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my people

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is climate change induced mass hysteria a thing?

is that why things seem to keep getting worse with no end in sight?

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therapy? why would I need that?

*literally just sat in the car for a solid thirty minutes in front of my apartment listening to sad songs*

*the car is a loaner because my actual car broke down 100 miles away from home*

*just missed a subscription payment because new HR moved the pay schedule around*

*new HR changed healthcare providers, scared to figure that one out*

*a fascist is about to take over the US government*

*I'm 27 and neither of my parents can offer good advice anymore*

*I am my own safety net, there is no moving back home if I fuck this up*

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Decided to rewatch The Great Gatsby tonight. The movie opens with Nick Carraway doing his first consult at a psych ward, and the camera pans over his diagnosis:

- morbid alcoholism

- insomniac

- fits of anger

- anxiety

- depression

And I'm sitting here looking 2025 in the eyes thinking, "is that all it took for a grippy sock vacation in 1929?"

Yikes.

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tf you mean I turn 27 in 15 minutes

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I say shit like "I'm gonna get really high and watch Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind again" way too much for an actually healthy, happy, and fulfilled person

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from the discord call archives

me: "alright now that that's done, time to visit Dr. Penjamin"

my friend: "very good. now is Dr. Penjamin a man?"

me: "hmm. no no. Dr. Penjamin uses she/they"

my friend, not missing a beat: "well that wouldn't be the first she/they you put in your mouth"

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this is how taxes are supposed to work

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It sucks that they got rid of every activity. It’s only phone in bed now. They got rid of everything else

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I am lowkey unfit for human interaction

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making anyone who identifies as "Apolitical" or "Moderate" as a red flag on top of "Conservative" being a instant deal breaking had been so good for swiping

Also, straight women who don't list their political identity being a yellow flag has helped

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Make your righteous indignation the church's problem.

reflecting on CS Lewis's writings on Christianity it occurs to me that perhaps the best way to combat Christian Nationalism and the religious extremism that comes with it is to return to your church of origin and remind your religious leaders exactly what drove you away

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you didn't lose the faith. The Faith lost you.

reflecting on CS Lewis's writings on Christianity it occurs to me that perhaps the best way to combat Christian Nationalism and the religious extremism that comes with it is to return to your church of origin and remind your religious leaders exactly what drove you away

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And of course remind them that endorsing local political parties or candidates would be grounds for termination of tax exemption

reflecting on CS Lewis's writings on Christianity it occurs to me that perhaps the best way to combat Christian Nationalism and the religious extremism that comes with it is to return to your church of origin and remind your religious leaders exactly what drove you away

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for multiple millennia growing up Catholic and holding the belief that if a god exists he is a vindictive bastard that requires constant appeasement didn't make you agnostic, it meant you were Catholic.

Perhaps it's time to remind your local priest of that.

reflecting on CS Lewis's writings on Christianity it occurs to me that perhaps the best way to combat Christian Nationalism and the religious extremism that comes with it is to return to your church of origin and remind your religious leaders exactly what drove you away

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reflecting on CS Lewis's writings on Christianity it occurs to me that perhaps the best way to combat Christian Nationalism and the religious extremism that comes with it is to return to your church of origin and remind your religious leaders exactly what drove you away

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