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  • Grail@lemmy.worldtoshitposting@lemmy.ml•"Soulism" is a dangerous, existential threat to humanity that must be stoppedEnglish
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    24 hours ago

    nor am I going to kneel before You

    Oh, I don’t want you to kneel before Me. A god’s divinity comes from Their worshippers. I only take My divinity from carefully chosen individuals. If I allowed just anyone to worship Me, they could twist My narratives and alter My fundamental nature. I actually have one or two hate cults who revere Me as a Satanic figure, and it’s very annoying. I wish they wouldn’t. I’m a dark goddess, but not an evil one. I fear one day they’ll raise an evil copy of Me from the void.

    If it had been the case that physical reality could be altered through belief, then the solar system would be geocentric and the historical data from before the heliocentric model would be inconsistent with our current models.

    Well, that’s a fundamentally mistaken premise. Reality has no physicality, and there’s no such thing as physical reality. Reality exists only in the mind. And obviously the mind interprets historical data in accordance with whatever reality it currently believes in, not in accordance with the reality of the time.

    If reality is merely the product of belief, then it seems to me that I should start trying to convince myself that animals love being kept in awful conditions and enjoy being killed, and it is only because of assholes like myself who choose to believe that they are suffering that they suffer in the first place.

    No, of course not. You’ve misunderstood the nature of the multiverse. Sure, you could create a new universe where animals love being eaten by humans. But all the animals in this old universe would still be suffering. You’d just be running away, you wouldn’t be solving anything. You have an ethical responsibility to the inhabitants of consensus reality, just as I and everyone else does. We need to ban animal agriculture so that the animals get to enjoy whatever new world we dream up too. It’s no good leaving them behind to be tortured and killed.

    Actually, it’s a bit like how time travel works in Avengers Endgame. See, in the movie, they invent time travel, and then one of the characters asks “Why don’t we go back in time and beat Thanos so this bad stuff never happened?” As the Hulk explains, that would only create a new timeline, the old one would still have the bad stuff in it. Multiversal travel works according to the same premise. You have to effect change in consensus reality in order to improve people’s lives. It’s no good just making a new better universe without helping anyone here. We have an ethical obligation.

  • Grail@lemmy.worldtoshitposting@lemmy.ml•"Soulism" is a dangerous, existential threat to humanity that must be stoppedEnglish
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    2 days ago

    The power to reshape reality isn’t science fiction, it exists right now. And right now it’s being used by the bourgeois. You don’t need to tell us it’s dangerous and it could be used for evil, we already know. All of us have suffered because of it. This power exists, and it is being used. It will always be used by some group or another, there’s no possible future in which nobody has the power to control reality. The only choice is whether the proletariat pretend it cannot be controlled, and leave it in the hands of the bourgeois, or whether we all recognise and use our collective power to throw off oppression and create an anarchist future.

    Workers of the world, unite! We have nothing to lose but our chains!

  • Grail@lemmy.worldtoPolitical Memes@lemmy.world•"How am I supposed to explain this to my children?!"English
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    19 days ago

    Oh yeah statistically it’s gotta be that some homophobes are queer. Queer people are 10% of the population, and homophobes are even higher. Two groups that large, there’s got to be crossover. Historically, it would have been even moreso the case.

    I’m just unconvinced that queer people are the majority of homophobes because that makes no sense, and I’m unconvinced that the study randomly found mostly bi homophobes. The sheer prevalence of the gay homophobe trope is out of proportion with the conditions that would have been capable of creating homophobia in society in the first place and sustaining it.

    For one thing, the study asked the men to rate themselves on the Kinsey scale. Those men fully believed they had never felt attraction to another man. And only 20% of the homophobes showed no penile reaction. Meanwhile, 66% of the gay-accepting men had no reaction.

  • Grail@lemmy.worldtoTenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name@lemmy.world•Kayshon comes out as queerEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Actually, it was Nemesis, the god of divine punishment for hubris. Nemesis’ job is to punish any mortal who thinks they’re the equal of the gods. And in Greek society, asexuality and aromanticism were so villified that not dating anyone was equated with thinking you’re equal to the gods. It’s a nonsense stereotype kind of like the American/English stereotype that trans women are sexual predators.

    When Narcissus was born, an oracle warned his family “This boy will die if he sees his reflection”. But it’s unclear whether Narcissus falling in love with his reflection is a natural character trait, or something Nemesis cursed him with in addition to showing him the spring. It would have looked the same either way to the oracle. Either way, Nemesis knew she was killing Narcissus on purpose, just to answer the prayers of an incel who was mad he wouldn’t date them.

    Other fun facts: Narcissus was 16 when all of this happened. He was 16, and society already thought he owed other people his love or he should die.

    https://medium.com/@viridiangrail/narcissus-wasnt-an-abuser-he-was-queer-15a74e456838