Greek WLW from the island of Lesbos must have such an easy time getting dates. I kinda feel bad for the cishet Lesbian men, though. But hey, they probably have some awesome jokes.
It's not just fundies who are homeschooling. A very well-loved (and very liberal) family friend of mine started a home-school co-op for her kids and their neighbors because they were seriously unimpressed with the district test scores in science and social studies. Her kids are intelligent, independent, well-adjusted, and well-read.
She did it because she lived in a red-state and wanted a modern, coherent, first-class education for her kids instead of theocratic indoctrination.
I'm sorry, serious or kidding, I can't get behind this. If and when they're conscious enough to understand hatred and cruelty, they'll realize they've been oppressed and exploited too. Is this how we're teaching a nascent sapiency how to be human? If it is, we suck at it.
I was vegan as a health necessity for a few years. I still prefer eating veggies wherever possible, but when I'm living in someone else's home and have to adhere to someone else's diet, it's not always possible.
Unfortunately, you hit the nail on the head there. When you're so used to having someone tell you what to do, for every little action from how to dress to how to speak, you become dependent on it for everything.
Source: Left a cult. Had to relearn 'good' and 'bad' in therapy.
The statistics presented here likely primarily include Mormons. Mormons, granted, tend to experience higher rates of senses of well-being due to thorough, lifelong conditioning into a religion that (to put it very very lightly) trains and encourages wishful thinking and group conformity to levels that would make a tankie blush.
Those who leave this religion (cult that has the all-time gold medal championship title in doublethink and mental gymnastics in archeology) tend to experience significantly higher rates of suicide, mortality, and depression.
The youth suicide rate alone shot up 192% from 2009 to 2014.
https://www.rationalfaiths.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/LGBTQStats-2.pdf
Speaking from personal experience, Utah is a theocracy, straight up. The church controls everything from the state congress to the real estate. They have loopholes in the department of education that allow ecclesiastical education at public schools. I'd know, I graduated from one.
Hair grows back. Pretty fast, actually. It is extremely cheap, you can do it in your own bathroom. There is virtually no long-term consequence to one's health in regards to doing crazy stuff with your hair. It's cathartic and rewarding, and a pretty awesome boost to your confidence to own your own body and identity to the point where you can walk around with brick-red liberty spikes.
Skin, bones, and facial features, however, are a very different story. That is expensive. And it doesn't fucking grow back.
Narcissists, Machiavellians, and megalomaniacs will always be what they are. But people who've been brainwashed literally don't know any better. I wish I could say it more kindly, but having been on the receiving end of a lifetime of indoctrination into something obviously stupid, I have some sympathy for the people who believed a liar.
I'm nearly 30 now, and our political and religious views are (as an understatement) wildly different in most respects. But I still love my dad, and I would do damn near anything for him. Because he did damn near anything for me.
Greek WLW from the island of Lesbos must have such an easy time getting dates. I kinda feel bad for the cishet Lesbian men, though. But hey, they probably have some awesome jokes.