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Bless you, Nightingale. You just keep recovering from Mormonism and being awesome.
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I know the Muslim scholars of Baghdad during the golden age of arabic science played with the camera obscura. It was probably through the Moors on the Iberian peninsula that this idea reentered western european consciousness like so much other knowledge about the lost classical world. I know the Dutch had a monopoly on the best glass lens technology for a long time. It’s suspected by some, but
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The Mormon church raised us to be “peculiar” or “set apart.” It taught us that other Christian churches were in fatal error and other religions just go down from there. It fostered a mentality in us that had us feeling more kinship with a fringe mountain sex cult more than any other group of human beings. We were prepared from the time we were young to hold opinions that most of the world
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If it's at all possible to give your children any measure of sustainable independence, that is the is the greatest gift you can give them.
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I was forced to go on a mission, and the entire time I was in denial about about the coercive dimension of it. Despite my anxiety, there was nothing to do but the work, and they made it easy: just follow all the rules. I learned how to teach or more specifically to articulate my thoughts in fine detail. The communities I've discovered call it "infodumping". I guess I learned a better wa
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The reason the merged all the different kinds of autism in one spectrum disorder is because there was too much overlap between them to bother drawing hard lines. I don't think it had anything to do with what the Nazi collaborator did. Lots of people still refer to themselves as Aspies in the internet communities I've discovered, and it is a name the public recognizes. Preference I guess.
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Summer, I'm looking for another job right now. I have a sub cert. I'm thinking about it. You once warned me against the profession, because you hadn't guessed just how much anxiety I deal with every day. That was back at the height of my dysfunction with my parents though. Would you still recommend I try something else? I'm reading a book series right now called Foreigner by CJ Cherryh. I
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I'm going to use words and concepts that have helped me explain this to other people in a way where they can imagine what it's like to have this condition. First, there is a thing called the NTnet. My whole life, it felt like everybody around me attended some seminar I missed and never even got the memo to attend. It felt like everybody around me was reading from a special set of notes only t
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Would you like to set your child up to fail? A proposition to parents from the church. Would you like to set your child up to fail?-- Not seriously enough to land in jail, But hard enough that his social perch Will always be the Mormon church. Tell him as soon as he can talk: The light of truth is our holy walk. Then don't tell him that you define The church itself as the Truth D
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Is a novel written by the same guy who wrote The Martian that they made into a Matt Damon film. It has the same kind of space survivorman sprinkled with humor feel to it, but this one gives a our hero an alien roommate to get to know. A lot of sci fi novels portray aliens as mystic, mysterious, almost magical. These aliens are behind humans in scientific progress but way better at math and st
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Refresh me on it.
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while it simultaneously guarantees gay marriage as a right in every state for people who are gay, they just can't force a church to wed them or a person who objects religiously to sell them cake or take their wedding photos and etc. It's not ideal, but when you think think about what happened to Roe and that this far right SCOTUS wants to axe Obergefell too, I would take this deal. With a Republi
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There’s hardly any mormonism in the book of mormon. The book does not teach a preexistence, the proxy work for the dead, or a three degrees of glory after the resurrection. The book teaches there is one God, namely that Jesus is both the father and the son, but the missionaries will tell you they believe the Godhead to be three separate beings and by implication three separate gods. Most of Mo
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is the closest you're gonna get. he's not a bad man at a purely interpersonal level. You'd probably like him... until the parts I mentioned rear their heads. He'd bring them up himself eventually: you just have to establish his trust first and then he couldn't help but try to proselyte you into all his gospel truths, not just Mormonism. If you were hammered but could keep a straight face the whol
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On election day, I showed up at the church down the street to cast my vote. The poll workers were having some issues getting the counting machines to accept the ballots. We learned later that the printers were not printing the right shade of ink on the ballots for some reason or something like that. But, given the theme of election rigging since 2020, it made a lot of voters nervous. The man i
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I wanna apologize to Lot's Wife, Summer, and some others for being a rude pos some months ago over an issue that shall not be mentioned. But I wanna talk about some progress I noticed today on the subjects I have been posting about for 8 years-ish. Something small, but something welcome. My self-image is healing. What is this? Your self-image is the third person view you have of your
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For starters, I have two diagnoses that have tinted my experience. I found out about ADHD at 26 and ASD level 1 at 32. I like talking about them, because the church does not get to tell my story for me or even tell me what it means after they humor me. Because the church is wrong, dead wrong, provably wrong, like the-only-reason-its-still-around-is-because-its-a-cult wrong. And after
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I have no idea what to believe about the sars-cov-2 virus anymore. There has never been a pathogen more politically charged in every conversation I have about it.
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to prove how American the church was? I think about the advert for BYU "where no flag burns." That must have been a huge part of the timing.
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I couldn't square the fact that I was abused over "self-abuse" for years and suffered in horrible subjective social isolation over it for years but Smith not only gets to satisfy himself whenever he wants but furthermore and to my horror use the authority of his office to press innocents into servicing him thinking its God's will. I cannot wrap my brain around the fact that this is hist
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bouncing your signal around multiple servers so that your internet activity looks like someone else's computer. It helps protect your privacy online.
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silent prayer: not working vocal prayer: not working writing name on piece of paper for ritualistic bulk prayer in God's boring playboy mansion: that'll do it.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/07/climate/salt-lake-city-climate-disaster.html
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The church has had to admit this. They wrote a "gospel topics" little thing about it and everything. The plates were never there during the translation process, and it is very possible that the same group superstition that Smith gamed to make money diggers enthusiastic to find his pretend buried treasure and even make up details for him was the same he used on his family and on the Whit
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https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2022/09/full-speech-jacinda-ardern-addresses-un-general-assembly.html She represents the culture and language of the first peoples of New Zealand to the UN first and foremost, and she refers to New Zealand as "Aotearoa New Zealand". Ay-oh-tay-arh-oh-ah? It's a speech about the Russian aggression in Ukraine and the threat of nuclear weap
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crayfish (n.) "small, freshwater lobster," early 14c., crevis, from Old French crevice, escrevice "crayfish" (13c., Modern French écrevisse), probably from Frankish *krebitja or a similar Germanic word that is a diminutive form of the root of crab (n.1); compare Old High German krebiz "crab, shellfish," German Krebs. Modern spelling is established from 16c., a fo
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I'll have to read that one.
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"The responses also exposed deep generational divides: A majority of Americans born before 1964 who responded to the poll said they support declaring the U.S. a Christian nation, while just a quarter of millenials and 34 percent of Gen Z respondents said the same." I find it very interesting that Gen Z is a whole 9 points higher than my generation. Why is that? How did that happen?
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What is a white hole? well, maybe this universe we live in is a white hole. Maybe that's how it was born: down a black hole in a universe one tier up from this one. IF this is so, a black hole would suck in information, break it down to its constituent wave-function virtual particles and energy, and then spit it out in a space-time pocket separate from the rest of the afore-mentioned universe. An
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