Something interesting you learned recently

If I don't wash the oil from my hair with shampoo the new dye won't stick.

Somehow took me near 32 years to realise this.

 

it seems like the average person today considers themselves lucky if they never have to travel more than 120 miles from home over their entire lifetime.

 

The average American moves every five years. Those who have never traveled further than a 120 miles tend to believe the local woods are full of ghosts.

 

I moved halfway around the world, and now I'm a few km from where I grew up. 360* and I'm happy about it.

 

Just learned an interesting bit of info...

"In the 300 years from the crucifixion of Christ to the conversion of Emperor Constantine, polytheistic Roman emperors initiated no more than four general persecutions of Christians. Local administrators and governors incited some anti-Christian violence of their own. Still, if we combine all the victims of all these persecutions, it turns out that in these three centuries, the polytheistic Romans killed no more than a few thousand Christians.1 In contrast, over the course of the next 1,500 years, Christians slaughtered Christians by the millions to defend slightly different interpretations of the religion of love and compassion." -
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari

Lol

 

That leaves out the part about them integrating Aristotelian logic into their theology. The early Christians were The Romans, and used the same logic and organized in similar fashions, to eventually become the national religion that won out over all the others. Not so coincidentally, the New Testament makes the Bible widely considered the most modern religion for plot and characters people can relate to. It was the right religion at the right time, to convert the entire corrupt Roman empire who were used to modern entertainment.

 

I don't think the early christians were the ones who persecuted. Still, mainstream christianity became a greedy, judgemental, hypocritical, and (as shown by history) deadly religion. But then again...life is deadly.

 

I see your point though. I think the religion picked up a lot of bad from the politics of every culture it encountered, as it grew.

 

Lifelong avowed atheists in China are now converting to Christianity in record numbers, and its not because they like to pick up bad habits. Christianity emerged from the Roman empire to dominate the world economically and militarily today because it is reflects capitalistic cultures better and provides one of the few ways of organizing against your own government should it become corrupt. The most corrupt capitalistic country in the world is the US and it is also by far the most religious. If your government is prone to becoming corrupt, it helps to have a religion that is also adapted to corruption like the Mafia.

Christianity can be helpful in establishing a capitalistic economy and government, but things get complicated once they all start going at each other. Its a competitive religion of peace and love thy neighbor.

 

I think we are both going in the same direction.

 

Its just memory centric systems logics. Forty years of studies concluded the republican party organizes like chickens and it merely reflects the fact its impossible for them to organize any better in large numbers. Religions such as Fundamentalism tend to represent poor farmers around the globe who are vanishing along with small towns and tribes everywhere. They are adopting aggressive Three Stooges slapstick as a way to defend themselves. The military industrial complex is eating everyone alive, and they tend to protest.

 

Last 10 years, i have either travelled no more than 5 miles from home, or 5000 miles, nothing in between.


Except for overseas holidays have not ventured out of eastern Sydney in that time

 

VG you would get a kick out of California. There's this dumb phenomenon - outlet shopping? - yeah. We have that. There are SO many people from outside of the states. I wonder if there are outlet malls other places, because the one that we have is a zoo! Especially on Sunday for whatever bizarre reason. But I don't know if you like shopping or not. I shop there all the time. Here's a link to the website for the outlets, though I don't know that it's something you're interested in. https://www.premiumoutlets.com/outlet/camarillo

 

There are 30 tons of trash on Mt Everest

 

I haven't learned much since school's been out. I guess I learned that over time I'm becoming a little bit of a cheapskate... I found two pairs of pants (at different stores) that I liked; both were $40 on sale I think. And anyway, I couldn't make myself buy them! They were too expensive for me. So I tried on something similar to one of them for $35 and then decided I didn't like them anyway. I don't know... I'm weird. That's the moral of the story.

 

yeah, from their parents' house, to the house next to their parents' house, to the house on the other side of their parents' house, then back to their parents' house when the parents die.

yes. i can think of 3 nearby just off the top of my head (by nearby, i mean within a couple hour drive). one of them was a failure right from the start for whatever reason, but the other two are always packed.

 

We have so many tourists at ours! It's insane. That's what made me think we're the only one in existence. lol

 

That's actually pretty clean, its a big mountain.

 

Most tend to move around within their state, but the coastal port cities are now where everyone is going just about as fast as they can, because that's where all the jobs are today in every country around the world.