@Emosaur @sree251

Emo's case is a cinch diagnosis —
He's oft in a state of narcosis.
He's sad and morose;
Needs a lithium dose,
But expects a most GLOOMY prognosis.

@Thinkerbell

Emo is woke
A sick joke
With a yoke
He needs a toke
And some coke
The bloke is broke

@JimboSaturn That's oxymoronic

@BRUUH they are not mutually exclusive causes

@JimboSaturn Being something in spite of something else means the "something else" was working aginst you being that something. Being something because of it, means that the something else had a causal link.

@sree251 The truth about material reality? Let's hear it.

@JimboSaturn 🤷🏻‍♀️ eh you can’t have a discussion with someone whose logic goes, “I believe in this because it’s true and it’s true because I say it is. Everyone who disagrees is wrong. You only disagree because you don’t understand since you’re not as enlightened as me” lol…

@WhateverWorks True, when do I ever learn my lesson!

@sree251 Bigottry yes but you are the bigot I think I brought the paradox of tolerance up already in a discussion with you

@Gloomy I am the bigot? This seems to be the battle cry of you people. This is an impersonal discussion and you manage to steer it into a personal ad hominem catfight.

@sree251 It's more an objective and accurate description and this post aligns with all the other disgusting comments and remarks you already made on here.

@Emosaur How can I disprove nothing? Are you nuts?

Gravity is not real, and neither are you. All you have to prove you exist is your photo ID and biometrics. But these identify the body. And here you are but not your body talking to me. What are you?

@sree251

@sree251 Are you threatening me?

That’s delightful.

@Castenmas Threat? Do you view getting an intellectual thrashing a threat?

@sree251
There’s nothing intellectual about people who self proclaim to be intellectual.

@sree251 God has nothing to do with the nuclear family or anything else. It's more a product of capitalism.

Human beings respond organically to their environment. The ongoing breakdown of the nuclear family is a response to conditions that make such a structure impossible for many people.

Advocacy of the nuclear family is a smokescreen for homophobia and scapegoating of single mothers.

@LeopoldBloom Breakdown of the nuclear family? Definitely not the case with new immigrants and minorites. Even the blacks are pretty family-bonded despite the crime and the drugs. Latinos are definitely family-centered. Among the whites, Christian life still hold sway except in the cities where irreligious sub-culture hold sway among the trendy.

Nuclear family is about the family. It 's focus is on family well-being and nothing to do with what's going on outside.

@sree251 I'm talking about the drop in real wages which forces both parents to work, the rise in single motherhood due in part to our obscene incarceration rate, and the increasing number of young people who are going childfree. The nuclear family hasn't disappeared, obviously, but it's not at the same level it was in the past. No judgment here, the changes are organic in response to changing societal conditions. It has everything to do with "what's going on outside."

@TurtleEclipseOfTheHeart can you say oxymoron? LMAO i am digging your comment :-)

@TurtleEclipseOfTheHeart Some Christians aren't Christian at all. I see nothing Christ-like about them, to the contrary.

@JimboSaturn YOU see nothing Christ-like? Who are you? God the Father look for hi Son? Well, I am the Holy Ghost. You atheist are really something. You have no regard for the traditional family structure, and you think you can reconfigure any damn way to fight the culture war.

@BritishFailedAesthetic My BROTHER in CHRIST...


Every genocide has been legal in the country where it happened. If Authoritarians control the government, then they make the laws.

@BohemianBabe
This has got my attention......

@BritishFailedAesthetic It's a meme. I forgot that you're a Boomer.

@AbbySvenz You don't get to call the shots, Abby. Granted, more girls have been going to college than boys since Betty Friedan and Germaine Greer forced a change on the American cultural landscape. Common sense is outdated and displaced by intellectualism. How evolution works is indeed decided by intellectuals fudging science to create narratives and not scientists probing unknowns. Science books of the kind you read are studied in the west and nowhere else. The rest of the world is focused on technology, the science that drive the economy and put food on the table. I don't need this conversation anymore than I need a hole in my head.

A hole, at least, would be something in it… 😐@sree251

@AbbySvenz What thing? You people d have dirty minds. And quite vulgar.

@SW-User It's not a western style of marriage at all. I know of no traditional culture anywhere in the world that doesn't recognize the parent/offspring family structure. It's only in the west among so-called white people that the sanctity of the traditional family is pushed aside as outdated.

@sree251 Yes it is. Try to read a bit on other cultures and traditions.

(Your OP referred explicitly to the nuclear family. A western structure - and relatively quite recent)

I will not respond again.

@SW-User I don't have to read. I travel. The traditional nuclear family structure is alive and well here in the US, not just with white Christian folks and minorities. I see it in Europe, Asia - from India to Japan. What do you think these yearly mass migration at Christmas, Chinese New Year, Muslim Eid, and the various religious family reunions of India are about?

@sree251 Oh sorry, I thought you were Bible-thumping. What version of God are you speaking in the name of?

@ServantOfTheGoddess God of human sanity.

@sree251 Well, my Goddess is saner than your God and much sexier, and She disagrees with you. 😛

@Basia No that is the title of the post it's what Sree says

@JimboSaturn You say it is troll post.

@JimboSaturn In the 2000 Year Old Man comedy routine with Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner, Brooks asks Reiner what people ate 2000 years ago. He said, "We ate natural food, the way God intended! We ate clouds, and stars!"

