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the real forbidden snack

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Shower thoughts

Is the concept of heaven a dystopia?

A lot of media when attempting to present heaven & angels depict them as righteous to the point of committing atrocities. That angels are soldiers of heaven and without freewill, they are not human, their understanding of "good" is beyond the human's understanding of "good".

But the whole apple thing was like "eat this and you'll know the difference between good and evil", and that gave them freewill.

So if freewill comes with understanding what good and evil is, then... the angels as lacking freewill, do they even have an understanding of what evil is beyond that it exists? Is their understanding of evil less refined?

Like when I was in elementary, the teachers were like "if you're ever bullied, tell a teacher" and I was like, okay... bullying in movies is jocks pushing nerds into lockers, or stealing their food, or giving them an atomic wedgie... so... therefore I'm not being bullied. I was in fact being bullied, but since the method of the bullying didn't match my understanding of the concept of bullying I just thought they were mean.

So... angels without an understanding of evil beyond that it exists, can they actually recognize evil beyond being 'not good'. Limiting concepts, vocabulary, and understanding is dystopian, right?

'Not good' leaves a lot of leeway on what is actually occurring, shades of grey. If all they can understand is that 'not good' = 'evil' there cannot be shades of grey. Humans almost exclusively exist in shades of gray. Everyone goes the righteous way of handling this where angels really do go very extreme in the 'not good' = 'evil', but... Aziraphale in Good Omens (I haven't seen S2, no spoilers) takes it the confused way where he tries to figure out well this is 'not good', so... it's evil then... but is it actually? What a mold breaker.

Also... if we present good and evil as 'kind' and 'not kind'... then....

If sharing is kind, then not sharing is not kind, so if you have something it should be shared if you are to be 'good'. So then... do angels have a concept of personal property? And I don't mean this in the nonmaterialistic sense, but... a 'I didn't realize that counted as stealing because things are meant to be shared. What do you mean this is yours?'

And then an angel getting confused over the whole 'ownership' of things (which should be shared because it is good and kind).

I think Welcome to Night Vale angels are somewhat like this, since they have no concept of currency. Why would you need it if things should be shared?

#shower thoughts #angels #understanding concepts of good & evil

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Made two eggs for dinner... both were twin-yolked. I cooked them over-easy, which I suck at, and managed not to break any of the yolks. Ate them on toast :P

you! the person reading this! please tell me one good thing that happened to you today

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College Shenanigans

Two of my classmates are sick, just saw them after class...

Jewel: "Give me the drugs"

Tie-dye: *hands over a dual-box of DayQuil-Nyquil*

Jewel: "sweet" *trades medicine for Tupperware of homemade soup*

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If we max out the global boops counter... do we get to keep boops as a feature of Tumblr?

Or is this just an April fool's thing?

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April 1st 2024

Booped Neil Gaiman today.... What a world we live in. :D

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Pspspspspspspspspspspsps!!!!!

Reblog if its ok to spam you with boops

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I have not been booped yet, so pspspspspspspspspspsps.....

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petition to bring back saying "huzzah!" when something goes your way and "alas." when it doesn't

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Was reading some article...

It was mostly about pornography and the sexualization of women leading to greater stereotypes about women and submission, such that it affected the way men treat women unequally in society. [Part of an argument against (certain types of) pornography being protected by free speech laws.]

A toxic mindset that links 'femininity' to 'subordinate' to 'lesser-than'.

If I remembered what the article was I'd link it, but it had a line like... gay men, through being seen by other men as more feminine whether or not they appear more feminine, automatically loose social standing because to be a woman is to be seen as subordinate.

Maybe it's because I'm ace, but... I'd never considered the way types of sexualization can grant or diminish social power and become ingrained in the perception of gender. And just... the overlap thoughts I had then about gender, presentation, sex, sexuality, and social power... but specifically about sexualization. I'm not a prolific writer, but I'll try and explain how I'm thinking about this.

One of the issues the LGBTQ+ movement faces is that some people who believe in the binary conflate gender and sex (it's all biologically-based). And therefor pride (parades) get labeled as 'explicit', 'sexual', etc.

It's just the way that being sexualized degrades social power. And the toxic mindset that a person is either 'masculine' or 'feminine', and if you don't identify as just 'masculine' or if there are excuses others could make in order to perceive you as 'not masculine (enough)', then you are automatically feminized.

And to be female is to be subordinate/not-equal.

That's a part of toxic masculinity, right? Stigmatizing men who aren't 'masculine enough' by some arbitrary subjective rule (a slippery slope fallacy). Naturally then that includes sexist concepts about femininity being lesser. In both extremes on the binary there is a toxic sexualization of gender/sex roles to the point where the gender role itself implies its sexual-ness. "Manly men" should be virile and attractive to women (dominant), and "proper women" should be attractive and capable of pleasing their man (submissive/subordinate).

So... if sex/gender is sexualized as an integral part of sex/gender roles....

Masculine = empowered through sexualization of gender role = greater social power

Not masculine = feminine = subordinate through sexualization of gender role = lesser

To fight for equality in the LGBTQ+ community therefor... is to simultaneously fight on a large number of hills. (And as gatekeeping, etc. shows, obviously not everybody even within the LGBTQ+ community itself are aware of every hill.)

There is gender as a separate concept from sex and sexuality. Gender presentation as separate, but overlapping all of those. Gender roles as performative rather than intrinsic. Genders between and beyond 'male' and 'female'. Equality between genders/roles, not just in opportunity, but also social power. And toxic sexualization as harmful to all points (as it can reinforce the binary).

People who are dead-set on not believing in gender/sex outside of the binary... also (possibly automatically) are difficult or impossible to convince in many of these other topics. For them it is not a handful (or more) of hills, but one or two, which is fewer points to defend.

In other words... we have our work cut out for us.

But really... realizing that most defenses I've heard before for the gender binary include either circular-argument or slippery-slope fallacies. LOL. Probably wasn't what my Logic & Critical Thinking teacher was intending. LMFAO. Or maybe it was.

#LGBTQ musings #Logic & Critical Thinking #Argument

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It's more important to remember than to mourn.

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Avocado... they give me a stomach ache.

hey, tag this with a food people get really upset about you not liking

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Anyone else tired of being? Like... can I get a vacation from... existing?

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Family Hijinks

Mom: "what's that face for? Is that the 'leave already' face? Or the 'old hotdog' face,"

Me: *grimacing at sad frozen pizza that got soggy because it thawed and refroze* "Old hotdog face for sure.... This is disgusting, so I'm covering all its sins with spicy flakes."

Mom: lol

Me: *pained*

#family hijinks

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Family Hijinks

Friend: "Would throwing hot milk on someone who's lactose intolerant be a hate crime?"

Me: "IDK, but if it's really hot that would definitely be assault...."