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Cake day: June 9th, 2023
  • j4k3@lemmy.worldOPtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Strata GEEEnglish
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    6 days ago

    Imagine being disabled 11 years ago, falling through the cracks and getting no where with disability benefits, in California where this should be easier than most places. I’m looking at homelessness and dying in a gutter somewhere on a cold rainy night because of a super unlucky bicycle commute to work when I encountered two SUVs crashing directly in front of me at speed. The person responsible had a two page long traffic violation history, the cognitive capacity of a third grader, and could only drive for work but was self employed. They literally drove directly into a passing SUV I was behind/beside without looking.

    All I can hope for is that this breaks out into violence because that would indicate hope and that someone cares. No one cared before. There have been around 100k homeless people within 100 miles of me in the greater Los Angeles area for a decade but no one cares. Even the Dems mistreat these people as feral subhuman animals. The Nazis housed and fed people before gassing them. This is the level of ethics we were already at, so getting much worse is rage bait and an act of war and violation of fundamental unalienable human rights. A prisoner of war has more rights to be housed and fed than a disabled or homeless citizen of the USA.

  • j4k3@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•.#EverythingHappensForAReasonEnglish
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    17 days ago
    This must be some cultural/language disconnect.

    My original comment is not really serious and straight forward. I am abstracting and rephrasing the story of Abraham in a more scientific and dark satirical humor. I’m pointing out the contradiction of holding up Abraham as some kind of faithful and loyal figure against his documented behavior. In essence, I am showing that he was a deeply flawed person that most people would condemn in the present world of cultural norms. I’m also specifically obliterating the junction point of all Abrahamic faiths to invalidate all of them equally. Such a statement will be dismissed for various reasons by anyone that is dogmatic, but this information places a seed of doubt in some that might help them navigate away from the blindness of dogma.

    In a way, I am doing this out of kindness. I am attacking the narrative at the most neutral point possible and I am humanizing the individual that is at the foundation of the mythos. If this point in the chain of religious teaching is so deeply flawed, everything else in that chain lacks a grounding in truth.

    I exist in this kind of abstracted functional thought space. This type of functional thought is one of the more rare outliers, but is still neurotypical. I encourage you to look into the spectrum of functional thought and learn to appreciate the variety of people, what motivates them, and how it is difficult for everyone to relate to some of the different forms of functional thought. You likely care far more about inner personal interactions, relationships, your sense of judgment of others as entities, and think in more polarized absolutes. I am abstract in everything. I see you as a collection of changing actions and statistics. I am good at big picture connections across many contexts and spaces and am driven only by my many curiosities. You and I are likely opposites that struggle to relate to each other. You will likely struggle to understand my abstractions as much as I lack the emotional depth and development to understand what you see and experience with others. We can still learn from and appreciate the diversity of thought and ideas and try to understand how others view the world.

    Don’t feel awkward. I appreciate you for who you are.

    Yes, I am the librarian… and I like it! :)