#WOTM: Universalism Makes God the Worst Sadist
'Even #Universalism can't get The Tribal War god of Abraham off the hook.'
#universalism
#israel #palestine : #war / #gaza / # #medicalaid / #universalism / #portrait
„A Palestinian doctor in Israel treats people on both sides of the conflict.“
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/06/16/doctor-without-borders
“The current polarization is based less in political parties than in political #values. The true battle being fought, in the US and elsewhere, is not left versus right but #nihilism versus #universalism.” https://www.liberalcurrents.com/universalism-versus-nihilism-the-true-divide-in-american-politics/
The imminent threat of #fascism to democratic society calls into question hard-won egalitarian gains. Therefore, as Jule Govrin argues, we cannot avoid talking about #equality and searching for traces of #universalism from below: https://berlinergazette.de/weaving-anti-fascist-narratives-radical-equality-and-universalism-from-below/
"The reason you begin tracking your data is that you have
some uncertainty about yourself that you believe the data
can illuminate. It’s about introspection, reflection, seeing
patterns, and arriving at realizations about who you are
and how you might change."
—Eric Boyd, self-tracker
an article by Natasha D. Schüll, 2019, "The Data-Based Self:
Self-Quantification and the Data-Driven (Good) Life" https://www.natashadowschull.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/SocialResearch-2019.pdf
#concentration #credit #scores #scoring #reward #rewards #psychology #socioPsych #socioPsychology #selfWorth #universalism #digitalization #recognition #data #AIRisks #AIEthics #gaming #socialization #Tracking #surveillance #selfRegulation #attention #reintermediation #intermediation #enshittification #risk #derisking #vulnerability #morality #selfConfidence #dataDon #Schüll #quotes
‘Our moral intuitions about merit and personal worth are changing.’
an interview with Marion Fourcade about her book "The Ordinal Society" co-written by @kjhealy: https://news.berkeley.edu/2024/04/23/from-uber-ratings-to-credit-scores-whats-lost-in-a-society-that-counts-and-sorts-everything/
#TheOrdinalSociety #concentration #merit #meritocracy #MarionFourcade #Fourcade #school #credit #scores #scoring #reward #rewards #sociology #psychology #socioPsych #socioPsychology #ranking #selfWorth #universalism #digitalization #inequality #inequalities #recognition #data #AIRisks #AIEthics #gaming #socialization #Tracking #surveillance #power #socialControl #governance #regulation #rules #socialMedia #attention #reintermediation #intermediation #enshittification #risk #derisking #vulnerability #morality #confidence #trust #dataDon
"I've only heard nonsense from #DavidBentleyHart. He tries to cloak an argument for universal salvation in Christian language, an endeavor popular to our cultural ears and foreign to God’s Words." - @kettingerjason #Christianity #Faith #universalism https://ofb.biz/sa1302
📻radio, podcast🎙️ Pour un universalisme minoritaire – avec Bruno Perreau: Les condamnations répétées du wokisme, du communautarisme, du séparatisme, du "politiquement correct" reflètent la même peur des "minorités" qui… #Universalism #Wokisme #Communautarisme #Séparatisme #PoliticallyCorrect
Pour un universalisme minorita...
Does God Really Want Everyone to Be Saved?
https://heavenlymanna.net/christianArticle.php?article_id=1567
We read, "The Lord is...long-suffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance" (2 Peter 3:9). This is one of many Scriptures revealing that God wants everyone to be saved. However, the Bible lets us know that not everyone is going to be saved. We read...
#Universalism #UniversalSalvation #Theology #ChristianBible
"There is a way to set up your fiscal and welfare institutions that avoids both marriage penalties and marriage bonuses, though this approach is rarely mentioned in the US policy discourse. The solution has three pieces to it:
- Tax all income personally. In our current system, Medicare, Social Security, and Unemployment taxes are assessed on each individual’s personal income while the federal income tax is assessed on tax units that combine spousal income and then apply different rates based on whether an individual is filing singly, jointly, or as a single parent. We should change the federal income tax so that it is assessed on each individual’s personal income just like Medicare, Social Security, and Unemployment taxes are. This would make it so that tax situations do not change based on marriage.
