Putting something you need to see where you can’t see it actually does have a short of efficiency logic to it.

Like save the fusible storage locations for things you’ll be able to see

I’ve been learning a lot about biblical history and early Christianity lately. To be clear: as a layperson. Ie I’ve been listening to podcasts by biblical scholars, and reading Wikipedia articles. I’m not an expert but I’m an interested lay person. I’ve been doing this as a person that doesn’t believe in the supernatural, because I’m interested in history and sociology, I haven’t been learning about hell specifically but more the context influence of Early Christianity.

Early Judaism understood the afterlife to be a sort of sleep/slumber/torpor.

Greek concepts of hades had an influence on early Christianity.

The Book of Revelation was kinda like a revenge fantasy for early Christians experiencing persecution by the Greco-Roman empire.

The lake of fire was not for human souls.

There’s also something about souls being fed into an eternal furnace, but the furnace is consuming the souls so the souls are destroyed through incineration, not eternally tormented.

I know a lot of current hell imagery is drawn from Dante’s Inferno which is medieval I think, but I haven’t really gotten that far in my learning about Christianity.

I successfully submitted for a short term disability claim for an anxiety condition that arose from my ADHD. A few weeks later I was told that there wouldn’t be a role for me to return to once I was recovered. IE in an attempt to avoid a nasty law suit they aren’t firing me until I’m off short term disability.

Talk about setting up adverse conditions for recovery!

What unhealthy eating habit are you indulging in at 21:45?

As a cis het white guy it’s important for everyone here to know what I think:

Fatherhood, and my monogamous het partnership are the best things that’ve happened in my life.

“Traditional family values” (paternalism, misogynism etc) are toxic, and abusive. If your existence as a trans person helps undermine them, I celebrate you. If your existence as a trans person somehow reinforces those values I’ll still celebrate you (but I’ll be curious about how that’s happening).

You have allies.

Edit to add: the opening line was firmly tongue in cheek.