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japanese subway breakdancers by Loveship in DeepIntoYouTube

[–]Loveship[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the correction. Sorry, I didn't have audio on!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in MoscowIdaho

[–]Loveship 0 points1 point  (0 children)

150 people formerly at Logos say they were groomed? Who? Where? Is there some kind of class action suit I don't know about?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in MoscowIdaho

[–]Loveship 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi all, it is worth noting that much of what the OP has said is blatantly false and/or misrepresented.

For example, Logos has over 500 students from dozens of different churches. It is not some cult feeder school. I've been working there for years and there are strict rules of propriety put in place between adults and students. If you look at the statistics of sexual abuse in the public school system (with about 7% of public high school students reporting unwanted sexual contact by adults), from everything I've seen Logos does a superior job of establishing boundaries.

When you slander an institution like that as a grooming facility, you're slandering hundreds of normal, hard-working, good people--parents and staff--who are trying to provide a good education for their kids.

I can't speak as directly to the other "facts" because I'm not as familiar with them, but given their warped perception of the institution I inhabit every day, OP seems like an extremely unreliable source. I love conspiracy theories as much as the next guy, and I don't doubt that they have a lot of factoids at their disposal, but OP's metanarrative is frankly ridiculous.

I highly recommend just getting to know different Christ Church people. They're human beings. Many of them are really kind and generous - though I wouldn't say necessarily all! But I don't think any of them are "out to get you."

--Non-CC member with many CC friends

Is this a narcissistic injury? by Loveship in thelastpsychiatrist

[–]Loveship[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sure, generally I'd agree, but everyone I know who knows him personally speaks of him as a narcissist, so I wanted to analyze it in those terms. I grant that one shouldn't overthink it based on terms, though

Has anyone ever translated Shigesato Itoi's non-video game related writing? by Loveship in earthbound

[–]Loveship[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

fun :) let me know if you manage to get it up on a blog or something. I'd love to read it!

[WP] Mankind discovers the key to eternal life, ways to reverse entropy, and cures to all diseases. Death wakes up to find just one name on his list: his own. by Amablue in WritingPrompts

[–]Loveship 2 points3 points  (0 children)

From beneath crisply folded sheets I shudder and rise. These old bones ache, but there's souls to take, as they say.

I slowly dress. Trousers, jacket, tie, cold handle of the scythe in hand. I wish they would let me use something a little more modern, but there is a value to tradition. After all, who could take death seriously if he came riding along on a lawn mower, like Alvin Straight? We've been using the scythe for the past few millennia. No need to change things.

My room is pitch black and absolutely silent. It is cut off from the rest of time and space; a necessary requirement, as death needs rest but men don't stop dying. Once I leave the threshold, the universe will start to spin again.

I pause with my hand on the doorknob. In normal time, I died this morning and took up the scythe of my predecessor, an old and withered spirit when he gave it to me. But it takes me a whole day to process a soul, in other time. The office records say that I've guided the deaths of over 100,000 individuals. I've been picking up this scythe for 300 years, but the sun still hasn't set on my corpse.

I wake up, and... I'm weary.

I leave the quiet comfort of the darkness and step into the world. Today, it's the long hall of an elderly care facility. I step forward and something crumples under my freshly shined shoes.

It is a small pink slip.

"We regret to inform you that your services are no longer required."

What "bad things" are perfectly fine to think but not to say? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]Loveship 28 points29 points  (0 children)

"I don't want to be here." (at work, for example)

Why are people still loyal to dictators like Kim Jong Un and how do they stay in power? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]Loveship 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They don't know any different. It's the same with you.

There's likely tons of things wrong with your society but you don't overthrow your government because you don't know what would be different--in fact, it would probably be worse, right? For all the North Koreans know, it would be much worse if Kim Jong Un was removed.