Notices by Thaiis Thei 𓁟 (oozenet@mastodon.social)

@gerrymcgovern We just replaced our twenty year old mail server because it finally failed. I have a 17 year old desktop still going strong.

@Gargron This is such a naive take on this situation.

https://www.academia.edu/47824834/Scholars_Priests_and_Temples_Babylonian_and_Egyptian_Science_in_Context_Introduction

Mathieu Ossendrijver

Between ca.600 BCE and 200 CE scholarship flourished in the temples of Babylonia and Egypt. Temples provided patronage of priests and scholars and an infra-structure for their activities. Cultic and scholarly duties were performed in the temples, and meetings were held to discuss matters of cult, scholarship and administration.

@funcrunch @anarchopunk_girl @rhiannongrant @fraying Defining faith as belief in a deity is perhaps the most common misconception that is prevalent among atheists from a Christian background. As you say in your article, you haven't done much investigation into other forms of deity, and thus other religions. As a result your concept of atheism is strongly defined by Christian concepts of deity.

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@fraying So much yes. All the yes. These people want to argue religion with me, a theologian, and get real angry when I reveal to them their ignorance. I understand they have been hurt by Christianity, but that's no excuse for sloppy research.

@rhiannongrant @fraying The most common one I see is faith. They 100% do not understand that there even are religions that don't even have the concept of faith, or dogma. They get super confused when you agree with them that's is a super bad idea.

@GrimmReality Reminds me of the time a small dodgy bunch of fascist poms were able to take over India because it was so corrupt and fragmented.

@Mastodon Interesting how you keep hiring technical people but don't have a single ethics person.

@Gargron @mastodonmigration So you don't have a plan for it? If you do, what is it? Are you planning on asking us members what we want? Your silence is not working for you atm. Please talk to us.

@strypey @ewen I don't suppose you know where there is an audio book of the dawn of everything that isn't either the one on Audible, may Djhuty destroy them, or the robot girl one on archive.org?

@strypey @ewen Dawn certainly doesn't meet the copyright requirements for librevox.

Please, please let me know if you record Dawn!

@strypey @ewen Same. I have a hard copy, but it is so beautiful I don't dare read it.

@ewen @strypey https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674984615 This is an amazing book that sets out the process whereby this has happened since (the most ironically named thing ever) The Enlightenment. Yay, let's all hate The Enlightenment!

The American accent in the audiobook gave me culture shock...

I drove trucks the whole time I studied.

@strypey The heavy casualisation of the work force and the total lack of any desire to do anything about it on the part of academic staff were high on my list of reasons for leaving the academy.

@strypey I got my UE in NZ when uni was free. I saw many people like me i.e. from super poor families, going to uni and being great contributors to NZ. Sadly I wasn't able to go to uni then and didn't go till decades later in Australia when there were fees. 😐

@dansup Does this apply to other image hosting sites like imgur?

@lightweight @strypey How do you account for scientific fraud then?

@lightweight You seem to have just contradicted yourself, you said it wasn't ego, but now you are saying it is?

@lightweight @strypey It is a rare feature of religion based on numbers of religions not numbers of adherents.

@lightweight @strypey Most religions do not say they are the one true religion. Most recognise that truth can be found everywhere.