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Say thank you to people who make free stuff you can use however. Thank you repeating pattern artists, thank you texture artists, thank you background artists, thank you royalty free music artists, thank you font designers, thank you thank you thank you mwah mwah mwah

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so true

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my favorite type of grian posts are the ones he made years ago that only got dug up recently

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SON MISTAKE: In teaching my cat son boy the command "out"- intended to mean, "emerge from the enclosed space"- I have unwittingly trained him to understand that if I open a box, cupboard, cabinet, or fridge in his presence, he need only rush inside and stay there, firmly planted with his wide wet baby eyes, and he will surely be granted the opportunity to earn a delightful little treat

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i just saw the funniest most completely baseless map of anything i've ever seen in my entire life

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Finished a new piece. I think it speaks to my state of mind. Notice the fine details. :)

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when your art program’s closing message hits you straight in the heart and makes you stop and contemplate the state of it all

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so true

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this is what i sent

this is what i got

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Apparently my director went to see a production of West Side Story a few years ago, and the guy playing Chino forgot his gun before coming out for his final scene. Once it got to the big scene where he is supposed to shoot Tony, he screeched “Poison Boots” and kicked the actor playing Tony until he went down. The girl playing Maria then had to jerk the shoe off of Chino’s foot, and had to do the gunshot scene asking “How many kicks Chino? How many kicks, and one kick left for me”. 

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Fictional characters love to die in their loved ones’ arms by the way. Like that’s just something they love to do for fun

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I have so many hyperfixations rn I dont know what to do with myself ;w;

Anyways I made this hi parkour civ ppl

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It's murder ✨️

What would you want me to compare it to? This is the definition of an emotional and irrational response: refusing to acknowledge factual evidence in favour of the emotions you feel. It's genocide. What justifies killing over 600k innocent lives (and counting)? Unwillingness to deal with the consequences of your actions? Dedicate your next abortion to me, sure. I'll join your murdered children in praying for your change of heart.

hypothetical for you: you get into a car crash, the other person involved in the crash is dying and needs an organ transplant to live, should the government be allowed to Force you to donate your organs to this person

Before I answer, I want to thank you for your courage in allowing me to see your URL. It shows that you're willing to have a real conversation instead of hiding behind a wall of anonymity designed only to attack and wound someone. I would also like to apologise in advance if I seem harsh or judgemental. I promise I am not, for I am merely responding in a way I hope will not offend people more, that is, with an academic writing style. Unfortunately, people have been uncivil today, and you are one of the only ones who has shown some respect for me as -- above all -- just another human. For that, I thank you, and if I am making an incorrect assumption about the nature of this ask, I hope you will accept my apology for that.

As for your hypothetical situation, I believe we have a misunderstanding surrounding what an organ donation is. Organs are transplanted from already-dead people and preserved and surgically implanted into living ones in hopes of their survival. To take an organ from a living person without their consent would be a violation of the legal obligation applied to doctors, nurses, and other healthcare providers that states that they must do their due diligence to save and preserve human life. For the government to force this, it would go against both our Constitution and the Natural Law. I will admit I am uneducated in regards to this forceful proposition, however, so I will allow you to correct me if you wish, and I will follow up with you.

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antidepressants worked too good, i've converted to Catholicism

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Gonna cite things in APA format because I’m a nerd and a nursing student.

First off, I’d like to look at a few numbers. According to Hoyert (2022), for the 3.6 million live births that occurred in the United States of America in 2020, only 861 of those births resulted in maternal mortality. 861 divided by 3.6 million gives us a 2.39*10^-4 per cent chance of death with a standard, no-risk pregnancy. In terms of ectopic pregnancies, according to the Cleveland Clinic (2020), those occur roughly 2% of the time in recorded pregnancies. However, with modern technology, these pregnancies are highly treatable and easily detected. According to the Cleveland Clinic (2020), tests for ectopic pregnancies include urinalysis, blood tests for human chorionic gonadotropin, and an ultrasound. Although they are a high-risk situation, women rarely suffer mortality from ectopic pregnancies: about 1.7 ectopic pregnancies in 1,000 result in death (Dorfman, 1983). Yes, this data is old, but science and medicine have only gotten better since then. These situations are usually diagnosed by the eighth week of pregnancy and no later than the twelfth. They’re dealt with efficiently and effectively, and healthcare professionals are available for discussion of grief and loss surrounding the situation.

