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lately i've been... idk if you can really call it "debating" but i've been interacting with some muslims in the comments of an instagram reel in which a young girl was speaking to a young boy (i want to emphasize that they are both children) and telling him that she wasn't allowed to speak to boys until she was married, because her parents and her religion said so. the boy was sad but replied with something like "oh, alright" and the caption & comments were all talking about how "sweet" the situation was. i commented that i didn't think it was sweet, and actually that's a horrible thing to put in a child's mind. the post never directly mentioned islam and neither did i, but everyone who's been replying to me is proselytizing islam, so. anyway, these are the points that have been thrown at me so far:
it's not wrong because both genders are forced apart from each other
in response to me saying it still enforces an extreme divide between genders and encourages them to see each other as opposites rather than equals: the separation is necessary to prevent rape
there is no rape in islam because of the separation between men and women, rape only occurs in western society because men and women are not separated (...because apparently we cannot expect men to not rape women unless they're physically kept away from them at all times)
rape does not happen between family members, it's just not a real thing, ever (incest doesn't exist?)
if you're interested in a girl you should marry her immediately, because dating leads to cheating
men and women cannot be just friends because "islam and science and psychology says so." one guy said it's because "women can't talk about cars and sports"
(i also got called a simp for saying i have female friends. can't make this shit up)
in response to me pointing out that what the girl is saying implies that she won't have any say in who her husband is: arranged marriages are better because they always work out and unlike western marriages, they never end in divorce! (i'll give you one guess why that is.)
similarly, single parent families and suicide are solely western problems
men and women are NOT equal
i need to shut up and respect it because that's their religion
islam cannot be questioned because islam says islam is true
and that's not including all the personal insults and threats i've received, in just a few days.
i will say this is one of the least challenging "debates" i've ever had, in the sense that almost no point brought against me has any logical foundation and is easily refutable. but it's one of the most frustrating because the problem is that they won't hear me at all, because islam teaches its followers to never consider anything else. it teaches them to accept exactly what they are spoon-fed as the ultimate truth. and this is by no means a problem exclusive to islam, but islam does this kind of control better than any other religion i know. people raised into islam are not taught to think in any logical terms - in fact, they're deliberately taught to avoid thinking logically. logical fallacies are the rule. so not only can they barely form a coherent argument in favour of their beliefs, but they have absolutely no clue how illogical they sound sometimes. when i point out a lapse in logic in something they've said, the response i get is "no, that's true because islam says it's true." no other explanation required. at least, i've sometimes heard people of other religions attempt to use logic or science to prove their beliefs, but with the muslims in these comments, those are unnecessary things to be absolutely avoided - it's like they don't even understand why i'd bother to use them. you can't use logic to get through to them because they've been taught to avoid logic and cling to the mantra of islam-is-true-because-islam-says-so.
#trying not to sound like a bitter atheist in this post#i mean i'm not an atheist lmao#but it's very hard to speak critically against islam without feeling like an asshole#because of the leftist climate that condemns criticizing islam#for the record and i speak the same way against christianity#all ideologies must be subject to criticism#ex muslim#ex islam#ex christian#antitheism#antitheist#anti religion#op
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#I've played with irl atheists and catholics and everything in between#but it rarely feels like faith is a real factor for anyone-- DM or player#outside of‚ again‚ divine spellcasters and Big Epic Plot Things#I mean there are a couple of 'RAAAHGH FUCK THE GODS >:C' edgy backstory types but#no one is just Normally Culturally Religious and it's WEIRD#like it's not even a matter of faith in dnd! the gods are LITERALLY OBJECTIVELY PROVABLY REAL#so what does that MEAN for the average person! how does it shape language? business? culture?#where are the people wearing holy symbols like amulets-- or the way modern christians very casually wear crosses?#blessings over meals? prayers before bed? burnt offerings?#and like I enjoy thinking about world and culture building but I know that's A Whole Thing but even just like...#it doesn't feel like anyone believes in gods at all except clerics and paladins#like they DO because they factually exist but in the same way I 'believe in' like. the president of france.