JDY👁

I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary.

[elektra @elektraslaw]

you can tell a lot about a person by what they chose to see in you.

[JDY👁 @0xjdy]

#2027generalelections

[JDY👁 @0xjdy]

my not too long distance emotional support right person wrong time cosmically tethered textuationship is not texting me again🥲

[JDY👁 @0xjdy]

I suppose I need to educate myself on male hormone-driven behavioural shift, cos how do I explain that one week I'm totally consumed with lust like an alpha in a puddle of slick, and the next, I'm completely averse to any sensual notions?

[JDY👁 @0xjdy]

the truth I just told did not set me free o🫠

[JDY👁 @0xjdy]

@usergki weird as how??👀

[JDY👁 @0xjdy]

Tell me why I drop the joint and I start to have vivid dreams

[Michael Aromolaran @michaelaromol]

I’ve heard people say that heaven and hell are “necessary fiction” in regulating human behavior, that if people knew neither exists, they would go berserk.

We can debate the degree to which the claim is true some other time.

But for now: what the claim often misses is the fact that heaven and hell divisions do not exist in many ancient and contemporary religions, and that adherents do not become sociopaths because of this.

Ever since my “Christian-Babalawo” grandfather told me that proto-Yoruba cosmology does not conceive of Hell, I started to imagine that perhaps people did not require portents of a fiery pit to be on their best behavior.

Perhaps if Kunle Afolayan knew my grandpa, his second season of Anikulapo, which is set in 17th-century Oyo Empire, would not have depicted Hell. It’s clearly an anachronism, a case of Afolayan retrojecting his Christian influence onto ancient Yorubas. (I suspect Mr. Afolayan also bears Greek influence, perhaps from watching Hercules or Clash of the Titans, because the pathway to Hell in Anikulapo resembles the River Styx.)

Like Yorubas, ancient Israelites did not conceive of Hell, and thought both good and bad people went to Sheol after death. This is not Hell, but rather a permanent state of unconsciousness. Ancient Jews would only start to develop afterlife concepts from the 6th century BCE after being exiled to Babylon. So it could have been a theodicean response to their predicament, but also because in exile they interacted with Persian/Zoroastrian culture, which had well-developed ideas of heaven and Hell, although scholars debate the degree to which Zoroastrianism had an impact.

Further developments of afterlife concepts in Judaism would happen because of both Greek influence and persecution, especially during the Maccabean Revolt period in the 2nd century BCE.

Even in Jesus’ time, it was not a settled matter, with various Jewish sects having different ideas about the afterlife. The Sadducees, for example, thought death was final. Like Ivan Drago, they thought if you die, you die.

Christianity also did not have heaven and hell divisions from the outset. The earliest Christians, like the historical Jesus and Paul, were Jewish apocalypticists who believed the world as they knew it may end in their lifetime, an event they believed would see the wicked destroyed permanently (not “eternally”), while the righteous live on earth with the messiah-king.

It was only when parousia (the Second Coming of Jesus) did not happen as soon as they thought it would that Christians, who were influenced by Platonism and Greek thought, started to reinterpret their earlier views and develop the concepts of heaven and hell.

So... are heaven and hell really “necessary fiction” if many cultures did just fine without them?

[Elnathan John @elnathan_john]

Children, women, men, politicians, recently retired generals. No one is safe in Nigeria. Even the army seems powerless against this new menace. And unless something drastic happens, this will get even worse as elections approach.
Something is broken, and there are people actively taking advantage of the inability of the government to govern. Again, this is not a problem that you can solve with bombs. The groups are too many, too dispersed, and have too many non combatants in their camps, that just aerially bombing them all will kill far more innocent civilians than actual militants.
There is no shortcut to ending this. As long as Nigerian politicians and their friends continue stealing money meant for development, as long as they continue abdicating responsibility, non state actors will keep exploiting the loopholes. Already these non state actors are fully embedded in local economies and communities, and only because of the long absence of any sort of meaningful development. If state governors had taken rural development serious, if there were schools and hospitals and roads and functional institutions, if our forests were not permanently abandoned, then the country would stand a chance. If the federal government had shown greater interest in the country's vast, highly porous land boundaries shared with Benin, Niger, Chad, and Cameroon, then maybe.
All of this is greed, corruption and active collusion of politicians coming back to bite everyone in the rear end. Politicians are benefitting from the illegal mining, and from the criminal economies that are thriving in these rural areas. This is not just "insecurity". This is the result of the deliberate actions of those in power, from federal state to local government levels. Nigeria is just a large crime scene.

[JDY👁 @0xjdy]

I had a dream that a conspiracy unraveled about AI and the bubble burst and everybody lost money and the government had to interfere and we all had to go back to the way things were before AI and yes its a #weirddream but yeah that was my dream

[JDY👁 @0xjdy]

@Adefemi_Timi @Oriade_x01 @Ov_Philip "But not this much tho"
so, should there be consequences for going over the limit or not?

[JDY👁 @0xjdy]

I'm a biter, yes, I bite.

[JDY👁 @0xjdy]

@nikitabier 👀

[JDY👁 @0xjdy]

I want to be able to tap on an account and see every instances where I interacted with it all in one place. It’s not enough for me that following is the only thing that points to a connection with other accounts. I want to see when I tap on you if I ever liked or quoted you.

[JDY👁 @0xjdy]

intuition

[JDY👁 @0xjdy]

I want to be able to tap on an account and see every instances where I interacted with it all in one place. It’s not enough for me that following is the only thing that points to a connection with other accounts. I want to see when I tap on you if I ever liked or quoted you.

[Issa @issathecooker]

Media is slowly going from entertainment, to advice, to therapist, dopamine provider, financial advisor, guidance counsellor, drug consultant.

Data becomes the currency.

Starting to believe in privacy.

[JDY👁 @0xjdy]

why is “gbam” your only contribution to a conversation?

[JDY👁 @0xjdy]

I'm making it a habit to register my exit route whenever I enter a new space, and I can tell that a lot of public spaces were not designed with emergency exit/escape in mind.

[detach @detachdaily]

you don’t realize how much your environment affects your mental state until you finally spend time somewhere that feels calm and your body stops feeling tense for once

[𝓓𝓸𝓬_𝔃𝓮𝓮 ✧ @doc_zee7]

Why are threesomes only for sex?
Why can't I join in on a couple's argument in public if I have a good point to make?