I believe it has to do with the extremely sexualized culture we're living in thanks to instant porn. I teach high school, and kids have seen EVERYTHING online, and a lot of them are saturating their brains in it daily. They grew up listening to WAP like kids listened to Britney Spears when I was 18. They're striving for the Instathot look with fake lashes, giant fake nails, heavy makeup, etc. Someone I know posted a picture of their daughter's EIGHTH GRADE graduation photo last summer, and it was creepy. She was in full makeup and giving an oddly seductive over-the-shoulder look to the camera. Someone probably coached her to pose like that because there's no such thing as posing naturally and just being a cute girl anymore. We live in a culture of porn.
Girls who just want to be tomboyish, nerdy, or plain don't know how to fit in to a culture that is pushing this extremely artificial and slutty version of femininity. They grasp the only option that will grant them acceptance: transgenderism. Being a regular or plain girl isn't cool and will get you picked on, but being trans or "NB" will make everyone shower you with praise and sympathy for not fitting in.
I remember seeing pictures of my mom and her friends from the 1970s and they were wearing miniskirts and skimpy clothes. But they looked like normal, natural, fun-loving, cute girls. They didn't look like cheap AI hookers with bad fillers, which is what so many young women are aspiring to look like now. In other words, they aspire to look like drag queens. Hell, the top makeup tutorial YouTubers are MEN.
Everything is topsy-turvy in this world.
Nikki is her real middle name, but yeah, she doesn't seem to be very proud of her ancestry. Wonder why. I always hoped that Vivek would call her out on it, considering their similar backgrounds, but he probably doesn't want to talk about his own religion since he's a Hindu.
I'm in coastal NC. Around 6:00 I thought we were having a tornado. The wind kicked up like I've never seen. And it went on like that for a while. There was a very eerie feeling in the air, but what was weirder was the smell. The storm had a smell that I can't even describe, like a mixture of burnt wood and plastic. And I never saw any lightning or heard any thunder the entire night.
I'll pray for you and your dog. Something similar happened to my dog three years ago. He had to get x-rays for his arthritis and they thought they spotted bone cancer. The vet was pretty convinced and told me it didn't look good. But he decided to send the images to an expert he knew for a second opinion and it turned out he was wrong. My dog is still here and doing okay and is old as dirt now.
Sometimes they get it wrong. I hope that's true this time, too.
It's interesting how we're ALL struggling right now, those of us who try and who work and who were doing well not so long ago. So many of us are living paycheck to paycheck or are in debt due to this economy. Meanwhile, there are countless videos on TikTok and articles on Yahoo and other rags pushing Gen Z's brilliant idea to try "quiet quitting" and refusing to work a normal job or even pay for services. Those in power have no use for us anymore. There's virtually nothing a robot can't do at this point. They're prepping us for owning nothing, having no job/career/business, and depending on them for crumbs.
Chris Cornell was tapped into it. This is another one called "Shadow on the Sun" from his Audioslave days that I think I finally understand completely:
Once upon a time I was of the mind To lay your burden down And leave you where you stood And you believed I could You'd seen it done before I could read your thoughts And tell you what you saw And never say a word But now all that is gone Over with and done Never to return
And I can tell you why People die alone I can tell you I'm A shadow on the sun
Staring at the loss Looking for a cause And never really sure Nothing but a hole To live without a soul And nothing to be learned
And I can tell you why People go insane I can show you how You could do the same I can tell you why The end will never come I can tell you I'm A shadow on the sun
Shapes of every size Move behind my eyes Doors inside my head Bolted from within Every drop of flame Lights a candle in Memory of the one Who lived inside my skin
I can tell you why People go insane I can show you how You could do the same I can tell you why The end will never come I can tell you I'm The shadow on the sun Shadow on the sun
I do believe that coffee was meant to be a treat and not a daily habit. I used to see a very good acupuncturist who lamented the fact that most of his clients were coffee and caffeine addicts. It's become an obsession in the West. I live in a rural area and can think of at least four independent coffee shops within twenty miles of me. Anyway, I don't know how true some of the "facts" in the article are since there aren't sources to all of them. And what about some of the research that's been done to show some positive aspects of coffee, like its benefits for the liver? It's worth considering all sides, though, since I do wonder why the average American is now saturated in "coffee culture."