#like yeah he exists and is important to some people but has no bearing on my life whatsoever#that's such a fucking weird approach to the DIVINE in a polytheist world where those gods are YOUR CULTURE'S GODS??#I am bad at this myself but I'm not religious so it's harder for me to remember what Being Religious All The Time Casually is like lol#funny enough my character with the most intentionally religious background in this sense#is one of my ones who's ended up wrapped up in Big Plot God Things lmao#'aubree starts the campaign with a holy symbol of yondalla because of course she does why wouldn't she'#'oh okay well she's gonna get deeply and personally entangled with a bunch of death gods immediately' fdkjghkdf oh!! welp#you don't really pray to urogalan unless you're breaking ground for a new building or someone just died so it's STILL weird for her lol#but at least I had the framework there of 'oh yeah the gods exist and matter to me and my everyday life and culture' in general#about me#posts from twitter
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2023 reads // twitter thread
Angels Before Man
queer retelling of satan’s fall
follows lucifer, beloved angel of beauty, from his creation to falling in love to questioning god
part coming of age part tragic corruption arc
#Angels Before Man#aroaessidhe 2023 reads#i can see why people like this! it's not super for me#it's definitely like. cozy fluff cozy friendship niceness oh some bad things? SUDDENLY HE IS EVIL#Very flowery language. Sometimes there were lines and I'm like I don't know what this means 👍#Also like. As someone raised atheist it's like oh boy Christianity is everywhere. Like obviously the entire point of the book is critiquing#that very blatantly and also shocked pikachu what did I expect; lmao but it's too much for me#craft wise pacing wise could have used some more editing? idk#but yeah check it out if youre interested definitely!
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What about Jewish Atheists?
I'm under the impression that Jewish atheists aren't the right wing obsessive r1cky gerva1s fans who just use their opinions to mock people who don't think the exact same way as them. Jewish atheism as far as I've seen is a lot more complex in comparison and does not come from a place of hate or superiority, so that's not what I was talking about
#guys I'm non religious I don't hate atheists I just hate right wing cunts who make mocking religious people unprovoked their whole Thing#like idk maybe they would have benefitted from my Christian primary school's motto#treat others how you wish to be treated yourself#it was a bit longer but you get the meaning. p sure it was shorter than that in the actual Bible but ig they had to use easier words#than unto for kids lmao
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On the topic of anti-predation people: I'm a philosophy major and one of those guys was a speaker invited for this event at my school last semester. He talked about some pretty absurd ideas on giving animals land rights but having human representatives for them segregating the land so that herbivores are never at risk of predation. I tried really hard to understand where he was coming from but eventually he just outright stated what amounted to "individual lives are more important than nature and if taking complete control of nature can stop all suffering it should be done, even if that means killing off all predators via birth control."
I stopped trying to take him seriously after that lmao
If this is brewing into the next big thing I want everyone to go ahead and add this ideology to the "no mercy" list where we put nazis and maps please. I've seen like six of them over on twitter saying we should also bring all human beings "up to date technologically" by force if necessary. Literally they want to be the atheist liberal version of missionaries and get all the world's indigenous people into capitalism and internet memes.
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LOL, Anon calling Fyodor a nun made me laugh so hard- XD. Pfft- damn, now I'm imagine nun! Fyodor being absolutely done with an atheist! Dazai who just comes to church to annoy the shit out of him (Okay yeah, men can't be nuns, but nun! Fedya hits different than monk! Fedya LMAO-). That drawing is forever imprinted in my mind btw, freaking awesome job!
Hahaha glad to see you liked the drawing, frame it and eat it.
Imagine:
Dazai: Fedya, why do you believe in god?
Nun!fyodor: dont call me fedya. I do because I do.
Dazai: have you seen him?
Nun!fyodor: you don’t need to see something with your own eyes to believe it.
Dazai: how, what do you mean?
Nun!fyodor: you believe every woman is beautiful even though you haven’t seen every woman.
Dazai: okay, you got me. But why are you a nun?
Nun!fyodor: …?? because I want to devote myself to god.
Dazai: yea, but why?
Nun!fyodor: Dazai, are you perhaps lacking braincells?
Dazai: no, I just wanna know why :(
Nun!fyodor: bc I want to do things the right way, to be closer to god?
Dazai: Are you actually closer to god?
Nun!fyodor: it feels that way yes.
Dazai: but is it really that way? Has he given you a sign? How do you know?
