kmaismith

At the risk of sounding like i must be a cheater myself, are you suggesting that once someone cheats they are no longer a human worthy of empathy and nuanced consideration of circumstances?

I mean, who else was gonna do it?

Strictly speaking, you don’t. Several denominations tried to throw out the mysticism in the 60s to significant backlash of the congregations. Mainstream denominational seminaries are actually pretty open minded from what i hear.

The triune mysticism can be looked at as an act by many denominations, it can’t be dropped because not enough of us skeptics engage with the religious systems locally to justify changing theology. If official positions becoke “well the trinity isn’t actually…” they risk loosing significant numbers of members. Changing that requires skeptical people to earnestly engage with churches and their congregations.

I would like to subscribe to this level of rational social design

Have you seen the state of American society? In case you didn’t hear it has got so bad we’ve got vigilantes killing CEOs

This whole story-arc gives first move advantage to the opposition, the oligarchs are being forced to react instead of execute plans as they wish

Nobody who acts like a hero does it without having incurred massive personal suffering to drive them

Man, that time American politics tried to remove alcohol from its culture was fuckin’ wild

For as much as you seem to be opposed to being fucked over by your attitude, you sure seem to be bending over with your words

I beg to differ on the abject lack of aesthetic consideration. I’ve skimmed through old construction manuals and from even the surface it seems old masters of the building craft were obsessed with the blending of aesthetics and function

One party here is banking on the de-escalation tactics of the other to play the situation in their favor. Continuing course with peace tactics knowing the other guy is playing you is not de-escalation

Yeah, but a cabinet of malintentioned competent adults can do so so much worse than a circus of malintentioned clowns