we get that same crap in australian schools, too. i just tell my children the truth when they get home, and then when they ask "is the teacher wrong", i just say "in this instance, yes, but your job isnt to question them, yours is to let them pretend they have authority until you're in a better position to take it away from them when you can think for yourself"

/r/lostredditors?

Giant wall of text, too hard to find out what the purpose of the article is.

i still dont understand the catholic obsession with saints.... they're just other saints, i dont remember anywhere in the bible where it says we have to treat some saints in higher prestige than others

the obsession with "consecrated souls" only being ones who enter the priesthood, ticks me off

Latter-Day Saints are "mormons".... 'mormon' is a nickname given to them because of The Book of Mormon

like how some of us refer to communist authoritarians as 'tankies'

it's a nickname, not a name they chose themselves... but it stuck, so they just roll with it

also, we used to call muslims "Mohamedans" until about the 19th century, because we didn't know any better, but the name stuck around for so long that it just became a common term

so as an anglican, i see catholics "venerating" saints, but it looks no different to their "adoration". it makes non-catholics think that catholics have completely forgotten about jesus, like he's the scary uncle nobody wants to talk to but everyone acts nice to him at thanksgiving so they can be in the will when he dies.

dictionary: "a person acknowledged as holy or virtuous and regarded in Christian faith as being in heaven after death". i cant find any biblical references to criteria for being a saint, but there's a separator in colossians: "To the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father.", so apparently not all 'faithful brothers (and sisters) in Christ' are saints then, ey..... weird

that's why catholics confuse me.... so much of their energy is spent in activities that glorify their church as an establishment, rather than glorifying jesus because of their relationship with him

i revere my father, but i don't praise the establishment that facilitates that relationship

i mean my human father, my biological father

looks like idolatry to me 😛

no, but they're the only christian denomination to not talk about jesus and God, only saints and their church establishment

catholic witness never involves god

creed != witness

that is a possibility i will concede

i (begrudgingly) envy the catholics in that they have an institution they can identify with and that others recognise. when i tell people i'm an anglican, if they're not from australia they look at me funny, like i said i was some random googoogaagaa religion

"if you sin, you go to hell. let's focus on the hell part, rather than redemption"

that's why so many people turn to faith groups like Hillsong, because they get to hear about jesus, and get to learn how to have a personal relationship with him, without the onerous ritualistic stuff

ie. "come as you are"

i'm not a fan of prosperity gospel, and then there's the whole cheating thing

what makes them false?

jesus associated with prostitutes and lepers, that doesn't mean he was one....

keep your friends close and your enemies closer, so you can witness to them and pray they turn their ways 🙂

you should see some of the sjw crap they're teaching in catholic schools in australia... dear god, save me

this is what i got from the catholic services i attended..... no mention or discussion about how jesus loves me, just "do this, do that".... that only applies to people who had already devoted their lives to jesus.... i was still on the fence at the time, so the rules made no sense

all i felt when i went to catholic services was blame and guilt, no redemption or love there whatsoever.... catholic preachers and laymen here in australia have become so insular that it only appeals to those who grew up in the church, which is why attendance and new converts are dwindling

anglicanism is somewhat similar in that it's focused on maintaining a status quo, rather than sharing their gift of god's love with the world. there's no catholic or anglican witness here, mostly it comes from indian and southeast-asian presbytarians

lol ray comfort, that's the living waters dude.... i get random pamphlets in my mailbox every few months from his followers

last one i got was the one about the science in the bible, was an interesting read

ahh cool

will have a look

hola to all my #superstraight brothers and sisters out there 🙂

the shitposting must go on 🙂

the irony with superstraight is that if everyone else on the spectrum can identify what types of humans theyre sexually attracted to, and exclude others, why can't the rest of us do so?

though i will admit, there's a fair few "trap" MtF out there that i would say are hot AF, for a 'chick'

i wonder when the rainbow community will stop poking fun at straight white weaboos with "yellow fever".... lol

or, alternatively, maybe asian girls learned how to be feminine, rather than masculine snu-snu like a larger portion of the anglosaxon women. obesity rates in china are far lower than in the US

fuck the CCP, but the girls there are still cute 🙂

i live in Australia, where the women here have been selectively bred for huge tatas and fat arses, also obesity after 30. not many choices left for women in this country that could peak my interest when i was in my 20s

i'm kinda glad that mgtow vanished in to the aether

they still sorta exist, but they've been pigeonholed in to their own little subreddit where they instaban married men as "cucks". yeah, sure guys, whatever you say. you espouse a partriarchy, but forget that we need to breed in order to survive, LOL, wankers.

i'm glad that sensible people like Stephen Crowder, JBP, et. al, have moved away from the redpill movement. it's toxic af

mgtow'ers who claim to have realised that women exist to entrap men so they have a nest to control

"redpilled" being contextual in this instance

as a synonym for "enlightened"

yep, but it got hijacked by the mgtow's

hi MGTOW, i'm dad

check out the 'marriedredpill' subreddit, and you'll see what im talking about

impersonating the bot? huh

okay, fair enough

where the matrix is a system of control over which you have no influence, ie. an authoritarian system. therefore, fighting it only applies to anti-authoritarian people, and not auth right

so if a monarchist is auth right, they're in favour of a system that existed prior to merchant capitalism, ie. feudalism, no?

