DaSaw

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[–] DaSaw@midwest.social 8 points 1 year ago

That's because their chief weapon is surprise... surprise and fear.

Although, and I haven't watched the video, usually when people are singing the praises of the Inquisition, they are usually explicitly not talking about the Spanish Inquisition. Instead, they are talking about the Papal Inquisition, which was a separate institution.

The idea is that, prior to the Papal Inquisition (the professionalization of inquisition), "Heresy" was a charge that was often levied by secular authorities against political enemies, with the "heresy" being a vague charge that could mean anything. The Papacy took that out of their hands, requiring that charges of heresy be investigated and tried by church officials supported by Rome.

Of course, there were definitely problems that the apologists don't talk about. The accused weren't told exactly what they were accused of, nor were they allowed to face their accuser. They are often imprisoned for months with no idea why, expected just to confess to whatever it is they did (which resulted in quite a few unrelated confessions). Torture was often used to extract confessions, and though confessions extracted through torture were not allowed to be used as evidence, they had no problem accepting formal confessions given the following day (based on information gained through torture).

That said, if, not knowing who was accusing, you managed to name your accuser as someone who had beef with you, that was often enough to exonerate you. And if you did confess to heresy, all you had to do was say "I won't do it again", and you were off the hook... the first time. If they had to come back, you were turned over to secular authorities for punishment... and the secular punishment for heresy was burning (on the Continent; in England it was often hanging).

That said, back to the Spanish inquisition, which was a real piece of work, itself. It was under the control of the King, not the Church, and so was just as political as the ad-hoc institutions of the past. And though Jews were officially not under the jurisdiction of the Inquisition (since the Inquisitions mandate was to investigate heresy, and heresy is deviation within a particular religion, not being a totally different religion), Spain had required all their jews to convert or leave, and so Conversos were often targeted for investigation.

[–] DaSaw@midwest.social 11 points 1 year ago

All they have to do is, instead of calling it a "law", call it "militia regulation" instead. "Militia" is the entire arms bearing populace; if you own a gun, you are, by definition, part of the Militia. And the 2nd amendment doesn't merely say "everyone has a gun"; it does so in context of maintaining a "well regulated militia". All the right to "keep and bear arms" does is prevent them from requiring we store our arms in a central armory (which was one of the controversies over the matter in England when the right was in development).

I would say we also have a right to own a car. That doesn't prevent them from requiring we maintain the capacity to bear responsibility if we should accidentally exercise that right improperly.

[–] DaSaw@midwest.social 9 points 1 year ago

Something tells me this isn't exactly religious.

[–] DaSaw@midwest.social 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because I played Dragon Quest and Zelda, I developed an unfortunate predilection for walking into strangers houses and smashing pots and vases and stuff. Took years of therapy to break that habit. :(

I still can't even look at a barrel.

[–] DaSaw@midwest.social 3 points 2 years ago

I'm pretty sure my brother reached numbers like this for Ghostbusters (TV edit) when he was a little kid.

[–] DaSaw@midwest.social 3 points 2 years ago

Very midwest. Sounds like my grandmother's jello with celery in it.

[–] DaSaw@midwest.social 3 points 2 years ago

More accurate than you might think.

[–] DaSaw@midwest.social 7 points 2 years ago

Donald Trump and his followers look more like Doctor Who villains by the day. I half expect them to unveil a new military unit that is vaguely salt shaker shaped.

[–] DaSaw@midwest.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Discomfort stimulates growth, but the actual growth happens during periods of recovery. That is true of the body, and I have little doubt it is true of the mind, as well. I'm not saying people should never step out of their comfort zone. But just like we shouldn't be judging people at the gym because, from our perspective, they should be able to do more, we should be extending compassion to those of us who have difficulties in the mind, particularly considering we can only know our own perspective, not theirs. I mean, you wouldn't expect a guy in a wheel chair to be doing leg presses, would you?

[–] DaSaw@midwest.social 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"I did not have sex with that woman."

"Well, technically, college kids don't consider a blowjob to count as 'sex'."

[–] DaSaw@midwest.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Right. Hexbear is Russian propaganda. Got it.

[–] DaSaw@midwest.social 6 points 2 years ago (4 children)

WTF is up with Hexbear users?

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