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dogegunate t1_jeg3ryj wrote

Reply to comment by VelveteenAmbush in Senator Warner’s RESTRICT Act Is Designed To Create The Great Firewall Of America by vriska1

The West is supposed to be championing ideas of freedom and liberty. So yes, we should be allowing that because we have decided as a society that it is up to the people to decide what they want to think and not what the government dictates them to think. Or do you want to be like authoritarian China where we put up a Great Firewall to block anything that government deems a "threat"?

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ScaryProfessional711 t1_jeg3rkq wrote

Reply to Movie Recommendations For Friday Night? by Mary_Pick_A_Ford

That new Tetris movie came out today I think. You might check that one out. The trailer makes it look like there was this whole Mission Impossible secret op to break into Russia and smuggle the game back across enemy lines and release it to the masses. 😂 Was it really that serious.

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Rhadamanthus2020 t1_jeg3r6r wrote

Reply to Fahrenheit 451 Co-opted? by ViolinistFamiliar187

  1. They know books like Fahrenheit 451 appeal to the left.
  2. Their entire modus operandi is: "own the libs"
  3. They know a liberal finding real-life nazi flyers in such books will confuse, frustrate, or anger libs.
  4. They "win." It's as simple as that - making the libs cry. If, for some crazy reason, it recruits another nazi, then they're doubly successful.

<sigh>

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schreyerauthor t1_jeg3q9l wrote

Reply to Would Lord of the Flies be the same story if it was boys and girls stranded on the island instead of just boys? by Ill_Definition8074

A documentary team in the UK put a bunch of boys in a house for a weekend and filmed them. No adults. Just middle school boys and all strangers before the experiment. They repeated it with girls. Both are up on YouTube in full.

Middle schoolers have underdeveloped brains so its fairly predictable that both groups get up to some stupid shit but its the little differences that are interesting.

As for mixing boys and girls, I'm a cynic so if they were over the age of 14 I'd guess it wouldn't go very well for the girls, especially if it was a plane crash on an island and not a single weekend in a house with a clear escape time and cameras rolling. Under 14, its hard to say.

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BartlettMagic t1_jeg3q4z wrote

Reply to comment by schu2470 in ACLU suing Saucon Valley School District over district's decision not to allow After School Satan Club by LeaveThatCatAlone

  1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol — that our lives had become unmanageable.

  2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.

  3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.

  4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.

  5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.

  6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.

  7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.

  8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.

  9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.

  10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.

  11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.

  12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these Steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

from the official AA Website.

if i were seeking help, this would drive me away from a support group pretty quickly. to me, this reads as embracing fear and powerlessness, sacrificing oneself for the god that is the disease. how many other people have felt the same way?

*to be fair, there are some good parts to it. but the god angle is too much.

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