So you’ll invite the underrepresented, marginalized folks and share a loving community free from private property; everyone sharing everything freely? Of course we’d like them all to believe in Jesus, but we won’t hate them if they don’t or try to shove it on them either.
We are this close to entombing our presidents in a golden throne and worshipping them for millenia.
I have a vague memory of a spaceship. Maybe i was firing a laser? I remember it being hard at first, but I Got Gud, and as an adult people are impressed with my typing speed.
Which is wild as I know someone going for a masters in social work, but the conditions set by the school says that she can’t get below a B more than twice on anything. But sure, we need doctors, so let 'em all in!
I struggle some with this because when I was young, I was taught to weave together every aspect of who I was with the church, then essentially told every part that was me was evil and rotten while every part that was the church was perfect and unassailable. Trying to separate myself from the church or faith often felt like (and often added up to) suicide. So I’ve mever really been able to fully separate for those reasons, then add in a psychotic disorder with frequent religious delusions and I’m a mess. I believe in Jesus, but I try to keep away from the science denial and queer-phobia. (personally am trans, but that was a long and painful process of discovery) I also try to let other people believe what they believe. If faith is an opium to me, then I am direly addicted to it with no way out I can see. But I’m trying to still be a good human while believing in a faith that all too often oppresses and suppresses other folks, identities, faiths, and cultures.
Everyone knows for a joke to be funny, the delivery has to be cipher text.
Eh, it was already there. Lots of racist and eugenics ideas swirling around mew age beliefs.
I like these, but as a sometimes manically inquisitive folk I love the last one a lot.
Blames it on “psychos” but somehow doesn’t think that affordable (or y’know, free) mental health care is a priority. Every time this happens somehow the mentally ill get blamed. Turns out psychopaths can live indistinguishably from the rest of the public and supposedly well-adjusted “sane” people can commit mass shootings or justify genocides. Maybe instead of blaming a large, marginalized group, we can improve people’s conditions so maybe they won’t do this. For kids this may be actually doing something about bullying, providing mental health care, and hiring teachers that don’t not-so-secretely hate kids.
Love the imperial machine coopting Star Wars. They totally understood the media and are doing what Lucas would want with it.
To be fair, I have had some issues like my screen not displaying anything all of a sudden using Arch, but I think that was more NVIDIA’s fault. Adding a boot parameter ended up fixing that.
I would be a little careful calling all these things narcissism, though. Narcissist personality disorder is a real thing, and people have no control over that. The harm these people cause to other people is not a result of mental illness, but as you said, a series of systems that discourage treating people like people and more like commodities.
Getting real academic larp vibes from them. I’m not exactly an expert, but something feels very wrong.
While this might fall into the category of religious delusion, I think it’s more likely some grift that positively absurd. A delusion is not something someone can control, and I’d bet this person made a conscious decision to be this bad.
Yeah, this article definitely gives me the impression that this person doesn’t know what they’re talking about. Hyping up how the parents feel shame for yelling and completely overlooking the shame imposed on the kid? In fact, completely overlooking the kid altogether?? The only time they mention doing right by the kid is in context of doing right by the parent. But yeah spanking is just wrong: getting angry and hitting your kid seems like it has a different term associated with it. And yelling fails to effect positive change, and easily causes negative impacts. This reads as someone trying to justify old-fashioned (and almost always wrong) methods using new-fashioned ideas of authenticity and avoiding shame.
“You’re a medical anomaly, you really need to stop trying to challenge god!” Beautiful writing!
I saw the Communist Manifesto and two volumes of Capital at a Barnes and Noble once.
Star Fleet II: Krellan Commander
Seriously, after being called “threat to democracy,” “nazi,” “dictator,” etc. I don’t know why “weird” seems to be so offensive to them.
One time I needed to move from a daily pill to an injection for one of my meds, but by the time we got the prescription and emergency appointment, the pharmacy either had just closed or was about to. Mind you, I was inches from a crisis, like, I was honestly thinking if I couldn’t get on the mend that night I was going to need a hospital. Then insurance decided they didn’t want to pay for it. Thankfully the doctors were willing to give me a free sample, so I was able to get the injection that evening. It was a rough night, but I was getting better. Also insurance ultimately did start paying, but not until I had used all the free samples they were allowed to give me.