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@williampietri Isn't there a book out there with the title "Everything I Needed To Know I Learned In Kindergarten"?

@EndicottAuthor @williampietri There is. The trick is that you need to be able to read.

@ben I was for a moment very confused, as right now most of my replies are about this post: https://sfba.social/@williampietri/114253607318827957

@williampietri that's a good one too. I have a flowchart that says "Is it yours?" And there's only one arrow coming out of the diamond, labeled "no", pointing at a box saying "don't mess with it"

@williampietri Found it.

I call this "A comprehensive flowchart of appropriate children's behavior."

@CppGuy that's a pretty condescending comment, isn't it?

@deepmud
No, it was a joke about how I wanted to be treated in kindergarten.

@CppGuy @deepmud The two aren't mutually exclusive. I get that you were trying to be clever, but, well: https://whatever.scalzi.com/2010/06/16/the-failure-state-of-clever/

@williampietri

That's a very long way to call me an arsehole for making a lighthearted joke.

@deepmud

@CppGuy At least two entirely different people thought you were being an asshole, bub, including the person you were replying to. Responding with the "it's just a joke" shtick isn't helping, as that's a time-honored refuge of assholes.
@deepmud

@deepmud And of course I have been blocked for being critical of his behavior.

@williampietri oh well. I'm certain you'll survive.

@deepmud I'll struggle through! Always nice when the trash takes itself out.

@CppGuy @williampietri

Except you decide for the innocent child. Then people might find you strange. But it wouldn't matter. The world of the "adults" isn't important for a child.

Be the one, who is naturally kind.
Be the one, who is naturally interested in new stuff.
Be the one, where people feel naturally save next to you.

And don't worry about outbursts of anger. They happen sometimes.

@Tom_ofB

The sentence is ambiguous: it can be read either way. English has lots of ambiguities like this one, and they usually go unnoticed. Occasionally, humour can be found in a reading that the writer didn't intend.

@AdeptVeritatis @williampietri

@CppGuy @Tom_ofB @williampietri

Although I try to write clearly, I constantly face situations, where people read completely different, what I wrote.

People have different starting points. With the same path, they come to different solutions. Or they interpret my "direction signs" in another way and take a different path.

But I am not frustrated by this fact. It is often a source of new perspectives and different ways of thinking.

I can't force people to read it in my way. Ambiguity is nice!

@williampietri
Burn all the Shit down! Shatter their Altairs to dust! Let the Fire cleanse!
@Itchy

@AdeptVeritatis
There is no absolute good beeing, No imaginary friend the Cult hails. There is no absolute evil beeing the Cultists call Satan. But Satan can be used as a Symbol for Freedom, Wisdom, Equality. And a HUGE Plus is: you can perfectly fine Trigger the Shit out of the Cultists with it. I consider myself Part of The Satanic Temple.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Satanic_Temple?wprov=sfla1
@williampietri @Itchy

@HailSatan @williampietri @Itchy

Guess, what the others are doing! They do exactly the same.

"God can be used as a symbol for freedom, wisdom and equality."

YOU believe in an imaginary friend. But not as your friend but as the friend of others.

God as a being is YOUR imagination. You project your own imagination on other people.

Follow your own stuff and don't distract yourself with the nonsense about others. Arrogance is the opposite of freedom, wisdom and equality.

@Beldarak @williampietri I mean, it hasn't ended that well for a bunch of folks, like Jesus, MLK.....

@danbarber People who try living by it absolutely get accused of being radical, yes.

@williampietri @danbarber one day we will know it as the normal rule.

@falcennial @williampietri @danbarber
@Beldarak

radical = from the roots

Extremists accept violence. Radicals not necessarily.

Don't fear to be radical.

@alisynthesis @williampietri
I can't find the image now, but there's an old meme/cartoon based on a Bible illustration of Jesus and some Apostles.

Jesus: "As I have loved you, so you must love one another."

Apostle 1: "But what if they are gay?"

Apostle 2: "What if they worship other Gods?"

Jesus: "DID I FUCKING STUTTER?"

@dec23k @williampietri ha, that's great!

I'm pretty anti-religion, which I consider to be an anti-brainwashing stance, but as religious figures go, it's hard to find fault with very much in the teachings of Jesus. It would be a lot cooler if Christians paid attention to what he said.