Nun!fyodor: bloody hell Dazai, please leave me alone.
#idek if I’m being funny here#but that’s what my super religious friend has to deal with whenever people find out she’s religious#she’s also Russian orthodox#nini!rant#bsd#bungo stray dogs#bsd imagines#fyodor dostoyevsky x reader#fyodor bungou stray dogs#fyodor headcanons#fyodor bsd#fyodor#bsd fyodor#fyodor dostoyevsky bsd#bungou stray dogs fyodor#fyodor dostoevsky#fyodor bungo stray dogs#dazai bungou stray dogs#dazai bsd#dazai#bsd dazai#bungou stray dogs dazai#dazai osamu#dazai rp#dazai being dazai
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Wild.
#my mom always says she smokes enough for all four of her kids and she's correct#one time my cousin andy make me swear on The Lord Jesus™ (and thus i became an atheist lmao) to never smoke cigarettes and then 5 minutes#later we were rolling up actual literal lawn grass in printer paper#also shout out to the guy at the carry out who sold my lil sis a vape when she was 13#how the FUCK did people not know you needed to card for that shit#im in my 30s now and I'm grateful every time i get carded at that carryout because that means they aren't selling shit to my neighbor's kids#*and by shout out i mean 1000 gremlins attack
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misc. isakainess/kainessagi hcs bc there needs to be more stuff about them
isagi and ness were actually the first to get together first
kaiser always demands to be in the middle when cuddling
ness started off as the main cook but isagi decided to get into the kitchen himself cuz no one else was gonna make him japanese food lmao
you know it's bad when he starts missing natto of all things
kaiser can't fucking cook. he's not allowed in the kitchen.
not that he's complaining
stuff about meeting each other's parents:
i'm gonna be honest, kaiser's backstory could go in literally any way so i cannot imagine wtf his parents would be like so i'm skipping his parents for now
isagi's parents would probably be shocked that 1) their son is gay, and 2) their son has two bfs??? but they'd be super supportive and shower kaiser + ness w tons of love and food
meanwhile, isagi and kaiser meeting ness's parents.....
uhh
i think they would actually be surprisingly progressive despite... everything so they wouldn't be too bothered by the fact that ness is queer & polyam
they WOULD have a problem w the ppl he chose as partners though lmao
they would high-key be judging kaiser and kaiser would be super snippy back at them
isagi would try to be nice but the moment it came out that his least favourite subjects in school were math and science?
nahh bro's cooked
i feel like ness's siblings would be single and ness would be like "you may have mom and dad's love and approval but i have two partners while you both have NONE. BITCH"
safe to say they won't be spending christmas with ness's family
actually now that you think of it
do any of them celebrate christmas
ness's parents are def the type of science-obsessed atheists to scoff at all religion so they DEFINITELY never celebrated christmas lmao
kaiser... i really don't fucking know what his family was like but the ONE thing i'm sure of is that bitch was raised catholic
he's probably no longer religious though so as an adult he never really bothered doing anything special for it
deep down ness has always wanted to experience the magic of santa and stuff or whatever but he never had the courage to bring it up
the one who spurs everyone into celebrating christmas is isagi actually 😭😭
bro's literally the one most removed from the context of religion
but yk how kfc in japan somehow convinced everyone that eating kfc on christmas is a holiday tradition
on dec 25 isagi just said "heyy it's christmas we should go eat at kfc"
then ness and kaiser just stared at him like "wtf do you mean"
and they both have to explain, no, eating kfc is not in fact a christmas tradition in the west, that's a capitalist lie
they go to kfc anyway and that's the extent of their christmas celebrations lmao
i lingered way too much on the christmas thing for three characters who are currently not religious at all
anywayyyy this is getting long and i can always make another set of hcs another time <3
#blue lock#bllk#isakainess#kainessagi#kaisagi#kainess#isaness#nessagi#isagi yoichi#yoichi isagi#michael kaiser#alexis ness
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Hi there random on the internet, or maybe someone that I know that it's seeing my blog because for a strange fucking reason they like me??
