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@crushmarxismnow At that time it was just because WW2 was cool and WW2 shooters hadn't been run into the ground yet. It had nothing to do with leftist anything.

I remember this was celebrated as being a game where you get to kill Nazis. The Leftist fetish of killing Whites did not begin in 2014

@ITalkOfChrist I don't like the accusatory tone of your post

This is the Church website's describes Elders Quorum to prospective visitors. This is the goal we should be striving for. How does your quorum compare to this ideal? Are you "united by a shared purpose?" ... Or do quorum meetings feel like a way to just fill the time? Do you "come together to help each other serve better as sons, brothers, husbands, fathers, and members of the community?" ... Or do members feel isolated and zone out on their phones? Do you "discuss the service needs of your ward?" ... Or is everyone virtually unaware of the needs of your ward? Do you schedule "plenty of social activities" and "fun ways to connect with peers?" ... Or does you quorum have $200 budgeted for the whole year, and you spend it all on flowers for Mother's Day? churchofjesuschrist.org/comeuntochrist…

@fatfabfeminist to the extent that this did exist, it went away due to Obama

this is the world we were supposed to have

@owen02_ The only "peak" thing here is Andor, the rest is worse than almost all of the Lucas movies

Star Wars without being about Skywalkers btw (it’s peak)

@NM5WRLD every single word of this is the exact opposite of the truth

Marijuana was mentioned in the Epstein files. They said that people who smoke cannabis are harder to manipulate and control... that's why alcohol is promoted and Marijuana is demonized.

@to48864 Admins, problem kids like this one, and the problem kids' parents are a much bigger issue than the teachers. Teachers are libs because that's the culture around them. They aren't necessarily bad at the actual functions of teaching, they're just teaching things that are wrong.

Fascinating. This over-educated shrew sees that it's just one (guess the color lmao) girl ruining everything, sees that everything got better when the biotrash was removed, and lands on "It was the SYSTEM the whole time!!" Homeschooling isn't about the other kids as much as it's about the teachers & admins. Kids will sort themselves out if given the latitude and proper boundaries. But it seems to me that so few people truly understand how permanently damaging it is to give soulless admins and brainless teachers free reign to "instruct & guide." There's a reason every intelligent person that survived the mass education gauntlet remembers one, at the absolute most three, teachers in a positive light. Teachers, in the aggregate, suck. Thankfully, there is an incredibly simple solution to this problem: fire all admins, and cut teacher pay to 0. Volunteers only, with LLMs doing all the scheduling (bots can probably do conflict resolution as well; couldn't be worse than Administrator L'Kweefa). Making it volunteer only would strain out all of the dross and lackwits overnight. Parents pay tutors (if they are too stupid or lazy to teach their own children) to supplement. Bloated mass education budgets get funneled into things that actually matter, like playgrounds, sports, and teaching toys/tools. Narrow the education age range dramatically to, say, 6 to 14. Kids with intellectual proclivity can be shunted through tutors to higher Ed. Everyone else follows their heart via the capacity of their brainpower. If we remove the ~100 million migrant leeches & interlopers, there will be so many jobs & opportunities up and down the skill stack. This is an extreme idea. Maybe some aspects go too far, but I bet some don't go far enough. My point is, we don't have to play dumb about this. The teachers are the problem. The admins are the problem. The biotrash is the problem. We should remove the problems, assuming that the goal is for things to get better.

@anabelle_dawn Andor was previously shown flying ships, is a professional spy, and was specifically preparing for this exact mission. It's less that Rey can figure out this one thing, it's that she's good at everything.

two characters, established as pilots, attempt to fly an unfamiliar ship, have trouble at first, but after a learning curve, figure out the controls and fly better. one is acceptable, the other is brought up in every discussion about why a character is so "awful". why is that?

@jane_plainly @MrDanielBuck It has nothing to do with spirits or tribes, and the problem kids aren't necessarily the class clowns either. It's simply a function of how loud and distracting the room is and how much time and energy the teacher has to spend dealing with it instead of teaching.

