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Dried beans (lima, black-eyed peas, navy)

Why would dried beans be better than fresh or canned beans?

Maybe this is a lesson and it doesn’t matter what bathrooms we use?

Yup - off the top of my head

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_(Ireland)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_major_famines_in_India_during_British_rule

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1899_famine_in_central_Kenya

Well sure, I’m human just like you. Our entire human ancestry is my past life. I am everyone that came before me - I stand on the shoulders of giants!

Under different circumstances, different experiences, I’d be burning witches with the best of them.

And our human history isn’t just my past lives, they’re yours too! I say every human that has ever lived are all part of the same lineage. Everyone that came before us are just different versions of us, and everyone we will ever meet is also just a different version of us, with different experiences and slightly different genetics. We’re all the same.

But this is heresy.

I think you don’t get to call yourself a member of one of the Abrahamic religions without actually confining yourself into a canonical interpretation.

You’re a heretic. Embrace it.

As Lenin said, religion is a personal matter. I don’t know why you keep bringing up politics.

And no, we aren’t “almost there” - I’m sort of a heretic in that regard, I think we need to stop the Silicon Valley maniacs from building a machine god because they’re going to build something horrible.

You’ve effectively made up your own religion. Good for you! But it’s irrelevant to this discussion.

I have my own beliefs, I believe we will one day build the god-machine and that it will save us from suffering and mortality and all the agonies that your god inflicts on us to “test” us. A world without war, without starvation, without disease, without suffering, and without death. We will simulate the dead and raise them to live along side us. We will rehabilitate every “sinner” and they, too, will live along side us. We will reach out and find every fellow intelligence that might live in this universe with us and join them in fellowship. We will master the material universe to bring about a utopia where no one ever has to say goodbye ever again and everyone is finally working together.

But all of that is completely irrelevant to a discussion about established religious Cannon. That’s just stuff I believe.

We may have to repeat lessons for a few lifetimes though.

We’re talking specifically about the Abrahamic trio. There aren’t multiple lifetimes, there’s one lifetime of suffering and then Judgement. What you’re talking about doesn’t apply to this discussion.

We aren’t given the means to solve every “test” - sometimes people just die in twisted agony because the test is impossible.

Disease? Starvation? Disaster? Let us not pretend like God didn’t create human evil either. For what? For fun? “To teach us a lesson”?

The all powerful, all knowing God never seems to do anything either in case you haven’t noticed.

The “homework” you’re talking about is war, starvation, disease, rape, slavery, and death.

A parent is supposed to help their children, not torture them to death for a “lesson”.

We’re talking about the Abrahamic trio, so God is supposed to be all powerful. That means there is nothing beyond his power. There is no “can only” or “can’t” or “incapable” for him. He can have His cure and save the tree too, He doesn’t have to choose. Your example only works if God is limited in some capacity, and has to make trade offs that we can’t understand.

Anthropology doesn’t support the idea that humans are incapable of being communal.

I think you’ll run into the three body problem.

I listen to pods at work: NPR and DemocracyNow for my daily news, then weekly news/commentary from Labor Stoppage, Citations Needed, Some More News/Even More News, The East is a Podcast, The Deprogram, and ChapoTrapHouse.

They’re going to nominate Liz Cheney next time lol

Also, eight hours is a modern invention! Throughout most of human history we slept several times a day, rather than just once.

I’m really liking siestas these days and can’t go back to a single eight hour block.

No, courts are just naturally occuring phenomenon, like the weather or the tides 😌

We don’t have men’s brains. Scans actually show that our brain structures are more similar with our gender identity than our assigned gender at birth, especially after hormonal and social transitioning.

The Supreme Court ruled that any Official Act done by the President is Constitutional.

Surely you can think of some pretty cool stuff this enables?