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theabortionatorCousin and her family just flew back to Africa today as missionaries. I fucking hate missions. I wish you could call it out easier. It makes you sound like an asshole though. Honestly fuck it though missionaries are doing the asshole move. Traveling to places jist to pretend to care enough to convince people that their bullshit religion is superior. It's super whack. Also rad what missionaries did to places like Uganda.

Fuck missionaries.

If you want to help people go help or send money, but people don't need your bullshit god and your bullshit judgements.

zuesI’m sure the privileged white boy who skis all the time really has a grasp of someone caring... or even pretending to care about your third world country and your community. This an absolutely rotten take from a pompous asshole.


yea I’m sure all the starving African children would agree with you



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Mtuhockey33I can’t say Borty is one of my favorite members here, however, I gotta say.... guys got a point. Why do missionaries feel they need to go to these “third world countries” and “save the people”?


it’s the same thing as that city vs country bullshit. I’d like to argue those people had better lives before the first world countries came in and raped their countries for natural resources/labor/whatever they wanted.


think about it. All some of those people know is just wake up, hunt/gather food, provide for family and find shelter/a place to sleep.... sometimes ignorance is bliss....

zuesIt’s not the inquisition here. These ppl don’t have to believe in god and I’m sure they can tell them to fuck off.


basically what I’m hearing you two argue against is the fact that people are trying to help in the name of a Christian god. I’m not a fan of organized religion but I don’t see how attempting to help people in an earnest way is a bad thing. God or not.


maybe you’re saying their end goal isn’t really to help but instead use them as propaganda to prop up the church?

zuesIt’s not the inquisition here. These ppl don’t have to believe in god and I’m sure they can tell them to fuck off.


basically what I’m hearing you two argue against is the fact that people are trying to help in the name of a Christian god. I’m not a fan of organized religion but I don’t see how attempting to help people in an earnest way is a bad thing. God or not.


maybe you’re saying their end goal isn’t really to help but instead use them as propaganda to prop up the church?

Mtuhockey33Most of these countries already have their own kinds of dieties that they pray/worship. Why do Christians feel the need to convert everyone to their religion? There’s no guarantee that their religion is the “right” one. Also, historically they’ve been the most contradictory religion I’ve ever seen or heard of.

love thy neighbor as thyself (unless they’re gay). Everyone who doesn’t believe in me is going to hell (even if they’ve never heard of the religion). Multiple rapist, pedophiles, etc... have been protected for years while multiple people in the church know about it.... honestly you could go on and on.

why do they think they’re better than everyone else and need to spread their religion when their religion is literally full of hate and some of the most pretentious and egoistical figureheads throughout time?

zuesI’m sure the privileged white boy who skis all the time really has a grasp of someone caring... or even pretending to care about your third world country and your community. This an absolutely rotten take from a pompous asshole.


yea I’m sure all the starving African children would agree with you



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theabortionatorFirst, whatever dude.

Second i get that simply growing up in America had some pretty huge advantages.

Otherwise we were pretty poor. But yeah skiing website so my dad prolly makes 5mil. Sick conclusions.

There are groups like doctors without borders etc that do some amazing work.

My problem with missionaries is that many don't care outside of pushing their God. Many stay isolated and only learn enough about the locals to push their agenda.


Also one of the reasons I care about it alot is all the anti gay stuff stemming from missions.

But yeah be a douche about it.

Like I said it's one of those topic you cant discuss because of people like you.

zuesIf you grew up without medicine and a lack of food do you really think you'd be upset about someone giving you care and attempting to help while telling you about some invisible dude in the sky? You're not in their situation so your point is completely worthless.

theabortionatorClearly I just struct a nerve and you're riled up about it.

Idk I'll jist exit this one. Be mad at me I reallt don't care. Missionaries aren't the sickest thing since sliced bread. There's been a lot of bad shit thats gone along with it going back deep in history. Do what you want, believe what you want, hell go tell some people in Africa about how they need white Jesus.

Do whatever man.

Jems

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MinggThrowback to the roommate who shaved her pubes in my bed because she didn’t want her sheets to get dirty

MiIfHunterHow do you know the pubes were hers? 🤠

MinggI walked in on her doing it lol

MiIfHunterYuck

So what did you do?

MinggCried

MiIfHunterBy chance did she fart?

For some reason I’m just imagining your roomie blowing the filthiest of nasty farts all day in your dorm.

roddy116I picked up a skier magazine at a Utah airport, and I remember how much I hate about the face level of skiing in its current form which is just upper class tourism nowadays. How tf are people supposed to get into skiing when they see nothing but white people in gorsuch skiing deer valley?? Like cmon no wonder people think that skiing is out of reach for them, it’s so fucked up.

BrandoComandoI agree 100%. Skiing media needs to celebrate the entry points. I didn't grow up with the sport. It wasn't until college when I started to teach myself on rental skis at Boreal's $15 college days with night skiing. I couldn't afford a huge resort ticket. But those Boreal nights were so much fun that I stuck with the sport and now I'm at 50+ days per season. The youth is the future of the sport, as it's the future of everything else in this world. Making skiing a rich, exclusive thing is going kill the sport. Vail and Alterra certainly have negatives, but those mega-passes have made skiing waaaay more accessible to a lot of people. Skiing became so popular in the 50s and 60s because it was a fun family-friendly activity.

