Thanks for the rec!

Oooh, this sounds useful. Links?

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Hey, everybody's different.

Seconded. Mmmmm. Vikings.

Hey man, that's 49% of the population. I'm pretty sure 49% of the population wouldn't define their lives as "terrible."

Yeah, at my skinniest I was 112 an 29% body fat. Its totes a real thing.

Old ladies in the locker room happen to not give a fuck also, and I personally think it is BALLER!! Seriously, I cannot wait for the day when my earthly vessel is NBD, and I can use my tits to loofah my back.

I personally love the idea of offering whatever help and counseling is needed and requested. I know that there are many congregations and parishes would have a more modernized approach to outreach, and from what you've described, it sounds like your parish has moved in that direction. Jesus would approve! ;)

Have you ever attended such a meeting? I'm honestly curious, because I've heard about often religious-lead "pregnancy crisis centers" and they sound like a grim business. I know this site has covered them pretty extensively. Here is one example. Here's another.

I used to feel this way about Catholicism - at least it's consistent, right?

I've been jumped too many times on this site to count. I'm sure I've been just as guilty of being on either side honestly, but I've been noticing perfectly well-thought-out comments get knee-jerk backlash more and more as of late...

just so you know, you made it perfectly clear in your OP that this was your personal experience. You made it clear when you said

Nailed it!

FTW!

Ugh, I didn't think I could like Taylor Swift LESS, but 1) having no sense of humor about being teased at the Golden Globes and 2) having a catty cadre of mean girls at her beck and call has done just that!

Well, fat lotta good this does me NOW! Thanks a lot, SCIENCE!

Sorry, it wasn't meant to be addressed solely to you but to a whole slew of negative reactions I've gotten.

Same to you!

There's a lot of crossover and one could argue they're one and the same, or at the very least that there is considerable cross-over. In MY experience, trascendental implies that you are seeking a state outside of or above your current mental state, and has its roots in spirituality. Mindfulness practice is more…