Sorry bout your heart
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I've lived in three different major Japanese cities and see fewer people sleeping rough in a year than I can see in an hour in either Europe or the US.
Sleeping Rough != Homeless though. Granted, almost everyone who sleeps rough is homeless, but not every homeless sleeps rough. Japan only counts people sleeping rough as homeless though.
Also there's the element of being seen sleeping rough. There are plenty of people sleeping rough out there, but they don't want to be seen that way so they keep to themselves and stay away from the general public, getting across the idea that there aren't many of them.
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Don't target the immigrant neighborhood's churches, hit the rural ones 4 hours away from any major city. Just imagine the ice gestapo sending a convoy of agents out that far and getting nothing.
Even if you choose the whitest most conservative church in the county, ICE will collect the brown person who cleans up after the white folks. And anyone else who tries to defend them, but I'm not sure if any would.
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Hey, we at least tried to convert them, but nobody congratulates Portugal for that.
If anyone's interested in that time period, James Clavell's excellent Shogun novel is set a few decades into the process. (Before the shogunate rose into power, banned Christianity and massacred tens of thousands of Christian converts
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07%
This is why punctuation is important.
Never mind that, what does "07% per 100K" even mean? As far as I can tell that evaluates to 0.0000007 or 7 per 10 million
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Look it's cool that you're in a philosophical moral club, but don't go around defending religion by calling yourself a religion and saying 'look at me as an example of a good religion' when you don't actually hold religious/supranatural beliefs.
And if you do hold such beliefs, don't claim you accept reality.
You know, you can just say "supernaturalism" instead of "religion". The two are not synonymous. You can have religion without supernaturalism, such as non-theistic Satanism and some forms of Buddhism. You can have supernaturalism without religion, which describes many New-Agers. I'm sure you've heard people say "I'm spiritual, but not religious", and that's what they mean by that. There are people who believe in souls and reincarnation and stuff like that, but they don't have a religion built around it.
In the case of non-theistic Satanism, there is a moral code, a set of beliefs, and a community of people with shared values, as well as holidays and rituals. Just nothing supernatural.
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Something something corellation, causation
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Some people are shockingly stupid, even though I've spent my entire life finding out how stupid people can be.
I worked in retail for a decade, and have been in IT for past 12 years. Mostly help desk. Mostly medical.
The advanced degrees these people have is astounding, but the lack of common sense is terrifying.
Like, these people are cutting into other people to fix shit? They can't tie their own shoes, and the concept of a power button on a computer is too much.
This is the same person. Hopefully he has retired or died by now, cause those were his only real choices at that age.
Seriously, his assistant tied his shoes for him. She probably had advanced degrees of her own. And she had to tie an old man's shoes on the daily.
Maybe there something to have such a laser focus like medicine specialties really does rob people of their common sense.
Tie? Shoe? No, but that artery is about to retract or some shit.
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US population: ~350M
Japan population: ~125MNot even 3x as much.
You're not wrong. I'm just saying, if you want to make that point, you should compare per capita.
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We dont need to improve the world, we just need to get you to say you to validate our taste in shitty fiction. That's more important.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Wait, wait, wait.
Talk all the shit you want about how people twist the meanings of the book/religion, there are some very good stories in the Bible.
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Never mind that, what does "07% per 100K" even mean? As far as I can tell that evaluates to 0.0000007 or 7 per 10 million
Assuming it's .07% and not 7% since the latter wouldn't make sense with their post, that would make it 70 out of 100,000.
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Never mind that, what does "07% per 100K" even mean? As far as I can tell that evaluates to 0.0000007 or 7 per 10 million
a simple math says: 0.7/100*100 000 = 0.7 * 1 000 = 700
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To be fair there is also the suicide rate.
Also what the fuck were they expecting, Japan to be some Christian paradise?
wrote on last edited by [email protected]They probably just saw Silence and think it's a result of the persecution of Christians back in the 1600s.
To those prepared to reply with "but that's not what it is", I'm not saying it is.
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Now do again with suicide rates
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Also what the fuck were they expecting, Japan to be some Christian paradise?
Portugal has entered the chat
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Portugal would like to know Japan's location. And keep it a secret from other countries for years.
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I guess not having many Jesus cult members helps
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You mean doing the things their religion is supposed to?
How about we drop anonymous tips that random churches hide child molestation instead?
I think any anonymous "tips" will result in pinning those crimes on non-white people, ICE deporting them, and then Trump claiming they got rid of criminal illegal immigrants despite it not being true.
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I worked in retail for a decade, and have been in IT for past 12 years. Mostly help desk. Mostly medical.
The advanced degrees these people have is astounding, but the lack of common sense is terrifying.
Like, these people are cutting into other people to fix shit? They can't tie their own shoes, and the concept of a power button on a computer is too much.
This is the same person. Hopefully he has retired or died by now, cause those were his only real choices at that age.
Seriously, his assistant tied his shoes for him. She probably had advanced degrees of her own. And she had to tie an old man's shoes on the daily.
Maybe there something to have such a laser focus like medicine specialties really does rob people of their common sense.
Tie? Shoe? No, but that artery is about to retract or some shit.
I have the exact same experience. I explain health benefits to people for multiple different companies across the US. The number of airline pilots who see a 'forgot username or password?' button and just don't know what that means, or type their username in the password field and vice versa, even though they're clearly labeled, is insane.
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The Moonies are so wacky that calling them “Christian” is a stretch. Definitely not aligned with the Nicene creed, and I think once the founder/prophet claims some sort of divinity it’s better to refer to as Christian derived.
You know what, fair enough.
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Some people are shockingly stupid, even though I've spent my entire life finding out how stupid people can be.
Every day I am amazed. Carlin is proven more accurate day after day.
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I worked in retail for a decade, and have been in IT for past 12 years. Mostly help desk. Mostly medical.
The advanced degrees these people have is astounding, but the lack of common sense is terrifying.
Like, these people are cutting into other people to fix shit? They can't tie their own shoes, and the concept of a power button on a computer is too much.
This is the same person. Hopefully he has retired or died by now, cause those were his only real choices at that age.
Seriously, his assistant tied his shoes for him. She probably had advanced degrees of her own. And she had to tie an old man's shoes on the daily.
Maybe there something to have such a laser focus like medicine specialties really does rob people of their common sense.
Tie? Shoe? No, but that artery is about to retract or some shit.
Maybe he had back arthritis or similar conditions? If he was an old surgeon I'm sure 8+ hours a day bent over wasn't kind to the core muscles and skeleton. As for intelligence, nobody is all knowing. Everyone has specialized knowledge, and few try to learn outside their interests. But yeah, learning basic pc skills is kinda important.
