The Hero with a Thousand Faces -
Why do we keep telling the same stories over and over?
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Monday, 9 October 2017
quote [ The problem isn’t “coastal elites don’t understand rural Americans.” The problem is rural America doesn’t understand itself and will NEVER listen to anyone outside their bubble. It doesn’t matter how “understanding” you are, how well you listen, what language you use…if you are viewed as an outsider, your views are automatically discounted....
At some point during the discussion, “That’s your education talking,” will be said, derogatorily, as a general dismissal of everything I said. They truly believe this is a legitimate response because to them education is not to be trusted. Education is the enemy of fundamentalism because fundamentalism, by its very nature, is not built on facts. ] You aren't from around here are ya boy?
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5th Earth said @ 3:18am GMT on 9th Oct
I could swear this was a repost. But it's a good one so I don't care enough to check.
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bbqkink said @ 3:26am GMT on 9th Oct
Maybe I just looked closer at it and the date is 27 nov.
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bbqkink said @ 4:00am GMT on 9th Oct
And in other news on the God front...
Chess player banned by Iran for not wearing a hijab switches to US |
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bobolink said @ 11:21am GMT on 9th Oct
P'WNED!
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cb361 said @ 2:58pm GMT on 9th Oct
I like this guy. He's telling me what I want to hear.
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buckaroo50 said @ 4:31pm GMT on 9th Oct
This is what I've always thought. If you're believing Christianity literally, then your world view cannot be swayed by facts.
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LurkerAtTheGate said[1] @ 8:46pm GMT on 9th Oct
Same problem as conspiracy theories. And probably originates in the same place - fear. Namely fear that things are uncontrollable & ultimately without a bias in their favor (or even against it -- nothing sucks like being completely ignored), therefore even a dickbag invisible sky pervert who makes their lives miserable is preferable to the alternative.
Which is one of the few ways in which game theory is actually comforting, but trying to explain that to my grandparents on a rural farm was pretty futile. |
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Bruceski said @ 8:56pm GMT on 9th Oct
I describe my own faith as a hope that when I die, whatever last bit of consciousness shouts out to the universe "I existed" before it evaporates, something will answer "I know."
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tigsnort said @ 10:21pm GMT on 9th Oct
good. can we finally say "fuck em"?
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5432 said @ 1:34am GMT on 9th Oct
[Score:-1 Boring]
filtered comment under your threshold |
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ubie said @ 1:45am GMT on 9th Oct
[Score:2]
...but he's not wrong.
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5th Earth said @ 3:17am GMT on 9th Oct
[Score:2 Underrated]
You know, although liberals hold up tolerance as a good thing, we do believe that certain ideas shouldn't be tolerated. This whole idea that anytime a liberal doesn't tolerate something, they're a hypocrite, is a strawman argument, and a weak one at that.
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lilmookieesquire said @ 1:55am GMT on 9th Oct
It’s funny because that guy is exhibiting the same aspects he is complaining about; while talking about how he also grew up in that area; and now you’re all (do the kids say...) “triggered” by it.
Although given what passes for journalism these days, a blog entry on Raw Story is probably pretty high in terms of journalism standards and integrity, when five people own all the media outlets-so I get you. |
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bbqkink said[2] @ 2:18am GMT on 9th Oct
You only put in the first part of that statement...
figuratively and literally. Religious fundamentalism is what has shaped most of their belief systems. Systems built on a fundamentalist framework are not conducive to introspection, questioning, learning, change. You skipped the point of the post. Oh and Jesus wasn't white... And what about Jesus's facial features? They were Jewish. That Jesus was a Jew (or Judaean) is certain in that it is found repeated in diverse literature, including in the letters of Paul. And, as the Letter to the Hebrews states: "It is clear that our Lord was descended from Judah." So how do we imagine a Jew at this time, a man "about 30 years of age when he began," according to Luke chapter 3? What did Jesus really look like? And most fundamentalist have given up any thing that actually Came out of the mouth of Jesus Most "Christian " Churches are anything but Christian |
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