@Pilgile @MrDanielBuck and having been an ostracized other and a well performing student, clowns dont affect you unless the presence of the clown is a spiritual attack from some kind of tribe brain shit.

“One student made 25 other students have a worse experience” Mercy to the cruel is cruelty to the innocent

@priestessofdada @Slotsflops @MrDanielBuck Has nothing to do with autism

@Slotsflops @MrDanielBuck Best, meaning, the teacher who doesn't understand how to deal with autistic kids no longer has to. So yes.

@jane_plainly @MrDanielBuck having been both a student and a teacher, yes this 100% happened and happens constantly

this is literally not real. There is no way 1 girl was able to do that just by being in class, and merely talking in a way the teacher didnt like. There has to be more to this like a race dynamic, like she was the only white girl in black class, or the only black girl in a white class, and in reality the reason this 1 student who was a bad student, which is a day ending in y in american schools, was able to "disrupt the whole class" is some race shit. Meaning it wasnt really her, it was THEIR bigotry/intolerance, that made her presence affect them so much. Cuz a kinda crappy high school student who is smart and talks a lot is like 50% of american high school students. What i WOULD believe, is she was the only black girl, hispanic girl, or white girl. The real reason the vibe was off, is their hatred/intolerance of her "group".

@vahetzi @joewheat27 The classic one is Matthew 15:5, where they declare their money as "corban" or a gift/temple offering so that they don't have to use it to take care of their elderly parents. The Lord also implies that they're extremely decadent and wicked in Matthew 23.

@Pilgile @joewheat27 So lawyers. Do you know a parable or story explicitly about their loopholes and exceptions? I trying to think of one. Probably is one. Just old.

I think this is a good question. Recent conference messages show that God is far more concerned with how we treat one another than outward expressions of righteousness, because as we saw yesterday, obsession over traditional rules does not promote peace.

@melonakos @TomStringham "You get to be led by the Spirit now. It's better than having rules." "The Spirit told me that the rules should be even stricter." "NO THAT DOESN'T COUNT!!"

@TomStringham The church does teach clearly. It is clearly backing away from prescribing rules and is instead inviting our members to be Spirit-led. Our "guide for making choices" could not be more apt for the moment. churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/f…

Lots of members think the church’s old teachings (on tattoos, Sunday shopping, working as a mom when you don’t need to, etc.) still apply, some others seem to think they don’t and maybe never have. I don’t blame either camp; the last 15 or so years have been genuinely confusing.

@joewheat27 @Rultpwr "I’m not some progressive Mormon that thinks anything goes as long as it feels good" What is the material difference between what you do and what they do?

@Rultpwr TLDR: you don’t know me. I’m not some progressive Mormon that thinks anything goes as long as it feels good. We are on the same side here. Obedience to God is king.

There are members of the Church who will read about the early Saints' failure to live the law of consecration and conclude that God must've wanted more focus on kindness than obedience to His commandments

@joewheat27 You should tell God that he should stop having these mean icky rules

@Capneo1 @joewheat27 It wasn't the rules, it was the assertion that he was the Messiah and the Son of God

@joewheat27 Obsession over traditional rules got a man crucified.

@vahetzi @joewheat27 Phariseeism is also about trying to find loopholes and exceptions. Christ told people to be MORE righteous than the Pharisees, not less. He said you would be least in the kingdom (or not saved according to JST) if you broke the least commandments or taught other people to do so.

@joewheat27 Pharisees got to Pharisee. To them it’s about the law and outward appearances. First law saints. Strange that Christ was always preaching to them. They fought what he wast trying to teach them.

@joewheat27 Somebody had better tell this Jesus guy about toxic perfectionism. He told everyone they were commanded to be as perfect as God. Total Pharisee.

When Christ came, he de-emphasized religious tradition towards inward devotion. It’s probably not a surprise that he’d do the same before he comes again because Zion is not a group of “check the box” saints. Spelling out every box from tattoos, to Sunday shopping, to general roles, to modesty promotes that kind of saint and doesn’t necessarily bring you any closer to Christ, especially when it’s weaponized to tout how much more righteous you are then your neighbor, or worse, promotes perfectionism.

