Ah, never mind. I assumed adoptionism was referring to that fringe practice some offshoots do where they “baptize” long-dead people they deem worthy and was comparing it to claiming pre-Christianity figures as Christian, but now I see it means something completely different.
Unf. Unf. Unfunfunfunf.
So Abraham was a Christian, so was Moses, Elijah, etc
the heresy of adoptionism
There seems to be some slight double standards here.
Nonsense, Doritos© Chitanium Edition are made with all-natural chitin powder and comply with more than half of FDA regulations!
Most historical figures would be short by our standards. Modern diets and easy availability of cheap nutrition have added multiple inches to the average height - several when compared to civilizations where famines were common (see pictures of the Korean DMZ with North Korean soldiers next to South Korean ones).
This is a different OP. The user who seems to be having a crashout over attribution and trying to annoy as many others as they can is Beep. Mickey’s more known for posting boomer humor.
It’s great that the most undeserving person imaginable gets access to around-the-clock top-of-the-line medical care and experimental superdrugs, while simultaneously pushing to take away basic medical care from tens of millions of the citizens he’s sworn to care for.
Swearing and praising Allah are two things that might upset his base more than the pedophilia and warmongering ever did.
Serial rapist pedophile, to be exact. And Stalin knew the whole time.
“So there’s this political concept called ‘a monopoly on violence’…”
Apparently Antarctica is a hoax, too!
I misread that as Rachel Weisz and was like “yeah, that checks out”.
They bought Rocket League and pulled it from the Steam store to make it a retroactive exclusive, then acted confused as to why players were upset.
I’d argue for the existence of a third stat, Reflection. This would be the ability to meta-analyze acquired information and create elastic principles out of it, allowing knowledge to be used in novel ways.
Someone can acquire all the book knowledge in the world, or learn at the feet of the wisest elders, but many otherwise brilliant people can’t apply what they’ve learned outside of the context they learned it in. Reflection turns brittle knowledge into flexible systems and concepts that can be applied elsewhere.
The downside is that reflection takes time - many times more than rote learning - and free time is the ultimate luxury in modern civilization. Our education systems try to cram as much knowledge into students’ heads as quickly as possible, then wonders why graduates are so inept when they encounter anything unfamiliar.
(And maybe that’s the real reason so many cultures venerate elders: it’s not just that they carry the accumulated experience of several decades, but that once retired they finally had the time to look back and reflect on their life.)