Instructions unclear. Died with only the memory of being gutted on the battlefield, reborn as a baby girl in China, confused af.

There's nothing wrong with you. You were just rubbing your eyes. You didn't say anything to mock her, you didn't intend to. Your friend misunderstood you. Unless your friend is saying she was the one who thought it was racist, just move on with your life and leave a good tip next time you visit the restaurant.

Every kid I've talked to growing up had their parents argue over that, break up, and then pretty much make their kid's lives worse over these small petty things.

Like I said, every couple can work something out to be most content. Just figure out how to be happy, for their sake and their kid's sake. In the first world we have so much, and we take it all for granted. It's so stupid when parents are arguing nonstop over how many dishes were done or how many diapers were changed, who works and who doesn't, who earns the most money. And every kid with single parents.

What's wrong with it being mostly you, if he still helped out? I feel like television programming, social media, and entertainment tries to drop these points of contention to make both men and women really angry and discontent about nothing.

It's harmful to marriages, it's harmful to co-parenting, and it's created a lot of hurt and abuse to kids and the adults they grow up into.

You aren't in a race to provide, and you aren't in a race to change the most diapers. Every couple can work something out that makes them the most content.

It is not just it's the WE forum literally the people who are killing everyone, robbing everyone, and blaming you and me.

This is a japanese anime level of misunderstanding. Pretty funny, hope you two laugh it off and continue to be good friends.

Maybe you're not psychotic, just uninformed. If there is something scary that you don't understand, investigate it and find knowledge on it. Maybe you will fear it less.

I was watching a Max Miller youtube video about pemmican and how early explorers and traders had to pretty much bury their return provisions in the ground to ensure their survival for the return trip (as early north america wouldn't have the infrastructure available where you could just buy provisions/order them to be made).

So I'm thinking if it wasn't something that arrived after, then an early explorer who got there but never successfully returned?

Old woman who found the big toe in the woods, is that you?

I see it differently it almost reads like a gay romance up till that point it sounded like the author understood what it is to be a man and love another man romantically but something caused him pain like a broken heart or didn't know to use lube correctly or something lol.

Then he got brainwashed to mormonism.

It's a tragedy, really.

Wow, I wasn't expecting such a long response.

>“When I heard about Hitler burning the books in the streets of Berlin, it bothered me terribly. I was 15 when that happened, I was thoroughly in love with libraries and he [Hitler] was burning me when he did that

Do we not feel something similar in the modern day? Maybe not with censorship, but with propaganda, misinformation, and certain beliefs spreading?

>But at the time I wanted to do some sort of story where I could comment on what would happen to a country if we let ourselves go too far in this direction, where all thinking stops, and the dragon swallows his tail, and we sort of vanish into a limbo and we destroy ourselves by this sort of action.”

Not just a country, it is a possibility worldwide.

>Bradbury took care to characterize the lifestyles, archetypical beliefs, cultures, etc. which might produce a civilization that would be apathetic and more interested in panam et circenses, so to speak.

Older people have said that's where we are at now. I think many people do care though. I was in a reddit talk with other people who did care and had many ideas, and someone came in screaming "Why do you care?". It wasn't the first time I've been asked that. So there are a few people at that phase, but hopefully they learn to improve their 'onus of individual thought' or they stay a minority.

They never explained how to use the three seashells.

Sad. It sounds like he was hinting originally gay but got brainwashed by the mormon church. Thank you for clarifying

How would it not be about censorship too? It was published in 1953, not far from WWII being on the public mind...

There's a scene in the book where someone uses the internet to chat in a VR chatroom... like 40 years before the internet was invented. There was a short story about a smart home.

Bradbury was an author far ahead of his time.

Card wrote Songmaster, which was about gay characters, claimed he had gay friends, and denied being homophobic.

I spent time in my early 20s too reading through the arguments against him. As far as I remember, he made one remark that could be interpreted as homophobic, and got pretty much canceled before the time of cancel culture. I don't think he was that hateful at all then, but the years and the public's treatment of him has probably worn him down.

I don't remember if he joined mormonism before or after his homophobic remark, but I've always been of the opinion that someone who did not like him ruined his public reputation and he was not as homophobic as people made it seem back then. Is he more homophobic now after what happened? Who knows.

How long have you been drawing with that technique? I wish that true artists like you would get more recognition and we would get more stuff like 2D animation of that quality.

They deserve it for listening to that one guy telling them to cast their lives away, there clearly were a set of stairs + planes exist as well.

Are there no attempts made to investigate the impact of vote trafficking?

What is being done to secure elections against vote trafficking/muling?

Is the Pope Catholic? - It's a book about secularism, not religion. I wouldn't pick it up again but I read it at a young age so it's interesting ideas about secularism did get stuck in my head.

The Fountainhead- I liked it because it read like a romance novel, but it wasn't the book itself that stuck in my mind, it was people's reaction to when I talked about the book. It opened my eyes to how controversial some ideas are by people's reaction to it and how a lot of people conform and close their eyes, or act like they are confused about ideas, or that they believe there is a "right" and a "wrong" way to think.

The Midnight Club- Interesting ideas about life, death, reincarnation, and terminal illness. Maybe it was because I was young and I just really liked Pike's YA novels but I felt this one hit deeper and I'll always remember it.