I'll clearify my concept. If you could possibly take a midle age theologist and teleport him to the current age, they'd be total nerds and not priests.

Clergy back then was studying, and studying and studying and exploring reality in a framework that gave for granted that God exixts. You can call it whatever you want but I think it's a bit silly to reduct it to "those dumb fucks belong to the mines", while in reality it through their efforts that, unwillingly (?), we pursued knowledge to the point of refining modern science methodology.

Because branding exists.

Nothing "makes" you anything. Questioning and exploring existence can look very different in different ages.

Also known as scientists.

Unironically the question by witch many Christian faiths differ: does God needs abide to the rules of logic or not?

For the Roman Catholic, yes, for Calvinists and a bunch other (ok, many other but I'm not an expert), no.

Back in the days they were just philosophers aka scientists.

I have some bad news about the status of the afterlife.

They are basically cops. And the analogy holds on many level including that yes, some can genuinely be on your side and try to help you or fix the system from the inside, in a way, but it's pretty much "luck based", you have no foolproof way to tell one from the other.

The wise strategy is to be your own HR, study the contracts and the laws. If you go in blind trusting HR you can be lucky and have a good happy professiona life or get fucked.

Knowing also helps dramatically in undestanding where HR can realistically help, where it can harm and where it is going beyond expectations and is on your side.

Don't expect them to put you above their own survival though...

It's not a habit I make a conscious effort from october to january every year.

No, not really, it's mostly a matter of power.

The Church itself is rooted in the idea that there are autorities on matter of faith and they adopted the Platonical Agostinean idea that faith is empowered by reason. Reason being a valid tool means you have experts that reasoned a lot about religion and people that know less and needs to be taught, ultimately by the Pope.

The "other" side tends to reject authorities, and take the words of the bible as sobjected to personal interpretation or, to an extent, make it into some sort of magical object that the faithfull subjects itself to, without questions. Accepting the contradictions, the illogal parts, are what that kind of faith is about because to question (throught reasoning) God is a Sin.

That's the one, funnily enough in a perverted twist, they tend to see wealth as a sign that God has picked them as favourites (graced them) and they storically gravitated toward seeing poor people as, well, sinners, even thought their principles state that anyone could be graced or not no matter the more evident aspects of life.

What the fuck is going on in here?

Do they just, make the money disappear if you don't reach the 50 or do they add up till you reach 50?

Noob answer? No, because the other party will likely store them in unsafe manner and send it through Facebook Messenger to that Aunt of theirs.

Why would you need a researcher for that? This is not some ancient history or something...

Making more than 10x the money of your least paid employee.

Memes came and go and this picture is still somehow relevant. How old is it? I wouldn't be surprised if it was 10+ years!

Feel free to fund an entirely new party or even a new constitution, in the meantime you just need to take 2 hours off your massive, world changing project and vote for Kamala Harris.

"A Short Hike" for sure, "What Remains of Edith Finch" could fit and nobody mentioned it.

Superflight is great and quite different from most of the suggestions you are getting.

(The Stanley Parable I don't think fits but if you want to try it out I suggest you do not take the "Deluxe" version and sitck to the original one)

Well I don't expect the exact phrasing of the code of law to be 11 words.

Classic joke getting chewed by the hivemind into some kind of collective permanent epiphany about how much brighter we all are compared to online strangers.

And a chance to post it here!

It's Evangelion all over again.

Yes but also no, the whole appeal is tied to her brand (her public image x the character HER), unlike Woody who is an original creation.

It's like doing a commercial using a lookalike dressed like the original guy and pretending that's a completely different actor.

You are on Lemmy asking why would anybody fuck with Google?

Because it makes the point for a more solid technology as far as privacy is concerned?

Because that would be way harder to write.

Imagine downplaying the unimaginably insane ways our languadge is being shaken to the core by ever shifting meta-meta-meta languages.

I'm pretty sure the whole "can be seen from space" is wrong.

This is not lateral thinking.

"Japanese people on lemmy, what is Japan actually like?" "..."

wow that's so much better than people trying to help!

Having a culture in the first place would be a good start.

That's not a little server.

I'm avoiding Amazon for many years now. To be fair I usually just... Don't buy things?

But when I have to, I try to go local shop first, second hand websites/markets, other websites and eventually Amazon, I guess? It never came to this.

I have spent 10/20% more than the price on Amazon though.

Last but not least, for niece stuff I have used Amazon as a sort of catalogue to find out what exists and then look for things further by other means.

Snake-scented oil. (1% snake oil)

A lot of guys in my generation have most of their savings in crypto.

No they do not.

That's "Psychonauts".

2 years ago this investigation into its working was released (abusive working conditions), I think it may be relevant...

https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=xDPzZkx0cPs

Apparently not.

I've never heard of it but it sounds like an interesting indie game from some rockstar guy. I wish they gave him a bigger budget to build a topdown version set in London.