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Feb. 17th, 2019 08:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowkatIt's that time of month again, so I'm in a snarkier mood than usual.
I keep deleting posts before they post, or in the case of one FB post, after they post. (I do that. Delete. I refuse to apologize for it. My journal/my FB, my rules.)
1. Cousin on FB...
"I unfollowed another bigot."
Okay, first I posted this on FB and I will post it here:
Just want to thank everyone on my flist on DW for not being a bigot, a homophobe, an asshole, or an insane trump supporter. I've not had to unfollow, defriend or avoid anyone because of this. You are all exceedingly kind and gracious people, who care about others and refuse to demean anyone on the basis of race, sex, gender, sexual orientation, religion, or beliefs. And you are all willing to stand up to people who are bigots and hurt others. Thank you. I'm feeling very grateful and lucky tonight. Not everyone is so lucky to have such wonderful friends.
It's true here as well. Thank you for being kind and wonderful people. And a haven from the insanity.
I am exceedingly grateful. The social media outlets that I'm presently on are wonderfully bigot and hate-free. Only kind people are posting on them.
2. Saw two articles online this weekend that..I felt the need to comment on.
* Ok Cupid Ad...
I had bad experiences with online dating. Although to be fair, unlike most people, I'm not really that invested in getting married and having a family. AND I'm picky. VERY picky. Why? My parents are basically soul mates. My brother and his wife? Ditto. My sister in laws parents -- a nightmare. My friends' parents? A nightmare.
My extended relatives -- somewhere between soulmates...just okay and nightmares.
I've met a lot of folks who went through horrible divorces. And then got married again, and just no.
OK Cupid was by far the worst experience I've ever had. It turned me completely off online dating.
* Chris Pratt and Ellen Page's fight over a church.
I don't remember the name of the church, Hollyspring something or other. It's an evangelical. And endorsed by Justin Bieber.
First? Why anyone would want to join a church endorsed by Justin Bieber is beyond me.
Second? Pratt's response to Page's assertion that the church is homophobic..was that he found it welcoming to everyone and all inclusive. Eh, no. I've pretty much sampled and studied every religion, philosophy and church on the planet -- and I can tell you with absolute certainty that there is no such thing as an all-inclusive, all-welcoming religion. You will exclude someone. Humans are ridiculously tribal (it's in our DNA) and incredibly exclusive of people they don't like or aren't like them. So, an all-inclusive or all welcoming or everyone is welcome church ain't happening. Nor is it possible to have an organization that is. If it says that -- read the fine print. They are most likely excluding someone. Figure out who it is and then figure out if you can live with that and still look yourself in the mirror each morning.
When I realized the Catholic Church excluded anyone who was LGBTQ who wasn't willing to repent as a sinner and deny that part of themselves, I left the Catholic Church. I gave it the benefit of the doubt for a long time, and then I left and have not looked back. I could handle the anti-abortion idiocy, but not the homophobia. Also Catholics are weirdly misogynistic and sexist, so that admittedly got on my nerves. If they don't change those two things -- that church will be dead in the 22nd Century. I also left Live Journal when I realized it had issues with homosexual content. I won't be part of a group that discriminates against others based on ethnicity, race, sex, gender, sexual orientation, religion, etc. Goes against my moral code. I don't care what anyone else's code is -- I follow my own. I won't be part of an organization that hurts or actively discriminates against others on any level.
So I joined the Unitarian Universalist Church...but I'm struggling with it at the moment, because it's becoming more Unitarian than Universalist and less a church than a society of like-minded folks, and whether they want to admit it or not, discriminatory based on beliefs. They have issues with people who aren't vegetarians (plant-based diet - which I can't do), aren't far left socialists like themselves, and have swung a bit too far to the left. I haven't left, just struggling -- I'm more of a moderate.
Anyhow, I think Page is right to question Pratt and the church. Although when it comes to religion..good luck with that. People are stubborn about religion and politics.
3. Queen's songs are ear-worms. I can't get various lyrics out of my head...right now I have "Supersonic" going about. Also, apparently they've released the movie soundtrack which has twelve previously unreleased Queen songs.
Me: So I rented Bohemian Rhapsody and did not like it.
Mother: Well, your brother really liked it.
Me: My brother's favorite films are Titantic and Ang Lee's The Incredibly Hulk. His taste is hardly reliable.
Mother laughs. She saw Titantic.
Mother: Well, Titantic is a lot of people's favorite film. We just didn't think much of it.
Me: No, I was bored by it.
Mother: It just seemed silly.
Me: That too. Might have been better with Christian Bale, DiCaprio does nothing for me. Apparently Bale was up for it. Also, it's worth noting that I don't like biopics.
Mother: True. You really don't.
I get annoyed by anything that says it's based on a reality and is completely true, but in reality is a made up fiction with just few truths embedded. It's why I have issues with historicals, but not historical romances or historical mysteries. Also memoirs and biographies. If you are going to go the non-fictional route, be truthful. Don't make up falsehoods. These are real people's lives you are dealing with. (It may be the lawyer in me or the frustrated journalist, I don't know. I'm weirdly compulsive about certain things.)
