uriel238

🤗🫂 struggling with low emoji literacy.

Based on dress, I'd say:

Alpha: Private Equity Trader, Financier
Beta: Athlete, Footballer
Delta: Mechanic, Plumber
Gamma: Poet, Musician
Omega: Technician, coder
Sigma: Hitman, Organized Crime Goon

The wikipedia article on Hulme is in shambles. What exactly happened to him?

Jesus is a failed apocalyptic prophet from the iron age. He wasn't resurrected, and the narratives written by the biblical authors had their own agendas. The scholarly consensus remains that the OT and NT are not univocal, not divinely inspired and not inerrant. It's a historic work, but is not a strong chronicle of history but of mythology, like The Illiad.

But ministries are always going to take advantage of common mythologies and ideologies to manipulate the people. They are, after all, for-profit institutions in a capitalist market, or before were a nexus of political power. They remain places that serve themselves, not the people.

We can even note that the message of Christianity has changed with time to serve the ministries, to reflect the mores of the culture at the time, though in the 20th century, there was an active effort to shift Protestant Evangelical Christianity in the United States towards American Exceptionalism, far-right conservatism, anti-communism, pro-patriarchy and pro-hierarchy, resulting in the Christian nationalist movement we are facing today. The movement that wants to purge LGBT+ and non-Christians, and force women to become breeding mares is the product of decades of willful manipulation. As some sociologists and historians who are Evangelist, themselves have observed, this may well kill Christianity as we know it today, making it the de-facto bad-guy the way Nazis (the old German Reich ones) have been for the last century.

In the meantime, the poet is doing something different. In this case, it serves the same role as other internal mentors and heroes. In Dialectical Behavior Training (DBT, related to CBT -- the other CBT) imagining what Wonder Woman, or Captain America, or Obi-Wan Kenobi, or Jesus Christ might say to you taps into that part of you that loves you unconditionally, beyond the fear that you don't fit into mainstream society. Jay Hulme is seeing within himself someone that loves and regards him and accepts him for who he is, which is a critical step for all of us, especially those of us who didn't have others to do the job.

(This can also be applied to other media that celebrates the love of Jesus or the love of a mentor, such as I Don't Deserve You by Plumb or The Wind Beneath My Wings by... two songwriters -- Jeff Silbar and Larry Henley -- and performed a whole lot of artists)

Well, to be fair, everything is politics. But yes, the ownership class is looking to displace responsibility for mass scarcity and precarity away from them and are choosing the usual suspects of marginalized social groups. LGBT+ and uppity women are high up on the list along with immigrants.

Precarity (housing precarity, food precarity, job precarity, medical precarity, etc.) is a propaganda force multiplier.

I have a personal hypothesis that self-proclaimed alpha [males] may feel the same gender dysphoria that trans folk do, only it is the sensation that they present less masculine than they actually do, so in their effort to attaining a little bit of machismo they go way overboard.

It's similar I think to the way Donald Trump can be President of the United States, and still feel fragile and unworthy.

Have you ever been to Gruyère?

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I think the bases of the alien was written by Dan O'Bannon, so the sexual assault theme was built into the concept. The notion of sexual consent was only in the 1970s entering the discussion of morality. There was a lot of controversy about whether the sexual assault of a married woman by her husband should be regarded as a crime, and in redder regions of the US, it's still a question.

So yes, stories meant to examine sexual assault, whether predators who use sexual lures or brood parasites and the body horror they invoke were running through the creative veins of Hollywood.

Not true that Giger never revealed such an experience on a talk show, or not true that his art is all about expressing that experience?

To be fair, it'd have to be a pretty liberal talk show for someone to discuss such an experience at all.

Georgian Communists, Trade Unionists and Jews are looking nervous.

The point of coming out for the pride movement is to represent for the rest of the community, to let them know they have allies and peers and are not alone. And when hate groups know we are legion, they are cowed and less inclined to harass.

That said, by all means do not come out until you are good and ready and it's safe. Especially if you suspect your food, job and housing might be at risk or your region deals with a lot of hate crime.