Hey sinners
shieldfoss:
ilzolende:
nozoya:
Y’all deserve to know which layer of Hell you’re going to
Take the Dante’s Inferno test here and tag your results so we can find out who sins the hardest
I honestly am less sinful by this measure than I expected.
Level | Score
Purgatory | Very Low
Level 1: Limbo | Moderate
Level 2 | Moderate
Level 3 | High
Level 4 | Low
Level 5 | Moderate
Level 6: The City of Dis | Very High
Level 7 | Moderate
Level 8: The Malebolge | Moderate
Level 9: Cocytus | Moderate
Anyway, Ilzo is an atheist, news at 11.
The Dante’s Inferno Test has banished you to the Seventh Level of Hell!
Here is how you matched up against all the levels:
Level | Score
Purgatory | Very Low
Level 1 - Limbo | Low
Level 2 | High
Level 3 | High
Level 4 | Low
Level 5 | Moderate
Level 6 - The City of Dis | High
Level 7 | Extreme
Level 8 - The Malebolge | High
Level 9 - Cocytus | High
Huh. “Extreme” for violence? I haven’t been in a fight since 9th grade.
“Have you been known to dress provocatively to attract the attention of the opposite sex?”
No, I’m thinking more like my own…
Purgatory | Very Low
Level 1 - Limbo | Very Low
Level 2 | Very High
Level 3 | Moderate
Level 4 | Moderate
Level 5 | Moderate
Level 6 - The City of Dis | Very High
Level 7 | Very High
Level 8 - The Malebolge | Very High
Level 9 - Cocytus | Very High
To be a promethea is violence against nature, news at eleven.
(via shieldfoss)
3 weeks ago · tagged #religion cw · 162,444 notes · source: nozoya · .permalink
Anonymous asked: I think one deals with disliking their assigned religion at birth (ARAB?) in much the same way as disliking their assigned gender at birth - they transition to a better one!
Well yes. And I did transition away from Christianity at 15. It’s just that on some level I feel that I’d better fit as Assigned Jewish At Birth instead. Still atheist (or “moloch-eluaist”) though, but just with a different set of personal background experiences, something I precisely cannot transition into.
My brain is strange. Don’t blame me I didn’t make the rules and I’m still working on how to sudo my brain’s conf files.
1 month ago · tagged #religion cw · 6 notes · .permalink
Why EA Should Be Welcoming To Religious People
ozymandias271:
Why EA Should Be Welcoming To Religious People
[Religious people: ironically, this post is not going to be welcoming to you guys, because it takes atheism as a base-level assumption.] I pretty fervently believe that effective altruism should make deliberate efforts to reach out to religious people, to the point that my litmus test for whether I take someone seriously in the perennial Effective Altruism PR Wars is whether they agree with me on…
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Not by any means an expert on Islam (I’m that embarrassing assigned-christian-at-birth whitey who knows “the” one muslim they could personally ask on such things, (but at least I recognize it)), but this wikipedia description sounds awfully EAish:
Scholars have traditionally interpreted this verse as identifying the following eight categories of Muslim causes to be the proper recipients of zakat:[17][50]
- Those living without means of livelihood (Al-Fuqarā’),[17] the poor[50]
- Those who cannot meet their basic needs (Al-Masākīn),[17] the needy[50]
- To zakat collectors (Al-Āmilīyn ‘Alihā)[17][50]
- To persuade those sympathetic to or expected to convert to Islam (Al-Mu'allafatu Qulūbuhum),[17] recent converts to Islam[16][50][51] and potential allies in the cause of Islam[50][52]
- To free from slavery or servitude (Fir-Riqāb),[17] slaves of Muslims who have or intend to free from their master by means of a kitabah contract[50][52]
- Those who have incurred overwhelming debts while attempting to satisfy their basic needs (Al-Ghārimīn),[17] debtors who in pursuit of a worthy goal incurred a debt[50]
- Those fighting for a religious cause or a cause of God (Fī Sabīlillāh),[17] or for Jihad in the way of Allah by means of pen, word, or sword,[53] or for Islamic warriors who fight against the unbelievers but are not part of salaried soldiers.[50][52][54]:h8.17
- Wayfarers, stranded travellers (Ibnu Al-Sabīl),[17] travellers who are traveling with a worthy goal but cannot reach their destination without financial assistance[50][52]
Zakat should not be given to one’s own parents, grandparents, children, grandchildren, spouses or the descendants of the Prophet Muhammad.[55]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zakat
I’m pretty sure you can easily see which categories GiveWell, GiveDirectly, AMF etc. would each fall in. The rules even seem to acknowledge that administrative costs may be a legitimate factor in charity! And one should help people further away instead of one’s immediate relatives or high-status causes. (Although that means that EY would have to choose between being the rightful caliph and being eligible to receive zakat…)
1 month ago · tagged #religion cw #islam cw #effective altruism · 52 notes · source: ozymandias271 · .permalink
(theatlantic.com)
Is it weird if I feel some kind of a “why is my Assigned Religion At Birth the only abrahamic one without cool nerding-out over the Rules” thing? All I got was “haha fuck you, you’re scum simply for being a human and you better feel really sorry for that, no, we won’t give you rules the following of which would let you feel okay about yourself because you mustn’t feel okay about yourself that’s the entire point, human scum don’t deserve that”. Is the warranty on my assigned religion still valid? Can I exchange it for a better one? Where do I complain, or do I just keep taking estrogen until the manufacturer dies?
(via ilzolende)
1 month ago · tagged #religion cw #christianity cw #(lutheran to be exact) · 20 notes · source: decameter · .permalink