It's like those stories where someone thinks a change of scenery will fix all their problems but they just bring all their inner demons to the new place. For some people it's the need to correct some number of people every day. For me it's scrolling too much and looking for drama and hot goss

Here's my theory on the increase in pedantry on here: a certain type of person must correct X number of people each day to ward off insecurities. On Twitter you could usually easily find like a racist or wild main character and meet quota. On here there are slimmer pickins and you must stretch more

I think the weirdest splinter sects of protestants are very scary people but don't have very scary supernatural beliefs, but the weirdest theological outliers in Catholicism have some material that fantasy writers drool over

I think there's something to be explored in how Catholicism deals in sin and guilt, obviously often in ways that are unhealthy for many people, but then the prosperity segment of mystical evangelicalism deals in success and failure. The worst crime isn't being a sinner but being a loser

Catholicism is really big and there are different groups that believe different amounts in the mystic and supernatural, just like most protestant denominations don't believe in anything mystical, while pentecostals and others add on a lot of spirit lore. Every umbrella religion has sort of fan EUs

It makes a lot more sense if you realize the person doesn't see themselves as inconsistent for lecturing other people that they should be more extreme in their protesting while not protesting at all themselves, because they are a devoted FAN of people who are extreme. 12th man is part of the team

It's bizarre seeing people online who don't seem to be doing anything at all scolding people who do something for not doing enough until you realize it's the same mechanics as sports fandom where if your team's players wreck their bodies to win a game you brag "we" won, and crow over the losers

It would be cool if the protest frog enabled us to take frog symbolism back from the online far right, frogs are pretty cool

No I think he was just saying that Taft was so big that when he stands in a position around presidents ranked 9-12, he stands in a position AROUND presidents ranked 9-12

It's just the wrong belief system to write in a plot point where a person in a forbidden seance has guilty dark secrets so you accidentally open a gate to hell. I don't think it's as scary if you didn't really feel it when you raised your hands during a praise song so you don't get an A on your test

Mystic-leaning evangelicals believe in like demons and evil spirits but they're mostly responsible for making your business not succeed or for making your child dye their hair blue and not anything really dangerous. If a ritual goes wrong you just don't get what you asked for but nothing bad happens

Thinking about how Catholicism makes for good horror movies because it has beliefs in rituals that really affect the spirit world, but so do pentecostals, which don't make good horror. Part of it is their supernatural rituals are too goofy but I think it's more they are claimed to never go wrong

The hills are alive with the

Not usually what I picture when I hear "One-Winged Angel" playing

I knew a guy that said he was too rational to be able to believe in God (fine, no problem) and then he said that he knew he would live until at least 70 because a fortune teller told him

Most parents: (marveling wordlessly at a new life that is in one sense half you and half your partner, but in another sense a wholly new being the universe has never seen before, and the boundless possibilities of who they could become, what they might see)

Musk: lol I hope I this clone works

"spamming of children" is the best phrase I've seen to describe Musk's approach to what should be one of the most vulnerable, precious, and wondrous mysteries of being human

Movies often make that guy sympathetic and imply all his complaints are correct and all his tactics are justified so I was pleasantly surprised that Megamind has a Nice Guy as the real villain

Really does feel like a bad move to come into a thread where someone says "it's ok to block people for being annoying" and be annoying

For those who weren't online enough to remember Nice Guys it doesn't mean guys that are nice, it means guys that claim they "did everything right" and "were nice" but can't get a girl so they decided to hate all women and take it by force or deception

Maybe they don't want me in their space because I did something harmful. Maybe they just don't like my sense of humor. Maybe they just want a space for their group or culture. Good for them! Protect your peace!

Couldn't not block the guy in yellow after all that. It was just the funniest thing to do

It really hurts when someone tells you you're boring or doesn't want to read stuff you wrote but I think this is actually a much worse fate

He looks like he's apologizing?