Right now members are becoming less engaged than I've ever seen them, even in Morridor. I saw a meager two or three posts about GenCon on Facebook, compared with the usual obnoxious deluge. People are grudgingly trickling back into chapels after months way. My in-laws, staunch TBM's, had Conference on a low volume and were chatting heartily over a delicious breakfast, completely ignoring what the leadership had to say. Even on r/exmormon, most posts I saw on the GenCon threads noted the utter milquetoast banality of almost every talk, with a couple of offensive exceptions. The Church, from the leadership down to the rank-and-file, has lost its steam.
I've given it a lot of thought over the past couple of days, and I realized that the Church has faced two enormous PR disasters in the space of only two and a half years. I think more people were aware of the $124B "rainy day fund" after the WaPo reports than any other Church misstep during my lifetime; even the November 2015 policy and reversal were sufficiently spaced and received enough concerted PR effort that most TBM's were able to overlook, ignore, or justify it. In the case of the huge EPA fund, however, the Church was hours late to the PR game and offered only a pitiful paragraphs-long statement that basically said, "Yeah, we're richer than God, just trust that it's for a purpose."
A lot of members I know took that in faith. The Church had a shit-ton of money, and they had a reason for having it: soon, disaster would strike, and then all the scoffers and whistleblowers would feel like morons, while Mormons would feel like sages and geniuses.
But who feels moronic now? After a straight year and then some of nonstop bad news--Covid-19, economic disaster after economic disaster, multiple prolonged episodes of racial unrest and reckoning--the Church announces 20 new temples and culty PR claiming credit for the charity donated by members while the EPA fund remains untouched. Members can't shy away from it anymore: their tithing funds are not serving the poor. They are not doing the works of Jesus: clothing the naked, feeding the hungry, healing the sick. God knows there are plenty of each in America and around the world this year and last, and where has the Church been? The Church has been ten steps behind the medical experts, twenty steps behind race activists, and not even on the same racetrack as other philanthropic leaders when it comes to providing the world with hope, resources, and c
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Disclaimer: I have absolutely 0 contribution in this discussion as the only thing I merely did is to translate (as close to word-to-word as I could) the thoughts of this user. Also, the discrepancies between English and Korean translations may cause some confusion, which I tried to mitigate by revising certain parts/omitting unnecessary parts.
This post is a little different compared to other ones in that instead of analyzing lore in Genshin, we are going to be looking at religions and mythologies that Genshin was inspired by.
Original Link: https://gall.dcinside.com/mgallery/board/view/?id=onshinproject&no=546256
1st Post (Mondstadt and Venti): https://www.reddit.com/r/Genshin_Impact/comments/mr7tem/translation_of_korean_genshin_impact_users_theory/
2nd Post (Khaenri'ah and Teyvat): https://www.reddit.com/r/Genshin_Impact/comments/mm54yl/translation_of_a_korean_genshin_impact_users/
5th Post (Alchemy and Khaenri'ah): https://www.reddit.com/r/Genshin_Impact/comments/mmgh9y/translation_of_a_korean_genshin_impact_users/
1. Norse Mythology
1-1. Khaenri'ah
As mentioned in the second post, Khaenri'ah seems to be based on dwarves of Norse mythology.
Coupled with the fact that Kaeya is heavily hinted at being a descendant of a royal family, as shown by Mona's voiceline on Kaeya.
>Kaeya Alberich? He's a Pavo Ocellus. Destined for greatness and grandeur... and to hide ugly realities behind a layer of charm and elegance. He believes he has made a clean break with his past, but one day fate will catch up with him. When it does, he will have a major decision to make.
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>- Mona, About Kaeya
Mona mentions that Kaeya will have to make a major decision in the future, but we'll talk about this some other day.
1-2. Mondstadt
Mondstadt relation to Norse myths include Dvalin, Durin, and Dainsleif.
(Translator's Note: Yes, Dainsleif hails from Khaenri'ah, but the original post was made back in early November, so author probably didn't have much available information on Dainsleif at the time.)
