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I don't think being 'non-religious' mean we should give up on words used religious people.

Believers in one god or another don't own those words. Non of them. They belong to all of us. They're words that belong to our common vocabulary and language. Nobody should be allowed to claim any ownership and exclusive usage.

If we start creating different vocabularies depending one's own system of beliefs, if we start limiting the use of certain words to certain groups of people (religious or, say, related to this or that specific color), where will that end? And then what common ground will we have remaining? What common language? How will we be able to keep on discussing together if we don't share the same language?

To use a Biblical reference, do we really want to create a new Tower of Babel and... are we that pretentious we think can act like if we were a god ourselves? God damn, I certainly don't. Heck, no. Fuck that.

That's just my 2 cents, obviously.

(50+ years old talking, so you know ;)

In France we have this saying “La bave du crapaud n’atteint pas la blanche colombe” (toad’s spit can’t reach the white dove), meaning no matter how naughty someone is they simply cannot hurt you, you're so much above them and you're so pure.

1. Like others have already said: you're not a failure. You're a young man that’s just starting his adult live.
2. Be aware that some parents may have a hard time seeing their innocent little daughter dating someone. And they can make the ‘date’ pay for that.
3. There is also the fact that, no matter how old and how successful you will ever be, most people you will meet will have some idea about who you are and what you're worth as a person, even before they get a chance to really know you. We all do.
4. And then, many people are mean. They're also plain stupid (no matter how many diplomas they've hanged on the walls of their study) and most of them are incredibly coward too, like really, and impotent (not sexually, I mean it more like they lack any willingness to fight and to endure a fight). So, the moment they think they face someone weaker than them (that's what they think, doesn't mean they're right), aka someone they can bully or belittle without much risk for them, they'll show who they really are: mean assholes.

What kind of weaker person would they show that to? I don't know, say, they may consider the dude that is dating their precious daughter is rather unlikely to punch them in the face, or to tell them they should learn to behave like adults and not brats (and, imho, that dude better not do any of that) ;)

You could probably very easily outplay them at their own stupid game but, imho, the best option is to completely ignore them. You're dating their daughter, not her parents.

Don't waste any more of your time with them. You're still very young but, believe me, time is precious and it flies so fucking fast. That girl likes you? And you like her? Enjoy being together and forget about their parents being assholes (the world is literally filled with assholes, I'm sitting on one while I'm writing this ;). And maybe it's time you start considering getting a small place of your own, so you can be together without any parents to ruin your time together? That could be worth it ;)

Smart idea.

Only time will tell ;)

Digital. Always. Especially because I can password lock those in a way I can’t with the notebooks I have on hand, I’d have to go out of my way to buy some special thing with a lock. While yes, my phone or laptop is very expensive but I already own it so no new purchase.

You certainly got a point. It's really much more simple... provided one has full ownership the phone or device. I mean, a minor person may still be forced to allow their parents read their journal, even digital if they are the one controlling the device.

Thx :)

Edit: edited my own post to remove what was obviously against rule #2 (aka, no politics).

Depends.

I tend not to. But I also will often talk about certain topics with my spouse. Some other topics will naturally permeate into conversations with other people too. While other entries may be used as a new blog post entries.

I tried for a while to post my little sketches and even created a small blog dedicated to that task, but it was too much of a hassle to scan or photograph each one of them and then post them. I also tried to post them on Mastodon, since it was somehow quicker, but since I never use Mastodon I have no followers and quite logically nobody was seeing my doodles. I realized it was kind of useless and gave up.

What about you? Do you share stuff? And if so how? ;)

Honestly, I never considered the way to name it, but yes why not. That said, I tend to not judge people on their job nor on how much money they earn no matter what. For me, a job is what most people do to be able to afford what they need to live their live I'm much more interested to know what they do with their free time and how they think about things ;)

Market reflects uncertainty and fear (or their exact opposite: hope and confidence) it doesn't cause them to begin with. So, no.

Could a poorly thought-out and poorly applied economical and radical geopolitical policy change bring the world closer to some kind of war(s)? Sure. It already did so in only 3 months.

For the first time in almost 80 years I see moderate people in my country, France, not radical anti-americans, real moderates, considering the USA as the real threat to our security and to world peace (and I may include myself in that count)... I would not be surprised the feeling was kinda similar, if not much worse, for Canadians, Greenlanders and, quite obviously, for Ukrainians.

I'm all for simplifying, but that should not come as a surprise ;)

Unskilled labor is unskilled not in the sense they don't have any know-how or value but in the sense of the job itself not require a lot of qualification to be done.

An experienced manual worker has a lot value to any competent boss hiring them, or then the boss is rather incompetent, but the manual work required to the job is not comparable to, say, the skills required to be able to do brain surgery, or to write some marketing bullshit to convince million people that they need to buy a new car or phone, or that they should elect the most illiterate racist asshole candidate they could ever pick as their president. Those are all 'skilled' labor but, here again, that doesn't mean they have any intrinsic better quality just that they required (a lot) more preparation/learning.

I was under the impression that the community slanted more towards people who journal on paper. So it was nice to have a link to click.

Sorry, I just noticed your comment today.

To make it 100% clear: the community is agnostic and is open to any form of journaling. It will reflect that, hopefully, as soon as more people start posting about digital and analog alike.

As a user I'm mostly analog and since it happens I'm also the admin and the main poster (I would be so happy to see that being challenged!) well it's mostly focused on analog and attracts to like-minded people. So, by all means, feel free to make it a lot more digital if you're into digital. I will happily read that and participate if I think I have anything worth sharing as, along the years, I also have been using digital a lot, I just decided to give up on it :)

Happy to say we have had a little activity going on in !journaling@sh.itjust.works, which means a lot of activity in comparison with the previous weeks/months ;)

No idea why this week there were more activity but I certainly will not complain. Maybe this week's theme in the weekly thread I post has helped out? Can't tell.

We also gained 12 new members since last week which is great, obviously.

Indeed (& thx for the link), can be burden though. As a child, trying to protect from my mother, I used to change names an verbs (and quickly started to write in English since she could bot read it)