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Cake day: 2023年6月12日

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  • My daughter is 20 and in college now but I was a single dad and spent many days like you where parenting took every minute I had.

    It absolutely gets easier. You’re In the phase where they’re mobile, can’t do anything for themselves, yet somehow, if you look away for 3 seconds they will burn the house down.

    They start taking care of themselves more and rmore, requiring less constant watching until one day you wake up and they’re 20 and in college




  • I think the mythicists are wrong (especially Richard Carrier who is a stupid asshole), I think there was probably a guy called Jesus who had followers, but we really don’t have much, if any, real evidence to back that up.

    We have the Bible and 10 non Biblical mentions of Jesus. Unfortunately, every single one of the non-biblical writings are just describing Christians. They’re like “Christians are people who believe in a guy named Jesus who was killed by Romans.” While they prove that Christians existed when they were written, none of them lend any evidence to the existence of Jesus.

    One of the most widely accepted arguments for believing he was real is that the Bible makes up a ridiculous census story that forces his parents to go to Bethlehem in order to fulfill the (misinterpreted) prophesy that the messiah would be born there. The argument is that he must have been real and born elsewhere for them to make up this dumb story.



  • Leonard Cohen’s last song released days before he died was called “You Want It Darker.” One of the verses is:

    “They’re lining up the prisoners and the guards are taking aim, I struggled with some demons, they were middle class and tame, I didn’t know I had permission to murder and to maim, You want it darker, we kill the flame.”

    Anyway, that’s me, in the middle class. I could be better, but however bad I am, I’m still on the tame level.