โHow many hasty, immature, superficial, and misleading judgments are expressed every day [in the press], confusing readers, without any verification.โ
@timewaster2008@abomnblesnowcat A lot of creativity was inspired by Christianity and Islam to their respective adherents to. Wondrous achievements wonโt magically occur if you strip them from their adherents
@timewaster2008@abomnblesnowcat I think thatโs a silly low-res shallow view of the place of religion in society and how itโs changed over time. A lot of those traditions have soured and many only follow it from convention or from their material conditions of impoverishment and real life traumas
@timewaster2008@abomnblesnowcat Even what it takes to create favorable conditions is a kind of genius / eminent human quality. We canโt just say people had things better and so thatโs why theyโre successful.
@abomnblesnowcat@timewaster2008 You canโt truly plan for this stuff I feel. Only throw as many darts as possible based on your history of whatโs already worked, for the most part. Some people just got started wayyyyyyy earlier
@ftlsid Random question but do you think if you were put in an infinite pain generator for 10,000 years that youโd be able to just โmindโ or โmeditateโ through it and come out the other end
@timewaster2008@abomnblesnowcat What about countries that made themselves prosperous before the USA and China? Like European ones or India and the Middle East?