Personal Post, Off Topic, & Everything Else - Post 1

[sunnymodffa]

This is the non-fandom, personal issues, off topic, and everything else post. The rules related to personal topics are relaxed. Religion is not banned from this post.

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[anonymous]

Can a new!seal icon officially baptize (in a religion or absence of religion of each reader's individual choice) this post, please?

[sunnycamehome2u]

The Seal of Firstness says hello.

[anonymous]

All right! Post feels more welcoming now.

So, any chance Firstness has recommendations for a good therapist for a hot velociraptor struggling with transspecies body-dysmorphic pterosaur identity issues?

[sunnycamehome2u]

Nope.

Firstness is the last person on earth you want to get medical advice from. She's an underage fluffy seal who really likes porn. Not someone to put your life in the trust of.

I like this icon

[anonymous]

It makes me feel like I'm part of the A-Team. :D

Re: I like this icon

[anonymous]

Well, you are! As long as the "A" stands for "Anon." XD

Is there a purpose to life?

[anonymous]

Religion is not off topic, so let's have a religious discussion here. Do you think there is a purpose to life (human, individual, in general)? And if so, what is it?

I generally prefer the idea that there is no specific, intended purpose to human life, but that humans were given free will so that we could create our own purpose in life, if we so choose.

But lately I've been toying with the idea that if we take the somewhat Deist approach to life and think of God-as-clockmaker (or programmer?), setting the universe in motion with some rules and then just letting it all happen, then humanity would have some kind of dedicated purpose, and our design would suit that purpose. And what humans seem to be really good at is thinking and analyzing, so maybe the purpose of humanity is to learn about the universe.

Re: Is there a purpose to life?

[anonymous]

I sort of find it frustrating, on a meta level, when fictional characters argue for freewill. That's as far as I end up thinking on the subject, otherwise I get a little depressed.

Re: Is there a purpose to life?

[anonymous]

I don't think there is, and I find the universe more personally inspiring without it.

I think there's something very beautiful about a universe so big and complicated that something like humans can evolve purely out of chance. With an externally imposed purpose, we'd be cogs in a single giant machine. Cogs that could choose to work or not, maybe, but still cogs. Without that, we can create our own machine and figure out each step along the way. We can work to improve it, we can work to demolish it, because fundamentally it belongs only to us.

Re: Is there a purpose to life?

[anonymous]

Well, I'm an atheist, so... no. I don't think anything "gave" us free will but I do think we have it, and we can create purposes for ourselves. I find this idea totally depressing, though, because I'm currently severely mentally ill and I don't really see myself getting better enough to accomplish anything, or even live much longer. :|

Pagan groups identify themselves as churches?

[anonymous]

A friend on facebook linked to this news story with the headline EPISCOPAL CHURCH BECOMES BIGGEST US CHURCH TO BLESS GAY UNIONS
http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/07/10/12666645-episcopal-church-becomes-biggest-us-church-to-bless-gay-unions#.T_zURyVJNgI.facebook

and the comments are full of people saying OMG PAGAN MARGINALIZATION!! PAGANS HAVE BEEN BLESSING GAY UNIONS FOREVER!!

I really thought "church" was a term used only by Christian or Christian-derived groups (Unitarian-Universalism having developed partly from Unitarian Christianity, as I understand it) but are there groups that identify under the neopagan umbrella that use "church" to describe their faith communities or institutions?

Re: Pagan groups identify themselves as churches?

[anonymous]

I've never known any who did, but the pagans I've known have been very loose on the whole organizational aspect.

Re: Pagan groups identify themselves as churches?

[anonymous]

That article doesn't appear to be a comprehensive overview of religious support for same-sex marriage, so I don't know why they're getting their knickers in a twist.

I've heard of a few groups calling that using the word church; sometimes it may be tongue in cheek. I think it can be used in the more general sense of "house of worship," but yeah, there is a very strong Christian connotation. And then there are people who identify as Pagan Christians.

Here's an example of a "Wiccan/Pagan church" - http://hearthstone.fnorky.com/home/

Bartending Nonnies?

[anonymous]

Hey! I was looking into bartending school just to make some extra money on the side while I'm in school. I'm only 19 but my state allows you to bartend at 18. I was just curious if other nonnie had experience bartending and what it's like/what to expect if I got a job doing it. I've heard the moneys good, but that's basically it.

Re: Bartending Nonnies?

[anonymous]

I don't know about bartending school, but the bartender position was highly coveted at the Buffalo Wild Wings where my best friend worked during college -- enough so that the management dangled it over the heads of the servers and got them to pretty much do backflips in order to get the promotion. He spent one semester as a server, busted his ass (at the expense of his grades, actually), and was finally offered the position if he'd be willing to stay over the summer. He wasn't originally planning to, but he scrambled to find a last-minute sublet and rearrange his plans... only to be late to work a week later and be fired.

I'm not sure if that's representative of the industry in general, or what difference going to school might make, but from what I saw, I'd consider another job first, especially while you're transitioning into your studies.

Re: Bartending Nonnies?

[anonymous]

Are you a very social person? Can you manage to look interested in what someone is saying to you, no matter how inane, how offensive, how downright nonsensical for as long as their ass is sitting there -- which could be hours -- and just them and you alone

Re: Bartending Nonnies?

[anonymous]

OT, but, how odd to see a comment assume an anon is male!