speaking of blood jesus doesnt save by some magical property blood has to save lest humans attempt to have their sins expiated by shedding their own blood or heaven forbid the blood of another being. imo he saves by the willingness of God to be gracious onto those who understand their own predicament and Gods unique position to deliver them by suffering in their stead.
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28suffering expiates blood doesnt expiate
@georgia bullshit. What do you want to expiate? Just a cheap excuse to justify masochists. If you tell me the meaning of that was to show how someone who has gone through purification confront fear and suffering, how they face death without attachment to one's own life I'd understand.
@sathariel sorry what? saying suffering expiates is just basic karma theory, and theres nothing masochistic about devoting ones suffering to God (sattvic and beyond the gunas). it is the opposite of masochism (tamasic). jesus laid down his life for his friends and his mission yes but what was his mission and who were his friends?
@georgia @sathariel i feel like if you read the new testament gospels in a different way untainted by 1000s of years of cultural shaping and religion its actually telling you its all bullshit, the blood atonement, the worry of sin, the attempting to please god, its all a load of shit and really you should just care for your neighbor.
@technolyze @sathariel thats just secular humanism though. secular humanism has never led to liberation, if you want that become a mahayana buddhist.
@georgia @sathariel people and their neighbors with means and love for each other is what has led to liberation in the real world, quiet literally humans lead to their own liberation.
great example of this is the gospels themselves "father why have you forsaken me" its like a deep spiritual mystery with the belief of christianity, but if you look at the stories, the people who dont forsake him are his friends and his neighbors, that take down his body and give him a loving burial and all the magic resurrection shit seems to be added on years later by most textual analysis as well
great example of this is the gospels themselves "father why have you forsaken me" its like a deep spiritual mystery with the belief of christianity, but if you look at the stories, the people who dont forsake him are his friends and his neighbors, that take down his body and give him a loving burial and all the magic resurrection shit seems to be added on years later by most textual analysis as well
@technolyze @sathariel honestly in your last post it seemed like your ideology was entirely based on jesus saying father why have you forsaken me and "take this cup from me" and now it seems like it really is based on that. jesus preached that the greatest commandment is to love God with all your heart so that really can't be reconciled with your assertion. highest dharma isnt to love one another because others have your back when God doesnt (which is in an inversion, God has your back when others dont and many of jesuss neighbors were cruel to him) its to love all beings with an even eye, seeing God in them and them in God. also the resurrection was a very early christian belief and I'd argue if it had not happened christianity wouldnt have taken off so much as a successful sect in light of it challenging judaism in so many ways. the first ending of mark has the women find the tomb empty. everything in mark after 16 verse 8 is added sure.
@georgia @sathariel i think you have been slowly brainwashed by an evangelical/trad/far-right echo chamber from your average agnostic crystal enjoyer into this, im really just throwing random things at the wall to see how far you go to bat for christianity. I see you are at the "jesus for sure really resurrected cause the religion designed to de-radicalize jews took off"
@technolyze @sathariel lmao how could I be radicalized by trads if I never was in their echochamber? the only christians ive ever interacted with seriously are catholic or non-white. I'd argue that your exposure to a predominantly evangelical form of christianity has predisposed you to seeing "christofascists" everywhere. you seem to think that belief in the life of an incarnation or avatara is the stuff of religious extremism, am I an extremist for believing that krishna really did kill demons and dance with the gopis? if you want to know my beliefs ask my beliefs because prots would consider me an idolator, dont troll me to determine my beliefs. its beneath you.
@georgia @sathariel im on the same side of fedi, i see the post floating around. Sure im a crypto racist rich white cracker jew living in the norhteast.
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>an extremist for believing that krishna really did kill demons and dance with the gopis?
yes you are a mentally unwell religious fundamentalist with a touch of crystal girl stuff, next you will be talking about receiving secret news about government programs to fight demons via light language
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>an extremist for believing that krishna really did kill demons and dance with the gopis?
yes you are a mentally unwell religious fundamentalist with a touch of crystal girl stuff, next you will be talking about receiving secret news about government programs to fight demons via light language
@technolyze @sathariel okay I guess every believer who is more than a dabbler is a fundamentalist now, even those who believe multiple religions are revealed or people who dont believe in scriptural infallibility like me. you can criticize me for liking tarot cards but I havent been agnostic in years, and my religion when I was agnostic was a toxic amalgamate of chaomagick and thelema and the most arrogant sort of advaita vedanta. just go back to telling me to kill myself.
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>every believer who is more than a dabbler is a fundamentalist now
no but there is a weird pipeline for the newagey bullshit agnostic people to slowly think jesus is coming back and the world is in a secret war between demons/angels and spirits and is generally a tool to further the complete unhinging of the population to be easily swayed without evidence beyond vibes.
>every believer who is more than a dabbler is a fundamentalist now
no but there is a weird pipeline for the newagey bullshit agnostic people to slowly think jesus is coming back and the world is in a secret war between demons/angels and spirits and is generally a tool to further the complete unhinging of the population to be easily swayed without evidence beyond vibes.
@technolyze @sathariel I dont believe any of those things I think maybe you need to leave your echochambers
@georgia @sathariel you just told me about how you thought krishna actually fought demons fam
@georgia @sathariel you know hindu supremacism also an insane right wing movement that seeks to institute fascist social reforms in india?
