@Ken U Belevitt yeah, i was raised catholic, left as a teenager over abortion (and lgbt+ rights but mostly abortion), and now am a unitarian universalist
didn't finish this thought. where i was going with it is that even after leaving the church, i occasionally attended mass for a while as a social thing. i'd go at christmas, and went a couple times with my aunt and uncle the summer i lived with them, because it was good family time. also, i got to uu in part via universalism, the belief i alluded to earlier that everyone goes to heaven.
you find yourself letting go of any existing hang ups when you get older. I think it was a younger me that never would have believed I'd go back to college at 36
Okay so V confirmed that messages are sending..... Tenchi if you see this, I am having trouble with the site. Julie says she can't send private messages either. V says my profile is missing from her end. Is this related to the microsoft thingy? I changed my e-mail because I was having trouble with Gmail and now the recovery e-mail hasn't made it.
I talked to another member and she said that the problems with the site might be in part due to that massive Microsoft outage that happened yesterday.....
Walled garden refers to corporate social media. The issues are back-end issues (code that runs things as opposed to front-end being the visual part of web design)