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andros_rex

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  • Xmas at the mega church

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  • Yes - US. I was honestly uncomfortable and thought it seemed dicey to force teachers to be around all of the propaganda, but using public funds to push religion is the least unethical thing Epic Charter Schools does lol.

  • Xmas at the mega church

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  • I worked for a school district that contracted with a church as a space for professional development. It’s not uncommon.

  • Xmas at the mega church

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  • The idea that Mary was a virgin predates Christianity having any sort of power. It’s more the influence of Greek philosophy (anti materialism)

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  • There was some sort of ritual where young women were invited to spend a night at the temple, with priests. Due to the religious nature of this, they were still considered to be virgins (“marriable” I guess?) afterwards. Quite the opposite, it was seen as an honour. Even if they got pregnant.

    I don’t think there’s any evidence of this.

    The Bible has a story with a character pretending to be a temple prostitute to secure her inheritance. But when she becomes pregnant, she is supposed to be put to death. I don’t think temple prostitution was at all a thing by 700 BCE, much less 3 BCE, and it seems more like a holdover from extremely uncomfortable ancient at the time of writing practices - kinda like some of the remnants of child sacrifice that you can find in the OT. I think this is also something the Romans would have noted.

    This is something I would believe about a Roman temple maaaaaaaybe. I think your source heard a garbled version of the idea of the Vestal Virgins, and got really confused beyond that.

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  • Yeah, I know and knew, hence not following that path. Went for teaching where I did 80 hour weeks for a little more than minimum wage instead. But we’re talking about “perfect” lives here - which for me, would be being a professor of Chinese history or math at a small liberal arts university in a small town where no one gave a shit I was trans.

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  • I really would have liked to have become a history or math professor at a small university. Living close enough to campus to walk, getting to go to my colleagues lectures and learn new things, keeping a dozens of books checked out from the library at the same time…

  • What little things do you do each day that are your small ways of sticking it to the man?

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  • I used to travel a lot in eastern Oklahoma, and left a lot of stickers at gas stations in the middle of bumble fuck nowhere towns. Probably less smiles and more anger honestly, but fuck them. Also did some on a trip to Missouri, where I’m pretty sure it was illegal for me to piss.

  • What little things do you do each day that are your small ways of sticking it to the man?

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  • “A trans person peed here” stickers in gas station bathrooms/other public bathrooms.

  • What are your favorite fake video games?

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  • The Giant’s Drink from Ender’s Game always seemed really compelling to me. The emergent gameplay reacted to your state of mind and serving as some sort of arcane test of your mind.

  • Debate sparks after OU student's essay citing Bible gets failing grade

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  • What concerns me is that there is already a massive problem with mental health care in Oklahoma being very religious, and this person being a psychology major. This is not a person who would be a safe practitioner for an LGBT person to turn too - they are showing that they are someone who cannot remain professional and separate their work from their personal religious beliefs.

    As an OU alum myself, I also am disappointed with that quality of writing from a junior.

  • Debate sparks after OU student's essay citing Bible gets failing grade

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  • Debate sparks after OU student's essay citing Bible gets failing grade

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  • be lazy college student

    don’t want to bother with the readings

    write half baked essay I do no research for (which literally says that bullying is not bad “The article discussed peers using teasing as a way to enforce gender norms. I do not necessarily see this as a problem.”)

    throw in religious crap so I can make money on the conservative grifter circuit

  • OpenAI says dead teen violated TOS when he used ChatGPT to plan suicide

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  • God this. Before I was stupid enough to reach out to a crisis line, I had a job with health insurance. Now I have worsened PTSD and no health insurance (the psych hospital couldn’t be assed to provide me with discharge papers.) I get to have nightmares for the rest of my life about a three men shoving me around and being unable to sleep for fear of being assaulted again.

  • Campbell’s Soup VP mocks ‘poor people’ who buy its food in secret recording

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  • There’s some sort of lawsuit with retaliation over whistleblowers/racism, and I think the guy was recording to make sure that any salary promises were documented. The whole situation seems fucked.

  • Campbell’s Soup VP mocks ‘poor people’ who buy its food in secret recording

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  • The companies Facebook is getting wrecked by the “MAHA” crowd, which is pretty hilarious. They are not happy about the bio-engineered meat.

  • Schrödinger Jesus

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  • Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene to resign in January

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  • From elsewhere, I’ve heard she’ll be fully vested in congressional retirement at the exact date she’s resigning.