I love to curse and as I say in my blog description I'm considered a hypocrite semi-problematic questionable alter and this is my semi-problematic hypocrite questionable blog... You wanna know more about me and the blog? Sure, let's dive into it
About the blog
Probably gonna do a tags masterlist for you to not what to filter tag, the reason? Well let me give you a little list of what kind of content I might post here
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Jokes about my trauma and problems
Mention or talking about serious and/or triggering topics
My opinions, might be problematic or seems as hypocrite
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Discourse posts but not being open to have a discourse chat about it (Only if I said so)
(If I do I'm gonna update this)
I don't filter myself most of the time when doing posts, but I do take accountability if I did wrong and hurt people
I'm 100% open minded so don't assume things about me and I'm conscious I can be wrong, just my actitud reads "I do not give a shit anymore" and that's right, I don't most of the time lol
I'm just a chaotic little persecutor who wants to have fun and has a very strange mind, deal with it or block me, I don't want fucking problems, and if you do tell me shit I'm gonna answer it laughing about it, no one can hate me more than I do LMAO
I fluent in spanish and english so expect some random posts to be in spanish (They're gonna be the minority, I don't like spanish at all but because it's my native language I have to stick with it ugh /neg)
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Do not call me human, I'm aware the body's human but I'm not, I'm a non human alter who their identity also falls into the therian and otherkin ID, I'm so far away from being human that I'm a-ok with some dehumanizing jokes
Besides from host I'm also: Problematic alter, multolder, janusian, subsys-admin... And I won't be giving out more details lol
My basic list of pronouns from what I use/like most to the less used is: He/It/They/Xem/Persm/Coffeself/Purpleself/Robotself/Wolfself
But you can use any pronouns that's not feminine, feminine aligned or feminine related... And pink, this includes she/her and neo/xeno pronouns that fall into that category
My queer labels are plenty so...
Gender ID: Transmasc, GNC, Dya Man, Concefaun, Void Gender, Implagender
Orientations: Oriented AroAce, AegoAroAce, Apothiosexual, Cupioromantic, Devoromantic, Fidesqueerplatonic, Panqueerplatonic, Demi-Sensual, Omniaesthetic
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Probably gonna make a more in depth post about this, if I do I'm gonna link it here for you to see easily
Because they're here and probably gonna be the only ones to see my blog /hj I'm giving a honor mention to my son and my platonic husband!! I love them so much 💜
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My awesome son: @jesuswasacreature ✨✨✨
Also some other misc info about me is:
As I previously said I'm otherkin, therian and otherlink, I have my suspicions about other things but, hey, I don't have the energy to read about them
I'm atheist satanist meaning I follow the satanist philosophy and commandments but I don't believe in satan nor worship him
I'm anti-genderist tho I might do some jokes about gender and that kind of shit lmao
Not in a religious way but I'm animistic (Hope I'm writing it correctly lol) meaning I have the strong and firm believe that everything is alive, have emotions and a soul, yes, objects and inanimate things too
Anarcho queer, deal with it or fuck it, I do not care anymore for activism nor I'm part of the LGBTQIA+ community
I have A LOT of shipping and shipper labels, I'm not gonna say a lot about this in this blog but have that in mind
I have ginofobia, no, I'm not sexis or misoginist, I'm just a traumatized fucker who developed a phobia because of trauma, deal with it or block me
I'm pro-abortion, you don't like that? Cry about it
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I'm 100% ok with answering asks of almost all kind, just nothing that's too explicit because I don't want that in my blog, tho I normally can stand that lol
Go ahead and interact all you want, juts have in mind that if you want to have a talk or a debate or something similar around some topic I mentioned in some post or you want me to give out an opinion of something sure you can, just respect that sometimes I won't be entering and having those talks because I simply don't want to
Do not assume we're friends if I haven't tell you we are, I tend to act like I'm friends with everyone when that's not true at all
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Straight & cis people
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Women (Trauma goes brr x2)
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Pro-life people
TERFS & radqueers (Yeah I'm putting them together because for me they're like equal shit)... Also, any kind of extremists
Fakes mental disorders for x or y reason
Stigmatize disorders
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Closed mind people
Darkshippers who romanticize that shit
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Anti-shippers, like in general
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When I finish the rest I'm gonna add the rest of my userboxes, at least the rest that are important to have here
(I only like using my own made userboxes sorry not sorry ig?)