@technolyze @sathariel you call out religious fascism and fanaticism everywhere except when muslim supremacists practice it. when the houthis say curse upon the jews, you defended them. i have called out israel for their genocide of a mostly muslim people in gaza. bangladeshi muslims once committed a genocide against hindus, and yet you act as if somehow hindus are more obligated to follow your law of secular humanism than the rest of the indian subcontinent. I dont support BJP or most forms of nationalism. in my eyes nationalism is only a stepping stone to statehood for the stateless. I think that pride in ones ethnicity turns one against God. but tell me this: why is wanting india to be governed by hindu dharma (I dont believe in the dharma shastras btw, they were always a tool of the brahmin elite but I'll use this term) "fascism" but wanting yemen governed by a certain strain of sharia is an acceptable and understandable response to jewish imperialism? dont you see that hindu, Jain, and later Sikh india was once subject to Islamic imperialism as well?
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>except when muslim supremacists practice it.
no, i believe the past message you are referencing is me saying "random demonization of islam statements is the easy way to get out of acknowledging a genocide is actually happening."
>why is wanting india to be governed by hindu dharma (I dont believe in the dharma shastras btw, they were always a tool of the brahmin elite but I'll use this term) "fascism" but wanting yemen governed by a certain strain of sharia is an acceptable and understandable response to jewish imperialism? dont you see that hindu, Jain, and later Sikh india was once subject to Islamic imperialism as well?
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>except when muslim supremacists practice it.
no, i believe the past message you are referencing is me saying "random demonization of islam statements is the easy way to get out of acknowledging a genocide is actually happening."
>why is wanting india to be governed by hindu dharma (I dont believe in the dharma shastras btw, they were always a tool of the brahmin elite but I'll use this term) "fascism" but wanting yemen governed by a certain strain of sharia is an acceptable and understandable response to jewish imperialism? dont you see that hindu, Jain, and later Sikh india was once subject to Islamic imperialism as well?
both bad
@georgia @sathariel also interesting you say you arent slowly being brainwashed by western fundamentalist view points while using one of their laziest talking points, "YA WELL YOU LIKE MUSLIM FUNDAMENTALIST" - which is just sorta a dishonest sidebar
@technolyze @sathariel I'm just sick of white people demanding one thing for india and another thing for pakistan, it is itself rooted in western chauvinism and is of the attitude of british imperialists who think they can run india better than the plurality or majority of india.
@georgia @sathariel you are just taking the opposite view point while fitting all your western outsider traits, except you are going "sorry whiny punjabi you get what your country thinks you deserve"
@technolyze @sathariel average westerner who criticizes le saffron terror doesnt actually care about punjabis they just like having a cudgel to beat unenlightened browns who arent secular humanists like them with
@georgia @sathariel you dont actually care about indian culture, you just use it as a cudgel to beat browns who are secular humanist or punjabi
@technolyze @sathariel a good 50 percent of my free time is spent reading about elements of Indian culture but sure keep accusing me of being a crypto-fascist, absolutely nothing paranoid about that
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>a good 50 percent of my free time is spent reading about elements of Indian culture
also this is literally the same as the dude/lady that goes
> i went to college for dialectical materialism so i know a thing or two about the economy and western imperialism
>a good 50 percent of my free time is spent reading about elements of Indian culture
also this is literally the same as the dude/lady that goes
> i went to college for dialectical materialism so i know a thing or two about the economy and western imperialism
@technolyze @sathariel except you said I dont really care about Indian culture and countering that with spending most of my free time reading about Indian culture is a pretty good refutation
@georgia @sathariel what are the top 3 indian tech companies and how many of them own entire cities?
@georgia @sathariel what is indian office culture like? do they observe the caste system subconsciously within it?
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@technolyze @sathariel ive heard yes to the latter but this kind of thing, tech and work life, I do not bother learning about it's a huge bore for me.
@georgia @sathariel thats the actual culture the people on the ground are experiencing
@technolyze @sathariel but its not the culture they actually care about its the kind of stuff you could learn from bbc or al jeezera and I dont read the news anymore. I should ask meeper for some Bollywood recs so I can finally learn hindu I learned Devanagari but then forgot it due to lack of practice.
@georgia @sathariel sure and american culture is all about martin luther, the 49ers, cowboys and thomas jefferson
@technolyze @sathariel gosh youre incredibly judgmental. I know about a lot of different hindu sects not just vaishnavism. its an eclectic and diverse and fascinating religion or group of religions. and yeah just like if a non-westerner who wants to learn english watches western media if I want to learn hindi and tamil which I do I should watch Bollywood.
@georgia @sathariel yes, i am judgemental, as are you, you have made various judgements about me in this thread.
@technolyze @sathariel the worst judgements I made against you were in direct response to you calling me "crystal girl" (incredibly patronizing gendered term) and something something white jew cracker northeasterner religious fundamentalist crypto-fascist. then I said something based on your actual history which I deleted and apologized for. not really comparable. to my knowledge i never called you anything particularly bad except I said you were a hypocrite and a secular humanist, but if I hurt you I will apologize. but then again, you have never apologized for repeatedly telling me and my friend to kill ourselves.
@georgia @sathariel i think you might be having a schizophrenic episode i have no idea who you think i am
@technolyze @sathariel you can deny it but from the way you are speaking, your paranoia about secret nazis and your religion based on egregores I believe I know who you are. you claim to have known me prior to our recent interactions so you would have to be someone I'm acquainted with as well
@georgia @sathariel what ever you need to accuse me of to make yourself seem angelic and me a harassing demon
@technolyze @sathariel I'm not remotely angelic but I'm not stupid. I havent disclosed I live in the northeast in a long time. I'm not going to say who you are because youll just leave and make another account but you can call me a duck and I'll call you a spade.
@technolyze @sathariel I literally have no idea what youre talking about a spade is a digging implement like a trowel
@sampler @sathariel @technolyze she literally admitted to trolling me in the beginning idk why I bothered