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villains are fine when they kill people I draw the line at being horrific parents though

If you're feeling anxious or depressed about the climate and want to do something to help right now, from your bed, for free...

Start helping with citizen science projects

The Conversation

Explainer: what is citizen science?

Public participation in science is increasing, and citizen science has a central part in this. It is a contribution by the public to researc

What's a citizen science project? Basically, it's crowdsourced science. In this case, crowdsourced climate science, that you can help with!

You don't need qualifications or any training besides the slideshow at the start of a project. There are a lot of things that humans can do way better than machines can, even with only minimal training, that are vital to science - especially digitizing records and building searchable databases

Like labeling trees in aerial photos so that scientists have better datasets to use for restoration.

Or counting cells in fossilized plants to track the impacts of climate change.

Or digitizing old atmospheric data to help scientists track the warming effects of El Niño.

Or counting penguins to help scientists better protect them.

Those are all on one of the most prominent citizen science platforms, called Zooniverse, but there are a ton of others, too.

Oh, and btw, you don't have to worry about messing up, because several people see each image. Studies show that if you pool the opinions of however many regular people (different by field), it matches the accuracy rate of a trained scientist in the field.

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I spent a lot of time doing this when I was really badly injured and housebound, and it was so good for me to be able to HELP and DO SOMETHING, even when I was in too much pain to leave my bed. So if you are chronically ill/disabled/for whatever reason can't participate or volunteer for things in person, I highly highly recommend.

Next time you wish you could do something - anything - to help

Remember that actually, you can. And help with some science.

some e-cards you can send to help with distance communication ♡ free to use privately, if you’d like to repost them publicly please credit! 

Part of Apple's new terms include "do not post incorrect things about religious texts" but even scholars of religious texts often disagree on the actual content or intent behind them. Apple has therefore declared itself the arbiter of the true word of God. 🤔

Jehovah’s Justice

So about that new light, and who they chose as center figure for that. 

A while back the Mormons got flack on this site for their skin lightening teaching. Well, the Jehovah’s Witnesses deserve as much if not more flack for their racism. 

For anyone out of the loop, the Jehovah’s Witnesses believe paradise will emerge on the planet itself after Armageddon, after which everyone who wasn’t preached to in all of history is revived to be preached to. They recently slightly changed it to mean that the sinners can’t actually commit new sins during the thousand year trial period, and they made a whole video display about that.

The change is trivial, but what’s really jarring is this character.

We’ve seen this guy before in previous propaganda; he was one of a lineup of revived people shedding their culture. The rest of the line up is gone, he’s central now and he’s got an additional African indigenous man and a conquistador, all resurrected, as backdrop.

He’s reborn in his traditional clothing and with the longer hair, but minus his decorations; things that are considered sinful for a man to wear who are to be without any decoration, and even for a woman as they’re bright and take in addition rather than being subtle.

“In their former lives, some of them practiced horrible, vile things.”

Like this white guy being genocidal towards native people and the native guy … dancing shirtless and with ornaments around a fire as part of a (very badly replicated) cultural custom. Sure, Watchtower Society, those are definitely, clearly the same kind of horrible, vile things. Definitely. /sarcasm

“… so they’ll need to learn to live by Jehovah’s standards. Who will teach these unrighteous persons?”

Who indeed.

Fun fact : all old cultures will be pulverized by meteorite strikes, and all new buildings will be in the westernized JW style. There is no home to go to.

His willingness to be taught is then demonstrated by starting to wear a western shirt; unlike the conquistador, who stays in his heathen buttonless shirt as a sign that he somehow wouldn’t agree with the new new world.

Who better than white people to show indigenous people the wonders of nature. It’s not like indigenous people have been practicing ethnobotany, controlled fires, hunting that uses all parts and pesticide free agriculture for eons and are currently prime advocates for respectful coexistence with nature. No sir, paradise is pristine parks where everyone always wears their Sunday best.

“They will need to develop a relationship with Jehovah …”

They have redrawn the former painting to emphasize the guy’s hair being too long and unruly by JW standards …

… so it stands out more when it’s cut in the next shot. 

Unseen Tears.

That’s how his relationship with Jehovah progresses, through the only clear trait he was introduced with : his culture and its removal. There’s no indication he committed real crimes like the conquistador, but by Jehovah’s Witness standards, his culture is a sin. All the world is ruled by Satan, who created various cultures to offend Jehovah. Growing closer to Jehovah means to be …

Taught to loathe their own culture

“… and dedicate their lives to him.”

A century of trauma at U.S. boarding schools for Native American children

“What a privilege it will be to see obedient humans become free of the burden of sin and death, and gain perfection.”

Death by civilization

Look at the guy in orange. That’s supposed to be a resurrected Israelite.

In older illustrations they would sometimes feature people in Asian or even African garb, this has also disappeared. The only cultures now allowed in Paradise is modern white and their generic concept of Israelites. Suspiciously pale Israelites who occasionally have blond hair.

Jehovah’s Witnesses believe in a resurrection with a trial period of thousand years, during which people who did not yet have the chance to convert are indoctrinated. If they do not convert, they will be killed. 

Everyone else becomes the immortal inheritor of the planet under the all white male heavenly government, who will run a monoculture in a worldwide park.

The staff could have chosen a drug addicted teen with spiky as the centerpiece of their message about growing into a good church boy for their disturbing post genocide fantasy, but they chose to aim it at indigenous cultures.

At this time. Apparently they looked at the news about the residential school massacres and decided that yes, now is the time to double down on the cultural purge theme. It must have been inspirational to them.

Imagine being murdered by one of those schools, waking up to a strangely paved over, unnatural version of the world you knew, and be told that the Christianity they made you convert to was wrong, and you have to convert to this other type of Christianity in this new school or you will be killed again.

That’s what Jehovah’s Witnesses hope and pray for : that they get to reenact global colonization with the backing of supernatural forces.

So god really made me the most disobedient, strong-willed fucker around and then placed me in a religion that demands absolute obedience from its members, particularly women? Stupid prick was just BEGGING for me to leave with that faulty setup.

me:*hangs out with someone for 3 hours* me: oh hey, I just remembered I have to tell you something me internally: that was a lie. I’ve been wanting to tell you all day but I’ve been too nervous to just say it so I’ve been mentally rehearsing for hours and

The only thing you owe yourself is to live a good life

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