Not really. I've switched from wired to wireless because of the number of headphones I've destroyed getting the cable stuck so bad it yanks my body. My ears never hurt from it; just slightly disoriented and audio only working for one bud/side now. Eventually it was too annoying and I switched to full bluetooth wireless. I won't argue against cables being better for audio, but for me they arent.

Ahh, I see, you this seems to be a simple spelling error. The books are going to hurt profits.

Last prescription I got was antibiotics and steroids for an ear infection. The doctor indeed did give me dosage and schedule. Then the pharmacy also gave me instructions, and they were different. Seeing how each Doctor hopefully keeps up with their field and most likely can't really with others, I'd say the pharmacy instructions are usually safer unless the patient has specific circumstances only the prescribing doctor is aware of.

What if mine was given to me by a watery tart?

America has been on the path for a while though, with the John Birch Society and the like working from the background. They've been around since the 1958, and lots of their literature and networks fostered the turn. Others like Bill Cooper, Alex Jones, etc, were active in the 90s and affected by JBS. Waco also had already ocurred.

OKC has some influences from Cooper, and the JBS and other right wing people initially thought OKC was a huge setback for inroads with general audiences, and kept working to change how people feel. Tea party was a huge comeback for them, as people who knew of the JBS warned the Tea Party was just a resurgence.

I don't know if Lucas or other writers knew at the time, so you might be right. However, there were people warning about it back then, just not really heard or paid much attention to.

Odd, I've had several in my room in my last place, but they didn't seem territorial or aggressive to humans. Sometimes too close I'd worry I'd hurt it but other than that...

Yeah, that was definitely one of them. I've seen more than one I think, but that memory resonates.

Have you seen my mummy?

Hickory what?! Smoked WHAT?!

As someone who escaped, "God is love" as well as knowing gay people always was something a bit hard to reconcile, but not as much as you think. See, if you take all the sins in the Bible, or even just the ones in 1 Cor 6:9-11, then almost everyone in the world is a sinner. It works better on a sect that is small and consider most mainstream religions wrong, along with enough isolationism.

I neve4 had a blinding hatred for gay people, and had friends etc. To past me, a gay person was just as sinful as anyone who had sex outside of marriage. The passage above lists fornication, adultery, drunkards, revelers and such with what some translate as homosexuality(iirc there's some who believe it meant pederasty instead.) A reviler isn't really that bad in the grand scheme of things, and almost everyone I knew outside the religion had sex before marrriage.

Combined with little articles explaining homosexual feelings weren't sinful, but acting on them were(same article pointing out straight people had to avoid sin in similar ways) I was fooled into thinking a weird "Well, I don't agree with it, but it's God's rule and it's his house..."

I think part of it also was that I definitely did not consider myself "better", as I hated myself for "breaking God's law" by masturbating to porn. I didn't even do it that much, but if I got tempted enough I would hate myself for months on end, considering 6 months not doing so to be not quite adequate, and considering myself not worthy of romantic relationships due to my "problem."

In a religion where everyone falls short of God's glory, I didn't really rank the sins, and tended to push to the back of my mind the things that didn't feel right.

Religion strongly discourages thinking for yourself, even if you think something is OK. It tells you that you're not good enough to make those decisions yourself, because see what happened when Adam and Eve did that? Cognitive Disonance is a feature.

Rats and mice also. I've seen a few videos of terriers killing rats, the squeaks and the way they roughly shake them so hard they die is somewhat disturbing.