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Cake day: July 27th, 2023

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  • Not many people have a high opinion of religious people, and for good reason. But being cringy does not mean “you are wrong”, it means that people cringe when they have an experience you gave them. Whining about “religious persecution” is pretty pathetic and unnecessary. I have noticed you several times on this platform bringing up religion when it is completely irrelevant, exactly as you did here. Also, sidenote, given that almost no one who speaks english anyhow is worshipping many deities, it’s weird you always have to specify “monotheism” as if that’s a needed or relevant thing to specify. That’s like me claiming someone is anti-human because they are racist against me. It’s just a weird thing to focus on. In any case, maybe if you stopped randomly bringing up religion, people, tankie or not, would stop shitting on you for it. Just a thought.








  • I was baffled no one wrote here WHY anyone would do this. Here’s the answer from the article:

    Researchers say those who eat dirt do not do so to satisfy hunger or to meet a biochemical urge to acquire certain metals or minerals that might be missing from the diet. Rather, they do so because the practice has been learned culturally. Links Are Traced to West Africa

    Dr. Frate said dirt eating is one of the few customs surviving among some Southern blacks that can be directly traced to ancestral origins in West Africa. Dirt-eating is common among some tribes in Nigeria today.

    According to his research, Dr. Frate said it was not uncommon for slave owners to put masks over the mouths of slaves to keep them from eating dirt. The owners thought the practice was a cause of death and illness among slaves, when they were more likely dying from malnutrition.