SarahValentine
@SarahValentine@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Trans woman, sci-fi/fantasy writer, student of psychology.
- Comment on susjay 2 weeks ago:
I just like confronting old testament bible-thumping chuds with this scripture. I don’t care nearly as much about the provenance of the stories as I do about the fragile toxic masculinity of religious men.
- Comment on susjay 2 weeks ago:
1 Samuel 20:41
- Comment on Anon needs a good response 3 weeks ago:
Stop getting relationship advice/expectations from 4chan, for starters.
- Comment on He is Risen 5 weeks ago:
Left: Pillsbury Dough Boy
Right: Pillsbury Don’t Boy
- Comment on The way this egg peels in infuriating 5 weeks ago:
What a jerk. Good riddance I guess.
- Comment on The way this egg peels in infuriating 5 weeks ago:
Okay but that comment isn’t a long-winded ramble and you didn’t mention that in your previous comment, only the emoji. Weird antisocial behavior on your part.
- Comment on The way this egg peels in infuriating 5 weeks ago:
Why do you downvote the namaste emoji?
- Comment on California father arrested after repainting crosswalk, adding stop signs near children’s park 5 weeks ago:
That’s a hard line to walk. Being so afraid your kid will get hit by a car that you do something that could get you sent to prison, where you certainly won’t be able to do anything for said kid.
The city officials need to be the ones facing consequences for this, not him.
- Comment on "It's gone baby... it's all gone"| Sigh .....‘Project Hail Mary’ Author Andy Weir Says Paramount Rejected His ‘Star Trek’ Pitch: Their “Shows Are Sh**” 1 month ago:
I was letting you know how utterly unconvincing your argument is considering what I said. I don’t care to convince you of anything. You can believe whatever you want, and I’m free to think of you as an idiot.
Ta-ta!
- Comment on "It's gone baby... it's all gone"| Sigh .....‘Project Hail Mary’ Author Andy Weir Says Paramount Rejected His ‘Star Trek’ Pitch: Their “Shows Are Sh**” 1 month ago:
He’s still a huge hypocrite because he’s famous for a story about a human and an alien getting along, and the human putting everything on the line to save said alien. It is literally the “woke nonsense” he’s bitching about. I will give this man and his work no further attention.
- Comment on I choose hating your job in unconventional ways. 1 month ago:
Damn, Trump even put tariffs on imports from Krypton!
- Comment on How do left-leaning—or not even left-leaning, but pro-choice, pro-life people who don’t care about fornication—who are also Catholics and Christians justify their religion? 1 month ago:
It’s cherry picking because it’s choosing which pieces of the bible to give credence to and which to ignore based on preference.
Absolutely not. You can give 100% credence to the bible without the idea that every single word of it is a personal commandment from God to you.
Paul was chosen as God’s chosen vessel
I don’t agree. How do you now that? By what means was this determined?
Jesus did say to love thy neighbor, yet it is easy to find examples of God condoning slavery and demanding genocides.
No, it’s easy to find stories where people claimed God condoned those things. You seem to be taking a fundamentalist approach to scripture here, and it’s an approach I just don’t agree with. It’s based on traditions created and perpetuated by the sickest, most evil, lying, stealing, child-raping people throughout history. Why the fuck would you take their word for it?
Anyway nice talkin to ya, have a nice day.
- Comment on How do left-leaning—or not even left-leaning, but pro-choice, pro-life people who don’t care about fornication—who are also Catholics and Christians justify their religion? 1 month ago:
It’s not cherry picking to recognize who was talking to who, and whether or not their words should be taken as divine instruction to each individual who reads them. It’s just using your head instead of letting religious authorities put onerous demands on the populace. Jesus said love your neighbor as you love yourself and do unto others as you’d have them do unto you. Anything that contradicts that is obviously not to be taken seriously.
- Comment on How do left-leaning—or not even left-leaning, but pro-choice, pro-life people who don’t care about fornication—who are also Catholics and Christians justify their religion? 1 month ago:
Old Testament divine commandments
Those were conditions of the covenant God made with the nation of Israel. They have nothing to do with Christianity.
