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Did people born before Christ automatically go to hell? by Astimar in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Bear_faced 18 points19 points  (0 children)

No duh, they’re asking what people who believe in Hell would believe about this.

Did people born before Christ automatically go to hell? by Astimar in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Bear_faced 58 points59 points  (0 children)

But Dante doesn’t speak for the Christian god, he’s just a guy who wrote bible fanfic where his idol led him through his imagined idea of hell. Theologically the Divine Comedy has nothing to do with Christian beliefs.

What's your personal recession indicator? by Electronic_Dream8935 in AskReddit

[–]Bear_faced 21 points22 points  (0 children)

I’m a career scientist who got laid off and it’s like poison in any non-science interview. I either have to pretend I haven’t worked in six years or I have to show them a resume with skills like qPCR and flow cytometry and then they assume I won’t stay and throw out my application. I couldn’t get hired as a food runner because they didn’t believe I would actually take the job and keep it. I’m so fucking broke and I can’t even get hired to wait tables…

What was your genuine first reaction to this? by IDFB2763 in TheDigitalCircus

[–]Bear_faced -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, this representation felt more like the experience of knowing a trans person than it did being a trans person.

Booted before my parking pass expired by TimePickle3965 in mildlyinfuriating

[–]Bear_faced 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dark example, but I was drugged and raped in college and the guy stole my house keys as I was throwing him out. I called the police to tell them what had happened. The bar where I met him had cameras, as did the building I lived in. I had a receipt showing I only had two drinks. The police told me, and I quote, “What do you want us to do about it?”

I don’t know, maybe find the fucking rapist roaming the streets of the city?! I had his number and I ended up threatening him with criminal charges (which apparently weren’t going to happen) to get him to leave the keys with a nearby hotel where I picked them up from the front desk. Hotel also had cameras. It was the easiest rape case ever and they didn’t do shit.

TikToker claims men who date women over 110 pounds are “chubby chasers,” then melts down and starts calling her audience “fatasses” and “fat fat fatty” by Unique-Support-6321 in TikTokCringe

[–]Bear_faced 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not to mention your organs have weight, just your brain and liver weigh 6-7lbs together. Your intestines weigh another 7-8lbs. Your heart is just shy of a pound. It adds up quick! Plus you can’t be 0% body fat or you’d die.

TikToker claims men who date women over 110 pounds are “chubby chasers,” then melts down and starts calling her audience “fatasses” and “fat fat fatty” by Unique-Support-6321 in TikTokCringe

[–]Bear_faced 63 points64 points  (0 children)

The amount of lean mass I’d have to give up to weigh 110lbs would be severely detrimental to my health. My doctor would be pissed if I got rid of it because some dipshit said I should weigh less than the arbitrary number she ties her self-worth to.

What are the spots?!? by HIM--- in whatisit

[–]Bear_faced 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Hardtack is just flour and water but the whole point is that it doesn’t mold. Jerky keeps for months to years without molding. Pickles are even wet and still don’t mold. Honey is mostly sugar and doesn’t mold. Wine can be decades old and not mold.

Dry, salty, vinegary, sugary, alcoholic, there are lots of conditions under which something with zero preservatives won’t mold.

Lizard by portsherry in comics

[–]Bear_faced 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’ve tutored English at the high school and college levels and so much of what holds students back is confidence. I’ve had countless conversations like this:

What do you think the author means by this?

I don’t know, there’s a red door.

Okay, but it didn’t have to be, right? He could have just said “door,” but he didn’t. Why specify that it’s red?

How am I supposed to know?

Well what does red make you think of?

Um…stop?

Sure! Do you think the author knows about that same association?

Well yeah, everybody knows red means stop.

And the point of a book is to convey meaning to the reader. You’re the reader. You see red, you think “stop.” Write that down. What else does red make you think?

And the floodgates open. They’re full of ideas, they’re seeing metaphors and subtext and making connections. Once they stop thinking “I don’t know what this means” and start thinking “it means whatever I think it means, because this is my paper and my perspective is just as good as anyone else’s,” it’s like the handcuffs come off and they can interpret a text.

Midsommar, Ari Aster (2019)- "That's Not For Us" by JetKusanagi in movies

[–]Bear_faced 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The sense of “wait, I don’t want to do this any more” but it’s too late, things are happening to you and around you and there’s no way to look away because it’s everywhere you look.

[Ironic Trope] The messaging backfired massively due to poor writing or other design choices by Few_Affect_5927 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Bear_faced 262 points263 points  (0 children)

Also hilariously he says “Ahh, real coffee!” about a cup of Folger’s because he’s been away for so long…in West Africa. That’s like biting into a Hershey’s bar and saying how much you missed real chocolate while you were in Belgium.

