Just gotta smoke a bunch of cigarettes use some artisinal locally sourced desoxyn.

Yeah ADHD is all in your head, but so is brain cancer.

“This is my health and I’m going to speak about this with a doctor. I love you and appreciate your perspective, but this is my decision to make. If any changes as a result of this impact you, we can discuss them, but I’ve made my decision and I expect you to respect it the same as I respect the decisions you make about your health.”

The fact that she thinks she gets to decide what medications you get to take is nuts to me. This is a boundary it’s very worth building and maintaining. If side effects impact her then you can negotiate, but it’s your body. You have the autonomy to decide what happens to it. She’s just a trusted advisor on the matter of your body.

The way I like to frame it is that no president has a “make gas cheap” button, but they all have a lot of “make gas expensive” buttons. Trump likes pressing those buttons because they aren’t labeled as such

Yeah even pretty far inland you occasionally get a Canuck buck in your change (usually it’s a small coin)

Yeah, like, in raw harm done the catholic church is hard to beat and can only fairly be compared to other extremely large and powerful religious denominations. There’s so much to criticize about it as a force of colonialism and cultural destruction especially in the Americas. And the anti queer and anti woman issues are very real.

But also there’s a core of value there. The magesterium is an educated force of inertia, and sometimes that’s bad, but other times it’s telling peasants not to burn witches because witchcraft doesn’t exist or telling rulers to stop fighting or stop killing their subjects. The church is misogynistic, but it has room for women who don’t want to marry and has a place for a small amount of feminine power. The church has been a force of European imperialism, but all Catholics are supposed to be equal and loving to each other so I was raised to think of myself as part of a global and interracial brotherhood. And that’s without touching on the catholic workers or the corporal works of mercy. Ritual, community, and an interrogated theology with an expectation of education in it also were immensely valuable in my opinion. It was also a link to my heritage and a reason to not let my family fully assimilate.

By contrast my cousins on both sides were protestants and on one side I suspect they were baptist adjacent (but like, my uncle drank) they were just weird about it. One cousin of a cousin asked my parents if he could court my sister when they were like 10, his brother was quiverfull, and their sister was interracially adopted and wound up pretty fucked up by growing up in that environment. And the other side definitely were baptists and the girls weren’t allowed to wear pants, they tried to force my cousin once removed to stay with her husband who beat her and her mom, and their preacher used my great grandma’s funeral as an opportunity to tell us Catholics we were going to hell as the real focus of the funeral (great grandma never willingly joined their religion).

So yeah I’ve got some opinions on baptists. My experiences with protestants in general is that even though there are good protestant sects, when I left catholicism the episcopals probably are where I should have wound up instead of as an atheist for a few years until I became pagan, it’s the way many protestant sects acted, especially towards Catholics that put me off of them as a whole.

Also you’ve got a lot going on at the time. Recovering from sexual violence can be an extremely long and difficult process and victims may want to just not see their attacker and try to put it past them at first

Clowns who think themselves Frederick Barbarossa

As someone who grew up catholic, I really don’t know how. Catholic school was very clear about how right wing populism in the US was frequently super anti catholic to the point of hate crimes. And it’s not like protestants are great at hiding the contempt

Yeah I got that from time to time growing up. And as mentioned elsewhere, treating Catholics as not really American. Also got called a devil worshipper about it sometimes.

I left the church over several fundamental issues including women’s rights and queer rights, but I’m still partial to it even though I’m pagan these days. I still can’t fucking stand Baptists.

I got so much bizarre shit from some protestants growing up catholic. That’s the sanest variant. There was also accusations of not being a Christian and of being a Satanist. Hell, I still occasionally hear protestants say Catholics aren’t Christians

“Mitre? Well then I just might”

Wow they’re really afraid of the pope

I’d probably just stay pagan

Also, the iron on mars is oxidized. That’s why it’s not the dark gray planet

Yeah, credit unions are awesome and anyone not in one in good standing should join one. This idea however is nuts

Ah I see the problem. Too low dose of atropa belladonna

It’s a dish meant for vibes based cooking

Yeah I’m at 9 if you follow Jewish rules of adultery (everyone was on board, but I have slept with people who are married to someone else). 8 if you don’t respect intellectual property. But also I’m a pagan, so these aren’t my religious rules.

Baphomet is commonly believed to be demonic in folk Christianity. If you want to be really annoyed read LaVey’s Infernal Names