There's room for the boujee skiing scene and the heli-skiing and the destination resort trips and the wealth. But there also needs to be accessible entry-points for newcomers who are young or don't have big money.

gusbus432My local resort (bogus basin) is non profit, so cheap lift tickets and season passes and all the money goes back in the resort. The vibe there is unreal, everyone is nice and super friendly. All the entitled Gucci and fur coat skiers hit sun valley and leave bogus alone.

vibechecki heard only losers ski there

gusbus432My local resort (bogus basin) is non profit, so cheap lift tickets and season passes and all the money goes back in the resort. The vibe there is unreal, everyone is nice and super friendly. All the entitled Gucci and fur coat skiers hit sun valley and leave bogus alone.

gusbus432My local resort (bogus basin) is non profit, so cheap lift tickets and season passes and all the money goes back in the resort. The vibe there is unreal, everyone is nice and super friendly. All the entitled Gucci and fur coat skiers hit sun valley and leave bogus alone.

JAHpowWhy the hell does Jimmy John's NOT cut their 18" sandwiches in half?

theabortionatorAte mushrooms and played a bunch

BigPurpleSkiSuitJust watched the 4 star competition at bird today. I get that you earn points by competing in qualifiers but there were some people who clearly did not belong in that competition today competing over many local rippers who wanted a crack at the comp.

Titus69As in they were too good? Cause yeah it’s a 4 star that’s what gets you very close to the big leagues. that said fuck ifsa, my homie who won a 2* and qualified for this comp got booted last week yet I saw a certain guy post about how today was his first comp in years...a 4 star, think his IG and sponsor list helped him out tho..

BigPurpleSkiSuitAs in not good enough

Titus69Ok I kinda figured, cause that’s another reason my friend should’ve been in it, cause he’s good enough to be on the tour, but all the team kids with money to travel all this winter have more points or whatever for getting 6th every comp. If there’s age groups it’s one thing but overall type shit like cmon, just in the birds IG story I could see some people in there who were getting crushed by the next person behind em.

BigPurpleSkiSuitThere were people in that comp I could outski, which is absurd for a 4 star considering im not even good enough to entera 2 star

r00kieI know Boise people are getting sick of transplants but I am very excited to make Bogus my new 'local' hill.

MoneyMakerMikeMost the employees are assholes, especially the park crew, but luckily most the "locals" are really chill making it easy to make new friends on the slopes. The growing crowds really do suck sometimes, but the resort is open until 10 so you can avoid them if you time it right.

LemuelLet's talk social security. Maybe this needs its own thread. I'd love to hear everyone else's input.

I just found out what my parents will be collecting once my dad retires in July. I work well over the yearly average of 2080 hours managing a business, and some retirees will be making more money than me? WTF. What comes out of my pay in a year for SS is what my parents will be getting A MONTH. I'm not mad at my parents, or the people receiving SS, I'm pissed at the system for allowing this to happen.

I don't foresee myself being able to collect social security in 35-40 years when I'm at retirement age. Reliable sources are already stating that the SS funds will be at 0 by 2035. Tax the businesses, not the employees. Businesses have the money. This country is so corrupt.

Someone please educate me if my thinking is wrong.

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Alright, rant #2. Minimum wage increase to $15 / hour. I am personally against it, but there are two methods of thinking here:

1) Everyone who is currently employed will want a raise. Why should a novice come in and make $15 / hr when I've been working at Business X for 5 years and am currently making $15.50 / hr (just spewing for an example here). Thus, all other employees will demand raises, prices of goods will sky rocket, and employers will be hiring fewer people to keep costs down. In reality, the wage hike has caused more harm than good.

2) Here is the "in a perfect world" scenario. All current workers will keep the same wages (unless below $15 / hr). Minimum wage sets a new standard of work ethics. If a new hire doesn't meet the needs of the business, you're done and another new hire comes in. Rinse repeat until a "good" employee is found that deserves the $15 / hr (based on current performance measures to make $15 / hr). This will prevent prices of goods from going through the roof, because in theory the business has better workers for their new cost.

Number two only works if all businesses go with that model. I would love to think that #2 will work. In theory it will make employees work hard and care more about their jobs. If you aren't a good worker, you don't make the cut. If you want to make $15 / hr, you gotta work for it, because there will be more people waiting in line with their resume.

I absolutely agree that people deserve a living wage. But if you aren't performing the necessary work, you aren't going to get it. To all you 16 year olds out there, snatch up a job now and work your butt off, because finding a job is going to become very difficult in a few years. Let's say I have two applicants for an entry level $15 / hr position, one is a college kid one is a high schooler with no job history. Guess who is getting the job.

My position has always been that minimum wage is for teenagers, and they do not need a living wage. But unfortunately, the reality is there are a lot of adults out there that do need a living wage that aren't making it. Once $15 / hr comes around, my point will be moot because teenagers won't be able to get jobs anyway.