Do church leaders know that?

To appeal to children, which is an important focus of religious propaganda.

but, conversely, the cosmic timescale is so vast that it doesn’t matter to us…

I agree, stories only matter because we lack objectivity.

The point of a successful Disney media franchise is not to provide nuance and provoke thought, but instead to sell merch for profit.

This gets to the fact that all stories are lies. No one lives happily ever after, for we all die. No one is strong and wins, because strength, weakness, winning and losing are just perceptions that are eventually erased from time.

When you start to intuit that human psychology is heavily based on such soporific narrative, you start to understand how people can be so stupid, both individually and collectively.

The endless story of justification is powerless in the face of time, as time reduces all individuals, groups, bloodlines and ideologies to memory, and then to total obliteration.

Maybe we could spend less time justifying being shit to each other, as it is wholly without lasting merit, and - instead - create a world based on human decency. That won’t last, either, but at least it would be moral.

The issue with the Star Wars story is that it can’t end. This means Luke cannot have been very effective, because the same issues have to repeat historically to promote an endless cycle of protagonists and antagonists and battles that relate to the previous fan-favourites (because nostalgia sells).

Therefore Luke must simultaneously be an awesome hero, and also just some loser that didn’t really do anything that worked.

Or a nice violin.

My toilet definitely has cause to remember my shits.

Humanity is transient. If we go out by being queer and not having kids, it’s better than many of the other ways.

I hate terrorism. Therefore I hate Hamas, who are terrorists. And therefore I hate a state which uses terrorism to clear land, which Israel is doing: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/16/magazine/israel-west-bank-settler-violence-impunity.html

Me: I don’t want to see children and civilians dying over this war.

“What about children and civilians in Israel?”

I said ‘children and civilans’. I don’t want to see any such people die. I did not qualify with a nationality.

“Yeah, but you didn’t say ‘Israel’.”

I don’t need to. I don’t care where a person is born, or what’s on their passport. I just don’t want them being killed. I want to stop seeing innocent people killed.

“You think people who support Hamas are innocent?”

There’s no winning, I’m afraid.

I’ll falsify that by criticising Hamas.

Hamas are terrorists and they suck. They need to fuck off and let Palestinians not get involved in terrifying violence.

YouTube searches are also truly awful, and have been for around a year.

I just googled ‘is google my friend’ and google told me it was not my friend. Help.