Mike the Therapist

A Weimaraner, and two Dachshunds are snuggled together, wrapped up tightly in a ball on the floor. They are all asleep and look contented and safe.

I found my pack:

Many cultures around the world set aside today and tomorrow to honor and remember the Ancestral roots.

From Samhain to Dia de Los Muertos, we get to remember where we came from: pleasant or fucked up.

I like the Dumb Supper, where we tell the departed stories of the year…and leave them cake!

Are you sure there isn't any algorithm here?
btw...my question is curious not accusatory.

You have a great day too.

Assume all the Christian Nationalist, misogynistic, Tradwife, accounts are bots.

The bots' purpose is to skew the message talking points. If you interact with the bots, it magnifies their presence on your feed. Like answering the telemarketer call spawns others.

Don't respond at all to the bots.

I think many of us who vote Blue believe the Dem party is barely centrist and could stand a lot more movement toward human rights.

We’ll see if they cave.

I think we have to accept the majority of the white people in this country--and many immigrants--are very conservative. It is just is what it is. It makes me discouraged, but it just means we have much more educating to do.

Political advisors are telling the Democratic Party leadership that they cannot be elected again until they stop being TOO liberal.

Since anyone who is actually liberal is clear that the Dem party is just Conservative Lite, that is discouraging. I suspect they will veer more right in the midterms.

I had the same thought.

There is no way Mr. Neurologically-impaired-Prez has written any of his recent SM posts. They contain vocab and syntax he is clueless about. You have to be able to read in order to write.

It's either one of the ideolog minions or an AI bot created to mimic his style, or both.

Regardless, ignore.

Great question.

It's an incredibly easy game in terms of rules to learn.
It's maniacally hard--especially for westerners--to learn the nuances of strategy.

Very true indeed. Money talks.

Truth

Christians, I'll make it really simple.
SNAP benefits
Aid to Jamaica
Bothers you?
Book of James.
IYKYK

More revelations about our culture from our games.

The quintessential American sport is Baseball.
Consider modern baseball.
It is the only major professional sport where a team can spend any amount of money they want. The teams are unequal.

The richest teams are always the winners.
America!

If it blows your mind that Christians could still not know that Tariffs are a tax on the American people, consider that Evangelicals were raised hymns like "Trust and Obey".
The chorus goes:

Trust and Obey
For there's no other way
To be happy in Jesus
But to trust and obey.

Trust Trump
Obey Trump.

Chess centers the King and every piece protects him at the cost of their lives. Like the Western culture which centers all powerful men and the rest are pawns to keep them in power.

In Go, every piece works together to claim more territory. Once placed, they join to other pieces to form coalitions.

I’m studying how a culture’s games reveal so much.

The classic strategy game of the Western word is Chess. In the Eastern world it is Go (Weiqi or Banduk).

In chess, the goal is to protect the KING by sacrificing any and all other pieces.

In Go, all pieces have the same value.

Quel difference!

Can you imagine if you and your family overnight ran out of food? The terror and desperation that would hit you.

Get real: 10s of millions will be without this weekend.
Join with me in donating immediately to the local food bank of your choice. NOW!

They have the distributions networks.

Group polarization is the tendency for groups to show a shift towards the extremes of decision-making when compared to decisions made by individuals.

This implies that a person is less extreme/polarized as an individual than they become when in a group that shares more extreme views and activities.

It’s a word definition box: Hiraeth: N. (Welsh) A spiritual longing for a home which maybe never was. Nostalgia for ancient places to which we cannot return.. It is the echo of the lost places of our soul’s past and our grief for them. It is the wind, and the rocks, and the waves. It is nowhere and it is everywhere.

5. Teaches them to resist changing things and believe what exists now is all “god’s will”.

Evangelicals are so used to the kind of things the Trumpists are doing. They have been trained not to speak up, to assume it will all work out for the best, to believe that obedience honors god.

Back in the 80s the GOP saw in the evangelical church an entity historically designed for their ultimate purposes: Power.

Church structure does the following:

1. Emphasizes obedience
2. Punishes “rebellion”.
3. Centers “truth” in a few leaders.
4. Makes ideology more important than individuals.

Character limits

This is classic.

If you really want to understand Brandon Sanderson's Cosmere, it is good to know that he bases it on the core Mormon doctrine called Exaltation, or the Doctrine of Eternal Progression.

This idea is rooted in early LDS teachings:

“As man now is, God once was; as God now is, man may become.”

Depicting a jar of cheerios with the label "bagel seeds".

As much science as any follower of Kevin can muster:

Bots often give contradictory and bewildering comments. There are as many of them now as there are people on social media. When they’re inconsistent, blatantly rage inducing, or 2 dimensional, just assume they’re bots. If they should happen to be human, they are letting bots write for them.

The bible is a horrible basis for sexual ethics.

It never once condemns sexual slavery (concubines). Read Numbers 31. Yahweh endorses sexual slavery!

The christian bible never corrects this ethic. In fact, not only is it silent on sex slavery, it approves of slavery, at least tacitly.

No.