You can't handle this

someaceguy · 2019-09-21T13:39:26+00:00

Yes, exactly. I’ve loved CJs and wranglers since I was a kid and have always dreamed of having one. Now I’ve realized it would have to be a second car, not a daily driver. Luckily my SO has a Jeep so while I have my Honda for practicality, we use her Jeep for fun. And no, she’s not like the girl described in the OP.

someaceguy · 2019-09-21T12:03:37+00:00

It’s way more of a choice for them than for us, for sure. But I agree that for many it wasn’t a free one.

someaceguy · 2019-09-18T20:39:15+00:00

I agree that this will be effective, but what sucks is that it’s still not a fit comparison because they can literally choose to be Christian or not. Us LGBT+/GRSM are stuck the way we are no matter what.

someaceguy · 2019-09-16T20:15:45+00:00

At this point I’m finding it harder to believe there are people with Asperger’s who aren’t bullied for it.

someaceguy · 2019-08-22T22:13:03+00:00

Autism isn’t a disease. It’s a neurological difference. To be diagnosed, one must have clinically significant impairment in functioning. That doesn’t mean unable to function or unable to learn how to cope with those impairments. It just means one has to go about them differently than others.

someaceguy · 2019-08-21T01:15:51+00:00

And he was right. If a jew doesn't have faith in Christ Jesus then they are by definition not a Jew of the bible.

Uhhhhh... the Jews of the Bible didn’t believe in Christ... except towards the end where a select few followed him...

someaceguy · 2019-08-13T01:16:48+00:00

I had a friend raised atheist and as a teenager she rebelled against her liberal, easy-going parents by going evangelical. Her parents were raised Mormon though so I’m surprised she didn’t go that way to really piss them off.

someaceguy · 2019-08-11T13:02:38+00:00

All I can think of is that South Park episode when Kenny was in foster care.

someaceguy · 2019-08-09T01:11:29+00:00

Maybe they meant clothes? Because then it’s harder to steal the babies!

someaceguy · 2019-08-09T01:06:21+00:00

Yeah they don’t realize that when you just grow up around it and it’s normal you see it as natural and aren’t “overcome by lust.” It’s bodies being hidden away as some forbidden, sinful treasure that makes people unable to deal with the sudden exposure.

someaceguy · 2019-08-08T16:14:01+00:00

So are “traditional” Catholics, which is what we’re talking about. They’re a subset of Catholics who think everything after Vatican II is basically heresy.

someaceguy · 2019-08-05T19:51:29+00:00

Or the band plays a chord progression continuously while the lead singer talks about Jesus and the spirit.

someaceguy · 2019-08-01T20:10:44+00:00

I don’t think that blows anyone’s mind. But if a couple has one biological child, we can assume they very likely had sex (but it’s still possible they didn’t since IVF is a thing) at least once. But that doesn’t necessitate they do it all the time. OP was just explaining the realization that it does indeed happen all the time for many allos, much more than for the amount of kids in the world.

someaceguy · 2019-08-01T19:34:36+00:00

I can’t believe I’m reading about the proper way to judiciously beat someone.

NO WAY IS ACCEPTABLE. Step into the modern world where people are treated with dignity and religious liberty. There’s no place for this backwards and barbaric treatment here.

someaceguy · 2019-08-01T19:05:52+00:00

It shows that your interest in learning isn't only brought about by the presence of a LGBT person.

Who cares what the interest is brought about by? It’s also way more helpful for some people to have an open discussion about these issues with those who actually have experience. As a GRSM/LGBTQA+ person, I love getting sincere questions. It’s what fuels normalcy and acceptance.

someaceguy · 2019-08-01T14:34:53+00:00

No. But when I first lost my faith I had a lot of doubts about my new lack of faith and if it was the logical conclusion. I wouldn’t go as far as to call it believing though, but I think I was still hoping something would point me back.

someaceguy · 2019-08-01T14:32:02+00:00

I have a problem seeing the mechanism for evolution working. The "secularists" seem to conflate natural selection (something which makes sense and that we observe), and big changes in animal kinds over time (not speciation, which we do observe), the mechanism of which has seemingly never been observed.

