If so, which martyr do you resonate with the closest in your religion? Is there something in their life (or death) that has helped you or given you insight?
If not, is there a figure in your religion that you feel was killed (or driven to suicide) specifically because of their religion? How do you feel about that situation or what do you take away from it, if anything?
Just answering for myself, as a Hellenist, we don't have martyrdom as a religious concept. However, the person I choose would probably be Hypatia of Alexandria. One of my favorite figures, and thinkers, of history. She was killed by a Christian mob in 415 CE. Oftentimes, I mark her death as the end of the classical era. I admire her academic brilliance and curiosity, her leadership as a teacher, and I learn of the dangers of religious zealots and mob mentality.
तपाईँको समाजमा गाडीको ठक्करमा मरेका, वा त्यस्तै अन्य दुर्घटनामा मरेका तर जबर्जस्ती आन्दोलन र हड्तालमार्फत सहिदको तक्मा भिडाइएका मानिसका कथाहरु छन्? छन् भने सुनौँ।
देश र परिवर्तनको लागि मरेका सहिदहरुको सम्झनामा सहिद दिवसको शुभकामना!
Per Wikipedia, Gudō Uchiyama was one of few Buddhist leaders who spoke out against the Meiji government in its imperialist projects. Gudō was an outspoken advocate for redistributive land reform, overturning the Meiji emperor system, encouraging conscripts to desert en masse and advancing democratic rights for all. He criticized Zen leaders who claimed that low social position was justified by karma and who sold abbotships to the highest bidder. After becoming abbot of his temple, every autumn, he distributed the harvest of the temple's trees to local families, who were generally poor. Quoting passages from the Lotus Sutra and the Diamond Sutra in the January 1904 edition of The Commoner's News, a socialist anti-war newspaper, he wrote:
>As a propagator of Buddhism I teach that "all sentient beings have the Buddha nature" and that "within the Dharma there is equality, with neither superior nor inferior". Furthermore, I teach that "all sentient beings are my children". Having taken these golden words as the basis of my faith, I discovered that they are in complete agreement with the principles of socialism. It was thus that I became a believer in socialism.
May his life inspire us to liberate beings from the suffering of exploitation!
Happy Thursday!! Another post make me think these might be fun stories to share... especially with the holidays approaching...
What is a story about the time you pwBPD took their martyrdom to an extent that you almost, or actually did, laugh out loud?
I thought that my willingness to stand up for other's rights, even those I didn't know or friends who were gossiped about, was something I should be proud of. I have always known that I can push people away by being so outspoken with my ideals and ideas, but I thought "this is good, this is right". I didn't expect this personality trait to come from something so dark I kind of had forgotten about.
A few months ago I realized that it actually was a trauma response, or maybe some kind of insecurity. But I hadn't figured out where it came from. Today, while hanging up the laundry, I thought about it again as I got flashbacks to my childhood.
As my parents often fought with each other, I felt angry at them for saying these hurtful things to each other. They would often use us kids as a tool in these fights without even looking at us. Could be why I now feel that I have to step in, because obviously somebody needs me. Right? But as they fought and got nasty with each other, and my brother always laughed his ass off as a defense mechanism, I started crying. It was chaotic. I felt helpless.
Same with when my mom would hit me or my brother, or when my dad would get angry at our animals. Or when my brother had to defend us against bullies at school. Or when I had to emotionally shut down at school and at home. I felt helpless.
As I got older in my early teenage years, I felt like I needed to control situations in my family, make sure people are "kind" to each other and are doing the right thing, not saying crude and nasty jokes, because that could hurt someone, it hurt me anyway.
Now I would easily imagine taking a bullet for a friend, or stepping into a fight to save my brother-in-law from being stabbed to death. Maybe even take the fall for a crime to help out a friend. (All plausible scenarios btw). When somebody I love is being attacked, mocked or manipulated, I have a hard time not stepping in or stepping up.
I have so much repressed anger, sadness, grief inside me, and also love to give that should have been given to my family and friends.
Some of the Twelve seem to have deaths that are better recorded than others, and then some seem to be barely recorded anywhere at all. I keep seeing references to "early legends" or "traditions" about the deaths of various apostles, but presumably those are attested in some source before the modern day.
What early sources do we actually have regarding the deaths of the twelve apostles?
