This is what I’m talking about when I say “You don’t really want a pet wolf, they already make a wolf you can keep in your house and it’s called a dog.”
Sad to be the one to tell y'all, but aborted children and children died before christening don’t get into heaven. They go to the Limbus, the outermost circle of hell, where the souls go who are exempt from paradise without it being their fault
You need to update your sources
Since 2007 unbaptized children go to heaven and limbo doesn’t exists anymore
[Id: I was rised in deep howlers where you could drink from the creeks and the best coldest water was a spring with a lime stone bottam and my biggest fear was hornets and sand barriers or snapping my fishing line on a big fish /end id]
I have no patience for negativity toward “boomers” anymore.
Almost everybody doing the work to restore ecosystems, grow native plants, and preserve rare species is 50 or older
The people I work with IRL have told me that my presence is encouraging because it means “the younger generation is getting involved with this stuff too.” There’s really not very many people my age
Who do you think was fighting this fight in the 1970’s
I’m saying this as a Gen Z who is woefully lacking in these skills
Social media and the internet have really decimated my generation’s ability to network and organize with people IRL
Not in the sense that That Damn Phone causes your skills to atrophy, but rather, Gen Z has no idea how people organized before social media, and no idea what anyone over 40 is doing for good in the world
The vast majority of local native plant, wildlife, and gardening organizations have NO social media presence
I could never have understood this until I started working IRL with people who are absolute powerhouses of knowledge, resources, and action about plants, animals, ecosystems, and conservation…who simply, barely know how to email
Google is not a resource
It can link you to a few resources, but it is ultimately a complicated device to make you Buy Product
Google will not even show you the best websites out there for learning about the ecosystem. At all. Google recognizes few possible interpretations of your query other than “Google, show me a bunch of advertisements for [thing] so I can Buy Product.” If your research doesn’t end in Buy Product, Google has no interest in helping you.
Many people think that the way of finding things out before Google was books
But that’s more wrong than right.
The way of finding things out before Google was community.
Because there’s some old lady in your community who has been gardening and observing wildlife for 40 years who is somehow running a sprawling native plant gardening organization and providing everyone else in your town with seeds and random produce, and she has a library’s worth of knowledge absorbed from reading every book and talking to every guy who has any experience about plants, and this old lady has 87 close friends who are somehow involved in every local governmental department and private organization and business, and if she can’t answer your question herself, she will be able to hand you a little scrap of note paper with the name of the exact person you need to talk to. She doesn’t have an email address
Gen Z seems to regard “having connections” as a bad thing and a way of cheating your way into opportunities that you don’t deserve
In reality, it’s “opportunities” and “deserve” that indicates something deeply wrong and dysfunctional with our society. Outside of the numerous artificial competitive scenarios we are placed in where we strive against others to perform the ideal persona of worthiness as a human being, “having connections” is just how things get done.
Same with “being a Karen.” Taking out your petty frustrations on a powerless retail worker is one thing, summoning every ounce of Upstanding Member Of Society in your middle aged white woman body to rend asunder the guy who approved of bulldozing a wetland is another
ALT