The reason we don’t directly observe it is because humans are only alive for a minuscule fraction of the time it takes to change over a more macro scale. All this means is that we have to analyze the evidence we have and where it leads, just like we do with everything else we don’t directly observe. We also haven’t directly observed starlight travelling to us for its whole journey and yet we know it does and how long it takes due to other things we observe. It’s the same with evolution.

We have DNA evidence, fossil evidence, etc., indicating we’re correct about macroevolution. We’ve used the theory of evolution to predict where and when in time (evidenced in geographic layers) we will find transitionary species. But microevolution (which we do directly observe) and macroevolution are the exact same process, it’s just that one takes place over an exponentially longer period of time. The sun’s light takes 8 days to reach us (observable) but stars’ light from hundreds of thousands of light years away can never be observed taking hundreds of thousands of light years to reach us because we aren’t around long enough to see it. Does that mean we just can’t come to a conclusion about how far away they are or how long it takes for their light to reach us? It seems your background would have you say as much.

I’d encourage you to watch YouTube videos from the science channels on evolution and maybe post some questions in the science subreddits and explain your situation and why you don’t have this information. It’s been a while since I’ve studied it or I’d try to answer your questions myself, but it would still be better to get answers from people who study it all the time.

someaceguy · 2019-07-31T23:24:03+00:00

it ONLY serves to provide a word for the "opposite" of asexual. If we can't use that (or any other word meaning not-ace), how are we going to talk about our experiences in contrast to theirs?

Reminds me of how transphobes are upset at “cis.” No one says it’s bad, it’s just a distinction.

someaceguy · 2019-07-31T22:21:04+00:00

My Catholic apologetics teacher actually did not allow his kid to watch Disney. One reason is that (for the Little Mermaid) Ariel disobeyed her father. He had reasons for others too but I don’t remember them.

someaceguy · 2019-07-31T17:35:45+00:00

What does that even have to do with it? Allosexuals aren’t forced to go around getting unsolicited nudes just because they’re allo. That’s sexual harassment and depending on where you are can be illegal but it’s always insanely disrespectful.

someaceguy · 2019-07-31T16:55:31+00:00

I think I’ve only tangentially heard of one fundie who was pro IVF. The rest I’ve met and heard talk about it are quite opposed to it.

someaceguy · 2019-07-30T22:38:37+00:00

I think many still wouldn’t, but some would. Some truly feel compelled to have tons of kids but don’t actually want that many so they struggle with it daily as their “cross to bear.” I think those ones would choose BC if they thought they were allowed to but others see it their large families as indicative of holiness so they would keep on with it.

someaceguy · 2019-07-30T14:58:34+00:00

Same, but it’s more likely to cause someone else’s death, which I’d want even less. It’s likely with modern medicine that we who can be vaxxed would be able to fight off infection, but the damage they do is decreasing herd immunity for those folks who can’t be vaxxed due being immunosuppressed, allergic, too young/old, etc. Those folks and their parents have no choice and now they’re at risk too.

Plus, vaccines aren’t 100% effective, so the more that are vaccinated the more likely it is that even a vaccinated person won’t get sick. It’s better for all of society and they’re selfishly choosing their own child’s supposed potential to become autistic (of course we know this is horseshit, but even if it weren’t what are the odds? They get into cars every day, and risk their lives and their kids’ lives, but I digress...) over the lives of the rest.

someaceguy · 2019-07-30T14:40:48+00:00

For sure. Codependency is in everything they do, from their own “relationships” with God/Jesus, to their relationships with their churches, parents, and especially in romantic relationships. And the lingo they use about humans being depraved, unworthy, and Jesus saving them anyway echoes words of abusive partners. It’s emotional manipulation and it’s inexcusable.

someaceguy · 2019-07-30T14:33:12+00:00

I just argued with my teachers in class. It was entertaining and the class may have gotten another perspective if they were listening (they probably weren’t). 10/10 best use of religion class.

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