Artichuth

joined 1 year ago
[–] Artichuth@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I worked security at an amusement park and happened to work a late shift when we switched to DST. Instead of getting off at 3 a.m., we all got off at 4 a.m. We were all pretty pissed because we didn't get OT.

[–] Artichuth@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Life is Strange: True Colors completely fucked with my head. Not all the plot relevant and intense parts of the game, but the moments where Alex found a new home and community. Especially the end where

spoilerGabe's "ghost" guides you to choose between staying in Haven or leaving.
Watching the scenes of Alex staying really hit me hard because I lived for years in a place I hated, was working in a stressful environment I hated, and was 1000 miles away from my friends. It took a while to get out of that funk, but I haven't gone back to play it despite being in a better place and it being one of my favorite games of all time.

[–] Artichuth@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

So they are really just Jewish in belief?

Lol, I didn't realize how close that sounds to Judaism.

More like, still accept him as dying for your sins and following his teachings. They've always ascribed more to Deistic beliefs anyway.

[–] Artichuth@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago (11 children)

I have to agree. I saw a mini exodus from my childhood church. I grew up "catholic". My parents made me go to church and get confirmed, but they were always part of the more progressive part of catholics. Believed that gay marriage was perfectly fine, abortion was only the woman's choice, and evolution was a fact. And they always taught me that the Bible was mostly fiction. Jesus existed, but he was a person, not a magic man and the Old Testament was a book of parables. They were obviously in the minority, but our church had a bunch of people like them. They actually just really liked the teachings and the community.

It wasn't until 2012 when our city's diocese sent out a flyer telling them how to vote and a fellow churchgoer did the same, telling them they weren't real catholics if they didn't vote straight R. They haven't been to any church since and although they both consider themselves catholic, heavily criticize the current state of the church (and all the pedophilia shit).