BabyBottleCrib [none/use name]

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Cake day: July 26th, 2020
  • BabyBottleCrib [none/use name]toaskchapo•I was raised Mormon in Utah AMA
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    3 years ago

    Yeah, after I heard about hers I always wondered about what they were like (for women). Even though I spent so much time in the mormon church, that's one thing I feel I don't have much of a clue about, since the blessings are considered sacred and supposed to be secret (I know most couples let their spouse read theirs). You're allowed to share details "if moved upon by the spirit," so occasionally you'd hear someone in a church meeting vaguely allude to theirs, or hear through the grapevine what someone said second hand. The only other "girl" blessing I heard about was one that actually did give some pretty wild specifics, like that she was going to be a musical talent who traveled the world with her husband, and her husband's position would be significant enough that she would play for dignitaries and so forth. She did end up learning an instrument at a professional level, in spite of teachers telling her she had plateaued talent wise before that. Not sure if she ever married a diplomat or whatever that would be, but yeah I mean who knows what that does to someone mentally if a blessing with that level of promise doesn't "come true" and the only explanation is "huh i guess you goofed up at some point, only god can say teehee."

  • BabyBottleCrib [none/use name]toaskchapo•I was raised Mormon in Utah AMA
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    3 years ago

    I know you didn't ask me but:

    1. I did a mission, not gonna fully dox myself but it was in a border state between the US and Mexico, US side. I learned Spanish as part of that. Overall it sucked very thoroughly, no personal time, you aren't allowed to use your first name so you start to lose your previous identity, they take your passport if you're not from the US (just like other human traffickers), lots of gaslighting (the reason you aren't baptizing converts and generally feel like shit isn't because you've been separated from everyone you know know and work 12+ hours a day, it's because the Spirit of god cant be with you due to the fact that you don't get up exactly on time, you aren't focused enough on scripture study, you let your companion take too long in the shower, etc, and yes those are all real). So even though noone should ever go on a mission, at the same time I do in some ways still value parts of it, I mean I wouldn't speak spanish without it. Idk it's still a weird space in my head.

    2. Yeah, I got it and believed it. Mine was pretty easy to believe, it was pretty boring stuff, "You will get married" "you will have a career". Just added in a lot of stuff about how god felt about me, how there was this incredible plan for my life, but yeah not a lot of hard details, as one might guess. I did know a girl in college who got one that told her she would mature into a "striking beauty" and that all men would desire her, and it gave her incredible body image issues because she was overweight. If you patriarchal blessing doesn't come true, we're taught, it's because we chose the wrong path, so for her weight loss and appealing to the male gaze was a commentary on like the purity of her soul.

    3. Late 20s, it was a result of political radicalization. I started caring about a variety of issues, including american foreign policy, and was pretty let down that the Mormon church was radio silent on all that, and instead wanted to die on the "no gay" hill. A lot of reasons, but I think that was the core of it, I began to feel that an organization actually led by an all knowing, all loving god would give his church different priorities/insist on them not being completely shitty.

    4. Mormon's are very racist, sexist, etc, but in like a clueless grandpa kind of way, for the most part. The actual members, I mean, the top brass are just straight up racist. So like a mormon guy gets all his opinions from church leaders, so like if they tell him "gays shouldn't be married" then like yeah of course they shouldn't. You could hate gays, but chances are you really don't care, you just know that god speaks through church leaders and that's it. End of story. Not to excuse it, but it's a very effective organization when it comes to thought terminating epithets, to steal from citations needed. But yes just to be clear they are still all of those things, but not in the same way like a maga chud would be.

  • BabyBottleCrib [none/use name]toMain•veganism is peak western indulgence of the exploited global south's labor
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    4 years ago

    Let he who is without soy cast the first boy.

    "Few of us are aware of how much soy we eat - because we tend to consume it indirectly. We may not eat large quantities of soy directly, but the animals we eat, or from which we consume eggs or milk, do. In fact, almost 80% of the world’s soybean crop is fed to livestock, especially for beef, chicken, egg and dairy production (milk, cheeses, butter, yogurt, etc). Soy oil is used for cooking and can also be found in margarine, chocolate, ice cream or baked goods, as well as in cosmetics or soaps. Soy production has more than doubled over the last two decades."

    https://wwf.panda.org/our_work/our_focus/food_practice/sustainable_production/soy/#:~:text=In%20fact%2C%20almost%2080%25%20of,butter%2C%20yogurt%2C%20etc).&text=Soy%20production%20has%20more%20than%20doubled%20over%20the%20last%20two%20decades.,-But%20the%20rising

  • BabyBottleCrib [none/use name]toMain•What was your ideology before being radicalized?
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    4 years ago

    Raised in a conservative religious home, so was pretty anti choice, anti gay into adulthood, stuff like that. However, I was only allowed to watch PBS until my teens, so I ended up caring about nature and the environment and stuff, which was kind of the wedge that would eventually weaken my commitment to conservatism. I wasnt too political though, only really cared about abortion and the environment. I became a lot less invested politically when I first saw the graph showing the complete disconnect between Congress actions and public opinion, i reasoned it was all pointless and undemocratic. The system was completely driven by monied interests. A few months later I heard about Bernie Sanders, who i heard was running to end citizens united, kind of a perfect storm for me. bla bla bla, 2016, bla bla bla, 2020 and now I'm vaguely leftist, probably a ML based on what I do understand but yeah too lazy to actually read.

  • BabyBottleCrib [none/use name]toMain•🥶Cool Zone🥶 has been 🦀entered🦀
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    4 years ago

    Yeah I've never read the book, don't really know what I'm talking about, but as I understood it: one of the themes in the movie is that no one remembers who anyone is. That could just be a jab at how pointless they all are: they're all basically the same image-obsessed, shallow 80s stock broker maniac, just with slightly different business cards. But at the end of the movie, when Bateman is breaking down and is trying to get help from his lawyer, it gets a little more intense I guess. Bateman believes he's just gone on a killing spree, and is trying to tell his lawyer and get help. He tries to confess that he killed an associate, but people are convinced the man he killed is still alive ("So and so just saw him in London"). Basically, this inability of people to tell others apart saves Bateman, ostensibly.

    However, we're also shown a scene where Bateman's secretary is looking through his day planner, and it's just an incoherent bunch of childish depictions of murder and torture. That combined with the outlandishness of the final showdown with the cops (and some previous wackiness) make a the case that Bateman is an unreliable narrator, that the events shown in the film weren't outrageous because the rich can get away with murder, but because he's just mentally ill. However, exactly how much is hallucination isn't clear.

    So as the viewer is considering how much of the film depicts the unaccountable rich, and how much is just a hallucination, we're shown Reagan on the TV lying through his teeth. And around this time we get the final monologue from Bateman. He basically realizes that even in confessing what he's done, he can get no release, that ultimately because of his position and wealth, this central question of the film (what happened) doesn't even matter. If he's insane, and killed no one, or if everything happened exactly as he imagined it, the result is the same: he stays rich, he keeps his position, the world moves on. The men around him are commenting on how good Reagan is at lying, and presenting himself as this friendly old man. The film could be showing IMO that the idea of one man wreaking havoc and killing and breaking the law and never being held accountable isn't as outrageous as it seems, just look at what Reagan got away with.