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I quit my job as a caregiver for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities to make more money… working in retail.

Gigaton Hammer (Tinkaton). Special mention to Triple Arrows (Decidueye.)

We found a box turtle walking across the road in the suburbs one day with a group of children gathered around and decided to turn it into a lesson on why they needed to leave they turtle alone (or at least if they were moving him off the road, to move him in the direction he was going.)

They’re awesome looking turtles. I wouldn’t think if owning one or eating one. Not my idea of cuddly or… food.

You call to mind MLK Jr’s talk of moderates. “I agree with the goals you seek, but I can’t agree with your methods of direct action.”

If you’re criticizing a movement based on whether or not you feel it will be effective, you’re ultimately only helping those who disagree.

I take exception to the argument that people shouldn’t do what they think is right, because odds are stacked against them.

ESL makes perfect sense!

I’ve adjusted how I read your comments with that knowledge.

“Be at peace” in English is considered an order, and isn’t usually said out of kindness (at least not in America). Here, it can be read as a threat. Which I now know you didn’t mean.

Have a lovely day, friend.

I have a ton I believe in.

I believe in being kind, I believe in helping others, I believe in the hardworking men and women in medicine. There’s so many things I believe in that it would take forever to list it all.

I also believe that telling other people sanctimonious things like “Be at peace with your natural choices. There will always be a cost” is not only off-putting and self-aggrandizing, but exactly the kind of crap the Bible tells you not to do.

I’ll leave you with some advice my favorite nun gave me when I was 12. No one left alive hasn’t heard the message of Jesus Christ. There’s no one left. So proselytizing the way the Bible commands you to do is almost impossible. Since you can reasonably assume most people who aren’t Christian have reason not to be, the best way to reach them isn’t by being a holier-than-thou preacher, it’s by living the light of the word and showing non-Christians what that means. “Live by example, what Christ has done for you.”

Because one of the other things I believe, is that genuine Christians, who follow their book, are some of the best people on Earth. But for every one of them, with a kind heart and forgiving words and judge-not-lest-ye-be-judged stamped on their lips, there’s about three hundred assholes saying vaguely judgemental shit on the internet and to one another behind closed doors. The “cost” of which only serves to help close those hearts and minds further to any positive message the Bible encourages you to spread.

Oh, right. The obedience only matters if you have to make yourself do it. It doesn’t count if it’s natural and painless and costs you nothing. Can’t believe I forgot about that?

Being that it’s cards against humanity, I expected them to email a disapproving message to your mother.

If an all-knowing creator didn’t want humans to eat fruit from a specific tree, he shouldn’t have grown that tree in the only garden he had humans in.

You can make toothpicks out of anything if you’re willing to find a hard bit in it that can be sharpened or whittled.

Holds up a chicken. Behold! A tree!

Bob Dole needs an electric car, but I would also accept the head of Bob Dole riding a little saucer with a cool cape (as befitting the first emperor of the moon.)

Can you imagine if she had rejected him? She could’ve killed him!

White napped crane life expectancy in the wild is unknown.

So it sounds like you didn’t know that, either.

Warren isn’t bought by them.

I enjoyed this immensely.

I need to add here (because I always do on the off-chance that it might help someone) that you can have too low of blood sugar depending on your specific genetics. I had an a1c of 3.8 when I was doing keto. I had basically had nondiabetic hypoglycemia for so long I was no longer showing symptoms. Please see a doctor if you do anything too dramatic, diet-wise.

I dunno if you could say that shareholders incentivized the sexual misconduct.

Society.

Have you seen how people treat a girl who is open about wanting sex? It’s not good.

Huh. I have my own sayings for both of those scenarios. "The best way to be interesting is to be interested."

I should read this book.