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I don't quote The Bible often but I think we can have some space for a quote here: "Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barn
by therein 2y ago
I don't quote The Bible often but I think we can have some space for a quote here:
"Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?" Matthew 6:26
- exe34 2y agothe heavenly step-dad doesn't care when they die of starvation either.
- fire_lake 2y agoA systematic study of birds would find that many do indeed starve to death.
- lm28469 2y agoIs the goal of humanity to replicate infinitely and love as long as possible regardless of anything else ? Because that's what cancers do and it never end well for the host
- dukeyukey 2y agoTo a point, yes. That's the goal of practically any living thing, including cancer.
- lm28469 2y agoWe're supposedly smart monkey who can project in the future and act accordingly.
- lukas099 2y agoI don't think anyone said or implied that
- mrguyorama 2y agoIn what way does cancer "love"?
- jonplackett 2y agoI do enjoy scientific debunkment of religious quotes. After the Notre Dam fire someone on Twitter was claiming a miracle because the golden (statues I think?) had survived. Someone then pointed out that the melting point of gold is several hundred degrees above the temperature of a wood fire.
- Y_Y 2y ago> melting point of gold is several hundred degrees above the temperature of a wood fire A grand miracle indeed
- graemep 2y agoSo do people - at least those lucky enough not to be part of a reasonably affluent industrial society. You do realise that metaphors are never perfect?
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- Modified3019 2y agoAnd quickly too, the small ones live on a metabolic knife edge and can go down in as little as two days. Here in the valley of Oregon, we don’t get snow often or for very long, but one late winter/early spring we suddenly got 1-2 feet snow cover for at least 3 days. I’ll never forget the few dozen birds I saw dead on the side of the roads because they couldn’t get to food.
- flakeoil 2y agoI'm curious, what does that quote really mean? I can attempt to draw a few conclusions, but I'm not quite sure of either and they can also almost be the opposite of each other.
- Dalewyn 2y agoYou have to bust your ass to live while the bird just lives freely with helpings from God, despite man supposedly being made in God's image and stuff. I think it's a misguided sentiment of its time, we know today that birds also bust ass in their own birdy ways to live. We all bust ass.
- maxbond 2y agoI don't know that I know what it means, but I'll tell you a thought it brought to mind. A while ago I was having a discussion, and someone asserted that synthetic fertilizers are necessary because composting doesn't scale. And my reaction was, surely composting scales to an entire biosphere - like, empirically we know this, right? There was a massive biosphere long before there was a Fritz Haber. Surely it's that we don't have the required technology and wisdom to create supply chains that can run as closed loops and accept inputs that aren't so rich and concentrated? I don't want to argue this point, there are definitely good counterarguments that could be made, but I'm just trying to illustrate the shift in perspective I think the commenter may have been going for rather than change the topic.
- Scarblac 2y agoThe argument doesn't quite work imo because farmers are actively working against the normal ecosystem - we don't want the normal plants to grow there, we want our desired crops. With enough production for us to feed the world and to give farmers a living wage. I still think it's doable (but not if we also want to feed many times our mass in lifestock), but it's not easy.
- hawski 2y agoFarmers also want to have a large swaths of a monoculture plant, because it is easy then to mechanize. That goes, as you say, against the normal ecosystem. Permaculture gardens look much different, but you can't easily mechanize that.
- crakenzak 2y ago[flagged]
- dukeyukey 2y agoWhy do you assume OP is even religious?
- xyst 2y ago[flagged]
- rvnx 2y agoNo, probably no Bible bots (though there are plenty of bots here, whose end goal is to collect karma to sell upvotes). However, as Ecclesiastes 1:9 says, "What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun." Trends and themes often resurface on Reddit, where discussions can cyclically return to religious topics or quotes.
- lukas099 2y agoWho pays for upvotes? Advertisers?
- MikeTheGreat 2y agoWhat is the reddit fallout that happened last year? (I don't follow or read reddit, unless a search for something specific leads me to a particular page, so I'm clueless about this and curious to know more)
- moritzruth 2y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Reddit_API_controversy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Reddit_API_controversy
- lynx23 2y ago[flagged]
- graemep 2y agoThe reason is that there are huge amounts of religious texts, and what they record people's understanding of the world, grappling with the problems in their lives, and trying to make sense of their experiences: they are about being human. If you are open minded about/not hostile to religion (in general or a particular religion) you will find a lot of wisdom in religious works. Not just "scriptures" but a lot else, written from ancient times to contemporary.