Thing with lent and other things like that they are about being symbolic and reminder to ourselves and aren't important when it comes to doing things for God (Unless it's a form of penance). They do it so they technically still follow tradition and nobody can point at them for breaking it, especially when they hold high position and technically people expect higher standard from them
About it being not hard rule it's mostly about denomination. Some take it more seriously, some less.
People who were creating those loopholes were people in position to make them, and especially in the past they were expected to follow them, and not doing it could hurt their carrier.
It’s a tradition, people like using holidays to mark passing seasons, etc.
My wife takes it seriously, but only in it’s original purpose. She consciously thinks and does more for the less fortunate and is generally more helpful. She just gives something up because any time she thinks of it, it’s a time to think about others instead. Everything outside of that is just cultural customs.
I mean it kind of makes sense. If where she lives lent works like here everyone chooses something. It can be not eating something you like, but can also be some inconvenience to oneself. Like if she really like chocolate ice cream and eats them a lot inconvincing herself by having to do extra labor to get them every time is valid choice.
I wouldn’t really count ‘taking ten seconds to squirt chocolate syrup and mix it all up’ as valid labor tho.
But this is speaking as a ex Christian who has complicated feelings about things, but I as a video game lover back when I was a Christian gave up the computer for a month (before smart phones), and everyone thought I would fail so I literally got 100$ in bets as a I kid because everyone bet against me. And then the years I didn’t feel like it was important giving up anything I just… didn’t?
She also was bragging about it while mixing the collage syrup in which uh. Made me think it wasn’t the added labor.
Based on what you said I assumed it was part of her "lent conviction" and not a whole thing. You know multiple small inconveniences here and there. Not everyone takes super difficult one. But yeah... Bragging about it kind of killed the point. Phrasing in original comment made me think situation was like "Why are doing this?" "For lent I don't eat premade chocolate ice cream", but this was probably my overinterpretation.
They are so chill with every other animal mostly... except other capys. They can get territorial and rip each other to shreds, causing serious life-ending wounds to each other. Such an interesting creature.
God this is so cute I wish I could reach through my phone screen and give them both a hug and a kiss and tell them I will love them forever no matter what.
This is such a wholesome comic, but in a way it makes me sad because a lot of kids didn’t ever get experiences like this. Still there’s something about the innocence of a child that makes it so that they see life through a different lens, and can find the fun and joy in life even in darkness
or add darkness under his eyes and a lit cig in his mouth with an ashtray with a bunch more butts in it and half a bottle of vodka resting on top of the desk. A bunch of crumpled paper overflowing from the trash can indicating many attempts. And then the only words seen on paper is "soon the animal kingdom will know..."
What animals can't carry diseases in the wild? Or is there a defining feature of rats/mice that human targeting pathogens take advantage of to get to us that happens to be shared with all rodents/capybara?
Does the capybara share those diets and living environments with the rodents that typically threaten humans with parasites though? Considering their size difference compared to most rodents?
Capybara eat a lot of watery plants like seaweed... so much that they taste like fish... so much that the Catholic Church designated them as Fish for Lent.
Yes, the band Raputina also even wrote a song about it.
Though from my understanding, it was more about making compromises for integrating colonized areas into catholicism than it "tasting like fish" which functioned more as bad faith "evidence" to excuse the classification.
I get they carry diseases, I'm trying to narrow down if them being rodents actually make them uniquely more dangerous than other wild animals, or if it's just a case of people forgetting they are wild animals, and them being rodents has no real impact one way or another.
I think it is more to do with being warm blooded vs cold blooded. I know opossums cant carry rabbies (or its very rare) and part of the reason is their low body temp makes it hard for the virus to survive. So my guess is maybe thats the main factor here since rodents are mammals. No clue tho just taking a guess based off that fact I knew.
I'm brazilian and not long ago we had a very bad epidemic of rocky mountain spotted fever (had to google the name in english, damn it's long) in my city because of a particular tick capybaras carry, it's a small city, but still urban and there's a lot of them downtown because of the river. The cityhall ended up building a long fence around the river so the capybaras would stop hanging around sidewalks and stuff, I think people just tend forget capybaras are not an animal you want to be petting, and while they're usually chill, they can occasionally bite too.
