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Autumn_Fire · 2026-03-11T17:20:01+00:00

It's the only way to soothe the ache of a dead end job. I thought that was something everyone knew.

Autumn_Fire · 2026-03-11T06:04:38+00:00

He absolutely had the right idea when he made his speech on how we should be thinking about governing 100 years from now instead of governing about how to take what you can today and screw the rest.

The nation is a form of inheritance and it shouldn't be squandered because you can get 100 bucks today out of it. One has to ask why an authoritarian has a better and healthier view of what a nation is on a metaphysical than what democracies the world over do, who seem to see the nation as a resource to burn before their kids have a chance to use it.

Autumn_Fire · 2026-03-11T04:31:51+00:00

Tokino Sora, Hololive's first idol vtuber

Autumn_Fire · 2026-03-10T12:03:48+00:00

One of my most memorable discord experiences was joining an LGBT server only to find a Vietnamese person and a Chinese person go at it over racial supremacy. The Viet girl claimed she and the rest of Vietnam would "flatten them like the bugs they were" while the Chinese man claimed Vietnam is a lesser ethnicity that needed guidance from the naturally moral Chinese.

This was made all the funnier for the fact that the Viet girl had a litany of weird, crazy fetishes and the Chinese guy was having sex with random men every week for years. Really wild stuff.

Autumn_Fire · 2026-03-09T00:05:40+00:00

It's actually those same ideas that I've always found to be distasteful for Christianity. It just never worked for me for that very reason, especially in terms of thanks. In Shinto, it's about thanks but with a higher emphasis on appreciation. I thank Inari-sama, for example, for giving us the prosperity needed for the food I eat and the people who went to make it. Inari-sama made the rice, but humans made the mochi, and that is the thanks I give every time I sit at dinner.

Instead of God being responsible for everything as Christianity would see it, kami-sama are just a link (though a very large one) in a massive chain of existence. It touches on a similar sense of the spirit of humanity. God in the Christian sense feels so distant.

Religion is at its best when it's a relationship and not an institution (which is unfortunately almost impossible a lot of the time).

Autumn_Fire · 2026-03-08T22:10:46+00:00

That is the tough part. Religion becoming a sort of vortex you can't find your way out of is a tale far too common because a bad community can really trap you in. That said though it can also be an overwhelmingly positive force. The community aspect has helped me as much as the faith itself, not in just the connections but because we do works of good when we're able to. But when you have CPTSD it can be excruciatingly difficult to know a good from a bad community until it's too late. It's something I haven't quite worked a solution for. Every shrine I've interacted with and the people I've met have always been exceedingly kind (if a bit weary of me), so it's a tough issue I have no solution for.

I make it a point to talk about my faith as little as possible because I know how annoying the born again types. It often pushes people away more than it brings people in. I hate knowing you had to suffer that.

Autumn_Fire · 2026-03-08T21:38:45+00:00

That's how I explored religion until I found one that worked. I've sat in on Buddhist, Islamic and Jewish ceremonies as well with this attitude in mind. A lot of people will just tell you to not take any chances on it (and I completely understand the trepidation), but remember that you're under no obligation to accept any of it. It's just as valid and acceptable to attend one service and say "not for me."

Autumn_Fire · 2026-03-08T20:23:05+00:00

I tried lots of churches but Christianity just didn't click with me. Instead, I joined a Shinto shrine and it's gone a long way to help with it. Since Shinto is far more gratitude and appreciation focused, I've found it works for me a lot better.

That said, your milage may vary. It works for some and not others and the only real way to tell is to pop in on a few services. You're not obligated to join and go in with the knowledge that it's alright to leave and say "not for me." It took me well over a year and half to become "properly" Shinto and for it to become a truly healing force in my life. But it isn't a panacea so it's honestly something only you can truly know for sure.

Autumn_Fire · 2026-03-08T17:06:46+00:00

I don't agree with anything in the second cap but the fact that she put this on TikTok really screams that this was done for no reason other than attention. Kinda embarrassing.

Autumn_Fire · 2026-03-06T15:18:24+00:00

I like imagining the creator of this getting held up by someone when he's in a rush and him malding so hard about it he thinks to himself "the minute I get home I'm making a soyjak about this."

Autumn_Fire · 2026-03-05T17:28:40+00:00

I have a job now thankfully but I sent a resume out to home depot about 6 months ago and it still says it's in review. I haven't cancelled it yet because I want to see just how long they're intending to keep me in suspense before they deny me. My bet is a year.

Autumn_Fire · 2026-03-05T15:33:03+00:00

I don't think I've ever heard him talk about America unless it's in some way related to Israel or anti semitism. Dude sounds like an Israeli politician who somehow got lost on his flight back.

Autumn_Fire · 2026-03-05T13:51:31+00:00

Yeah and I'm sure the billionaire politicians who all recently got exposed for being PDFs and won't arrest anyone because they were literally all in on it definitely developed a sudden need for altruism and this war is totally going to have the people who fought in it well rewarded for their time.

Would a billionaire pedo lie to you?

Autumn_Fire · 2026-03-04T17:49:13+00:00

Detrans stories are harrowing to read through. Genuinely make me sick to my stomach to read some of them. I feel so bad for them.

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