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What do you mean. Every direction away from the earth is up.

You’re right that I care, otherwise I would not have made my initial comment. I apologise for being rude, I just didn’t have the time to write a proper response.

The reason I commented is because I think that it’s important that the discussion about what is pagan and what is not is taken with all the facts in mind. It just so happens that I watched a video where an expert explains that, although many people think so, there is in fact no evidence that Christmas trees are a pagan tradition appropriated by Christianity.

The reason I made my rude comment is that you dismiss the evidence I provide for my claim. I am very aware that people might not believe me at face value, which is why I provide evidence for my claim. I am making the, to your eyes “fucking ridiculous and wrong”, claim, so to you the burden of proof is on me. I then provide proof. The reason i got frustrated is that you refuse to even engage at the evidence. At first you decice that you won’t watch the video. I assume this is because you prefer to read instead, which is fair.

You take a cursory look at the channel and deem it “nuts”, instead of looking into who the author is, what his credentials are and most importantly, you don’t look at the sources for the video which are books and other material written by other scholars. I link the blogpost because I assume you don’t care enough about this issue to read several books on the topic, and you dismiss this as well because it “has screenshots from twitter”. The whole point of the blogpost is the same as my initial comment; to correct a longstanding myth, which is why it “responds” to twitter-posts. The blogpost is written scolar, although, I will admit, not an expert in early christianity like Dr. Mark Henry of Religion For Breakfast.

I am not trying to defend Christianity; I’m not even religious. All the video points out is that Christmas trees were likely a recent invention, and that we have no evidence to suggest that they were appropriated from a pagan religion.

Again, sorry for being rude in the previous comment. I hope you now understand why your behavior made me upset now, and I hope you will engage with the provided sources now. If you won’t, then I stand by my original comment.

The reason I link that is because the other sources are books. I’ve provided evidence for my claims while you haven’t. Since you refuse to read the evidence you are not interested in learning, only preserving your own worldview. You are not worth my time.

You can read this if you want. It’s one of the sources for the video. Religion for Breakfast is a scholar with a PHD in religous studies; hardly nuts.

Christmas trees are not a pagan invention: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m41KXS-LWsY

Downvoted because you answer your own question in the body. Extreme inequality, amusement park for the elite, “it feels fake”, full of western expats immigrants who don’t want to pay taxes in their homeland, built on the back of the polluting oil industry and underpaid workers who have difficulty leaving the country.

Of course it’s overrated! It should be despised way more than it is!

That’s fair. My main point is that coffee hasn’t been proven harmful. I admit the health benefits are more shaky.

I’m very specifically talking about coffee and not caffeine. I completely acknowledge that caffeine is addictive and may cause mental and physical ailments for some people. But coffee contains more than just caffeine and from what I gather, the positive health effects sometimes seen from coffee stem from the non-caffeine parts. And apparently for the people in those studies, the positive effects of coffee outweigh the negatives from caffeine contained within (unless they used decaffeinated coffee?).

Overall I haven’t really seen any evidence that coffee is

harmful to the brain

as you put it. And yes; I am not a biologist, so I use Wikipedia as a source for debates on the internet. I will trust my father who is a biologist and the newspaper articles written about scientific studies for lack of better on this specifik issue. If you know of better sources appropriate for my level of expertise please suggest one.

I will suggest some changes

This is great. If Wikipedia is wrong please correct it!

Moreover, no doctor will ever recommend coffee to anyone with heart issue

Maybe not, but most people also do not have heart issues. No doctor would probably recommend roller coasters to pregnant women either, but that does not mean that roller coasters in general are harmful.

As Wells said, coffee has never been proven definitively harmful, and some studies even indicate lower mortality rates among coffee-drinkers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_effects_of_coffee?wprov=sfla1

How do you know coffee is harmful to the brain?

[Citation greatly needed]

Cars are too prevalent in most countries, but they are undeniably very useful when used correctly. I would probably say the social media does more harm than cars, but idk if it’s the worst invention. Lots of candidates.

Ask if he closes the door when he’s on the toilet. Everyone knows what is going on in there and it’s nothing illegal, but it’s still something most people rather do behind a closed door, because… privacy matters.

I thought the world was physically black and white in the days when pictures were in black and white, and that colour was somehow exclusive to the present and immediate past.

Thanks for that information😂

I just vacuumed my whole home.

feddit.dk was unaffected.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remigration

… because a Danish politician is talking about “remigrating” 50.000-100.000 people.

From Danish: You can make a call from Ringsted to Thisted but you can’t pee from Thisted to Ringsted.

bada-bada-bada-bada-badow! fill basline

OP sounds like they would kill themselves, if it wasn’t for that “stupid promise”. I cannot tell if they are exagerating.