YappyMonotheist @ ArgumentativeMonotheist @lemmy.world

Trying my hardest to be civil in this uncivilised world.

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Emotion regulation? Attachment styles and the consequences of insecure attachment and childhood trauma? Epistemology and the illusion of certainty? Why Kierkegaard>Nietzsche (but you need to read both!)? Idk, depends on the kid and how much time we'd have, I guess. 😅

In earnest though, if there's one topic I think I have some data on that most will never have is on the two fundamental 'arguments' for not believing in God (one very flawed, the other not so much but lacking in weight and leaving you in an apparent 50/50). As someone who's been there but has made the crossing (or landed the jump, if you get the reference!), after years of bitterness and resentment towards ""Christianity"" in my early childhood and about 15 years of 'comfy agnosticism', I think I could explain to a child (maybe a young and precocious teen going through his first ideological crisis?) what's confusing them.

I once tried making caramel by microwaving sugar cubes though, maybe the child could teach me something back, lol.

Yeah. But also a quick test to see how far gone American society is: if the Dems get elected it means that, at least for the sake of optics and spin, morals play some sort of role still.

• China bad
• Islam bad and dumb
• Communism and socialism bad
• Capitalism good (and make sure you know NOTHING regarding economic theories!)
• Women dumb
• Non-Europeans (ethnically, and even then the Germanic tribes are at the top of the chain [Anglo-Saxons included, evidently]) bad and/or dumb
• Gays bad
• Christianity good (only when antithetical to the message of Jesus)
• (white) America good
• Israel good

Have I captured the essence of the 'classic' ignorant and angry white American? Honestly, it fits pretty well for FN and EDL dudes in France and the UK, respectively...

ingests 'facts' and narratives from seemingly different sources that just happen to be financially backed/owned by the same small group of people

no logical filtering or processing takes place before regurgitating them

"I'm a free thinker who does their own research!"

If you're a broke and amoral European lady with no interest in history, architecture or Islam and you tell me you're going to Dubai...

JD Vance!

Time.

As a kid I read Paulo Coelho's 'Veronika decides to die' and it kinda reframed some of my thinking. From what I recall, it's a very wholesome and light read!

Elon Musk fanboys?

Using? Human beings are social animals, just bringing your natural 'good vibes' is enough for most people to feel they've been 'repaid', lol. And you probably wouldn't but that just means that the world is a big place and that people have different interests. You wouldn't hang out with someone into sports, perhaps, but it doesn't mean they cannot be good people, right? Deeper connections just require more commonalities, of course.

I didn't understand the first part but depth/shallowness are 'hard labels' for something that exists as a spectrum, but it's a real one, not just one dependant on 'society'. Well, I think, at least.

"What you can offer" certainly includes the fruits/expressions of your personality, so I assume you mean either your money (if you're a dude) or your body (if you're a lady). The usual way has always been to interact thoroughly with the other person without giving much/any of these things and seeing where things are in some weeks/months time. "Making him wait", like grandma said. Some people are good liars and plan long-term but, except for these sociopaths, this method usually works.

Closeted fearful European supremacists, lol. So what if everyone who looks like you and is in power is a liar, a thief and often a sex-pest? Just disassociate from them and pick someone because of their character! :D

Morality and nobility have never known each other, friend.

You're disgusting. Probably a lovely person and all, but disgusting still. 🥲

The fuck? It's all you can eat for X dollars and I paid the fare, you should've factored fat fucks into your profit margins! I'd be so mad my murderous instincts would start creeping up... but that's nothing a couple of dumplings and cheap Napolitan ice-cream can't fix! 😅

I've always known they were bugs way, even before I actually learned about their classification in school. You can't fool my eyes! And, of course, I've never ordered or cooked it, and have always avoided it. Eating bugs is not for me, thank God, that's for my unlucky descendants. 😅

Either I skipped over the word 'trans' or it was added later on...

Enlighten me, Jack.

Short and badass... I'd sign the petition. 😅

This is getting out of hand and I like it.