Mihow
Lipstick on a guitar
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Mihow
Lipstick on a guitar
7mo ago
My probably annoying way of talking about myself and a group of people I tangentially relate to
Like, I’m with the OP making light of religion - but it doesn’t mean I find him funny or correct
The second one being a colloquial of people who grew up in the 90’s
Mihow
Lipstick on a guitar
7mo ago
Everyone wants a Coke
I feel like the line is between the West and China about how to get there and if I had to pick which way to lean, it’s on the trans non binary future side
Yea - the church will succumb one day
Mihow
Lipstick on a guitar
7mo ago
That’s fair
Finding contradictions in religion is said 12-23 year old atheist phase imo
And like you wrote, made worse when it’s not even correct
Mihow
Lipstick on a guitar
7mo ago
Ok but then every other war ever is due to religious reasons?
If we had the same machinery during the Crusades, WWI & II would be barely a blip in the awe of massacre.
Tiny human tribes have been killing other tiny human tribes with the justification of religion since forever - you don’t get to point at the last century and say well look what you godless fucks have done!
You didn’t cuz you couldn’t! (Obviously not you or yours - just the palette of history)
Mihow
Lipstick on a guitar
7mo ago
Mocking the church is my god given right.
I’ve stopped being an annoying atheist because I’m no longer aged 12-23, but, come on, this stuff is still funny.
Or it’s extremely sad and pathetic.
I choose the funny route.
The mistake people always make is telling ((us)) that we don’t understand the history, the theology, the nuance, the glory, the what have you.
I understand why it bothers you, I do, but that doesn’t take into account how much bother religion has been to ((us)) in our own lifetimes.
You try to rule our life, and we mock you, that’s a fair exchange at this point imo. You’re no longer chopping off our heads, and we mock you a bit. What’s the issue, seriously?
I hope you persevere until the threat of Islam is pacified, and the threat of communism, and I hope you never ordain trans non binary furies as Cardinals.
But you will - and it’ll be kinda funny.
Mihow
Lipstick on a guitar
7mo ago
- antioxidants
I use a tablespoon with my decaf green tea, mint, 1/2 lemon every night just about
Mihow
Lipstick on a guitar
7mo ago
I grill 2-3x a week and smoke with my electric smoker 1-2x a week.
I used one of those chimneys for charcoal for a few years but now I’m back to lighter fluid.
I use a Weber and (I’ll look at the brand if you want but any of the 199$ ones are mostly fine) electric smoker.
Buy a fish basket or veggie basket or two.
My best recipe:
Cherry tomatoes, mushrooms, red onion, pablona peppers, sweet baby peppers, kielbasa tossed in olive oil and Sazon Completa seasoning.
Grill it in a basket for 4 minutes a side on the charcoal side.
Eat.
No one has not lived it - ever.
Leftover for breakfast with scrambled eggs.
Most impressive:
Whole snapper. Have the market clean a small to medium snapper, run her down with olive oil and your imagination of spices and herbs (garlic salt , black pepper , cilantro to start) and grill for 3-5 minutes a side on the charcoal side.
Ribeye:
Worshershire, garlic salt, black pepper
Grill on the charcoal side until as ‘ burnt ‘ as you like and grill it to a tad over medium so the fat renders.
Get a meat thermometer.
Mihow
Lipstick on a guitar
7mo ago
I’ve played it for a few hours until Expedition 33 took over my time.
I’m unsure if I’ll finish it but I decided to play an archer which I’ve never done but it’s FUN.
If it’s just nostalgia talking I’ll only put a few more hours into it so tbd.
Mihow
Lipstick on a guitar
7mo ago
Did the fan base feel Dotson was a pointless addition?
I felt they needed to get a quality WR3 even without the stats.
Mihow
Lipstick on a guitar
7mo ago
Playing the new French turn based RPG Expedition 33 - 5 hours in and it is fantastic. A breath of fresh air while also melancholic from the JRPG perspective.
Last game I played like this was Yakuza (three games ago I believe - so 3-4 years since they cranked out a sequel and pirate sequel that I just don’t have time for) which I finished and feel fondly of.
I must be a sucker for turn based JRPGs.
Mihow
Lipstick on a guitar
7mo ago
I thought of going because I agree with you that due to the various form of Christianity, humans were led to current Western Society, which is empirically superior to other forms of hmmm humans. As well as because my country of birth (Poland) and entire social upbringing religion meant Christianity.
