For better or worse. Small scale or large. Personal or shared. What is an event you’ve experienced that changed the way you act, live, feel, etc. It could be short-term or long. Share what you feel comfortable with. Triumphs and tragedies alike.

  • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Yeah, my MIL was Irish catholic, but she (and by extension, my wife) lost religion after my wife dealt with some horrific health issues as a child/teen. MIL had to watch my wife go through the horribly painful health issues for literal years, while being entirely unable to help.

    At first she prayed, then as time went on she begged and tried bargaining… And eventually she fell into the epicurean paradox of “a truly benevolent god would never force this on a child.”

    • cashmaggot@piefed.socialOP
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      3 months ago

      Yeah, I feel that way when I see some of the awful things that kids have to fight and I just don’t understand how we haven’t fixed some of the larger issues we’ve been facing for quite some while. I know that’s really lame, and it’s a total cop-out in the sense that I have no direction to point but it’s just like…I believe humanity can do great things - so why the fuck are we more obsessed with making tchotchkies than say…curing cancer? Which is forecasted to have increased rates. Just frustrates me.

      Glad your wife is still here.