Modern religions … any and all modern religions are all the same now

They don’t worship a God … or Gods … or Saints … or prophets … or angels … or Holy Spirits

They all worship money and power … and their message is one of control and obedience, so that they can have all the money and power.

They’re all basically the same.

I remember reading about something along those lines a few years ago.

When we were kids running around with our childhood friends every summer, we thought it would never end, that we would be and stay friends forever.

Then one day, we run home, wave goodbye and say ‘see you later!’ … and without us knowing, or being aware of it, that was the last time we saw our childhood friend.

We might have lived next to one another, or went to the same high school later on or even went to the same college … we never saw our friend again.

We never knew and we were never aware of when we said goodbye or saw our friend for the last time.

I think about my old childhood friends … I’m middle aged now … some of those friends died young, some got married and had a bunch of kids … a few had hard lives and became addicts … one of them is a vegetable after having suffered an overdose … and many of them just went on and had small families and did OK.

Read? … what kind of pervert are you?

Try doing that for 6,000 years and see what happens

It’s commonly known as … religion … but if it only appears and occurs for short periods, it’s known as a cult

Same here … I just didn’t like the atmosphere there any more and jumped on Lemmy

I realized that I jumped on Reddit years ago when it was smaller and less known and I grew with it over time … I thought the same thing about Lemmy and now I feel good about growing on this new platform.

It’s a matter of numbers and community.

If you want to be a jerk, people will ignore you. If there are ten other people in the room, you can only be a jerk ten times before everyone in the room starts to ignore you.

That’s the Fediverse, it’s a small community and word gets around fast with people who see and notice a bad character and start blocking them, their posts, their comments and their activity.

That’s the thing about numbers … if you are a small group, word gets around quickly who the jerk is … if you are a big community, there are more systems in place to deal with jerks

So the only way for jerks to survive … is to build a community of jerks for themselves … and surprisingly enough, those communities don’t last very long.

Typical colonist … now you get me to do that to myself too :(

r/Canada is not representative of Canada … r/Canada is representative of a fearful, ignorant, arrogant group of conservative nutjobs that may or may not be Canadian (or even human for that matter (meaning they are bots, not in saying that I deny a human opponents humanity))

Every Canadian, especially those with family that have been here for generations, more than likely has a tiny bit of Indigenous blood in them … it’s just a matter of numbers and circumstance. How do you expect your hundreds of ancestors to now mix with the local people if they’ve been here for 200-300 years?

Conversely, I always say I’m 100% Indigenous because both my parents were born in the wilderness of northern Ontario and as far as we’ve known, all their families go back thousands of years of Ojibway Indigenous blood … but there is still the possibility that there may have been one or two Europeans somewhere along those lines. We have one great grandfather who was called ‘wapi-George’ … basically ‘white George’ who apparently had very fair skin but his father was undetermined or never known. You can only guess what happened there … either it was passionate ill fated love, or just a child born from rape.

As far as the racism goes … I keep telling my friends that nothing has really changed. The only thing that is in the process of changing is the fact that white Europeans are in the last stages of holding onto their privileged status and that in the next few generations, they won’t be as important as they used to be … and that thought just absolutely terrifies them. They are so wound up about losing control that they can’t see that it absolutely doesn’t matter to everyone else … and that at the end, once they lose all importance, they won’t be any more important than anyone else.

If you’re white European

If you are Indigenous Canadian like me … then you are free to rape, rob me and infect me with some communicable disease … and if you have time burn my home too.

“I ordered that penne carbonara two weeks ago!”

Is this an American child?

I love how they are all overweight chubby kids

His second scary story should be how there was a world with no snacks and people only ate three healthy portioned meals a day and drank only water

We’d all like to think that but what usually happens is that the ultra wealthy lose a quarter or half their wealth, which makes no difference to anyone because they are so massively wealthy … everyone else lose everything

Last seen with three accomplices … one in a lion costume … the second looks like a disheveled street person … and the third is covered in tin believed to be a terrible Iron Man costume.

I thought they went extinct during the late Diabetassic

Please Bro … let’s just go for a few hours … maybe a few days … the farmer is thinking of selling … we could buy the farm and do this all the time … please bro … just this one time

One of his fathers was also his son

It might actually work … until you have to pass a kidney stone the size of an orange