Tell that to the thousands who helped smuggle people out of insanely shitty situations. I think they even made a movie about one…someone’s list, mmm it’s slipping my tongue.

Just like the areas that exist outside your little rural area. It’s almost like either of us shouldn’t make blanket statements.

You can’t read I said the SSD has more points of failure than the memory. And those points of failure go up the longer it’s used.

Then you live in a pretty recently upgraded area. https://www.npr.org/2023/06/28/1184726217/rural-states-likely-to-benefit-the-most-from-funds-to-improve-broadband-access

Well that’s just not factually accurate. The accurate thing would be it causes so little wear and tear it might as well not count on the memory chips. But using ANYTHING causes wear and tear to build up eventually and a SSD has more points of failure than just reading and writing to the memory.

According to the people who made the rituals, it’s clearly laid out in several different religious books what the entire purpose of the rituals within said book are for. Just because you experience a side effects doesn’t make the side effect the purpose.

That’s not what the story of job is about even if you are entitled to your own interpretation(which goes back to my original point about why it’s all left to interpretation.) Job wasn’t punished because he didn’t pay attention to Satan. Satan was the little imp on his shoulder telling him all these things about how God isn’t righteous and he has forsaken him. It all started simply because God bragged about how devout and awesome Job was for following his teachings to Satan and Satan said “yeah well you got it all wrong, he only is so devout because you’ve rewarded him. Take away his rewards and he shall hate you.” And Job did for a while before the age old bull shit about having ‘faith’ came into play at the end where he just basically accepts he’s a Stoopid wittle hoomen who can’t understand God’s grand plan…which as we know as the person granted insight into God’s thinking, was a literal pissing contest between the devil.

As for placebo effects, I never commented on the effects being good or bad on their own, all I commented on is that just because they are a by product of participating in the ritual, they aren’t the goal of the ritual.

I think the new hurricane coming their way in a few days will do it. It’s already been upgraded from a cat3 to cat4 and possibly may be even cat5 by landfall.

It’s for web developers to put in random place holder text to see how and where the layout might break.

And that’s what I’m arguing it isn’t for you. It’s for them, the entire ritual(s) were made to show your submission and how much you are a good “follower” so they will show you favor. Look at the story of job, God burned all his shit, killed his family, all on a bet with the devil job won’t still love God afterwards. And what does job do? Pray for forgiveness for what ever sin he’s committed that supposedly pissed god off when the entire thing is a pissing contest between the devil and god.

Any inner peace or heightened senses you get are just a placebo from that ritual. Similar to the sports ritual like not washing your socks or having lucky underwear.

Oh wow that made a ton of changes to my statement! Same difference.

“Don’t do the last one that’s mania and gods are perfectly content with you sacrificing some time and mental space, the ritual is for you, not them”

These are your literal words.

Dumb fuck fucked around and found out. His bitch of a wife deserves to be charged too.

Not great for an SSD either since they have finite read/writes too.

A news article was released today that said starfield is the least buggy Bethesda game to date. Fluff but man that sure puts some expectations out there to live up too.

I was the Nintendo dude in my friends group and my best friend was the Sega dude. So while we had fun back and forths we both got to experience both consoles pretty well. I remember being so happy when my friend got the wall adapter for his game gear lol

I mean anything works if it’s built to last and you take care of it. I still have my original brick grey Nintendo DS 1st Gen and it works flawlessly.

That you could play for all of 30 minutes(exaggeration but the battery life on these things sucked hard.)

They don’t reveal themselves, no one ever saw the gods and presented definitive proof. it’s always stories conveying that they saw them or as you say “visions in their head”. Guess what, I have a vision in my head of being a billionaire surrounded by a Haram of hot models all wanting to fulfill my every desire. Oh…gee…it’s just a vision and not reality.

And you should read up on your gods, there are gods that absolutely want tributes, trinkets, and sacrifices in exchange for favors, hell Satan wants your soul for eternity in exchange for what ever you’ll agree too according to the Christian texts. But whether you get peace or what ever reaction from performing said ritual means nothing to the actual intent of said ritual which is giving tribute to that specific god. Even in Christianity the prevailing belief is by worshipping god you will gain their favor and be granted a place in the magical eternal kingdom of heaven. That in and of itself is paying tribute in a ritual.

What a long winded way to disprove the entire point you’re making. You’re the little crab in the bucket pulling the other crabs down not the hero you see yourself as. If you’re that unhappy with what happened did you ever bring this up to management? Put any effort into it at all? Because according to the info you’ve provided so far it sounds like all you did was silently seethe and now want to take all that pent up anger out on your coworkers for finding what works for them and the company as agreed upon by both parties. Do you have this same amount of energy for other people’s salaries//benefits packages? Clearly with the attitude displayed no one should be making more than what YOU decide they should make regardless of any other agreements with the management and worker.