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Yes, it says it’s forever. The Catholic church does have a doctrine of purgatory, but it’s for the flawed faithful.

But it also treats it akin to a spouse that has been continuously cheated on; all his gifts twisted, broken, and trashed; finally leaving the house.

Or self-inflicted by humanity, God going: “do you really, really want to stay apart from the source of life and all good? Then have it your way… ☹️”

Why? We have the gift of life, even as we choose death, we have good things even as we choose to turn away from good, that is a message of pure love, why is it gross?

These are 5000 years old stories written down 3000 years ago, some study, of course study of context is necessary.

I agree with your point on homosexuality, it also requires study, that’s a reason today’s Christianity is so sick and away from the message of love from the Bible.

You read wrong what I wrote, every moment that is NOT death and suffering is a gift from God.

Satan in this context is not “the most evil entity that has ever existed”, but The Accuser, his objective in the story is to convince God that humans don’t deserve any of the good things He gifts.
God’s point is that He will continue giving us life and good things even as we don’t deserve it.

Yes, languages and words and their meanings change with time, both words were once the same.

Job should be read from the perspective that humanity, by choosing to turn away from the source of all life and good, has only death and suffering as its just existence. Every moment that anyone has that is not death and suffering is a gracious gift of love from God. Job even acknowledges that all he had was not his, just loaned from God.

Zealous not jealous.

I went to theology seminary, no need for copium or spin. One of the professors’ favourite book was Job and he talked a lot about it.

That absolutely is not the nature of God in the OT, but explaining it doesn’t fit this medium. I also don’t know/remember any resources I could point you to, sorry.

In this case it’s more about God being fair and just.

And that description doesn’t at all fit God’s actions in the OT. Although without context and depending on the hermeneutic basis I guess it can look so.

The book of Job is a tale to teach about human nature facing adversity.

Would be biblical. There are many prayer psalms where the author is asking God to avenge him and destroy those who hurt him.

And I only found out recently when other countries started talking about joining.

For sure! Until recently I didn’t even know it has become some sort of official thing, I always thought that it was just an observation by economists that these 5 countries in particular were “ahead” of the other “developing” countries.

As a Brazilian, I’d rather have Ukraine than Russia in BRICS. Of course EU is certainly more attractive.

Moraes has done some very good stuff and probably saved Brazilian democracy from Bolsonaro, but recently has been caught in some corruption scandal as well.
At least I hope he still has enough political pull to smack Musk a bit.

I agree.

But “Political Spectrum” is bullshit anyway, most of today’s issues don’t fit a one-dimensional left-vs-right line.

Calling the current Brazilian government leftist nowadays is a bit of a stretch.

Salt

I like to think that anything that CAN be art, if it can be meaningful for someone.

A pebble might be ignored by most people, but a geologist might be fascinated by it, I think that becomes art.

Even in something worked-on at the very least the artist is the observer, and they will put into it the meaning they perceive in it, and if they never share with anyone it’s still art.

My opinion.

While I think it’s extremely overhyped, looking at some “AI” art communities it’s clear that at least some put a lot of effort on it, going over many many iterations and tweaking the program and the results.

And anyway art is “made” by the observer, not the artist, even the results of natural processes can be art.

(AI in quotes because these tools don’t deserve the name, at best High Coherence Media Transformers)

Frutiger Aero from Windows Vista and 7 was the peak of UI design.

We might still, if I’m not mistaken there are (or were) at least two countries considering joining. A big one would be Chile, and negotiations have been going for a long time now.