TottsIsrael tells ppl in Tehran to leave.
They intend to turn a city of almost 10 million ppl into something akin to the wasteland of Gaza
And there is nothing on Earth that will stop them
Neil Moffatt@Geri As if AI and climate catastrophe was not enough to deal with.
Too many humans reverting to base animal levels. But further - animals never this bad.
Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸@Geri there is actually... but unfortunately that President is right there beside Bibi.
Just Tom... 🐁@Geri It seems to me that WWIII is now well underway. "Might is right" is now the order of the day. I wish that Starmer was a man with principles (These are my principles and if you don't like them, well I have others) and would keep us out of the mess that the US and Israel are causing. A "mess"? Its an effing disaster!
@tompearce49 a wittier person than I wrote on here that Starmer would be running around his office with mobile saying, "What do I do, Tony? What do I do?"
@Geri - Possibly truer than we would like to imagine!
RegRE: https://mastodon.de/@ErikUden/116165976692692579
Insurrection in the ranks?
These people are mentally unhinged and it's not gone unnoticed where it most matters.
https://mastodon.social/@ErikUden@mastodon.de/116165976817665711
@ReggieHere
..yea, saw much the same and commented in a similar way. I recall a conversation i had with an ex-colleague during the iraq war. She said the war would be over soon because 'God was on our side.' She found it hard to understand my reply, which I need not mention here
Totts (@[email protected])
"A combat-unit commander told non-commissioned officers at a briefing Monday that the #Iran war is part of God’s plan and that Pres. Donald Trump was “anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth,” according to a complaint by a non-commissioned officer." I shit you not. Read this: https://jonathanlarsen.substack.com/p/us-troops-were-told-iran-war-is-for?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true
@Geri @ReggieHere Can religious people never step back to see the farcical nature of their beliefs?
A God of infinite compassion, love and power would stop all senseless deaths and illnesses.
@ReggieHere @Geri Indeed - a key component of the religious indoctrination methodology.
That has the equivalent of 'externalities' in economics in its cop-out 'God works in mysterious ways'.
So God can witness a crime against an innocent person, and do nothing to help, with impunity. Madness.
It's handy that there's always a specific answer to a specific question, even if the big picture remains fundamentally flawed on every level.
@ReggieHere @Geri And all this scripted, calculated indoctrination seems to be embedded fast and securely enough that it flies under the conscious vetting radar.
But in many, it gets unravelled sooner or later.
It remains galling that religious zealots operate with a deep sense of superiority supplied by buying into a myth and doctrine.
@NicelyManifest @ReggieHere we need a cure for epicureanism
Androcat@NicelyManifest @Geri @ReggieHere
Most of them are not so much religious as fascist.
Fascists are all about performative cruelty and willful ignorance.
True. Religion is the go-to excuse for fascism, which probably says something or other about the Abrahamic religions in particular.
@Geri @ReggieHere Religions are often enclosures for those wanting to exercise dominion over others.
Abrahamic religions are for sure.
That was a large part of the attraction for European Kings and Popes, because a God-Ordained King is better than an ordinary King without any divine backing. Really useful for securing a future for the kids too.
....I'm not sure polytheistic religions have quite the same cachet for would-be dictators because they don't do such a good job of embedding a structural hierarchy.
@ReggieHere @Geri Not sure I know of any polytheistic religions. Am suitably curious ... and here I could resort to AI or Google - but conversation I prefer.
Polytheism refers to any religion with more than one God, so Hinduism would be the major example in today's world, and I think most if not all of the animist religions were polytheistic, including the Greek, Roman and Norse Gods in Europe, and the many life and nature religions in Africa, Asia, Australasia and South America, many of which had some significant influence on the ways in which the various civilisations adopted and adapted to the Abrahamic religions.
...the Abrahamic religions themselves weren't the first monotheistic religions because they were pre-dated by Zoroastrianism, with which they share (stole?) a number of common tenets.
@ReggieHere Many thanks. I probably should have deduced this. Lazy mind sometimes!
Plagiarism is clearly not isolated to the arts ... and still, religious myth promoters in town centres are untouchable ...
True, although I'm less concerned about town square evangelists than I am about Christian fundamentalists in the DoD!
@ReggieHere As indeed you should be. Fundamentalists always seems to describe those with such polarised views that there can be no merit attributal.
@ReggieHere @Geri Very much so.
Humans are deeply attracted to and respectful of status.
Spectacular trick to establish an extremely wealthy monarchy operated by ordinary people by chance of birth.
Absolutely. If the word 'coup' had been in common usage at the time then it couldn't have been more apt.
NKT