AnalogyAddict @ AnalogyAddict @lemmy.world

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I agree. Leaving your stuff with someone is a thin thread of connection that can survive you. Rejecting stuff is rejecting that connection. So those of us who are younger need to find a replacement connection.

"I don't want the painting, but could you tell me some stories about your childhood while I record them?" Or "tell me about where you got those paintings?" Or "teach me to crochet/ garden/ make your secret recipe?"

It's easier to argue about something like translation than to think about what it is actually saying. Let alone try to apply it to yourself. Technically, if you live in the US, you're already "rich" comparatively. No one wants to give up what they have.

The only merit that I can see is that some people feel that gender should be nothing more than a description of biological or, at least, physiological sex.

It confuses me to no end that my very girly oldest child identifies male, especially since hearing them talk about it, it seems more a rejection of being seen as a sexual object than any desire to be a man.

If my kid wants to identify male while being born a girl and being super into makeup, dresses, and sparkle, and that helps them deal with their sexual abuse, more power to them. Even if it breaks my old person brain a little.

Nothing excuses hating someone or being angry because they disagree with you about the definition of gender. I mean, if a woman assaults another female person, the punishment should be the same, right? It's not like men can't go into women's bathrooms anyways if their mind is set on it.

This is why I didn't like Game of Thrones. There's no one to root for.

Everything, pretty much.

Trying to tell the world about life's greatest mystery is like trying to get them to eat salad without dressing. There's really no point or benefit to you.

I think men are as good at picking up on hints as anyone. I think their entitlement often leads them to ignore said hints, and then they try to cover their backsides by claiming ignorance.

My hobbies are making things, growing things, and learning things.

It's the only way I can keep it to only 3 hobbies.

I know I don't like mentioning my PTSD diagnosis because I feel like what I've been through shouldn't cause that.

Absolutely knitting or crocheting. It's very soothing.

I'm at church. Cue the hate.

People thinking Trump is a Christian symbol is the biggest con ever.

This hack has saved me many a minute.

They didn't have to do a study about this. I can prove it just by letting them get a whiff of my kids' room in the morning.

Hasn't that shark kind of jumped already?

Do you take your bribes in homemade baked goods?

This is an adult at university. One that is benefitting from crazy low subsidized tuition and signed a contract to cut his hair in order to get it. Hardly a child. And the church flat out said that parents should not punish children who don't choose to believe in their faith. There are plenty of problems with that church, making up stuff just distracts from the actual issues.

Apparently, I have more than you do. It's not hard to leave the Mormon church. As someone with family members in an actual cult, I find it very stupid to conflate the two. People leave that church every day with no more consequences than an extra measure of condescension from neighbors.

Not one penny less, no property taken. No threat to life. You water down the term "cult" by being so reactive about it.

Well, last time one was out, she ate a dozen cookies, half of which were oatmeal raisin. That was fun.

And by fun, I mean a nightmare.

For safety reasons, they sleep in their kennels, except for during the day when one sleeps in my room with her head under the bed, and the other in every possible spot of the house, but mostly the other one's kennel.