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It has its utility but I definitely agree it's harmful in the long term. It would be nice to not have to mask to be accepted.

He's lucky, it sounds like he found out at the right time. I didn't find out until much later and while my coping and masking skills work for a few hours, they're exhausting to do, they make me feel like I'm lying about who I am, and I can never be relaxed around people.

That sounds scary and dangerous, good work with the sobriety! I have had addictions that I cannot go near again because I know I don't have the ability to control them "in moderation," and it's a lot of effort to stay away but worth it.

Did it help? Was there any lasting effect that you noticed, good or bad? MDMA is the only thing I've tried that helped me break through some significant barriers and had positive effects after sobering up that have continued for over a decade. In the right setting I would be up for taking it again.

They didn't read that far. Most of them who even start don't even get to the "begat" sections, Genesis 5 if you start in the Old Testament and Matthew 1 if you start in the New Testament. So, the very first books of each testament.

Only if the wall is connected to the outside. If the wall is completely internal and unconnected to the outside wall, you will never get out. That's why you should always carry bread in your pockets when you leave the house, to leave a trail of crumbs so you have something to eat when you come back to your starting point in the maze.

No, the best thing to do is put it back where you got it from.

What's your experience with people who have both?

At those prices, they've gotten a taste of their own medicine. Highway robbery.

And those helicopters could probably mow a quarter acre of lawn in only a couple seconds. 1000 helicopter hours is like 500,000 acres of mowed lawns or something, which seems like way more mowing than Afghanistan needs.

These numbskulls who want the 10 commandments everywhere don't even know what the 10 commandments are, or that there are multiple versions of them, or that basically half of them are explicitly about God, a specific God, and not the "common sense commandments" to not steal, not commit adultery, not lie. Why are they teaching children about adultery if they're so opposed to sex ed, anyway? And the common sense ones aren't clear, either. It's not "don't lie," it's, "don't bear false witness against your neighbor." They couldn't even get that right. The dumb commandments.

I want to believe it, too, but those kinds of subjects were front and center and people made it very clear that they were proud to hold those beliefs.

It was a university that brands itself as a non-denominational Christian school. Fully accredited, and those kids all went on to good medical/graduate schools. Very conservative place, where saying something like the universe is billions of years old is controversial. I started there very conservative with the intention of becoming a missionary, and ironically, close study of biblical archeology, canon, history, apologetics, and hermeneutics sowed the seed of doubt that blossomed into atheism and a renewed love for science and philosophy. So, not everything was bad!