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Keepers of the Tree's avatar

Godspeed. May He have mercy on our souls.

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Otto Hawker's avatar

Really really good article

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Rikhard Ravindra Tanskanen's avatar

The reason people do not like children is because children are spoiled brats and this became rampant in 1930 (just before it began being widely portrayed in media), with spoiling children being associated with bohemians and libertines, which would have included actors and actresses and the families of pimps: I would think spoiled brats date back to the Renaissance at best and towards the end of Late Antiquity at worst.

The reason we did not see women dying en masse from miscarriages in the early 20th century is merely because of high mortality rates which reduced the odds women would survive being born and then being infants and children, to have miscarriages: many of the women suffering now are pro-lifers who want to have children. Indeed, the reason women are in danger of being prosecuted is because the 1864 and 1911 laws were vague on how to differ miscarriages from abortions, since very few women had miscarriages and the 1864 law only protected doctors if the woman died in childbirth from a Caesarian section or forced childbirth.

Pro-choice women are not the daughters of Herod, since they do not think they are killing anyone. If they are killing people, it is like Herakles accidentally killing his children. Not only that, part of the reason people are not having children is because since 2007, it is financially irresponsible until one achieves good wages through promotions: this is what kept the European population stable for centuries and is why people with many children (like farmers, fishermen, and Mormons), are looked down upon.

Not having children has nothing to do with lack of Christianity or Jungianism: whilst one could see children as rivals for mates and jobs, there is no reason to think this, as you do not consider your own children as rivals (even if you think other children are rivals). The exception is Laios syndrome, when a man considers his son as a sexual competitor for potential women (not just his mother).

The idea that secularism has strengthened by aborting future religious leaders is illogical, since there would be an equal percentage of religious leaders and secular leaders (not necessarily secularists, but people who do not talk about religion: the creationism of Ben Carson was not widely known until 2014).

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Jack Milton's avatar

And this is why you fail.

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Jack Milton's avatar

First, you said nothing about Mystery Science Theater 3000.

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Rikhard Ravindra Tanskanen's avatar

I was surprised that you watched it, as it is associated with the culturally liberal Americana of Generation XY (i.e. Reaganism, the New Democrats, the decline of the Rockefeller Republicans, Southernization, the neoconservatives, and the Conservative Lions), in contrast to traditional Christianity. The show was popular amongst the Joss Whedon fandom, who were also fans of Nickelodeon shows, the Disney Renaissance, Japanimation, eastern European and Chinese animation, webcomics, Korean comics, and pornography: these fans were in particular fans of movie monsters, and pioneered fanfiction. I understand you watched it to see reruns of 1950s films, but Hollywood (and Greater New York, which invented the American cinema industry), has been condemned by Christianity since the founding of American cinema (British and ethnic Germanophone immigrants - including actors - began settling in the Wild West village of Hollywood in the 1880s, but Hollywood only became a city in the days of Fatty Arbuckle: indeed folkloric gunslinger Wyatt Earp, who lived in the area, tutored a 17 year-old John Wayne in the 1920s as a film advisor).

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