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Jerusalem Catholic Patriarch offers to be exchanged for Gaza hostages
(www.reuters.com)
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I know we're all cynics here, but good for him. Even if this is entirely a publicity stunt, the guy is still taking a huge risk that someone might offer to take him up on it. That's a lot of nerve, and that's a lot of faith, either in God or in the way Hamas values hostages.
Either way, to repeat the notion elsewhere in the thread: any of us offering? Maybe it's a low risk--but it ain't zero. It's easy to dismiss these kinds of gestures from the same armchairs from which we solve geopolitics and warfare, but a public figure going on record for selflessness is something to be celebrated, even if the only noble trait is willingness to roll the dice on human nature in the hope of sharing an altruistic sentiment.
"Hurt me instead of her" is something we wish more people of faith would say everywhere.
That's kind of the entire message of Jesus: He volunteered to be hurt instead of us.
Now, the whole notion of God hurting us or Jesus is kinda fucked and I'm a devout Last Thursdayist, but the sentiment is the same.
TIL: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Last_Thursdayism
Neat.
Thanks, me too. Existential crisis incoming.
I think the core message of Last Thursdayism is that since we can't know, we shouldn't worry about it
You do you. I’m freaking out. It can’t be stopped now. Pray for me.
May Bob guide you to your slack
I’ve used this argument unironically with creationists without realizing it was a thing. “If God is omnipotent, why couldn’t God create something that didn’t exist a moment ago but then comes into existence with billions of years of history.”
It’s just an attempt to at least get them to acknowledge science while still leaving room for faith, since carbon dating isn’t really up for debate and cosmology offers more than enough convincing evidence against a young universe, just to name two examples.
Anyway I thought I was being creative and original… guess not.
I'm an Adamsian Last Thursdayist of the Subgenius, which synthesizes The Hitchhiker's Guide and the Church of the Subgenius into something resembling a theology.
If I'm going to believe in something made up, I'll make up something fun.
Praise Bob!
Me and a few buddies tried writing a "Not So Holy-ish Boble" in grades 7-9, it quickly became a one-upsmanship contest to see who could write the gayest thing you've ever read. There were characters such as Adam the Ant, a three-foot tall anthropomorphic ant with a ten-foot long penis, and Elliot the Otter, who was not only a literal otter, but also figurative. He was based on a real guy we knew, who loved it, but was not actually an otter himself (more of a twunk). Where's Bob in all this? Very much involved in every activity, he was basically a super horny pansexual Jesus who would use his powers to incite orgies. I think it ended with a cumshot from Adam, so hard that it blasted the whole crew into space so they could convert other worlds. I was supposed to write the "Revelations" final chapter, but by then the group had converted to some other weird thing that the (very hot) new girl in school brought with her, and interest had waned.
Get this script to Seth Rogen and A24, they’ll make it a movie. Call it Sausage Fest 2- The Slappening.
Put me in the screenshot
I thought you’d play Bob. But there has to be a giant spider.
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Yes good for him. And good for the world if we get some music festival kid back and lose a priest. Win-win.
Most of the hostages that have been released have been saying pretty good things publicly, so I guess now is as good a time as any lol
So go be one. How brainwashed do you have to be to believe hostages are being treated well by Hamas.