Doubt

Uh no

Cis straight white dude here, I am not stopping my boycott.

Doing taxes suck. Paying taxes (when they actually benefit society *stares at military industrial complex* ) is awesome it’s near the ideal form of Tzedakah; a mechanism to help the anonymous anonymously.

(I am atheist, I just like Maimonides formulation)

I have some Pretti Good reasons to doubt his sincerity here.

@elfreth.house.gov @vanhollen.senate.gov @alsobrooks.senate.gov @schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social

It’s like a car crash between p-hacking, HARKing, and laundering data through case studies and meta analysis, all through Dr. Flattery the always wrong Robot.

And if there is no god, what I did will matter more to people than the arrangement of electrons in my brain.

Pragmatically, for me, I found that removing an opportunity for me to be inhumane and justify it in God’s name was necessary for me to be more humane, more Jesus like.

I suppose I am taking a reverse pascal wager that a God might be more interested in what I do than what I believe.

That’s fair, and I understand the stress even contemplating him as not divine can cause a believer (as I was one).

The nice thing though is I can’t make him God and I can’t make him not God.

I care more about being humane than being right, and if your faith aids you in that, I am a fan.

Many of the claims of Jesus’s divinity can be seen as rhetorical devices. A kind of ham fisted authority argument common in antiquity.

Set all that aside and he was a dude advocating for a humanist interpretation and implementation of the Torah.

He’s kinda cool.

But the “what does it mean to be Jewish now?” thing was a theological and social argument between the Rabbinical Jews and the Jewish Christians. It’s why the gospels read like they are trashing in the Pharisees. They were partly making a social argument.

By the time the gospels were written, the Sadducees were essentially gone due to the destruction of the temple, so criticism of them was redirected towards the Pharisees which were establishing rabbinical Judaism.

Irony being that Jesus was not dissimilar to other Rabbis at the time.

Jesus makes a lot of sense as a first century Rabbi trying to on one hand reject zealotry against the militarily superior Romans, while trying to reinterpret The Law as about justice vs just Temple practice and Judgement from the Sadducees.

I’m an atheist so take with a grain of salt, you are describing the proper formulation of “taking the lords name in vain”.

It’s not saying “oh my god” or “god damnit” - it’s invoking God as a justification for human cruelty, dehumanization, and bigotry.

Without doxxing myself or insulting my wife, I can say vaguely there have been times I have had to bear the brunt of being both primary earner and maintaining the house/family. Not enough to justify self congratulation, but enough that I can only hope to be half the man a single-mother is someday.

I wish Sam the physical safety and company of loved ones that I wish of everyone else, but I want him to have no power and influence.

I wish to be both humane and unflinching in that assessment.

“Move fast and break things” has some application in the early stages of R&D.

“Move fast-ish and unbreak things” in incident response of various types.

But the bulk of human work is in “move slowly and fix things” which is never ending and too boring for these fools :/

Just corroborating as a dude in his 40s that this phenomenon is real and his been present my entire career.

If I actually want to fix and maintain things, step one is building a team of women and non toxic men, or this failure-bravado thing takes hold immediately.

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Due process for all, motherfucker. (Directed at Markwayne Moron, not you guys)

@elfreth.house.gov @vanhollen.senate.gov @alsobrooks.senate.gov @schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social

You know how bad you have to fuck up to lose Gillibrand on anything Israel adjacent?

“Sorry, you are right. That was a school. You are right to call me out on that. Would you like me to pick another target? How about this school?”

lol. Thats the craziest thing I’ve ever heard someone say about Trump.

a man in a military uniform is talking and says `` no problems , everything is fine . '' ALT: a man in a military uniform is talking and says `` no problems , everything is fine . ''

I knew this looked familiar

I am unimpressed by destruction. Any idiot can do that.

lol. No

lol. My boycott started within 20 minutes of them rolling back DEI and it stops approximately never.

It’s all kind of normal for what counted as historical at the time.

The idea of history and story being detached from eachother is a modern invention, that we aren’t even good at yet.