Think of your closest friend or family member. Do you “believe in” them?
It’s very rare that you find anyone on Lemmy/Reddit that actually takes more than eight seconds to critically think about the significance of “religion,” and not just immediately monkey brain into “religion is for idiots.” Alas, I hoped that this particular group think would’ve stayed behind.
A belief is not a religion, and a religion is not a belief. Any one person can be varying degrees of “religious,” and any one person can hold varying levels of belief in a higher power.
I don’t have much else to add because your comment was pretty well thought-out.
^This guy dates.
“Misuse of the Oxford comma, bad speling and taking jokes too far.”
Ah, but you thought about it for more than a quarter of a second. That’s not allowed.
I politely disrespect your opinion
Yeah, it’s definitely convenient in most cases, I would say. Though it can also be inconvenient when messaging, because sometimes said need to add context can read very unnaturally in an otherwise grammatically correct sentence.
Ironically, autotune is more akin to pixelating an image.
They likely meant to say “adverbial phrase.”
Verbose HTTP is looking great.
I just want to point out that English’s future tense does exist, but it’s just non-distinct in many cases because, well, as you’ve said, English is fucked.
“We’re eating steak.”
You need context to determine whether this statement is talking about the present or the future. So much of the language is implied contextually that you can just drop off words and assume the listener will understand.
“What are we eating?” vs. “What are we eating tonight?”
It’s so funny because whereas a lot of other languages have rules with defined exceptions here and there, speaking English is more of a theoretical approach.
It feels like English just happened one day and we’re all trying to figure out why.
No, I mean I say the entire thing to myself. “Bless me, thank me, I’m welcome.”
Middle school me started doing it and I’ve put in no effort to stop.
Ever since middle school, my “bless you” interaction has always been:
And whenever I sneeze, it’s “bless me, thank me, I’m welcome.”
Thank you for attending my TEDtalk.
Yes. I call it my “birthtime,” even though that name technically shadows another data point.
It says it right there. He’s 4+ years old.