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I don’t know if it was my church specifically or if all Presbyterian churches are like this, but the first time we went to a different church that actually talked about Hell as like. A punishment and part of the sermon, it was really jarring

Like. I knew what hell was and what it was for. I understood the concept. But every sermon I’d ever been to before that point wasn’t focused on Hell as like. A threat. It was more of like, a reason not to let yourself fall into bad habits? A natural consequence to ignoring what was kind and right?

But it wasn’t mentioned hardly ever outside of actual scripture or stories. I’d never experienced a sermon where Hell was a looming, scary threat. Hell to me has always been the result of knowingly and with malice of forethought, going against kindness, compassion, and decency to hurt others or yourself, or by accident and not righting that wrong.

And even the other churches in my town were… not big on Hell as a concept outside of consequences for actions? I never felt scared of Hell. As a kid I conceptualized it closer to being grounded. I didn’t really want it to happen, but if I did something I knew was wrong, I understood why it would happen. If that makes sense.

Thinking about it now makes me understand why people have religious trauma. Being a little kid and having an adult tell you that you’ll go to hell if you’re not good enough is absolutely gonna fuck up a child. I’m just kind of astonished that my hometown of 900 total people, and a Methodist church and Presbyterian church all managed to avoid making the concept traumatic without me like. Failing to understand the actual scripture, and that there are apparently a lot of churches that don’t or don’t want to accomplish that feat.

I mean, I know the history of Christianity in the Middle Ages involved a lot of that type of preaching - making the congregation scared. But I dunno, most of them also couldn’t read the Bible themselves.

And none of this is to say that other churches did much fire and brimstone around my tiny town. There were loads of Methodists and Lutherans that also didn’t make Hell the focal point of their preaching. They just tended to focus on it more than my church did - my church just tended to be closer to Life Lessons With Jesus. It was just a real slap in the face the first time we ever went to one that did.

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(These are the more common ones i can name off the top of my head, just curious)

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whys combat and military gear always got to look so fucking cool when the people wearing them just objectively arent. thats unfair

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283,000 likes………giant meteor strike the earth rn holy shit. oh my god.

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huge fan of when the good guys are themed on dark colors and spiky scrappy punk aesthetics and the bad guys are themed on light colors and angelic imagery and order. always such a banger.

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Other dodge drafting methods like “assume this level of daily pain is normal and carry on” also found to be ineffective and detrimental, study finds

“Chronic illness warrior!”

Bro we were drafted

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We are losing nearly ten percent of the planet’s insect population every decade due to human influence. If you have taken even an entry level biology course you understand how terrifying that figure is for not just humans but all life on Earth. As EO Wilson put it,

“If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos”

Even despite the urgency of this issue, there are few conservation initiatives focused solely on preserving invertebrates. The Xerces Society is one such organization! If you share my concern about insect population decline (and you are able to do so), please consider donating to their current fundraiser to help protect our most vulnerable neighbors. They are still short of their fundraising goal!

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You guys hate nuance

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Displayed on the Old North Church in Boston, MA on April 18, 2025, the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere’s ride.

Photo source: silencedogoodboston, the group behind this idea

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Someday your hands will be old and wrinkled, the skin spotted and bunching over your knuckles. And a child will watch you make something. It's a simple task, you'll have done it a thousand times before. But to that child, the smooth, confident way your hands move will seem like impossible magic. You have to keep living.

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Because of its explosive nature, not all applications of nitrocellulose were successful. In 1869, with elephants having been poached to near extinction, the billiards industry offered a US$10,000 prize to whoever came up with the best replacement for ivory billiard balls. John Wesley Hyatt created the winning replacement, which he created with a new material he invented, called camphored nitrocellulose—the first thermoplastic, better known as celluloid. The invention enjoyed a brief popularity, but the Hyatt balls were extremely flammable, and sometimes portions of the outer shell would explode upon impact. An owner of a billiard saloon in Colorado wrote to Hyatt about the explosive tendencies, saying that he did not mind very much personally but for the fact that every man in his saloon immediately pulled a gun at the sound.

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Can't express how stress free being open minded is.

Some lesbians use he/him? Oh cool.

Some people have people inside their head and sometimes it's fictional chars? Sick your brains like a pirate ship they're all working to run.

Some people like being treated like a pet dog? Bark bark bro.

Being fat isn't unhealthy but a perfectly normal type of body to have? Kinda beautiful how different we can all be.

Something doesn't make any fucking sense? Cool an opportunity to learn. And even if I can't figure it out it's cool we still have mysteries today.