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on Srsly · c/Memes · 1 pts · 2d

This is from a movie, right?

The bit about the ocean being blue because it reflects the sky is unfortunately mostly wrong. Water is slightly more blue than ozone, so the more of it there is (big water in big ocean) the more blue it will look. The fact that it's also reflecting the blue sky adds to the color, but on a cloudy day the ocean is still blue.

on rule · c/onehundredninetysix · 4 pts · 10d

Poor baby. He looks well-cared for, and the spherical shape that all guinea pigs strive to be

Like the others said, there's lore. Here's the basic outline of the events as I understood them:

  1. 196's mods, who were based in lemmy.World, get fed up with Ada's moderation here
  2. They lock 196 and make a post announcing they are moving to 196@lemmy.world.
  3. User base revolt
  4. One user makes one onehundredninetysix@blahaj.zone (here)
  5. The userbase floods this one. It becomes one of the most active comm on lemmy for several days.
  6. 196's mods reopen the blahaj comm and post an "apology" that pisses off the userbase
  7. Onehundrednineyysix becomes the main 196 comm out of spite.

Over time, things have cooled. People who weren't around for the drama have started posting on the original one. It's part of the fediverse lore now

on All Outta Gum · c/Memes · 4 pts · 27d

Actually there's two bits in numbers that touch on it. The first time in Exodus 21 was how much restitution is owed if a woman is struck hard enough to miscarry. (This passage is often purposely mangled in translation to being something about "dropping an apple" or other nonsense, for obvious reasons) The second, in Numbers 5, describes what was likely an abortion procedure administered by a rabbi.

There are also multiple points at which it is clearly stated that ensoulment happens after the body is formed, all phrased different ways. Gen 2:7 says Adam was not given a soul until God gave him his first breath. Job 33:4 says that "the spirit of god has made me, and the Breath of the almighty has given me life", once again stating that the body is formed before the breath of life is given. There are many other points, but you get my meaning. The most literal way of reading this is that ensoulment happens at the first breath, but I think a more reasonable interpretation is that "breath of life" is metaphorical and therefore life should be considered to begin at the quickening, when the baby's body and brain are developed and they start moving around.

I haven't found any part of the Bible so far which states that life begins at conception, but I'd be happy to know is any Bible quote that supports the pro-lifer position at all. There's lots of contradiction in that book to discover.