[–] 19 points 5 days ago (3 children)

A million and one things contributed to my deconstructing from Christianity. One of the smaller, more humorous in retrospect was my pastor saying watching Daredevil would be a serious sin, inviting Satan himself into my thoughts and life. I thought at the time, this collar obviously doesn't know anything about Daredevil and is just making a judgement on the name. Yet he claims to speak with the authority of God. Could it be? Maybe just possibly? This dude is just a lying liar who lies to make himself important to the congregation?

May this asshat ruin DC so thoroughly with his Christianity that it leads millions of more people to question what is true.

If the pastor had claimed watching Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner was the sin because they weren't putting God's gifts of acting to good use, I would have been more keen to listen.

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  • [–] 27 points 5 days ago

    Zillow defines a starter home as one in the lowest third of home values in a given region. As of June, the typical starter home nationwide was worth $198,649, up 1.7% from a year earlier. But in well over 200 U.S. cities, starter home prices are a whopping five times as high as that.

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  • [–] 9 points 6 days ago

    To counter your anecdote with my own, not that I've seen. My Gen Z sister and her cohort of Z friends have a "chosen family" dinner every weekend where they come over and cook. One person takes lead, the rest help as needed, and almost every single one finds recipes and learns techniques from Instagram or TikTok.

    They've come up with some crazy good dishes that I wouldn't have stumbled across via traditional cookbooks and more millennial + oriented websites. My sister also has much better and more varied techniques than I ever got the old way, learning from mother and other relatives.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago

    How long before the billionaires ban surgical methods of birth control, too?

    Hysterectomies are notoriously difficult to get without husband's permission in the US. Even when the person trying to yeet their uterus needs it gone for medical reasons. Not a long shot to see it attempted yet within Trump's two years left.

    As for stopping men from getting vasectomies? Lol, yeah right.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    He might have a multi-series deal with Apple, that's not uncommon. I just watched Dan Levy's latest comedy which is part of a multi-series deal he has with Netflix. Mike Flanagan had the same with Netflix, now he's mid-deal with Amazon I think it is, whatever platform Carrie came out on.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    User Tags. I skim right past when I see a wave of posts from the same user tagged profile. I use red tags for "do not engage" and yellow for "comment with caution". This is my alternate approach to reporting them (assuming they haven't really broken a rule or when the mods aren't active) or to blocking them (not enough users on Lemmy for that, I only block bots and fully public Nazis/pedos).

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 1 week ago* (2 children)

    It's been a few years since she passed, everyone has had a chance to pick out anything they want to keep. Photos and diaries still left have been digitized and shared with any family member who want copies.

    I'm actually first to toss physical nostalgic memorabilia, which is why everything ended up with me; other family members want me to make the stuff go away without having to trash it themselves. I accept my family role. Just the idea of doing geneology as a hobby gives me hives, that is absolutely not me or my personality. I think it is super cool and support other people enjoying it, thank goodness everyone is not like me.

    I appreciate the offer to take a look, but I'm not going to share the things through Lemmy. I keep this account pseudonymous.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 week ago

    Welllll, the Bible does tell of how God uses the rape of innocent women to punish their sinful husband. So if Brand's the flavor of Christian that believes the Bible contains an accurate representation of God's character, then Brand is acting perfectly in line with being a Christian.

    2 Samuel 12:11, David has slept with another man's wife and then killed the man, God says he will have David's wives (concubines) raped in public to punish him:

    Thus says the Lord, > ‘Behold, I will raise up evil against you from your own household; I will even take your wives before your eyes and give them to your companion, and he will lie with your wives in broad daylight.

    He doesn't just condone rape or allow for it to happen, he actively makes it happen "I will raise up evil against you [...] I will take your wives before your eyes".

    Reason 725 I deconstructed.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago

    I have the flexibility to work from home damn near anytime I please, so I plan to avoid the office this week. It's a Midwestern manufacturing facility, so my average coworker is male and decades older than me.

    Most are nice to my face, I don't want to hear them spout racist, bigoted garbage.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 1 week ago

    Towards Portland and Seattle, the Democratic party Promised Land. I hear they let homeless people ramble about free range, gay people are allowed anywhere, and they have a preference for independently produced music over major labels. The Wild West of leftist debauchery and godlessness.

    I assume Democratic party arrows point left to align with the simple left/right political binary.

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