• rayyy@lemmy.world
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    Poor, poor Mel boy. He is in dire need of mental help and adult supervision.

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    As a Jewish person I find that absolutely hilarious. For over two thousand years the foundation of Judaism has been the exact opposite. Nearly everything in the torah has been interpreted, reinterpreted, and then we fight over who has the best interpretations (of course some things can be viewed on a literal level but those are interpreted on multiple other levels as well). Also despite Christians stealing nearly everything from us Hell isn’t one of them, I have no idea where they got that (probrally the pagans).

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      Christianity is fear, and Judaism is clever loopholes. Fear you will go to hell versus you’ll get into the kingdom eventually, one way or another.

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      It’s been the same with Christianity for most of the 2000 years it has existed. Christians had so many different interpretations they have been split up into splinter groups as early as 30 years after Jesus death.

      Literalism is a pretty new concept, rougthly from the late 19th century.

      If anybody is interested about the history, I can recomend Center Place`s newest video, a progressive church that has a lot of historical and very scholary lectures about Christianity and Judaism (no preaching or converting). Their lectures playlist is a treasure. And I say this as a very much not Christian or Jewish person.

      Here is their video on Literalism

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      While my wife and I were evangelical Christians in college we attended a few Jewish events for part of a religious study class she was taking. That is definitely what stood out to me, too. While it’s difficult to really make definitive statements about Christianity as a whole because it’s so varied, the type we were familiar with from our Bible belt upbringing was definitely more about a pretty literal interpretation about everything. It was very fascinating to learn that Jewish people are much more practical about their interpretation. For context, growing up I’d say a good bit of the people in my church viewed remarrying after divorce as adultery because marriage is meant to be forever.

      One thing I remember finding fascinating was like the layers of annotations on scripture. Like people would annotate annotations with their responses and stuff.

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        The Talmud, which is basically a bunch of Rabbis arguing about what the Torah means, is almost as important as the Torah itself.

        There’s a famous phrase in Jewish culture: two Jews, three opinions.

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    Some niggling part of my brain keeps wondering if ivermectin is actually a crazy cure for cancer, could anyone break down the science for me? I have a decent understanding of molecular biology, but no idea about what ivermectin is chemically or how it would play in

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        It kills parasitic infections caused by worms. Cancer is not a parasitic infection caused by a worm. It’s like asking if a mouse trap can fix climate change. No, because they are in no way related.

        That’s not a convincing argument. It suffices to say that ivermectin was considered as a candidate for a cancer drug as early as 2018, with a proposed mechanism of action and everything. It’s not as simple as “cancer is not a parasitic infection”, because pharmacology is never this simple. That paper also mentions positive study results both in vitro and in vivo. There is also a lot of later research (search ivermectin cancer on google scholar), but it’s potentially biased by the horrifying memetic war that happened in America during the covid pandemic.

        My conclusion from ten minutes of googling is that quite possibly it’s a real weak anti-cancer drug much like the already-known ones. It’s hard to be sure of those things - we’re in an age where there’s enough research and publication bias and politics that you can’t trust individual studies1. And you can’t fully trust meta-analyses either, but I can’t even find a meta-analysis of ivermectin as used for cancer, so.

        (It’s pretty safe to say that it’s not an amazing cancer drug much better than all existing ones (like some people seem to think) - both on priors, and because if that was the case it’d be extremely obvious from all of the studies already made.)

        1 I don’t mean fraud, I mean that if a hundred teams over the globe try a study of something that doesn’t work, five of them will find p<0.05 results by pure chance and quite possibly only those teams will publish it - so until several good replications come along, it’ll look like there’s a real and well-supported effect. And there can be much subtler problems than this - see, say, how well the studies of psychic powers go.

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          It works similarly to the traditional bleach cure in that regard. Both are 100% effective if used properly.

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            I always like that comic, but wish he had done a bit on one of the ways we used to (maybe someone still does it somewhere? Idk) impregnate cells with DNA. Take a modified .22 bullet, load it with the DNA, and blast it at cells.

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    “People said that Mel Gibson couldn’t play a Scotsman in Braveheart. But look at him now! An alcoholic racist.”

    • Frankie Boyle
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    Mel Gibson is the kind of “Christian” that has a meltdown if anybody dares to point out that Jesus most likely didn’t have blonde hair and blue eyes.

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        Jesus: You should sell all your possessions.

        Christians: Well when Jesus spoke about the eye of a needle what he really meant was…

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          They should tell more stories of entitled spiteful dick Jesus.

          Like the time he cursed a fig tree because it didn’t have figs for him to eat, because it was out of season.

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        Roughly 2000 years after someone was nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be if we were nice to each other for a change.

        • Douglas Addams
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      Dude goes to a ‘catholic’ church that he fully funds himself as he’s deeply against Vatican II, and the pope.

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        He was born in Peekskill, New York. He could technically be president. Not to give him any ideas…

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        Gibson
        Rogan
        2028

        We need a ROAD WARRIOR to survive this American wasteland.

        Joe Rogan would be like the Coma-Doof Warrior. But instead of a guitar shooting flames, he’d have a podcast mic shooting fart gas that he would just yell nonsensical phrases into just to make noise. Well Mel Gibson is driving him around town with a literal horse strapped to the front injected with ivermectin and main lined into Mel’s veins as a blood bag. The horse would have lines from the Book of Revelation tattooed all over it.

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    I’m pretty sure Joe Rogan and Mel Gibson believe that those massive fires are caused by liberal CA government.

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        DEI PURPLE HAIRED LESBIAN FIRE MARSHALL!!!

        That’s what my dad told me.

        She does not have purple hair and she’s been there for 20+ years, previously holding the position of fire chief. She is well-respected by her peers.

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          Woman = DEI
          Black = DEI
          Queer = DEI
          Piercings = DEI
          Catholic = believe it or not, also DEI

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            Nope, but close. He’s a Drudge Report reader and a secret Fox watcher (he’ll never admit it but it’s always the last channel on their TV)

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                [edit] sorry if you got multiple notifications. My app was being weird and replying to the wrong comments

                Because my mom has a brain and hated Trump before he ran for office. She wasn’t quiet about her opinion and she’d tell at him for watching it.

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                [edit] sorry if you got multiple notifications. My app was being weird and replying to the wrong comments

                A lack of tech literacy. It’s not bookmarked (therefore it doesn’t exist to him) and he stopped listening to the radio after Rush Limbaugh went off the air.

                If it was obvious he watched Fox even though he “tried” to hide it, why do you think he could keep it secret?

                He will defend anyone he likes if I say something shitty about them but he’s never once defended Alex Jones. He never really bought into the extreme conspiracies like false flags or pizza gate, either.

                He’s a conflicted man.

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        Yeah their strategy seems to be sniping out folks at the top (politically speaking) by singling them out & turning the State propaganda machine on full blast, alienating them & forcing them to defend themselves when no one else has the time or energy because, you know, everything is literally on fire.

        Pretty gross & probably a preview of the next (at least) 4 years. I hope it fails.

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        “DEI MADE THE WATER SYSTEM UNABLE KEEP UP” is such an obviously stupid take. There’s not enough water to put the fires out

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    Well I certainly hope Mel gets to put his medical advice to the test on himself.

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      Just like Joe he’ll admit he’s getting the same treatment any doctor would recommend, and he’ll take Ivermectin on top and when he’s better, he’ll claim it was the horse dewormer that fought the cancer.

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    The house was a non-issue since he was probably being paid enough from the performance to buy a bigger one.