ethaver
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- Comment on Fear not, and enjoy this mere interlude to its fullest! 2 days ago:
if my mother hadn't forced me out early to intentionally lower my birth weight (I'm the last child and size tends to increase with subsequent births, my next oldest sibling complicated delivery by size alone) I might've succeeded too.
- Comment on Fear not, and enjoy this mere interlude to its fullest! 2 days ago:
yeah my husband brought this up a few days ago actually and was talking about the movie and I was like do you remember me mentioning that I literally actually did that? 4 times around apparently!
- Comment on Fear not, and enjoy this mere interlude to its fullest! 2 days ago:
apparently I literally tried to strangle myself on my umbilical cord in the womb but my take on that was that I knew what was coming.
- Comment on Not to get all religiony but why in the old testament God was all fire and brimstone and fatal consequences? But the new testament God is all about forgiveness and such?? 3 days ago:
I've been getting back into Christianity lately for a variety of reasons but I've also been doing a lot of research into the history and philosophy and whatnot and reconciling:
that outer sphere of what all these different people over the centuries have written and decided to include or exclude from their various compilations and what motivated them morally or especially politically to do so
vs
the inner sphere of my own lived experience with what does and does not make the world a better place and what motivations exist in the modern day to practice or interpret those centuries of texts in one way or another
and honestly it's actually been really interesting from an academic perspective as well. It's a fascinating combination of history, language, culture, and even what influences it's had on the sciences over time like I recently wound up learning some stuff about early geometry and the ways it's affected the architecture of churches.
- Comment on Not to get all religiony but why in the old testament God was all fire and brimstone and fatal consequences? But the new testament God is all about forgiveness and such?? 3 days ago:
the only "um akshually" I would even bother adding to this is that the Torah / Pentateuch is just the first five books of the Tanakh, which is the best / closest approximation of books that later became the Christian old testament. The Tanakh also includes the Prophets (Nevi'im), and the Writings (Ketuvim). There's also a few books in there that the council of Nicaea chose not to include. Also relevant is the Septuagint which was the first translation from Hebrew into a mainstream language (which at that was Koine Greek) which is relevant because that specific translation has had a profound effect on translations since, which really hammers in that concept of "a translation of a translation of a translation of-"
- Comment on Not to get all religiony but why in the old testament God was all fire and brimstone and fatal consequences? But the new testament God is all about forgiveness and such?? 3 days ago:
And trinitarianism specifically is basically just a reason to wage wars. I was raised in a trinitarian denomination and I still mostly consider myself Christian but I can't reconcile my morals with waging literal wars over fucking metaphysics.
- Comment on Why do people call it “woke”? 1 week ago:
eh. there's also polka.
- Comment on If you had to buy a new TV, what brand would you get? 2 weeks ago:
well first I'd take an extension cord to goodwill
- Comment on Why is the human body so incredibly bad at responding to colds? 2 weeks ago:
it's funny because I'm AFAB but NB with a husband and I'm the one who gets the man-flu.
- Comment on Anon dates a 19 y/o 2 weeks ago:
@ 30 22 feels waaay too damn young. tf am I even gonna talk to this person about? I'm a decade in to a high stress high reliability industry. I'm starting to get Greg hairs! I make jokes about all the child rapists I met while working for the state! Too much happened in that 8 years between us. Too damn much.
- Comment on Flexin the muscles 2 weeks ago:
sent this to hubby but given that we go at it like rabbits idk if -cel is the right suffix for him.
- Comment on what can I do at my workplace during downtime? 2 weeks ago:
got hubs one because I couldn't afford a steam deck for his birthday. he loves it. I never see him play it at home (I think because the actual computer is here) but every once in a while he'll mention having played x or y retro game and he has covered the ENTIRE thing in Simpsons stickers.
- Comment on what can I do at my workplace during downtime? 2 weeks ago:
so you can study stuff and do coursework but you gotta make it really easy to do accidentally. when I got a paper to write I would make a google drive folder with the project outline and a template for the paper including a reference sheet. I would lazily look up sources occasionally and add the pdfs to the folder and easybib / citation machine them into the reference section by doi. at that point it would be a matter of when the paper would get written, not if. the dopamine would just hit suddenly when I'm having an IBS shit at 2am and "oops. I wrote a research paper." I accidentally wrote so many papers while shitting. one time I set all of it up and went to bed and turned out one of the group members was also ADHD because when I woke up she'd accidentally done the whole thing while I was asleep. 10/10 method.
- Comment on Poor pugs 2 weeks ago:
i mean. this is a completely normal pediatric knee x-ray:
- Comment on Clock logic 2 weeks ago:
It's called a "highly composite number!" I read up on a lot of this stuff while learning about numerology and other esoteric traditions!
- Comment on Brad buys a house 3 weeks ago:
"first they came for the socialists" and all, yes.
- Comment on Brad buys a house 3 weeks ago:
Every millennial ever making their first email:
(mine is a fandom RP name from when I was 13)
- Comment on Foolproof advice 3 weeks ago:
yeah it seems like one of those things where you'll probably almost definitely see some kind of behavioral change, but what specifically is basically completely up in the air. My chronic suicidal ideation will flare up really bad right before I begin menstruating. Having an IUD means menstruating a lot less but it also makes it less predictable. So I'll be in this deep dark hole for a few days that I would swear up and down is the worst I've ever felt and it's never gonna get any better then one morning I'm taking a piss and my boxers have blood on them and I'm just like "...ooooooh."
