Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand attacked Zohran Mamdani this week with Islamophobic falsehoods, later partially walking back the comments. It’s of a piece with Gillibrand’s indifference to the genocidal Israeli war that is increasingly outraging New Yorkers.
    • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 days ago

      Thanks; I had not see him before, watching this after searching a bit on his channel…

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDG5U0inNlE

      I wonder how much this guy and Robert M. Price (“the Bible Geek”) have in common with one another.

      Anyway, this idea of when one religion (or languages, etc.) really parted ways with another reminds me of thought experiments regarding things like transhumanism and the idea of “uploading” your brain into another substrate - if you hypothetically find a way to link your brain to some other substrate, say, silicon, and you copy one of your neurons over to it, preserving all connections it had with your current set of neurons, and then remove the old neuron of the flesh? Most people would still consider you “you”. But if you then proceed, neuron by neuron…when do you become not “you”? Does that ever happen?

      It’s interesting to watch people with very rigid mindsets try to grapple with these kinds of questions, especially if it’s for something they hold very dear, usually their own religion. I don’t tend to run across dogmatic religious people that really think or even know about early xtianity for instance…I think there is a reason for that. If you start to realize how much of an amorphous blob belief, religion and doctrine really and truly is, it becomes a little more difficult to adhere to notions of what a “true” xtian is.

      • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
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        3 days ago

        What a great catch on that particular video. I’m pretty sure I hadn’t seen that one. I’m checking out the bible geek now, thanks.

        On your edits: Absolutely, I strongly suggest staying away from Jehovah’s Witness conversations.