• irelephant [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      I see more people complaining about needing anti depressants than glamorizing them

      To clarify, the people I’m talking about are thankful to have them, but absolutely don’t glamorize them.

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    Only a woman who’s been pounded by a thousand men and pounded down a thousand bottles of liquor would come to a conclusion like that. “Hmm. Maybe I need God. Therefore everyone else does too.”

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    I know in which hole the alcohol goes. I also know in which hole the young men go, at least according to “missionaries”. Which leaves one hole for god, which also happens to be the one that people recommend when Jehovah’s Witnesses bother them.

    As a man of the world, I know, of course, that the god hole can also be fruitfully used for/by alcohol and young men, implying that Kayleigh was quite fun at parties. “Outnumbered”, indeed.

    If you’ve ever felt like some overly religious person was acting like they have a stick up their ass. Well, now you know.

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    This rhetoric is very common among Christians and is how I attempted to use religion to fill an estrogen and homosexuality shaped hole in my heart.

    Like I’m not even anti religion, my years as an atheist left me with a religion shaped hole and that’s how I wound up pagan. It’s irresponsible however to assume your needs are everyone’s needs.

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    “Faith” is just another distraction. The difference is that Christians have convinced themselves that if they still feel a hole in their life, then they must be Doing It Wrong.

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    What does a “god shaped hole” look like? Sounds like an antigen receptor site that men and alcohol can fit into perfectly.

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      Some people just kinda need ritual and other elements of religion in order to feel their best, especially during difficult times. Community is another common need.

      Many people use a variety of things to attempt to assuage unmet needs, psychological issues, and lack of personal fulfillment. Drugs, casual sex, religious devotion, overwork, and obsession over something (especially something like a sobriety program) are common ways of avoiding introspection to figure out what you need or doing the hard work to get it.

      Christians love to tell people that alcohol and casual sex are coping mechanisms for lacking religion, but they never point out that sometimes religion is a coping mechanism for lack of casual sex.

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      It may sound weird, but there are people who can literally ‘feel the presence of God’.

      Not sure what it is, if it’s some kind of weird chemical thing that creates the feeling, or perhaps a twist of the mind. But the ones I’ve talked to mention ‘feeling it in their heart’ and such.

      To them it’s very real and it profoundly weirds them out that some people can’t feel it. And, in typical human fashion, they tend to assume those people aren’t trying hard enough/doing it right/are fundamentally broken.

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      God is shaped like a tree, and the receptors are CB1 and CB2

      (If you haven’t, read Snowcrash, it explores the concept of Religion being an emergent property of the way our brains are built…and there’s nuclear powered cyborg dogs)

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      I can give a serious answer to this as a former Christian conservative.

      It basically is “belonging”. If you’re not part of a group of people who care about you, going to a church where everyone cares about you might feel “good”.

      Of course, if you do have friends, then you likely won’t have this hole.

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          It also works when you just don’t have time to be sad about the shittiness of your situation. Haven’t had friends in years but i do have obligations that keep me so busy I don’t have room for feeling bad about it.

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            Hey if thats what keeps you going, but for me the only thing keeping me from going full hermit mode out in the Mojave is that I like running water and internet, electricity and air conditioning are a lot easier nowadays with solar and harbor freight batteries.

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      It looks like an anus, because that’s what it is, its their assholes. They love shoving things in their assholes including both alcohol and young men.

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    Conservative hole ignorance is what got us all into this mess in the first place. They must be so proud.