Dune messiah a franchise exploit? How?

It’s based on the next book in the series. There is a reason for it to exist beyond making money.

WHAT CAN THE HARVEST HOPE FOR, IF NOT FOR THE CARE OF THE REAPER MAN?

A mocha pot? But then I’d still have to buy coffee beans, which are a luxury, right? Not buying a mocha pot means you don’t have to buy coffee either, thus saving even more money.

And that could go for all luxuries, to the point that life is just working to be able to work.

And none of this would be necessary if wages were higher overall, and there was a good social safety net.

Tell government to tax the rich, instead of telling people to forego their pleasures.

Why though? Why not just give yourself up, and prevent your friends from getting guiltridden in the process?

Sounds like a bad friend to me.

I was joking, though. There are actually people who wear sandwich boards with religious messages on them, specifically to fulfil the call to proselytise.

They often stand near shops.

I almost respect people who really try to talk to me more for actually fulfilling the spirit of it, rather than the letter.

It’s a bit like being told to go out into the world and tell everyone about your religion, and you do it by taping a cardboard sheet to your front and back with “Jesus is Lord” written on it.

It also says that Jesus says that none of the old testament laws are abolished.

Did he really, or did he get betrayed and then captured?

Pink: one year old. Vaars: 1.5 years old, not yet had calves.

The beginning, in some cases.

I’m slowly building up Jellyfin to replace it.

Thanks for that!

Stage engineer: Fly system.

I see where you’re coming from, but I don’t think this post is about giving up all the time. It’s about accepting when something doesn’t work anymore, or isn’t fun anymore.

If you started doing something for fun, but the fun is gone, continuing to do it may actually be detrimental.

Nowhere does the post say that we should just give up, merely that we shouldn’t stigmatize endings.

It’s also very often used as an argument against rehabilitation in prisons:

If free will exists, then crime is a choice. If you choose crime, you are a bad person, and punishment is the only way forward.

If you commit the crime again, it’s because the punishment didn’t work, and/or because the person is simply bad, so a longer punishment is needed, and infinitum.

It’s also used to justify the death penalty, which would not make any sense in a deterministic universe.