Well that's great then! When Trump and his gang of maniacs get in they won't be able to accomplish anything because of how the US government works!

That's so encouraging! Here I thought being President meant you could effect change.

Cherry picking 🍒

And those cherries are so small and juiceless.

It might be the answer we've been looking for!

Probably not.

But maybe!

They had turnovers that were good too

I can't find Starbucks ginger molasses cookies, although technically they're still sold? I could fly to Seattle I guess.

Arby's potato cakes

I used to live in Miami and I had a detector do that. Maybe it's pollen? There's a shit ton of weird-ass pollen in Miami.

You know what's underrated?

Your mother.

You and I are the same.

One word.

midiclorians

That's EXACTLY what I did with my son.

He won't feel cheated when he's older either. He'll thank me

I watched through Peter Capaldi, and quite a few of Jodie Whittaker, if not most.

Whoosh

Good point. I appreciate your insight

Science is, among other things, the rejection of metaphysics.

And I love science, embrace evolution, and don't have any beliefs that require me to reject any scientific finding.

Science covers the physical world nicely. Materialistically, it's got the goods.

I think what I'm saying there is that faith is more of an on-off switch. You see an astronaut who's returned from space and he's holding a pencil and he lets go of it in the air, goes and does something, and returns to the place where he let it go expecting the pencil to still be there.

It's not there, but he BELIEVED it would be, because he had no doubt. It surprised him that it wasn't there.

Hypothesis is quite a different thing. If I hypothesize there are crackers in the pantry, all I have to do is go and open the pantry and look and see if there's crackers. That's testing the hypothesis.

One does not talk about the existence of things like love, or truth, or God, in the same way one talks about crackers in the pantry. They are metaphysical, and they are different.

So what you're saying is that here in 2024 we've got it all figured out?

*Note that: 2024, everything figured out.

“There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” -Shakespeare

There's physics. And there's metaphysics. One does not come to Faith the same way one produces a hypothesis.

"God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables, slaves with white collars, advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of the history man, no purpose or place, we have no Great war, no Great depression, our great war is a spiritual war, our great depression is our lives, we've been all raised by television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires and movie gods and rock stars, but we won't and we're slowly learning that fact. and we're very very pissed off."

-Tyler Durden

The USA is what we call the Great American Melting Pot. A bunch of cultures stripped of their cultural practices as much as possible.

It means we have very little in the way of innate cultural practices. Which is why we cling to things like sports, fast food, pop music, (much of which isn't ours, but anyway), military celebrations; because we're desperately trying to find ceremonial right of passage/cultural identity. We are a blank slate.

We don't have a quince, we don't have a bat mitzvah, we have prom. It's stupid, but it's ours.

Thank you, good words