... keep reading on reddit β‘If there was a bright spot during a dark week, I think it was /CMS and 4Chan discovering Beyond Protocol. We've gotten to enjoy philosophical and technical discussion about an ambitious, take-no-prisoners project which has been declared as the "next top 3 coin" and "the check against dystopian AI." If you missed getting acquainted with this stealthy project with deep ties to Stanford University and Silicon Valley, see below. I am a proud member of their Street Team and happy to answer any questions you might have.
- Team - Stanford engineers, execs from IBM + Amazon + Qualcomm + Warner Bros
- Tech - Sophisticated DLT which eliminates hacks & allows Mega Apps to be built on any combination of devices (you thought the App Store was cool?)
- Market - More devices paying each other in future than humans. New era of AI/IOT/Industry 3.0 needs new security
Website: https://beyond.link
Overview
Beyond Protocol was started by Silicon Valley-based technologists in January 2018 to harness the explosive power of merging distributed ledger technology with IoT. Beyond Protocol eliminates hacks and facilitates machine-to-machine value transfer.With security as a given, Beyond Protocol allows us to feel comfortable opening up our devices for collaboration. Using them like threads of yarn, the dreamers among us can weave together inventions we would have not thought to conceive.
From the smart phone -- a camera, a touch screen, GPS, an internet connection -- applications were built which revolutionized entire industries (e.g. Uber and Instagram). From Beyond Protocol, mega applications can be engineered on top of any combination of IoT devices: from smart pills to satellites. Imagine a Nest smoke alarm paying a drone to put out a fire, and the drone
... keep reading on reddit β‘One of the many marks against Qiqi is the fact that despite being Cryo, she's pretty lousy at applying it.
It definitely shows in the new Abyss where both Floor 11 and 12 are desperate for Cryo and yet any sane individual would bring Diona (now technically a F2P pick, too) over Qiqi for that role. In fact, literally every other Cryo character offers superior Cryo application.
With Electro buffs on the horizon and Zhongli/Geo buffs a distant memory, I worry that Qiqi is just going to be left to rot.
So I used to be really religious my family raised me as a Christian baptist and I followed everything I was told to please god and what not well recently I was playing football for school and a guy in the other team gave me a horrible concussion while cheating well the sideline nurses didnβt diagnose it correctly and told me to go home and sleep it off so I did that well I woke up in the hospital the next day and I had apparently been non responsive up until I woke up the doctors said my heart had stopped and they were gonna pronounce me dead but then I woke up well. I still remember the dream I had I was sorta in an abyss there was nothing around me just emptiness I floated around for what felt like days until I saw my great grandma it didnβt strike me as odd until I remembered sheβs been dead for a few years now. But I had always been taught when you die you go to heaven or hell so what was this what was I seeing all to find out I had actually died. Now I want to believe so much of me wants to believe thereβs a god Iβve been saved Iβve repented my sins and yet all that waited was a abyss there was no silver city with golden streets. There was no burning hell where Iβll spend the rest of eternity in agony. There was no judgement, just nothingness and I donβt know how to cope with the thought of returning there I want to believe thereβs a god but I just canβt anymore.
Never,I mean NEVER have I hated the concept of religion this much.
Our incompetent government is in power because it promotes the major religion(Hinduism) of our country. Our people voted for them because they prioritize religion over humanity.It doesnt even matter to them how many of them die as long as they get a place and some statues of gods to worship. This political party(BJP) has intervined religion and politics so much that people believe going against them means going against their religion thats why they give them a clean chit for every mistake they do. Instead of preparing for 2nd wave our govt was busy making a temple and remodeling our parliament, we had religious activites all year round from muslim festivals like ramadan to sikh festivals like baisakhi, every idiot went to these events without any care to worship their dumb gods,they fucking invested millions of dollar on a religious event where millions of people gathered from all over the country when the cases were in 100ks and now thousands of people , tens of my known people are dying every single day. Not because of covid but because there's a lack of oxygen,beds and ventilators in the hospitals. They are not deaths but murders.
Fuck that thing π‘
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