I have never mentioned someone (@) on Lemmy.
Did I do that right?
Of course they do, even if only performatively. Few avowed atheists get elected anywhere in the US.
My suggestion to OP is to look at news articles. Politicians make sure to get on the record as being ‘observant’ whenever possible.
Photo ops at ribbon-cutting ceremonies or at a high holy festival - same-same in politics.
Alternatively, @bacon_pdp@lemmy.world You can just call said Congresscritters office and ask a staffer. The worst they can say is no.
I am doing great personally and really coming out of a years long social doldrums. My timing stinks, obviously.
I am working hard to contain my increasing disdain for comfortable people. They express concern about current events but they still act like all this will blow over any day now. All this is only concerning to them in the abstract, not as a visceral matter of survival.
These are the kind of folks who would watch as you were dragged off. They wouldn’t enjoy the experience but they would not feel compelled to act because they know it would result in problems for them. It’s hard to even respect their worried feelings because they aren’t willing, yet, to do a damn things about them.
That’s what pastors should be doing.
However, isn’t it also those particular pastors who should know if a member of Congress is in their congregation?
Don’t be surprised when this kind of response is met with hostility.
I mean, read the room.
Scott Baio in the Happy Days era.
Fascism is capitalism unmasked.
It’s enough to make one believe in the power of the nam-shub of Enki, amirite?
Shit-faced. Blotto. Three sheets to the wind. Tipsy. Stinkin’ drunk. Faded. ….
My god, you are right. The list is endless. What a rich and sophisticated culture I hail from!
Economics is best understood as a priesthood, similar in purpose to haruspicy. Once you make that mental adjustment, everything they do, the types of employment they get, the vile drippings they emit, it all makes horrible, horrible sense.
Chiming in here.
Guanfacine was a miracle for me. I couldn’t tolerate stimulants and while the initial fatigue was significant, my focus improved significantly and quickly. Not as suddenly or dramatically as a stimulant (which I was able to take after a couple of years of guanfacine, I was in bad shape at first).
I still take a small dose as an adjunct along with a stimulant.
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For me it is comforting at least to know I am not the only one to feel this way about subjects I have paid in blood to learn.
“Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before," Bokonon tells us. "He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.”
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