Being Gen-X means having access to modern technology without the burden of having grown up with it. www.usatoday.com/story/life/h...

God exists only within one's mind. Few things support this truth more than God telling horny men to sleep around. youtube.com/shorts/HyDFK...

What's the difference between legality & unenforced illegality? If our leader is allowed to break the law without consequence, we're already in a dictatorship. To accuse him of breaking the law is meaningless so long as those responsible for enforcing the law refuse to do so.

1 in 5 GOP seats flip to Democrat, 0 flip to GOP. They fucked around with fascism & now, slow but sure, they're finding out. Watching conservatism (a political philosophy I consider wholly irrational) take a hit warms my heart every time.

Yeah they had to change the definition quite a while ago because apostles were getting depressed about feeling unworthy when Jesus never appeared to any of them.

What she said is, "I actually know someone who prayed for someone who only had a partial limb & it grew." But what I heard is, "I know someone who told me a story about praying for someone with a partial limb & it grew."

"If we stay the course, we are dead! We are all dead!" – John Connor

It's such a strange thing that conservative fans of Star Wars see themselves as heroes of the rebellion, completely blind to the reality that they are the loyalists to the empire that Star Wars so heavy-handedly warns us against.

"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." MAGA are traitors.

Surviving cancer put everything in perspective. When you've been that close to death ... losing a movie role doesn't seem like the tragedy it once did. "The main cause of death is birth." – Jeff Speakman youtu.be/TQ0BsX7PNd4

None of us were born who we are. We become who we are because of what happened to us & what was done to us.

"What you do unto the least, you do unto me." It's truly astonishing how many Christians hate Jesus.

"...without having given enough thought..." That's the problem right there. Conservatism is inherently irrational. People choose it specifically because they don't think.

Just finished watching the show "Andor". And man, what a great show. And unfortunately so relevant to our current times as the country continues its absurd experimenting in fascism. We can only continue to fight & hope we don't reach Star Wars levels of evil. www.imdb.com/title/tt9253...

Turns out that, despite what many post apocalyptic sci-fi stories have warned about, the robots need not obtain anything close to self awareness in order to destroy humanity... Just the support of megacorporations bent on profits at any cost. futurism.com/health-medic...

The 10-year reign of "Stoo" being the weirdest spelling of my name that I've seen has come to an end!

Some day people might ask, "But how did good Americans turn into evil hateful fascists?" And those of us alive today will remind them that they didn't turn. They were already evil & hateful. That ICE has no problem recruiting people to commit evil shows us that truth.

Can you imagine being called to the "Las Vegas Summerlin Giving Machine" mission? 😳😄

Having lunch at a shopping center in Vegas & saw 2 things for the first time: a Mormon Giving Machine & sister missionaries wearing pants. Such a progressive church!! 😄

Why in the world would any person with even the tiniest modicum of moral decency want to hang out at a club filled with Nazis that the fascist owner built specifically to cater to Nazis? Though I guess the ability to think isn't exactly a fascist's strong point.

"Is there any physical evidence that supports the Book of Mormon?" The short answer is, "No." The long answer is, "No, there's nothing." 😄

"If people knew how fragile their bodies actually are, they'd never leave their homes." The idea that we're intelligently designed, rather than flimsily formed from frail materials by uncaring & unthinking forces of nature, is something I consider to be one of the more absurd claims of religions.

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar. "Megatron must be stopped... No matter the cost!" Believe it or not, I've seen this movie over 50x.

Many think that since the entire world's population could easily fit inside of France with a density no worse than NYC, we should just keep on breeding w/o concern. There's plenty of space after all! But it's not about the space we take. It's about the impact of 8 billion waste producers.

I'm not anti-natalist, but I'm all for reducing the human population substantially. To what numbers? Based on virtually zero research on my party, I often say 100 million at the top. At the bottom? 1 million. People think it's crazy. But I don't think it's that crazy at all.

We are in late-stage capitalism where the wealthy elite don't care about you or me. The proof is that they've chosen to pursue riches beyond all reason over the betterment of society. Best comment: "That's why it's called the American dream. Because you have to be asleep to believe it."

