The only difference between religions and cults is the size.
LillyPip
joined 2 years ago
Oh good lord no.
Those are almost universally built on religion, and most are very cult-like. If that’s your take on them, I suspect you haven’t had more than a superficial interaction with them.
Ha. Asking a fascist to resign for fascist action in a fascist government. I mean, worth a try, right?
Wish in one hand…
I hitchhiked around the southern US for a while in the late ‘80s and, as a small blonde-haired, blue-eyed white girl, you wouldn’t believe what southern white guys were willing to say in front of me. It was appalling.
Ever since trump started gaining popularity, it’s all been very familiar. ‘Oh, you call everyone you don’t like racist’ – no, I call racists racist, and if this offends you, fucking check yourself. It’s not hard to respect people, and it’s not hard to not be a bigot. Just respect people, simple as.
Is it hurting you that people are gay? No. Does it impact your life that someone you’ve not even met is trans? No. So shut the fuck up and mind your own. Lord knows your own house could use some intellectual maintenance. Maybe attend to that before throwing shit at others.
He does, but anyone following illegal orders doesn’t. Sure, he could pardon them, but only after a long, expensive, and potentially life-changing legal battle after which they’re convicted.
That doesn’t sound like a fight most regular troops should want to gamble on.
That was the subject of the entire discussion: the original question was about whether ladies in the late 1800s took naps in the middle of parties, and if so, if that was because they wore corsets.
(e: they didn’t and it wasn’t.)
That’s fair, but this was my area of expertise, where I had more than 20 years of academic and practical experience. Please see my other comment in this post for how ridiculous this particular thread became.
I get you, and I totally agree. It did get rather insane, though.
e: given their crazy-high standards, perhaps I should take it as a feather in my cap that it was ultimately approved. I was definitely not going to try again, though. It would be easier to publish a scientific paper for peer review, because at least there’s consistency there.
One example:
User:
I'm confused.
First of all, we value the work /u/LillyPip put into their answer and we approved it after they expanded on the original comment.
Was it approved and then disapproved again?’
Mod:
It was. Later debate among the moderators led to it being removed again, because we feel that while it's a solid answer, it needed more work to be a good explanation of the depth and complexity of the situation: a scene in a 19th-century-set American-Civil-War-era novel (which uses characteristics of surreal overemphasis and wealth as literary technique), written by an early twentieth-century writer, which gives two different time periods' contexts of gender behaviour and racism to work with.
Like, how do you even conform to that?
The Reddit mods have always been delusional.
Oh my god, thank you!
My point was the drama, which was removed from the official thread. And in this link, you can see how much was removed.
Thanks so much!
I just reread the original Reddit post, and they’ve hidden all of the mod responses from me. It’s weird. Give me a minute, I’m trying to find a way to show the original thread ….
What I was trying to show was the censorship that happened even before the latest censorship, plus the mod drama, but it’s apparently harder than I thought.
None of the ways I used to know work anymore.
In nature docs, outsider males usually kill cubs. Simba was often fucking about off by himself when shit went down. He knew the lore, and how to antagonise his uncle. Coy beneficent my foot.
Some, sure. Most, no.
Atheism is simply the state of nonbelief in a deity. It requires no declaration nor even conscious thought. I don’t believe in leprechauns, but I don’t belong to an anti-leprechaun cult.
e: you’re likely atheist about Ra, Thor, Sheba, and Quetzalcoatl, right? Most atheists feel the same about Yahweh, and aren’t likely to bring it up unless you do. Most will even hold out for dozens or hundreds of times. Many Christians seem oblivious to how often they reference their religion in casual conversation. Often, Atheists only have to say it once.