the mod said they will unban him if he remove the post in /r/viking
Check out my handle people. I was permabanned because a mod form one of the subs had a personal vendetta against me, he or she ended up reporting me to Reddit HQ citing racism when I had a civil and celebrated comment on the sub. The topic was regarding poverty as an identity amongst young people in my country, obviously I got permabanned so I decided to leave Reddit as a whole, since the Reddit mods do not want to establish any kind of conversation so I could explain the situation in a better way. I was a 17 year active user as well, I am sure the mod who banned me was not even there when I signed up.
I started a new account a few months back and had to start building karma, so I was commenting a lot in the subs for new users. Every other day there was a post about “why can’t I post?” “Am I banned already?” etc. becasue reddit is trash, and I would respond explaining about karma thresholds and bots, and how reddit mostly doesn’t care about new people all that much.
I got a 3-day ban for “pushing an agenda” - which is backed by plenty of evidence that any mod of any community can see. But if you have an opinion that doesn’t work with a mod, out you go.
A reddit mod with a power trip is a hilarious thing. Pathetic that they were banned.
At least they banned you to your face. I keep getting shadowbanned…
Did someone say something? Weird…
Who said that?!
It’s the same god ffs! Allah and god the father are the same person.
Are they the same three people though?
Sort of. Jesus exists in Islam, but only as a prophet, not as part of the triad.
So god and the holy ghost are the same, but Jesus is sort of a third wheel.
You’re right. I’m not great at keeping these pantheons straight, the overlap is confusing.
no worries. i spent a lot of time studying religion when i left a cult or two in my early thirties. we all pick up different things at different times, and that’s cool.
Not in their traditions, but in reality, yes.
Also not in reality though.
That’s because you believe one of the traditions, maybe you respect theirs as well, are facts. History tells us different.
What?
Do you believe in one of the abrahamic religions? If so, you believe that religion’s traditions are facts. History tells us that the separation of the 3 gods was not around until a certain date, so the holy spirit was made up by priests somewhere along the line. It was formally made into the tradition at the council of Nicene.
Not the other guy but atheist. Everything about religion is made up by somone. None of it is real. If person A says that god is only one entity and person B says that god is three entities, they are both equally wrong.
I think I see what you’re saying: the many revisions of the books and beliefs can be (at least roughly) dated without too much interference from the fictional supernatural elements.
Those councils are literal cancer for modern society. They shaped 90% of what christianity entails these days, meaning only 10% are the actial words of jezus (if you are so inclined). Yet people don’t even know about it.
They were political solutions to medieval societal problems. Or they were structural or hierarchical solutions to governance problems in the church. There is nothing religious about them and they are certainly not of this time. Even worse, they are harmful to modern society.
Which one was the guy who told Abraham to kill his son? Which one was the guy who told Noah to build the boat and Moses to lead his people out of Israel?
The same one that told Lot’s daughters to rape their dad.
If washing machines had existed in the bronze age, there would be a parable about your stepmom getting trapped in one.
Mental illness, mental illness, and mental illness.
The holy trinity! Jahweh, Allah and Deus.
(Technically all just mean god, but saying just “God god and god” seems so redundant.)
Such hypocrites. If it was about God or Jesus, no problem. Reddit hates people having different opinions. They prefer bots instead.
If it was about God
The irony of this is that Allah literally means God.
Allah is the very same Abrahamic God that Christians believe in.
Except for Muslims only God the Father counts, and Jesus is merely a prophet.
But who cares, right?
The most incredible thing was that the guy got a reply from a mod. That never happened to me when I got banned from subs.
One thing I learned from reddit is that if you breathe wrong, you will get permabanned and accused of racism and if you try and argue your case, you will be ignored.
I don’t miss that site.
Your friend’s rings look really nice btw.
Lemmy is pretty much there now. Been banned from a few and you either get back a hostile explanation or none at all. Hurt feelings gets you banned. IMO Lemmy shouldn’t have a ban option for mods, let the downvotes do the talking
Mods should be allowed to ban bot accounts, though.
