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Tried supplementing Ray’s eggshell calcium but it turned my bowels into a miniature coral reef, lol. I now take calcium carbonate (chalk) before bed but haven’t really noticed a benefit thus far.
Indeed I did, and my mother kept putting them off so she noted I got a large amount of them at once before I started school and that’s when I began pushing people away/walking on my tippy toes.
You can turn it around. My husband's brother walked on his toes as well as a kid, was more of a loner during highschool and is now completely different. Holds down a full time job, married with a baby. He stopped playing video games all night, that probably was the main factor lol.
I cut video games out around 2015 to focus on my writing career so it’s certainly not that acting as a root cause. I’m a firm believer “gamers” are just a symptom of a nihilistic, atomized, consumerist civilization.
Do you wanna know a remedy for nihilism? Jesus Christ!
Quite the opposite of nihilism. A life of meaning and purpose is where it's at. My son has asperger's, he's a gamer (minecraft and scrap mechanic not fortnite or WoW), quite brilliant, but has no idea how to think abstractly so I understand that believing in God is hard for some people. We are continually praying for him and building him up, I see how the future is going for guys like him and it's heartbreaking.
You sound like a less crass version of my own mother, but shes a Baptist lolDo you wanna know a remedy for nihilism? Jesus Christ!
This is too sad. Sorry to hear this.
Well in all honesty every mother who believes in Jesus Christ will sound a bit like this. We don't push Jesus on him by the way, I pray over him every night and answer his meaningful questions. Previously we were basically agnostic family who let him do whatever he wanted to do, no structure at all. And he was failing to develop at all. He is now making leaps and bounds with more structure and support, with parents who aren't depressed and self obsessed anymore.
At least my autism has woken me to the reality of the world we live in. If i were normal I’d probably be septuple vaxxed and dying of a clot right now.
Did you become Christian after a crisis? That’s what happened to my mother. She used to be the “cool mom” lol.
Just our family failing to thrive. Kids who had oppositional defiance, my other son has ADHD, my life was flat out a disaster, my kids would be practically killing each other and then I'd have to be in the middle of that, then whenever I'd set a boundary they'd come after me like little rebels. lol There is a lie in the anti-authoritarian community that being a rebel leads to happiness and fulfillment, 'just follow your own truth'. Except when that truth is actually leading to your destruction. I saw criminality, not holding down a job, gamer 4chan attitude in their future. I wasn't going to settle for that. They are still young enough and under parental authority enough for me to change their future.
Was that a dig at me, lol? At any rate my mother became baptist after she had a nervous breakdown when my father got drunk and burned the house down then left us living in a hotel.
No, I just see how some of these online communities are a fantasy world. Its an escape from the suffering. My son does it a lot, he prefers watching youtube gamers and refuses to make friends.
True, I just think if you know the history of the "institution" of marriage, it makes a little more sense. For a long time, I though marriage was a bad idea, especially for men. Well, after learning about the modern Marriage License, yes, it's very clear it's a bad deal for both men and women, since the state is in the superior position in the contract. So, it makes sense that the state could demand you vaccinate your kids (for certain benefits), or have CPS take them away for whatever reason. The state views them as THEIR kids, fruits of the contract, and the parents as mere caretakers, in service of the state.
God was never "represented" by the church, but the church was a place where you could learn about god, and other spiritual matters. Some churches may have claimed to represent the creator, but that doesn't mean that they do, any more than anything or anyone else in the creation. And why do you say "the" church, as if there was only ever one religion? Obviously, there are many. Or that religion is even necessary to learn about spiritual matters? Yes, there are some times in the past that some states would align with a particular religion or church, and vice versa, but it was never ALL states. Some states still have an official religion today.
Well said!
What denomination of Christian do you best identify with?
We are definitely reformed, meaning protestant. We go to a non-denominational evangelical church whose main slogan is 'be intentional neighbors that reflect the love of Christ'.
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Just my own personal viewpoint, but as a long time agnostic I find the sticks of Christianity far more compelling than the carrots.We are definitely reformed, meaning protestant. We go to a non-denominational evangelical church whose main slogan is 'be intentional neighbors that reflect the love of Christ'.
This is a video I took this last weekend at church. A young boy was singing. The sermon was about shame. And I couldn't help but cry because that's my underlying problem for my whole life. Toxic shame. Unfortunately churches can perpetuate it as did the church I grew up in, but our church is opposite of that. Once you start healing toxic shame you can truly live a life of freedom. Southern Baptist can be shaming. Depends on the church. Hell fire and brimstone is the opposite message someone with toxic shame needs to hear.New video by Janelle
Oddly enough, strippers don’t do that, and no one takes their small kids to strip clubs, yet we have drag queen story hour in public libraries in major cities and woke parents dragging (no pun intended) their kids drag shows in bars.