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veff :trash: (veff@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 05-Jul-2025 09:51:58 JST 
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@skylar @KonataWagner @John_Darksoul >next you're gonna tell me zoomers followed the drinking age law
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veff :trash: (veff@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 05-Jul-2025 09:33:48 JST
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Interacting with you guys brings up another point about social interactions I hadn't considered: The Internet is a democratizing agent which levels the playing field. You don't have to be good looking or interesting or articulate and witty. I couldn't stand interacting with most of you irl but because we're just exchanging text back and forth it's more tolerable.
Some of you cling to the Internet with your life because you realize it's the only way you can be likable. -
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veff :trash: (veff@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 05-Jul-2025 07:38:35 JST
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"les vaccins vous rendent français?"
-Jeff "Joffery Falaise" Cliff
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veff :trash: (veff@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 05-Jul-2025 06:53:56 JST
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@nugger @mischievoustomato The argument can be reduced to this: Does the substitute overcome the desire for the authentic? Has the authentic become inauthentic?
I love women and would choose one over substitute always when given the choice. Unfortunately, we live in a time where the substitute is fast, free, and good enough while the authentic takes more and more effort while providing less and less payout to the point we may have hit or surpassed equilibrium. -
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veff :trash: (veff@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 04-Jul-2025 13:35:03 JST
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@waifu Don't you think blondes have more fun?
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veff :trash: (veff@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 04-Jul-2025 09:33:18 JST
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@MisterLister @Griffith @GentlemanRapist @MachineMadeDog @bebe @Nudhul @sun >The issue is mormons are kind of alien, much like jews so therefore saying "yea mormons are based*" comes across as saying "jews are based*"
Sure, but this also feels like "do-my-homework" mentality layered over personal prejudice. I've never once seen a Catholic on here talk the same way about Shintoism, for example, despite it being significantly more alien.
It's possible to make general statements like "Utah is a safe and prosperous state because of mormon culture, and perhaps there are lessons to be learned from it" without implying specific statements like "Making 18 year olds perform death vows in temples leads to a healthy culture." If you care more about religion than race, then enjoy Latin America. If not, maybe figure out precisely why they feel alien before lumping them in with jews. -
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veff :trash: (veff@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 04-Jul-2025 09:33:16 JST
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@MachineMadeDog @WoodshopHandman @MisterLister @Griffith @GentlemanRapist @bebe @Nudhul @sun Other than the whole "one, holy, catholic and apostolic church" thing, they pretty much follow the Nicene Creed. As for the more unique stuff, most of their theology has very little established canon and was just thought leaders spitballing shit, so believing members could either be infinite-regression adam-is-god lunatics, or they could be identical in beliefs to your average prot. But please, do tell me what qualifies as a "real christian" because the more people slice that pie, the more I realize they don't exist and it's all window dressing. -
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veff :trash: (veff@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 04-Jul-2025 09:33:16 JST
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@WoodshopHandman @MisterLister @Griffith @GentlemanRapist @MachineMadeDog @bebe @Nudhul @sun I can't speak for griffith, but re-reading the thread gives me the impression that he admires the mormon's social technology without advocating their beliefs. This concept seems lost on the religious fellows in the thread because they view those as one in the same.
It's also personally very grating whenever mormons are brought up in these spheres, because people clearly have preconceptions planted in them via other churches rather than any actual critiques formed through research. Just in this thread alone, we have:
>did you know membership comes with a 20% income tax?
untrue. It's a 10% tithe, either net or gross depending on how much of a greedy hardass the local bishop is.
>you also need a certain number of converts under your belt to move up the priesthood. whole thing is a pyramid scheme dressed up as religion.
also false. every male in the church gets the priesthood at age milestones, with only very basic worthiness qualifiers.
>mormon wealth is all in property and business.
look up the church's SEC violations.
>Mormons aren't Christian
another silly argument. they're about as Christian as your average Lutheran, they just got hoodwinked by conmen into believing Bible DLC. ask the actual members their relationship to Christ and it becomes pretty clear they're not all a bunch of nutters.
It's not like there aren't real, tangible reasons to be weary of mormons, but I can tell that NOBODY in the thread actually knows what theyre talking about and just hate them because their pastor made up shit to make them look bad. -
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veff :trash: (veff@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 04-Jul-2025 09:33:15 JST
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@MachineMadeDog @WoodshopHandman @MisterLister @Griffith @GentlemanRapist @bebe @Nudhul @sun What is a Christian?
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veff :trash: (veff@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 29-Jun-2025 11:28:56 JST
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actually scratch that, I think this was it.
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veff :trash: (veff@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 29-Jun-2025 11:20:59 JST
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>taking dopamine detox boost productivity [...] but doing it for that purpose kind of negates the entire thing doesnt it?
I've never worked less and yet done more in my life than I have this summer, and "more" often meant nothing.
>how we use language has been distorted beyond recognition and if we cant filter that out of our own thought processes then we're amoeba feeding a larger beast.
it's got all the pieces I've noticed deteriorating in my life. I definitely think I came to some sort of conclusion sometime in February that I never wrote down, and now I'm taking action plans which make it harder to remember the entire motive. I finally got out of my head. I breached the head-body barrier but it means I can't even write this shit without feeling like a crazy person. I don't even know if any of this is coherent to anyone other than me. -
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veff :trash: (veff@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 29-Jun-2025 11:20:25 JST
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THIS
I've been trying to parse where my mental shift happened this year and why I don't feel like myself, and I think it was here around this time and had something to do with this post. The only problem is, I've forgotten exactly what I was meaning to say. It's all just primordial half-thoughts but they're clearly important enough to have made me change from future-career-family to whatever I'm doing right now in the basement of a house I don't own that's owned by people I barely know, contemplating living life in a natural park between job weeks.
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veff :trash: (veff@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 28-Jun-2025 08:04:50 JST
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In order to learn another language, you first have to untether your own syntaxes from your brain-code, and what's left behind isn't nothing. Raw thought unbound by form. But then, raw thought isn't all too different from impulse. You don't think "I'm hungry" you just are, and furthermore, "I'm horny" is the same way, but on also ventures into the emotion side rather than simple gut instincts. Brain/Heart/Body, Thought/Feels/Being is useful framing in some contexts, but ultimately it's a false trichotomy as it's the same thing from different angles. -
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veff :trash: (veff@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 28-Jun-2025 01:56:17 JST
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summer -
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veff :trash: (veff@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 27-Jun-2025 16:05:28 JST
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@rher Maybe it's because I'm becoming more primitive.
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veff :trash: (veff@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 27-Jun-2025 10:56:13 JST
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it's happening again
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veff :trash: (veff@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Jun-2025 01:19:47 JST
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@teto @sim @Morghur I think everyone should have at least one platonic friendship with someone of the opposite sex.
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veff :trash: (veff@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 22-Jun-2025 08:25:50 JST
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We still have it comparatively better than others, but those others are continuously bringing us to their level. I am prepared to beat them at their own game. I can be homeless. I can become a forest creature. I can die of sepsis in a far-off ravine. I am unbound.
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veff :trash: (veff@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 22-Jun-2025 08:20:30 JST
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it's easy to point to one thing or another as the source of personal and societal symptoms but that's because it's literally everything all at once, and they all impact each other recursively in a feedback loop. Self reinforcing spiral of doom. -
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veff :trash: (veff@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 22-Jun-2025 08:19:42 JST
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we build our own prison
the more life stares at me staring at life, the more I realize the cynics (original definition) were right. I won't be a slave
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