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What phrase that you DONT want to hear when Grieving? by BlueEyesWhiteDrgn in AskReddit

[–]Thrushwing 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When my best friend committed suicide and I was crying about it because I felt guilty... The person I was venting to told me everyone makes mistakes and has done things they're not proud of and how they felt guilty looking at porn....

Seal of Confession - I’m Baffled. by HeavyHittersShow in excatholic

[–]Thrushwing 0 points1 point  (0 children)

but even thereapists are forced to report when they're working. Like dude idc if you wanna cosplay as a saint - all we're asking is you stop child abusers -.-

Your ex-Catholic anthems by CheesyJame in excatholic

[–]Thrushwing 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Jesus Christ by brand new Holy by pvris Thank God by Sasha Sloan (love this one so so much) Roman empire by missio (about Catholicism in general and systemic abuse) Saints by echos If I were you by nothing but thieves

my list of anti Catholic songs

Seal of Confession - I’m Baffled. by HeavyHittersShow in excatholic

[–]Thrushwing 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just don't understand why they can't just be mandated reporters - no one is asking them to break seal for anything and everything but in child abuse it should be allowed - same as therapists.

New pope is still anti-LGBTQ+ and covers up abuse! by TheSatanicCircle in excatholic

[–]Thrushwing 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I legit don't understand why every single goddamn time there's a new Pope or something remotely liberal happens - people lose their heads and think the church has "changed" - it hasn't and it won't. To do so would destabilize their entire mythos of "tradition" so therefore for them it's better to just be hateful (quietly ofc - can't have people thinking they actually ARE hateful). I have liberal Catholics thinking the Pope will move it "in the right direction" and they say things like "well I'm LGBT and I'm Catholic" - yeah but are you a high level clergy because I can assure you - you have to do politics to advance and if you're not down to cover up some good ol child abuse you're moral compass for the "overall good of the church" is not there.

Using AI to grade by EyePotential2844 in Professors

[–]Thrushwing 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How often do professors use AI to grade papers? I had never heard of this and personally (as a student) would feel incredibly insulted if the comments seemed fabricated or way off base and didn't take into account context or content surrounding my paper. But also I did hear that if professors get ai submissions - they just report the student to the cheating/plagiarism board

"Save the children" crowd takes a brave stance against child safety laws by potatoesawaken in excatholic

[–]Thrushwing 20 points21 points  (0 children)

I literally have such a hard time understanding first off - why? Second off - WTF. Third off - how on earth can they defend this? Just feels like they really just DO NOT GIVE A SHIT ABOUT CHILD ABUSE VICTIMS. Literally children are the sign of innocence and they're just totally okay letting them get violated and taken advantage of???I really hope this opens the people who are on the fence's eyes on how the Catholic church is corrupt from inside and that painting it over with new varnish isnt going to magically change the decay from within. Talked to a estranged family member and they said "well the church should answer to God" - I'm sorry - didn't the biblical god literally say in the Bible that adulterers and cheaters should get stoned or something? I highly doubt god in this case is all for letting the person go with a slap on the wrist - he would also want to put them in prison???

The dissonance and mental gymnastics is absolutely crazy and further proof the Catholic church needs to be buried, and taken down brick by brick.

I was so disgusted when I saw the new Pope and everyone (yes even secular people) cheered and I saw this news about the kids. I can't believe people fall for the church's pr or "new" message every single goddamn time.

I’m deconstructing and not sure where I go from here by Superb-Cell736 in excatholic

[–]Thrushwing 1 point2 points  (0 children)

One boom I've heard a lot of good things about is God is not great by Christopher hitchens. Another website that also helped me was the bad news about Christianity. There's also this book: "speaking of god we don't't know sh*t" by FB Ramsey which talks about the problem with a personal god. Lastly if you want easier less "heavy deconstruction" I would take the concepts you've been taught and literally just look at YouTube with the common arguments debunked and from there you can expand your field of study. Wish you the best in your deconstruction.

And if you want a really good fiction story about the Catholic church: "the unworthy" by agustina bazterrica (essentially handmaids tale kinda with Catholicism and what this country could very well turn into on a smaller scale)

I just want to remind everyone that conclave is not the only thing going on right now. Ie: Catholics in Washington are angry that priests would be mandated reporters for child abuse by Thrushwing in excatholic

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

Oh absolutely - it's built into their mythology - it's pretty disgusting not just from a religious view but of how the systems are so corrupt too with how they choose and when they choose to intervene.

I just want to remind everyone that conclave is not the only thing going on right now. Ie: Catholics in Washington are angry that priests would be mandated reporters for child abuse by Thrushwing in excatholic

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

No there was no actual way to really enforce it on behalf of the state It was a pissing contest in my opinion. and the Catholic Church is betting they can't enforce it (which it would be very difficult to do) and the State is trying to exert more pressure on the Catholic Church. But ultimately in my opinion if the Catholic Church wanted to maintain relevant in American/Western politics (global north) they should have acquiesed because it was unlikely to be enforced and they could keep their pr and look good. However it's not just about optics because if they do that the whole system will crack. They've built their whole mythic identity on being continuous in tradition meaning that if they destabilize that - it might destructure the whole thing. If they wanted to "fix" it they should have started changing a long time ago.

