Thess vs the World

He asked: "Oh, was she the only son or something before *waves hand*?" and I was like, warily, no she has two brothers. And he responded with a great deal of confusion: "Then what's their problem?!?!"

The list dictates who gets services on base and deployed, what burial services are available, and what religions are protected from discrimination in the military, among other things.

I'm afraid very bad things are coming for everyone who falls on that removed list, much like immigrants are already experiencing

I'm more concerned that almost all the remaining religions are flavors of Christianity, and not actually different religions. It's another step towards the pathway of making Christianity the state religion of the country.

Current estimates put about the same amount of Wiccans in the Military (10k-20k last I checked) as some of the other religious groups that are still recognized. But because we're a decentralized religion, we often don't get the same recognition culturally as other groups. That makes eliminating us from the books easy.

And that's why it's the canary in the coal mine.

Get rid of groups like us and no one bats an eye -- but it sets the precedent to start going after other religious minorities. "We stopped protecting the rights of Wiccan service members, so why not take it way from Jewish people? Or the Muslims? There are about the same amount or fewer service members who are a part of those religions!" You always start with the people no one will raise a stink over.

I meant that its another step in the administration's ongoing campaign to install Christianity as the State Religion rather than an individual operation against those specific religions such that you'd expect further persecution beyond lack of recognition (at this point). They've got to first establish their State Religion before they can persecute anyone for not being part of the State Religion.

fill 14 sketch book

bad stuff is good stuff bc you made stuff

do you like sparkle???? draw sparkle

draw what make your heart do the smiley emote

member to drink lotsa agua or else bad time

d ont stress friend all is well

your art is hot like potato crisps

don’t let anyone piss on your good mood amigo

if they do

eat

i finally found it

fuchsen ("to fox") = to annoy

hechten ("to pike") = to dive

reihern ("to heron") = to puke

dackeln ("to dachshund") = to walk slowly

aalen ("to eel") = to bask

vögeln ("to bird") = to have sex

einigeln ("to hedgehog in") = to curl up

hamstern ("to hamster") = to hoard

schlängeln ("to snake") = to wriggle

stieren ("to bull") = to goggle

unken ("to toad") = to gripe, augur doom

In middle school biology, we did an experiment. We were given yams, which we would sprout in cups of water. We then had to make hypotheses about how the yams would grow, based on descriptions of yam plants in our books, and make notes of our observations as they grew.

Here’s what was supposed to happen: we were supposed to see that the actual growth of the plant did not resemble our hypotheses. We were then supposed to figure out that these were, in fact, sweet potatoes.

What actually happened was that every single student in every single class lied in their notes so that their observations perfectly matched their hypotheses. See, everyone assumed the mismatch meant they had done something wrong in the process of growing the plant or that they had misunderstood the dichotomous key or the plant identification terminology. And, thanks to the wonders of a public school education, everyone assumed the wrong results would get us a failing grade. We were trying to pass. We didn’t want to get bitched out by the teacher. Curiosity, learning, science - that had nothing to do with why we were sitting in that classroom. So we all lied.

The teacher was furious. She tried to fail every student, but the administration stepped in and told her she wasn’t allowed to because a 100% fail rate is recognized as a failure of the teacher, not the class. It wasn’t even her fault, really, though her being a notorious hard-ass didn’t help. It was a failure of the entire educational system.