Disagreement can’t take place in the absence of mutual evidence.

“Hysterical.” Lmao. Classic! Call me “shrill” next, lol. You’ve just outed yourself, rookie. I don’t think it’s your club; you do understand the difference between a personal and general “you,” right?

Not your sweetie, first off, but thanks for that. Second, you absolutely have missed the point, multiple times. You’re stuck on the idea that I’m just not informed enough, or I must disagree with the club, and other folderol I’ve already addressed. People who are scared of Satan or equal religious freedom aren’t going…

GUYS. You’re still not listening. This is all ABOUT instantaneous reactions and phraseology and what at the end of the day everyone’s real goals are, NOT “oh but if you do your research.” I’m making a rather simple point about all that and you’re acting like there’s willful ignorance at play. Failing to validate what…

It’s also naive to think that whatever is on PR-laden paper is how things will verbatim play out at a local level with live ammo, so to speak. Plus, just a personal opinion, it’s asinine to include religious iconography in a club name and yet fall back on being merely misunderstood atheists—iconography which would not…

Sigh. No, I do not think any such thing. Nowhere have I conflated the two. I am simply positing how certain people may immediately perceive the matter, that it’s not necessarily religious hypocrisy, but rather fatigue based on the fact that herds of teens are already difficult enough to mop up after, even when they’re…

I’m not saying they will. But I am telling you how administration and municipal employees will see it. I know quite a few of them. They don’t give two shits about what kids believe which, but they care an awful lot about their jobs getting harder.

From the church of satan’s website: “Satanists are atheists. We see the universe as being indifferent to us, and so all morals and values are subjective human constructions. Our position is to be self-centered, with ourselves being the most important person (the “God”) of our subjective universe, so we are sometimes…

Yeah . . . thing is, if a club’s mores are founded on rebellion and acting on one’s every feeling, I don’t think ANY school official/employee, no matter how liberal-minded, is going to be super excited about an adolescent group of them meeting after hours on school property. Substitute anarchists or taggers or parkour…

That’s some super villain shit right there.

That's three for three.....very interesting.

Oooh read my post!! I do the same, am ALSO allergic to nickel, and have excess myelin sheathing (nerve insulation.)

Me too! My grandmother also kills battery watches. I’ve since discovered the same effect on anything battery-powered with a metal casing (after zapping a couple people’s cell phones, because apparently metal cases were a thing for a while.) But if there’s a plastic barrier, everything’s fine. Two points of interest: I…

Honestly, she’s a good storyteller with less skill and a madhat-ful of personal issues that she keeps inserting into her characters, and was also born into a fairly oppressive religious culture. I say, kudos to her. Girl made good. I hope she’s taking ladies-only vacations in Europe and Cabo and flirting with…

Classic blameshifting. “It wasn’t me, it was, uh, that foreign guy.”

I unabashedly like Mad World. But it’s on my “happy” playlist—it’s never produced sadness in me, probably because maudlin things make me contrary.

This is just appalling, since access to birth control in Russia is already so limited that subsidized abortion has become the only readily available method. It’s not uncommon for a Russian woman to have 6, 10, 14 abortions in her lifetime. http://www.rferl.org/content/Aborti…

good point. I blame alcohol.

I’d like to see “hys” added as a possessive pronoun for nonbinaries. “Their”is used as a stand-in, but it’s technically plural and confusing. (Other forms include hy and hym.)