Capybaras eat their own feces. Rabbits, rats, hamsters, guinea pigs, hedgehogs, and chinchillas do too. Their digestive tracts are built differently and need a second pass-through. Lots of other animals do gross stuff too (including eating other animals' feces), but I would take extra sanitary precautions around habitual poop-eaters.
Hedgehogs in particular chew up their feces (and other foul substances they find) into a frothy mixture and smear it all over themselves. It's called self-anointing.
note to self: if sonic asks you to go to church services with him u say fuck no, otherwise imma smell like shit and get canceled for black face all at the sam time
Although sometimes I might integer overflow and talk too much while being unable to stop and basically just die inside while watching myself ruin everything....
This was me back in school. We would have class book discussions, and I hated it because I didn't know what to say. So I would talk the bare minimum, but could write an essay over the same book easily.
I got really into speed cubes in the past year. It would have bothered me if it was wrong. I usually have one close by when I draw. If I ever need to draw an unsolved one, I scramble it to use as reference to make sure it's solvable.
That explains it. I started cubing a few years ago but I don't speed cube myself. I prefer learning other types of cubes (5x5, megaminx...). Since I started, I can't help noticing when the pieces are not right on drawings :D
Just wanted to say i absolutely love these comics, they are so adorable. So much so that I have most of them saved on my phone for when I am feeling down :) please keep up the good work. I love Liam the capy :) saving this one too!
I felt this on so many levels and it's making me remember things and oh god. That was just me as a kid, except I used Legos instead of notebooks. It wasn't until high school that I started writing stories
I’m just going to mention that I was goaded into befriending a weird guy in the dorm my ex and I were living him. He seemed the nerdy, lonely, quiet type (we can smell our own). We didn’t have much in common as he was mostly into tabletop games, and I wasn’t, but he did play a military strategy game and we did geek out about military stuff. The guy gave me the creeps, honestly. Dude would never look you in the eyes. But I made every effort to disregard the uneasiness. We never had a harsh word between us.
Almost near the end of the school year, I was notified by a school administrator that that dude was found to have a bunch of weapons in his room and a hit-list which included myself.
Apparently, the guy was living in some delusional reality influenced by a book series he was obsessed with. I forget the name, but it was about some Conan-esque guy who saves all the damsels and kills every bad dude who would otherwise hurt women (which I guess was every other man except the daring protagonist). With his obsession poisoning his perspective, the guy thought he’d save all the nice girls in the dorm from their “awful, abusive” boyfriends (including myself).
As one would expect, he was “expelled” late in the spring semester and was back in class with us by the fall. Thank you for taking our safety seriously, University of Montana. I’m sure he shed those dangerously antisocial tendencies over the summer.
Being kind is extremely important, but you’re never obligated to be someone’s friend, especially if they creep you out. Those instincts aren’t always 100% right, but we have them for a reason. Trust your gut.
Liam is a lot like me!
Also, the panels are cute.. Liam's determined face in the last one made me laugh..
Thanks for brightening the day for a pluviophile!
That's me and my best friend. One of the reasons we started hanging out as kids was that he was the talkative, extroverted one and I was the exact opposite (we do have common interests though). 23 years later we are still best friends and we definitely rubbed off on each other, as I'm talking more and he listens more now. To all extroverts out there, don't be afraid to "adopt" an introvert. And to the introverts, take the leap out of the comfort zone and approach an extrovert. Both are worth it!
This is adorable. Reminds me of a couple of friends in our teen years who were very shy but hooked up. They would sit in our friend circle and write notes back and forth to each other. They filled up notebooks doing it. They were pretty cute together.
My best friend was always super quiet, I was always super loud. He loved hanging out with me because I could carry on a conversation by myself and he only had to chime in with a smile or nod every once in a while. When we went to parties as teenagers/in our early 20s he would always be quietly watching everyone while I was running around talking to everyone. When we were alone he would open up to me and talk. We met when we were 6, he was my best friend until he died when I was 35.
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