@technicallydifficult I think Israeli Jews might be a little jelly? especially since in jewish lore the Samaritans prayed in the wrong place and were mixed with assyrians. spicy sibling rivalry.

@salt @rowb1t if it were just random german utensils it would be one thing, if it belonged to soldiers in the SS or had Nazi insignia on it I wouldnt eat the food lol. millions of my people were killed by them, but sure call me woke.

@technolyze @rowb1t I do think about this sometimes, fortunately the only IBM product I have ever owned is a lenovo thinkpad and they aren't IBM anymore :)

@yohan to the answer of why a perfect God would create a universe outside Himself (but really within and permeated by Himself), He creates and destroys the universe in cycles and does it out of pure lila, that is, spontaneous play, like someone who gets out of bed full of energy and dances out of joy derived from ones own being. in mystical thought, the beings beside Himself are playmates for Himself, defined by being limited by maya, which He is free of naturally. reincarnation and karma and maya likewise explain the problem of evil. God is free of maya, the jivas before liberation are not, so they are prone to sin in accordance with their samskaras, and suffer in accordance with their karma. the property of free will also plays a role imo, but such a thing is not well understood in existing schools of hindu thought.

@rowb1t personally I would use free software written by some chud but not by someone who has actually killed millions of people. ideology is one thing action is another.

@yohan sorry but youre wrong

@technicallydifficult thats so weird Samaritans are closer to jews than they are to arabs even though they speak Arabic... just another way israel is a disappointment to the jew fandom.

why would a perfect, full, complete and totally divine being not invest some of His creation with divinity after his own? why wouldnt everything He touches have an imprint of the divine?

@technicallydifficult for good and for ill lol. at least if it had stayed that way there might be the chance of building a house of worship for all peoples and all monotheist religions there

@scathach this must be a big disappointment smdh

@3 there is no good kind of bimboification, only the creation of willing female slaves under patriarchy

world history wouldve been quite different had jews never gone into diaspora

its so sad that there are only like a thousand samaritans left, when there used to be millions. its kind of stunning when you think that if not for judaism becoming a portable religion separate from the temple cult, there would only be a thousand jews left clinging to the ruins of their second temple in Jerusalem...

@lewdthewides oh yes I very much agree

@technicallydifficult @technolyze that is super neat

@lewdthewides the only good use of AI video

@technicallydifficult @technolyze yeah a lot of people think middle easterners are always very brown but theres def a range, just like south asians. for instance some palestinians (who get more attention in the left-wing media because were racist) have blonde hair and blue eyes because theyre descended from Bosnian Muslims.

@technicallydifficult @technolyze I was friendly in college with an aramean syrian who looks literally indistinguishable from a white european.

@Hyperhidrosis so what did you convert to being orthodox