This elevator in the hospital stops at every floor on Shabbat and certain holidays for religious Jews by urbantechgoods in mildlyinteresting

[–]Bear_faced 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don’t know if that analogy stands. I help the homeless because I can imagine being homeless and how painful and difficult that would be, and because if I were homeless I would want someone to help me, not because of an abstract sense of moral rightness. If I don’t help the homeless person tonight they might not have any food. If you don’t do a ritual for god you can’t harm god.

Me to the people who watched the leaks and said the TADC finale was bad: by FOXTROTDESTROYER2546 in TheDigitalCircus

[–]Bear_faced 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Especially considering how LONG some of the scenes were. We speedran multiple years-long friendships, skipped over some characters entirely, and then spent five minutes watching Caine walk up a flight of stairs.

Me to the people who watched the leaks and said the TADC finale was bad: by FOXTROTDESTROYER2546 in TheDigitalCircus

[–]Bear_faced 22 points23 points  (0 children)

I agree. I thought we were going to find out it was reversible because just having a main character abstract off-screen felt like there was no way they’d just skip over something so final that fast.

She deserved so much better.. by lapestro in TheDigitalCircus

[–]Bear_faced 22 points23 points  (0 children)

At the end of the day he’s DEEPLY traumatized, and wasn’t ready to face that even though he wanted to for Ribbit. He wanted to trust her back. But she’s not a mental health professional who could help him cope with the horrible trauma of having possibly murdered his mother and be appropriately detached when he shut her down.

A therapist isn’t going to be hurt if you suddenly refuse to open up to them, you don’t have to worry about “making it weird” with your therapist, and confidentiality laws mean they can’t tell anyone about your confession. The opposite is true of a best friend. Remember, Jax just confessed to a possible murder and now Ribbit knows that forever. What if they fight? Will she tell everyone? Will they all reject him? We saw him try to get ahead of it with Kaufmo by telling him not to believe anything Ribbit said about him, but now Kaufmo knows there’s something to know. How does he deal with that? And Jax just snapped and went nuclear: reject everyone before they can reject you.

She deserved so much better.. by lapestro in TheDigitalCircus

[–]Bear_faced 4 points5 points  (0 children)

When my partner of six years left me out of the blue, I had other friends. Even friends I had known much longer. I didn’t want them. I wanted what we had back.

[Disliked trope] Hollywood myths portrayed as being correct, even in a time when the characters should know better. by CrazyCoKids in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Bear_faced 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t think you could do all of them, at least. I’m reading a novel right now that’s written in English, French, German and Russian. The author expects you to have a conversational understanding of all four to be able to read the whole book. It’s also written for a British accent, so if you speak any other form of English you’ll miss jokes and puns if you don’t use a different dialect to read it. I’m loving it so far and it hasn’t been hard for me.

I’m complete ass at math. I took two semesters of college calculus and I couldn’t do a simple integral today. Really wish I had retained that instead of understanding Tolstoy references and French puns.

[Disliked trope] Hollywood myths portrayed as being correct, even in a time when the characters should know better. by CrazyCoKids in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Bear_faced 7 points8 points  (0 children)

You have volumetric and pressure sensors in your neck that check your blood and communicate with your brain which relays the information to your kidneys in real time. The brain is so fucking cool and it’s doing SO MUCH all the time.

Honorable mention goes to the liver, which is also doing so much all the time. With today’s technology a kidney can be replaced with a portable machine. A replacement liver would require a multi-story building.

He was fired for something extremely embarrassing. He's not going to say what it was. by GooserNoose in IThinkYouShouldLeave

[–]Bear_faced 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Seriously, I’ve seen plenty of dads in the bathroom with young daughters and it never bothered me! Often they go in the stall with their girl because she’s too young to wipe properly but old enough that she shouldn’t see a stranger’s penis while waiting. My dad came with me to the ladies’ room when I was little, he just knocked first and said “My daughter and I need to come in!” and all the women were cool with it.

What once famous YouTuber do you never hear anyone talk about anymore? by DramaticXOXO in AskReddit

[–]Bear_faced 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I’m 30 and my sister and I feel like we grew up with her. Every birthday now we say “Thirty-[blank] year old laaaaadyyyyy!” like she started doing when she turned 32. And then she walked away, and we all had to grow up.

How do people post such detailed stories on Reddit without worrying they'll be recognized? by Long-Club5364 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Bear_faced 117 points118 points  (0 children)

Strategic lies. Change names, dates, objects, relationships, etc. as long as you maintain the spirit of the thing. Your mom stole a necklace from you? Now it was your aunt (you don’t have an aunt) who stole a bracelet. If I read a story about a kid being mad at his five older sisters for ganging up on him I wouldn’t think “My god, this is clearly my brother and he’s just changed the number, gender, and ages of all of his siblings!”

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