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I’m curious what your definition of Religion is?

People have existential questions about the nature of reality and the answers to those questions matter very deeply to their daily lives. Humanity is far too limited to answer those questions in a satisfactory way, especially in a timeframe that is relevant to an individual life ( need the answer today ).

For example, should I live my life assuming that life and the universe will exist eternally or should I live it assuming that all life will cease with the heat death of the universe? If the former is true, my actions, and thus my choices, have eternal consequences, but if the latter is true, they are ultimarely insignificant because no matter how I choose to live everything will end the same.

These type of questions can be hypothesized, but they will not be conclusively or scientifically answered in my lifetime, and certainly not today. However, the answers I choose to believe in matter immensely to the way I live my life. This is why religion exists and will continue to exist.

All this with an average of -0.10 ( -2%) difference, for a factor that is almost impossible to isolate even across a large sample. But I’m sure that a community that emphasizes scientific rigor as much as c/atheism will read the study and not jump to conclusions based on preconceived notions and personal bias…

If I exercise today, what will I accomplish? Will I be different tomorrow? Of course the answer is that I won’t accomplish much, and I probably won’t be noticebly different tomorrow; nobody increases their bench press 25lb after a single workout.

The point is not the results of a single workout, because what is significant is not the effect of a single workout or protest or any other long-term effort you want to examine, it is the cumulative effect of continued work toward a common goal.

The Powell Memoradum was written in 1971. The Heritage foundation began developing project 2025 in early 2022. These are efforts that have been in development for decades and years, respectively with many people working very patiently to see them implemented.

Of course a single protest isn’t going to do anything to undo decades of well-orchestrated political and economic changes. If people want to see this changed they can’t stop with a single protest. Just like making a new years resolution to go to the gym once isn’t going to undo years of neglect to change someone’s physical fitness, going to a protest once isn’t going to undo the years of damage to the U.S. Government.

Yes, because it is never comes at their own expense through self-sacrifice. True leaders eat last, not first.

The difference is that for the people dying under capitalism, the system is working as intended, and for the people dying under communism, it is not. In both cases, the leaders don’t really care, because it works for them.

That seems like an easy thing until you consider:

Federalized National guard troops are under Title 10 Authority.

Under Title 10 USC 890 Article 90: Willfully disobeying a lawful order in wartime is punishable with the death penalty.

With the executive branch claiming wartime powers and the DoJ willing to pursue any claim they want, they could certainly choose to pursue the maximum punishment to make an example out of someone.

The ranks of the JAG and military judges hasn’t been purged yet, so I believe it is very inlikely that a court-marshal would reach this punishment, but these orders aren’t something a Soldier can just walk away from without serious legal and financial repurcussions.

What they do in Chicago matters far more than their presence there. Every Soldier needs to recognize their ultimate purpose is to defend the freedom and liberty of their nations’ citizens. They must have a line in the sand that they will refuse to cross and are willing to die for, but simply deploying to a city to stand outside a federal building is not that line.

Can anyone tell me what that is on the shelf in the top left of this video? youtu.be/OZRG7Og61mw?t=272

Is that some kind of fascist symbol?