@melonakos @_pipdid @TomStringham @JesseLucasSaga What an absolutely deranged statement

@_pipdid @TruthHolder2023 @TomStringham @JesseLucasSaga I don't believe there is any inherent virtue or vice to the tattoo. Like Sabbath observance, it is simply a sign between God and man. Tattoos used to be more culturally vice-y than they are today. Now it is more vice-y to hate on them than it is to let go of that bent altogether.

@extradeadjcb This is the conclusion I reached, including through a lot of prayer about it. Unfortunately any big action like censorship, excommunications, firings, saying No to certain groups just has such bad optics that it's counterproductive at the moment. It won't always be so though.

My default assumption: this is part of the trend of big bureaucratic institutions struggling to survive decentralized media environment - they are basically 100% attack surface now I have no idea what I would do in their position

The strangest thing is that there has been no "changing of the guard" that could explain it - to an almost comical degree, the Church has been run by the same people our entire lives Both sides are appealing to literally the same individual authoritative sources 30 years apart

@fandompulse I don't like his writing but he's 100% correct

Ender's Game author Orson Scott Card on the problems with how religion is portrayed in current fantasy and science fiction: "In our culture, intellectuals have become so uniformly a-religious or anti-religious that our fiction, with few exceptions, depicts religious people in only two ways: the followers are ignorant and stupid and easily fooled, and the leaders are exploitative and cynical, manipulating others' faith for their private benefit. I know some people who fit those descriptions. But they are in a tiny minority. Most religious people I know are smart, well-educated, independent-minded, stubborn, honest, and generous -- at least as much so as the average intellectual, and usually more. The hostility toward religion among American intellectuals arises, I think, from a clear awareness that it was against a publicly religious culture that their own culture rebelled. Now that rebellion is completely successful in terms of capturing control of all the public instruments of transmission of culture -- the universities, the media, and the literature and art -- but it has become such a shibboleth of intellectual life to snipe at religion that, like the aging "revolutionaries" of the old Soviet Union, they mindlessly continue to "rebel" in order to defend their tight grip on the establishment. Indeed, those intellectuals are the establishment. And what was once a daring and rebellious stance is now just another example of lockstep conformists mindlessly echoing ideas that they haven't examined. That's when contemporary fiction mentions religion at all. Most of the time, in and out of speculative fiction, religion simply doesn't exist. Characters don't believe in God or even think about believing in God. Nobody talks about religion. Nobody belongs to any kind of church. Religion simply doesn't exist. ... This is, I think, a serious lapse, a dishonesty in our contemporary literature. It is most seriously dishonest because in fact, even the supposedly a-religious intellectuals behave exactly as religious people always have. That is, the behavioral and cultural patterns that we have always associated with religions are indistinguishable, except by vocabulary, from the behavioral and cultural patterns of the a-religious intellectuals. They band together with fellow believers, feel sorry for or hostile toward unbelievers, immediately punish heretics -- intellectuals who, having once been accepted in the 'faith,' dare to question its premises -- anoint their priests and theologians (psychologists and therapists being their ministers, scientists and, more usually, science popularizers being their doctors of atheology), and insist on their absolute right to put forth their religious ideas with public funding and the authority of the state behind them, while doing their utmost to silence or marginalize the beliefs of others. Most fiction has become, in short, an instrument of propaganda for the established religion of our time, which differs from other religions only in the particular content of the faith and the vocabulary used to describe it. Naturally, the true believers are sure that the real difference is that their beliefs are objectively true. But then, true believers have always believed that. This is not what distinguishes them from other established religions, but rather what makes them fundamentally identical to them. The honest depicter of human life will include the religious aspect of that life. This is not to say that stories need to be about religion, any more than stories about our contemporary culture need to be about cars. But the cars need to be present, at least by implication, and if a character doesn't know how to drive, we'd need to know why." Is this why Hollywood stopped adapting his books into films?