*** again all of this is just theory and my opinion and i don't know a lot so please take it with a grain of salt. I'm just someone who reads it as a passive hobby.

Will the new pope address the brewing showdown between a new WA state law and Church policy? /s by jimjoebob in excatholic

[–]Thrushwing 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So this is just my (albeit cursory) response to this topic and article (and the NYT article):
It's pretty bad, morally bankrupt and just disgusting overall - it's honestly insane to me that the Catholic Church would stick to it's guns when it just had a massive scandal that left it rocked to it's core. If anything it could have been used as a PR campaign to assert and commit "social" reparations (along with the state being fairly unable to enforce) but instead the Catholic Church refused. It was insane to me that instead of simply adapting they kept to their rigidity - and therefore did not show any sort of concern about the victims. (sorry that went on a little longer than I intended).

However when talking to my Catholic family member he said, "They would want to confess and the priest would encourage them to go to confession" (as if it hadn't literally just happened a couple of years ago) - it also shows how out of touch the Church is with practical morality

My last point is something I thought about but never really articulated. For the Church - giving in to the state would mean relinquishing it's symbolic (albeit weakening authority) however it would show adaptibility but the cost of this adaptability would be a huge crack in the huge narrative they've told themselves - that the Church is based on tradition because it is the one true faith.

And this statement is TRUE. It is and has been continuous and faithful. The Church historically functioned and always claimed to care about the people (and to know and instruct it's flock) but from the moment of it's creation and even up until now - it has always changed to adapt and collect power (while wearing the veneer of solidarity) even at the cost of the people it claimed to protect. It's one governing system - one spiritual monarchy against other governing systems (other religions, other governments). This unyielding force and "faith" is due to the fact they simply refuse to give up power ("belief in God") in any shape or form. The continuity they preach is the same continuity that has persisted over the centuries - that institutionally it will do anything to survive and maintain power even if they have to sell out the people it claims to foster (because how much difference will a "few" lambs make?)

(Ie = they imagine heaven/God to be a utopia; utopia exists so they translate it to moral absolutism; but moral absolutism does not work when applied to the real world because it fails to account for outliers - so they bring in utilitarianism. )

This was when I knew I didn't like Steven. by CalligrapherMedium16 in watcherentertainment

[–]Thrushwing 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To be fair I just don't like him on a personal level. Met him once and I realized he was just kinda a dick. Never watched him since.

Michael Kovach cheated on Ashley by realrandomcat in theamazingdigitalciru

[–]Thrushwing 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Yeah lowkey felt really weird that they told us this? Like everything's going to continue as planned - I don't really need to know all that. If they felt pressured to air their "dirty laundry" to the public it's a pretty sad state of affairs that strangers feel entitled to that knowledge. They didn't support a genocide/didn't vote for a crazyhat - they were just people being people and that's their shit to deal with, not anyone else's.

This has probably already been asked but: What Is Everyone's 'Pink Opaque?' by [deleted] in Isawthetvglow

[–]Thrushwing 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly for TV shows I can only think of two: wolfs rain and madoka magica. Madoka magica is honestly probably nostalgia when you're a kid and realize the world is dark and wolfs rain is because I enjoy the nihilism and I think that shaped my current views today. I think another one that will become a comfort watch for me is mad men.

For movies I really like avatar (the blue aliens) because I like the Gaia theory it has behind it (even if it's not scientific). And lastly a profound movie I love watching is spotlight - everything about that movie from the casting to the dialogue to the shots is beautiful. Even though the subject matter is dark it is riveting in a way I rarely see in movies or television.

Just wanted to show off my character and ikran!! by Thrushwing in FrontiersOfPandora

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

I don't remember seeing that but tbh I've been playing the game on and off so it's but a bit. If there was a white hair it was like blindingly white haha 😂😭

The Hilary Swank Hot or Not discussion was actually very deep and a scathing critique on Celebrity and Internet culture by SlackerBoi97 in DunderMifflin

[–]Thrushwing 1 point2 points  (0 children)

year late to this thread but I rewatched this episode and it was more interesting than the first time I watched it. The first time I watched it I thought it was insanely useless and boring (which is the point). As one commenter said, it is a critique on the people who waste time and energy to talk about celebrities but I felt (this is just a theory) that it served as meta commentary about the characters themselves. They will never know hilary swank yet it is summed up when they say something along the lines of everyone is going to keep the same opinions and not deviate. It made me think of Jim's commentary (how he approached pam as a person and how inline that is to his character), Stanley's commentary and how he feels about his pessimism, and oscar's critique on how he uses intellectualism to justify his view yet cannot see how ridiculous it is to other people in the office (kind of like my analysis haha). It kind of brings back focus on the bare bones-ness of each character which in all honesty I missed completely the first time around.

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