"There is no such thing as a Catholic child. There's only a child of Catholic parents.
There's no such thing as a Protestant child, only a child of Protestant parents.
There's no such thing as a Muslim child, only a child of Muslim parents."
-- Richard Dawkins
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One of the wildest things about end times anxiety/sadness at least in my experience was that you weren't allowed to express it in any significant way. Expressing any type of dissatisfaction with the end times coming soon (because everyone would take any natural disaster or war or bad thing in the world as indication that the end times are upon us) was met with you being shamed for not trusting god, not trusting his timing, for being haughty and prideful thinking you could possibly know the day and hour when not even the angels know, and don't you want jesus to come back? It's a good hopeful thing and your anxiety and fear and sadness and any other negative feelings are signs you don't love and trust the lord enough. It is completely twisted to not only tell children the world is ending soon, but to also force them to look forward to it.
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you have said that Collins grew up in the military. can you go into that a little more? was he in a military family or was it something else?
Ooooohhhh definitely!!
Technically, Collins grew up on one of the small outlying moons that was terraformed early on. It was primarily an industrial colony that was used to mine mineral resources but his father was an officer in the military so they had a steady income. He was killed though, during the first wars, when Collins was 8 and the money was cut off.
His mother worked in the mine and he picked up odd (often dangerous) jobs that were willing to pay a child under the table. He survived with his mother and his little sister until he was 12 and was old enough to legally be recruited into a military program if there was a war going on to bolster the ranks- and with parent approval.
He wanted to make sure his little sister was taken care of 🥺 so he joined up. He was put into cadet training right away and killed his first enemy soldier only a year later. He showed great promise.
Collins refused to go home after that. But he made sure that every single check went to his family until the wars ended almost two decades later.
He still sends home what money he can but his little sister is all grown up now. She was able to get an education with the money that was sent and came back home to work as a doctor. Their mother lives with his sister and her partner and they take good care of her.
Collins genuinely doesn't know how to face them after all these years and all the lives he's taken. He's seriously a master avoider and truly believes people are simply better off without him.
Prim was in a similar program but she's a few years younger than Collins. They didn't meet until they were put on the same team in their early twenties.
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Unveiling Our Alienator: The Truth About Tina Wilkinson
On December 17, 2015, amidst a staggering 17 court appearances, a pivotal day was uniquely recorded, capturing a momentous turning point in our relentless battle against parental alienation. This specific court date emerged as a consequence of the alienator’s relentless attempts to undermine our family. Back on September 24, 2015, she had invoked the intervention of the police, despite a prior…
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genuinely so awesome and interesting how alicent’s politics are motivated by the rigidity of her worldview and the amount she really really truly believes in the rightness of the oppressive social order she is trapped in + the faith of the seven. and then her dad Otto, the de facto leader of the whole team green political faction, just does not believe in any of that shit at all except that it’s good optics. literally no real principles except acquiring and consolidating power.
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y'all remember when book fairs used to have those "banned books" display sections that advertised books based on that fact that they had been banned in schools in the past and everyone went "haha wow, it's crazy that they banned books like this! what a wacky thing to do!" haha........ yeah....... who would even do that......
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"People most often follow a religion not because of personal revelation or transcendent truths, but because the religion is culturally familiar, taught at an early age, and linked to where and by whom one is raised."
-- David G. McAfee
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So much of what bothers me about the "idk what kind of Christians YOU were around but I've never seen anything like that in MY church" is that it has this implied "it's your fault for surrounding yourself by bad Christians" when so many of us are victims of child indoctrination and had literally no choice in who we were to be in community with. It's also fucking wild to blame a child for trusting the people they were told they had to trust in order to avoid eternal torment, especially when even other versions of xtianity were demonized and could send you to hell. Victim blaming is shitty regardless but it's an especially low blow when it's a child who literally could not have known any better.
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Tma really is a 200 episode journey about a world that staffed its one line of defense with only-children who had the audacity to be shocked at the stabing, brain slurping, apocalyptic consequences
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Friendly reminder girls can like boyish things and be tomboys and boys can like girly things and be feminine without being transgender.
“Dismantling gender roles” doesn’t work if you insist that any child who shows interest in something that goes against their sex implies they’re the opposite.
In fact it just reenforces those gender roles the woke crowd seem to hate so much
Interests have no gender and anyone can like anything. It doesn’t mean they’re not who they were when they were born.
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