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Cake day: July 7th, 2023

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  • I didn’t have a great mom. This is the first mother’s day where my first instinct was to look around and see all the great moms in my life instead of just hating that my mom has a holiday. Like the one waking up next to me (who is not my kids’ bio-mom but is nevertheless a great mom), my grown daughter who has fur babies, and the various moms involved in our kids’ schools. There are lots of great moms out there.






  • indepndnt@lemmy.worldtoComic Strips@lemmy.worldSelf Help
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    1 year ago

    I get the joke, and certainly not all self-help books are good, but also people are unique and at different places in their lives. With just a little introspection one can probably tell which book would be better for them. Maybe they say yes too much and would benefit from learning how and when to say no; or they say no to everything and would benefit from learning to embrace new experiences.

    Or, you know, pick one up and thumb through a few pages.











  • It’s somewhat specific to someone with my type of background; namely growing up in a family of young-Earth creationist, fundamentalist Christians, and learning that things like science and evolution are lies from Satan.

    At some point curiosity got the better of me and I realized I didn’t even know what evolution even is, so I read up a bit about it. Then a bit more. You know, this actually kind of makes sense. Eventually the rabbit hole led to the existence of God. I remember watching a bunch of debates and expecting the most learned representatives of our Christian tradition to make some really great arguments. And… they… never… did.