Birdie @ Birdie @thelemmy.club

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Have you read any holy books? They're filled with god-ordained killings.

I guess if we want to be respectful to religion, we should stone him and the preacher can get as close as he wants. I bet he wouldn't have a problem standing at a distance in that scenario.

I wouldn't have any questions, just immediate concern.

I'd start looking for the nearest mental health facility and check myself in due to having visual and auditory hallucinations.

There is no devil.

My dad died in his late 80s of Parkinson's. For at least a decade before his diagnosis he'd tell me that everyday when he woke up, he'd lost another piece of himself. He went from an active man in his early to mid 70s--he rode his bike 25 miles a day and weight lifted--to a shadow of himself very quickly.

It was tough to watch, and so much tougher for him facing loss after loss of his abilities. He spoke several times of "releasing" himself, but ultimately decided not to do it.

We are living longer, but that isn't always to our benefit.

My great great grandfather fought in the civil war, my great grandfathers and great uncles fought in the World Wars, one of them in the Battle of the Bulge; my dad was a medic in Korea, my brother was in Afghanistan...there is absolutely nothing about the inhumanity of war that I would not believe.

To disbelieve any of them is to disbelieve reality.

I'm in Louisiana, and I think the number CAN be that high.

My initial reaction is "What the fuck?" but then it kind of settles into "what the fuck?"

Jesus Pete, Murica, WHAT THE FUCK??

Are you on any meds? I was once taking a medication (an NSAID) that caused excessive sweating, and it took me longer than I'd like to admit that my new med and my sweaty head were related.

My momma used to say that if you can smell yourself, other people have been smelling you for days.

Don't know what your issues are, but I have aquagenic urticaria. There are waterless, alcohol based 'soaps' that I rely on heavily.

And have you noticed how whatever God told them is almost always for their own personal benefit? It's almost never to give away or sell everything they own and distribute it to the poor.

It's almost like they are thinking these things up all on their own, lol.

One of my DILs is a woman of color. She was in so much pain but got turned away from two emergency rooms because they labeled her as seeking opioids. Luckily we were able to drive her to a hospital in a nearby town that took her seriously. She had an ovarian torsion. It was quite serious and getting worse by the minute. Thank God for the ER doc at that hospital, who happened to be a woman of color herself.

Off the main topic, but those insurance companies, fuck those people. My doctor is having so much trouble getting a pre-authorization for a medication that I truly need. We've been going in circles for weeks. I'm allergic to one of the ingredients in the cheaper meds and they still want me to rule those out first. Maybe it's just me, but I don't like it when my throat swells shut.

Every time my Drs office calls them, it's like we are starting over from scratch.

I honestly don't know how those people sleep at night.

He absolutely has read his Bible. He has said the Bible is his worldview. He believes that his interpretation of the Bible is the only correct interpretation and he will never compromise on that, because he is a "true believer".

Moses spoke directly to God and told everyone else what God had said...and Johnson seems to follow that pattern exactly. He thinks God raised him up to "part the sea" between the Biblical Republic sect from the more middle of the road Republicans and of course from the sinful Democrats. He truly wants to use his beliefs to reform our society; he is a religious zealot.

That has made him much more dangerous to the US than Trump.

I mean, it's in the article. This pregnancy, which will not survive, has a significant chance of destroying any chance that she can ever carry another pregnancy if allowed to come to term.

To preserve her ability to carry another healthy pregnancy to term, this one must be terminated.

Doctors do things every day to prevent serious harm later and this should not be a situation that demands a woman and her doctor to freaking BEG a judge for permission to be able to follow the medical recommendation.

Texas judge grants permission for woman to access healthcare.

That's what really happened.

Gotcha and totally agree. I'm sorry I misunderstood your point.

We need to quit judging women on their looks. Judge her on her policies.

How about bone broth?

My 95 year old mom lives in an assisted living facility. She's in a 1 bed, 2 bath apt with a kitchen and living area. Her utilities and meals are paid for. Her rent is over $6k a month, and she's still fairly independent. She's in her right mind--no dementia at all. She can bathe and dress herself, get herself to the bathroom, get herself into and out of bed, can walk without assistance and handles her own meds.

Once she needs assistance with any of the above, her rent goes up by $1k a month.

She just got a complete health workup, and they gave her a life prediction of 10 years. (Her mom and aunts/uncles all lived to be at least 104.)

Luckily, my dad left her with a sizable amount of money and income from SS and some annuities, but if she does live 10 more years, those annuities will be depleted and so will her savings. She will not be able to afford to stay; SS will never cover her rent.

It keeps me up at night. We are already paying for half my MIL's assisted living. How will we ever afford to help both?

It's terrible to find yourself hoping your mom doesn't outlive her money.

There's plenty we can do. Don't give your money/tithes to churches who support Christian nationalism. Don't attend those churches. Call out their false beliefs. Don't vote for people who support Christian nationalism. Get it through the minds of Christians that their personal religious beliefs don't get to be used to control the rest of the population.

If y'all sit on your asses waiting for the 2nd coming (something that was supposed to happen before Jesus' contemporary generation died) then YOU are the problem.

The bats would miss them.

Any change to the biodiversity on our planet will have a negative effect. What is a pest to you is food for another species, or a pollinator, or any of dozens of valuable purposes.