Turn the news off and look at the data. It’s important to end these conflicts, but in terms of scale, these are far smaller than the past.
King of the North, Dark Lord of All
Turn the news off and look at the data. It’s important to end these conflicts, but in terms of scale, these are far smaller than the past.
Here’s homicides per capita in Western Europe. I highly recommend reading The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker. It goes into this in depth.
Violence has been going down for centuries. We’re hearing about it more, but it’s declining. It peaked around 1993, and it’s been trending downward ever since.
If you zoom out and look at super long term trends, it’s been declining for centuries.
Yes. Before germ theory and the 1918 pandemic, this was a common thing.
Same thing as if a person doesn’t have a digital credit card. They use their physical one.
White to black, because people say that white and black aren’t colours.
But I just say “FFFFFFuck y000000u!”
Hahhaha. Totally missed that. I just assumed it was a joke.
Makes sense.
The way it was explained to me, praying to a Saint to speak to God on your behalf is like asking a friend to pray for you. You could just pray to God yourself, but for some reason, having more people pray for you is better.
Chances are, it isn’t. The early Catholic Church did a lot of this kind of thing, where they would claim to have a piece of the cross, or a bone of St Peter in a church. It was just to drive tourism into their churches. If you took all the claimed pieces of the cross and assembled them, it would make far more than one cross.
Look at the sentence you wrote. Since the Korean War. And the Korean War was the biggest since the one before that.