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  • From Wikipedia:

    Jehovah’s Witnesses believe that a “little flock” of 144,000 selected humans go to heaven, but that God will resurrect the majority (the “other sheep”) to a cleansed earth after Armageddon.

    I feel like the presence of the headstones and the children more points to the latter belief, that God will resurrect the dead after Armageddon or whatever.

    Like, God has resurrected your kid’s dead grandpa, straight out of the grave, and now you’re forced to deal with your shitty father-in-law for eternity






  • SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.mltoScience Memes@mander.xyzBorders
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    Only a half truth. Borders may have been loosely defined but they were absolutely defended with violence.

    Yes, but the means by which that state violence was organized and carried out often looked very different. Obviously there was some sort of distinction between medieval lordships or what have you, but the organizational form of the modern nation state wasn’t codified until the Treaty of Westphalia, which ended the 30 years war. This was co-constitutive with the enclosure of common land, and the birth of modern capitalist property relations.

    But the nitty gritty details are besides the point. The main thing I’m stating in my comment is that OP is making a falacious appeal to nature. As though a dog pissing on a rock somewhere says anything at all about how humans should conduct border policy.




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    The modern notion of nation States, with clearly defined borders, and mechanisms of violence to enforce them, only arose around the 17th century.

    Wolves don’t build border walls, have customs checkpoints, or leave refugees to drown in the Mediterranean.

    This isn’t a “science meme”, it’s a falacious attempt to cloak reactionary rhetoric in the aesthetic garb of scientific rigor.