why do i hate that artist thing that people keep posting on my facebook so much? why am i such a jerk?

sounds about right

to clarify when I said that UU isn’t christian I meant the organization is not specifically christian, although many members are

feel like there has been some redundancy since then

oh yeah totes. there are ppl in the church who get a little squeamish about god talk. i would describe uu as post-christian, tho.

since we’re getting all wiki about it, there are unitarians out there, just not really in the US

Does UU have any kind of doctrine, I only know about the sex ed parts

be excellent to each other

no wait that's bill and ted

seven principles

https://www.uua.org/beliefs/what-we-believe/principles

But yeah the sex ed was great. My Sunday school class went to see Risky Business.

When I was a teen, many of my friends were UU. I liked their principles in the way they explained them. Sure sounded more interesting than my parents' Methodist church. So in my mid-twenties, when I was feeling a little lost in my life and in need of spiritual focus, I sought out a UU church near where I was living. I went for three straight Sundays. It was just as uncomfortable and boring as the church I went to as a kid. The sermon from the first week was unmemorable, the second week had a Superbowl theme, and the third week the sermon was a ten minute reminder to tithe! I didn't go back after the tithing one. I'm sure there are great Unitarian congregations out there though and maybe I just caught this one during an awkward stretch. I don't think I have time to go to church the way my life is these days, but one of the prayer apps on my phone is Unitarian ('Illuminations').

includes the knee-slapper about the Unitarian Universalist forced to choose between heaven and a discussion group about heaven, as well as other classic UU joeks:

http://www.firstunitariantoronto.org/what-is-unitarianism/uu-humour

Anecdotally, I think a majority of UUs start coming by choice in adulthood. Of those, I suspect a majority come for reasons similar to those described by how's life. The door is very open for people to people want to go to church but aren't comfortable with traditional dogmatic religion.

My situation was different because my family has several generations of U/UU background, so I inherited it. But like HL I just don't feel like churchgoing is a thing I need or want in my life at present.

And yeah every UU congregation is different in style. Some are very High-Church with organs and choir robes, others are informal domes in the woods, full of Jews and atheists.

i've been interested in going to the local Unitarian church for a while but i don't know if i need a church at all tbh

did the whole UU church thing a few years ago, it was ok, kind of cloying

My mom was a rote, unquestioning catholic for her whole life and my dad went to church with her (and was even an usher for a while) but once told me he would probably be a Druid if he could. Mom got totally disillusioned with sex scandal coverups and was appalled at her donations going to pay the legal fees for child molesting priests so they quit and started going to UU church in town. It fits their needs - my mom can have coffee and bars with other midwestern women and my dad can debate history and theology with a bunch of retired university faculty.

I live that parents seem to defy the trend and have become much more liberal as they age - they marched in January which totally shocked me

I don't think the idea that people become more conservative with age is really true, more of a talking point

it was ok, kind of cloying

There is a hippie-dippie earnestness that cloys sometimes. And also a tendency to adhere to vanilla white-suburban-liberal NPR pieties.

For all the "we don't have any doctrine or dogma" stuff, there is often a surprising amount of socially-enforced conformity.

My stereotypical UU is still a 65-year-old guy with wire-rimmed glasses and a chunky ethically-sourced sweater. He's a vegetarian and he has a wooden canoe. He plays some twee folkie instrument like mountain dulcimer. He gets in his Prius with its "Proud Democrat" stickers, and goes to the farmer's market with his PBS tote bag. Gets some acorn squash.

My Catholic father married into this and mocks it relentlessly.

That's so sweet joygoat.

Maybe people become more of whatever they were before? I know I'm heading farther left the older I get.

the guy who wrote the lyrics to "do you hear what i hear?" went to the UU church i went to when i was a kid. he was nice. i always loved that song. it was nice to sing it with the congregation every christmas.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No%C3%ABl_Regney

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_You_Hear_What_I_Hear%3F

xp yeah I'd say conservative people (small c) become more conservative with age

Do you sing it like Bob Dylan? xpost

Have to admit I like this one.

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haha, yeah

don't like the execution with the whole capital letters in impact font thing, but the observation is funny in its own right

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If you give her lemons she will give you lemonade.

If you give her a fish, she will something jesus something

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, August 28, 2012 1:02 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

If you give a mouse a cookie

― Hamster of Legend (J3ff T.), Tuesday, August 28, 2012 1:03 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

If you give her groceries she will say cool can you help me put these away

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, August 28, 2012 1:15 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
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what if you give her ten dollars, do you get $100 back

― dmr, Tuesday, August 28, 2012 1:17 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you get rolled quarters

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, August 28, 2012 1:32 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

if you give her one, a bartender will get a double entendre, and you will walk into a bar

-- Dr. Neil DeGrasse Tyson

― goole, Tuesday, August 28, 2012 2:15 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

is that what babies are? just... lots of sperm?

― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, August 28, 2012 5:08 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

sperm eats egg, becomes strong, grows into baby

― your native bacon (mh), Tuesday, August 28, 2012 5:21 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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the alluvial history of ILX

don't like the execution with the whole capital letters in impact font thing

Yeah, that'll never take off

haha

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Wow. Blitzen's moving speech to the other reindeer gave us chills.

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— US Consumer Product Safety Commission (@USCPSC) December 14, 2017

these fuckin people

Eh. Agencies that never get noticed by the public are ripe for budget cutting by congress, even if they keep kids from dying. What's a dead or maimed kid or two here or there? It's not like they're fetuses that need protecting or anything like that.

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waht

Yeah. Defriended. sorry guys. No more veteran memes.

that just... doesn't make any sense?

It's making fun of transgender people while also stroking it's own dick about gun ownership and then conflating transphobia with racism, capped off with some illiteracy for good measure.

there's a lot of competition but that must be up there with the stupidest image macro in the entire thread

Yeah I get what it's trying to do but it's such a topply shitpile of an MC Escher bigotry, none of the angles support each other at all

I have wandered down too many veterans humor facebook pages during the few months I was friends with that guy to ever be sure if I have found the stupidest one. That one came from https://www.facebook.com/DisgruntledVets/

love too mix metaphors

i think i'm about to get banned from facebook. they told me i had "violated their community standards" by posting a link to scott walker's "patriot, a single" (honestly i don't even remember doing so, which means someone somewhere is under the impression that reviewing facebook posts nobody remembers anymore for "violation of community standards" is the best way to fix their credibility gap), and then they asked me straight up if i was a spammer. i hope they do ban me because i don't have the strength of will to delete my facebook account.

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thx keanu

http://simplereminders.com/domains/simplereminders.com/uploads/images/blog/nikita-gill-brutally-broken-deserve-ocean-1q9m.jpg

everybody needs to stop brutally breaking things

http://www.azquotes.com/picture-quotes/quote-when-you-chop-wood-chips-fly-nikolai-yezhov-72-48-95.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/B6dimfV.png

I would instantly unfriend anyone posting that. What an unforgivable combination of picture and text.

You could try to hold a discussion with them? Although:

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