A protocol that could never be routinely abused right?
I mean with Lemmy you always have the option to invoke the Bender protocol.
They did that!
I thought piefed was its own separate software?
it is, their own new one with blackjack and hookers and more Python, less Rust
So it’s not actually part of Lemmy? I did get that right?
I’ve never heard it called that before, but I like it.
he’s a very talented jewelcrafter. im not sure you can promote on lemmy but you can google his name and see his website
What dipshits.
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reddit sucks. But it is not worse then Facebook.
which cancer is worse
all of them, esp when we have a cure (Fedi/OpenSource)
Lemmy isnt any better, I’ve been banned from a few Lemmy communities for wrong think or cause someone got mad that I disagreed with them. When you ask for clarification you get the same hostile bullshit that Reddit mods had. Having people mod communities is always gonna fail, because someone with a power trip and hurt feelings will always she the one applying to be the mod
Being banned by overt islamophobia is generally worse than vague complaints about “wrong think”. Suspicious AF.
Disgusting and such a clear example of the damage we do to another when we accept the all encompassing conditions of corporate social media without resistance.
When a website is being run for profit, this kind of shockingly ugly simplification of “foreign” ideas (Islam is NOT foreign to the US) is inveitable. In order to monetize, the system demands this degree of ignorance.
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It’s not a name. It’s literally just the word “God” in Arabic.
Yes, this is ridiculous, we aren’t even talking about an especially specific word or concept, you might as well call the word for “love” in arabic inherently extremist, threatening and violent.
Ask 1000 christians what “god” means to them and get 1000 different answers, why would it be any different for Islam?
almost any comment against christianity=bad, even MEDIA/MSN dont touch this, but more than happy to frame muslims as a violent sexist religion, eventhough christianity has DONE ALOT worst.
allah is just the name they use for their god
Christian Arabs use this name for God as well
they also get upset if you call anything christians put into law as 'sharia law"
This smells strongly of “brown religion bad”.
Jesus was brown, middle eastern, palestinian jew.
i feel like we’re in need of another Life of Brian or Blazing Saddles. I wish I were talented enough to write or film either
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Try to explain to an American Christian what a Coptic is.
Usually you can watch their brains melt inside their heads.
“devout” sees him as a white , blue eyed man.
This made me realize that, throughout basically all of Viking history, Islam was already a thing. Curious.
Most likely they raided Spain when it was Al-Andalus.
Tho vikings did have a phase where they served as bodyguards in Byzantine empire. They definetely bought stuff from a muslim merchant.
Second point is more interesting because not one history teacher I had went over how focused mediveal muslims were when topic came to merchants. Last prophet in Islam was a regular merchant until he was past 40.
You can imagine trading becoming a core part of religious culture over time. To this day you can negotiate prices when buying anything from any religious muslim by saying “The Prophet used to bargain.”
Possible, but they also just straight up had trade relations. Viking weapons were sometimes made with Arab iron, for example, because they had the best in the world at the time.
The only surviving account of a “Viking funeral” we have is from a Muslim traveler named ibn Fadlan traveling among the Volga Vikings.
“Allah” is also simply the Arabic word for God, and was actually also used there before Islam.
Although there could be further clues that link these rings to Islam, of course.
Yeah, “Allah” is what Lebanese, Syrian, and other Arab Christians have called their Christian God as well.
“Viking history” is pretty late. While Norse culture is much older, the (written) history about it only started when christian or muslim scholars started to write it down. And they only did that once the vikings started raiding and trading with the christian and muslim world at around 800 CE. They established trade networks and colonies along the big rivers of eastern Europe and reached the black sea and Caspian sea, which is most likely the origin of the ring the post is about.
Islam was founded 600 CE so yes, you are right.
Ok Hiram, you go to the northern lands to sell steel, as part of the plan.
What plan?
Never mind, you just sell steel ro the infidels.
But if there’s a plan, maybe I…
You just sell steel!
