Back in the days they were just philosophers aka scientists.

That's the one, funnily enough in a perverted twist, they tend to see wealth as a sign that God has picked them as favourites (graced them) and they storically gravitated toward seeing poor people as, well, sinners, even thought their principles state that anyone could be graced or not no matter the more evident aspects of life.

Do they just, make the money disappear if you don't reach the 50 or do they add up till you reach 50?

No, not really, it's mostly a matter of power.

The Church itself is rooted in the idea that there are autorities on matter of faith and they adopted the Platonical Agostinean idea that faith is empowered by reason. Reason being a valid tool means you have experts that reasoned a lot about religion and people that know less and needs to be taught, ultimately by the Pope.

The "other" side tends to reject authorities, and take the words of the bible as sobjected to personal interpretation or, to an extent, make it into some sort of magical object that the faithfull subjects itself to, without questions. Accepting the contradictions, the illogal parts, are what that kind of faith is about because to question (throught reasoning) God is a Sin.

Follow your heart anyone?

I'm just posting in representation of the many lurkers that have never remotedly considered a "productivity method".

Unironically the question by witch many Christian faiths differ: does God needs abide to the rules of logic or not?

For the Roman Catholic, yes, for Calvinists and a bunch other (ok, many other but I'm not an expert), no.

They are basically cops. And the analogy holds on many level including that yes, some can genuinely be on your side and try to help you or fix the system from the inside, in a way, but it's pretty much "luck based", you have no foolproof way to tell one from the other.

The wise strategy is to be your own HR, study the contracts and the laws. If you go in blind trusting HR you can be lucky and have a good happy professiona life or get fucked.

Knowing also helps dramatically in undestanding where HR can realistically help, where it can harm and where it is going beyond expectations and is on your side.

Don't expect them to put you above their own survival though...

It's not a habit I make a conscious effort from october to january every year.

I have some bad news about the status of the afterlife.

Oh I assure you Timmy once you grow up you'll appreciate friction ;) ;)

Maybe I went to bad schools, maybe my country has a dysfunctional education system, but I suspect the matter is widespread because it's way easier to teach factual information rather than dive into the nuances of how confident we are about our explanations.

Some reductive examples: Pluto is / is not a planet, wings work because the path air takes is longer than on the other side, the cause for this war was xyz, you can't subtract below 0 (that's at a very early age of course), this philosopher thought X.

Oh I guess a CRUCIAL one is how most teachers are horribly unfit to answer "Why should I care about this?", but that's beside the point, in a way.

You broke nothing, it just annoys me that if you don't hit university they refuse to teach you the unconfortable truth on plenty of things and you come out of school with a biased idea that everything has been explained already (history, math, physics...).

So the generic "particles just moves" in the texbooks were lies and they didn't know shit?

What the fuck is going on in here?

Proto phone that sends only short strings of text.

It looks like squiggly = the element, arrow = the picture.

0 effort and yet alive.

Apprently many of those were actually trapped inside their houses and just hold on, until they passed out from the gas.

So they are not hugging because asleep but hugged because knowing they were dying.

source: some recent documentary about these stuff, but I don't trust myself enough.

Or they met one that fed them.

Death being the most boring shit I can possibly imagine is pretty high on the list.