@nursefrombirth

Beauty pageants objectify and sexualize women. I think they're disgusting. We are so much more than our bodies.

@DevinY1

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@Bliss
Because they don't care about the elderly, the disabled, or anyone who isn't a wealthy cisgender heterosexual white male. As far as they are concerned, we are a drain on society and should be exterminated.

@dauphin87

I can't understand how anyone with functioning brain cells would vote for a science denying, anti-vax, conspiracy-theory-spewing idiot like him. He's a distraction. They are hoping he will still votes from Biden so the dictator wannabe can finish destroying our country.

@nealfig

Hardly shocking. This is Kemp's last term, and he's going to spend it being an asshole. Oppressing migrants, women, and everyone else he hates is his goal.

Well, it's after midnight. It's supposed to be 94 fucking degrees here today. I'm not looking forward to this. Hopefully, if meteorologists are correct, it will cool off tomorrow -- back into the mid 80s, at least. Let's see what kind of storms this insane weather pattern kicks up.

@QueenOfEverything @sfleetucker

I was just going to say this. GMTA!!

@Beanc 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@AskTheDevil

I've reached a point where I refuse to blindly accept stories handed down and written by patriarchal men attempting to explain what can't be explained by attributing good to the deity they created in their own image while blaming humans for being human and fucking up on a regular basis. If we can be bad on our own, we can be good on our own. Too much evil has been done in the name of a supposedly benevolent God.

@AskTheDevil

I won't even get into holy wars, forced conversions, burning people at the stake, drowning them, or dismembering them in the name of a loving deity. It's irrational to think he/she/it created an entire planet full of people just to play favorites and condemn 98% of them for the benefit of the chosen ones.

It's not easy looking at this through different eyes after half a century of conditioning, but I can't keep pretending everything they told me was true.

@AskTheDevil @stueytheround

And it wasn't just Pharaoh. Look what Hitler did. Look what white colonizers did to indigenous people when they came to North a
America. Look at how our government interfered in the governments of other countries for decades, leading to an immigration crisis those who claim to worship God blame on desperate people instead of the ones who caused it? It seems to be rather one-sided from where I stand.

@AskTheDevil @stueytheround

Two main things bother me.

First of all, the concept of free will is a copout if God is all powerful, all seeing, and all knowing. Are we really free to do whatever we want if he knows what we're going to do before we do it?

Secondly, why does he get credit for everything good, but we either blame ourselves or some invisible evil entity for everything bad when the good guy could have stopped it? It's almost like it's all built on guilt and shame.

@stueytheround

Thank you. At this point, there are no answers. Giving all the credit to God when something good happens but blaming humans when things go wrong just makes no sense to me any longer.

Pharaoh really didn't have a choice. It even says in the Bible God hardened his heart so he could use him as an object lesson by punishing his entire country for something God knew he was going to do before he was even conceived. That's the kind of thing that blows my mind.

@stueytheround

More than anything, I appreciate you allowing me to finish this frustration without judgment or push back. It's just where I am. I don't think I'll ever be able to understand the concept of free will -- because it's not really free, is it? My freedom to do as I choose should, for all intents and purposes, end where someone else's freedom not to be affected by my choices begins. I shouldn't be free to assault someone else. That violates their free will.

Thank you for listening.

@stueytheround

How can the ultimate example of love and compassion sit there and watch all the ugly, hateful, disgusting things people do to each other, and not do a thing to intervene? I get the concept of free will, but is it really free will when someone can impose their will on another person without their consent?

Like I said. I have so many questions.......

@stueytheround

I could have been anything. I'm smart. I'm really fucking smart. However, thanks to the treatment I received as a child, I grew up feeling like I would never be successful at anything, that I would always be a failure -- nothing more than a disappointment.
And then, when we fail to realize our potential, they call us lazy or unmotivated.
I just don't get the point. Where is the love in any of that? Why allow it to happen in the first place? Why not stop it before it starts?

@stueytheround

What is the point of allowing a child's innocence to be stolen by a selfish son of a bitch who can't control his hormones or urges? Why sit by as children are beaten and degraded and insulted and tormented by their caregivers? I don't see the purpose in it. It's cruelty. How can love be that cruel? It makes absolutely no sense at all. Where is the justice for ruining a child's life? What's the point of all that pain? It doesn't help anything or anybody. It's senseless.

@stueytheround

And don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that I don't believe. I'm struggling because I would sacrifice my own life to protect my children. End of story. If anyone ever hurt my kids there would be hell to pay. Here on planet earth, every single day children are neglected, abandoned, beaten, and brutalized, and very few perpetrators ever pay any kind of price for what they've done -- while victims will pay for those acts every day for the rest of their lives.

@stueytheround

Please don't think I'm asking you for answers, because some of these questions don't have answers. It's just where my head is right now. How can he sit by and watch the evil going on in the world today and not do a damn thing about it? What is the purpose of genocide, murder, rape, slavery, cruelty, starvation, racism, bigotry, ableism, and hypocrisy? What do they achieve? How do they help us become better people? How do they point us to God? I can't see it.

@stueytheround

This is just adds layers to the layers I'm already dealing with in my brain. 🤔
"God is a good and loving father." I have no idea what the fuck a good and loving father is like, because my dad wasn't one, and my stepfather certainly wasn't one. How can I have faith in something I don't know anything about? Secondly, if he is a good and loving father, why didn't he stop the abuse so many of us suffered throughout our childhoods? What good did it do us to be mistreated?