one fear: Christians who believe in climate change but support it because they want the world to end for religious reasons
do these people actually exist??? please tell me you just made this up.
My grandfather was one. I don’t even know if it’s a specific sect or what – he was Bulgarian->Greek Orthodox but I have also heard it from Protestants and Pentecostals. It’s not usually presented as “environmental destruction is good!” but as “environmental destruction isn’t bad because the sooner the world is thrown into unlivable chaos, the sooner Christ will rise again, and that’s good!”
Yup, the church attached to the school I went to is like that.
Before Y2K these were the premillennial dispensationalism. They’re basically a death cult version of religion that believes they are charged with the responsibility of bringing about the end of the world to force the return of Jesus.
Part of their thing is to do what they can to cause the destruction of Israel to start the count timer for Revelations to go from back of the book reading into a Live Action Religious Play.
Which, y’know, as a death cult doomsday game plan seems a v. bad plan, because assume for a moment that you succeed, and you have to face down Jesus ‘King of the Jews’ Christ and that yahweh of “God’s chosen people’, and explain “Oh yeah, caused ‘em all to get killed so you’d show up and lavish me with rewards”
Cos I’d soon try turning Cthulhu into a seafood basket than open that conversation.
The last poster stated that premillenial dispenstionals are essentially hellbent on the destruction of Israel and the world in general. That’s not true. While Premils do believe that the Jewish people are no longer God’s chosen people (remember that whole unbelief and wandering the desert for 40 years thing? or the whole setting up crucifying the Messiah thing?), they still in general support the Jewish state as the Book of Revelation and the Prophets state that God still has plans for them and will be providing a redemption opportunity for a large number of the Jewish people. Not to mention that the Good Book has dozens of examples of Gentiles being blessed when they show mercy/kindness/etc. to the Jews.
Most Pre-mils won’t actively seek a way to hasten the End Times. In fact, according to Premillennialism they won’t even be here as they will have been “taken up” or Raptured by Christ before the Millennium begins. That’s where they get their name. It has nothing to do Y2K- what we think of as the “New Millennium”, but rather the Millennium in which Christ reigns on Earth after the destruction of Satan.
Before you ask me how I know this, I have a degree in Biblical Studies.
‘straight men are terrified of showing platonic affection for other men because they’re afraid people will assume they’re gay’ now i hope this doesn’t sound too harsh but maybe if straight dudes, as a group, hadn’t spent decades
The new Spiderman game would be perfect if there weren’t so many pro cop messages all over the place
Come to think of it, wouldn’t western superhero media be 2000 times better if the heroes weren’t all proponents of the status quo and defenders of the capitalist state apparatus
Finally, Magneto was right.
A lot of early superheroes (most notably Superman) turned into defenders of the status quo during the Cold War due primarily to the crackdown on anything that even appeared to promote socialism.
i think the moment i was disillusioned about life was when i was maybe 7 years old and realized the reason all my friends had become assholes was because boys aren’t allowed to have any physcial contact that isn’t fighting
my parents were hippie feminists so my brother and i could play clapping games and sleep in puppy piles and give each other weird hairdos, but all the ‘normal’ boys just up and stopped knowing how to touch anyone without hitting sometime between kindergarten and first grade
and my little kid mind briefly saw the vastness of life stretching out in front of all of us, and all the hugs everyone would need and not get, and for a moment i was just like
maybe life is not such a good idea after all
I grew up around a Russian ballet school. Let me tell you something about Russian men: They touch each other. Especially dancers, who are in my experience almost always super tactile people. They rough house like Americans, but they also hug each other, and sit on each other’s laps, and share blankets when it’s cold backstage.
So I grew up knowing full well that the whole Men Don’t Touch thing was puritanical bullshit.
What I was absolutely not prepared for, however, is the super intense effect it has on straight men’s romantic relationships.
Because when you are literally the only person it is okay for your boyfriend to touch, Jesus fucking Christ, that changes the game.
I strongly suspect that a lot of Str8 Dude feelings of entitlement to women’s bodies, particularly the bodies of their wives and girlfriends, is a direct result of those women being the only non-violent physical contact they’re allowed to have.
I know for certain that the framing of any and all platonic physical contact as un-manly has been directly responsible for a lot of sexual dysfunction (and then the attendant misery of trying to get that treated at the ripe old age of 22) with at least one of my exes. It’s a mess when you can’t get it up because you’re depressed and want to be held but you’ve been brainwashed into thinking what you actually want is sex because being held is for girls.
Amazing how the erectile dysfunction went completely away when he learned the difference between feeling horny and feeling cuddly. /sarcasm
“I strongly suspect that a lot of Str8 Dude feelings of entitlement to women’s bodies, particularly the bodies of their wives and girlfriends, is a direct result of those women being the only non-violent physical contact they’re allowed to have.”
Omfg
No wonder the worst of them seem crazy… profound isolation does exactly that
When I taught in Japan, the boys were all super comfortable with each other. They’d sit on laps and hug and roughhouse and it wasn’t seen as bad ? Like it surprised me at first, but then you realize the problem is with so many men feeling that they have to prove… something? I dunno. I personally don’t like hugs or touches, but that is my own personal reasons and nothing of how I was brought up.
Because when you are literally the only person it is okay for your boyfriend to touch, Jesus fucking Christ, that changes the game.
Things I never thought of…I couldn’t imagine if my husband were the only person I was allowed to touch. As I think on it, that extends to the kids, too. The dudes aren’t allowed to really even cuddle their own damned children or nieces and nephews.
Wow.
Also explains why western media romanticizes co-dependency in romantic relationships to such an insane degree.
if all the liberals who constantly condescend to people about voting took all that energy and put it towards combating voter disenfranchisement we might actually get somewhere but instead people wanna pretend like the stupid masses just dont know how important voting is as opposed to you know, voter id laws being passed in conjunction with closing dmvs, voter rolls being purged in democratic counties, limiting early voting in urban areas, fucking gerrymandering and all. no the biggest problem is that these dummies dont know any better but my patronizing social media post sure will change that!
this isnt like directed at people encouraging others to register to vote or sharing info about absentee ballots fyi its about the eye bleeding experience of seeing ppl still aggressively preaching about how “if all those whiny babies hadnt not voted in 2016 we wouldnt have trump so dont screw it up again!” like every political analyst on both sides and at all levels have all said that setting aside literally everything else, including hackers trying to rig the election, trump and the republicans won because of gerrymandering and voter suppression.
if you do believe in the electoral system or even just in like the concept of elections your goal should be to make tangible real efforts to make sure everyone can actually vote cuz theres a lot of eligible voters and generally just smart good people who would love to make a difference and get involved w politics but they cant because of systemic barriers that very few people are doing anything about.
up thinking how the earth is gonna reach its breaking point with the next 20 years because of major corporations and they are doing this for money which literally has no intrinsic worth so they are gonna kill us all over paper with imaginary value
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