- Provide welfare benefits personally. Welfare benefit eligibility should also be based on the circumstances of specific individuals not families. Unemployed people should get unemployment benefits regardless of how much money others in their family or household earn. The same for disabled people, elderly people, children, and so on. Some of our benefits already work like this, but others do not. By providing benefits to individuals based on their personal circumstances, you make it so that their benefit situations do not change based on marriage.
- Eliminate means tests. Welfare benefit eligibility and levels should be based on an individual’s current status (e.g., whether they are unemployed, disabled, on leave, a student) and, for income-smoothing benefits, their prior earnings. As with (2), this ensures that family composition does not end up affecting benefit eligibility.
Of course, this just describes the ideal form of the universal social democratic welfare state. This should come as no surprise."
https://jacobin.com/2025/01/universalism-welfare-states-marriage-medicaid
Intelligent individuals tend to value self-directedness and benevolence, study finds https://www.psypost.org/intelligent-individuals-tend-to-value-self-directedness-and-benevolence-study-finds/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Intelligence #SelfDirectedness #Benevolence #Universalism #Psychology
"Democratic and progressive messaging to men will never go anywhere as long as it starts from the assumption that being a man is always a privilege and being a woman always makes you disadvantaged.
There are times when that is true, but there are times when that isn’t.
Men disproportionately suffer from all kinds of problems at much higher rates than women do. But progressives, who run the Democratic Party’s approach to social-culture issues, rarely acknowledge that. To them, men are simply there to be lectured about how they should do more for women.
Sure, a lot of men mistreat women (like Emhoff). Many men take our their frustrations in unhealthy and self-defeating ways. And the Democratic Party has played a real role in advancing opportunities for women and making sure that their rights are protected.
But you can do all that and not strip men of their humanity by constantly making demands of them but never listening to their needs."
https://www.theamericansaga.com/p/democrats-need-to-realize-its-not
#USA #Misandry #Sexism #DemocraticParty #Universalism #IdentityPolitics #Progressivism #Liberals
Tennessee. IT Manager. I’m not up for a bio right now, but here are some tags that I’m interested in: #IT #itsupport #Coding #Networking #Cybersecurity #PHP #javascript #webdev #virtualization #GIS #ESRI #Leaflet #Mysticism #Meditation #Universalism #Introduction Love to hear from you. 👋
We started our study on “Grace Saves All” with the author, Dr. David Artman. It was a wonderful beginning! #Universalism #christianuniversalism #progressivechristianity
Guest article by Dr. #Bernd #Stein: "The #thing in itself"
In a new guest article by Dr. Bernd Stein, who has often published his excellent guest articles on my site, this time it is about the infamous "thing in itself", as one might find it in the introduction of the Aristotelian categories in scholasticism, the subsequent #universalism controversy or in modern epistemology, which is essentially shaped by Immanuel #Kant's dualistic philosophy.
More at: https://philosophies.de/index.php/2024/01/28/das-ding-an-sich/
Guest article by Dr. #Bernd #Stein: "The #thing in itself"
In a new guest article by Dr. Bernd Stein, who has often published his excellent guest articles on my site, this time it is about the infamous "thing in itself", as one might find it in the introduction of the Aristotelian categories in scholasticism, the subsequent #universalism controversy (which I had already examined in an older essay "The Paradigm Shift") or in modern epistemology, which is essentially shaped by Immanuel #Kant's dualistic philosophy.
In this respect, Bernd's essay fits perfectly into the previous portfolio of this site, as in his very readable text he deals with the possible #epistemological limits of "physics" or rather physics. In particular, he addresses the supposed "intrinsic properties of an object" in order to show that, in his view, there are only interactions that may also apply to a special degree to "quantum objects".
More at: https://philosophies.de/index.php/2024/01/28/das-ding-an-sich/
Counterpoints: Pope Francis vs. Jesus of Nazareth https://buff.ly/3MLRG4D #Christianity #doctrine #universalism #Pope #heresy
Once again, these are people who by the UK Government's revised criteria are due help this winter but will not get it because moving from universalism to means testing ALWAYS leads to people missing out who shouldn't.
This is not an accident. It is by design.
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