As the pundits all say, I have a feeling if I were born in Pakistan then maybe I’d go visit their local place of worship for a need of community.
My fear with the fast downturn of Christian faith in Western society is that nothing will hold us fast in the face of upheaval - from Islam to Communism to AI to what have you. There’s no commonality.
Great post - thank you for writing it.
Mihow
Lipstick on a guitar
7mo ago
Could you talk more about your actual faith? - as opposed to the woes of the world that have led you back to it?
The church is freaking cool. That’s just a given. Crusades, dope gear, eternal heaven, long ass running institutions, an enemy (or thousands) … I’m not being facetious, all cool things.
But how do you believe? Why do you choose to believe this rather than any Indian thing, and Japanese thing, any anything? Is it just that this is the Western version of something you want?
Your answer doesn’t just have to be about you per se - just maybe your ideas surrounding the entire thing.
Aside from Sam Harris and a few others, I always fairly hated atheists. I probably am one, maybe. Maybe agnostic. Like my music genres, I don’t care - it’s all metal.
However - no religion is correct. And we [[[all]]] (((know))) that. It’s just a tale built upon other tales seemingly and there’s a thousand of them.
I guess I want to know what a man of intelligence has to say about it.
I thought about going to church a few times in the past decade but the dreaded ‘ this isn’t true ‘ always reared its head.
Mihow
Lipstick on a guitar
7mo ago
Sweet - thanks!
Book 1 is on my list now after I finish Gates of Fire.
Mihow
Lipstick on a guitar
7mo ago
Just read the wiki
Tell me so much more?
Is it good / fun ?
Mihow
Lipstick on a guitar
7mo ago
Is this not the position of most of the left? Tax corporations more?
Mihow
Lipstick on a guitar
8mo ago
It’s fun to see opinions in real time.
Be boring if we all held our breaths until everything is over.
Mihow
Lipstick on a guitar
8mo ago
I lost 35lbs in 2.5 months with cardio
It just depends how big you are
Diet came later
(I rode my bicycle two hours a day to / fro work in the South Florida sun in August @305lbs lol)
Mihow
Lipstick on a guitar
8mo ago
What’s being exposed is our useless government. This may be worth it if it wakes up everyone to what their jobs are supposed to - I have my doubts.
Peace is still there … and unlike the other poster, I agree it’s been peaceful and prosperous for the western world and some adjacencies.
Like all good things, hubris was too high and it’s time to correct course - which this isn’t, nor will we do it after it’s over. Wow will continue.
Mihow
Lipstick on a guitar
8mo ago
First 42 pages of Gates of Fire - fictionalized account of the Spartans holding the gate at Thermopylae - was banging. Ripped right through them last night … not really sure why I thought there would be weird prose.
Nothing ground breaking but I could read stories about soldiers being soldiers forever.
Basically an injured Spartan tells the tale of the Spartans to Xerxes after the battle.
Big fan so far.
Mihow
Lipstick on a guitar
8mo ago
I got this with my new Samsung tv
It’s great - makes a significant difference.
Would highly recommend
Mihow
Lipstick on a guitar
8mo ago
I know this is whataboutism - and I’m not making this argument, just kind of stating how I feel - but, and this does suck, we killed a million Iraqi’s and Afghans and fucked our good will for decades … why do I care about this dude?
It’s an oopsie - it’s not a US citizen - it sucks but, man it just gets a big who gives a fuck from me.
Get him back eventually and give him a million bucks - I’m not saying it’s a non story but I bet minus the destination, we’ve made a few thousand similar mistakes over the last twenty years.
Or maybe it’s the opposite of TDS for me - maybe I just downplay every story because every story for 10 years has been amplified to 10.
Hard to tell.
Mihow
Lipstick on a guitar
8mo ago
Finishing up Killing Commendatore by Murakami and starting probably either Gates of Fire or Ship of Magic this week.
Gates of Fire seems like something I’ll get 30 pages into and never pick up again but it seems to have great reviews - just worried about the prose.
Mihow
Lipstick on a guitar
8mo ago
I was thinking we would just have a nice rapport and we’d talk about work and the American Dream and he’d think about all the murderous hijinks he had committed in the past and he’d do this to make himself feel better.
Like the Catholic Church used to do … pay for absolution ?
Thanks for the heads up!
Had no idea.
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