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It's a Christian notion too, c/o the Gospel passages in which Jesus condemns Pharisees for praying loudly from front row seats at the Temple.
(it's a jewish thing that jesus was repeating just sayin)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tzedakah

― kurt schwitterz, Monday, October 16, 2017 5:13 PM (four days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Also echoes Isaiah mocking public self-denigration on Yom Kippur

Christianity is a better model for leftist emancipatory politics than Marxism. (I have probably said this elsewhere on the board but feel the need to document it here.)

Like institutional Christianity? I think Christianity is a better conduit/context for leftist emancipatory politics than Marxism (religious appeals are so powerful), but I don't think the left should be more like the Church.

No def not the Church! (Though as a institution it could prove useful.)

idk what that means really let alone why you'd think it

Me either but I am going to assume it means that ryan is a post-Tolstoy anarcho-Christian.

I agree with ryan

even zizek has said this

We keep trying to get Christianity back to flipping the tables in the temple and even with a Franciscan Pope it’s still “well, some usury has to happen, otherwise how are we going to pay all these guardsmen from Switzerland?”

the problem w organized religion is, people will go to church or a temple or whathaveyou, and they will donate money to them for charity. alot of these people are congressmen doing this publicly for political reasons, which is totally fine. the problem is then when it comes time for everybody to come to the table and figure out what we are going to spend our money on as a country, they feel like they are already helping out, and legally/financially, they are. perhaps it alleviates the sense of Christian givingness, they are getting high on their own supply.

Wasn't a dig btw. I honestly didn't know what ryan meant.

i feel like its pretty good. God is the ultimate authority and him creating the universe is like, the best positive example you can set.

the future obv doesn't belong to one ideology, all will contribute, melting into one another, like waves in the sea.

and the world will live as one

then the waves crash against the rocks, the ships are smashed to bits, the sailors drown, the waves go back, and nothing's changed except more working people are dead

you people not watching this ballgame are stuelpnagels

I live my black ops baseball fandom vicariously through the firm of you, earlnash, mookie & partners

baseball is dumb

not a joke or a challop but my earnest belief

I just intentionally watched some baseball bcz I cannot ignore an explicit dare from that son of, and it might be dumb, but that tiny slice of melodrama reminded me that the point of sports is not intellectual and never will be

Simon, i am gonna hafta rassle you just for that, comrade.

Chess is dumb. Life is dumb

Obviously some of you are unfamiliar with the "baseball and democracy" monologue from Richard Greenberg's play Take Me Out.

https://tonycaselli.com/2006/10/16/a-monologue/

I think you guys missed the best inning by the time you turned on the channel. Baseball does have a unique intensity in big and well played games compared to other team sports.

^ I think that's true, especially in "post-season" games. Tonight's game for example was tense as hell until the 7th inning

Which I guess is what you meant by "big" games

Baseball is not some fucking dopamine mainline

there should be a different Daylight Savings Time each month or quarter but we set it so that it always gets dark around 7 pm

Actually it should just be set so happy hour always happens 2h before sunset. But maybe we’re just saying the same thing with different words.

why on earth is there baseball in late october

its nice af outside would be a good day to chill w a beer w some friends catch a game. lol do you people hate fun?

ILHF

I like fun, which is why I hate baseball.

my controversial opinion is that not really being into sports is fine, but not really being into sports but liking football is lame

which in part probably reflects my general distaste for dilettantism

I like fun, which is why I hate baseball watching sports.

I like hockey and Formula 1 racing. I hate baseball, basketball and (American) football. I don't care about soccer at all.

Formula 1?!?!?

Who actually likes that ffs?

I hate driving.

Not a knock on unperson, but a controversial opinion, maybe, for a man.

Not on ilx probably.

You can recreate the "famous" F1 atmosphere by pulling up a deck chair next to any motorway.

I like hockey and Formula 1 racing. I hate baseball, basketball and (American) football. I don't care about soccer at all.

― grawlix (unperson), Saturday, 21 October 2017 22:06 (nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

An awful selection, awful

Do you guys know that I’ve been hit by a car twice and once pulled out of the way from a bus at the last possible moment?

The Olympics are cool, though, probably because a lot of the events generally take about 10 minutes instead of three hours. xps

I'm into darts and nout else sports

Darts is great, of course.

I did not know that, treeship. Were you older or younger when it happened?

F1 is perfect for sitting down after a big Sunday lunch, watching the start, napping through the whole race and waking up for the finish, not having missed anything important

The Modern Pentathlon is the best Olympic sport because you can watch people who can't ride horses very well try to do showjumping

Actually Ted Hankey looks enough like a controversial opinion to make his picture worth posting to this thread:

http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/onesport/cps/624/cpsprodpb/B9A8/production/_87482574_tedhankey.jpg