They shouldn’t have driven near the exploding spatulas.
They shouldn’t have driven near the exploding spatulas.
That is uplifting news! Thanks for sharing!
Maybe if Russia wasn’t in Crimea, they wouldn’t have to worry about getting bombed?
Crazy idea
Or more likely, Jesus was an eminent rabbi of the era, that oral stories expanded for hundreds of years, until he became a literal avatar of a god.
Or maybe he was a fraudster like another magician of the time - Simon Magus, who is mentioned in the Bible. Simon was an escape artist, and had a levitation illusion. That’s not far from water to wine or walking on water.
Show me 12 guys that experience something absolutely world changing, and none of them write anything about it for decades and then tell me they were factually motivated
Literacy and writing were uncommon then, though.
I agree with this and do not dispute it.
However, I think there is value to the human mind in performing ritual, meditation, and positive thinking. We can think ourselves into feeling better. The placebo effect works, even in you know about the placebo effect.
Jesus didn’t know about these things 2000 years ago, but the stories about him make him seem like a worldly rabbi. He might have seen evidence of people getting better from disease through the power of prayer. (Never amputees, though.) The human body can fight disease; it can never regrow a limb.
The human mind also tends to remember positive experiences, and tends to ignore things that don’t seem to work. This is how fake psychics and cold readers work. You send out a bunch of guesses, and get a couple of “hits”, and the client remembers the hits. We all remember the hits. It’s harder to remember the misses. (Side note: I experienced a palm reader at a party and experienced this first-hand, and despite knowing their techniques, I still felt it a little.)
All this makes me believe that our brains are generally susceptible to a construct like religion. And that there could be some value in meditation, ritual, and positive thinking. However religion is frequently a grift and makes people do bad things - it doesn’t have to be, though. Being quietly spiritual is ok, which is what Jesus taught.
People should tip their servers, what they can afford.
It’s worth it
Smedley Butler was right. It is a racket.
What would you do with the guns? What will they do with the guns?
What is the envisioned game plan here?
How will arming up help anything? Honest question.
folks said the first American civil war was going to be short, too.
And we’re still going through it! 😭
Yeah, what about their Second Amendment Rights in other countries? /s
I think he’s always been kinda like this. The magician community has known for many years.
Career dead? No way. That dude’s Vegas act is still running. He’s working full time, almost every day, last I heard.
He’s also got a supermodel wife, but also pulls this shit? What a fucking moron.
I’m not OP, but Chromium-based and Gecko-based might be the duopoly?
It’s hard to read the fine print in Cyrillic.
I’d probably quit my job, and work as a writer, artist, game designer, and entertainer full time. I’m worried about health care, though, being in the US. Can you throw in a little Medicaid for All in there?
it only hurts people who want answers to obscure questions
Which makes them people less likely to trust Reddit with answers…
So they go to Reddit less often…
Which hurts Reddit.
Everyone suffers if you let stupidity and apathy win.
It’s a ridiculous self-depreciating meme. It’s funny because it contrasts with Biden being old and frail.
QAnons actually believe their shit.