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  1. amorphous_constellation

    I guess I don't see the point

    It's also about behavior and history, and that can bleed into politics, which can affect people outside of an influential faith. Historical analysis can be applied to the approximate periods in history where religiously relevant events occurred, to determine their veracity. The behavior can...
  2. amorphous_constellation

    The Didache, a few notes or concerns

    It's an interesting document that might come from the first century, giving rules for an extremely early Christian community, and there are a couple things in it that a modern person might find controversial or curious "Thou shalt not lay commands in thy bitterness on thy bondman or...
  3. amorphous_constellation

    Half thoughts, mid-thoughts, and random images from a mind

    Dream backlog.. each one summarized in a sentence or two 12/20/22 - Giant abstract concrete structures at twilight, I wander a facility-like area in the open-air, until I am driven off by a couple mild ruffians 12/21/22 - Tall, giant baseball-capped man, guides me along giant tunnel to farms on...
  4. amorphous_constellation

    What if the Second Amendment Were Repealed?

    Well, undue pain 300 years ago is still undue pain now. Imagine you're a civilian in eastern Ukraine, and some military group comes up to occupy your house, and a new government wants to annex your town. These kinds of things happen in the world, and I'm not sure if any legal context really maps...
  5. amorphous_constellation

    What if the Second Amendment Were Repealed?

    The key one right now of course, being ukraine. And notably, the 'left' in this country seems to show the most support for arming them. In thinking about that, I think I now likely agree with doing so, despite the nuclear chicken problem, though I railed against it before. I guess it ends up...
  6. amorphous_constellation

    What if the Second Amendment Were Repealed?

    And then, from there, if only a government can be armed, then the citizens of any nation would have to then put their sole assurance of security in that government to protect them. Does that always work? I am almost through this book about the Rwandan genocide. My takeaway from that, seems to be...
  7. amorphous_constellation

    Some notes on trying to comprehend David Hume

    "That cause, which excites the passion, is related to the object, which nature has attributed to the passion; the sensation, which the cause separately produces, is related to the sensation of the passion: from this double relation of ideas and impressions the passion is derived. The one idea is...
  8. amorphous_constellation

    The Us vs Them dogma within a religion

    I had just got done reading the didache, and I'm curious on your views about chapter 9.
  9. amorphous_constellation

    More Enviro Nonesense - Widening Highways Doesn’t Fix Traffic

    I don't know man, 100 years ago did people even want cars and highways jamming up their relaxed walking areas, or was this foist upon them by some kind of tech teleology anyway? Ever hear of the 'third place?' Wouldn't you rather have more 'third place' areas rather than have more road? How...
  10. amorphous_constellation

    Report on banned books in schools for 2022

    Well if I was running for election, I would start something called the 'tempered party.' This would be a party of nuanced centrism, but I would immediately be attacked by both sides, since I'm not sure they believe centrism exists. Centrism has largely retreated from politics.
  11. amorphous_constellation

    Report on banned books in schools for 2022

    There's another view right there, that I'm sure that someone in the modern polarized political media would declaim as a dog whistle.
  12. amorphous_constellation

    Report on banned books in schools for 2022

    I find no problem with your educated view here, but I am concerned about how nuanced views like this would sail in the current political climate. Both parties seem to increasingly believe that all nuance is actually a dogwhistle, which is a view I find disgusting
  13. amorphous_constellation

    Report on banned books in schools for 2022

    Out of a the total curriculum when I was in school, which included math, science, gym, shop class, and other stuff, english class was only a small part of it, and that's where we read books. And that's where we read the books about war and dystopia, and analyzed them with the teacher. Doing the...
  14. amorphous_constellation

    Your Botanical Identity

    Iceland moss.. I don't know what that is, but the name has a ring to it. I'm not a total fount of health, but I really like whatever health I can attain The wicker man.. I don't know if I'd classify it as horror movie, but I'm not exactly sure how it should be classified.
  15. amorphous_constellation

    Rattle snake head bites its headless body

    Must kind of be that way in fish too. There's a video of someone washing fish fillets in the sink, no guts, no head, nothing.. Just fillets ready to cook, and they started flipping out
  16. amorphous_constellation

    Reading list for the year?

    Nice. I really enjoy Jackson Crawford, his translations are very easy to read and lucid. I'll have to read his 'two sagas of mythical heroes,' that must be a more recent one
  17. amorphous_constellation

    Reading list for the year?

    I don't have a definite list, but I guess I'm just sticking to the 'strategy,' which is kind of controversial. And that is, to read 5 books at time, which seems to mean 1 hard, long and complex philosophy book, one semi-long and semi-complex book, and 2 or 3 short books to 'grease the wheels' of...
  18. amorphous_constellation

    Recognisably Christian???

    Who sent a mission to the english then? Once they came to the isles
  19. amorphous_constellation

    Is Christianity the easiest religion?

    First of all, there is what era you are from. It seems to me, as a passive reader of history, that the way the religion was practiced might change rapidly, as trends changed. But I think that maybe, the follower of a religion also makes it either easy or severe, for themselves. That, on top of...
  20. amorphous_constellation

    Recognisably Christian???

    I think you might be describing roughly what happened to the Irish. After Rome abandoned the British Isles, wasn't there a gap of a few hundred years before they reconnected to the Roman church?
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