Probably I'm gonna make a post just to hoard all my userboxes lmao
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WIBTA for not getting my coworkers holiday gifts?
Sorry in advance for the long ask, I have adhd so I'm not always great at figuring out what's relevant to the topic lmao. I (29M) have been working at my current workplace since I graduated college (so ~7 years). For the first few years I worked pretty much alone. I have a close working relationship with my supervisors, and I have a lot of interns filter through, but I was the only person at my 'level' of work, if that makes sense. I would write cards for my supervisors, and with my interns I would do something like bake cookies for everyone, or take them all out for dinner (to clarify I always have at minimum 3-4 interns, I wasn't just taking someone I was in charge of out for a one on one dinner lmao).
Last year, four more people were hired who work in the same position/level as me (early 20s-mid 30s, all F). I get along with them alright as coworkers, but they are all much closer with each other than I am with them. They didn't know eachother before starting here, but I make a lot of effort keeping distance between my work and personal life, vs they have all become friends outside of work. I also have enough issues with them that I wouldn't want to be friends with them outside of work (very condensed version is that I am openly aroace and they are Weird about it). I am firm about keeping boundaries/distance though and that makes it easier to deal with them.
Again, we work together really well when we're actually talking about work-- it's just the non-work stuff that I don't really vibe with. Also, their level of friendship is very normal in our workplace/field, since we are in a very very rural area where the tiny little town we're in is almost entirely centered around the one industry/company that we're at. The fact that I'm not friends outside of work with my coworkers gives me a reputation for being weird/cold (but I don't care if I seem weird as long as it means I can keep some distance).
Last year, we all talked about Xmas gifts, and decided that we wouldn't get each other anything, but rather just pitch in for some wine and fancy pastries for a mini office party. It was nice, except then right before Christmas I found a gift on my desk from one of them (like, a 50$ gift, which is quite expensive considering how much we make). I asked her about it, saying I appreciated it but didn't have anything since we agreed not to get eachother gifts. She said something like she didn't expect anything, just wanted to get me something. I thanked her and but was uncomfortable enough that I ended up giving the thing to a friend of mine (who knew it was a re-gift and was happy to have it lol). I didn't plan to get anything, except then I found out that the other three had all consequently gotten eachother and me gifts as a result of her. I talked to the one coworker I get along best with, and she agreed with me that it would now be rude to not give anything in return, so I just got everyone relatively impersonal gifts (books).
However, finances are tight this year for me (coworkers don't know that) due to some medical bills. We are doing an office cookie exchange, and again agreed not to get each other gifts, but one of them (same one who started this last year) hinted that she had 'a little something' for each of us anyways, but no need to reciprocate.
If it's relevant, we are in the US, all white, and all varying degrees of atheist/agnostic/ex-christian.
No idea if this will even get out of the queue before Xmas lol but: WIBTA if i stuck to our agreement to not get my coworkers Christmas gifts, even if they get me gifts anyways?
What are these acronyms?
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Hey, if this is too much effort for you, then you don't have to respond.
But I was wondering if you had any advice about having a partner respect beliefs from the cultures you come from. I'm White (Various) and Native, with the latter I was raised out of but I am trying to reconnect.
I primarily identify with my Scottish heritage since we still do some of the practices (such as our wakes, we still have our colours and at funerals we will play the bag pipes.)
Any time I walk about certain practices relating to myths/beliefs relating to either heritage, my partner says they'll purposefully do the opposite because they "don't believe in it and think it's stupid".
They're an agnostic Wiccan and we've been fighting over their "anti-religion" viewpoints for a while now.
And I'm just wondering how I get them to stop because the constant "that's stupid" or "lmao I'll do it anyways" has drained me and I just want my beliefs to be respected.
They get offended if I compare them to militant atheists but that's how they come off a lot of the time. They're also white so that's what really annoys me about all this.
I mean, it's a matter of respect. Do they respect you enough to also respect your beliefs, your ancestry, your opinions, your lived experiences. Because those are all aspects of who you are. It's a matter of respecting you to begin with.
