YappyMonotheist

That’s not a question but yes, he’s kind of silly… he does have a crayon (?) stuck in his brain though so, all in all, he’s doing alright, lol.

Just to feel the room’s temperature, but I always speak my mind regardless (it’s Lemmy, if you’re not honest here where are you honest?). Unless I’m missing something, the post stands by itself (or not) regardless of votes.

Catch some zzzs, ttyl! 👋

It’s like Marseille without the sun and friendly Southern vibes, that’s what it reminds me of, especially the Midi area. I recall walking nearby and there’s like a tunnel where the tram goes by, and people had set up tents and impromptu “restaurants” in it. What a mess. But my brother and his lady just went to Bruges and they said it was beautiful so it’s not like the whole of Belgium is as ugly. 🙏

Heyo! Not very big on Islamic jurisprudence because it’s often nonsense and haram af as it seeks to make unlawful what God made lawful (Qur’an 16:116) but it’s certainly “sect-specific” for lack of a better term, since the Qur’an warns against intoxicants (basically just alcohol but I’m not doing anything “stronger” than that, like crack, even if it’s not the result of fermentation, lol) but not against anything else in that category that isn’t mind altering and shisha is just tobacco with flavouring, basically. 🙃

IME, Brussels is truly awful. Grey, ugly, depressing and decaying.

Archetypal showerthought. 👌

Every step counts on the road to Heaven. 🫶

“They’re from Russia so they’re bad and now we can easily kill them.” That’s the whole gist. Same playbook with Africans, Arabs, Latin Americans, etc etc.

“Free will doesn’t exist” is, quoting The Thick of It, a position of one “disconnected to the point of autism”. It’s what happens when you get lost in words trying to understand the universe. It’s also a position very convenient for anyone trying to avoid accountability. Unsurprisingly, it is very popular in the West. 🙃🤣

I can tell you what you need to hear and you’ll get mad initially but you’ll eventually follow if you’re wise. 😅

I wonder if the same group of people downvoting every one of your posts are paid for it or just weird, sick folk? 🥲

Player’s “Baby Come Back” and John Lennon’s “Woman” come to mind. Also, Juan Gabriel’s “Amor Eterno” (Eternal Love), an ode to dead moms and the love we have for them despite their absence.

Values are a subset of things one can believe in.

Like I said, if it goes against your understanding you’ll never truly believe it, not for long at least. It’s not choosing to believe with no “good reason”, it’s choosing to believe despite there being no relation at all between matters of fact (ascertained by the senses) and that. Check out Hume’s fork, it’s kinda like that. God is not in this world, God is necessarily outside of it and of a different nature (we’re data for God the programmer, we’re his free-willed Sims and the universe is a sandbox) so you can’t find Him here, through our senses, and added to that are the classical fork interdictions (e.g., moral statements cannot derive from matters of fact, one can simply not care).

And if you have some somewhat prosocial if not completely developed set of moral standards, well that’s great, I’m happy! Men are made good after all, hence the propaganda needed to turn one against each other.

Good stuff! They say the gut is like a second brain or something like that. Pity I treat it like shit, and I have IBS too. 😭

A struggle cuddle with my cat seems to calm me down. I noticed myself doing it when stressed (it doesn’t happen often) and read about it and it seems to check out. 👍

Oh and a long lukewarm/hot shower always makes me feel better, and it’s very good at dealing with bloating.

Potentially triggering, beware: belief is something reserved for everything outside of the material and observable, like the afterlife, God and values. Often people want material “evidence” as a prerequisite for belief but it just doesn’t work that way, there’s no necessary material connection between that and belief. Ofc, belief that cannot conform to one’s reason and understanding will never stand for long, but it has nothing to do with the world perceived by the senses, that’s what all scientific fields and tools are for!

When I say many people here/in the West don’t understand the nature of belief, that’s what I mean. They don’t stand for anything, they just accept the world through their senses and in the absence of values (again, belief), they can only default to consumerism and hedonism (because the senses say they feel good and that’s all one can “know” in the absence of belief).

You don’t have to virtue signal but you could have virtue… Idk if it’s better or worse that you’ve reached the point you simply don’t care and can be honest about it, at least with us online strangers. But I’ll stop now, have a good one.

Western, ultra-materialistic, morally-vacuous take. Nothing new but that’s how all money-worshippers operate and why any group of people that share that core idea can never become a society. You can’t build with “fuck you I got mine” people.