I respect that a lot and have somewhat similar beliefs. I follow Marcus Aurelius’s beliefs on the morality of the divine: I will live a life striving for morality, thinking for myself, judging for myself, and struggling against the difficulty of putting beliefs into practice, and if the divine and I find ourselves in disharmony of right and wrong then it will have to convince me that I’m the one who’s wrong.

I will note that I think a lot of people really miss the point of meat on Fridays. It’s supposed to be a mild fast, and back in the day Catholics were supposed to fully fast on Fridays in lent. But yeah I feel like a lot of people get the rituals and morality mixed up. Yeah you’re supposed to fast when you’re supposed to fast, it should be an act of humility and self control, but the real sin isn’t when you eat when you’re not supposed to, but when you don’t feed your neighbor when you are supposed to. The rituals and lesser rules are supposed to keep your mind focused on the parts of the religion that make you a better person.

I simply hope that the face divinity shows me in the end is that of my patron goddess. Not because I cannot explain my actions to other deities, even the Christian god, but because she’s the aspect of divinity I most resonate with and understand.

Yeah I’m crashing Franco’s plane

Do you think this man has ever requested information about strategic objectives? Supply lines? Cost benefit analysis? Of course not, he wants to watch big explosions that make him feel strong in the hopes that Iran’s government will pay him personally tribute and offer themselves up to be tortured by him because he’s so strong.

He doesn’t understand war.

As an ex Christian pagan, I suspect you’ve come closer than many. There’s a saying that there are many paths up the mountain. I feel that heresy often just means thinking for yourself. I’m not saying to throw away theological rigor, the opposite actually, one should analyze one’s religion through the lens of thought and conscience. You’re doing well for yourself there, good job.

Yes, I’ve met my parents. The latter being deaf didn’t sway the former’s opinions

I firmly support mail in voting. I only do it when it’s the only option, but that’s because I came to the pacific northwest from somewhere where when you want to vote but are busy on election day you show up a Saturday or two early at a significantly less convenient polling place. Mail in voting was seen as for the very ill there. Also because I don’t trust the feds to not fuck with the mail in votes at the moment

Most likely a mad struggle for power among those in his circle alongside a struggle to be seen as the heir. Vance has an advantage here, but you can see other players making their moves including Greene. Had Kirk been alive he honestly might’ve been my dark horse bet. But if nobody wins a sufficient coalition then everyone loses. Some of the ideas will remain, but mostly the energized masses return to how they were before him or they’ll split into their feuding factions where the San Francisco technofascists and the Midwesterners who hate change and the southerners who just hate everyone different from them are all back at each other’s throats and all are disgusted with Nick Fuentes

USA

That sounds about right. Running an organization for kids and teens is always going to be either an eternal battle to keep pedos out or the creation of a den of pedos. I’ve got no judgment for orgs that fight that battle sincerely, and understand that sometimes they’ll fail, but any that don’t fight that battle are going to leave me suspicious of the leadership’s motivation, even though it’s damning regardless.

Oh wow, that’s what not enforcing anti trust law does to a country

Claiming Charlie Kirk had respect for everyone lol.

But also, I am surprised that an old right wing man attributed with so much advancement of cheerleading actually had been a cheerleader himself. Good for him I guess, I really went in expecting something else. Though, I do have serious concerns with the sport in the same way I have them for gridiron football, both are really fucking dangerous sports to have high schoolers do.

Lucky you, in my country the boomers are still fighting over the government with the silent generation. The latter of which is barely still alive

I enjoy them. If you have a family history of psychosis though stay away. Acid is the same

In theory, but the house wants to live above religious laws and the clerics want no limits. They’re allied because neither alone can have all they want, but both do resent the other forcing them to only have some of what they want

You gotta remember how dumb some folks are

I was only mildly feeling it, but yeah that sounds like what a lot too much would feel like. Definitely interesting feeling, I get why people might reach that point for the novelty. Kinda like a weed body high with a clearish mind from what I remember

If the house of saud could maintain their power without the clerics you bet your ass they would. The clerics are an allied power who could turn against them if they got out of line.

Yeah my wife teases me about the things I say when I fall asleep in the wrong place and she’s trying to move me to the bed. Among them is “you’re not my wife”. I also apparently am regularly confused when she comes to bed after I fall asleep, despite us sharing a bed nearly every night since before the pandemic.

Yeah they think Jesus came to America and native Americans are Israelites. The book of Mormon is wild

If unflavored sugar pills taste bad then estradiol tastes weirdly good. I’d just assumed it was the sugar