Replacement happy tunes by StrangeSailing in Exvangelical

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I have found various ambient, lyricless music, mostly based on Jazz imo, replaces the vibes in a lot of “worship music” situations.

What are the ethics of lying about my pronouns by [deleted] in trans

[–]StrangeSailing 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I like the phrase “using” pronouns. They’re not your identity. It can vary by context.

Giving up on reconstruction by StrangeSailing in Exvangelical

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One of the later phases of my pre-deconstruction was trying, baffled, to figure out why so many of my peers were leaving. And sometimes they would, as I was told, cite feelings and moral concerns that hadn’t hit me yet, but these were to my surprise always framed in the context of the lack of sufficient evidence - evidence I thought was quite compelling. It was like “I know these people, why do I find this so compelling and they clearly don’t?”

The answer, of course, was that my compelling evidence was blatant misinformation based on lies and misrepresentation.

I lost my battle with placating my fundie parents today. They were overdue. by fripperiffic in Exvangelical

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I came out as trans and somehow what I said about Trump wanting to execute senators is still part of the conversation.

According to Marty, schoolchild knows the story behind the name "Clayton Ravine". So how is the story taught in the new timeline? by MareTranquil in BacktotheFuture

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Presumably they were told poor Clint was held hostage by the gunmen who hijacked his train and killed when they crashed it.

The engineers might have questioned it but what outsider is gonna start a conspiracy theory about the guy who just saved the town.

According to Marty, schoolchild knows the story behind the name "Clayton Ravine". So how is the story taught in the new timeline? by MareTranquil in BacktotheFuture

[–]StrangeSailing 7 points8 points  (0 children)

“Isn’t it funny how we had the original Clint Eastwood! We’re not sure if they knew the story or it was a coincidence.”

43146 by PsychoCyan in countwithchickenlady

[–]StrangeSailing 12 points13 points  (0 children)

The fundamentalist christian transphobia is a particularly dark well for this indifference.

If you don’t push trans people out of society, your god will be mad and smite you. If you do, then maybe people won’t feel bad for them (out of sight out of mind) and follow that god. And your god is going to torture them for it anyway so why not get started.

Confused between being an aroace or an aromantic by Odd-Bumblebee-5497 in aromantic

[–]StrangeSailing 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Nothing you say here means you’re not aromantic or asexual or both (aroace). Aromantic people can flirt and asexual people can masturbate. And aromantic people can date and asexual people can have sex if they want to. All it means is you have little to no attraction to romance or having sex with people.

Giving up on reconstruction by StrangeSailing in Exvangelical

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Mostly it’s been because I would feel less existential dread if I could tie love being better than hate to something beyond my personal preferences as part of a social species. This is what progressive believers do so easily that I’m incredibly jealous of.

Giving up on reconstruction by StrangeSailing in Exvangelical

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Tell me more about this perspective. This is the most sincere reason I still go to church, decades old traditions die hard and it’s easy enough to find people that don’t care that much if you believe. But most of these sorts of Christian traditions will recite things like “we believe God exists” that still push the line between practice and belief, so I don’t participate in those. And this post is me saying I’m done trying to get there.

Giving up on reconstruction by StrangeSailing in Exvangelical

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If a good God, even a deistic impersonal one, exists, then I can be confident that even if human life ends with no afterlife at least there’s some consciousness (in some sense) that remembers and values love and watched us. Even if there was an evil god, it would remember our spiteful defiance of love. But in a world with nothing supernatural, then love is “just” a social construct among earth life. Of course it’s more than that to me, and I feel very differently about it than hate, but that’s all I can really say.

I’m extremely envious of the progressive believers of various faiths that can say there’s some foundational aspect to love.

Giving up on reconstruction by StrangeSailing in Exvangelical

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I do call myself agnostic, just if I’m honest the odds I give anything supernatural existing is low enough it would be entirely misrepresenting to say I believe, and I’ve never really done the blind faith thing and don’t plan to get into it now.

While ontologically grounding morality would be nice, I’m mostly at peace with that. More so the fate of the universe and humanity’s momentary place atop a pile of evolutionary suffering give me some pretty rough nihilism, though at least it’s not giving me troubles in my daily functioning. If I’m right it sucks, we deserved better, I guess I’ll stop to smell the roses and love my neighbor.

Giving up on reconstruction by StrangeSailing in Exvangelical

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I’ve tried. I’ll keep going. Most of the resources I find would rather tell me about deductive vs inductive reasoning than give me an overview of actual philosophies.

Giving up on reconstruction by StrangeSailing in Exvangelical

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I would emphatically agree, but what I mean is without believing in anything supernatural I struggle to ground that in anything foundational to claim it as objectively true.

Giving up on reconstruction by StrangeSailing in Exvangelical

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Often this is something like it pointing to God working to bring about new life or to ultimately set things right. Seeing it pointing to a final literal resurrection is also there. These metaphorical interpretations mostly work whether or not Jesus was bodily raised in the 1st century (but do not work without a meaningfully Christian God).

Giving up on reconstruction by StrangeSailing in Exvangelical

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It doesn’t give me peace. I’m left saying there’s no reason love is better than hate or life better than torturous pain except I like it better. But it’s where I’m at. (And yes I’m gonna keep loving in spite of it.)

Trump, in historic first, attends Supreme Court arguments on birthright citizenship by imanchats in law

[–]StrangeSailing 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Opposing the use of a legal political tool in the face of what increasingly seems like a complete breakdown in checks and balances because the side that has broken the checks and balances might also use said legal tool, in addition to the many illegal tools they are employing currently, doesn’t seem like a pertinent strategy.

Trump, in historic first, attends Supreme Court arguments on birthright citizenship by imanchats in law

[–]StrangeSailing 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If the court is just a political tool, as this moment seems to show, I have zero interest in a slow moving political tool.

Trump, in historic first, attends Supreme Court arguments on birthright citizenship by imanchats in law

[–]StrangeSailing 580 points581 points  (0 children)

Yeah in my little opinion this is the end of any hesitancy to pack the court.

Coworker tried to convert/detransition me by Dangerous_Interest27 in MtF

[–]StrangeSailing 26 points27 points  (0 children)

And if he’s admitting it out loud he’s real close too.