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There are over 700 known dead so far. One hurricane. And how many people has it hurt? How many are going to starve later because of destroyed crops? That's nature. Is it God? Most of the dead are the street poor who have nowhere to go and who don't hear the warnings until it's too late for their feet to take them to safety. Where's safety for them anyway? Is it a sin against God to be poor?
Jul 17, 2025 12:35PM
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“It’s better to teach people than to scare them”
Nov 17, 2025 09:24AM
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“‘These things frighten people. It’s best not to talk about them.’

‘But… that’s like ignoring a fire in the living room because we’re all in the kitchen and besides, house fires are too scary to talk about.’”

It’s giving “don’t talk about sex, religion, and politics”
Nov 17, 2025 09:15AM
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lesson from a banned book: dialectics

“‘People have changed the climate of the world. Now they’re waiting for the good old days to come back.’

‘Your father says he doesn't believe people changed the climate in spite of what scientists say. He says only God could change the world in such an important way…

‘My father has his blind spots… He's the best person I know, but even he has blind spots.’
Jul 22, 2025 04:04PM
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“The police…may be able to avenge you, but they can’t protect you.”

Maturing is realizing the police, by definition, do not exist to prevent crime.
Jul 22, 2025 03:44PM
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“Donner has a plan for putting people back to work. He hopes to get laws changed, suspend ‘overly restrictive’ minimum wage, environmental, and worker protection laws…

Will it be legal to poison, mutilate, or infect people— as long as you provide them with food, water, and space to die?”

Octavia Butler was out here predicting Project 2025 in the 90s damn
Jul 17, 2025 01:02PM
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“Hey, we can run a space station, a station on the moon, and soon, a colony on Mars. That proves we're still a great, forward-looking, powerful nation, right?“

sounds familiar.
Jul 17, 2025 12:50PM
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“Old Testament… God sounds a lot like Zeus-a super-powerful man, playing with his toys the way my youngest brothers play with toy soldiers. Bang, bang! Seven toys fall dead. If theyre yours, you make the rules. Who cares what the toys think. Wipe out a toy's family, then give it a brand new fam-ily. Toy children, like Job's children, are interchangeable.

Maybe God is a kind of big kid, playing with his toys.”
Jul 17, 2025 12:40PM
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Some say God is a spirit, a force, an ultimate reality. Ask seven people what all of that means and you'll get seven different answers. So what is God? Just another name for whatever makes you feel special and protected?
Jul 17, 2025 12:34PM
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“A lot of people seem to believe in a big-daddy-God or a big-cop-God or a big-king-God. They believe in a kind of super-person. A few believe God is another word for nature. And nature turns out to mean just about anything they happen not to understand or feel in control of.”
Jul 17, 2025 12:33PM
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“I saw at least three people who weren't going to wake up again, ever. One of them was headless. I caught myself looking around for the head.”

The casual way she says this is so shocking to me.

Then again, many people are casual about roadkill, even though it’s chilling to me every time I see an animal dead in such a violent way.
Jul 17, 2025 12:23PM
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