green except too damn hot @green@awoo.space

@kara_dreamer@witches.town through a rationalist perspective, all deities are fictional. the "weight" of a given religious figure means nothing if one can't make a personal connection with it, and it's the personal connection that *matters*.

part of the reason Catholicism has been so successful as a meme-set is its ability to absorb and adapt local belief systems, and also the options it gives for close personal connection; compare "personal saint" with "totem animal," fr'ex.

@kara_dreamer@witches.town I have some thoughts about this, which also hook into thoughts about adopting "media distortions of deities" that I mentioned to @indi a couple of days ago, and which I maybe need to write out in longer form.

short form: from my observations, unless a person is lucky enough to get into a good religious community that isn't abusive or soul-stunting when young, it seems most people's beliefs/practice/relationship with religion will change over time.

@thefishcrow@cybre.space *sends goodthoughts and gentle nosetouches*

@noelle no see that one's accurate, from what I've heard.

@zangetsu_MG@mastodon.technology

and bro, don't @ me unless and until you read and comprehend @noelle 's posts on the subject. it's on your shoulders to prove you're worth talking to, bro.

@zangetsu_MG@mastodon.technology
look, bro. can I call you bro? I'm pretty sure I can call you bro.

@noelle wrote FOUR POSTS explaining EXACTLY WHAT THE POINT WAS. clearly, without sarcasm, name-calling, or condescension. and you COMPLETELY IGNORED THEM in favor of picking at a post you didn't like. this is why we say that you gamergate-bros aren't worth arguing with; because you don't engage in good faith, you don't listen to anything you can't immediately mock, and you don't learn a damn thing, ever.

me putting Cheerios on the porch railing has sparked a bit of territorial squabbling among the crows. three of them (I think siblings, two from an older batch and one that's still young enough to gape/flutter-beg) have been mostly seen on the porch in the last few days, but now there's a fourth big one that's making a *lot* of noise. I'm not sure if Noisy Newcomer is trying to drive off the Terrible Three, or join them, or become the leader or what.

@baxil ... I'd pretty much forgotten about that, heh. yay! XD

@baxil HI HI HI HEYAH HI :D

@cassolotl@cybre.space I haven't actually played in ages so my dragons are all starving but here's my lair: http://flightrising.com/main.php?p=lair&id=10450

@aldersprig@tootplanet.space I have to admit to being an iri/shim addict. XD

@guerrillarain@witches.town SOUNDS LEGIT TO ME

I've started actually reading this comic http://www.valsalia.com/comic/prologue/01/ and now I am *seeing yinglets everywhere* (which is not a bad thing but it's kind of strange)

like y'know how if you go swimming for a long time you start seeing wave patterns everywhere or is that just me

or snow

yeeeeeeeeeee

(yinglets are FREAKISHLY ADORABLE it's triggering all my Terran instincts omg you guys I can't eeeeee)

@aldersprig@tootplanet.space oh wow, that's one of the very few times I've seen gembond not look like crap. :D