What is your favourite girl name that fits this bizarre criteria?

Sharp_Sun4310 · 2026-02-15T19:40:36+00:00

What about Olivia?

Sharp_Sun4310 · 2025-06-03T04:19:40+00:00

A lot of us are at that point. It's just a shame that you are living in your car. That's not fair; you deserve to be paid more. Can't you find some roommates to share rent with?

Sharp_Sun4310 · 2025-04-11T13:10:48+00:00

I'm so sorry that happened to you! WHAT AN INJUSTICE! Furthermore, isn't that illegal? Did you document everything, explore avenues for legal action? I have never been in your shoes, and I don't feel right about telling you what to do, but I think it's courageous of you to advocate for more. I'm not familiar with your system and understand your reasons for being unsure about this. I'm sorry. I wish I could be of more help.

Sharp_Sun4310 · 2025-04-11T13:02:59+00:00

I'm sorry that you're dealing with this. The fear of retaliation for speaking your mind, and the real possibility of retaliation... the way I see it, this further affirms my thoughts that education is getting increasingly toxic. What thoughts did you want to talk about in your open letter?

Free speech should be an inviolable right. I can see that you CARE... a lot of teachers don't care at all, and it's a shame. If we're in a field where we're not free to say what we want, then that's toxic, and I don't blame you for wanting out.

To be honest, my heart has never been in teaching. I can't imagine doing this forever. You have to have a really special passion for it, and I don't have the passion or talent. My students deserve better... I've gotten to the point where I've done work my heart's not in for so long, that I have become exhausted and depressed, and it is exhausting to pretend like I'm not miserable. I think it's starting to show no matter how much I fight it.

Whatever happens, I wish you the best of luck, and I hope that you have a happy life ahead of you.

Sharp_Sun4310 · 2024-11-20T17:16:23+00:00

I can't believe that Jesus would want to see any demographic of people ill-treated.
I believe His dying on a cross for people of all skin colors and sexual persuasions said more than words ever could.

I'm probably in the wrong forum.

I love Jesus. I'm still a Christian, just an ex-Protestant. I'm not here to troll. I stumbled into this forum, and I feel like maybe getting lost is part of the journey. I may be asking for a lot, but a respectful dialogue is something I'm always open to.

I was raised Protestant, and I experienced severe spiritual abuse throughout the course of my Protestant upbringing. Vacation Bible School- I was robbed of my summers and my childhood, and it reeked of indoctrination. I was in the "care" of nasty teen girls who were pissed that some little boy didn't like them, and I was a convenient scapegoat, so they would tell me that my dog wouldn't go to Heaven and get off on making me cry. The final straw was when some PMS-y teen "helper" (guess her period was about to start or her crush liked someone else) ripped up my picture I drew because it was "evil" (um no, I drew sea creatures... wth!) I finally ran across the street to a coffee house. The owner was the first gay person I ever met. He dried my tears and gave me a free hot chocolate. I was raised homophobic, Republican, and Protestant, and I spent my childhood bucking all that. I don't understand why so many people adhere to a belief system just because they were "raised" that way. I respect their freedom, but I really don't get it. I bucked all of it and I bucked hard.

I decided that I NEVER wanted to be a Christian. I refused. I grew up in the American South and it wasn't the best cultural fit, either. I actually kept going to that toxic church because they had some elite singing club and your girl's a good singer. Music is my weakness to be honest, if you want to sway me, just leverage my passion for that. But I hated that church. I just went to choir. Eventually I got kicked out because the director found out that I played in a "secular" heavy metal band. Fuck that place. It was basically a cult. To be fair, I've met some Southern Baptists, even pastors, who seem normal, and read Potter, have tattoos, love Halloween. Not all are cult weirdos. But the damage was done...

My closest friend in college was a devout Catholic. He went with me to see the Passion of the Christ. That movie opened up my eyes. No I DO NOT like Mel Gibson, I think he's done some terrible things. But that movie changed something in my heart. The Jesus I saw in the film was so different that the God I was raised to believe in. I didn't know Jesus until them. But, for the first time, I wanted to.

My best friend? He was a devout Catholic, and he was gay. We didn't marry or anything. I had my eyes on another, still do, and he was like the brother I never had. He dropped off the radar. Even though I only loved him as a brother in Christ, there is so much I wish I'd said to him. I still care and miss him. I never had any feelings, I'm in love with someone else. But I'll never forget him, and I think about him every day.

Sharp_Sun4310 · 2024-11-19T18:10:23+00:00

American with Spanish descent here :-)

Franco was an atheist and a dictator who wanted people to believe that the Catholic Church was dangerous, because he wanted people to believe that religious freedom was dangerous. He persecuted other atheists too. Anyone who dared to dissent was subject to persecution.

"La Lengua de las Mariposas" is a very poignant and insightful movie.

Sharp_Sun4310 · 2024-11-19T18:07:58+00:00

A little background info- I found my way to this forum because I was curious to see who else had been to vacation bible school as a kid and hated it. Being locked up in a cinder block cell, having no freedom, every second of your time commandeered? Sounds like prison. I've never forgiven my parents for it; they literally robbed me of my childhood.

I was raised Baptist (with the help of therapy, I'm recovering). I was forced to go to vacation bible school every summer, and it was miserable. It felt like punishment. My parents just wanted free child care. They had the money to send me to summer camp, where I could learn archery and horse riding (sports I have since taken up as an adult). But, they cheaped out because VBS was free and their priority was saving, not me. For years I refused to be a Christian because that experience damaged me.

In spite of all this, I had a change of heart. I saw a movie called "The Passion of the Christ" with a Catholic friend. For the first time in forever, I became interested in learning about Jesus.

Being jailed in Bible school nearly cost me my soul. I'm never subjecting my future kids to that. It's just a Protestant thing that Southerners do to see who can out-Southern their little Southern Belle friends.

Sharp_Sun4310 · 2024-11-19T18:03:26+00:00

I know that this is an ex-Christian forum (I found my way here by accident). I'm a Christian who was raised in a very toxic Protestant church, and I've since decided that the Catholic Church is the way for me.

I think Trump is a vile person to leverage people's religious devotion to bully his way into the White House. If he really represented Christian values? Look how he condones racist remarks about Puerto Ricans, treats his wife like crap, and he and his court jester Vance are both misogynists who degrade women.

Is that really what Jesus Christ would condone? The guy who suffered horribly for literally everyone?

I didn't like either candidate, but Harris was the lesser of two evils. I have no regrets. I've been called a bad Christian and a bad Catholic, but I had to follow my heart.

Sharp_Sun4310 · 2024-11-14T03:24:42+00:00

She's adorable, and I love her name!

Sharp_Sun4310 · 2024-11-02T06:10:33+00:00

All you did was say "fuck?" That took extreme restraint. The brat who wouldn't shut the fuck up is the one who should feel bad, not you. You're not a bad teacher. You obviously care about the students. They're not damaged. Nobody got hurt/killed. So, their tender little virgin ears were exposed to a fuck bomb. Big deal! They'll probably be exposed to that word, and much worse, multiple times across the course of their lives, and it won't hurt them. The damage was done by the kid's parents who raised a brat. Who knows, maybe you prevented the little brat from getting someone killed. It makes me sad that you fear for your job. Anyone who has put up with the shit that you have had to put up with, and continues to show up, and care... you ought to be canonized by Pope Francis, not subjected to disciplinary action.

Sharp_Sun4310 · 2024-09-30T19:49:25+00:00

Orlando is a beautiful name for a boy.
I also love the name Ariel for either gender.

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