I was playing metro, as you do, when I saw a guy walking in one of the side paths. I cooked a Frag, expecting the enemy to not see me, when a Rank 4 with a KSG just came up behind me, killed me, and ruined my throw.
In the past, that Frag would have killed two people. But no.
Now I'm forced to watch a pre-schooler teabag me.
Kill the children,
Please, StyLiS,
#BringBackPFMartyrdom
Drop my live grenade on death.
I tagged this “in-law rant” but it’s actually my own damn family. The women of my family have this weird martyr complex where they have to act really inconvenienced by any requests for a favor. That way, when they begrudgingly oblige, the asker has to grovel and heap praise and appreciation onto them.
Example: mom offers to make me a cake for my thirtieth birthday, since it’s been years since I had a cake. “Sure,” I say. “I’d love chocolate.” Now she’s huffing because she already has the ingredients for something else and found a recipe on Pinterest. Am I sure I really need chocolate? Sigh. She guesses she can just pick up a Costco chocolate cake instead, would that work? Now I have to fall all over myself acting super thankful for this “favor.”
I’m fucking DONE with this dynamic.
My mom complained one too many times that she’s tired of hosting holidays just because she has the biggest house. “Okay,” I said, finally. “Count us out for dinner, then. We’ll come over for sledding and cocoa the next day. That’s five fewer people to seat and feed, and it’ll be more fun for the kids anyway. Looking forward to it!”
Now she’s butt hurt that she won’t see her grandchildren on Christmas but I don’t care. She has chosen to place herself in a “lose-lose” situation, where she’s the victim either way, so I’m choosing the “lose” that’s concenient for me and my family.
I ask my (very young and healthy and agile) grandma to watch my older two for a couple of hours MAYBE once a month, probably more like once in six weeks, and only for errands/appointments (never social or fun things). My husband and I are her first call when she needs something moved or fixed. To me, this is how family should work … we help each other as we can when we can. He was just over for a couple hours this weekend changing her oil and replacing her car battery and so on. I asked her then to watch them sometime this week so I could do a Costco run and she agreed.
I called today to finalize times and details and she starts hemming and hawing and saying “I hope you won’t be gone for very long.” You know what? No worries. I will send them to a friend’s house instead. Just like my mom, she’s going to be pissy that I am not playing along.
I’m just not playing this game anymore. I’m done. I will keep graciously helping them out and doing things for them as I can, but I’m not going to expect them to return any favors any more. I will just assume to make other arrangements. I won’t feel unnecessary
... keep reading on reddit ➡My old high school friend had a baby and she immediately became one of those that constantly posts these aggressive and defensive memes about how hard it is being a mother.
From today’s meme: Cleaning your house without kids is not a break. Grocery shopping alone is not a break. Showering is not a break. It’s chores and basic hygiene but mothers are supposed to be grateful to do these things that literally everyone else just does. And at some point, we just break…
I’m sorry- who are you talking to?? Take it up with your husband! The rest of us actually aren’t thinking about you at all, certainly not about how many breaks you’re getting. Did you expect to get breaks from parenthood?? It’s not a job! This is your life now - you chose this!! They make it seem like they’re working for some terrible unethical employer that doesn’t give them enough breaks and doesn’t pay over time. These people need a reality check.
I am now 16 days post op from a broken leg (done on Christmas Eve). I have to be 12 weeks non-weight bearing on crutches. One of the hardest things about this is just what I can't do. Even simple stuff like carrying a box from one room to another is now not possible. I am the power tools and yardwork person while DH does the cooking and cleaning. I work full time remote and he works a regular job outside of the home.
My leg was an accident. I didn't plan it or ask for it. And I certainly didn't do it to make anyone's life harder than it needs to be. And yet it just feels like absolutely everything I say gets somehow twisted into that he is being forced to take on YET ANOTHER thing. He has complained to me many times about how absolutely everything is falling to him now.
For example, one of my big responsibilities is to plow our snow (we get a lot where we live in the mountains). So when this happened, I arranged for a snow plow service to come on the days he doesn't work. First off, these services are expensive here and the fact that a service was willing to only do 4 days per week was amazing. Second, it was absolutely amazing that I could find a service at all this late in the year! Out here they typically book up in August. I was pretty proud of myself! But now he is mad that all of the moving of snow on his days off falls to him.
