“It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions.” ― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

“It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions.” ― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

Defend the Great Seal, Carl Sagan Pale Blue Dot Skywalkers!

Joy!

It’s already like that here, friend.

Lemmy didn’t take off until well into May 2023, despite being online and open source for over 4 years. The quantity of posts, communities, comments was very small for 4 years online.

Then everyone flocked out of hate and anger of an API money matter with Reddit.Then crowds got hate-filled and angry when Threads was launched by Meta/Instagram/Facebook on July 5. And crowds became hate-filled and angry over Elon Musk rename of Twitter to X on July 23.

Outside big growth in memes and shitposts, there haven’t been big numbers of people flocking here out of organic goodness on organized topics. It has largely been a HiveMind of hate as a motivation to come here since May.

Some good seeds have been planted since May, but the atmosphere of hate motivates change is pretty much Mob Mentality / reactionary.

giving any direct answer on his actual religious beliefs is to highlight how “true in a sense” the stories are.

They are true, metaphorically. Just as much as Star Wars is true to the mass mind (hive mind, collective unconscious, whatever you call it) of the human experience. Just as much true as The Simpsons, Finengans Wake, Shakespeare, etc.

I think a lot of people avoid very basic things about religions: 1) They are learned much like spoken languages. 2) people have trouble learning second languages much like religions. 3) You can translate religion to religion, there are a lot of common concepts, even if often inverted. Take marriage, funerals, and holidays for examples.

“Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.” ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

It’s taking Fox News literally, it is taking Star Trek literally, it is taking fiction stories as fact / literal that’s the problem.

who? I’ve never heard of him in context of studying world religions… i was quoting an expert on Comparative Mythology.

“his views on cultural and political issues which have been described as conservative or right-wing.” - I don’t think “all religions are non-literal” sounds like conservative in any way, shape, or form.

“All religions are true but none are literal.”

A Russian claims on Facebook that he got a Twitter direct message in 2012 from Trump that started the whole Russia + Cambridge Analytica combo: https://washingtonmonthly.com/2017/11/24/a-trumprussia-confession-in-plain-sight/

In the real world, communities are independent entities, free to choose where and how they hang out. No one tells them what to do or where to go.

I guess the people who run Reddit really think none of their audience was educated by say… Snoopy… or seen a “no skateboarding” sign in their life. You can just hang out anywhere IRL!

Are we blocked from editing communities that we created? I tried to revise the sidebar of https://sh.itjust.works/c/jukebox and the “save” network works.

Jewish, Christian mythology: 🎵 Out into the cool of the evening strolls The Pretender. He knows that all his hopes and dreams begin and end there 🎵, say it again, amen: Genesis 3:8. The Snake is the real story, the Pretender was added to the older Snake story from the people of Canaan.

most likely, yes. There was no notice of a planned outage, and the timing of them both going down within 15 minutes of each other. Lemmy server programming code isn’t very robust when it comes to performance, it is possible to busy up the database to a point that the site become unresponsive. I don’t know what is going on with lemmy.ml being entirely unreachable, the devs who run that server don’t normally work on weekends… and normally nginx responds with an error at minimum. Nothing at all is loading

lemmy.world is reachable, but no database connections, it has an “Error” page on every post I try to load. Which this post itself on Lemmy.world serves as example: https://lemmy.world/post/1578844

Lemmy.world down now for over 30 minutes, Lemmy.ml over an hour (I created this post on Lemmy.world before it went down). Distant Early Warning Sign: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrDj5XvZXX4

Kbin and Lemmy seem to not agree on time zones, there has been some mention on GitHub.

The admin of Beehaw told me to post it on Lemmy.ml despite the message being that the server was down.

Beehaw is suppressing the news about a Lemmy outage, when their /c/Technology community is about rumors in the sidebar!

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I’m seeing 9 days old, it’s really stuck.

There is an open bug about internal crashes within lemmy_server: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3076

A restart of the lemmy_server service might get it fixed for one-time.