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I'm sorry that happened to you - it take a lot to be vulnerable on that second level! Part of what makes a good therapist is being able to highlight unhealthy behaviors/thoughts while acknowledging how hard it can be to just share it, let alone change it.

WhisperWolf2005 posted...

They shouldnt have removed the police officers they used to have staffed

Where did you see this?

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To add to this, a lot of times we may talk about struggles/problems flippantly (oh yeah I was OCD yesterday and cleaned my whole apartment) - talking about the source of our problems often leads to (incorrectly) judging ourselves as a person, which is why a good therapist is important.

Is the audiobook from the novel adaptation of the movie?

Rikishi posted...

Actraiser Renaissance is $30 on steam. And $20 on Android. But you can find it on Android for umm cheaper

Hmm.. looks like Actraiser is $18 on Steam for me till tomorrow at 10 AM PST...

Okay maybe lyrics seemed pretty self explanatory to me -

*As she/we start life it's hard taking ownerships of mistakes/bad decisions/good choices that didn't work out ("I'm the one responsible")
*When she/we acknowledging our role in those events we find ways to excuse them like being a rebel/antihero - I'm actually awesome/behave the right way, the world just hasn't realized it yet
*But then she/we step back even further and realize we aren't an anti hero - just a person with a tendency to self defeat as most humans are

It's on sale at Steam I think...

Rikishi posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/3/8/7/AAYm74AAETfD.jpg my cat Queys. I was eating cheerios and had a banana in there. And queys likes bananas a lot so he kept staring at me until I gave him a piece.

He looks very ephemeral

Greg Wickenkamp is the teacher's name and the pivotal even seems to be this conversation -

Wickenkamp requested a meeting with his superintendent seeking support and guidance related to the discussion of divisive topics in the classroom. Is it acceptable for me to teach students that slavery is wrong? he asked her.

The response from the superintendent, in part, was: To say is slavery wrong I really need to delve into it to see. Is that part of what we can or cannot say? I dont know that.

Here's a few articles

https://www.thegazette.com/staff-columnists/lack-of-support-and-political-pressure-drives-teacher-exodus/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/03/06/slavery-was-wrong-5-other-things-educators-wont-teach-anymore/

https://thefederalist.com/2023/03/17/in-bemoaning-what-they-wont-teach-anymore-educators-reveal-6-ways-they-indoctrinate-students/

The Federalists seem to believe that that slavery had "evils" but a teacher should let students come to their own conclusions... which seems Olympic level mental acrobatics

Garabandal posted...

This. I misread hockeybub's comment and I was annoyed by the general attitude ITT where billions of people are being grouped in with culture war ghouls. I'm not trying to sealion or anything. Back off.

I appreciate you saying you misread his post. What percentage of the billions of Christians would you say are accepting and inclusive of the LGBQT community?

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Dang.. hope they threw the book at him :/

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Joe who?

I wonder if the NRA has commented on this development..

BurmesePenguin posted...

No, so they suffer more.

Err.. why do you want them to suffer?

My sister introduced me to chickpea pasta - surprisingly I haven't been able to tell a difference in the taste?

bigblu89 posted...

But I dont think either of my kids were taught this in elementary school, and Im in NY. I dont think they were taught and elementary health lessons other than wash your hands and eat lots of fruits and vegetables.

Since the specifics of the bill were in the other article, just my two cents/experience - I was in 5th grade in Minnesota when I had the first (very vague) sex ed class. Being male I'm not sure what was discussed in the girls class but I *do* remember being told about girls having a period. I was in Georgia for 7th grade and surprisingly the sex ed portion in gym also covered the topic.

Only saw the name in the FL menstrual bill topic...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com./user.php?db=.11.user=LukaDoncic77

AzNDarkSamurai posted...

of course he would do this. who would voluntarily want to pay $1.5 bn?

I take it you don't/refuse to pay taxes?

Garabandal posted...

Yes, that's the quote I'm referring to. It's incredibly ignorant since there are plenty of LGBT affirming denominations.