- Comment on How do left-leaning—or not even left-leaning, but pro-choice, pro-life people who don’t care about fornication—who are also Catholics and Christians justify their religion? 1 month ago:
Sure, but in this case what they cherry-pick is the part of the recipe that involves adopting the dog, while styling themselves as authorities on cooking. Then they shoot and cook the dog.
- Comment on How do left-leaning—or not even left-leaning, but pro-choice, pro-life people who don’t care about fornication—who are also Catholics and Christians justify their religion? 1 month ago:
I just don’t see the letters written between first-century house-churches as personal commandments from God to me. What you’re reading is the story of the early believers, not divine instruction.
- Comment on Soon... 1 month ago:
You misunderstand me. It is my stance on theistic belief that if you cannot honestly answer the sequence of questions I asked, or if the answers conform to known grifter patterns, then they are complete falsehoods not to be taken seriously.
So you can give all the excuses you want and wave your hands around like a Jedi but you have utterly failed the most basic first-line test for defending against charlatans. Goodbye.
- Comment on Soon... 1 month ago:
You answered one of my questions - the first one. The rest is vague religious nonsensical non-answers.
- Comment on Soon... 1 month ago:
Which god? Whose interpretation of that god? What would you say this God wants? By what means was this determined?
- Comment on Anon makes some changes 1 month ago:
You’re probably better off not knowing, but if you’ve ever heard of Pizzagate or QAnon, 4chan is where those delights came from.
- Comment on Anon makes some changes 1 month ago:
It’s 4chan. Of course it’s a manospheric conformist post. If they actually did all that shit to improve their lives they’d also walk the fuck away from 4chan.
- Comment on Anon makes some changes 1 month ago:
With that in mind I would say that sometimes you have to stop the thing you’re doing, let’s say masturbating here, so you can get your body back to baseline before you can even begin to work with a therapist or do some introspection.
I’m not saying we should demonise masturbation, just accept that for some people they may need to stop doing that for a period whilst they then fix the other shit they got going on.
If you think this is what “nofap” is about, you don’t understand the issue. Nofap isn’t a step toward therapy, nor does it avoid demonizing masturbation. It’s manosphere propaganda aimed at lonely, frustrated men to manipulate them through shame and further deprivation. People who have a genuine problem with self control where masturbation is concerned are just catching strays in this war where nofap ideology is a weapon.
- Comment on Anon makes some changes 1 month ago:
no that thing, you should definitely continue doing that. Just seems unproductive to me.
Who brought that idea in? You just made that up.
Of course, ‘never fapping’ and automagically being a good person is an absurd manosphere grift to push. But if they were following a specific diet which in itself also doesn’t turn your life around but gets the ball rolling would you have the same stance?
What we’re really talking about is the equivalent of following fad diets because a fascist with an agenda is trying to bend vulnerable people to a cause they don’t understand, using psychological knowledge and conditioning techniques. These people are not consulting licensed professionals, they’re not talking to psychiatrists or therapists, they’re listening to Joe Rogen podcasts and Facebook propaganda.
So while all these other things you talk about might have some merit to them, that’s not what we’re really talking about, nor what the problem actually is. The problem is these men live in a society that simultaneously tells them their desires are bad, show unrealistic body images and other impossible standards, tells them they need to work on themselves in superficial ways, and all while forcing them to live as wage slaves while the ultra-rich laugh at the hoops they’re getting people to jump through.
Figure it out.
- Comment on Anon makes some changes 1 month ago:
Comparing a natural behavior to dependency on addictive chemicals is a bit silly. I’m not sure you’re taking this seriously. And before you come back with “masturbation releases chemicals we can form a dependency on”, literally SO many other mundane things have the same effect. Conservatives and fascists always care about this one in particular though, and that’s the real reason we’re talking about it.
- Comment on Anon makes some changes 1 month ago:
So you understand that the problem isn’t doing the thing, it’s something else, and doing the thing is only bad because of that context. Then you ought to understand that treating the context is the solution, not insisting the person just not do the thing.
- Comment on crazy stuff 1 month ago:
Great hypothesis! You should test it.
- Comment on crazy stuff 1 month ago:
Correlation does not mean causation.
- Comment on Anon makes some changes 1 month ago:
The problem isn’t masturbating.
- Comment on No but seriously 1 month ago:
uwu7
- Comment on Adulting 1 month ago:
