Hell I’m young enough my generation’s stupid shit was posted to the internet. We yoloed and had rage comics about le epic bacon, as we asked what the fox says and sang about Friday and calling us maybe, and now it’s cringe but it’s also good memories of our youth. Hell that doesn’t even touch on the hell that was the homestuck kids (who are now adults, many even have ok taste now). And it all happened right here on the devil’s own internet. It’s still up as Tumblr likes to dredge up from time to time.

Someday 67 will be that for the kids these days. And more will come. Some may be like rickrolling and become classic, but in a less omnipresent form, while others will be like homestuck and be weirdly influential on future culture when you look at how terrible it is in retrospect. But it’s theirs to do.

Exactly. Do I find it annoying? No, but if I interacted with children much I probably would. Kids are annoying, but stuff like this is culturally valuable because it’s them practicing growing and changing culture. Things that annoy the old people like us are also part of how teenagers get us to leave them alone so they can grow up in peace. From there younger and younger kids copy older kids because that’s how kids work. Then eventually the parents and teachers that understand kids will get in on it poorly when they’re well and truly sick of it.

Hell, every once in a while the kids get into something good, though it’s usually music or books.

Party of personal freedom and free speech y’all

I for one believe people should have the freedom to be annoying.

It’s such a 19th century-ass take that it’s on the verge of proposing eugenics and Magdaline laundries.

It’s not a solution, but as someone who slept in her car in a college parking lot because her father got pissed at her being around his house while queer, it’s better than we’d had. I was afraid I would get in trouble for sleeping like that. Mind you, the main reason I couldn’t sleep that night was that it was really fucking cold and it’s really hard to sleep in a car.

Housing first is the best solution, but we also need humane solutions for short term homelessness. The “I left in the middle of the night and need a few days to get my bearings because things could go any humber of ways” type stuff. Shelters are so intimidating and have a reputation for being hostile to those that need them.

My college had a food bank, and as I think of this, they really could’ve had a shelter for students as well. Just a few dorm rooms done simple with literature on resources where if you need to stay there a few days you can. Instead I wasn’t allowed to sleep on a student’s couch for more than two consecutive nights.

Tbh as someone who had to sleep in her car a few times in college, it would have been a nice thing to have. Like, yeah it’s bad that it’s needed, and an indoor option like some benches in rooms that are unused at night would’ve been also desired, but the most important thing was being able to know I wouldn’t get in trouble for sleeping somewhere.

I get that college is expensive, but I think this hits more closely at the lack of social services and the inherent instability in the lives of people new to adulthood. They don’t have the financial backing to get a hotel for a night, especially as they’re putting in a full time job of their education (though they may very well be working as well).

They’re also just more likely to be in unstable living conditions. Compared to adults 5-10 years older they’re far less likely to be in stable long term habitation of their choosing and instead are far more likely to be living with roommates, parents, or a partner of only a few years or even less with whom they have little commitment beyond a lease. These situations are more volatile, especially in ways that can lead to needing to sleep somewhere else for a few nights.

Christians attempting to follow their favorite commandment: Thou shall kill

Cambodia and Armenia being at war without major alliance stuff would be fucking nuts.

Not really. West Virginians are more stereotyped as uneducated and impoverished. Like you expect some bigotry, but the kind that can be soothed over by a few pies and a couple years of hard work alongside them in the community.

Regular Virginia on the other hand, is stereotyped as a middle class, very white, former confederate state that’s gone swing in recent decades. You don’t expect someone to start saying overtly racist shit because they’re Virginian, but if they do, it’s gonna be bad and you’re not shocked.

Shocked it’s regular Virginia and not west Virginia

Party of governmental efficiency!

Handing you a sheet of acid and the catechism to help you see God then understand him

Oh is she ok with her employees texting their loved ones between tasks or is it only work that’s supposed to encroach on everything else?

People with a money addiction will insist that you don’t deserve a comfortable life because you insist on balancing work and life

Lincoln but he really likes what he’s hearing from that Marx fellow over in Germany

They treat most of them as suggestions

Also genesis describes the soul entering at the first breath.

So you definitely don’t have education on Christianity in a theological or religious studies capacity. To begin with: it’s absolutely certain that none of the gospel writers met Jesus. They compiled stories of him into cohesive narratives. There were other gospels floating around (including Judas’s, but that’s highly unlikely to have been written by Judas Iscariot). Hell, Paul of Tarsus who wrote a lot of the epistles never met Jesus. The creation of biblical canon was a difficult process and to this day Protestants use 7 less books in their Bible than Catholics (the deuterocanonical books). The orthodox have even more deuterocanonical books.

These books aren’t just curiosity. They contain some of the fundamental disagreements between Protestants and Catholics, such as purgatory, angelic/saintly intercession thanks to prayer, and the idea that salvation may be possible through good works. And this isn’t getting into sola scriptura vs Tradition, but that’s also huge, as Catholics believe that formalized beliefs and practices passed down through the centuries can be just as legitimate as scripture (in part because what counts as scripture is also passed down in that way).

So let’s say that a person asks this app what Jesus would say about what’s going to happen to a good friend who is a deeply moral person but just doesn’t believe in Jesus. The protestant answer would be that if they don’t accept him as their personal savior they’re going to hell, though they may get a final chance as they die. The catholic answer would be that if they’re a good person who lives a life of minimal sin there is reasonable hope for their salvation, but even if not they’re likely to spend time in purgatory as the sin is removed from their soul so that they can eventually belong in heaven. It may then give some saints to ask for intercession.

These are wildly different answers and it’s not touching on orthodoxy or the writings on Jewish ideas during the rabbinic age (Jesus was Jewish and therefore would have opinions on the religion he was a part of). Or on different protestant teachings. Protestants who believe every word in the Bible is literally true, and have no disagreement on what passages are in the Bible still schism with each other. Then there’s translation. The Bible was written in several different languages. The various translations have different proponents and they’ll fight over it. The very popular King James is apparently beautifully written and poorly translated.

Then there’s the other crux here: what did and didn’t Jesus say and what did he mean. He came not to abolish the old law but to fulfill it, so can you have gay sex (see also translation concerns), foreskin, a cheeseburger, shrimp, or mixed fiber clothing? He didn’t say shit about abortion, but a lot of Christians have pretty firm opinions on that issue (and many protestant denominations changed their mind on it in the late 20th century).

Biblical scholarship is scholarship, and it’s difficult and controversial scholarship a lot of the time. There’s a reason you need what amounts to an advanced degree to just an ordinary advanced degree in a relevant topic to become a pastor in some Christian denominations, yet in others you just have to start preaching.

Also if someone asks Jesus what he thought of when he first arrived in America you’re gonna find out really fast if the creator of the app considers Mormons Christian.

A lot of Christians think the pope is a Satanist

Famously simple and uncontroversial thing to do, interpret what Jesus would say in response to any question.

Also loling at Satan not giving evil advice in a Christian app