Call me Lenny/Leni @ shinigamiookamiryuu @lemm.ee

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And you don't expect that to make you just seem defensive about radicalism, even at the cost of rationale?

I imagine it still would inspire equal caution, no? I know there are a lot of people from there who have had sympathies towards people who have recently become known for that (which no nation is really unique for right now). It has become so visibly precautionary that almost nobody shies away anymore from the urge to avoid them in their communities. As is how it should be.

I'll start with fellow followers of Christ and say a lot of the ones I've met aren't as easygoing as would be stereotypical. Now you might read the Bible (or the Book of Mormon, or the Book of Hagoth; I have 'em all) and think "hey that person over there is famous for their devotion, I'm going to strike a friendship" and then realize it's a lot closer to "stepping on eggshells" than you might think. Points to other Hagothists/Mormons though as they actually have been understanding people. Gossip, hate, whatever you want to call it, I'm no stranger to bearing witness to it, and you often wonder "wait, why are they involved in this". It's also complicated because, by the same token, they have positives like what we might call tolerance towards the LGBT, so there are other dimensions to it.

Technically not a "religion" per se, but the atheist situation strikes me as odd. It often seems like their attitude towards adherence to God is second-hand because what they'll say about God they'll never say about government, or they'll do it rarely. Everything to most of them considered "questionable" or "concerning" is only "questionable" or "concerning" when it involves divine authority. I have joked before that if climate change or Marxism was in the Bible, nobody would believe them.

I also noticed a lot of Buddhists couldn't quote sutras from the Tripitaka or don't follow them to an extent where the individuals are Buddhist-esque enough to rely on to be peaceful towards your dilemmas, almost as if it's for show. Heck, I'm not a Buddhist yet can quote sutras that aren't in the Tripitaka (because not all of them made into the final edition).

Aside from the usual ones (jaywalking in particular wouldn't be atypical), I technically broke every rule in school at least once (all except two exactly once). I say "technically" because the rule-enforcement format at my school tempted classmates to snitch on each other for the smallest things. Like, did I walk into class two seconds after the bell? Did I laugh too loudly at something a classmate did that wasn't supposed to get ridicule? Did I wear the wrong socks for my uniform (and yes it was the same uniform as you)? Anything like these would get you in trouble.

It was rumored that the moment I broke a rule more than once, I would face something more serious, like mandatory appointments or something. There were only two I broke twice. One of them was because, on one April Fool's Day, everyone wanted to pull one of those cheesy end-of-the-year-style pranks where everyone shows up in the uniform of another school, but people didn't get the memo on what uniform it was going to be, so when everyone came in that day, it looked like comic-con, and I went with a friend's (who went to another school with another uniform). The teachers just shook their head about that. The other rule I broke twice was exam cheating; first time got me caught, second time allowed me to graduate (and I didn't get caught for that, though I fear what would happen if it got out).

My most severe punishment from school and the only one I remember getting me an in-school suspension was when they asked me to help write the yearbook, and I got to the part where everyone played the "most likely to" game, and we had an entry put in as a form of dark humor (disclaimer, DON'T do this, I admit it currently but I would neither encourage it nor use the same humor today even though the same thing has happened before... also don't harm innocent people). I was in the in-school suspension for a day where they add suspenders to your uniform as their own cheesy cruel joke (their chosen mark of someone being suspended). Because the protocol works based on punishment escalation, any rule after that would've gotten me removed from the school, so it's a good thing they didn't catch me cheating on that test.

I have one some say is interesting.

There's this author I've enjoyed, in a way where you could call her an idol of mine. She wrote a few books I liked and I knew she went by a certain name and so I looked her up in a user directory based on this just as a way to entertain myself. Sent a request to be friends. The response was "request sent" and I was like "hehehehe, there's a really small chance that's her".

A week later I got a response and almost shat myself. But we talked and talked and soon she invited me to a few of her social circles. I accepted. And... one of them is a flat earther club.

I definitely don't mind and don't judge. We're still strong friends, we talk every day, and I'm a VIP in their social circle (I feel honored), but she's big on that stuff and there's a big discussion every now and then on the shape of the Earth, and it's an... interesting experience. So I just sit on the sidelines as the one woman who silently disagrees with the Earth being flat. It's concave.

Hospitals would be packed because those eggs need to be taken care of.

Spoken as if listening to yours doesn't just sound like someone who just wants to defend the recent anti-establishment sentiments from the one guy with some power to point out their questionable validity, as also shown by the fact I have obliged when previously asked the kinds of you are asking now, which would make me the one who isn't a simp.

The fucking amphibians that crawled out of the ocean are intelligent enough

Rule of thumb, if it comes from the ocean, it's not an amphibian, as they are 100% freshwater creatures, something even amphibians that come out of Lake Champlain here know. The fact you are comparing my intelligence to something which makes us all question what planet you are from (in a place where everyone else is down to Earth) as an ad hominem raises eyebrows more than it illustrates a point or sentiment.

My house.

We get judged and are either accepted into one of the three levels of Heaven or face punishment if we were exceptionally twisted.

If it was where we already were, you'd think questions wouldn't have to be asked that the things I redirect to answer. You otherwise demonstrate exactly what I just said in your words just now.

Inferring means taking two or more details and coming up with (one might phrase it as triangulating) a new realization based on them. For example, if someone said "I live in Andorra" and then elsewhere said "my phone number is six digits long", you can infer they use a cell phone because immobile phones there use seven digit phone numbers.

This is inference, the stuff of Sherlock Holmes, which is different from how we apply the words "assuming" (which one might say would mean concluding something based on false interpretations of details, e.g. if they said "I live in Andorra" and you think they speak Catalan based on it being the official language since not everyone has to speak the official language), "reading between the lines" (which one might say is the same thing but based in themes, e.g. saying someone must be Andorran if someone dressed like an Andorran, spoke like an Andorran, etc. when they could be French and just happen to do things like an Andorran), and "reading the room" (which one might say refers to vibes, e.g. someone saying they're from Andorra and they say it in a shy tone so it registers to you as a sensitive topic for them even if the tone is actually circumstantial).

You're not missing out on much with Harry Potter. It's one of those stories that are "just there". Not really much depth.

What part of what I said are you getting that from?

I'm not "citing my post", I'm showing you that I've done what you say I haven't. You're looking an awful lot more into what I say than what Alan Moore has been shown to have said.

You say that like Anonymous isn't an example. I've mentioned a few.

Says who?

I've never seen a single James Bond movie or know anything about the scenes or characters, except for the fact there's an agent named James Bond who likes his name and always looks dressed to the nines.

I'd say "that's a funny way to address your mom."

I was saying that to demonstrate it's not just "some fandom" or "some movement", as opposed to something that challenges they can mix. The point being he denounces a large swath of the things done by those who cite him as inspiration, whether by name or not depending on the exact movement or act. And the book was where the symbol originated, not the movie. He didn't make the movie.

You say that like anyone has to be specific about it, and even then it ignores Anonymous (which is a movement) takes the spotlight here. You can infer a few things if you take his words and apply them to different movements. In fact, it can be applied to your approach to his criticism here. Unless, of course, Alan Moore is inconsistent as a political thinker in the first place.