Am I a bad person for immediately thinking conspiracy theory? I mean, lots of people have to have thought that for at least a second, right?

“Capt Balderrama: McClendon went left of center traveling at a high rate of speed, collided into bridge wall, car engulfed in flames @NewsOK”

Why can’t men accept impotence as what it so very clearly is? God’s will for them.

anyone who posts videos of themselves online is pretty much a massive, narsacistic douche by definition.

Thankfully the Iranian Revolutionary Guards are far more peaceable and level headed than your average American police force.

To sum up:

In fairness, my zoo membership also functions as my gym membership (lots of walking) and my “dear God, let me out of the house to see some sunlight” pass.

You hit the nail on the head with the “lifestyle childhood” bullshit that goes on. I really had to swim against the tide in order not to get caught up in it when my kids were little. Obviously when the kids are tiny and constantly trying to kill themselves, it’s hard to relax and have free time because you do have to…

Beautiful response!

NOOO! I always thought Quakers were somewhat reasonable as far as christians go. Mind blown.

When my ex’s mom died, the church leaders came to my ex’s dad asking for their portion of the mother’s life insurance

Ultraconservative Christians aren’t opposed to sharia because they think it inflicts inexcusable misery on innocent people, they’re opposed because it inflicts inexcusable misery on innocent people in the name of the wrong god.

That church reminds me of the church my ex-husband’s family belonged to. It was super conservative, and my ex grew up tithing his allowance money to the chuch per his parents. The church was very much entwined with their lives. When my ex’s mom died, the church leaders came to my ex’s dad asking for their portion of…

This is an amazing piece of writing. I could have written a large portion of it (although I couldn’t have put it into words nearly as well as you did). People are leaving the church in droves due to the hypocrisy of many of its leaders and the lack of a real place for women (beyond cooking funeral lunches and staffing…

When you are spurned so thoroughly by an institution in which you have placed so much of yourself, it can break you to the extent that you lose your beliefs.

ding ding ding

We got married very, very young. ;) Another aspect of conservative Christianity with unforseen consequences.

I don’t see anything wrong with that. Some people go their entire lives and never figure out their true passion. There is no set process, or instruction manual for figuring out what you want to do and how to do it.

So someone deciding to change careers makes them a terrible person?

Living in a more secular culture here in Canada, this culture strikes me as quite parallel to Sharia law in Islam. It seems quite contradictory to American culture in general, which seems to focus on individual fulfillment and rights. I don’t understand how these ideologies are expanding in 2015; they seem…