Maddie

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    53 minutes ago, EFreethought said:

     

    He pardoned all the Jan 6 crazies (on top of the fact that he has never offered any evidence that the 2020 election was stolen). I think the real issue is that Trump is a signal to all the crazy people that it is okay to hurt people.

     

    I recently bought a gun and took a few lessons and got a membership at a local range just in case I need a gun. I also bought a few other handheld weapons recently.

     

     

    You know what is crazy? I probably won't do it because I don't like guns but lately with all the craziness going on I have been wondering if I should get one. I'm a pacifist so I don't like the idea. 

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    14 minutes ago, liminal_luke said:

    Many transgender people are understandably shocked and dismayed by Trump´s recent executive orders. When things seem dark, I think it´s good to remember and hold on to points of light.  Some feared things have not happened.  Trans folks are not being rounded up by the government and killed.  With the exception of those in prison, gender-affirming care remains available for adults.  The vast majority of people are happy to call people by whatever pronouns they prefer.  (Or at least this seems true to me -- perhaps I live in a magical fairy kingdom?)  If a Bum purposely misgenders another Bum here with intent to hurt, the moderators are likely to take immediate and decisive action.  

     

    No matter what happens politically, we all have the right to affirm to ourselves what we find to be true.  I know my gender and nobody can take that knowledge away from me.  Reality is reality.  Trump doesn´t have the power to change reality no matter what.

     

    I honestly think you're a nice person and I don't think anyone denies that but it's only been a week and I think such a viewpoint is extremely naive.

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    On 1/24/2025 at 1:29 AM, Sanity Check said:

    Trump Bars Transgender Women From U.S. Prisons for Female Inmates

     

    President Trump has ordered federal prisons to house inmates who are transgender women in men’s facilities and halt medical treatments related to gender transition.

     

    The move was part of a wide-ranging executive order issued by Mr. Trump on his first day in office meant to limit government recognition of an individual’s gender to their sex at birth.

     

    https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/us/trump-transgender-inmates-prison.html

     

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    Unless there were serious issues with the status quo.

     

    Trump should veto this asap.

     

    Where are all the people saying he was just talking now?

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    Section 1.  Purpose.  Across the country, ideologues who deny the biological reality of sex have increasingly used legal and other socially coercive means to permit men to self-identify as women and gain access to intimate single-sex spaces and activities designed for women, from women’s domestic abuse shelters to women’s workplace showers.  This is wrong.  Efforts to eradicate the biological reality of sex fundamentally attack women by depriving them of their dignity, safety, and well-being.  The erasure of sex in language and policy has a corrosive impact not just on women but on the validity of the entire American system.  Basing Federal policy on truth is critical to scientific inquiry, public safety, morale, and trust in government itself.

    This unhealthy road is paved by an ongoing and purposeful attack against the ordinary and longstanding use and understanding of biological and scientific terms, replacing the immutable biological reality of sex with an internal, fluid, and subjective sense of self unmoored from biological facts.  Invalidating the true and biological category of “woman” improperly transforms laws and policies designed to protect sex-based opportunities into laws and policies that undermine them, replacing longstanding, cherished legal rights and values with an identity-based, inchoate social concept…….

     

    https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/defending-women-from-gender-ideology-extremism-and-restoring-biological-truth-to-the-federal-government/

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    27 minutes ago, Sir Darius the Clairvoyent said:

    It is an impossible task, and I’m sure there are many of them already. I have even made one quite similar years ago. But here I want it more concrete, and your understanding of it.

     

    I would say God is everything. All that is, always. Nature, the universe, cosmos. From a grain of sand to a fish and man, the planets and the sun.

     

    Universe

    late Middle English: from Old French univers or Latin universum, neuter of universus ‘combined into one, whole’, from uni- ‘one’ + versus ‘turned’ (past participle of vertere ).

     

    Further more, I belive it is fundamentally consciousness, and that we are individuated consciousness. Soul/oversoul. Not even God knows where he came from.

     

    I guess a good preliminary question would be to define which god one is talking about?

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  23. Posted

    On 12/26/2024 at 1:46 PM, River said:

    New person here. Wondering if anyone has experienced a healer or a teacher never letting go of their student or patient. Thanks

     

    I had an ex like this