The point is this: pregnancy is not a life-threatening situation. The numbers show this, and I don’t have to touch moral or theological resources to talk about how a woman should engage in such a high-risk activity, because there is virtually no risk in our country; there are resources available to help her if she is unable to care for her child. The only ones at high risk in pregnancy are the unborn children. According to the Centers for Disease Control (2024), nearly 630 thousand abortions occurred in 2019. When we compare this to the 6 million pregnancies that occurred in that same year, we can conclude that we kill over 10% of our young per year (Centers for Disease Control, 2023). That’s a little bit alarming, isn’t it? You can argue that animals also abort their young – a phenomenon known as the Bruce effect – but none of them do it on the scale humans do. The argument that pregnancy is a life-threatening situation is completely invalid from an Aristotelian standpoint unless you look at it from the fetus’ point of view. I simply made a few Google searches and went to known reliable sources.

Let’s say the car accident analogy still applies. If you get in an accident, you still have to deal with the consequences, regardless if you were donated an organ or not. There’s every chance your body could reject the organ as a foreign object, triggering an immune response (Medline Plus, 2018). Simultaneously, if you are forced to deal with the “consequences” of sex, you would still deal with the consequences of the abortion, namely, psychological trauma related to the body’s natural response to the loss of a child and the social pressure surrounding the woman. In the abstract – the first paragraph – of a study by researchers Curley and Johnston (2013) is stated, “All who had abortions reported symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and grief lasting on average 3 years”. This is known information since 2013. We’ve known that abortion causes these severe effects in young women for over a decade, and we haven’t done anything about the root of the problem: abortion itself.

The reason why I say your analogy doesn’t work is because no one is dying in a pregnancy. You’re comparing a deadly situation to a harmless, natural one; the gravity is vastly different and inapplicable. If you really, really, want to push for this, allow me to leave you with this final note: the only true avoidance for a car accident is not getting in a car at all. Abstinence. Likewise, the only method of avoiding pregnancy is also abstinence. If you don’t want children, don’t have sex. It’s as simple as that. “What if she’s raped or if there’s incest?” Don’t punish the fetus for something that isn’t his/her fault. Punish the offender. Aborting the fetus is like looking at economic disarray and fear, and placing millions of Jews in concentration camps. Yes, I’m comparing abortion to the crimes of the Nazi party during WW2 because abortion is murder and it is just as horrible as gas chambers. Look it up. The procedure is performed by inserting a tube into the cervix and using suction to remove the unwanted fetus. The living child is chopped to bits by the force as the ultrasound scan they use to visualise the procedure shows the developing fetus trying and failing to escape its sick end. Medication to perform abortion? That’s like a lethal injection. Lethal injections are prevented because pharmacists refuse to dispense the drug used for capital punishment. Is capital punishment something that should be exercised? Only in grave circumstances where a person’s living status is mortally dangerous for the common good of the people, such as in the case of Ted Bundy or other serial killers who the government were unable to keep locked away. You don’t kill people simply because they exist.

If you want it to be the case that a fetus is not human, making abortion not considerable as first-degree murder, then I must ask: when does it become human? It’s purely subjective if we view it that way. Some people say you can only abort up to 2 weeks. Some say 8. Some say you can do it up until 20-24 weeks. There is no continuity between when someone is considered human, it seems. It is, frankly, stupid to put a time limit on how long someone is human.

Moving on. Apologies for the length, but the situation necessitated thoroughness. Am I being needlessly aggressive? Perhaps. I’ve painted a dramatically dark picture, but it’s not one I’m ashamed of. It’s reality. Ignore it if you wish. It won’t help anyone.

Here are some good resources for women with unwanted pregnancies that can help with coping, building resilience, and dealing with the pressures of pregnancy:

American Pregnancy Association: https://americanpregnancy.org/options-for-unplanned-pregnancy/financial-help-for-pregnant-women/

The NIH Web Portal for Information about Maternal Morbidity and Mortality: https://orwh.od.nih.gov/mmm-portal/resources-for-healthy-pregnancy

Center for Disease Control: https://www.cdc.gov/pregnancy/index.html

Googling “resources near me” and filtering out Planned Parenthood, an organisation that promotes giving women PTSD, as stated before (Curley & Johnston, 2013).

