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The fig tree story is bookended by Jesus driving the money changers from the temple. poor people get the fig tree story. if you are hungry it doesn’t matter if its not the season for figs.
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Jun 28, 2023 04:43
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If you read the whole text of that "we are legion" thing basically Jesus sends the demons out of the guy and into a flock of sheep, which immediately drown themselves in a nearby lake. The shepherds come up and, according to the apostles, say something like "you can't stay here anymore", which I assume is a really nicely filtered version of "what the gently caress did you just do to our entire flock of sheep, get the gently caress out of here you goddamn rear end in a top hat"
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Jun 28, 2023 04:44
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protect children from transubstantiation
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Jun 28, 2023 04:46
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Stevie Lee posted:i just smashed my phone the other day and im thinking about ordering this piece of poo poo could you not just get a dumbphone since this is the exact description of what this phone purports to do for 6x the price of the average dumbphone?
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Jun 28, 2023 06:50
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So you don't look like you're using a dumbphone, obviously.
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minimalism is a luxury of the rich if you're poor you take anything you can keep because you might need to sell it, trade it, or give it later
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Jun 28, 2023 07:10
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tokin opposition posted:minimalism is a luxury of the rich maximilism is the obsession of capitalism and the rich. minimalism is just another kind of maximilism. funny how that works. Veblen was right.
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Jun 28, 2023 09:35
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Fuckit I'd try it
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Jun 28, 2023 09:53
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Brrrmph posted:the OT prophets are really where it’s at. the overwhelming majority of their calls for Israel and Judah to repent come from those peoples mistreatment of the poor and marginalized since the adoption of christianity by the roman empire all economics have been meticulously stripped away in favor of the immaterial https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/and-forgive-them-their-debts-michael-hudson/1129786863
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Jun 28, 2023 12:40
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Fat-Lip-Sum-41.mp3 posted:since the adoption of christianity by the roman empire all economics have been meticulously stripped away in favor of the immaterial quote:The Real Message of Jesus: Jesus’s first sermon announced that he had come to proclaim a Clean Slate debt cancellation (the Jubilee Year), as was first described in the Bible (Leviticus 25), and had been used in Babylonia since Hammurabi’s dynasty. This message – more than any other religious claim – is what threatened his enemies, and is why he was put to death. This interpretation has been all but expunged from our contemporary understanding of the phrase, “…and forgive them their debts,” in The Lord’s Prayer. It has been changed to “…and forgive them their trespasses (or sins),” depending on the particular Christian tradition that influenced the translation from the Greek opheilēma/opheiletēs (debts/debtors). What the actual gently caress
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Jun 28, 2023 15:09
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Read Debt: The First 5000 Years. It argues all the major world religions came up around the same time period and all preached a form of radical debt forgiveness.
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Jun 28, 2023 15:11
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Orange Devil posted:Read Debt: The First 5000 Years.  It's a great book.
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Jun 28, 2023 15:57
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Ancient kings who had to deal with actual threats to their power understood that people could be in so much debt they couldn't actually work the fields to feed everyone and announced debt forgiveness days every so often. It was an especially useful tool to ensure support of the populous, funny that.
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Jun 28, 2023 15:58
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Biplane posted:What the actual gently caress read the book
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SardonicTyrant posted:Ancient kings who had to deal with actual threats to their power understood that people could be in so much debt they couldn't actually work the fields to feed everyone and announced debt forgiveness days every so often. It was an especially useful tool to ensure support of the populous, funny that. Next you'll tell me that they kept their population fed and entertained (and housed) to avoid uprisings.
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Jun 28, 2023 18:49
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quote:In ...and forgive them their debts, renowned economist Michael Hudson – one of the few who could see the 2008 financial crisis coming Lmao I could see it coming and I was like 16
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Jun 28, 2023 18:50
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Anyway looking forward to sliding a copy of this book across the table next thanksgiving when annoying baptist uncle starts whinging about how we can't just forgive student loan debts that's socialism!!! or whatever, thanks
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Jun 28, 2023 18:54
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Huh... Weird. It's still 'debts' in Serbian (Orthodox), although someone will usually helpfully point out that it's not "literally" debts that's being talked about. Now I wonder which churches translate it which way.
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Jun 28, 2023 19:06
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Fat-Lip-Sum-41.mp3 posted:read the book Due to debts i cant afford the book right now ironically but some day, although i dont know if i can handle being further jokerified
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Jun 28, 2023 19:43
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go to the library, or hell, don’t even leave your house, just get a library card online and check out the ebook.
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Jun 28, 2023 20:02
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libgen or z library
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brap posted:go to the library, or hell, don’t even leave your house, just get a library card online and check out the ebook. Libraries round these parts have heavily restricted access to ebooks, if at all, to protect small businesses like major international publishing houses. I was able to search my local library online to see if they had a physical copy at least (they did not)
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Jun 28, 2023 20:13
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Centrist Committee posted:libgen or z library
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Biplane posted:Libraries round these parts have heavily restricted access to ebooks, if at all, to protect small businesses like major international publishing houses. I was able to search my local library online to see if they had a physical copy at least (they did not)
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cat botherer posted:It's not like libraries are choosing to heavily restrict ebooks. Publishers have been total greedy assholes about ebooks. They really just want libraries to go away entirely. Yeah thats what I meant. gently caress the publishers lobby.
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Jun 28, 2023 20:26
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this is why banks got rid of kings
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Jun 28, 2023 20:53
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How much of library's day to day operations even involves books anymore? Because it feels like the one around here is just a free computer lab and the last indoor public space that doesn't require you to spend money.
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Jun 28, 2023 21:00
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lots of people prefer books. lots of books are not online. even if they are online, you still have to pay for them as the internet gets worse I suspect libraries will come back to be more important
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Jun 28, 2023 21:02
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Libraries are an amazing free public resource that people don’t use nearly enough.
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There's some research I wanna do about this long gone laboratory that used to make nuclear bomb parts one city over, and I know the local library would have way more resources on it than I've been able to find online (the place barely gets a mention on wikipedia, and the line on wikipedia is wrong based on other documents I found) but also it requires getting in the loving car and driving somewhere and ughhhh
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Jun 28, 2023 21:10
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cat botherer posted:Libraries are an amazing free public resource that people don’t use nearly enough. If librairies hadn’t already been invented, there is no way they could have been created for the first time now.
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Jun 28, 2023 22:17
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remember that our public libraries were largely the creation of literal robber baron Andrew Carnegie lol
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Arivia posted:remember that our public libraries were largely the creation of literal robber baron Andrew Carnegie lol There was a time when it was worth your while to launder your reputation
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Jun 28, 2023 22:19
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now you dont have to you get an army of sycophants just for being ludicrously rich it's hilarious*
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Can't you just order stuff from other libraries? Like, that's how it works here, if something isn't available in your local library, you just order it and they bring it to you and send an email when it's there
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BonHair posted:Can't you just order stuff from other libraries? Like, that's how it works here, if something isn't available in your local library, you just order it and they bring it to you and send an email when it's there yes it’s called inter library loan
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Shame Boy posted:the place barely gets a mention on wikipedia, and the line on wikipedia is wrong based on other documents I found
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