I keep deleting posts before they post, or in the case of one FB post, after they post. (I do that. Delete. I refuse to apologize for it. My journal/my FB, my rules.)
1. Cousin on FB...
"I unfollowed another bigot."
Okay, first I posted this on FB and I will post it here:
Just want to thank everyone on my flist on DW for not being a bigot, a homophobe, an asshole, or an insane trump supporter. I've not had to unfollow, defriend or avoid anyone because of this. You are all exceedingly kind and gracious people, who care about others and refuse to demean anyone on the basis of race, sex, gender, sexual orientation, religion, or beliefs. And you are all willing to stand up to people who are bigots and hurt others. Thank you. I'm feeling very grateful and lucky tonight. Not everyone is so lucky to have such wonderful friends.
It's true here as well. Thank you for being kind and wonderful people. And a haven from the insanity.
I am exceedingly grateful. The social media outlets that I'm presently on are wonderfully bigot and hate-free. Only kind people are posting on them.
2. Saw two articles online this weekend that..I felt the need to comment on.
* Ok Cupid Ad...
I had bad experiences with online dating. Although to be fair, unlike most people, I'm not really that invested in getting married and having a family. AND I'm picky. VERY picky. Why? My parents are basically soul mates. My brother and his wife? Ditto. My sister in laws parents -- a nightmare. My friends' parents? A nightmare.
My extended relatives -- somewhere between soulmates...just okay and nightmares.
I've met a lot of folks who went through horrible divorces. And then got married again, and just no.
OK Cupid was by far the worst experience I've ever had. It turned me completely off online dating.
* Chris Pratt and Ellen Page's fight over a church.
I don't remember the name of the church, Hollyspring something or other. It's an evangelical. And endorsed by Justin Bieber.
First? Why anyone would want to join a church endorsed by Justin Bieber is beyond me.
Second? Pratt's response to Page's assertion that the church is homophobic..was that he found it welcoming to everyone and all inclusive. Eh, no. I've pretty much sampled and studied every religion, philosophy and church on the planet -- and I can tell you with absolute certainty that there is no such thing as an all-inclusive, all-welcoming religion. You will exclude someone. Humans are ridiculously tribal (it's in our DNA) and incredibly exclusive of people they don't like or aren't like them. So, an all-inclusive or all welcoming or everyone is welcome church ain't happening. Nor is it possible to have an organization that is. If it says that -- read the fine print. They are most likely excluding someone. Figure out who it is and then figure out if you can live with that and still look yourself in the mirror each morning.
When I realized the Catholic Church excluded anyone who was LGBTQ who wasn't willing to repent as a sinner and deny that part of themselves, I left the Catholic Church. I gave it the benefit of the doubt for a long time, and then I left and have not looked back. I could handle the anti-abortion idiocy, but not the homophobia. Also Catholics are weirdly misogynistic and sexist, so that admittedly got on my nerves. If they don't change those two things -- that church will be dead in the 22nd Century. I also left Live Journal when I realized it had issues with homosexual content. I won't be part of a group that discriminates against others based on ethnicity, race, sex, gender, sexual orientation, religion, etc. Goes against my moral code. I don't care what anyone else's code is -- I follow my own. I won't be part of an organization that hurts or actively discriminates against others on any level.
So I joined the Unitarian Universalist Church...but I'm struggling with it at the moment, because it's becoming more Unitarian than Universalist and less a church than a society of like-minded folks, and whether they want to admit it or not, discriminatory based on beliefs. They have issues with people who aren't vegetarians (plant-based diet - which I can't do), aren't far left socialists like themselves, and have swung a bit too far to the left. I haven't left, just struggling -- I'm more of a moderate.
Anyhow, I think Page is right to question Pratt and the church. Although when it comes to religion..good luck with that. People are stubborn about religion and politics.
3. Queen's songs are ear-worms. I can't get various lyrics out of my head...right now I have "Supersonic" going about. Also, apparently they've released the movie soundtrack which has twelve previously unreleased Queen songs.
Me: So I rented Bohemian Rhapsody and did not like it.
Mother: Well, your brother really liked it.
Me: My brother's favorite films are Titantic and Ang Lee's The Incredibly Hulk. His taste is hardly reliable.
Mother laughs. She saw Titantic.
Mother: Well, Titantic is a lot of people's favorite film. We just didn't think much of it.
Me: No, I was bored by it.
Mother: It just seemed silly.
Me: That too. Might have been better with Christian Bale, DiCaprio does nothing for me. Apparently Bale was up for it. Also, it's worth noting that I don't like biopics.
Mother: True. You really don't.
I get annoyed by anything that says it's based on a reality and is completely true, but in reality is a made up fiction with just few truths embedded. It's why I have issues with historicals, but not historical romances or historical mysteries. Also memoirs and biographies. If you are going to go the non-fictional route, be truthful. Don't make up falsehoods. These are real people's lives you are dealing with. (It may be the lawyer in me or the frustrated journalist, I don't know. I'm weirdly compulsive about certain things.)