They contradict each other on many aspects.
Yes, which is why I said to compare them to see where they don’t contradict each other.
So either only is from God or none of them are.
Never said any of them were from God. They’re all from humans attempting to describe God.
The gift being that he was old and white with a proven political track record.
Politics isn’t just about policy, you have to appeal to enough voters to get elected if you want to implement those policies. Unfortunately, right now in the US, “kids deserve food” is a wild progressive idea.
The Bible, and the Quran, and the Vedas, and every other religious text are human attempts to describe God. None of them are going to get it quite right in every detail, but you can learn a lot by cross referencing them to see what they agree on.
Did SubGenius use it? It definitely started as Discordian.
Alienation’s for the rich, and I’m feeling poorer every day
It’s super useful as a tabletop GM.
It’s great for illustrations (like a character or shop interior or something) where I want to give players a gist of the vibe, but it’s not something significant enough to commission an actual artist.
It’s also great for generating story beats, NPCs, names, encounters. Generally I make a lot of changes, but I’m way better at modifying something that exists than coming up with something out of thin air, so it works well for me.
The important factor is that I use it purely for entertainment content. Confidently incorrect misinformation isn’t really a problem for strictly fictional applications.
The prevalence in non-fictional, non-entertainment applications is somewhat concerning.
I discovered mushroom powder a few years ago and it changed my life.
So I was actually raised by a pretty narcissistic and manipulative father, but my grandma instilled me with a strong sense of compassion.
I feel the urge to manipulate people into better versions of themselves. It’s a morally conflicting feeling, so I generally don’t follow through.
I’m sure there are others like me.
But now it works on the basis of being reinforced for so long that people just accept it without any thought.
I use the “swipe/glide” typing feature on Android all the time, and it routinely screws things like that up.
Story of my life. They’re and their, your and you’re, don’t and didn’t for some reason.
It’s like their parents never told them the story of The Boy Who Cried Wolf
What’s the capital of Thailand?
And I heard he was hung like this
I like the push for blanket “queer” to replace the initialism entirely. I also think the original rainbow flag was perfect and every addition muddles the poignant symbolism of it. It’s all a spectrum, it’s that easy. Granular inclusion is a slippery slope to internalized segregation.
Everyone still in the GOP is either a Nazi or a nitwit.
There are centuries of religious thought by mystics developing upon the texts inspired in part by those stories. The parts based on common ancient legends comprise a relatively small part of religious texts.
And still, if anything that’s supportive evidence. The ancient legends that pop up again and again, that survive centuries of canonical revision, probably reflect deep and spiritually apparent features of reality.