… a thousand years go by …
Look at this ring, it looks like Arabic script.
… thiusands of kilometers away…
Finally! The plan is coming together!
these rings are cool as fuck
May subs use scripts to moderate also which is very lazy. If you want to give warnings that is fine but they shouldn’t be used to ban. The worst are the subs that ban based on you leaving a comment in a sub they don’t like regardless of context. That should violate reddit rules because it blocks users from participating across the app and violates their access without any warning.
I agree that it’s bullshit to ban someone from your group because they are subbed to a group that you don’t like. For subs that fear brigading by people that disagree with the intent of their group all they have to do is set up a "FLAIR’ policy. You ask the mod for flair. They do a quick check of your history and they allow you access.
In general if you invest just a bit of time on research you will unfortunately find that one political leaning much more than the other bans people simply because they belong to a group that they don’t like.
that would never happen on lemmy!
/s
source: I’ve been banned from communities I have never visited because the mods said I’m a racist bigot.
jokes on them, I hate everyone equally regardless of race or gender. I especially hate malicious liars and ethically challenged mods.
Let’s say it’s less likely on Lemmy. And group bans seem to last for days instead of forever.
I dislike all religion for obvious reasons. Example, god would never allow the mass starvation of children no matter which god. He doesn’t work in mysterious ways. But freedom of speech to allow me to express my freedom to not believe in any god and to call god and any political party and or company stupid is Paramount to anything else.
I don’t get it, I don’t see any religious connotations and the rings look cool.
I’m trying to come up with a reasonable context for words “for Allah”. When have you heard anyone say “For Jesus”? In what scenario would you say it?
The mind set just might have been a lot different from how we think today…
And if you want a copy of a 1000 year old ring, you really should copy it and not edit it to fit someone else’s notions about religion.
The mind set just might have been a lot different from how we think today…
I dunno who “we” is, but it’s exactly the same for the vast majority of people in imperial core. Just not with scary arabic. See my other comment for a few examples out of countless.
And if you want a copy of a 1000 year old ring, you really should copy it and not edit it to fit someone else’s notions about religion.
Why not? Who cares?
“We” is the majority of people compared to way back when and today. Don’t be obtuse. Just compare the thoughts and beliefs of one mere generation ago from anywhere on the planet as compared to today if you need an example. And people across the planet and history have always had different thoughts and beliefs than they do today. No matter your take on the “imperial core”.
As to why copy a rare 1000 year old design as close as possible? It’s their bauble and choice, not yours or mine, (though I will defend their right to do so). And besides it’s what the word “copy” means. Not “similar” or “kind of like it”.
Second point makes me think you are misunderstanding the post.
They did not recreate a 1000 year old viking ring and carve “For Allah.”
They recreated a 1000 year old “viking ring with the words For Allah carved in it.”
The Viking likely getting the ring during a raid. Spain was Muslim-majority back then.
“Jesus saves”, “God is my co-pilot”, “OMG”, “god is love”, “the lord is my savior”, “christ is king”, etc etc etc…
It’s literally everywhere in English. I’m constantly bombarded with the exact same stuff that the brainwashed cry about when it’s “allah”.
The Crusades?
The Crusades 2 (In Development)?
Exactly, but pointing out the historical context for this is going to get you downvoted.
god would never allow the mass starvation of children no matter which god.
Pretty simplistic conception of god.
That’s the assumption that god is benevolent and would like to not murder people. Any other god doesn’t deserve any admiration.
If there was nothing to tell you that those gods exist then you’d never know and wouldn’t be bothered by connecting bad or good things to the existence of a god.
But as we know, Gazan people and Ukrainians are being murdered every day for ~the past 5 years. At any point of those 5 years of suffering god could have stopped it. But nah, ratchet it some more instead. and that’s reason enough to not believe in a god or to even hate an asshole in power who won’t move a finger to prevent suffering. And I don’t need to stand on moral high ground. I think most of us could agree that feeding the hungry is the logical thing a good person would be doing at this time.
