[-] Zoboomafoo@slrpnk.net 5 points 13 hours ago

Make America West Virginia

[-] Zoboomafoo@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 day ago

The minimum time commitment is what gets me. I can have my phone out and social media open in seconds

[-] Zoboomafoo@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

we have no idea they all had the same delusion.

You have no idea that they did, and you have no idea they didn't.

That's why I said before that if you can see how religions rhyme, you can find a core message in all of them. And that, I think, is the truth.

[-] Zoboomafoo@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 day ago

What's your point? That religion is flawed? Then, yes, I agree, that was what I was trying to convey in my original comment.

The exclusivity is a product of man trying to control others. Just look at early Christianity, which was non-hierarchical and gender-equal. It was only later that it was turned into the power structure of Catholicism.

[-] Zoboomafoo@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 day ago

What if their reported experiences are just delusions?

If people across time and space who have sought the answer to the question "What is the nature of the universe and what is the meaning of life" all came to the same delusion, then fuck it, let's all be delusional together because it's apparently inherent to human nature.

[-] Zoboomafoo@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I didn't know that about the Australian Aboriginals, I'll have to learn about them. And what's the difference between god dreaming the world into existence and god making it with their own hands? It's all allegory for creation.

[-] Zoboomafoo@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Absolutely, people who achieve enlightenment interpret the experience through the lens of their own culture. Buddhism is that truth seen through the lens of Buddha's Hinduism, Christianity (minus anything Paul wrote) is that truth seen through the lens of Jesus's Jew upbringing.

There's even people who have achieved it nowadays that interpret life as a sort of video game.

[-] Zoboomafoo@slrpnk.net 13 points 1 day ago

Planes cant hold land

[-] Zoboomafoo@slrpnk.net 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Since it's inconceivable that all religions can be right

It's not that inconceivable. I think religions are flawed interpretations of a single truth that seems to be universal to human existence.

Study enough religions and you start to see how they rhyme.

[-] Zoboomafoo@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 day ago

The real reason the Silver Bridge collapsed is because the coal companies are in complete control of West Virginia economically and politically. They made the bridge be built by the lowest bidder, who built an unsafe bridge that predictably collapsed.

Mothman was just trying to warn people

[-] Zoboomafoo@slrpnk.net 32 points 2 days ago

Generalizations about my out-group 👍

Generalizations about my in-group 👎

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