It definitely activated the almonds. A lot of the things my dad said would happen that I called him crazy for have happened. From pedophiles co-opting the “win” of marriage equality, to the public call for the dismantling of the nuclear family. Wild times.
Just before the ‘94 Winter Olympics Tonya Harding busted rival skater Nancy Kerrigan’s knee cap with a crowbar or a pipe.
So today taking a knee = kneeling during the anthem. Back then taking an knee = literally disabling the knee of your competition/classic liberal tactics of cheating and violence.
Yeah not too excited yet haha, just paying close attention.
How interesting to find someone with such a similar background! Right down to dating a leftist with a huge chip on his shoulder about family and God. Really shows us how that ideology gets in and influences people. My very Christian father was very surprised by our last conversation, in line with possibly being more conservative now, about 5 years ago we stopped talking for a year or so over my anger at organized religion and my shitheaded liberalism at the time. I have some scars from my time in the church, so I’m not sure I’d go back, but I was always a believer in the personal relationship and faith, not really the community.
I guess a lot of my struggle with my faith is the question of God being all good and all knowing and all powerful, if he is all three how can there be so much pain? Why does a baby in a third world country never see his first birthday because bugs ate his eyes, it’s hard to see god in those cases yanno? My dad always brings it back to free will, which is frustrating, but filtering this conversation through that lense helps, as it is obvious that our free will and loosening our morals for tolerance has lead us to the issues in this post.
What kind of church did you find? I agree that many places of worship are in name only and aren’t really spreading the base message.
Good for her, I wonder sometimes how much heart ache I could have saved just keeping my standards high.
I too have come face to face with values shifting for tolerance, something I’m working to sort out, with help from my man, bless him.
My dad warned me about pretty much exactly what we are seeing today, and I thought he was being silly or archaic and old fashioned. It took a long time and some serious reality checks to see that I was one of the frogs in the slowly boiling pot. (Raised with a little homeschool first, dad was a pastor, dabbled in liberalism for a decade before the 2016 election and what I consider my personal redemption and return to my roots)
While I no longer call myself Christian, I do still believe in ultimate good and evil, and we are in the midst of The Spiritual battle of our kind. Gotta be honest I’ve been struggling with my faith and the signs of the times. Can’t help but get those Revelations gut feelings about the end, the seven years tribulation, peace in the Middle East, sons and fathers turning against each other... definitely has me doing some soul searching.
Interesting point, and I agree. I recently told a girl I wasn’t comfortable being her friend anymore because essentially she’s a dirty slut, and while we get along and she’s a fun and sweet girl, she’s trashy and I don’t need “friends” like that.
She was obviously super offended, and asked what the big deal was and I told her our morals are incompatible. She thinks it’s fine to cheat on her cuck boyfriend and even tried to seduce one of our happily married coworkers. That is behavior that I cannot respect and won’t hang out with people like that. She still didn’t see the issue.
But if all the women in her life let her know she’s being trashy, maybe she’d clean it up.
I kept closing my phone to do things and each time I opened my phone this was still up and had me rolling all over again. Got stuck in that loop for about an hour this morning, it was a good morning.
My jaw has been dropping in disbelief a lot lately though, over women issues. I never imagined that women were ruining women for everyone, but I find myself thinking that almost every day now.
Like how can I respect you if you don't respect yourself? I’m supposed to just trust you cause we both have boobs? It’s honestly hilarious, girls all know that “girl world” is subtle, catty, sneaky, read between every line bull shit, and yet we except each other to lift each other up when our entire childhoods were women tearing down other women at any chance. And then we blame men for making us “compete”. Nah we do it all to ourselves.
For me and my man (I was the libtard) it started with respect. He is a respectable, kind man and I valued his opinions. When it came to the election (which had just happened) he soft balled it to me by saying he was more willing to bet that Trump was Batman than that Hillary wasn’t satan. And since even as a liberal she never sat well with me I paid attention to the rest of what became about a 6 month gentle red pill.
I’d say ask simple, logic based questions, and be very patient. When I had to logic my way through my feefee based opinions, the blinders jumped off my face.
Good luck!
I was going to disagree at first, but thought a little harder on it. I was a HUGE theatre nerd, lead in almost every play, did community plays as well. I was going to disagree as I am a pretty well adjusted adult and here I am at the constant rally of .win. But as I thought on it, I think I actually agree with you. I got lucky and was redpilled by my then-new boyfriend in 2016 just after the election. And before that those toxic leftovers you’re talking about were for sure effecting my life. I was never quite to TDS levels of liberalism, but not too far off. While I’m still dramatic when I tell a story and do tend to be louder than most people, the constant suck for approval and attention no longer plagues me.
I did recently work with another theatre kid, and he was a hot mess in all the ways you’d expect an adult theatre kid to be.
TL;DR: defensively wanted to disagree cause I was a TK, turns out I agree bc I was a shitty adult before taking the red pill.
This is the attitude in rural CO though, this happened about an hour north of Denver in the community I work in, the surrounding towns and cities have the same energy. Our Governor is an idiot and Denver is a pit of garbage, but the silent majority of the state is very based. I see Trump support everywhere I go, flags, free faces and police support. I actually get smiles and complements on my MAGA hat, not threats. Have a little optimism brother, take it from a Pede in the middle of the state.
Oh I’m sure they’d call it a hate crime somehow since I’m white, so solid point.
No harm in laughing at the idea though, gotta keep my spirits up somehow, even with a childish idea that is not a good real life plan. Hopefully the situation at least made you chuckle, friend.
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