RadicalEagle

joined 1 year ago
[–] RadicalEagle@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago

World has always run on memes, it just gets easier to see as you get older.

[–] RadicalEagle@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

The “rightymemes” version of this is a kid asking Miles Morales why he’s brown and having text below that says

“Because, I'm a psychological tool. By creating the image of a brown Spider-Man this subliminally engrains the myth of brown superiority into the subconscious minds of white people. This makes you people more compliant with our brown dominance over your lives.”

The circumstances of one's birth are irrelevant. It is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are.

It’s one thing to make an observation of how Jesus’s “image” has been adopted by different ethnicities, but when the official lore is that all humans are made in the image of God I think there are more productive ways to approach the topic of the societal impact of whitewashing.

I guess it’s the difference between saying “fictional white characters/heroes are bad because they reinforce white supremacy” vs asking “how foolish is it to look at a painting and try to judge which color of paint is ‘best’?”

[–] RadicalEagle@lemmy.world 33 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah, you don’t have to be gay just to be able to admire art.

[–] RadicalEagle@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

Well are you? I don’t see any proof you’re trying to deny it.

[–] RadicalEagle@lemmy.world 35 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

That really clashes with the reality of how truck bros actually park. Or does it…?

[–] RadicalEagle@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

We must live in the world we create.

[–] RadicalEagle@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Idol: an image or representation of a god used as an object of worship.

I agree that they probably weren’t intended to be idols, but pictures of Jesus, Mary, the cross, etc are just objects of worship.

Jesus’s message of universal love goes beyond the Christian religion, which feels like it only exists to promote itself instead of the values that Christ promoted.

If Jesus were alive today I doubt he would care about the destruction of religious symbols. He’d probably say something like “Why are you concerned with a symbol when you have brothers and sisters who need help? If you really want to exalt God, go out and do His work.”

Like, if people truly believe God is the alpha and omega do they really think they need to get offended on his behalf?

Christianity has done a great job of putting God in a tiny box called “religion” and taking away all his power to the point where dinosaurs, evolution, and science are able to shake their faith.

God/love/the universe is nonsense, and we get to spend our whole lives trying to figure that nonsense out.

https://youtu.be/SzXn4PozUTo?si=h2-x0YJHqZzmuG7n

[–] RadicalEagle@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

I’m pretty sure Jesus was opposed to the idea of nations, geopolitical boundaries, and political authority in general. So idk if he’d accept a title like “president”.

[–] RadicalEagle@lemmy.world 31 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Ah, so that’s what they mean by “the road to hell is paved with good in tensions”

[–] RadicalEagle@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

The more things change the more they stay the same.

[–] RadicalEagle@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"Sweet kibble from Heaven! They just materialized food and a bag for me to play with out of thin air! Truly the bipeds are deities!" - Mr Whiskers

[–] RadicalEagle@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago (4 children)

My cat saw me as the one who can open doors to unexplored lands.

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