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Anastasis

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  1. We never did the hard sell on Santa but all my kids still love to play along. Not sure where the youngest is at. He wrote a letter to Santa this year asking for a dog. I told him that Santa doesn’t traffic live animals. He responded “maybe mom will figure it out”. Little shit got a dog for Christmas.
  2. I’d love to see this perspective unpacked for us to discuss. Seriously.
  3. I am apparently occupying your dome space harder than Israel occupies the West Bank.
  4. That’s solid. Breakfast casseroles and Christmas are like hand and glove. French toast and breakfast sausage and egg casseroles here.
  5. Yeah, this wasn't exactly where I was going with expectation setting. Something something, look guys, most human beings have gag reflexes, and that is ok.
  6. US leadership on display. I guess the progressive caucus' influence really is shining through with the Biden administration. "Present". https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/un-security-council-acts-boost-aid-gaza-after-us-abstains-2023-12-22/ Amid global outrage over a rising Gaza death toll in 11 weeks of war between Israel and Hamas and a worsening humanitarian crisis in the Palestinian enclave, the U.S. abstained to allow the 15-member council to adopt a resolution drafted by the United Arab Emirates.
  7. Certainly not. The hippy stoner chicks were more my interest during the timeframes we are discussing.
  8. Don’t remember anything like a purity ball in 1990s Austin. And I went to HP for a portion of that time.
  9. Fair enough. There is a fairly narrow experience amplified here, funda/evangelical, 90s-2000s upbringing, etc.
  10. I mean, have you ever seen the cock on a horse? Bye bye Bernard’s asshole.
  11. I think that this sub is significantly over representative of people raised in evangelical/funda/conservative christian households, many in small-medium town texas. It's clear in many discussions, esp those where anything related to christianity is discussed, not just this one.
  12. Our girls, esp teenagers, are reporting very high rates (nearly 60% in some reports) of persistent sadness, loneliness, and despair. Those rates have been trending up, esp in the last decade or so. Also, very high rates of suicidality and forced sex and sexual violence. Obviously multi-factorial, lots of influences and factors at play. I think that some of the things being discussed here around healthy sexual relationships, pornography access, expectation setting, social media, etc. are playing a role at some meaningful level...man its a very different world compared to when most of us were growing up for teenagers, for both girls and boys. I don't think that a parent choosing to build messaging with their children around abstinence and marriage etc. is particularly toxic. I am unsurprised if some dipshit fundamentalists decide to drop in into a powerpoint slide deck and make a performative gesture out of the thing. That is kinda what they do.
  13. I told yall motherfuckers "moar lions" a long time ago. And ftr, SCOTUS is at least nominally vast majority catholic. I guess you got an anglican in there. The only real protestant is black. One jew at the moment. Wasn't there a discussion here in the past about the relationship between justices and faith traditions that have a strong canonical law history.
  14. Whatever description, it should include the word "performative".
  15. Yeah, I understand the messaging on abstinence. I don't have a problem with parents who choose to take that route. Signing abstinence commitments seems, well, masturbatory. Celebrating such commitments in a gala format? Well I am not even sure how to describe that one.
  16. Clearly one of the more pressing issues we face in the world today is the decade old abstinence promotion activities engaged in by the current SOTH with his adolescent children.
  17. No thank you. But if I did and I was with my family, pretty sure my boys would be laughing their ass off at the wording of purity "balls" and one of them would ask if there was a such thing as a "purity farts".
  18. Some subs more than others. Food and Travel and hobbies subs, for example, are nootropic.
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