ACLU's suing. https://www.aclu.org/cases/orr-v-trump. Ash Lazarus Orr's birth certificate and marriage license are being held (unless something's changed and they got them back and I didn't hear about it) and they're also "correcting" applications from trans people. https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-politics-and-policy/us-stopped-allowing-passport-gender-marker-changes-are-people-affected-rcna191458
I was initially a little concerned, but I think it's turning out alright.
Oh, here's an ACLU press release about it, too. https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/transgender-and-nonbinary-people-take-trump-to-court-over-passport-restrictions
ACLU's suing. https://www.aclu.org/cases/orr-v-trump. Ash Lazarus Orr's birth certificate and marriage license are being held (unless something's changed and they got them back and I didn't hear about it) and they're also "correcting" applications from trans people. https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-politics-and-policy/us-stopped-allowing-passport-gender-marker-changes-are-people-affected-rcna191458
Because of the "only two sexes and no changing 'em neener neener" EO, queer people trying to renew passports and stuff like that are having their papers confiscated for the "processing" that they aren't actually doing.
They're stealing some trans peoples' documents so that they can't flee, so it's kind of already happening.
Scurvy is just caused by a lack of vitamin C. Sailors tended to get it because they didn't have access to fresh fruits and vegetables while at sea for long periods of time.
That's Sister Michael my dude
Actually, in this arc he got a nose reduction, and "the masses" voted on whether or not to keep it. They decided to go with the old nose, thus Opus being hauled away angry.
New account, negative points, obvious troll is obvious. Get new material.
For those wondering: After I revealed myself to be an atheist, I had a talk with Dad about it. Then we kinda just quietly stopped going to church. After a while, I heard my brother ask point-blank, "Why don't we go to church anymore?" To which Dad replied, "When your brother started questioning [their] faith, [they] made some really good points." I think my Grandma still blames me for accidentally athiest-izing my family.
I accidentally converted my Dad (who was a deacon at our church) to atheism or at least some form of agnosticism, and he actually seems like he's mad at how much that used to run his life. Anyway, Mom was on board with the whole "not going to church" thing, but I distinctly remember her saying, "It's nice not feeling like I'm living a lie, but I miss the social activity of it." If you've been in the church your whole life, that means you're leaving everyone in your life when you leave the church
Did you know that some of Michigan's "I Voted" stickers were designed by a twelve-year-old and feature a werewolf ripping his shirt off?
"I didn't insult anyone": You did. You preemptively insulted anyone who dared to disagree with you. If we roll back the tape, we find the quote, "I'll insult your intelligence."
So every single "point" you made is as bad as it is hypocritical. You hate people who are "arrogant," but you're allowed to be. You're allowed to defy everybody else and claim that you have the only Good And Valid Opinion and everyone else is just an idiot. The irony of it all just cured my anemia.
We'll break this down into sections.
"I made a good point": Based on the downvotes and replies, maybe you DIDN'T make a good point, your take was bad, and you need to reconsider some things.
"ninety nine percent of the human race is choosing to be [...] flagrantly arrogant": And yet you're the one who's so arrogant that you think you're being downvoted for being smarter than everyone else in the room.
who hurt you
"Moreover, none of the vegetables can be shown to have a “redemptive relationship with God.” This is real, confirmed in 2002 by TIME Magazine.
In other words, Bob, Larry and the gang can point kids toward Jesus. They can describe the endless love of God and perfect peace of His saving grace. But they cannot enter into it themselves. Salvation is saved for the crown of God’s creative work alone, and they are just vegetables. "
I guess they just wanted all the kids to know that THEY could go to heaven if the Jesus'd hard enough. Which is fairly benevolent of them. I think that's why when Bob says at the end of the episode, "Remember, God made you special, and He loves you very much" he doesn't say "us". God's redemptive love is not for him.
It is canon in the VeggieTales lore that the vegetables cannot go to heaven.
Bold move to assert that you're in a position to insult anyone's intelligence.
Book one's done and dusted unless you find something super terrible, but having more eyes on book one's gonna help with book two. What to do more of, what to stop doing, that sort of thing. Would you mind if I sent you a message?
It's not published yet (working on it) but I'd be happy to send you a copy. Book one's pretty set in stone, unless you find something really glaring, but still, having more feedback on book one's gonna help with book two. That and I just like it when people read my stuff, you know? It's why we do what we do.
Hiring a professional is wildly beyond my means. I'm working with what I've got here.
Hiring professionals is very much not an option for me.
Tragically, I am at a loss for strangers who are willing to read not one but two books for someone they don't know and then do a book report about it, so I'm working with what I've got.
Your point being?
-he asked ME about it, and I told him specifically and explicitly that I never asked him to read it because I didn't want to put him in any awkward social situations around it like the ones you're describing, and he still asked to read it.