Like, my husband of almost 14 years is white and has always been atheist. I don't expect him to ever follow my spirituality, any of my religions, but respecting them as part of respecting me is not up for debate. And a lot of it came from, well, his having not been exposed to other cultures and experiences before he met me. He used to be all "this world would be better off without religions in it at all" until I made him really think about what he was saying. He grew up in an all white and cultural Christian environment despite having not been brought up in any religion. I had to actually teach him what "cultural Christianity" means. But you know what? He respects me enough to listen to me, to hear my points of view and let them sink in, to think about the things I tell him and learn from my experiences. And I do the same for him, too. It's mutual respect. It's what's essential in any relationship. If your partner doesn't even respect you enough to even listen to what you think or have to say, then, well, what does that say about them as a partner for you?
I'm sorry to come off blunt, and I apologize if this is not the advice you were looking for, but I really don't know what else to say. Because to me, lack of respect is not something you can just work around. If they don't respect you as a person to begin with, then I don't know what you can do to get them to respect anything you do or say or believe in.
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Okay, I'm starting to believe you're a troll. There are two glaring problems in your response to my question:
Why are Lousianan teacher required to have a copy of The 10 Commandments in their classrooms? Why have teachers in OK been forced to have Bibles in their classroom. If you're actually an atheist, is this not a disturbing trend. Also, as an atheist, where do you base your dislike of marriage equality and equal rights? (Don't deny any animosity towards those, you literally cannot consciously vote Republican if you don't hate queer people.)
Is Clarence Thomas a "low level" schmuck and what does it mean that he has openly discussed overturning decisions that allow the right to privacy including gay marriage, the overturn of anti-sodomy laws and Griswold?
Louisiana - that's going to get overturned in court in about five minutes or the Satanists will show up and demand they get to put their goat thing in classrooms and the people behind this will drop it faster than you can say hellfire so I'm not going to waste my time worrying about it
I have no dislike for marriage equality. I would question what equal rights you're referring to because often that's a term that gets applied in situations that have nothing to do with rights or equality but generally I'm in favor of that just like the very vast majority of conservatives are.
It's really not difficult at all to vote Republican and not hate queer people. I know a lot of queer people who do it on a regular basis too, for that matter.
And once again, tell me you don't know how to read a SCOTUS opinion without telling lmao. Thomas's words were not a judgment on whether or not those things should be legal. They were simply a statement that the constitutional reasoning for those decisions was weak - and it was. Personally, I'd like to see those cases revisited so they can be shored up.
And man, if I were trolling, I would have given up the bit after about a year. It's 12 and counting. Who's that committed? Not me. Sorry I don't match up with what you were told conservatives are like. Most of us don't.
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Your daring statement that "people should probably believe things that are true" seems to have been met with controversy in the Believing Things That Are False community.
congrats on the job btw
Thank you! And, yeeeeah, lol
I mean as a blanket statement that gets dicey with things like spiritual or religious beliefs, which I'm aware this wasn't about, but, as an aside (sorry if this is a bit obnoxious)...
The standard I set for myself a while ago was one of going like, I won't rudely try to intercede in someone Believing A Thing That Is Wrong if they are not using said belief to cause harm to/negatively impact others. This seems to be the best policy to avoid causing a lot of pain needlessly for everyone, because it's not like people actually change their mind about deeply held beliefs when questioned on them.
But on the other end of that double-edged sword, when people demonstrate that they are casually and often without realizing deploying false judgements in a way that does affect how they interact with the rest of the world, then I do think that that's probably something that they should work on.
And again I'm not a dick about it, but I do think I'm more than within my rights to be like "it makes me uncomfortable to realize that people are making decisions and judgements in a poor and possibly dangerous way, possibly at scale". And if people want to come after me for saying that, then I can and will call them on it lmao. They want to have an argument then I'll more than give them one, I don't think a lot of people realize how much restraint you have to learn and internalize early on to hold a model of reality that you are reasonably certain is accurate but which runs contrary to the prevailing cultural zeitgeist.
It annoys me for instance how often religious people who will talk on their own philosophy will lambast a spectre of "annoying atheists trying to lecture them" when they won't think twice before trying to assert some absolutely asinine doctrine to someone who says something in passing, not even to them specifically, that contradicts it. They don't realize that they are far worse for deploying that kind of aggressive lecturing than most of the atheists they complain about, but are more concerned and annoyed by atheists specifically because they have realized they can't actually win an argument when they're arguing something that inherently lacks proof or any reasonable claim to be the null assumption.
