@matt_2033@19960702ws There is often very little difference between a wife and a concubine, other than the legitimacy of offspring and the freedom to leave.
@nthingbutascar@19960702ws I feel like this was better understood back in the day with arranged marriages, when it was about creating an alliance between two families more than simply craving fulfillment through romance.
Hollywood has really done us a disservice.
@RiseAgainstEvil Dang, I used to live in Benoni. It always felt safer than other neighborhoods, but you are right; there is nowhere safe.
Keep your head on the swivel.
What people call racism is simply ordinary tribalism, which every other group partakes in freely without being condemned for it, but when White people do it, all of a sudden, they are somehow uniquely evil.
What a load of shit. There are people out here celebrating when White people get murdered, and their attackers get released again and again, and somehow saying the N word is the real problem here?
Look at what Dave Chappelle said recently about how he felt better when Charlie Kirk was murdered, and that's the milquetoast version of what I've heard.
The fact is, no one except deluded White people who have been socially conditioned to hate themselves has a problem with any of this kind of behavior when they do it against their own ethnic adversaries.
And it goes way beyond language. Look at how Indians work together to only hire other Indians, and how Jews use their power to punish any criticism of Israel's obvious genocide with damage to their careers and, in some countries, even jail.
You can complain about naughty words all you like, but when a people are under real attack, and especially when a former overwhelming majority loses ground demographically against their will, it is natural to circle the wagons and defend themselves, first with words, and then with politics, and if that fails, with weapons.
We could have avoided all of this by all agreeing to play by the same rulebook, but it turns out what most people want is to humiliate their ethnic enemies and gain standing at their expense.
This is simply the reality of living in a multicultural country filled with vastly different cultures who all want their share of the pie and don't care what they have to do to get it.
Very true. Dr. Paul Frederickson has written about how the ancients believed that the gods run in the blood of a people.
When you look at how Judaism's core mission is to destroy "false gods", aka the gods of non Jews, and how Christianity inherited that imperative, everything makes sense.
@NithinMKurien@CheckPickaUppa@infinterenders Who said I was using it as a systems language?
We use it for our API and other backend work, and it's a perfect fit.
I'm interested in Odin for the low-level stuff, but I don't have a business purpose for that yet- just learning.
@CheckPickaUppa@infinterenders Exactly. I am loving how fast my Go compile times are, and I was thinking about porting an AI port to Rust, but I decided against it for a couple of reasons, and I'm glad I didn't bother.
I also like Odin, and I'm having a lot of fun doing Advent of Code problems with it.
Man, if he just wanted to get his rocks off, all he had to do was go to one of these elite brothels in Europe or Dubai that serve billionaires and have extreme discretion.
Even if it had to be her, because "she really understands me," that would be one thing.
But to sell billions of chips to your lover's company, come on man, you are supposed to be smarter than that!
@9mmsmg Wtf? I had heard back in the day that old folks would eat red clay for medicinal purposes, but I thought it was just an ignorant superstition that's long been left behind.
Seeing this, and now a video of a guy eating the foam core from his couch, has sent me down a rabbit hole!
@_Indus_@HarrisonHSmith Try telling Christians that.
"Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you"
"In fact, the law requires that nearly everything be cleansed with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness"
Jesus essentially reaffirmed the ethnic component of who your neighbor is, as was the traditional understanding of what it means to love your neighbor in the Torah.
The parable of the good Samaritan can be read as a polemic against Israelites who refused to help fellow Israelites in need, and having a Samaritan, who was looked down upon as an ethnic outsider, step in to do what they should have done can be seen as a mark of shame and a lack of piety before God.
Also, let's not forget how, when the Syrophoenician woman asked Jesus to heal her daughter, he said this in Mark:
"Let the children [Israelites] be fed first, for it is not fair to take the children’s food and throw it to the dogs.” 28 But she answered him, “Sir, even the dogs under the table eat the children’s crumbs.” 29 Then he said to her, “For saying that, you may go—the demon has left your daughter.”
And how in Mathew he says:
"I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel."
But that's a conversation I don't think Christians want to have.
I had some time to think about absolutes. The Sith believe in absolutes that may create Order and Peace, I'd like to take another attempt to explain it.
What a leader needs to understand before he can establish a Empire:
1. The Republic and the democracy fail to maintain stability.
2. There has never been a instance in time where Order and Peace arises organically in nature. Except when our loyal citizens form a strong State, or a competent, organised and vigilant Empire to create, sustain or defend Order and Justice for a civilisation. Nature is chaotic.
3. Ethics do not come naturally to people, so we must be taught to be ethical.
4. Among the strong loyal citizens there must be the will to act and ethics among a ethnic group with a identity. They must defend Order, otherwise their civilisation shall fail after it becomes unstable due to greed, corruption and degeneracy.
5. Therefore we impose our ethics on the world.
6. Then Order is restored and we will have Peace.
The tenets we typically uphold is Order, Security, Prosperity, Justice and Peace.
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One reason "democracy" is failing now, as it always would, is that people aren't really self-governing. This even applies to the fact that don't really care about or want to participate in the issues of politics and governance
Back in the day when America worked, everyone who could vote showed up. It was their duty, so they did it. They were, in a word, self-governing. They could be trusted to regulate themselves, and their own political affairs
As a result, not that much government was ever really needed
Once it was destroyed by FDR and his ilk, well...no one is self-governing any longer. Such is ohw you get not just the apathy, not just the cameras and the ordinances, but the crying out for the state to do all, to solve the problems...no one else can be trusted to even try
Such are the results of a world in which the successful men stay home, uncaring because they've been damned as the similarly apathetic average sit about waiting for their issues to be solved