Mastodawn

RE: https://hostux.social/@bmacDonald94/116233671144959056

#magicalThinking
#Cultists
#religiosity
#theology
#Theism
#Religion spoils everything

Take 1 part #Jingoism
1 part #ChristianNationalism
1 part #Fundamentalism
Add some #racism #misogyny and a pinch of #ignorance soaked for decades in
#oligarchy #patriarchy and #propaganda

And you get
#Fascism and #Nazis

Sam D Mar 10

I wrote up the devotional I gave for work this afternoon. It's on magical thinking. Treat it like a first draft written in about 15 mins because it is 😂

https://write.as/spaceraser/magical-thinking

#blog #writeAs #magicalThinking #christianity #acts #john #samuel #devotional

Magical Thinking

This is a devotional that I gave at my job today. Since I'd already written it up, I figured I'd post it on here. Let me know what you th...

Embassy, by Sam Drake

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oldguycrusty Mar 8

@paul @DemocracyMattersALot

#GodLess #Heathen

Yes, same.

#ChristianNationalism
#Evangelical #Fundamentalism #MagicalThinking
#Narcissism
#Theocracy
#Apocalypse

These fuckers think that this whole thing is just a 'practice'' session for the afterlife.

Brian Greenberg

Mar 2

AI is not magic.

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Magic #RoseColoredGlasses #magicalthinking

AMonkeyInSilk Feb 25

The Betoota Advocate is at it again with hilarious headlines.

What?!!?

It’s the Guardian?

#auspol #veryfasttrain #magicalthinking

PugJesus Feb 2

Don't worry, the rapture-I mean, revolution! will come any day now, just need to sacrifice a few million more minorities to the fascists...

https://piefed.social/c/politicalmemes/p/1732831/don-t-worry-the-rapture-i-mean-revolution-will-come-any-day-now-just-need-to-sacrifice

JKN Jan 29

People are fucking idiots.
#brainrot #education #scam #magicalthinking

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Su_G Jan 18

@McWabbit
🙏🏻 I feel this to be true: his ‘donors’ (self-selected on their propensity for corruption) want results; they want Greenland - not so far delivered. 😐

They might even be calling for their money back, or threatening to dump on him, if he doesn’t deliver.🤔

But that phrase “After this is over” feels like magical thinking, implies an imaginary hand… Maybe “in order to end this” can work better. 🤔

The trouble for us normal people (not trillionaires, not billionaires, not massively corrupt) is that it's hard to get into the mind of those others… and that can make us ineffective opponents.☹️

#USPol #corruption #magicalThinking #reconnectingConsequencesToCauses

@Strandjunker

Jendia Gammon Jan 7

If I just refresh my inbox one more time, I just know the email I've been waiting a month for will be there. I can FEEL it.

#magicalthinking

Steve Dustcircle 🌹Jan 5

#Myths and #MagicalThinking: #American Civil #Religion, the #EstablishmentClause, and “Codified #Irrationality” in Anti- #CRT Measures

https://scholarship.law.stjohns.edu/jcred/vol37/iss2/6/

Myths and Magical Thinking: American Civil Religion, the Establishment Clause, and “Codified Irrationality” in Anti-CRT Measures

(Excerpt) In Part I, I preview some of the overlapping tensions in U.S. public schooling created by the occasionally competing mandates of education federalism and democratic theory; describe the current state of the law with respect to the constitutionality of state and local governments seeking to inculcate (allegedly) prosocial community values in curriculum; and consider how battles over the meaning of “patriotism” through the decades show that ideology and religion often blend—and still, inevitably, make it—into the public square broadly nonetheless. In Part II, I describe how religion is a useful tool, both descriptively and as a constitutional jurisprudential framework, for handling extremist incursions into the domain of public schools. I preview sociologists’ conception of the American Civil Religion and argue that the anti-antiracist movement, through (among others) its tactical manipulation of national symbols, has emerged as a concerning “sect.” I evaluate the mythological content of an anti-CRT worldview and show how teachers are prevented from discussing factual truths bearing on systemic racism or from communicating, in any way, that existing societal institutions may have played a role in perpetrating and upholding historical injustice. In Part III, I consider whether anti-antiracist curriculum promotes an orthodoxy of “magical thinking,” and what the consequence of this might be for students who are trying to learn to think critically, to make analogies, and to relate their current experiences to their parents, ancestors, and others. Instead, many laws insert nonrational propositions into lessons which demand violating principles of cause and effect—thereby turning the presumably, formerly “secular” space of a public school U.S. History classroom into a “religious” one. Such religious ideology—as I will argue over the course of the Article—may pose unique, heightened risks to civic institutions when imposed or pursued by another name. To make a thriving multicultural democracy a reality, a free exchange of ideas and perspectives is crucial; such exchange is impossible if students and teachers have their expression suppressed and chilled. Eighty years ago the Supreme Court held, in the school setting specifically, that “[i]f there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion . . . .” Since then, the Court has continually reaffirmed that academic freedom is “a special concern of the First Amendment, which does not tolerate laws that cast a pall of orthodoxy

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