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"Would you like something to drink?" She opened the fridge. "We have water, milk, juice, spiders, Dr. Pepper-"

"Spiders?"

"Spiders it is then."

"No that wasn't-"

But she was already pouring him a brimming glass of spiders.

(The following is a joke, don't do this)

My chimpanzee brain making a comedy skit out of this:

Delicious extra protein, good for muscles after a hard workout! Now you can defeat your crippling fear of bugs by eating...well I guess...drinking the bugs? YEAH! Impress all your friends by seeing how fast it takes to chug an entire glass of spiders! See who out of your friend group is the most manly! You can sell glasses of spiders during the summer, even more refreshing than lemonade, it's fun for the whole family! Now for every bottle of spiders you buy we'll add a second one free for a limited time offer. Supply is limited so call now or look for the brand on the store shelves, Spider Cola™ and have a refreshing drink for all occasions! Relaxing while reading a book, family reunions, weddings or even your arachnophobic aunt's birthday party! Spider Cola™ is now being offered in eight different flavours! There's mint, pineapple, cherry, chocolate, barbeque sauce, lemon, extra crispy, and the classic flavour, plain old spiders! No matter where you are or what you're doing it's always a time for Spider Cola™! Now featuring our newest production, centipede trail mix!

Out of Character: I have entomophobia (fear of bugs), I know it's an irrational fear but my body just won't let me approach a bug. It's a battle in my mind every time I see a bug not to just have a panic attack and freak out. Honestly if you go to therapy for that you're better off than me so good on you. I feel bad for even making the joke about the "arachnophobic aunt" because if anything that's something I can understand too well.

Abortion is death. Disturbed that many people on NationStates have no issue with it. The WA resolution caught my eye precisely because abortion is perhaps one of the most pressing issues, it damages our spiritual well-being, it is the murder of an innocent, and it is the symbol of the ills of modern societies where childlessness is celebrated.

Les Versailles wrote:

Abortion is death. Disturbed that many people on NationStates have no issue with it. The WA resolution caught my eye precisely because abortion is perhaps one of the most pressing issues, it damages our spiritual well-being, it is the murder of an innocent, and it is the symbol of the ills of modern societies where childlessness is celebrated.

Most people don't talk about it unless they are pro-abortion because they don't want to good bad to others and harm other sensibilities. They only have freedom of expression in their bubbles of people thinking the same thing where where will have power for nothing to change it.

It happened on this community, a post supressed for fear of merely appear looking polemic.

Childlessness and abortion is in fact a rational choice if you take the perspective of the indivifual, and by rational I don't say that it's not totally dysfunctional at all.

1. Children became expensive, even in countries that PAY you to have children due to low fertility rates, extremely few people have economic conditions to have a baby, maybe before you have the choice to try it on poverty but if you do now the government will bully you.

2. Western societies have a decadent ethos that made children a bad thing: Westerners are on full hedonism, why to have children if you may live well in parties, if you may have more time to get better positions at your job and academic  degrees? Children take your time, it mades a lot of noise and don't have any power.

3. It's a society with contraception and oversexualized: Sex is meant for pleasure and reproduction, with contraceptive and multiple partners the second part is eliminated for the over-indulgence of the first, with no peril of getting pregnant by accident.

4. Plannet parenthood: I once get a girlfriend pregnant, I was on dispair, I ask an older friend, that this was not planned at all, he just answered.

- Life just happens.

So I understand, natural pregnancy is the rule, most of the pregnancy on history were never ever planned at all. With technology to plan when to get children, people have no baby at all. About the pregnancy, a miscarriage happened, it was a girl, her name would be Athena.

5. Women's "rights" (and now the fear of being polemic and getting suppressed again): When Western Societies put woman to work, it was to compensate the males that go to war, after the governments discovered that by putting woman on work they may double tax incomes, this give to woman the oportunity of having a life climbing the professional ladder and put the option to have children later, or to don't have children at all.
When most woman that delayed or initially choose to don't have children choose to have it, they were already with fertility decaying, in UK a lot of almost 40 woman protest against their local governments refusing to give fertility rating. They spent so much time on a pleasure carrousel or just working so much on the career that they discovered that it's so late. Man don't help it either, but man fertility take so much more time to end, a man on his 50's may have a children, in fact I saw accidental pregnancy with man over 70's.

6. Man having children is dangerous: Considering that divorce is commonplace (in fact not anymore  because marriage is not commonplace), man fear having kids. As a lawyer I deal with this problem on both times a lot of times. Some woman use the children to make blackmail, if you don't pay the monthly money you can't see thr children, they poison the kid against their fathers and spend the money that was to be directed to the children on futile things, the man go to prison or may lose all he have if he don't pay her. Sometimes the woman just choose the worst time for the man to see the children or when it's the designated time she disappear with the kid or come up later "I was with the children on park, I'm really sorry...". In the end the father only pay monthly tuition for the children that he never see and that another man may end up loved by them as the father role, because the woman poisoned the children against them. On a judgement in 90% of the judgements the woman alone have the power over children, that's why generally I propose the children one week on the house of the mother and one week in the house of the father, but the woman always get the money and may blackmail, always, they have being so much empowered, turning irrational to have children for man at all.

