I think crabs should be affordable for everybody no matter what their income. I don’t understand the big push to defund planned parenthood. I hope I’m getting the commenting format right for kitchenette.jezebel

Woops, wrong link. I’ll update when I find it.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3766357 no, that’s not true. For example asking someone who’s not suicidal if they’ve considered suicide could cause them to consider it. On the Wikipedia article for iatrogenesis it lists psychologists and therapists as professionals who can cause harm to a patient.

The same reason we don’t cut open someone’s head when they have a headache. Unneeded mental health care can be just as harmful as unnecessary medical procedures.

Trains could save lives and help with pollution.

Goddammit, I need that fetal tissue for my sex change!

I guess a lot of people look in the mirror and beat themselves up but I have a really bad self image but am actually pretty conventionally attractive so when I see a mirror I’m like “wait, who is that hot girl?” and feel really pretty.

Well I think it’s humans holding humanity back. One time I was really fat and poorly dressed and had no friends and I said it was cos I was fat. Then I lost weight and still was a poorly dressed loser, because being fat was just an excuse. I’ll have to check out that movie.

All religions promote bigotry and impact mental health now, or is it just Christianity you’re talking about?

That’s a whole lot of arguments against it. I was asking what you thought. One of the first things is talks about is “which god?” and we could have a whole discussion about that.

I didn’t spell out the probabilities. This is what pascal thinks. I don’t have a problem with it, because I’m not sure false belief is inherently harmful. I feel life if it turns out god doesn’t exist then the faith part doesn’t harm anyone. To me it seems like you’re saying faith in and of itself without any god…

Are you familiar with pascal’s wager? You make out belief to be irrational and pathological, but it seems pretty logical to me. I know if you Google you’ll be sure to find solid counter arguments, but I’m interested in how you’d respond to this argument that belief on God is a rational decision based on what you’ve…

It’s a majority of people who spew or tolerate bullshit, an example being the existence of rape culture. You can’t put the majority in a nuthouse.

Well if you think that can be fixed, I admire your faith.

You really want somebody who says “gee, I better listen to that invisible guy?” to be going around making decisions about stuff?!?! That sounds scary to me.

Maybe the people using religion as a crutch to not have to think aren’t capable of all of that, hence the crutch.

Dude, Wikipedia Bahá’í. Its a super cool religion.

Those people especially need the 10 comandments. If it makes you feel better I don’t have the typical Christian paradigm, Im mostly using the bible as a tool in chaos magic rituals. I thought I was the next Bahá’í prophet, but I just found out I’m a starseed! I’m exploring the concept of the holographic universe from…

Because it speaks on many fundamental truths, such as the golden rule and is the religion from my culture. I’m pretty sure that islam has some kind of golden rule as well and if I was in the middle east I’d be speaking Arabic and talking about existence from an Arab perspective, but this happens to be where I’m from.…

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