Dharma Curious

Yeah… I see where you’re coming from, but… Just no. I’m a caregiver for my mother, and it’s very similar to what others are talking about. Being responsible for someone you love can be a wonderful thing. If you don’t want kids, don’t have them, if you’re not close to your parents, don’t agree to be their caregiver. But that sort of familial love, knowing that you are doing what you can to make life as good as possible for another human is an amazing feeling, even when it’s frustrating. Even if there are massive hormonal changes in parents when they have kids, which there are, it doesn’t negate anything about the love they feel for their children. Babies are not manipulating you. Hormones help us form those bonds, but the bonds are real nonetheless.

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Okay, I always knew they were big, but I never would have thought Appa was accurately sized

Oh damn, that TV guide tip is genius! We used to handwrite on a post it and then cover it with packing tape to kind of laminate it.

My folks were also too cheap/broke to buy blank VHS tapes, so we used to get regular movies at yard sales and cover the little tab area with electrical tape. Lol.

Yeah, but it’s at least an interesting pointless unsolvable conundrum, whereas the other interpretations aren’t even interesting. Lol.

I’ve always interpreted it as which came first, the chicken or the chicken egg?

But I’d just like to point out not all religions have that view of creationism vs evolution, and even within Christianity it’s really only your super conservative, and very loud, fundamentalists. Catholicism doesn’t have an official stance on evolution, iirc, the Episcopal church in the USA is fully supportive of evolution, as are most mainline Christians. Not to detract from your point or anything, I just don’t like seeing all religious people, or all Christians, lumped together with some of the worst examples of religiosity that the US has to offer.

I would like to volunteer as morale officer, please

And the gay oral sex in the bottom left…

It’s a play on the term 'bi-curious," but for dharmic faiths instead of sexuality.

You shouldn’t give out your nearest landmarks on the internet. You could get a stalker. Now everyone knows what solar system you’re in!

No, there’s not. I Zoomed in and scrolled it one letter at a time. It’s the right number of pickets for minimum. It’s just a horrible, horrible mind fuck. Lol

There’s a scene from a comedy series called Soap. It was a spoof/parody of soap operas in the 1970s. It starred Katherine Helmond and Billy Crystal to name just two of it’s absolutely stunning cast. If you’ve seen Benson, it’s the show that Benson spun off from. And it’s so much better.

In the scene, Jessica (Helmond) has just discovered that the rumors are true, and her husband has been cheating on her.

It’s one of the most heartbreaking and painful scenes in TV history, and one of the best examples of acting I’ve ever seen. But the writing. My God. Here’s a short of the scene

That last line of dialogue is why I wanted to be a writer as a kid.

I’m afraid the hidden penis technique was officially banned in the 90s after that spate of popcorn bucket fiascos. It was abused.

The fuck did I do to you? Now I can feel my tongue and I don’t know how to breathe!

I hope you can hear your blinking for the rest of the day!

Tennessee State Cockversity. I’m head of Anthroballsofy

Oh damn, that sucks. I got to talk to him a phone call once. A friend of a friend was making a podcast and somehow got his contact info. She asked him if he’d be willing to come on the show for an interview, and he said he didn’t have time, but was there anything we’d like to ask about. She spoke to him for about 5 minutes then handed the phone to me, and he and I talked for about 45 minutes. It was amazing. He just rambled on and on. He asked if I had any physics questions and I asked “if you had a giant vinyl record shaped device in space and spun the center at near light speeds, why wouldn’t the outter edge move at/beyond c?”

He spent 45 minutes on the answer. I asked no other questions, but he went from saying basically “it would tear itself apart” to then talking about how light speed isn’t really a constant speed, that light travels at different speeds depending on the medium, and potentially in the early universe it was faster, anything that managed to exceed light speed would be considered a tachyon, then he started talking about time travel which brought him back to early universe stuff and it was… Amazing. I was giddy for days afterwards. I had his number written down (he told me I could and said to call sometime, if he couldn’t talk it’d go to voicemail) for years but lost it in a move.

Friend never did make the podcast, either. But what an experience.

This is, honestly, one of the most horrific thoughts for me now. I would die. I would fuck right off this mortal coil. I would sink beneath the sour cranberry waves and drown, knowing the surface was spiderful, and there is no place there for me now. It belongs to the eight legged ones, and mankind’s reign has ended.

I am, in fact, employed in my capacity as a homosexual. I’m an academic homosexual, though. Ivory tower type, publishing gay papers in queer journals, teaching the youth all about proper deep throating techniques in class.

I came here to say basically that. But also, speaking as a professionally employed homosexual, that ankle-cross lean is gay as fuck.