For people who believe killing animals is murder, I suggest we look at a dictionary. According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary (2019), murder is “the crime of unlawfully and unjustifiably killing a person”. A cow is not a person. A sheep is not a person. This is an entirely different debate regarding what makes a human a human. If you don’t want to eat meat products, that’s your decision. Calling animal killing “murder” is factually incorrect and also invalid from an Aristotelian standpoint.

Finally, in response to your final paragraph about my “Personal beliefs that abortion is murder”. Look at that definition. A fetus is a person. A grown human is a person. I want you to justify killing a harmless child in the womb.

Religious freedom is such a hard topic. Yes, I’m biased. I’ll admit that straight away. However, I believe there is fundamental truth revealed to us divinely through Catholicism and also revealed through the connections and developments fuelled and funded by the Church over the centuries. Oriental scientists and philosophers and Muslim researchers also made tremendous discoveries, yet there are instances of circular or unbased reasoning in their religious teaching that I cannot ignore. Yes, I’m biased; I’ve been Catholic as long as I can remember. However, I’m choosing to believe in a religion centred around Jesus Christ’s life as the Word Incarnate and the provable effect of Him and His Church on the world. My favourite examples of this are the Eucharistic miracles. You can’t explain the transformation of “normal bread” into myocardial tissue that appears to have “died in the last 30 minutes”. Here’s a link to known and recorded Eucharistic miracles: http://www.miracolieucaristici.org/en/Liste/list.html. They’re quite interesting.

It would be a crime to not include my references. Can’t believe I almost forgot.

CDC. (2023, April 10). U.S. Pregnancy Rates Drop During Last Decade. Www.cdc.gov. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/nchs_press_releases/2023/20230412.htm

CDC. (2024, May 7). Abortion Surveillance Findings and Reports. Reproductive Health. https://www.cdc.gov/reproductive-health/data-statistics/abortion-surveillance-findings-reports.html

Cleveland Clinic. (2020, February 6). Ectopic Pregnancy: Symptoms, Causes, Treatments & Tests. Cleveland Clinic. https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/9687-ectopic-pregnancy

Curley, M., & Johnston, C. (2013). The Characteristics and Severity of Psychological Distress After Abortion Among University Students. The Journal of Behavioral Health Services & Research, 40(3), 279–293. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11414-013-9328-0

Dorfman, S. F. (1983, February 1). Ectopic Pregnancy Surveillance. Www.cdc.gov. https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00014677.htm

Hoyert, D. (2022). Maternal Mortality Rates in the United States, 2020. NCHS Health E-Stats. https://doi.org/10.15620/cdc:113967

Medline Plus. (2018). Transplant rejection. Medlineplus.gov. https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/000815.htm

merriam-webster. (2019). Definition of MURDER. Merriam-Webster.com. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/murder

hypothetical for you: you get into a car crash, the other person involved in the crash is dying and needs an organ transplant to live, should the government be allowed to Force you to donate your organs to this person

Before I answer, I want to thank you for your courage in allowing me to see your URL. It shows that you're willing to have a real conversation instead of hiding behind a wall of anonymity designed only to attack and wound someone. I would also like to apologise in advance if I seem harsh or judgemental. I promise I am not, for I am merely responding in a way I hope will not offend people more, that is, with an academic writing style. Unfortunately, people have been uncivil today, and you are one of the only ones who has shown some respect for me as -- above all -- just another human. For that, I thank you, and if I am making an incorrect assumption about the nature of this ask, I hope you will accept my apology for that.

As for your hypothetical situation, I believe we have a misunderstanding surrounding what an organ donation is. Organs are transplanted from already-dead people and preserved and surgically implanted into living ones in hopes of their survival. To take an organ from a living person without their consent would be a violation of the legal obligation applied to doctors, nurses, and other healthcare providers that states that they must do their due diligence to save and preserve human life. For the government to force this, it would go against both our Constitution and the Natural Law. I will admit I am uneducated in regards to this forceful proposition, however, so I will allow you to correct me if you wish, and I will follow up with you.

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I’ve gone insane and started writing a cliche fantasy novel