1) Where in that quote did the poster claim there weren't?
2) By saying there are "plenty of LGBT affirming denominations", are you claiming they are the majority of Christians? Because if the majority of a group advocates for discrimination then the group description seems appropriate
3) The quote also doesn't have the word "traitors" - your word that's much more loaded than "voting against themselves"

Garabandal posted...

And this is one of the quotes I was referring to wrt my first claim that people think abolishing Christianity would just magically eliminate anti-LGBT+ sentiment.

Again - where in that quote did the poster say LGBT lives wouldn't face any harassment? If a person is stabbed in the neck and right foot, attending to the neck wound doesn't mean the foot wound goes away, and it still appropriate to say the person's health is "better" But most importantly.. why did you leave out his other post? Every single aspect of my life would be completely and utterly destroyed if Christians continue to force their values on me in America. "But you would be executed in some Sharia nation!" And that's why Islam is bad for LGBTQ people in those countries and needs to stop hurting innocents, but I don't live there, so my personal issue is with the primary religion of my home country.

Garabandal posted...

I mean there are people straight up calling LGBT Christians traitors and (falsely) claiming that the moderate Christians don't call out the bigoted ones.

As shockthemonkey pointed out, that doesn't address my question? But I also don't see LGBT Christians being called "traitors"? "There are LGBTQ people that vote Republican despite the GOP openly plotting their complete extermination. " Was this what you were referring to? Regarding moderate Christians - I don't think anyone was saying there are NO moderate Christians calling out bigot, just that the majority don't appear to be doing so.

Flauros posted...

Why did it need a romantic interest in the first place?

Why not just have him go back to ye olde times and just start fucking up peasants with a glock or something?

I mean it was a retelling of Twain's story, so more about the cognitive shock than ... wanton massacre

Solar_Crimson posted...

Even Will Smith had issues with it. Hitch shied away from making his love interest White because they didn't want to turn off the general audience. But at the same time, they also didn't want it to be considered a "Black movie" by having his love interest be Black. So, they met in the middle, and had Eva Mendes, a Latina, play the role (they also considered casting Indian actress Aishwarya Rai, but she turned it down).

And then there was Hancock, where in the original story the main character got back together with his exwife. But in the film starring Will Smith, his character and his exwife--who is White--don't get back together.

Oh true, I wasn't saying he routinely acted in films with a white romantic interest, just that he's the only exception I can think of (Focus and Hancock, to some extent I Robot).

thekosmicfool posted...

I really think it's more common these days than you're saying it is. I just scrolled through my AMC app for the last 15 or so movies I watched in the theater, and about half featured interracial romantic relationships involving prominent characters.

Definitely more common these days, but that rule was pretty ironclad till the mid 2000s /2010 I think.. the exception being "A black man can date a white woman in the film even if it's NOT about interracial dating/racism IF the black man is Will Smith"

UnfairRepresent posted...

IIRC (Don't hold me to this I could be wrong) he was actually designed by a fan.

During the lanch of MKII they they did some kind of contest where you were supposed to create a character and submit it to Midway to be used in MK3

The winners were Stryker, Kabal and Nightwolf

Which makes sense. In a game series where every 2nd character is a ninja, those were 3 of the most diverse characters

Did Kabal have any special powers beyond taking off his mask/respirator?

What is the best way to open a car when the keys are locked inside?

Purple_Cheetah posted...

Maybe if it's artistic merit.

So, we can't confirm it, but it's very likely people are dumping cats off not too far away. There's absolutely no reason why there's been a surge of about 8-12 adult cats magically appearing out of nowhere and younger cats somehow appearing in a box 2 streets down in about 2 weeks. It's not natural displacement, as they're clearly in super unfamiliar territory trying to find anywhere to go like a cat that knows it doesn't belong in an area.

You can see the territorial crunch in real time, as these 9 (10) used to have 4 yards to freely roam in about a year ago, now it's down to barely 2 with a cat south and a cat north encroaching in their area daily. This wouldn't be such an issue if this didn't include our porch/yard.

The concern I have, is people see the cats and figure "lol, they won't mind more cats" or they think we're the source of them all. Other concern is someone will 'remove' these like in the past because the others give em a bad rep. I'll refrain posting the method that was used, other than it was permanent.

