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@ deacon @lemmy.world

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15h ago

Flying Spaghetti Monster
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Deacon @lemmy.world 15h ago
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?

18h ago

Flying Spaghetti Monster

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Deacon @lemmy.world 18h ago

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

1d ago

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

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Deacon @lemmy.world 1d ago

Man. Winning rules.

2d ago

Waffle House bans Florida candidate for governor, he says

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Deacon @lemmy.world 2d ago

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

2d ago

What are your views on homeschooling?

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Deacon @lemmy.world 2d ago

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.

3d ago

strictly enforced

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Deacon @lemmy.world 3d ago

She caresses his waddles

3d ago

Prepared for this day

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Deacon @lemmy.world 3d ago

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

3d ago

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

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Deacon @lemmy.world 3d ago

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?

3d ago

Waffle House bans Florida candidate for governor, he says

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Deacon @lemmy.world 3d ago

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

3d ago

The children murdered by the Epstein coalition in Iran so far

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Deacon @lemmy.world 3d ago

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

3d ago

What are your views on homeschooling?

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Deacon @lemmy.world 3d ago

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.

3d ago

What are your views on homeschooling?

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Deacon @lemmy.world 3d ago

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

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
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
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

3d ago

Prepared for this day

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Deacon @lemmy.world 3d ago

I had a moment of validation almost identical to this and it was just as satisfying as you would imagine.

3d ago

US immigration authorities arrest Spanish-language news reporter in Tennessee

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Deacon @lemmy.world 3d ago

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

Let’s not rush to judgement about the actions of an illegal fascist paramilitary gang until all of the facts are in, okay?

3d ago

Breaking news;

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Deacon @lemmy.world 3d ago

Cats are perpetually one moment of disinterest away from just sauntering off from whatever to whatever else.

3d ago

Senator Jon Husted can't leave D.C. to testify in public corruption trial in Ohio due to the "Iran war," defense attorneys said. He did find time to return to Ohio to attend a fundraiser

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Deacon @lemmy.world 3d ago

Man, I love reporters like this. Not even a comment either way on the quality of this specific reporting, but the first-person, openly adversarial but not hostile, “the people want to know” style of reporting is what we need more of. And it is fast disappearing with the general Bezos-Ization of news in America.

4d ago

Trump shrugs off rising gas prices to reporters – ‘If they rise, they rise’

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Deacon @lemmy.world 4d ago

Username too apt.

4d ago

What is a belief you’ve done a total 180 on?

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Deacon @lemmy.world 4d ago

So many of them. So, so many.

Maybe the only one I’ve kept perfectly intact is my belief that the golden rule is prime.

I was raised a young earth creationist, picketed abortion clinics when I was elementary school aged but don’t worry I was home schooled from kindergarten through high school. Was basically a republican/libertarian until about 2015 when my spiritual leaders, including and especially my parents, began to compromise all of their values.

More recently, probably even until 2020, I viewed myself as an aspiring centrist.

Now I’m an agnostic atheist who is seeing how far left the political spectrum goes, and I still think centrism is a nice idea, in a totally different world than the one we live in, with a totally different meaning to “center”.

Here is the thing I should disclose though, because I suspect it applies to a lot of things.

I was raised steeped in a level of bigotry that was all-encompassing but cloaked in Christian love.

I have intellectually separated myself from that bigotry, but I believe I still have instinctive/subconscious/unidentified bigotries to work through.

I am trying to be very conscious of that as I make my way in the world, trying to love my neighbor as myself, and trying to continuously expand the definition of “neighbor”.