love does not delight in evil

"Ohh it's a different sugar than refined sugar" it's the same molecule.

"Ohhh my water filtering apparatus making beauty water and cleaning water and alkaline water" Water is H20. What you're doing is reverse osmosis, and if it's alkaline then there is a substance that's not water in there to make it alkaline. You can't purify water to a pH of 12, because pure water molecules have, by definition of how the pH system works and several phyics rules, a pH of exactly 7.

"Ooohh it has ~different~ sodium atoms." That's called an isotope and sodium isotopes aren't created by magic woowoo, and the magical ability of most isotopes is radioactivity.

"Low toxin" what toxin. Tell me their names. What are they doing. "They are endocrine disruptors" what part of the endocrine system? How? Do you have a source that doesn't try to sell you something?

"Just mix vinegar and baking soda to cleanse all the toxins of your fruits" you just created water molecules and CO2, and some calcium and acetate which don't have much chemical property. That's a science fair vulcano. And doesn't have acidic or alkaline properties to chemically influence anything. Just use tap water at this point. "My wood cutting board soaked in an alkaline solution from baking soda to clear out the toxins leaves a nasty looking soup" yeah because you were dissolving the wood with an alkaline solution. Congratulations.

"There is effective microorganisms in this ceramic bead and it can cleanse your laundry and dishes and prevent mold in your fridge and it works for years" what microorganisms exactly? How did you discover them? What are they eating? Are they resistant to 60 degrees and steam? Do they procreate in the fridge? Are they spreading out on all surfaces to prevent the mold or is it an air filtration system that works without airflow or is it just magic? "Put them in your flowers, they can reverse cavities, put them in your walls" what are they eating in my walls? What kind of microorganisms are they? Did you test the safety of those things in human bodies? Are they native to my biotope? How do they survive in those fucking ceramic beads?

I always assumed they were a scam because ions (an atom with an electron imbalance) really really hate existing and are hard to make.

Lots of ions are ok in water because water is super polar (oxygen hogs all the electrons so every molecule is like a tiny magnet) and therefore they'll soak up all the imbalanced charges.

Go pour salt in water right now. If it dissolves you've created negative chlorine ions! (And an equal number of positive sodium ions)! Good job on being a scientist.

But in air? Nothing polar to stabilise them.

Go pour salt on your table. It stays a solid? Good job. You've proven the atoms in salt prefer being bonded to each other than being free flying ions. You're half way to a chemistry degree.

The only way to force the creation of ions in air is a fuckton of energy. This can be electricity or radiation.

Go attach leads to a 9V battery. Put both into a cup of water. If you see bubbles you've successfully split water into hydrogen and oxygen. The oxygen will be on the positive lead because oxygen ions are negative. The hydrogen will be on the negative clip because hydrogen ions are positive. There will also be more bubbles because water has twice as many hydrogen atoms as oxygen atoms. These bubbles won't be ions though, because again, ions hate existing so they recombine into oxygen and hydrogen gas almost instantly. Still. You did technically make negative ions for a split second. Good job.

But most of those negative ion bracelets don't have batteries (which again, only make ions for a split second and require a renewable resource like water to do that with). So they must be a scam right? They're just rocks!

Nope. Remember the other way to make ions? It was radiation! Those bracelets and necklaces you're supposed to wear 24/7 to keep yourself healthy? They're made of mildly radioactive stone.

So they are splitting the air into ions (for a split second. You now know that ions hate existing so they recombine. Although sometimes they'll recombine into ozone (O3) rather than breathable oxygen (O2). Ozone isn't great to breathe in but you also presumably have been near a car so like... It's not a big deal in the scheme of things).

But more importantly!! They're also splitting your body into ions! Which are stabilised by the water in your body (remember the magnet analogy?) and therefore last a lot longer and can get up to more fuckery.

#where people simply do not understand what the creative process entails so they devalue and dismiss it

#striving to be a well rounded person educated on as many things as possible is good actually

So while I was taking this chemistry class I walked into a health food store one day and saw a bottle of "alkaline water"

Well I bought it and brought it into class the next day and asked the teacher if we could PH test it, since we were learning about acids and bases, and she loved the idea of IRL applied science so we took ten minutes to do a quick PH test on the alkaline water

i was made fun of enough times by adults, by peers, for liking something and wanting to share it that i just. didn’t. anymore. 

dont fucking tease kids for liking things. even if you think its cringe. ESPECIALLY. if you think its cringe. because the way you speak and act towards them when they are sharing themselves with you STICKS and they will think of it years down the line.

“What’s that you’re drawing?”

*panicking* “It’s nothing, I’m sorry, I’ll put it away.”

“No it’s okay, I was just curious about it.”

“It’s nothing. I don’t want to get in trouble.”

“You’re not in trouble, I just thought it looked like a character from a video game I like.”

Her face *lit up* the second I gave her the smallest bit of approval. She started asking me if I’d heard of various AUs for Undertale, and I tried to follow along as she explained her favorites. I obviously had to keep an eye on the rest of the class, answering questions and helping with algebra, but each time I passed her desk she had more things to tell me.

I used to work in the crummy part of town and everyone there came from some kind of poverty. Being lower middle class made me the bougiest person in the room and they were quick to constantly remind me of it. It was almost like they were waiting for me to complain about something or mention that I couldn't afford a thing so they could interrupt and remind me that I'm actually super rich and I have no problems.

That's why I really don't like the idea that people with 'better' (financially at least) lives are somehow operating at a moral deficit and are deserving of some kind of karmic punishment for not suffering enough or not doing enough to help others. You are not the judge and jury to decide if some random millionaire deserves to be robbed. You do not get to deem anyone in a particular tax bracket as evil based simply on how much they have right now. The best thing you can do is be good in a way that inspires others to use what they have to help those around them. The truly vile rich will find their punishments without your help and- in fact- targeting them for their wealth alone makes them a victim and helps hide their wrongdoings even more.

P sure I'm blocked but I still wanted this on this blog bc it makes a really good point.

I also believe that this is why transgenderism as an ideology (NOT simply the experience of having gender dysphoria I want to make that explicitly clear) is fundamentally incompatible with Christianity.

It would imply that God put you in the wrong body. Which is false. You have the body He intended for you to have. Can it suck being what you are in your body because of the fallen world we live in? Sure. But you are you, and are in the body you are meant to have.

I myself have experienced mild gender dysphoria throughout my life as a result of sexual abuse. It can be adopted as a coping mechanism to assume the traits of the opposite sex either in an attempt to self-soothe or assume traits that we perceived could keep us safe in unsafe situations.

IT IS

It took me years of trial and error with my own training to basically reach the same conclusions he presents in this article.

Another thing I think is holding many women back too is not eating enough and getting scared if they notice their weight go up. Someone pointed out in the tags how the women in the photos are almost concerningly lean, which I don't disagree with but I'd like to point out that most of those photos are of fitness/bodybuilding competitors at their comp weight. That level of leanness is not maintained over long periods and competitors deliberately dehydrate themselves and cut their eating before comps to showcase muscle definition. Yes that is kinda crazy but that's the sport. It's not even really endorsing the comp physique as an "ideal" in my opinion. Most competitors are very open about it being an unsustainable and uncomfortable state.