Another example is that DD is just spending all of her time on screens. Usually I would take her skiing or something on the weekends when DH is not working. And now I can't. This morning I started to raise the issue of her going out skiing and, before I could finish, he immediately flipped into martyr mode, cutting off and assuming I was ordering him to take her out today when he had absolutely EVERY single free minute subscribed. I didn't mean today at all! I was trying to start the conversation about arranging ski play dates with her friends and that I could drive her up and hang out at the base with a book while she gets outside.
He just always jumps straight into this martyr thing and I don't know what to do about it. And it isn't like I am dealing with being on crutches, surgical pain, PT woes, etc. already. I feel horrible that I have put us into this situation and it won't be changing any time soon!
FML!!!
First off, I'm gonna instantly say that obviously, it would be better that this did not happen. If there was a time machine available, I'd do everything I could to not have that interview go down, I'm just trying to lighten up the situation a bit.
A few months ago, I remember scrolling through r/dankmemes and seeing people dunk on this sub as a bunch of people being lazy and entitled kids (and seeing how that interview turned out, maybe they weren't wrong for a select few of us).
Flash-forward to today, after the fiasco, the top memes I'm seeing are around, once again, certain users being lazy and entitled. But (and this is a big but), in the comments section, I'm seeing people not dunking on the sub, but the people responsible for the fuck-up. Most of them sympathise with this cause, and those people are painting us in a positive light to the people who aren't clued into what we stand for. Instead of saying "ah, they're just a bunch of commie bastards", they're saying "buy and large, they are people who don't want to just be a pawn, or to be exploited. They want a fair wage, and they don't want to dedicate their life to work." And the people are understanding it!
In a weird way, the sympathy we have garnered from someone going and fucking up our cause has, strangely enough, gotten a fair amount of our word out in a positive way! Again, obviously there is more bad then good here, but I mainly want to have a good mindset around this.
What are your thoughts on the fact that your live grenade disappears when you get killed instead of being dropped on the ground?
I've been looking to build a fun aggro deck that wasn't every single aggro deck I come up against.
This deck punishes those sending your units to the void and rewards you for doing the same.
While I have this listed as an aggro deck, I'm not really quite sure how I would define it because it does have some nice single-turn combos.
Ticking Grenadin + Sol's Fury = Turn 2 - 8 damage
Turn 1: Ticking Grenadin
Turn 2: Sol's Fury
Disassembler + Ticking Grenadin x 4 + Bloodrite Kalis + Bullseye = Turn 4 - 34 damage
Turn 1: Ticking Grenadin
Turn 2: Disassembler
Turn 3: Ticking Grenadin x 3
Turn 4: Bloodrite Kalis + Bullseye
Is that combo likely, of course not, but 38 damage by turn 4 is still mathematically impressive.
Cards such as Devour, Recycle, Sol's Fury and Bloodrite Kalis will help you to remove your own Grenadin while Disassembler and Hearth Smasher well help to punish the opponent when you do so.
Scraptank is useful in this deck when not killed early but could be swapped out for a cheaper build.
Metalfang creates some more grenadin for you.
Overall, it's fun, A good draw can end a game early, but as most aggro decks struggle with the long game, this is no different.
Try it out, leave som
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For a not insignificant number of domestic terrorists participating in the January 6 insurrection, it was a full-blown religious event.
They had erected crosses. Had blown up images of (white) Jesus on display. And there were multiple prayer circles shown across the National Mall. On top of that, the buffalo dude led a prayer right there on the Senate floor. Could not have been a more direct "fuck you" to the idea of separation of church and state.
A lot of the insurrectionists were in their late 30's and 40's. The timeline adds up. It is not difficult to imagine that, when they were teens, they heard about Cassie and Rachel. The Columbine victims and central figures around the "she said yes" narrative. Witnesses and survivors of the Columbine Massacre have said that that's not true. It didn't happen. But, if Christians let facts get in the way of a narrative, Christianity would not exist.
This idea of martyrdom gets into evangelicals' heads as teenagers via the "she said yes" narrative and their morally irresponsible youth pastors tell them it's totally poggers to die for Christ. They're brainwashed already, so they believe them.
It's genuinely sad to see something like the January Insurrection be the tragic but, unfortunately, inevitable outcome of such a longstanding (and debunked) narrative. People still spread that whole story today. And not just Boomers, Gen X'ers, and older Milennials who heard that story right after Columbine happened, but Gen Z Christians share it as well.
Did you guys grow up hearing this story? I sure did.
