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Due to fact Rs are trolling Ds that Trump is gonna win that's the J6 mindset that Ds can't win although Harris is a terrible fit for VP

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I'm no longer Catholic because it's not true. That's the simplest and most honest answer.

But to go a bit deeper, personal truth is important and I don't doubt personal commitment to belief. But it's not real. It's aesthetic. All Christianity is; whether it's high baroque, spartan or sleek. It's a 'feels' movement. It's a feast for the senses. The 'baubles' are very real. And they excite and dazzle because we put them there to excite and dazzle us.

Different 'baubles', different concepts and philosophies excited us before Christianity.

And that's all very good, and harmless and mostly doesn't bother me.

Except when it's not harmless. Because it can f-ck you or other people up. And then, with either a sharp tongue as dirt or a warm hug as salve; it will blame you for the wounds it caused.

To me, there is also something inherently selfish about salvational religion. The things people will do, or say or act (or not) in order to secure their own post mortal destiny. These things can be good, genuinely good and impactful things. They can also be objectively bad and wicked things, wrapped up in some paternalistic 'this is good' gaslighting and blackmail.

It's real hurt, for assumed personal gain made under 'spiritual' pretexts.

And those who aren't religious or of a salvational faith can't escape the 'game' that gets played at an interpersonal level or worse, a legal/political level by people who don't want to mess up their chance (and it is their chance) at salvation. We just have to navigate around it as collateral. Which I think is something that a lot of believers forget; what is the basis of my interaction with you? What's the transaction?

As a gay man (and I know many people of faith who are queer, irl and on here), I'm always going to be hyper vigilant because quite frankly, the record of Christianity and the Church has been deliberately and vindictively inhumane. Pleasure has been derived from dehumanising queer folk. Because it's up against what is real and what is true and yes a connection a communion even; with the body, the self and others that is 'spiritual' in form and act.

Leaving faith behind was a healing act. It made me a better person. It made me a more patient, and kinder person. Because what I carried with me and what I put out into the world was my own.

Thanks for making the thread.

In 2022 100 % of the Incumbent Senators running won Re-Election.

How will it be in 2024?

The Superbowl had the highest viewership of anything since the Moon Landing, you don’t get those numbers without universal appeal.

Um, that probably had to do something with the current girlfriend of a certain player.

People say the rust belt will be a great place to live later in the century if climate change and resource constraints really hit home, lots of water, arable land, no major natural disaster phenomena, so I think. Detroit will rise again, cities have long lives

I hope this is the case, but OTOH, what's stopping people from just moving to Columbus or Green Bay instead? The cities in the Midwest that are growing currently aren't the ex-industrial places; they're metro areas that are more like sunbelt cities except for location.

I've always thought an enterprising corporation like amazon or something could buy up entire neighborhoods in detroit that are abandoned but still have good brick architecture and fix them up as an emplyment draw for employees.

for your question, nothing specific i guess favors detroit over columbus, i just think rising tides lift all boats and people will move back in/around the D evetually

Some background about the volcano.

This volcano has a history of supereruptive episodes (and also minor/less severe activity in between), like for instance the last eruption was in 1536. The last supereruptive episode was approximately 12.000 years ago, but the one 37.000 years ago was even larger and had widespread effects and is basically why this volcano is sometimes nicknamed a "supervolcano" in pop media. It is a volcano with a history or producing calderas and near a populated area in the developed world which is why it will get that label faster than other volcanoes with similar characteristics.

It may also be interconnected with the at the moment dormant Vesuvius volcano, which has been dormant since 1944, quite a bit of time already and it is suggested that its currently in a cycle of recharging where the next eruption could be similar to that of Pompeii or that of 1631 but that could easily take another few centuries, since before the eruption that devastated Pompeii in Roman Times happened it is assumed it was dormant for a few centuries (2-3 centuries). It also has produced more severe eruptions in the past prior to Pompeii that aren't recorded by humans. However that volcano is not showing any unrest at the moment.

Obviously, a volcano like this will have a lot of episodes with seismic swarms and crisises and in a lot of those, nothing would happen. We also have no real clue or idea what would be necessary to trigger the worst case scenario a massive eruption. But given the sheer timescale involved in those eruptions, it's usually safer to predict that something like that wouldn't happen as it's more likely an eruption would be minor or even more likely that nothing would happen at all. And it is assumed that the threshold of unrest for an eruption of some kind would have to be higher than the crisis in the 1980s since that one didn't lead to an eruption.

The problem with Campi Flegrei specifically is that even a minor eruption would be devastating because it is located under a populated area. And that there is good evidence - according to a paper i've read - that it is building up to another caldera forming eruption (basically supereruption) according to the observed cycle we see.

Iran seems to be blaming sanctions . Guess they do work.

If you transport important officials in vehicles you can't service that's your problem

yes but it could be a very dry explanation, I believe the the lawyers can talk about it to some extent too and they can give it more oomph.