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Ha ha. Yeah, let's sort it out. Like all the other times we've "sorted" it out. It's gone so well, previously. Surely this time won't be a fuck up as colossal as the rest.

Unrelated, I have a wide variety of bridges in wondrous locals available for sell for very reasonable prices, and it would appear I've found a market whose pattern recognition capabilities matches my ideal customer profile. There may be just a little snark there, but seriously, wanting to screw this up again -- and let's be honest, time and time again we have demonstrated that is exactly what we will do -- is what amounts to the bloody definition of insanity. We're not doing a good job at this shit. We are apparently pathologically incapable of doing a good job at this shit.

Maybe we need to get someone else in on this. Probably a lot of someones. We've made it incredibly clear we're massively goddamn incompetent when it comes to doing anything beneficial in the middle east -- we've got several decades now of pretty consistently just fucking everything up. Let's recognize a sunk cost fallacy when we see it. 'Bout time we stiffed someone else with the problem and see if they can do any better. Considering how low the bar is there, it shouldn't be that hard to find someone able to show some improvement.

Hell, bonus points, the EU et al are actually getting screwed a bit over all this shit, too, now. They might actually be able to be convinced to get up and do something meaningful. Or we could end up doing what the rest of the world seems largely intent on and let it go to rot. At this point, I mostly expect that would actually improve the situation in the long run. And probably every other run, too.

Pretty sure it's specifically for the tetrad. Could just be red one's in general if you're being more boring, though, I guess.

What about the whole thing with reincarnation, and also the mystic force Karma that judges your actions and gives you consequences for them later? That sounds both pretty superhuman and controlling to me.

They're both more akin to the laws of physics than anything else. Karma doesn't so much 'judge and gives you consequences' as it is the word for the consequences of your actions later on in the cycle, which is itself not really anything but the way existence is structured.* There's no agency or whatev' behind it all, nor anything superhuman or controlling,** it's just the nature of how things work. No more mystical than cause and effect, basically, going by some of the buddhist conceptualizations of the subject.

*Much like the whole die, become worm food, fuel something else's life thing good ol' physical reality has.
**Unless you consider something like, say, a riverbank to be controlling the river -- I wouldn't, myself, since controlling tends to imply some sort of intent. You can probably word it that way, but I don't think most people would unless the bank's been artificially constructed.

Which doesn't really mean anything. If an entity capable of creating reality wants to compress several billion years into a few days time, it probably can. Or it can just bypass the lot of it and put something down over that seven days that is what would happen after several billion years of development, and let the clock tick from there. Last tuesday type stuff. And yes, I'm aware the general scenario is presented as last thursday. Screw thursday, tuesday is better.

... mind you, unless they've changed their mind while they were out, osg does believe other parts of the bible invalidates evolutionary theory, but the initial creation myth doesn't meaningfully import anything about it. Initial creation myth honestly doesn't meaningfully import much at all, especially considering there's two of them and they're at least partially contradictory.

Looks like it's going to be too cloudy tonight to really see the eclipse where I'm at. Shame, that.

Yeah! How are MRAs any stupider than feminists!? They both seem like a bunch of utterly stupid, loudmouthed, insane, paranoid assholes.

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(Come to think of it, that actually applies to just about any group that believes strongly in anything)

... and here, ladies and gentlemen, we have an example of a person taking an egg and vigorously impacting it upon their own face. What a sight.