For comparison (I was curious)

Hey man, I do tarot, read it, then ask my AI what it thinks. It feels real.

/s

…no but for real, I like do draw tarot, and the AI has helped me get better at reading. It’s for funsies; I don’t take it seriously.

Sorry, you want the Tower here.

It’s one of my favorite cards for symbolism, because the story is so apparent on the card. People jumping out of a burning building to their peril.

…watch out for the arrows, Boromir.

Sorry, I thought it was a poem.

I feel like many Christians in America are completely disconnected from actual values espoused by Jesus in the Bible. Republican (many of the Christians) policy is diametrically opposed to Matthew 25:31. No one quotes John 13:34 because they rather quote Old Testament BS about what’s an abomination. Why not focus on the love for others, including enemies? Why not focus on helping the poor, the sick, the homeless? Why not help the immigrant? The Bible specifically calls this out as a marker of getting into heaven.

Most of these people don’t even read the book. They like the sense of community at a church, but it feels like it’s formed into a total in:out group mentality. We can’t be a Christian nation as long as there are poor & people struggling.

Then the Utah governor says something like, “We can’t have people camping wherever they want.” my emphasis. Bud, they don’t WANT to be homeless. The lack of empathy is so apparent.

Not if it’s swallowed.

Everything is a fucking crisis right now.

This is from January 6th. Please don’t post old news.

From January 6, 2025. Old ass news.

If you didn’t want help, and someone showed up and started doing stuff, saying, “Hey I’m helping,” I doubt most people would want that help. Tl;dr you can only help those that want help or those that are open to it.

I think the best thing you can do is be supportive, invite them out, and showcase the positive aspects of your life & the life you’d want them to have. It’s not showboating / gloating, but it’s including them & offering them what a wider life might look like. When they want to change, you can be present for them in that moment.

Trying to change people can be such a fool’s errand. I’ve tried to do it with a bunch of friends over the last decade. You can’t move people who don’t want to be moved. You can maybe inspire them for more.

Respectfully, protectionism isn’t that much better. In terms of economic velocity (efficient use of money/value/resources), it would be better if we used the money in other industries.

• “The Chinese are competitive.” Yup, they are beating the global
• ”They own the materials.” Yup, good planning on their part
• ”They have lax safety.” Nope.
• ”Massive country & workforce.” And a bunch of Chinese manufacturing has reduced humans and/or are dark with no humans.

“Allowing them to sell superior products is bad.” Sure, for the stakeholders. Not for Americans. I’m already being screwed by capitalists all over the place. Let’s expedite capitalism’s demise, please.

Isn’t BYD a fraction of this cost, but we’re propping up stakeholder bonuses in Detroit?

https://www.boredpanda.com/merged-family-genetic-portraits-ulric-collette-part-3/

Let the tech giants have AI & all of human knowledge. They subsidize UBI with their bubble profits. They stole everything, so seems fair?

These are beautiful. Thanks for sharing.

Really beautiful examples of good works of faith. They are being shot while praying, and they keep going back to pray. They are calling on love for thy neighbor and saying they still love the ICE agents at a human level. They are also suing on religious grounds of the 1st amendment.

If you ever need a passage against this ideology of hate, see Matthew 25:32’s parable or John 13:34 to be succinct.

Both of them beating up a penguin probably.

It’s a great community and shares a lot with us. More people should know about faith communities doing the good work in the world, rather than swindling their congregations for mega churches with elaborate shows, while telling people “empathy is not Christian.” It’s absurd what’s happening in those congregations right now.