Do you filter keywords? I filter a lot of keywords, so now my feed is a lot quieter because of it. It’s also a lot nicer, and I don’t spend as much time on here as I used to.

And don’t worry, you’ll find some other new way to procrastinate. 🤣

The ribbons over the left side of the chest are for achievements/awards and combat deployments he has had during his service.

I would like to have a genuine conversation with you about your take. What happened to you in the last two years that had you about-face on your (lack of) faith?

I used to be religious growing up (it was a familial expectation). Then I kinda half-heartedly gave up, and I became agnostic. Eventually I decided that there is no God as we know it, but I do not deny the idea that there was some greater hand at play in our existence as a species.

Things do feel a little too coincidental to simply be random. For existence, our existence in general: the earth had to form in just the right place in space, and the temperature and oxygen levels had to level out to a specific point for humanoids to form and grow.

I know that can all be explained by science, and I am not disputing any science. But that’s my anecdotal opinion on why I feel there is something/someone out there bigger than us (but not a God).

Like I said, I’m genuinely curious on your take.

So, you can say, it’s something else? 🤔

None of what you said makes any sense.

This is the equivalent of an anti-vaxxer denouncing vaccines because they feel that their herbs are close enough to real medicine. 🤦‍♂️

Don’t do that. Syntax absolutely matters.

That’s not JSON. Note the use of equal signs for the property names. That’s something else.

Op said that.

palm-sized device that represents access to what is essentially the complete compiled knowledge of humanity

See?

Don’t do it. Just don’t. There’s too much spam and ads out there already.

You’re tight. I was referring to how even sparkling water is bad for you.

Goddamnit. Why is it that everything enjoyable is bad for you? 😡

Who knows why we start doing things. But lucky for our ancestors, silver is a good antibacterial.

As for “modern”, piercings have been around in modern times just as much as historical. You may have grown up and/or live in a more conservative (i.e. puritanical) area where it’s less common.

This right here. Constantly nagging them about something they are ashamed of will only make them more resistant to help.

Yes, you are right that we all should have been up in arms sooner, but we weren’t. It sucks. And here we are now, fighting the same fight; can we all agree who the real enemy is and focus on that for the moment?

What is it you would like us to say?

Translation: drinking straight from a bottle of Jack Daniels, and chasing it with coke (not the soft drink).

Old really is how you feel. I feel old now (48, going on 49), but only because of how my life turned out and certain events that I have to deal with (divorce, single fatherhood, getting colonoscopies, etc) by myself. I certainly don’t have as much fun as I used to, and that definitely plays a huge part in feeling old.

All that to say that if your dad is having fun, “not acting his age”, then good for him! I hope he gets many more years of that before shit has to get serious.

To directly answer your question: a 36-old is supposed to act however they want to (within moral reason of course), so long as they and the people around them are enjoying it.

See, there’s this cool thing called inference & imagination where we make educated guesses of someone’s thought based on their output. Maybe try acquiring an imagination?

Wow. Just wow. Do you even hear yourself when you say shit like that? That I should just make up my own reasoning for the things people say? Did you really just suggest that? Because where I come from we have those people, and they’re fucking everything up for everyone because they think like you. You need to stop and really think about what you said.

I just wanted to let you know that you’re not alone, and while it never fully goes away, it can get better over time. Shit like this sucks, and what you’re going through is normal; i.e. there is nothing wrong with you.

Keep doing what you’re doing. You got this!

Funny. I thought it was you who said:

I guess the joke is “stupid atheists want everyone to accept their weirdness but they cannot handle someone having a nice innocent lovely religion” or something.

So what is so nice and lovely about Christianity?

~You know, the quaint religion that celebrates, and adorns effigies of, murdering the son of their God and claiming that said murder will save their souls from punishment for their sins (such as murder).~