Favorite example of OT God being a wrathful bitch go!

Mines the bears that kill the kids.

Explanation:

After the death of Jesus and the destruction of Jerusalem, Christianity as we know it was beginning to take off amongst Greek and Roman Gentiles thanks to the efforts of people like Paul.

However, this created a problem amongst early Christians because a lot of them had simply never read the Torah or Old Testament. They were just convinced purely by the teachings of Jesus and had been heavily influenced by Platonism as a base philosophy. And when Jewish Christians from Jerusalem and Palestine met these converts, they tried to teach them about the “Old Testament”.

Unfortunately, the Gentile Christians often refused to believe the god of Jesus and the god of the Jews was the same god because they thought the Old Testament god was wraithful and evil (my favorite example is when god let bears kill some kids for making fun of a bald guy 2 Kings:23-25).

One such group of Christians were the Marcionites founded by Marcion of Sinope. It claimed the god of the old testament was the Creator deity, the Demiurge. They aren’t a gnostic sect because Marcion was using what would become canon such as the writings of Paul and a source of Jesus sayings. This is opposed to the Valentinians who used revealed or gnostic information to form their theology.

Unfortunately, we mostly know about these early so called “gnostic” sects of Christians through condemnations from early church fathers. We have a good portion of Marcions cannon texts, but not a complete picture of their church. But they were significant at the time. Early Catholics had official instructions for their congregation to ask for a “Catholic Christian Church” when they travelled because a Gnostic church was just as likely to be in the town as a Catholic one.

be me

work at grocery store

being human I must eat food

buy groceries at the store I work at

Some commenter on Lemmy

“Erm… This is effectively slavery!”

whatthefuck.webp

Why are people like this.

Reply to reply since you blocked me lol:

Look I’m as lefty as the next lemmite, but we have to turn money into goods. That’s how money works. Its just a representation of useful goods as currency.

If I have to lose the money either way to eat, then it really doesn’t matter where the money goes. And generally an employee gets a discount. To your point, they’re probably still making a profit off food purchases but its still a better deal than without it.

My mom works at Walmart and always bought most of our groceries there because she got a 15% employee discount. I’m sure Walmart was still making money off groceries (minus produce) unless they gave like a 50% discount.

My current job offers an employee discount of “cost plus 6%” so they aren’t making money off me buying our own products, but they’re not losing anything either.

Most of history be like:

“Wow, you’re fat with a small penis! You must be quite rich and super smart!”

Professor PugJesus, are YOU telling ME the people who wear DICK necklaces and vote on the divine nature of their emperors are superstitious?

This was just a random foot note in Mary Beard’s “Emperor of Rome” and I hate that there’s not that much more to say about it.

A 5 acre wide mountain!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Testaccio

TBH, for every day computing, I think a 10-15 year old laptop running Linux probably runs better than a current R-V board. Less efficiently probably, but in terms of responsiveness and normal measures of usefulness.

So genuinely, if you really wanted to avoid giving big tech more money there’s no real difference other than being able to say you absolutely don’t even use an x86 chip you hate big tech so much (which is based and I respect)

Celsus: “Yeah I’m sure he did all those things, but did he actually do it with god magic or just normal magic”

My grandma loved the Monty Python cast and always talked about how proud she was that I was getting history degree because “All the Monty Python cast are historians you know!”

Never checked if that was true, but it checks out

Its got worms and everything don’t it?

USSR: “We would never invade Poland and have camps where we work polticial enemies and minorities to death! How inhumane! For shame Germany!”

Is this a quote from them?

Fucking cowards for not writing it with these rules.

Being funny is the cure to being annoying

Me on my resume when I only got a GED and ran a lemonade stand once

Him being afghan has nothing to do with this, i just find xenophobia funny

Well at least they were honest