Dharma Curious (he/him)

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  • Thank you for being the one to post that. It really bugs me when people say Jesus didn’t exist and present it as if it’s uncontroversial fact. Whether you believe in the claims about Him as a Messiah, a divine figure, et cetera are beside the point when discussing His existence. There is actual historical evidence to support that the figure existed and began a ministry around that time. Being anti historical is just bad practice, regardless of the side you’re falling on. Historical Jesus is a fascinating subject.

    Again, regardless of your view, love Him or hate Him, a guy was born, said some stuff, and died, and it literally changed the entire course of human history. Religions that reigned for thousands of years do not exist anymore because of Him, the most influential government to exist until the modern era was based on the idea of being the torch bearers of His legacy. Empires rose and fell on His word (or, His supposed words, depending on your point of view). Like… No matter what, it’s a crazily interesting thing, and the idea that any one human can have a legacy like that is amazing. Let’s not downplay it. Heck, if you hate the guy, at least acknowledge He was real so that we figure out how to prevent others from having their message of peace and love so distorted and causing so much grief.

    A dude lived 2000 years ago and we’re still talking about him, that’s pretty incredible. Worth learning about. Same with other historical religious figures, like Muhammed, Siddhartha Gautama (the Buddha, although we are slightly less sure he existed, though consensus is that he did), Adi Shankara, and others.





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    “Healthy” is sort of subjective, especially in an era where prepackaged snack cakes and cookies and all manner of processed foods are super common, and often far more available than fresh alternatives. Is this healthier than just eating a handful of spinach leaves or a bowl of riced cauliflower? Likely not. Is this healthier than opening a package oreos, saying you’ll have 2, and then eating the entire thing while binge watching something on Netflix? I have no idea. I assume so, maybe I’m wrong. But this take effort and time to make, so you’ll probably eat fewer of them, and not snack on them absent mindedly as you would with something that took zero effort to obtain. Plus, this looks like it tastes way better



  • Edit: I wrote this to be funny, but it came across as genuinely pissy and makes me look crazy. Leaving it for posterity, but it’s meant as a joke.

    Fuck you mean “save?” Please, for the love of all that is holy, don’t take the matrix from us! Let us have a matrix, we can all live in there and not worry about the climate or the gas clouds. Heck, I’m pretty sure they can just reincarnate us when we die, so we never even have to lose our family members. The machines were doing us a kindness and Neo came along and fucked it all up. I’ll take my 1999 existence over the shit show of the truth any day.

    And that’s without even going into the fact that I fully believe Agent Smith lied when he told Morpheus that the matrix couldn’t be a paradise. Smith is an unreliable narrator at best.