World Affairs

[SIM-ple Jack 17,444]

2 new movies out this week, with a surprising commonality-

 

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On 7/18/2023 at 6:40 PM, SIM-ple Jack said:

Actually, it began when what was perceived as "God" denied mankind to partake of the "Tree of Knowledge". And punished them for doing so. What was being hidden from us?

My favorite part of the Bible is the part where Ezekiel says the problem with Gomorrah was that the people there were rich, greedy, and fat from having so much grain. They didn't share their wealth enough with those less fortunate.

Humorous how we grow so many billionaires, globally, who aren't particularly defined by sweetness, light, and the refusal to become billionaires in the first place via charitability.

I was flipping through the channels once and found a preacher who said "Leviticus is all you need to know." This was, of course, to scapegoat gay folk for power. Apparently, it is all he did know, as I have never seen him nor any like him preach that cities inhabited by billionaires and other assorted greedy folk deserve to be hit by a deity's balls of fire. (Apparently a comet or asteroid in real life. Can't remember which.)

As far as special trees go... my understanding is that early Christians, as they were competing with various popular religions of the time, picked and chose various bits from each of them (such as Numerology) to make their religion more marketable. Tree worship was one of those competing religions. The "apple" was actually a fig, too, apparently.

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Australia's centre-left major party, Labor, won the latest federal election in a landslide.

So much so that the leader of the centre-right opposition party lost his seat so they had to scramble to get a new leader.

Their new leader is someone who changed their name because their numerology. 

And this person was their best candidate by all metrics.

Not only that, their coalition that's been around for 83 years just broke up due to lack of confidence with the party.

Oh man, it's so delicious.