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all the free and easy protestants ive met (since moving to dublin, obv, jaysus) are lovely. as a broad swathe statement, since im making them and don't much plan to stop, they're much more socially engaged and conscious, but it seems to be in a less-broody way, more of a 'roll-up-the-sleeves, do lets' get stuck in chaps, this wants fixing' kind of way.

again i don't discount that they are all genuinely much fuckin wealthier and happier and less prone to having come from demented alcoholic abusive homes than the crowd im use to (oh that's probably covered in 'protestant' i guess)

no idea how engaged they are with their religion vs our lot, afaicglean its more of a social outing thing with them, that and knowing they're better than we are, which probably helps in a million unfelt ways.

like when we morally police ourselves and then feel guilty the guilt expiates the bad behaviour somehow? whereas there's no reason to believe that somebody without an oppressive self-surveillance regime wd actually behave any worse than anybody else? that feels plausible tbh

― Gombeen Dance Band (Noodle Vague)

idk, that, yeah, definitely, that and giving yrself the slap on the back for little or nothing as opposed to the (always? often? never?) truthier 'fuck it we're all in it and trying to get out of it and preferably me first' but tbrrwu i dont see how this links in any way to ogmors post and im only typing now out of reflex so