barneypiccolo

joined 4 months ago
[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 18 points 1 month ago (2 children)

How is a peaceful protest in LA an "Insurrection," while violently attacking cops and raiding the Capitol to stop the certification of the vote, is not?

[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 10 points 1 month ago

Looking around at the current political environment, I'll take a little of that Communism, or at least the Socialist flavor.

[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It's about legal timing, at which HitlerPig is a virtuoso, due to plenty of practice. If he declares Martial Law too early, he gives the courts time to rule against him when he suspends the election, which is the primary objective.

So he will use the next year and a few months to keep amping up the rhetoric, the atrocities, the violence, until it is out of control next summer. He'll allow the primary race to go on, giving MAGA the opportunity to spread their propaganda, and finally cancel the election only a few weeks before.

Until then, it's all about escalation.

[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Yeah, that doesn't make sense either. How does dying by torture "absolve" (the word you were reaching for) humankind from their "sins," and what sins are they talking about anyway? Sins are only religious rules, and if religion is a just a human construct, then they aren't valid anyway.

I've never seen a religious message of any kind that made logical sense.

[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Most evenings, I sit on my front porch overlooking a quiet pond, and play my guitar for an hour or so, accompanied by birdsong. That's my religion.

[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

Exactly. ALL religion is a human construct to explain stuff that neolithic goatherders didn't understand. Some of them were a talented storytellers, and made up all that stuff to entertain their bored colleagues.

[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah, none of that makes sense. How much do you have to disengage your intelligence to somehow believe in that baloney enough to actually rule your life by it? Seriously weird.

[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Keeping God away from Earth is a good idea. The God that is described in the Bible is a monster.

[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

As an old guy, I still do not understand how Jesus being tortured to death somehow absolves all our "sins" (whatever that means), and keeps us from "unending death" (whatever that means). Nothing about religion, ANY religion, makes sense.

I am open-minded enough to acknowledge that we know almost nothing about the Universe, and there may be some entity beyond our puny human comprehension, but ALL religion is simply a clumsy human construct attempting to make the unexplainable understandable for humans that require protection from the scary mysteries of the Universe.

[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The government just declassified documents that describe the first time humans made contact with an alien race. We found out that not only do the aliens know about Jesus, he revisits them every year for a big celebration. "Every year?” the humans asked, "We've been waiting for him to come back for over 2000 years! How did you get him to return?"

"I don't know, we're just friends. The first time he visited, we gave him a big bag of our finest chocolates. What did you guys do?"

[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago (11 children)

As a bored kid in church, this is a question I pondered many times. Why would we choose to honor the method of torture that caused his death?

view more: ‹ prev next ›