meh, cishet

I have a hard time watching the news now too. News outlets only show “good news” which is the administration succeeding, which hurts. I want stories of hope.

she sounds so sweet!

So pretty!

Does she get zoomies?

The old testament says a lot of things (in ARAMAIC) that have been translated by fallible human hands a hundred times with implicit bias. It’s a game of telephone that’s been going for thousands of years. It didn’t mean “gay people are bad”.

Would you ever try to liberate an ant hill?

Yes, as a Westerner I’d agree with the study’s findings. The people I hear are harsh, not mirthful.

And I am struck by this:

the voices were an intrusion and a threat to one’s private world – the voices could not be controlled.

It’s an invasive feeling, like an outsider in your head, digging around for things that hurt and embarrass you, then saying those things aloud. It makes you powerless, all you can do is sit there while someone yells out your most shameful thoughts, and there’s no stopping them.

I’ve seen this before, but after a re-read, I found this:

In an interview, Luhrmann said that American clinicians “sometimes treat the voices as if they … should be ignored. Our work found that … the way people pay attention to their voices alters what they hear their voices say. That may have clinical implications.”

Yes, definitely. The people I hear are only ever critical or offensive, and “they” have learned what’s most hurtful to me. If I start paying attention to their echoes of financial worry, they get louder and more forceful. There’s something going on in my brain that learns what’s most painful to me, and amplifies it to cause pain.

theramin (she’s also using a sampling device to copy her own voice)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajM4vYCZMZk#t=62s

gay.pornhub.com

schizophrenia here, my inner monologue is often conversational, like a string of words I’d speak to a person. and if I listen closely, I hear faintly a man or woman repeating the thought out loud, with emotion like confusion or contempt

no but I get phantom bed movements and think it’s my cat jumping up

shitgibbon

If you get mad at the hypocrisy, you’re letting him win. He uses it like a weapon to make people angry. It always works. Don’t let it.

What on Earth do you think is going to happen if we stand up to a militarized police force larger than the world has ever seen? You’re telling us to “stand up and fight” against a 30-trillion dollar army of bloodthirsty armed pseudo-soldiers.

I don’t want or expect your pity. But I would like you to try for empathy, if you can muster it. Good luck.

Stinky

You’re condemning a lot of innocent people to die.

It’ll be trans people first. Then gays. Eventually blacks. Then democrats.

The artist can be wrong about their own work.

I wish that were the case.