Conspiracy theorists see conspiracies everywhere for a reason. And it's not because of their superior critical thinking skills nor their deep knowledge & understanding of the world. 😂

This is video of two "ringers" (essentially Australian cowboys) wrangling a bull on foot with their bare hands. Which is really cool in itself! But the hilarious comments make it even better 😄

The more I hear Avi Loeb spout his absurdities, the more it feels like he's a frustrated sci-fi writer who could never get published so he peddles his nonsense to gullibles instead. Harvard has got to be so immensely embarrassed having their name thrown around as validation to a grifter.

Guess I definitely won't be using H&R Block ever again. www.reddit.com/r/Minority_S...

Sometimes a person's desire to believe is more important to them than the truth. And sometimes, what someone gets out of a relationship is so valuable to them that they're willing to continue it even though they know it's fake & that they are being scammed.

I was told to study the "Plan of Salvation" in a Mormon blessing I received. So I did. The idea that an omnipotent being is only capable of forgivness by having his son horrifically tortured to death makes absolutely no sense. And I think it's incredibly strange that people pretend that it does.

Anger is an overwhelming emotion that removes one's ability to think rationally. And that's why I don't believe in anger management. You can't effectively manage anything while you're irrational. I believe in learning to never be angry. Not suppression. Just not being angry.

Though I'm atheist, I'm a fan of many things in the Bible. Particularly its teaching – appropriately so imo – that liars go to hell. And few lies will outrage good people, & cause them to wish it were true, more than the ones revealed in the story below.

The longer I live, the more I appreciate the precious gift of intelligence that was given to humans & the sadder I become that most humans have vehemently rejected it.

Gorillas can recognize their own reflection in a mirror, but most of them don't because they won't take the time to examine what they're seeing in the mirror. Humans, despite all our "intelligence", have the same problem with self awareness.

Lying awake in the middle of the night thinking about how much easier it is to be an absurdist when one is healthy & privileged & wealthy... ...& how much easier it is to be a stoic when one is dead.

Some people believe in God. Some a flat Earth. Some that this video is real. 🤣

The fascinating human brain & its 5 distinct developmental phases.

I was a huge fan of AI & was excited to see it bring us into the future. But only because I often forget that society's #1 most important goal isn't the advancement or betterment of humanity, but rather the accumulation of money. #capitalism

My marijuana habit got so bad that I smoked every day that I had COVID back in October. I finally quit because it was damaging my lungs & heart & that scared me. Been sober 20 days straight now & nary a moment goes by each day where I don't think about weed or I'm not tempted to light up. It sucks

I remember talking with a JW missionary once who denied evolution. "But it's observed," I told him. "I believe in micro-evolution." Uh huh... & what do you think we get after a whole bunch of "micro" evolutions??

I have a good friend that likes to trade pics of custom license plates with me. The "SUBHUMN" in this one is fun. But what I really like is the "Make Orwell Fiction Again" bumper sticker.

"Cannabis hyperemesis syndrome is a condition tied to long-term cannabis use that can cause severe stomach pain, vomiting, and nausea." The more we learn, the more we find that it's bad for us. I'll say it again: the hippies lied to us.

A reason I smoked marijuana was because I'd heard again & again that, unlike cigarettes, it wasn't harmful. 2 ER visits later I've learned my stomach, heart, & lungs are damaged. I'm seeing a gastroenterologist & cardiologist to learn how bad. Guys, the hippies lied. Don't smoke. Not anything.

According to Delta & United Airlines, "window" cannot reasonably be interpreted to mean "window". Are we in the dystopia that countless sci-fi books & shows have been warning us about yet? 🤣

The Kremlin's goal of setting up a kakistocracy in America has been successful, thereby making it extremely easy for any foreign government to honeypot high-ranking officials in D.C.

"If evolution is real, why isn't it happening now?" This is a question of *willful* ignorance, often by the religious who hate truth. The whole reason the field of evolutionary biology exists is because, going back to before Darwin, biologists have been observing evolution as it happens.

"Death is not the worst thing. It is a gift to us, an end to want & pain."

If you think social media has actually made us less social, wait till you see what AI is doing. futurism.com/future-socie...