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[–] don@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago

True, but it’s good to have options.

[–] don@lemmy.ca 33 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Good point, kid, and here’s another one: those toys you want me to buy you are a social construct. Playtime? Yep. Social construct. Shall I keep going? Video games are next.

[–] don@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago

I mean, she is highly venerated by the scientific community, such that her research is still kept around despite being highly radioactive. Also, she was a living human being, as opposed to, y’know, a comic book character.

[–] don@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

Skill issue. You’re just not sinning hard enough.

[–] don@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago

I would specify that the views and practices of modern religious have probably diverged to a very likely large extent from that of their founding predecessors, but I’d also imagine those same predecessors also used religion to justify their victim complexes and bigotries. The two groups, separated by many thousands of years, seem to have much the same underlying mentalities.

[–] don@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

There are very likely an alarming number of religious people who’d agree.

[–] don@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

Well, at least two Corinthians.

[–] don@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago

Many are born in the US, some walk or fly there.

[–] don@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

Yep, that’s the joke.

[–] don@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

Christians: wait no not like that~🥵~

[–] don@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

You can bet hard cash that there are an uncomfortable number of ignorant people who thoroughly believe that one isn’t born black, but becomes black through any one (or more) of a myriad of perplexing and completely irrational reasons.

[–] don@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

AA = Alcoholics Anonymous

NA = Narcotics Anonymous

Both are treatment programs for their respective addictions.

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