Yes.

You’re welcome, and thank you for that reddit post! It’s quite fascinating and largely aligns with my current understanding. Part of the reason for yhwh allowing the conquering and exiles of the Jewish people was for “whoring after other gods” and Baal was one of several. In this context, the “covenant” between yhwh and his people meant “marriage” so the Hebrews worshipping other gods was adultery, punishable by death, so conquering, exile, and occupation was indicative of G-d’s mercy on his people, because of his love and compassion.

If you do a deeper dive, some of the Hollywood movies begin to make more sense, and even deeper will change your understanding of the various names of G-d, akin to the Brahmans’ saying, “Brahma is one, the faces of Brahma are many.” Deeper still and you learn how modern Christianity also corrupted the common understanding of souls, the tree of life (and tree of death), the shattering of the vessels (mazel tov!) and so. much. more!

Baal simply means “Lord,” or “master,” as I stated earlier.

Baal looks a lot like Baphomet in that photo.

YHWH was originally the Caanite desert warrior and storm God, according to YouTube Esoterica, run by Dr. Justin Sledge, who is Jewish and has excellent deep-dive videos on that channel. These are subjects deeply interesting to me as I started my own faith and have had to turn increasingly to Judaism and the suppressed books taken from the same Dead Sea scrolls as Gnosticism, found at Qum Ran, and included in the Ethiopian Bible, which you can find in English, also on YouTube and elsewhere online, with digging.

Basically, the Council of Nicea worked for Constantine, who had a political interest in regular people not getting ideas to violently uprise against his authority, much like slavers giving slaves a different version of the Bible than the slavers read.

It’s been quite an enlightening, years-long journey, learning how much words or phrases were mistranslated from Aramaic to Greek and Latin, deliberately, or from misunderstanding, which were then mistranslated again, into English. Multiple scribes with their own biases and fallibities, as were, I would imagine, Jewish scribes before them, in addition to how tales change from one telling to the next, for multiple generations. The person to whom you are replying is probably closer to correct than incorrect, and quora, like Reddit and Lemmy, can get things right, wrong, or an amalgamation, according to their own writers’ understandings and biases. Here, I’ve cited my sources so it’s a rather fascinating and winding journey, if you’re ever inclined to go digging. I’m saying this as someone who regularly disagrees with the person to whom you replied here as often as I’ve agreed with you, so it’s not that I’m choosing their side based on personal feelings, for whatever that’s worth or not.

I’ve never heard that Baal was, not that he wasn’t, but Baal simply means “Lord,” or “master,” like Baal Shem Tov, for example. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Baal-Shem-Tov

The Trinity was originally considered polytheism by the Church.

I’m sure that will work out well if he does it alone.

These are pedos and murderers. Nuff said.

Because it is.

No but the rules for eligibility have changed drastically. I hope you get the assistance you need as long as you need.

We all have our own blinkers on. But maybe my field of vision is a little to the left or right of yours. I’m not always this clear-minded, especially after dinner and stressing over my own petty struggles. The sun shone today in a way that made me notice, is all.

Wait. Since independently owned company A with 50 employees in Podunk, Oklahoma sold to holdings company B, those 50 employees who didn’t get fired but also have no savings and literally no other jobs to go to because of “AI replacing employees” don’t need their jobs? Maybe those employees get a whopping 20-30 hours of week of clopenings at 8.00-15.00 per hour.

Please.

200k in NYC and LA isn’t like 200k in Podunk Oklahoma.

That’s on us.

Or a Powerball/megamillions winner.

It’s really unfortunate how naive we (us in tech labor) still are about the employer-employee relationship and how much leverage we got. The talent/merotocracy propaganda we’ve been showered with since The Great Recession can’t wear off soon enough. Labour organizing in Big Tech can really grind the machine to a halt, given its dependence.

Much like other billionaires, Benioff’s politics appear to have taken a marked turn in Trump’s second term. He for years was closely aligned with some liberal causes, including a 2018 measure in San Francisco to tax large corporations in the city to fund homeless services, and in an interview with the Guardian criticized billionaires for “hoarding” their wealth. Last fall Benioff told the New York Times he “fully supported” the president, and said Trump should send national guard troops to San Francisco, before apologizing and walking those comments back. His company, which has long had contracts with ICE, has sought to increase its business with the agency.

Scratch a liberal…

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