People who can leave and are against what’s going on in these states don’t need to be told to leave. It’s already something they’ve considered and are either working on doing or decided they would rather stay and do what they can to change things. So, saying to some random person(s) on the internet living in a red…

The point isn’t that everyone has to stay because not everyone can. The point is that you shouldn’t tell people to just move because a lot of the people (a majority, most likely) affected by these laws can’t move for one or more reasons.

As an Oklahoman who is also very liberal, I get really tired of this. There are a lot of people here who want to change things here and make things better. There are several quoted in the article who go to a Christian University or work at one. Of course, like the rest of the red states, we are gerrymandered out the…

The amount of tackiness in that one picture is overwhelming. And I’m not even counting the women for trump sign.

Other than the disordered eating, wearing a sauna suit twice a day is very unhealthy (you’re dehydrating yourself to lose weight.) Just the idea of saying, “I have to lose this much weight so I can fit in this dress that an icon wore” is bad. Just, have it altered. If that’s not allowed, have someone make a replica…

The map says there are 42 books set in Tulsa, OK. However, if I put in Tulsa, OK to search, it only shows me one per genre and it doesn’t give me any options to see more books. That kinda sucks.

We aren’t designed to sustain fasting for days as a normal occurence. We are designed to eat when we are hungry. As a matter of fact, our bodies will retain fat if we go without food for too long. It’s a response to hunger. If our ancestors went without food for days, it was due to a shortage of food, not because they…

“Female” and “male” are adjectives, not nouns. Using them as nouns is insulting because it dehumanizes. They are also primarily used (up until relatively recently) for animals, because animals are not boys and girls or men and women. You will notice, too, that when someone uses one of these as a noun, it is almost…

Islam is considered an Abrahamic religion. The other two Abrahamic religions are Christianity and Judaism. The Old Testament, the Koran, and the Torah are all very similar. Which is why Islam actually says to not bother Christians or Jews, because they are so close to what they consider the truth. (That has been…

If the only thing about Scientology was that they believed weird stuff, who cares?

They are bleeding members. Like, gushing. They probably don’t have the numbers there to maintain a presence like that anymore.

By the legal definition of religion, it is not. It is a business.

My father is a devout Christian. I don’t go to church and, while I haven’t told him I have my doubts about the existance of god, he knows I’m not really there for the religion stuff. Nevertheless, I go visit him every other week and he talks to me and I am not shunned by him.

“But then it diverged to a more predatory and manipulative model, probably somewhere in the ‘50s or ‘60s.”

Nobody distorted Hubbard’s message and used it to abuse people and such. That was Hubbard’s intention from the beginning. He was mad because the psychology community shunned his ideas, so he went and made up all this shit and used it to a) make money, b) feel powerful and smart, and c) abuse people. A great deal of…

And every single person (save Tom Cruise and maybe John Travolta) who has reached the top level has noped right out.

Outside of Mormonism and Jehovah’s Witnesses, though, they don’t make you cut off from your family and friends if you leave and they don’t hound you and spread lies about you if you talk about them after leaving.

Have you not seen spirit photography from the 1800s? The most famous one is probably Abraham Lincoln’s widow with his “spirit” behind her. There are also a lot of pictures from back then where they’ve been manipulated so that the person is holding their own head or something similar.

It’s like they haven’t done a single bit of research on how radiation works. As soon as they decided that our people wouldn’t stop all the bombs from being launched, I knew shit was going off the rails. There’s a reason that Pripyat was (and mostly still is) off limits for so long after the failure. I mean, I don’t…

It’s anti, but it let’s the people who built and ran/run the platforms Q operates on talk pretty freely. That said, they talk themselves into being thoroughly dislikeable.