The report number is very important. Cops want to brush off stuff that involves protecting people in my experience, buy having evidence of all this is vital if he starts stalking or something like that. He’s unlikely to escalate directly to shooting, but he is at risk of escalation

Yeah you pick it up fairly quickly if you play any conducted music. Especially because a lot of the gestures make a lot of sense. The beats are a pattern with beats to them and the common signatures you get a feel for. But like it doesn’t take a genius to figure out that if the conductor is doing a rising motion at your section you should be playing louder and if it’s increasingly frantic you should be increasingly loud until the hands either come together in a beat (loud finishing note) or they’re separated in a way that will either signal to hold or to fade, or they’ll just start doing a lowering motion to tell you to start piping down. It’s all meant to be very intuitive

Carabiner on a belt loop

Oh cool I’d been considering bluesky for lurking

I enjoy theology and discuss it somewhat regularly with my wife who also is an ex catholic non Christian that likes discussing catholic theology. To me it’s like philosophy but more aspirational, distant, and constrained. It also provides a framework to process religious trauma, express frustration with bad Christians, and to process our feelings as people oppressed by Christiandom.

I say this to provide context, so that when I say I can’t fucking stand those people it’s not that I’m not comfortable hearing about religion or that I just hate it. I actually quite love it, and part of me is sad that who I am and my religion (paganism) block me from having more access to it. But Christians who are like that are rarely tolerant of things like religious differences (I sometimes got called a devil worshipper by protestants for being catholic growing up), lifestyle differences, and people who aren’t like that.

I also find that they are often religiously incurious. They find the solution that works for them, and stick with it, which I can’t judge, but when they study it they don’t ask about why other Christians think differently, they don’t apply the rigor that Jews and Catholics cherish, and they rarely bother learning about other religions either.

But then we get to the primary issue I have, I’m not Christian, and Christianity is regularly used as a tool to oppress me. I’m not interested in returning to it, and I’m frustrated at how much cultural and political power it has in my society.

I hate the idea that you shouldn’t freely provide joy to those around you for the sheer satisfaction of making it. The mammonite brain rot runs deep in a lot of people unfortunately

I want to work a reasonable amount, and have enough time and money to create for my own pleasure if I so choose. I don’t even mind content creation in theory, I see it no different from writing or doing art. It’s the constant pursuit of more, more, more, both status and money, that gets to me. I want freedom, security, and comfort.

Ah the feminizing the name of your political opponents thing. Of course

I see where they’re coming from. It’s a common demand straight men make of women while our culture sees body hair as very masculine rather than the biological element where testosterone is one if several reasons a person may have very thick body hair. And there’s a hypervigilance at times when it comes to cis partners of trans people because enough members of our community have been burned, especially those who date chasers.

That said, having known my fair share of gay men, yeah I wouldn’t jump to transphobia. Especially if you’re kinda twinky.

It’s also important to note that each of the Apostles literally did it. They abandoned their property and families (some were married with children) and they followed him. The command to sell everything, give the money to the poor, and follow him is something this man could see was possible because 12 people there had done it.

If anything I’d say your example is less that religion is inherently a tool of the state, but more that if you gain enough influence without destroying it the state you oppose will teach your corpse to dance.

Yeah I’ve met some priests, monks and nuns, some had even taken a vow of poverty. Non-ordained Christians? Of course not, who has?

Because I’m not interested in having a profile picture and idk even what it would be

You’re not a bad person, she’s more correct, but this is a change in language in process. The bad person thing is to lash out against others doing it as some have.

Also, good on you for actually listening to gentle correction from a friend. That’s something a lot of people struggle with and lash out against

Yeah I just don’t want to be observed while I work. It distracts me. This is true even though I don’t work from home. Maybe this is part of my cptsd, but either way, I find myself far more productive when I’m able to work behind closed doors

Nah I’m an American and didn’t think of Kenyan but seeing it mentioned and yeah they’ve got gorgeous accents.

I love an Arabic accent. Scottish accents are also beautiful in a rough way, as are Appalachian ones.

Avatar the last Airbender taught me to think when in conflict

Every once in a while say in a mocking voice “we demand to be taken seriously, seriously guys stop doing art, we don’t like it”

Exactly, I wholeheartedly advise everyone to just pick up an ohio white pages and spam their government to change the name of their capital to flavortown in honor of central Ohio’s most cherished son.