Not to put too fine a point on it, but it reeks of colonialism. God is with us is a bone-chilling sentiment
Some do. There's a concept in some kinds of Pentecostal mysticism called Gifts of the Spirit iirc, including the Gift of Discernment, which means being able to intuit (technically god's telling you and it feels like intuition) whether a statement is true or false
I grew up in a non-denominational (Pentecostal but worried that people will think they're poor if they say so) church that didn't use any of the Gifts lingo, but still taught that you receive that same set of supernatural abilities
Delegates at the denomination’s convention approved a stricter ban on female pastors and rejected the appeals of two churches led by women to remain in the denomination.
>“No one is asking any Southern Baptist to change their theology,” Mr. Warren said. “I am not asking you to agree with our church. I am asking you to act like Southern Baptists who have historically ‘agreed to disagree’ on dozens of doctrines in order to share a common mission.”
What was the initial Southern Baptist mission again? Oh that's right, it was allowing slaveholders to take leadership positions as well as to take the missionary position
Alien Conquistadors
Basically I'm looking for media where the world is invaded by aliens who want to Civilize humanity. They tell us they're here to save our souls, but what that winds up meaning is slave labor, forced conversions, torture, and executions. Bonus points if it covers Earth's later status as a colony to Space-Spain, and more bonus points if this is all tied to the Space-Doctrine of Discovery uniting Space-Europe under the Space-Pope
I know there have to be a few popular stories out there with premises like this, but I can't think of any, and I'd like to try some
accepting help
We've been tryyyyying, but these ungrateful homelesses just won't have it!
PCD certainly is a serious problem and not a moral failing. As you say, my statement is incomplete, but I might call it focused instead. The reason I'm bringing up lonely men here isn't because I think PCD is confined to men, but because I don't know anything about women's experiences with it
I go into more detail in a separate comment thread, but my take on the way NFT Avatar talks about PCD as sort of, 'just how men work,' is that within their worldview, it very likely is how they're supposed to work. Tradcaths, Evangelicals, Mormons, and non-theistic Fapstronauts as they regrettably call themselves all share similar mechanisms for binding people's sex drives into a feedback loop of doomed internal battles-of-will followed by feelings of shame and inadequacy steeling their resolve for the next doomed battle
It's not just about masturbation, either. It's part of a broader, essentialistic way of looking at people and their sexuality. In that kind of framework, the concept of an "ideal person" can be contrasted to "human nature," and flattened onto a linear conception of morality. So, set the ideal to be both arbitrary and practically impossible, and suddenly you're violating Morality (or some pop-psychology equivalent) by thinking about butts, which almost seems funny until you think about how hellish that is
What I guess I'm trying to say is that, in addition to all the other traumas people go through, we have some massively popular ideologies that systematically inflict particular kinds of ideological trauma on tons of people. I was lucky enough to escape Evangelical philosophy early, but it's hard to describe just how reliably disorienting it can be to have a conditioned anxiety response to experiencing joy
You're putting a lot of words in my mouth, there. Doing a lot of reworking what NFT Avatar and Other Dude actually said, too.
Deeper mental health problems can - and in this specific case do - have an ideological component. I don't know what to tell you besides, "mainstream western culture is is at best permissive of hardcore misogyny and at worst overtly supportive of it, so of fucking course it's a load-bearing part of the most common ideologies that capitalize on men's loneliness."
What? Realizing that sex has physiological effects is not the same thing as, "gotta legit not look at [my girl] for at least a couple hours."
TL;DR - The illuminati is using hot Communist frogs to distract you from Gawd
Fun fact: if you slowly heat up a frog, it will get uncomfortably warm and leave. This says nothing about humans, however, because it's just froglore
Since 2013 she's been publishing her pulp mystery as Robert Galbraith
The most notable person with that name is the MKUltra-ass psychiatrist who invented 'gay conversion therapy', Robert Galbraith Heath
I thought Rowling had a reputation for demanding close control over her movies, though. Considering her track record of high-visibility dogwhistling (like her pen name), I have a hard time believing that the stars of David weren't a factor in choosing the set location
If it was a coincidence, then she must have been over the moon about her luck
Embrace your cringe, comrade. Live in harmony with yourself
Please explain like I've drank a Four Loko. No reason
I do, it's BOTW on your phone for free
If this is another Just Stop Oil one, then they more or less clear the stunt with museums beforehand. At least in the article I read about the soup or whatever, they had checked to make sure that the painting wouldn't be harmed
It's why I dislike them so much
Inland Empire: "People need to know of your vast, oceanic soul."
That Dude: "My soul is immense."
Inland Empire: "Utterly. And it needs to be heard. Through a hate forum. By other people."
So that she could use the name of the "inventor" of gay conversion therapy.
Robert Galbraith, son of a jackal