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No spiritualist ever believes me when I say delusions and demons are the same thing. It's the continuing arbitrary exclusion of mental illness from religious belief. It's so unbelievably hypocritical, considering hard theism is itself incorrect.

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i love working construction in the fall in MN because the sun definitely isn't up when i go to work, and by the time i leave the building the sun is about to set. daylight time for me lasts exactly 1 hour and is grossly overshadowed by headlamp time. i am a mole woman.

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applying for jobs in the U.S.

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being a humanities major who’s friends with stem majors is so funny because you’ll ask your friends what they’re doing today and they’re like “UGH it’s so stressful i have to stabilize the reactor core for my nuclear power midterm and then i have to build the supercomputer from i have no mouth yet i must scream for my electrical engineering homework :/ what about you” and you’re like “oh well i have to read a fun little book and write an essay about gender.” and they still think you have it worse

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I need each and every person who sees this to pay attention to what is going on with the Indian Child Welfare Act.

The same SCOTUS that refered to tribal land as a territory of the state is about to hear a case that might overturn ICWA.

ICWA allows Alaska Natives and Native Americans control over the adoption and foster care placement of Native American and Alaska Children. In practice what this ensures is that if a Native American or Alaska Native child cannot be raised with their parents', the extended family will be given custody. If the extended family cannot care for the child, the child is placed with a family in their tribe or, barring that, with a family who is Native American or Alaska Native.

This act is important for two reasons:

For centuries, Native Americans and Alaska Natives were forcibly assimilated into White culture. From the 1800s to the late 1900s, children were taken from their families and either adopted out to White people or put in boarding schools. If parents refused, they were sometimes incarcerated, and they could lose custody of their other children. There are cases where tribes would hide their children and tell people who came that they had none...so the white people started showing up uannounced. The children sent to these schools were abused. Some were murdered. And survivors still live with the trauma. ICWA was passed to stop this...but not even 50 years after it being passed, it's at risk.

Native Americans and Alaska Natives are constitutionally guaranteed sovereignty. We all know the government picks and chooses when it wants to honor that, but Native Americans and Alaska Natives are supposed to have sovereignty. The idea that one country can step in and tell sovereign tribes and nations that they are not allowed to control the placement of their own children should be absurd. The U.S. doesn't tell Britain what to do with their foster care system...but the SCOTUS knows that Native Americans and Alaska Natives don't have an army or navy like Britain does. Because of this the SCOTUS believes it has the right to violate years of precedent and treaties. It knows that it will be protected no matter what it decides.

So I'm asking people to keep an eye on ICWA. I'm asking them to boost the signal. And I'm asking them to protest if it falls.

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LOVE IS THE WHOLE POINT. OF IT ALL

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Stop attacking chain reactions at the root in an unsustainable way.

Just one example:

"Don't pray to my god. It causes a chain reaction of fetishization which leads to bigotry."

This does not always happen. For one thing the prayer would have to be made known to others.

What this may actually mean is don't interact with my god with my culture's rituals. Which again, would have to be known to others to have an effect. Even if interacting with your god has a bad effect, if I don't know what you mean I may take it as an instruction implying I shouldn't think about your god at all.

Which could cause OCD.

I disagree with the concept of religious appropriation. I think it should be replaced with the acknowledgement that while you can take inspiration from other cultures, you can never assume you fully understand a concept from a closed culture. These are living cultures that change in private so you can never assume you have enough data to fully understand it.

The roots of chain reactions that people sometimes attack are thoughts or other things that can't be controlled. Don't attack the inevitable. Focus on what you can control.

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Wondering if certain stereotypes are based on the truth statistically in the sense that they are based on next to normal behavior.

Contrariwise though you also have the opposite type of stereotype which a quirk that completely excludes the norm.

Next to normal archetypes are erased while more unusual ones suffer hyper visibility.

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Abandon conflict theory. It leads to fascism.

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"That meme is stolen."

Memes are MEANT to be stolen!

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Sleep Delirium

Human sleep cycles are fucking weird sometimes and when you don't get enough sleep, shit gets funky.

How weird would it be for an alien to see a human ambling around in the middle of their sleep cycle trying to get ready for a day that hasn't started yet? Then the fact that pretty much anything the human would say to them would either be complete garbled nonsense or entirely irrelevant to the situation at hand.

And sleep walking would be interesting too, just some weirdo human doing weird shit at night and not remembering anything in the morning.

Alien, seeing the human walking weird when they're supposed to be sleeping: human, is something wrong?

Human 1, entirely out of it: don't put me in a corndog

Alien: what?

Human 1: I don't wanna be breaded

Alien: what in the shitting fuck are you talking about?

Human 2, running into the hallway tired as shit: I'm so sorry, he's a sleep walker

Alien: is he haunted?

Human 2: no-

Human 1: ghost corndog,,,

Alien: oh shit the human's haunted

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Gonna say something that will definitely get screen capped and used to doxx me someday but like having a fetish isn’t. It isn’t evil. You know? People have fetishes. It’s part of the human condition. You’re not a serial killer just because you’re unusually and offputtingly hype about women’s shoes. Thought crime isn’t real and it especially shouldn’t be applied to fetishes. Every human brain is a diy project built by unlicensed electricians.

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you know what sucks?

when someone is like "well if you didnt understand why didnt you ask for clarification?"

and like my guy. i did understand. i understood wrongly apparently but that doesn't mean i didn't understand.

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I think I finally managed to re-establish my genderlink. The weird part of it is that it inherently requires a different definition of gender than my other gender to exist. Which implies I have one gender by one definition of gender and another gender by another definition.