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i hope that whatever you write on here makes your life easier in some way. i don't know how, i just hope it does some good to someone somewhere. a lot of people are struggling right now, a lot of people are angry, and i know you're trying your best to make the world a better, safer place
it's strange how much kinship i feel with GCs on here. you're all screaming for safety, support for the next generation, an end to the oppression, an end to the patriarchy
we might be fighting on opposite sides- we've probably both seen some very different, very hard things. we've both a lot to the ways we have to live. i wish we could get along. i wish it didn't have to be this way
i won't argue that i'm a man despite my biology- not here anyway, there's no point, it won't achieve anything- but i hope you can find more friends like me and understand us better. we're not liars. we don't want to cause danger. i would beg you to listen to us but i understand that you can't.
i understand that you only hate trans women because a lot of men are total pieces of shit and don't care about anyone else. there's no point telling you that most trans women aren't bad. they're not good either. people just do what they do, both good and bad. nobody's perfect, and there are bad people in every area of society. Not all women are good. Goodness and womanhood are two different things.
i hope that your life gets better, and that your world gets bigger, and friendlier, and easier to be in.
-a trans brother
Hey :) thanks for the kind words, but don't you see how you sound kinda like one of these performatively compassionate preachers talking to atheists? something like "hey. I know that you've had it hard. Now it's difficult for you to let Jesus into your heart. You've turned your back to God because people have hurt you. I understand that. But some day, I hope, you will return to Him, because He has nothing but love for you."
And I also don't know where you get the notion that I don't have any trans friends or that I don't know trans people. I interact with trans people about four times a week. Half of the women I've dated have identified as something other than women. I also use preferred pronouns, as long as the person in question is not a total piece of shit.
It would actually kinda funny if we knew each other in real life, and you think that I'm some kind of super progressive person lmao.
And also, why do you think that saying that manhood or womanhood isn't determined by some nebulous non-falsifiable spiritual bullshit means that I hate trans women? Or that I think that all trans women are bad? Or that all biological females are good? I've literally never said that I think that all trans women are bad people. I just say that they are not women.
I also don't know where you get the notion that I think that trans people are lying. I actually think that the majority of trans-identified people actually believe that they are literally the opposite sex, just as the majority of catholics believe that they are literally recieving the body and the blood of Christ in their sermons. The only problem arises when people start to push their beliefs onto others. Everyone is entitled to their own beliefs, but nobody is entitled to affirmation from the world around them.
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as someone who was (unfortunately) born a hindu, i can say with confidence that it’s the most misogynistic and oppressive religion in the world. like the stuff about krishna is not even the tip of the iceberg lmao. the hindu mfs here defending that shit are deeply brainwashed with hindutva propaganda (like most hindus in india). there are legit temples here that don’t allow women and dalits to enter, menstruating women are seen as impure and r not allowed to enter certain places just to mention a few of the nonsenses. i don’t want to go on for too long but it’s truly a despicable religion that needs to die. what’s funny to me is that the hindutva mfs malding at your post will gladly rb posts about bs in islam or christianity but no one can point out the shit in their faith 😂
By "born a hindu" I'm guessing you mean born in a hindu family. Thankfully religions don't run in our blood and I'm glad you figured your way out of it.
I feel like most westerners don't really take Hinduism seriously. Even the most abrasive american atheists (you know the type) don't mention it. It feels condescending almost, like it's not a religion worth talking about, like it's inoffensive child play. But as we've seen, hindus take their beliefs just as seriously as christians and muslims.
I had heard about the temples forbidden to women before yes. I'd be interested if you want to share your experience.
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Hiii ^-^ I'm caitlyn
Some things about meee
I like:
-mcr
-sanitys fall
-writing
-p u r p l e
-astronomy cuz stars n shit r cool
Im an atheist but do what you want ig don't be mean to ppl
friends with @jaxx-with-an-axe
Want to be friends with sal and his friends cuz they seem cool but too scared to talk to them
Thinks @harrysteewart could be a good friend and wants to talk to him more
I've had this blog existing for like a fucking month and I kept proceasting fml. Also if I should.remove yalls ocs from here that's fine cuz it wad a while ago I asked lmao
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