I mean....if I never even had a chance, I'm not going to beat myself up about it 😄 Alright Klimmy, bring on the lava!!

A family friend's kid named this as feeling "pintingular" and I think he nailed it.

This is nuts, but I guess it's par for the course when you switch to "reality be damned, me-first party-second" politics. I'd take great pleasure in this development if not for the fact that there are plenty of deep pockets in the GOP who I doubt will give up the 2024 elections just because the swing states didn't get enough donations. I'm sure they'd LIKE for middle class Americans to fund the GOP, but if that doesn't happen I think it still will be the most profitable for them to step in.

I feel like we could get deep into the weeds about emotions, but I do enjoy your version of "ghosts can't feel some emotions because they lack a body". I think it could have some annoying side effect extrapolations like "ghosts don't have eyes or ears or anything, so I guess they're trapped in a sensationless nothingness" but since ghosts are made up, you could just say "they can see because of magic" and clear it up. Anyways, ghosts are a fun idea, and I'm glad people keep imagining up interesting versions of them.

That sounds nice but there's no guarantee they'll implement it, or if they do, that they won't just remove it someday down the road. This could just be a way for them to avoid criticism for now, and when criticism has died down a bit, they can just remove it.

Yeah, that level of combining science and religion is nuts to me. Like, at what point does the indescribable, intangible soul attach to the cell. Is it when the sperm penetrates the egg? Or is it when the first phase of mitosis occurs? Or what? And are there a million souls swimming along, each one following a sperm, waiting for their chance to latch on to a fertilized egg? Or maybe one soul per egg? Or maybe God knows when an egg will be fertilized, and he only dispatches one soul when it happens, but in that case he should know when a fertilized egg isn't going to be born, and not put a soul in that fetus, right? When they try to get really specific about the rules of their make believe club, it starts sounding very silly. But then you get hit with the "we aren't supposed to know his plan/the Lord works in mysterious ways" and that means you're not allowed to think about it with the brain God gave you any more.

If I put on someone's shoes and walked one mile in them, I could magically perfectly understand everything they're going through.

Howdy! VLemmy seems to have gone MIA, so I'll give lemm.ee a try!