which is why i'm trying to say that only the greens and yellows on the politicalcompass are woke/redpilled

obama has entered the chat 😛

you call them by their name

when someone tries to force me to use their pronouns, or their gender isn't obvious, i just use "them/they"

exactly. so, while i despise facebook for being a cesspool of shit, and for selling private data to other companies, i also support their right to do whatever the hell they want within the confines of the law and of common-law contracts

"common" being a misnomer here

saying that a large number of people are nonbinary, is like saying humans have 11 or 12 fingers, and forcing every glove manufacturer to provide gloves with 11 or 12 fingers. it's such a small portion of the human race that it's irrelevant

how to determine a human's sex: look at the combination of chromosomes in the 23rd chromosome pair.

sex defines the arrangement of the 23rd chromosome pair. gender really IS a social construct, because it's an invented system of bullshit

hot: adds thermal energy to a system. cold: removes thermal energy from a system

uhh, no. from the moment the male and female gametes form a zygote, the baby has a singular cell with DNA, not RNA. RNA has no sex, but DNA does.

are 3x women fertile?

i wonder if the woke crowd has started fighting lesbians, saying they're bigoted for only being attracted to genetic females, and not MtF's

isn't the whole point of the 7billion genders to identify to other people which other genders they'd like to have sex with? so why not "biological male born as male who only gets hard to biological females who were born female"?

that was a description, the term is "superstraight", less wordy

yeah but if you're straight, that means you could be male and sexually attracted to females. but, you can't exclude male transsexuals who are transitioning to females.... even if they look like Randy Savage

"superstraight" is a way to say your sexual preferences only include those who are superficially, mentally, and genetically of the opposing binary gender, and that you do not want to have sex with people who are of any other genders than that ONE gender.

calling yourself "superstraight" either truthfully or ironically (as I do), shows recognition of the 'existence' of other genders beyond male and female, so theoretically it should shut up the alphabet crowd who claim straight people don't accept other genders exist.

because the scientific method is not something they're familiar with. "trust the science" doesn't work when your thesis has been disproven

that's called "pansexual"

they feel insignificant in a big society, so they're using labels to give themselves some relevance. it's also perfect Marxist strategy: divide and conquer

to be fair though, my first root was with a "tomboy" girl, who absolutely went off in the sack, but didn't want a longterm thing, or kids, etc.

because they proclaim to the world that they deserve to have sex and that society is opressing them by not letting them fuck

there's a difference between "perma-virgins" (ie. dudes who can't get laid) and "incels", who loudly proclaim their virginity and blame it on the world

she didn't really present herself as a girl, but didn't care about all that pronoun shit. this WAS the 90s, lol

being an incel is a label you give yourself. never being able to get laid, well, that's just called being unlucky, lol

but, hurr durr, ACAB muh freedurrrms

can we build walls around these so-called "autonomous zones"?

the difference between an incel and an unlucky-in-love bloke, is that when you ask them "why havent you had sex yet?", a NORMAL person would say "i just havent found the right person. maybe i'm too ugly? maybe i'm too fussy? i dunno, but sex would be nice".... an incel would say "women are whores and fuck chads left right and centre, but refuse to fuck ME. they should fuck me"

incels blame the chads, normal blokes don't

i used to be an incel in my teen years, always blaming "hot guys" for "taking all the women".... then i realised that the reason 'chads' were getting laid and i wasnt, was that i had no confidence. once you get over that hurdle, you're drowning in muff 😛

let me introduce you to a nice little ghetto in Melbourne and Sydney

full of a particular demographic who come here to return home to the middle east to fight for ISIS and other mujahadeen

https://tenor.com/view/thriller-michael-jackson-eating-popcorn-watching-gif-5577709

not just a muslim ghetto, we've got tons of those here, but there's two particular suburbs in both cities that breed kids who go back to the middle east to fight as mujahadeen

do you like colons? :

nope, we had a few hundred of them fly over a few years ago to fight with ISIS. most had their australian visa's cancelled when they tried to return, some are in prison, a lot of them died and their passports were found later in the rubble

you mean sargon of akkad?

nah not at all.... the whole reason they came over here was to get money and soldiers to bring back to ISIS

that was the legacy of an era where we accepted EVERY undocumented immigrant who came here by boat

yep. most came here as small children with their parents, or in their late teens, and went back a few years later with tons of cash to fund ISIS

./;

kinda. they've been sending CCP-sympathetic people here to buy out property, land, real estate, businesses, natural resources, as sleeper agents so that when the CCP pulls the strings, they can send the goods back to china. at the start of the pandemic, there was a massive shortage of PPE (masks, sanitiser) in australia, and there were warehouses and shipping containers full of enough masks to provide every citizen one per day for a year

i would rather live in a country that's seen as "america's whipping boy", than one that kow-tows to the CCP.