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Deacon

@ deacon @lemmy.world

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  • Fascism bad.

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  • Trust me, the more explorations I do on the nature of consciousness, the more I wrestle with all of that.

    I don’t believe that it is inherently wrong to kill in order to eat. But as a species we don’t. Which isn’t to say there aren’t members of our species who very much do still need to kill to eat.

    But I don’t need to kill to eat, and I’ve outsourced that killing so it feels like more of an abstraction than it is. I can at the very least acknowledge this.

  • Thanks for asking...

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  • I haven’t either but I do find myself having to master the urge more and more.

  • Fascism bad.

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  • Veganism is my unattended moral compromise. I am positive that future generations will look at us and our factory farming and, aghast, see us as the monsters as we are - much like we look back at slaveowners, even those who were against the institution at the time.

    Since I am not living in or near the wild and not hunting for my own food, it is clear to me that veganism is the only real moral choice, and yet I still participate.

    I am complicit in this delightful supreme pizza and complicit in this breaded chicken sandwich.

  • Meirl

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  • You know what, you’re right.

  • spoopy figs

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  • This actually explains the infamous Fig Newton Debacle of ‘92, which my extended family is still divided over.

  • Democrats vow to shut down Senate over Iran conflict

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  • Today’s democrats are basically where 2004 republicans were and we’re supposed to be excited about them winning somehow. Fucking overton window.

  • Meirl

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  • Some things are good habits whether they are strictly necessary or not. Like looking both ways or signaling your turn or punching nazis.

  • Flying Spaghetti Monster

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  • I don’t understand, are you basing your critiques of the openly fake religion solely on this 20 year old article or is that supposed to mean something else?

    Is your critique of their views on women based on the quote about strippers? If so I do find that odd since women aren’t mentioned at all. Is there an assumption at work on your part that stripper = woman?

    I’m keen to know more about your critique, and I’d love to hear your critiques of all the other similarly fake religions.

    One more question if you’ll entertain it: What do you think is the most harmful doctrine of Rastafarianism and what do you think is the most harmful doctrine of your religion?

  • Flying Spaghetti Monster

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  • I am a pastafarian minister, should anyone be in need of services

  • U.S. orders staff to leave Saudi Arabia as Iran war spreads and oil surges above $110

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  • Man. Winning rules.

  • Waffle House bans Florida candidate for governor, he says

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  • Does he have spiky hair, a big personality, and an even bigger heart?

  • What are your views on homeschooling?

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  • Actually thank you for the question. I’m still processing a lot of this stuff so in many ways writing it out ended up being to my benefit more than yours.

  • strictly enforced

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  • She caresses his waddles

  • Prepared for this day

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  • Same but it only needed to happen once to make me feel I’d validated my entire collection.

  • ‘We were ready’: Democratic attorneys general lead fight to stop Trump

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  • This could be directed at almost any group of people in the context of almost anything that happened in 2016. Can you be a bit more specific?

  • Waffle House bans Florida candidate for governor, he says

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  • Yes, I agree with your definition. I think it aspires to evoke a greasy spoon but is corporate

  • The children murdered by the Epstein coalition in Iran so far

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  • If anyone has seen a higher res version of this I would appreciate it.

  • What are your views on homeschooling?

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  • I had very similar experiences. Let me know if you ever want to talk about it, but I’m also unsociable so I will understand perfectly if you never do, and may even be relieved.

    You get it.

  • What are your views on homeschooling?

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  • I was homeschooled K-12 and never went to college, so home school is literally all I know and I have thoughts.

    1. Motivation matters - I was home schooled for religious reasons by parents who were themselves educated but wholly unqualified to teach a single child much less 4 kids. They homeschooled us primarily to avoid the indoctrination of the secular world, where the lies of evolution and gay baby killers reigned supreme. Thus, I was not well educated and didn’t realize it until I got into the work force. I have been battling crippling imposter syndrome ever since I realized how deficient my education was - I’m still in the process of understanding the scope of that deficiency
    2. oversight is not optional. In my situation, we were homeschooled without any government involvement or oversight in any way. My parents told me at the time that this was how the laws in my state worked but they also told me to stay away from Truant Officers so I think they were lying. I had no sense of equivalency or where I stood compared to my peers until I was in the process of testing out to get my GED (because weirdly, prospective employees weren’t keen to accept the “diploma” my dad had printed from MS Word) that I saw my percentile rank in various subject
    3. Unless you are an educator, don’t try to run a curriculum. If you’re going to homeschool, pay a tutor. If you can’t pay a tutor, probably don’t home school

    I know that last bit sounds extreme and I don’t think my home school experience is typical so take it with a grain of salt.

    Edit: none of this even addresses the social impacts, which are intense if not mitigated with a lot of sports and group activities, etc

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    Rocky insists on taking charge of the playlist.

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    We call her Honey Pie, but her name is definitely Wild Honey Pie

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    Gus is a loner by nature, but all the cats love little Artie so he's allowed to join the perch

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    Back when we thought Penny might be shy

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    My perfect darling Honey Pie, at 6 weeks old and the beginning of what would be my biggest foster fail

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    Coziness is...

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    She's such a little lady

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    Artie uses his tail to balance beautifully in the snow

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    What is the charge? Stealing a pie? A succulent chocolate pie?

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    My differently perfect baby goes anywhere she wants, and is beautiful wherever she goes

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    Artie knows how to relax

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    Artie the tripod makes his first foray out of doors

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    Does anyone have any advice on the care and feeding of a two-headed cat?

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    We weren't wrestling, we were just snuggling vigorously

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    Littermate cuddle time

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    Penny and Rocky watch from their perches

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    Quit distracting me, Dad, can't you see I'm hunting these birds?

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    A Sunday morning gathering

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    I suppose I can always put the suitcase away later

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    My floofy void, Max