Update for Everyone III - The Whinge Binge

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I'm now officially finished with Intro to Christian Traditions. I got one of the objective questions on the final exam, which was worth ten percent of the damned thing, straight-up wrong, but I hope I made up for it with my essay answers, one of which contains what I honestly think is some of the finest extemporaneous prose I've ever written. An as-close-as-I-can-remember paraphrase of my last sentence on the last essay question:

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I finished my first semester of grad school!

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So this is where you talk about sh**t.

Uhh, I feel so alone, lonely and depressed for Christmas break. It's not like I don't have friends, not just any close ones. I'm all alone for Christmas, since I don't particularly celebrate it. I'm in a slum and having suicide thoughts, nothing big though I have them often, I'm SO bored.

Feel free to PM me if you need to vent.

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Update: Finished Salo in it's entirety. I don't know what to say. I'm just in a shocked state. I think I'm just going to pull an all nighter because there isn't going to be any sleep anyway.

You're braver than I.

The movie I most recently saw was The Hateful Eight. Utterly, sickeningly disappointing, the first Tarantino movie I unequivocally have not enjoyed. I actually felt the need to sneak into a showing of The Force Awakens for a few minutes afterwards to wash the taste out of my mouth.

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I met someone in the Star Wars fandom who I really hit it off with and was concerned my girlfriend might get jealous over. Turns out she and my girlfriend are friends.

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They pinpointed the site of the Salem Witch Trial gallows. It was my old backyard.

COOL.

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I learned today that my great grandfather was a delegate for Coolidge at the 1924 Republican National Convention and that his father was a delegate at the 1860 convention and he voted for Sumner on the first ballot, Salmon Chase on the 2nd and Lincoln on the third. I thought it was cool that my ancestors were ancestral republicans

That's kind of awesome, actually. Most sides of my family haven't been in the United States long enough for anything like that, but my father's father's father helped found the Baltimore Orioles (well, move the St. Louis Browns to Baltimore and rename them, technically) and was knighted by the Pope.

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I'm beginning to reconsider presenting myself as transgender/a woman, primarily for religious reasons.

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For the record, I deleted my post as I felt it more appropriate to ask her personally. The last dozen posts (abortion, quoting prayer) are somewhat out of character.

1. The abortion thing is something I've had 'out-of-character' opinions on for a long time now--longer than I've been religious, actually!--but it's only recently I decided Atlas Forum ought to get my actual views on it.
2. Did you take note of the context in which I quoted the Salve Regina? I like to think 'hassling Calvinists' is very in-character for me.
3. I've decided I'd be willing to discuss this in private (I was undecided on this for a couple of days) but you made a public spectacle of this in another thread and I'm very unhappy about that.

ETA: I don't know why I'm comfortable discussing this privately but not publicly. I'm giving thought to what it will take to marry my girlfriend in a way that more conservative Christians, including her family and a lot of both her and my social circles, will consider legit. Most of the changes in the ways I express and internalize my religiosity lately have had something to do with my relationship with her. (I realize that this will make a lot of Atlas Forum think poorly of her; please take my word for it that the relationship is worth it from my perspective.)

As 'beginning to consider' in my initial post ought to have indicated I'm not decided on going through with doing things this way, and she's not the kind of person who'd force me if I decide not to so there's no need to worry about that.

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I got drunk and I'm reading about philosophy of mind. Double-aspect theory is fun.

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I take back everything I've said about my gender in the past two pages. I've fallen under the influence of radical ideas concocted in certain parts of Continental Europe and ought to be self-aware enough about that that I'm able to separate it from my fundamental self-understanding. I'd appreciate some acknowledgement of this from people in this thread who have previously expressed concern, but I don't want any more public discussion of this affair after that.

I'm still going to be under the influence of said ideas but I'll be processing them and personally applying them differently. I'd be very interested in discussing this further with fellow POF (Posters Of Faith).