7. There is no religious values in the West anymore.

Western societies may have mostly Christian minds but have an atheist ethos. People may even believe in God but the fact is that we live as if He don't exists, all of us. Most of us certainly made sex before marriage and for pleasure only, and with condoms, I'm putting me in here despite last years I discovered that maybe I'm a bit asexual but would make sex for reproductive reasons only, I have more pleasure with my mind than with orgasm. There is no true religious compromise, most people even among believers find weird don't have sex before marriage, in fact they find even marriage weirds, they made love unions, the excuse for this in Law Theory is that families are made to be "eudaimonic", to make you happy, that is why poliamory is becoming probably the rule in the West next decade. The family is not made to make you happy, of course this counts too but it's not it's main and unique purpose, the purpose is to continue the civilization or tribe and to a Christian to multiply as God commanded us to do. This is so sick that people find strange people with more than one or two children, people only do so much kids here to get government pensions, to marry with the government.

And last but not least, Westerners or westerner influenced people lives in cowardice, they don't defend these things in public because most of them live a secular life despite being Christians and fear being uncool, suppressing even other Christians if needed to appear cool amongst other people, so it is certain that abortion will be more common, more widespread and childlessness will continue to be the rule until the inevitable collapse of West and westernized nations on the planet.

Fedele wrote:

Does the Church have an official teaching on the extermination of marsupials?

No. It is wrong to arbitrarily exterminate living creatures, but those that pose a serious threat to society can be killed, so, perhaps it is for the extermination of marsupials.

We take the universal call to holiness seriously. It’s easy to just say things in a harsh and impersonal way, but to make saints of all peoples requires tact and the explanation of the faith in a helpful way which the audience can come to adopt in time. We have to love others enough to meet them where they are, and that is what the Core is striving to do.

Castle Federation wrote:

We take the universal call to holiness seriously. It’s easy to just say things in a harsh and impersonal way, but to make saints of all peoples requires tact and the explanation of the faith in a helpful way which the audience can come to adopt in time. We have to love others enough to meet them where they are, and that is what the Core is striving to do.

You are roleplaying a Borgia government very well.

Medi Terra wrote:

If you can't picture Christ talking about how a jury was rigged because of implicit bias, maybe that's because you shouldn't be saying it either.

An excellent post as a whole, but I should comment on this: not only I can picture the Lord denouncing a rigged jury (or even the concept of jury itself), but it seems natural that he would, if there were any reason to do so. I don't know enough about Usonian politics and society to calculate the likelihood of such an event, but it's a legitimate concern. It's the main reason why most Western cultures (except the Anglosphere) have long evolved past the system of Common Law.

You become holy not by being forced to but by following the example of Jesus.

Galatians 5:1 "For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery."

2 Corinthians 3:17 "Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom."

Galatians 5:13 "For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another."

James 1:25 "But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing."

I am a slave to God not to any man or woman, I refuse to be subjected as a slave by anyone let alone a brother. Where there is freedom there is God. Where there is slavery there is Sin and there is Satan.

None of us are completely free of sin that is why this power grab disguised as virtue is terrible. I will keep saying what the holy spirit wants me to say and anyone who is against that is against the spirit which is within me which is God.

Jesus is Lord.

Medi Terra wrote:

What is up with the huge resistance from certain Catholics on this board calling each other to increase in holiness?? Stop saying racist things, stop creating scandal by telling us about your sex life, stop making drama where drama doesn't exist! Treat each other like actual humans, for goodness's sake!

For a game all about government, why is there such a big stink about being governed? The purpose of the new government (as should be the purpose for all governments) is to make us better people and lead us to Heaven, and to help us lead others to Heaven. That's their only goal. Sure you have free will and any government is by its nature more oppressive than anarchy, but their rules only exist to make us better people. Calling each other out when we say things contrary to Church teaching helps us grow in holiness, but also helps people who visit this board to understand that we are not hypocrites, we seek to emulate Christ. If you can't picture Christ talking about how a jury was rigged because of implicit bias, maybe that's because you shouldn't be saying it either.

For the region's collective sanity and the sanctity of the Faith, quit the whining and be better.

Good posts Medi Terra.

I just want to say that I am not against a government, I'm against a government with no law, because it turns actions arbitrary, we need limitation of powers and designation of what a crime is, of course it must be made according to Catholic teaching.

And repeating, I don't write anything racist, you may open the suppressed post and open it, it was far different than the rude post I had with you.

As Oire said in one post, with was strange that they suppressed that post but nothing against the posts that you stand against, it indicates arbitrary reasons instead of a rule of the law.

It is not whining to ask for a government to have law, it is prudence.

Castle Federation wrote:

The current government structure does not have a formal constitution but an amalgamation of laws as they develop into a tradition overtime. There is in fact a current proposal that will concretely outline decorum here and in the Core's Discord so I assure you that everything discussed above is being addressed.

An amalgamation of law? Or the amalgamation of arbitrary decisions? A constitution is based on principles, even the Magna Carta was made to protect governed from the governor, from dubious sentences without law! This is "habeas corpus", your government is an oligarchy on the Aristotelian sense of the word, to say the least.

Prudentias wrote:

An amalgamation of law? Or the amalgamation of arbitrary decisions? A constitution is based on principles, even the Magna Carta was made to protect governed from the governor, from dubious sentences without law! This is "habeas corpus", your government is an oligarchy on the Aristotelian sense of the word, to say the least.

A constitution is a rather modern concept. The Core is governed by the Supreme College which consists of any willing member of the region who wishes to be a citizen. It has backed all of my decisions up to this point. The legal tradition slowly builds as more Orders are passed into law which creates a structure that is easily alterable by the whole. I have tried diligently to remain a fair and reasonable head of the government, and I believe that includes your grievances.

I am frankly surprised that we are all still talking about this since it will have absolutely no desirable outcome.

OK, that's enough. I will not stand for this any longer.

I'm out.