On religion: At a recent homily, the priest was talking about the recent legalization of gay marriage in most American states.
He then proceeded on to young Catholics who openly supported the decision, posted LGBT support posts on their social media pages, etc. His response was to basically say, and I'm probably paraphrasing this but the intent remains the same, "Get out of our religion".
As someone who does support that movement, this shook me up real hard and I was depressed the rest of the way. Then my brother, while driving home, assured me that it was okay to disagree with what the priest said, and that religion doesn't have to be a one-way street.
He also had to make sure our Mom wasn't listening when he said that, but that's a different issue altogether.
"Shake the dust." - Anis MojganiYeah, I'm finding myself disagreeing with my pastor lately as well.
Not to his face, of course. The guy is a brilliant human being, which is why it sucks when things he say upset me.
What if there’s no better word than just not saying anything?I'm just glad you can still respect him so much, you've told us the stories of his charity works, I believe.
For a more lighthearted story about religion: this guy who led a Catholic youth talk group told me a story about how he had to go up and do the reading during a Mass. Unfortunately, he happened to be wearing a T-shirt of Deadpool brandishing his weapons at the time. Hearing about how his daughter gave him shit for it gave me a chuckle.
"Shake the dust." - Anis MojganiSo I figure you might not be 100% up-to-snuff on your obscure FFVII lore and might need a refresher for the random reference I just dropped. You remember Rick, right?
That stuff is actually canon, but it's just so obtuse I'm probably the only one that remembers it happened.
Gonna have to look into that a bit more.
Also, I've pretty much decided at this stage that this Canon Cloud is 100% Completion Cloud, who feels compelled to do all the best things in the best order to get the best gear and Exp and get the best conversations.
Every time he screws up, doomed timeline and reload save state.
edited 8th Sep '15 2:06:32 AM by SR3NORMANDY
What if there’s no better word than just not saying anything?that is the only true canon anyway
unless you're a dumbass and you accidentally blew up corel because you couldn't figure out how to operate the train in time and were too lazy to load a previous save
ignore the wiki because it falls over itself trying to reconcile all the shitty retcons into something coherent, the poor thing
basically there's orphans everywhere and some of them made money using their tiny child bodies to fish scrap metal out of midgar's wreckage
denzel used to be one after his parents were killed when sector 7 got destroyed and his caretaker, mrs. ruvie, rotted alive from the stigma since she was at ground zero for the outbreak. he stayed with triple s for a year or so before they ditched him, being fickle kids, because he accidentally said something offensive/privileged about slum dwellers and how they ate rats to survive to a kid that actually used to live in the slums and fended for himself for about a year with the stigma until cloud found him
turns out people in the slums can't even eat rats to survive because the rats are poison from drinking the gross polluted water that people that live on the plate and eat real chicken dump into the slums
edited 8th Sep '15 2:10:14 AM by WonderSquid
y'know what else is the only true canon
norm
did your cloud make all the dickbag conversational choices
this is very important
"Shake the dust." - Anis Mojganione more compilation gripe before bed
that bit where Vincent says in the most nonchalant voice possible, "They were brutally tortured."
and that is literally it and they never mention it again
like fucking holy shit that is not a casual throwaway line
you can't just say that shit and then not acknowledge it ever again period
why even put that line in there
of all the asspull reasons you had to dump exposition and you pick that one and then just ignore it completely
who wrote this thing and why
edited 8th Sep '15 2:36:10 AM by WonderSquid

HEY WE SPERGING ABOUT GNOSTICISM 'CAUSE I'M ALWAYS UP FOR THAT