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    4 days ago

    I don’t know what end of 20’s you’re at, but I’m in my late 20’s. I have 3 younger siblings. The oldest of my siblings also did this, but the younger two did not. The third sibling would watch Youtube and stuff with friends on like a XBox, but not just browsing the web or playing flash games. By the time my youngest sibling was about that age, all of their friends had some form of internet connected device on their own. Whenever their friends would come over, they’d watch movies or play board games or other “in person activities”, but not browse the web together.




  • I got to that chapter in the book (Chapter 10) and had to set the book down for a while. Not because it blew my mind or “expanded my understanding of reality”, but because I though I might understand what he meant and knew that absolutely couldn’t be the case.

    The first 6 - 8 chapters are genuinely a great read, do a great job explaining all of the ‘basics’ of black holes at a level that most people can understand.


  • Growing up I discovered that there are two types of catholics. My church once had a temporary priest (our previous priest had just been sent on sabbatical and they didn’t have a replacement lined up) reassigned because he gave back to back anti-abortion and homophobic homilies in two weeks and we weren’t okay with that. The aforementioned previous priest routinely spoke in support of the queer community (usually just gay folks, but occasionally trans & beyond), talked about how we should be doing more to support the poor and underprivileged, and generally preacher a doctrine of love and tolerance.

    But there are also Catholic groups who preach against all of that, believing that the word of the pope/gospel supersedes interpretation of it. My old roommate once genuinely said that “being gay is fine, it’s just a sin to act on it”. He went to a different church only about an hour from mine, yet they were being preached the near opposite of what I was. And as other users have mentioned, that rift can grow depending on exactly where you go in the church.