Oh dang.... :(

CE_gonna_CE posted...

Hard shreddin on a skateboard, right into a cop car

Being arrested for Ignoring sexual assault allegations over an area you were supervising

Punished_Blinx posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/6/7/AACT2jAAESSL.png

No.

1) How does one post from her prove her definition is widely being used correctly?
2) How does VS changing from the angels to... other beautiful fit women show "enforced equality of the group"?

Questionmarktarius posted...

"Equity" evokes a sort of Harrison Bergeron "leveling", or possibly just straight up Marxism.
https://archive.org/stream/HarrisonBergeron/Harrison%20Bergeron_djvu.txt

Does it? To me hearing the word evokes ideas of everyone doing better because there's less things to be resentful about (Star Trek NG vs your dystopia)

Questionmarktarius posted...

When you assume inequities exist because of groups instead of individuals, that's definitely some kind of -ist.

So you believe no inequalities come from groups? Government programs that provided housing assistance to mostly whites had no influence on inequalities?

specialkid8 posted...

Because they were continuously modded for calling people nazis. And yes, I do believe calling everyone you disagree with a nazi is a bad thing.

So you saw two dozen topics but they were deleted before I saw a single one? That's quite a claim..

And I.. never said that calling everyone you disagree with a Nazi was a good thing? I'm not sure what you are referring to...

Garabandal posted...

I love the people ITT who imply that the Abrahamic religions are the only reason homophobia and transphobia exist and those bigotries will just magically disappear if Christianity and Islam didn't exist.

Which people/posts are those? I haven't seen any blanket statements like that...

Questionmarktarius posted...

You cannot defeat discrimination by mandating it.

Are you saying it's black or white? Either something completely solves an issue or it's useless?

Questionmarktarius posted...

That just happened, in Spain.
https://fortune.com/2023/03/06/spain-gender-parity-quota-law-40-company-boards-women/

All you get out of this is checkboxes getting checked: https://hbr.org/2021/02/what-happened-when-india-mandated-gender-diversity-on-boards

So all instances of mandating diversity have done nothing but "check boxes"? You are willing to die on that hill?

Questionmarktarius posted...

Same old "I don't know what this is, but the kids like it so it must be bad" that got the Beatles, Dungeon & Dragons, and Pokemon.

But the "hot take" take on woke is that it's the misguided ideal that racism, discrimination, and exclusion, can be somehow be defeated by racism, discrimination, and exclusion.

Eer.. who's "hot take" is that?

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So the parts of the bible that warn off punishment in the afterlife are wrong?

He literally took away all of your sins by enduring the worst possible torture you could imagine.

But I didn't have any sins to begin with? And while being crucified is pretty bad - do you really believe that's the *worst* thing a person can go through?

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So you believe the average LGBTQ person is better off due to Christianity?

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I'm not sure how that passage/verse proves your point?

Steffenfield posted...

Please explain to me such things as emotion, love, hatred, envy, jealousy, rationality, and all of the rest.

I mean if your brain is just a random collection of chemicals that formed by chance over billions of years, how on Earth can you even trust your own reasoning processes and thoughts like what you mentioned?

Our brains aren't "a random collection of chemicals" nor 'formed by chance", so I'm not sure your following question is accurate. Should an adult doubt his reasoning process because he didn't have any capacity for rational thought as a baby?

There is a wonderful and loving heavenly Father, and He is indeed good.

He is also for you and not against you.

What exactly do you mean by "not against you"?

Congrats!

Will_VIIII posted...

Woke is just basically a catch all slur used by the right because it's "PC" enough to be used in place of the words they really want to use.

In my experience, everyone who I've seen use it unironically tends to be some gross MAGA bigot incel type.

CRT is becoming the same - describing anything the right doesn't like

Lindell declined to reveal who loaned him the money but told Insider that a majority of the borrowed cash had gone to defending MyPillow against the lawsuits filed against the company.

I'm really curious as to who is still lending him new money...

D
I'm 5'2" 100 lbs (on a good day)

Lord_Shadow posted...

Considering 19 is a fascist I'd be pissed

Sorry for reopening an old wound but thank for contributing to CE apocrypha!