Cardinal Bear

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Gay bear 🐻 | Plant dad 🪴 | Writer ✍️ | Cook 🥘 Down under 🌊 | A little bit 🔞 | ⬆️

According to divine command theory, what makes these things wrong or evil is just that God forbids them (if he does). That’s really weird. Your moral intuitions will likely tell you that rape and murder are wrong because of facts about them - something in the acts themselves. Not so on DCT.

Some theist saying murder, rape and theft are not objectively evil for atheists.

I do find the confounded reaction to Wilson criticising Nolan’s Odyssey kinda cute. Cos yeah, a scholar immersed in a work may judge an adaptation harshly for missing dimensions they’ve brought out. And the same scholar can be so close to the work that they miss the art in the adaptation.

Total woke cultural victory. We're bringing pronouns back. It is now illegal to be a white male. We're doing May Day parades just for HR ladies.

Nolan's Odyssey getting good reviews from critics and audiences per Rotten Tomatoes.

I dunno man. Why should I believe the bigots when they say they’d have no issue with us gay folk if we just got rid of the trans people? They’re becoming violently angry and want to hurt us because an inclusive swim club wore speedos in public.

Vile abuse against an inclusive swim club.

I just think ‘I don’t have anything against trans people but our struggles are different’ from gay men is short-sighted. You know whose struggles were different to ours during the HIV/AIDS crisis? Lesbians. They still nursed gay men and led the fight. Should they not have? Was it ‘forced-teaming’?

‘Love that for you.’ But I didn’t love that for them. I appreciated it on a superficial level but had no strong feelings beyond that. I live in a jungle of lies and the dishonesty vines strangle me a little more each day.

My prevailing opinion on GoT later seasons is that the biggest thing missing is dramatisation in the dialogue. Earlier seasons are always providing historical precedents from within the story to frame current actions. Then they just stop when they run out of book material.

Happy Father's Day! I'm thankful to the broader gay community for enabling my ability to say "dad/daddy" and variants without wincing. That said, though it has been eons since I booted my sperm donor from my life, I AM still open to donations if any fine dads (gender neutral) have any to offer... 😘