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Church of Scientology then.
man's timeless coping mechanism
when the indigo children come
good news: I have finally managed to reproduce the results. kinda. sorta..
bad news: I am le tired
I prefer to cope with copious amounts of sleep, masturbation and artistic expression, with some meditation, tea, cooking and music. And the ever important application of video games.
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Tell Cyclops,I made him a convertible
to make it clear i am not being flippant towards your problems in this post
i am basically saying i am in a position of privilege
i have the privilege of living in a country where my rights are not under assault because of religious fundamentalism
like there's nutbag conservatives in parliament but nobody listens to them and they're not a real policy influence
there's no abortion debate in my country. there's no birth control debate in my country. not on meaningful, federal policy levels. gay marriage has been legal here for almost a decade
downtown, sometimes at dundas square there's a dude yelling JEEEEEESUS IS THE LIGHT, REJECT YOUR SIIIIIN AND EMBRAAAAACE JEEEEEESUS and he is probably the jerkiest religious person I encounter in my daily life, and really only because he's loud and impolite and smelly and probably mentally ill? like i actually feel sorry for the dude
but even some of my good friends have smug atheist tendencies. that's a fact of life in my social circles. so it's something that sticks in my craw more
like i said
it's a position of privilege
but it's why r/atheists bug me more than Pat Robertson, in a daily grind kind of sense
well yeah, but if I earnestly believe that salvation comes through self-destruction, for example, then the argument doesn't have independent merit. Then I should, according to everything I believe to be true, let myself be bricked up inside the monastery wall.
This works too
but usually, whiskey
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I wonder how many fundamentalists get started based on coca cola reformulations.
I've done it before! Went to the pub with $10 and left hours later barely able to walk with $400 thanks to greyhounds. This is incredibly rare though.
u can go do that man
just dont tell me about it or try to get me to join u
I leave you with my favourite job:
why shouldn't I? Everything about my world-view says to do otherwise is to do you a disservice.
Basically dead here. Dead/dying pretty much everywhere in this country. It's pretty hilarious.
It's now Day 50. It hasn't ended yet. Day. Fifty.
What in the serious fuck, Randall.
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basically what I'm saying is that I'm not voting for anyone who isn't a verified member of r/atheism
Go to Hong Komg, participate in those organ lotteries ala X-Files. Or, before you get to that point, just gamble it up in plus EV spots to make something bad into something wonderful.
because it is wrong to operate only at that level
you need to go one level deeper and say "okay if i didn't hold the religious beliefs i do hold, would the things i am about to tell someone still make sense?"
if the answer is no then just fuck off until that person expresses interest in your faith
heavy rains as of late has brought up the question of what to do about the palace square, which needs to be repaired several times a year because rain washes away the gravel and leaves it awful.
Debate is about whether or not using red asphalt instead would be illegal or not.
Exciting stuff.
nothing would make sense then, is what I'm getting at.
I drank a stiff whiskey drink and took an ativan.
and you still don't want me to sleep
What the fuck, brain?
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even "don't do meth?"
In my "anything is better than studying" state of mind, THIS IS HIGHLY RELEVANT TO MY INTERESTS.
Apparently.
To mosquitos.
You aren't cute girls, mosquitos! Go away!
Yes. If I didn't have my reasons for why good is good and bad is bad, then nothing would be either.
The argument is one of conservation - the palace square isn't gravel because it was a poor man's solution, it was just the way to make a palace square at the time.
also that it can be solved by digging it up and having a cover with better drainage than the one there now.
most people are pretty comfortable with advising others based on what is likely to make them happy, letting that be 'good' for the purposes of discussion
Me too. I'm just saying that it doesn't actually logically follow.
for example: homophobes. outside of a brief couple spats in high school I've not really had to deal with a lot of egregious, meaningful, upsetting homophobia in my life. this isn't just because i am a hetero-leaning bisexual and thus simply have not had to deal a great deal with the complexities of public affection for another dude without fear, for example. i mean, that's certainly a factor, but it wasn't a very prominent one for me even in the case where the circumstances were such that it applied.
there's a lot of factors in that privilege. there's the fact that i grew up in a pretty open-minded, non-judgmental homelife that didn't pressure homophobic morality upon me. there's the fact that i grew up in a fairly decently sized, cosmopolitan city in southwestern Ontario. there's the fact that my uncle came out when i was 11, forcing whatever holdouts in my family there might've been on the issue to confront the facts and get over it before i really meaningfully came to understand my own sexuality, so i never really feared reprisal or anything.
there's the fact that my entire life i've been an aggressive, confrontational, at times outright hostile person with the physical strength and mental capacity to back it up if challenged. that sort of fierceness, that attitude, it's a privilege that for much of my youth i didn't appreciate as such. I didn't appreciate how good I had it in that regard, how I could kiss a guy in public and when he was like "there's all these people here", fail to understand what he was so concerned with. "They could harass us or jump us" he'd say, and I'd flash the kind of grin a sane person shouldn't bbe able to flash, and whisper "let them try", knowing i had a field knife strapped to my calf under my pant leg.
Walking around with your balls on the outside of your pants like that and feeling comfortable with come what may out of it, that's privilege. It's male privilege, it's a sort of athletic privilege, for lack of a better phrase, it's a white privilege, it's a whole boatload of factors that it took me into my mid-twenties to fully comprehend i had.
and for a while, it made me feel guilty for years of shrugging incredulously at the concerns and fears of other queers, and it made me better understand the sort of rebuke and animosity i'd face in the queer community for having it so much easier.
but it is what it is, you can have privilege and not be ashamed of it so long as you're not a prick about it and understand what others don't got versus what you do
but do you agree that there's a more logical basis to advising people based on your assumption that they are interested in being happy and not being unhappy than to advising people based on your sincerely held belief that self-destruction leads to salvation?