@Ducky and then some poor priest made up a rule that says.... hey lets do one man and one woman thing ... cuz i cant get any and that guy has them all. Then polygamy was born.. LoL and it was deems bad for that to take place. LMAO

@helenS 🤣

@SW-User Can you cite a specific example to the contrary for discussion?

A single woman could find a baby abandoned in a dumpster and raise it as her own. I can't define what love is? In this crazy world, the best bet is to be born in a family where mom and dad get along and love you.

@sree251 I'm simply saying that love can flourish in combinations beyond your own apparent claims and parameters.

I often witness various human beings, of all varieties and backgrounds, offering examples of love towards our world.

@SW-User Love, like God, is a figure of speech to me. I don't know what it is even though I can tell what it is not. I have not established any parameter. Just as you can grasp what is happening between you and your wife, I know what is is to grow up in a traditional family. Stronger than love between a man and a woman, in my view, is the love a woman has for her child. Maternal instinct is not taught. More amazing is the affection of a grandmother.

@SW-User Those parameters are broad even if the principle is uncompromising. There are no guideposts on the road to Heaven.

@PhilDeep It's daunting if you live in the city. Also, raising a family takes a lot of money. Actually,I am not optimistic at all. I only know the joy a woman has in having a baby. It's a beautiful human experience.

@PhilDeep I think a few do still care.
But I so miss the generation of my parents.

@Magenta I am not man, and would not want to be a woman on account of the pain of pregnancy and childbirth not to mention the anguish of suffering when pain befalls her offspring. Blessed is she who is drawn to take on this vocation of motherhood. The institution of marriage pays tribute to her place in society.

Cancel culture is sacrilegious.

@Convivial God is a figure of speech pointing to sanity. There is only one form of sanity: not screwed up.

It's hard to tell who is screwed up and who is not these days when inclusiveness blocks discrimination. You are expected to swallow everything on your plate: food, shit, including bullshit. The ability to swallow everything without wincing or holding your nose is an affirmation of your humanity.

@sree251 That is a lot to unpack. But I am going to have to agree to disagree with several points, including that twin-flame (also frequently called a soulmate) is a thing that exists or a requirement for successful monogamy. That sexual allure is somehow a contrivance or evil. And the statement that nature has no fathers.

@ViciDraco You won't get much out of Sree he is a Nazi

@ViciDraco The points you have problem with are all inaccessible to bozos who wouldn't even be aware to them. The fact that you see them and did not dismiss them outright speaks well off you.

You did step away from the Bible as I did. Both of us didn't swallow the damn thing whole hog. There were points that we couldn't blindly accept and had to unpack.

In my case, it didn't take me long to separate the chaff (practically the entire Bible) from the wheat (words in the Gospels purportedly spoken by Jesus). Even then, I had to make allowances for stuff lost in translations and straight up misrepresentations.

@Mistakesmakeus Just know that there are some parts like 89% that is just total bullshit and the other 11% is just shit...

So when you are trying to tie all that together is does toss in some curve balls and sliders but none the less few VERY few strikes.

@black4white thats the problem the characters have no depth theyre just... there

@Jorgillo Offensive and inappropriate....although I agree.....That said, very soon most of the reasonable people will be blocking you. I know you're new, so I'm letting you know so you have a better time when you're here....

@Jorgillo Well said :-)

@LeopoldBloom You would allow people to vote even though they committed a crime? The justice system is crooked. So, is the political system. I suppose it doesn't matter one way or another. You want to lower the bar right down to the ground so that no one is stigmatized, victimized, and ostracized.

@sree251 Yes. The U.S. has the highest percentage of its population in prison than any country in the world, including dictatorships. Prisoners live here too and should have a say in how things are run. It's disgusting how we disenfranchise some people permanently, even after they've paid their debt to society. We should at least allow people to vote once they've served their sentence.

We need to make voting easier so everyone who wants to vote is able to. Voter suppression is undemocratic and a sign of a dictatorship. Would you agree that anyone not allowed to vote under your system would be exempt from taxes? No sales tax, no property tax, and no income tax.

People will be "stigmatized, victimized, and ostracized" whether they vote or not. I'm not sure what that has to do with anything.

@Emosaur You could be too young to participate in this discussion. It's for grown ups.

@helenS I am Jewish but I would not go that far. I think a lot of the "New Testament" is quite beautiful; though some of it is nasty and much of it has been put to nasty uses.

@ServantOfTheGoddess Its essential elements, in my opinion, are a theology of hell, and anti-semitism. 👎

@helenS Those elements are certainly there :(

@Emosaur Which Christianity is that? New strains of Christianity are crated all the time to accommodate the updated cultures of today. Sacraments of free love.

@Emosaur All forms of Christianity are derived from the Bible and therefore biblical. Here in America, there are countless churches preaching the Christian faith, each in accordance to the minister of the day. Even you can interpret the teaching of Jesus in the way that speaks to your lifestyle. If you are an alcoholic and want to make your lifestyle wholesome, then invent a ministry that appeals to winos. Jesus turned water into wine; therefore, getting drunk is a gateway to God. You get the drift?

@Emosaur I know they are frustrating and dealing with bigots is trying but we must not be like them.

@JimboSaturn I second that.