lindseymysse

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by lindseymysse 5y ago
What about sexual abuse that happens within our own communities? I was chemically balded at Billings West High School after coming forward about my childhood sexual abuse in the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod. At least one of the men who ch
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by lindseymysse 5y ago
I think I should be allowed to talk about the pain this culture caused me.
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by lindseymysse 5y ago
Your assuming evangelical culture is in anyway consistent or theologically sound.
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by lindseymysse 5y ago
How do you know? Why are you minimizing the pain of this practices victims? This is the equivalent of saying: My dad beat me and I turned out fine. Men's pain should be recognized and not minimized.
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by lindseymysse 5y ago
I know this quite well -- the last thing the Evangelical Church ever did to me was chemically bald me at Billings West High School in 1998-99. I have horns, they mark me as outside their wicked culture. I'm proud to be outside of it.
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by lindseymysse 5y ago
It is about lessening sexual pleasure and removing the child's autonomy. It's entire purpose was to mark you as subservient: https://www.ancient-origins.net/history-ancient-traditions/h...
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by lindseymysse 5y ago
It comes from Egypt: https://www.ancient-origins.net/history-ancient-traditions/h... It is about marking you as subservient. If you read anything about Evangelical Christian culture the single worst sin you can ever co
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by lindseymysse 5y ago
My circumcision was just the first violation of my body the Evangelical church put me through as a child -- finally culminating in my chemical balding at Billings West High School in 1998-99 after coming forward about my childhood sexual ab
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by lindseymysse 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointing_stick
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by lindseymysse 5y ago
Just below here someone recommended the MNT Reform. I'm curious -- it is a lower powered device with a modern GPU, so it will be an upgrade to both of our devices. There is also this: https://geoff.greer.fm/2019/03
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by lindseymysse 5y ago
A trackball module? That's even better than a pointing stick! Thanks for the tip, I'm interested!
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by lindseymysse 5y ago
I have a Thinkpad X200t from about 10 years ago and a maxed-out Thinkpad X1 Carbon from 2 years ago. I am selling the X1 soon, simply because I hate the keyboard on modern laptops. I don't understand why people tolerate crappy keyboard
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by lindseymysse 5y ago
The point of the book is that they aren't. Also, there is no real monetary value for environmental degradation. I'd recommend the book, it's very illuminating about the issue.
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by lindseymysse 5y ago
I've been reading Double Entry: How the Merchants of Venice Created Modern Finance by Jane Gleeson-White, and the last few chapters are an exploration of double entry accounting's inability to factor in environmental degradation a
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by lindseymysse 5y ago
Have you read a single one of my arguments? Less paper work, more doctors and nurses handling fewer patience.
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by lindseymysse 5y ago
Or we could live less energy dense lives, take the bus, grow more vegetarian food closer to our homes (food gardens, no suburban lawns!) quit building homes in places that are hostile to humans, etc etc etc. Nuclear Energy powered electric
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by lindseymysse 5y ago
It is a very American perspective that allows anyone trying to change anything to be blamed. I personally blame the status quo, and think that if fewer people had stayed home and let things be we would be a far better position. Your politic
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by lindseymysse 5y ago
Yes, why do we have to have reams of paperwork? It would be better if my doctor had time to get to know me. Instead, he fills out paper work, everyone around him fills out paper work.
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by lindseymysse 5y ago
Why do I keep on having to give my allergies to the doctor every time I'm there? My timeline is that it is too expensive and full of forms for me to go talk to my doctor. And I have to keep answering the same questions to my doctor abo
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by lindseymysse 5y ago
Have we ever thought about going back to very manual processes as a matter of course? That maybe digital technology is great for immediate and ephemeral communication, but for long term secure communication perhaps pen and paper is best? Th
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by lindseymysse 5y ago
So, history is an illusion. Fair enough.
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by lindseymysse 5y ago
"but remember that for almost all of history, nothing happened" This seems like a anthropocentric view of the world. Planets moved immense distances, there were generation after generation of bacteria, mountains rose up and crumbl
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by lindseymysse 5y ago
This looks interesting. One glaring omission for me: no shipping containers. Seems like low hanging fruit. It seems a lot of the items trend toward "cute", and not much "functionality". For instance, a drawing of Pennyw
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by lindseymysse 5y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oagmlbhobnY&t=11s This guy thinks the Big Mac should cost $200
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by lindseymysse 5y ago
I always thought we could do well parachuting in cell phones into these hot spots, and these cell phones get $50 usd or maybe a little more transferred to accounts tied to that number. Then we could have incentives -- hey, go to this mosque
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by lindseymysse 5y ago
That and funding the mujahideen were big whiffs.
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by lindseymysse 5y ago
I had two guns in my face by the time I left Elementary school, and I remember police officers marching down my block with rifles. People in Montana are armed to the teeth and often times drunk / high on meth. Houses were blowing up be
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by lindseymysse 5y ago
There was an open and aggressive disdain for anyone different back then. I am autistic as the average HN reader, and my home town was shockingly abusive to me. I tried not thinking about it for 20+ years after leaving that place, but now I
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by lindseymysse 5y ago
I grew up in an ultra-conservative church called the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod, that uses techniques like this: https://www.lutheranforum.com/blog/mobbing-systemic-spiritua... to enforce it's very narrow, lit
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by lindseymysse 5y ago
Maybe it was the place. But it was all very wretched

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