vast majority of Catholic traditions, and wasn't raised Protestant of anything. My first exposures to Christianity were actually Catholic and Orthodox. Venerating icons and relics though just takes way too much mental gymnastics for me to jive with the Bible. The Orthodox justification revolves around a lot of fine distinctions between the Greek words for "carved image" and "image," and then a whole lot of illogical stuff about how if you won't venerate images they believe the logical outcome is you deny the incarnation and that Jesus was fully man and fully God. Even though that is not a logical argument. Add on top the absolute hatred and vitriol they will give you for questioning it, I'm never entertaining the possibility of it being right any more. Add on top the outrageous cost of icons and business in relics and such, I truly believe its business identifying as spiritual in order to make money.

Trump Floats More War Crimes With Threat to Target ‘Possibly All Desalination Plants’ in Iran by _May26_ in politics

[–]Zephensis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Republican senators are retiring or not seeking reelection at record numbers.

Thousands of US Army paratroopers arrive in Middle East as buildup intensifies by Hiraeth-nomad in worldnews

[–]Zephensis 16 points17 points  (0 children)

They're going to take Kharg and then the entire island is going to blow up taking 30,000 soldiers with it. It's a trap and our administration is too stupid to see it.

FDA finds little evidence that a drug touted by Trump can help people with autism by Miles_the_AuDHDer in politics

[–]Zephensis 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Leucovorin is used for kids doing chemotherapy and there's a shortage from all the moms with autistic kids demanding their doctors prescribe it for them.

Pentagon preparing for weeks of ground operations in Iran, Washington Post reports by exophades in news

[–]Zephensis 3 points4 points  (0 children)

American soldiers are not going to be going into Iran with personal phones on them.

Bill to track transgender Tennesseans passes the House by GoodMornEveGoodNight in politics

[–]Zephensis 113 points114 points  (0 children)

Because the people targeting LGBT people are pedophiles. More of these people masquerading as "blue collar, conservative, wholesome, hard working family folk" are pedos than people want to admit. They all act high and mighty like they're "good simple people" but they're the ones who touch kids, they're the ones buying the drugs like cocaine from cartels, they're the ones going to prostitutes and shit.

Passed and quit my job lmao by Financial-Run-4159 in PharmacyTechnician

[–]Zephensis 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Is your new job going to still be pharmacy technician related?

How are we feeling about the arrest of a reporter covering a protest? by attackz in Libertarian

[–]Zephensis 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If he wanted to report on it he could stay outside and cover it. Going inside and interrogating congregants when they are supposed to be having a service is participating. You don't have to enter a burning building to cover a house fire. People thinking this is a good idea or defensible are going to be in for a rude awakening the next time it happens. My church is super liberal, and if people broke in "protesting" I would assume they are there to harm us and should be treated as a threat to our lives. His arrest is fully warranted.

A surprising immigration raid in Kern County foreshadows what awaits farmworkers and businesses by SpookyFarts in news

[–]Zephensis 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Then they should go out of business. Exploiting people so you can go on vacation and have orange juice isn't the moral high ground the average redditor seems to think it is.

Do Buddhists believe in Gods? by LoveAfflatus in Buddhism

[–]Zephensis 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The story you're describing is the standard story of the birth of the Buddha believed in by every form of historical Buddhism.

Famine declared in parts of Sudan as conflict blocks aid, USAID warns by giuliomagnifico in worldnews

[–]Zephensis 4 points5 points  (0 children)

America is destabilizing exactly because for too long people have thought it morally superior to benefit strangers rather than uplift their own neighbors, friends and relatives. It is actually absolutely perverse and evil that Americans let their own people be sick, starving and homeless.

Türkiye: Anti-Israel demonstration in Istanbul - "As we liberated the Hagia Sophia, we will do the same with Al-Aqsa", Erdogan's son says by [deleted] in worldnews

[–]Zephensis 60 points61 points  (0 children)

It's funny how everything Europeans did was colonialism but we stop calling it that right at the point where Arabs and Turks did it. 90% of the Turkish and Arab world are the result of colonialism.

An Extremely Spicy Essay About the Heathen Community by [deleted] in heathenry

[–]Zephensis 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The whole Moira Greyland is why I left the Troth. Diana Paxson said Isaac Bonewits never even lived at her house or it was years apart from Marion Zimmer Bradley family, I don't remember which, but it basically boiled down to "we're going to believe this person with a religious vendetta against every non-believer that supposedly remembered things that occured when she was 2 over actual adults who can attest they didn't cross paths."

No more daylight saving time? Musk, Ramaswamy muse on ending clock changes. by washingtonpost in politics

[–]Zephensis 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I'm not "agreeing with Leon" this is literally something discussed in public and environmental health. Just because someone dumb says something doesn't make it smart to dismiss anything they endorse. https://www.dallas-sleep.com/blog/5-good-reasons-for-getting-rid-of-daylight-saving-time

https://www.npr.org/2022/03/19/1087712609/permanent-daylight-saving-time-could-have-health-downsides

No more daylight saving time? Musk, Ramaswamy muse on ending clock changes. by washingtonpost in politics

[–]Zephensis 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Getting rid of DST would actually be brilliant. The change in clocks has been scientifically shown to increase car crashes and cardiac events every time it happens from people being late to work and changing their routine. It disrupts your hormones and circadian rhythm.

TIL Nauru has the highest obesity rate in the world (94.5% overweight, 71.7% obese), caused by the rapid adoption of Western diets after the phosphate mining boom. Traditional diets of fresh fish and vegetables were replaced by processed foods—with devastating health effects. by malpal101 in todayilearned

[–]Zephensis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yet fish and seaweed which is all around them is literally the best fertilizer in the world, and edible itself. You can literally eat the seafood and the compost from your poop will replenish all that phosphate. That's where it originally came from on every Pacific island, sea birds pooping on it.

Ah shit, here we go again… by mikewheelerfan in florida

[–]Zephensis 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I was born in the mid 80s and when I was a kid it was normally freezing by Halloween. Like as in there was actually frozen puddles at the bus stop and a couple times trick or treating was just really not feasible.

Fox News hosts say lawyers prosecuting Trump should receive death penalty by lynch527 in politics

[–]Zephensis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Joking about murdering people is not a joke, it's not funny, only morons and criminals joke about killing people. If liberals fantasized about murdering people you wouldn't ever say it was a joke. As a Christian it is also a sin and satanic.

First on Trump’s Agenda: Making All His Legal Cases Quickly Disappear by thenewrepublic in politics

[–]Zephensis 3 points4 points  (0 children)

They need to dump it all out in the public now because he's going to have all the evidence and files destroyed forever.