mike978

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Society as a whole is not wholly responsible. Some people are taught and some are just bad - bad brains, bad choices, bad intents. I've never had to teach a toddler what to do when another child takes their toy. Somethings are just innate. Some can be helped and should be, others cannot. Taking away an individual's responsibility removes dignity and gets in the way of healing. We don't have to give into the fallacy of choosing one or the other - both society and the individual can be responsible for their actions.

But yes, we have been devaluing human life and dignity, or if you prefer the Image of God, across all of society. The conditions of these prisons should not exist even if this is purely punitive, which I do not believe it should be. Victims deserve justice, but criminals deserve the right to pay the price and come out "clean". We should want to make society whole, to bring them back into the fold as full members, but too often we don't want to pay the cost.

Comment · 2 months ago

They look like the Asian Paddy Straw Mushrooms, so people used to collecting those, being new to the area and not knowing about the Death Cap run afoul of it. The San Francisco Chronicle often has stories about this after it rains.

Comment · 9 months ago

They are very curious and seem to like trombones... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYD42BXbjFg

Comment · 9 months ago

They already have the "Happy Cow Brush" :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9Kynijqps4

or a more manual version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2O7Z7cJB-w

Comment · 1 year ago

Pretty much - although after living with it for 4 year I can report it's often worse. =) The local bookstore gave a discount for the first bite of the season if you lived long enough to collect.

Comment · 1 year ago

Yeah, they can, I was just commenting on the physical experience as to which insects would keep me away from the northern latitudes.

Comment · 1 year ago

In my experience Black flies[1] and no-see-ums[2] are far worse (not counting mosquitoes born disease). It's like a massive angry cloud of micro horseflies that intend to dismember you bite by bite.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_fly [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceratopogonidae

Comment · 1 year ago

or petrified Minecraft villagers

Comment · 1 year ago

The file linked on https://www.mixcloud.com/Ishkur/the-longplay-15/ is giving a 404, but can be found here:

https://web.archive.org/web/20240226032906/http://ishkur.com...

Comment · 1 year ago

I look forward to the scavenger hunt for the bizarro version of my plate. Thought that will be down the road a bit...

Comment · 1 year ago

https://m-arriola.com/bd3lms/

https://github.com/kuleshov-group/bd3lms

Comment · 1 year ago

https://github.com/SparkAudio/Spark-TTS

https://spark-tts.github.io/

Comment · 1 year ago

While I agree that many of us are headed from different parts of the city or countryside, if we are Christians or seekers we are all headed to the same destination. So while our satnav path may look different, there are inevitably similar experiences along the way from which we can learn. Beyond that if you are a Christian you believe the Word will apply to all of those situations. Those who study the word can therefore offer insight. I believe this also includes truths like the trinity. So in those sense I would say no it's no purely internal. That being said yes, faith is head knowledge acting in anticipation from the heart as a relationship between you and God.

"It's a fundamental rule found everywhere - there is a softer voice within that will speak to of it but you have to ask it to tell you and then have ears to hear it." But without experience and until you learn to discern the softer voice you must test it against scripture, to know whose it is.

Comment · 1 year ago

For those curious about the trinity what it is and why it is important to Christian faith I highly recommend Delighting in the Trinity by Michael Reeves [1]

"...what kind of God could outstrip the attractions of all other things? Could any unitary, single-person god do so? Hardly, or at least not for long. Single-person gods must, by definition, have spent eternity in absolute solitude. Before creation, having no other persons with whom they could commune, they must have been entirely alone.

Love for others, then, cannot go very deep in them if they can go for eternity without it. And so, not being essentially loving, such gods are inevitably less than lovely. They may demand our worship, but they cannot win our hearts. They must be served with gritted teeth.

How wonderfully different it is with the triune God. In John 17:24, Jesus speaks of how the Father loved Him even before the creation of the world. That is the triune, living God: a Father, whose very being has eternally been about loving His Son, pouring out the Spirit of love and life on Him. Here is a God who is love, who is so full of life and blessing that for eternity He has been overflowing with it..."

[1] https://www.unionpublishing.org/resource/delighting-in-the-t...

Comment · 1 year ago

I would suggest the book Jesus and the Powers[1] by NT Wright and Michael F Bird if you have interest in the topic.

Basically they prefer nonviolence, but leave the door open to other options when confronting abusive governments in extreme situations where nonviolence has failed to produce change. They say the choice to use violence should not be easy. It should be done only for the public good not for one group of people and its use should be scaled to the nature of the evil being resisted.

[1] https://zondervanacademic.com/jesus-and-the-powers