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Thank you so much for the update. Oh wow what a turn-around. I can only guess he was desperate to grow the site and did whatever he thought would help his profits. I really do enjoy the mode of thinking behind the Fediverse so much more!:-)

There are several closed group options or other closed source ones that aim to be just like Reddit in practice but not exactly it in theory. Ironically the Reddit alternatives sub on Reddit is probably the best place to get such a list 😜.

I enjoyed Squabbles for a bit - it was described at the time as toxically non-toxic as in very much anti-hate speech, though I don't know how it's fared recently. At the end of the day though it's just one guy's project, and while he's no Huffman, still the entire thing turns around him, very unlike the Fediverse that can become anything we want it to be.

If you do remain on Lemmy, learn which things to block bc that will improve your experience substantially. Just blocking lemmygrad.ml and hexbear.net improved mine 95%, and ironically some people (not me) also block Lemmy.ml. You will come to find what works for you, I am just saying that the experience varies enormously depending on that one factor!

I strongly hesitated saying anything at all b/c there are so very many different rules governing the behavior of every single kind of symbol. Though one jumping off point is the use of the parenthesis, without slashes prior to them and them meaning alternatives within a grouping context rather than merely "remembering", for the sake of e.g. replacement or copying, so e.g. in the Unix CLI "grep" command this would not work even with the -e parameter (I am not so sure about perl-style though, or rather, this would work within pure perl, but perl-style regexps from within grep is another matter, plus that option itself is not universal across all forms of Unix).

In any case, I hoped that the YoMama joke would be universally understood and appreciated regardless, across all of the many & varied language barriers 😜.

Also matches TakesOutzTheYourMother, since the asterisk allows for zero matches to the group, and there seems no bounding constraints:-).

he wouldn’t get this concept

Emphasis on the would not, as distinguished from can not, it is refuses to.

Some people listen, others exclusively talk. Thank you for being part of the former:-).

iirc, we did legislate it. Surprise: Trump un-legislated it, and even before that Congress de-funded it.

bUt ThE eCoNoMy ThO

In Babylon Five at least, the "demons" are not always what they may at first appear...

• It does blow my mind that the interpretation of who God is doesn't seem to hinge upon the virgin birth, and in fact may be all the stronger if not.
• What was that vision though - that "she would have a child, and that God was in charge of the situation"? Or that "as a virgin she will have a child, by God"?

After this, you switched contexts btw, talking about Christianity as a whole, rather than the singular point of whether Jesus was born from a "virgin" vs. "maiden". However, Christianity is not all one unified things - we know that it is good & pure & true when it does things like take care of widows & orphans, feeds the homeless, visits the sick & in prison, etc.; but we also know that "Christianity" is false if it includes things like priests having the right to sexually abuse little children. Also in the USA, many people are equating "being Christian" with "voting Republican, no matter who the nominee is (and what crimes they may have already committed)". These behaviors persist despite verses such as Deuteronomy 4:2 and Revelation 22:18-19 that say explicitly never to add anything.

Rather, the Bible literally commands us to "Test everything against what we know to be true" (1 Thessalonians 5:21), and Matt. 24 gives explicit warnings against people trying to add all manner of falsehoods, etc.

So, not knowing any of Greek, Aramaic, the Jewish language and especially that of the ancient Semites, I cannot really "test" whether the Bible says that Jesus was a virgin. And seeing all the other ways that others are misusing the scriptures to mean whatever they want it to, I am skeptical. God is pure power incarnate and would not be diminished in the least if He chose to be born to a non-virgin, imho, but I could see how others who place more value on human superstitions than whatever may have actually happened could see things differently. Which, aside from my laziness to dig deeper into finding the real truth of the matter, is what keeps me stuck in my doubt. And anyway, as we both said, it doesn't really seem to matter either way:-).

There's a lot to that - e.g. transgressions passed down - but also there seems a lot that could be said against that as well, e.g. looking at David's lineage including an actual prostitute, so not only is God not "above" using sinful people, but He in fact often uses the weak things of the world to show how foolish the "wise" are.

I am no biblical scholar, so I cannot weigh in on what the various likelihoods are - e.g. are the odds for vs. against 1:1, 2:1, 3:1, etc.? But the point I was making here is that the odds, to me, seem to not be infinity to zero. Even if they were very very high like 9:1, that's still a good enough chance at being wrong that if someone saw that on a weather forecast they might legit bring along an umbrella, if they had something important to protect like a laptop or even a brand-new hairdo that they don't want to ruin the day before the special event it was meant for. And this is so crucial that I do not want to miss it even at the risk of stating the obvious: people's lives, especially for eternity, are far more important than a chance of rain.

So what are the chances that this INTERPRETATION is incorrect? It's not like "the Church" has never been shown to be incorrect before...

So yeah, I do wonder.

It's bc it said two, isn't it? If it had been more believable and just said one...

No...

Don't forget: you can become one yourself, by running your own community.

This alone is enough to answer why people need to vote for Biden next term!!!

What's this "until" crap? Now back to work you lazy fuck! :-P

Well, you are holding it right now, and possession is 9/10ths of the law so...

Yup, sounds about wrong :-P

Boss makes a (million) dollar, I make a dime tenth of a penny, that's why I let crows eat my entrails on company time. :-P

How did you know that I was referring to (that famous person) from (the other side)? Blast, I would have gotten away with it too if it weren't for you meddling sleuths! :-P /s