#changing perceptions

[fireolin]

Saw my therapist about my arm yesterday and it went well. But she’s going to the US next week for a conference. I said, oh. She said, yeah. Pregnant pause. She said, the numbers are down on last year, people cancelling. I said, well, you’ll probably be fine at the border, you’re white and you have blue eyes. She said, probably, but I don’t have a dick.

This is how perceptions of travelling to the US have changed in the last few weeks. However, Australians have been detained by border officials and sent back here for no good reason even before now, due to the weird culture among a significant number of US border officials who are suspicious of anyone not from the US.

[delicatelysublimeforester]

Breaking the Silence: Creating Safe Spaces for All

[enidtendo64]

TW: Heavily implied Child Abuse

Stowaway AU where Pacifica becomes a stowaway on the Stan-O-War 2 after trying to run away from home to California. Things don’t exactly work out as planned, but at least she’s got a “Summer Internship” away from her parents now!

[swoo0zy]

his herbal tea 💔

[heph]

BEAUTIFUL SHADE OF FORDTRAMARINE!

[lesvianism]

having a lot of thoughts and feelings about this comparison

[perdamian]

hey guys… we all know that it’s okay for mithrun to have a caretaker for the rest of his life, right? that even after he heals and potentially regains his desires he will probably still need support?? that the goal of healing is not to become a “normal person”, but to build skills to navigate the world in a way that accommodates your disability??? that relying on the people around you is not a failure, but proof of your desire to live????

[hope-for-the-planet]

"For nearly two decades, the percentage of Americans who are committed climate skeptics has been pretty consistently below 10%. Likewise, if you ask Americans whether global warming is happening, roughly 4/5ths will say "yes".

[This graph] didn't change me because I got a useful piece of data, it changed me because this did not align with my perceived understanding of the situation. If you had asked me before I saw this graph, I would've told you that probably 50% of people in America thought that climate change is a scam or a hoax [...]

But if you believe that, you are fighting the wrong fight every day. You think there's a bunch of people who are impossible to convince so you're not trying to convince them. When actually the situation is mostly they're convinced, they're just not convinced that it is the thing that we need to be concentrating on right now because they're dealing with some other problem like the price of eggs at the grocery store.

So 1) you're caught fighting the exact wrong fight and 2) you're fighting it with the weight of despair tied around your neck.

If we could say this in the fewest words possible, it would be something like, With today's information ecosystem, it is very easy to believe that 50% of people hold the views of the most extreme 10% of them [...].

And it is no use to be weighed down by a world that isn't actually this one. This one's hard enough as it is."

[starscream-is-my-wife]

In another, happier universe, Ratchet has a nightmare, sadly Optimus is bad at lying

Yesterday I was talking to another person about how much Optimus valued Ratchet in the Marvel comics and I still can’t get over it

[habken]

who thinks I can write an essay in the next five hours

[whirlpool-blogs]

(small child starting to meltdown) “Hey, hey. *snapping* We’ll play later, okay?”

[guttednight]

got my hands on the french artbook. i am thinking thoughts. none of them PG-13.

[arcanewebs]

personal take on fem tsukasa

[deservedgrace]

There's also a reason I almost always say "harm" when talking about issues in the church and not "bigotry". Bigotry is part of harm, sure, but it isn't the whole picture.

I think sin doctrine is harmful. I think the concept of original sin is harmful. I think purity culture is harmful. I think hell doctrine is harmful. I think vertical morality is harmful. I think mandatory forgiveness is harmful. I think sin leveling is harmful. I think emotion and behavior and thought control are harmful. I think child indoctrination is harmful. I think believing you are separate from the world ("we're in the world not of the world") is harmful. I think isolating/insulating yourself from the world is harmful. I think believing this life is your "practice life" and your "real life" is in heaven is harmful. I think believing that you alone hold the one source of truth is harmful. I think spiritual bypassing is harmful. I think atonement theology is harmful. I think proselytizing is harmful. I think telling people that their thoughts, actions, emotions, beliefs are being monitored every second of every day is harmful. I think believing you are more knowledgeable than experts because you have an all knowing God on your side is harmful. I think believing you know other people's experiences better than they do because you have an all knowing God on your side is harmful. I think encouraging/requiring victims of abuse to put up with abuse because divorce is a sin is harmful. I think prioritizing faith over evidence is harmful.

I'm certainly missing things but this is long enough as is. And not every christian or church does or believes every single one of these, but none of these are one-off or two-off or even three-off things I've experienced. These are all patterns I've noticed.

So I find it odd that when I talk about harm within christianity, a lot of christians only hear "bigotry". And I also find sentiments along the lines of "it's not the doctrine it's the people carrying out the doctrine imperfectly" odd. Even if there were a church that was 100% bigotry free, addressing bigotry doesn't automatically address any of these other things. And I think that the harm christianity does goes far beyond bigotry. I think a lot of the harm is baked into it, baked right into the doctrine. Which means that for every person causing harm by carrying out the doctrine "incorrectly", there are just as many causing harm by carrying it out "correctly".

[alyona11]

I’m really digging Vimes and Moist getting along in Raising Steam. I need MORE.

[dailygihun]

day 6 || this era lasted like 2 minutes but i love it anyway