East of Eden!

Lol

That looks so peaceful! Beautiful.

This is why it’s more discouraging to see all the people going along with him. It’s so blindingly obvious that he has no moral character whatsoever, so where are the people who do, or why do they line up behind him? The ends never justify the means…

I switched a while back and find DuckDuckGo to be how Google used to be before it stopped caring about actually showing the search results I was asking for. I haven’t figured out how to get rid of Gmail yet, but I got rid of Google calendar and use the Apple one instead.

This was always my problem with PSA as it was presented in the churches I attended - it seemed to make an abstract idea of “Justice” more important than God Himself, as though God was beholden to the principle Justice even if it contradicted another of His characteristics, such as mercy.

I have believed since high school that you can’t legislate morality; you can control people through laws, but if your goal is people coming to know Christ, then enacting laws around trying to compel “Christian” behavior will give you the exact opposite of what you want. My mom thinks I’m a heretic!

My son got sick constantly as a kid until we did a tonsillectomy/ear tubes. No more nebulizer, no more pneumonia, no more ear infections! They were a lifesaver.

Yes. The extremism and fundamentalist rigidity is the same on both ends of the spectrum, I’ve found. We have to be able to allow for complexity and nuance, like life…

Lol

The scene in the Money Pit where Tom Hanks walks into the room and sinks into the floor… just thinking about it starts me giggling!

One advantage of having narcissistic people in your family is you recognize them when they show up outside your family as well.

What the heck.

That’s beautiful!