Yeah, this board is dominated by evangelical protestants. To declare yourself bound for Heaven and worthy of living next to Christ because you think you're good enough and doing what you think is right is pure egotism. There is only One who will determine our destination in this Universe.
I'm a woman and it's been a struggle. I quit my job for a year when we moved to a new state a couple of years ago, but that was around the time inflation started skyrocketing. I went back to work to help pay down our debts and our mortgage, but also, my family gave me an attitude about not working, saying things like "it must be nice." Like it's something to be ashamed of. I am praying that once we get everything paid off, I can start building a home business with the farm we have now and never have to work outside the home again. It shouldn't have to be this way, but the system was designed to make women feel like they have to be men.
Liberal white women have been the scourge of Western society for decades now. It's nothing new. These women could be our greatest resource, but because they're desperate to feel valuable and charitable through virtue-signaling instead of homemaking, they're our worst enemy.
I have always believed that part of Trump's plan is to bring these treatments to light. Who knows what else is available that has been withheld from the public? I pray every day for this and an end to the evil for-profit medicine machine.
Fake news. This is Roseanne's real account: https://x.com/therealroseanne?s=20
I'm a teacher, and my students talk about Mr. Beast frequently. The only thing I know about him is that his sidekick recently came out as transgender, and there are videos about this person's "journey." Sickening. There are very few famous YouTubers I would let my kids watch. It seems every single one of them has the same agenda: getting famous and doing whatever it takes to get there.
This is an Orthodox Christian church, and St. Porphyrius was known for destroying pagan temples and ending paganism in Gaza. Please pray for the people of this church. They certainly did not deserve this, and it only goes to show how many innocents have been and will be destroyed on both sides. No one cares who is in the way of the war machine.
This is what I came here to say. People can make the choice for themselves. That's freedom. They should not be allowed to attack us or force us into wearing a mask, and we should leave them alone if they choose to wear one. I work with a few people who wear masks, and while I think it's useless, I don't bother them. And they don't bother me. That's as it should be.
This is what bothers me about our side sometimes, this constant need to pick at people who disagree or to "red pill" people who are minding their own business just because you've decided they need it. Not a single one of us is perfect and not a single one of us knows as much as we think we do. People will be illumined in their own time and in the way God chooses.
This has always been my biggest fear when it comes to the steady stream of illegals coming across the border. Schools, churches, big box stores, hotels, theaters, and any place where people are crammed together in a large building are going to be targets. And this isn't going to be like when there is one random shooter or lunatic driver on the loose. We've seen these coordinated attacks in other countries when terrorists target specific places. This one comes to mind: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Mumbai_attacks. I would not even be surprised if neighborhoods and homes are targeted like they were in Israel over the weekend. I dreamed fifteen years ago that this exact scenario happened in the US and I've never forgotten it.
This takes "head on a swivel" to another level, and I think we all need to be thinking and operating this way for the foreseeable future. I fear what is coming to our country over the next few weeks.
People around here seem angrier, less friendly, and more impatient. I avoid being in public as much as possible. The increasing pressure of inflation, paying bills, and trying to afford groceries is about to make the average Joe crack.
I agree with the racial aspect. White girls are desperate to find an identity. They're afraid of being called a racist or a Karen and not maintaining the status quo. They're afraid of being "normal." Being normal became an insult after the 60s. Today, college professors encourage girls to be sluts and to denounce their own heritage and traditions. A friend of mine sent her lovely daughter to a major university three years ago. You cannot even recognize her now. She went from being a cute Christian high school girl to sporting a septum ring, pink hair, and tattoos. She looks miserable. She has no identity and no tradition to follow.
At the school where I teach, I see another disturbing phenomenon. We have a trans student who is a boy pretending to be a girl. He's very petite and wears makeup and heels. He flirts and gets handsy with straight boys. From what I can see, he's manipulating them, knowing that they're attracted to any feminine attention. It's confusing to them. They're not gay, but they may start questioning themselves because of this kind of interaction. It's sick. I imagine this kind of scenario happens frequently. Trannies are manipulators and actors of the highest order, especially the ones who really pass.