Posting this to clarify on my recent post:
Firstly: I am VERY sorry to @owl. I absolutely should have made sure that was your quote. For some reason, that lodged into my brain that that was from you, and I should have fact-checked that. While I do think your post does come off a bit passive-aggressive, and kind of applies to you, that still doesn’t excuse what I did. I apologize for that and I hope you forgive me.
Secondly, while I could have worded it better, other than the thing with owl, I still agree with the main message of my rant. This isn’t an apology for the entire rant, just exclusively to owl because that’s a very bad mistake. If you disagree with the rant, or my opinion then that’s fine, but I still mostly do agree with what I said. I will be remaining on the platform for a bit to address any counterarguments, but I will 100% be leaving finally on June 21st. I will leave for at least one month, and I may or may not come back still.
TW: Religion, Homophobia.
TLDR: Leaving wasteof temporarily or indefinitely because of drama and the actions of people in this community.
I’m going to be taking an extended break from this platform. Depending on how I feel during the break, it will either be forever, or I may return. If I do decide to permanently leave, I will be making a farewell post. I’m not going to say where I’m leaning towards because truthfully I have no idea. With that being said though, while I have left this way for a while, the recent drama has really exacerbated my feelings on this issue. I'm sorry, but I do not want to be on a platform where I am restricted to either being a homophobe or being a religiously intolerant dipshit. I think everyone participating in this drama should really reflect on their actions, and what they’re doing. I want to write this post to address what I think of the drama, and to provide constructive criticism for both sides, along with what I think @jeffalo should do, so with that being said, I am going to start this “rant”. I hope everyone involved can stay kind and read this with an open mind.
Firstly, I am not Christian, but I do not think you should be posting bible verses on a secular platform that target a belief and lifestyle that an extremely large portion of said platform has. I’m not going to backbite, so I’m going to be open and say that I’m mainly talking to @oren, @busybird15, and to a lesser extent, @luckythecat. While I’m sure you guys do have good intentions, I think the way you guys performed your preaching came off extremely homophobic or disrespectful, and I’d either refrain from it because it’s most likely not going to change anyone’s feelings or actions based on their sexuality or gender identity, or at the very least attempt to preach your religious views on homosexuality with more gentleness and wisdom.
Secondly, for the irreligious folk and the LGBTQIAP2S+ allies, I think you guys are performing in a manner that is similar or worse than how the Christians are acting. I’m again not going to backbite, so I’m just going to say who I’m addressing: 95% of this criticism is going to @JoshAtticus, but it does apply to @owl to a significantly lesser extent. Frankly, I’m extremely upset at you guys (again though, Josh mainly), but I’ll try my best to stay professional but clear where stating my grievances. Josh And Owl, you all REALLY need to think about how the people you’re trying to address would feel reading your messages. I’m not sure whether or not you realized it Owl, but saying that posting bible verses is only relevant during June, even ironically, is still insinuating that their book is worthless when not pride month, and you should have found a less sarcastic/sassy way of getting your point out.
Now, as for Josh Atticus, you’re the one I’m particularly upset that. The reason why is because you very clearly intentionally attempted to make fun of their holy book in a way that is constructive for absolutely no one and it just makes you come off as a reddit-atheist cunt that has no manners and genuine good faith in this discussion. While I get where you’re coming from, and I am also not christian, and heavily dislike Oren’s faith (moreso his branch of Christianity than Christianity itself), partially for personal trauma-based reasons I do not want to get into in this post, you will never help him see it the way you see it if you are doing personal attacks during your criticism of his beliefs. I said personal attacks because religious beliefs are a part of oneself, and most religious people tend to stick with their beliefs heavily. What I’m talking about the most in this post is your very recent post where you called the Bible a mythological book of fantasy, and where you said that you don’t care about their “goddamned religion”. While I do also hold these beliefs, and I personally agree that they should not be able to enforce their religious beliefs on anyone else considering that they all live in secular states, I think that the way that you said what you said came off as dismissive and extremely disrespectful. I genuinely for the life of me do not understand how or why atheists and other non-christians write like this, because it helps literally no one and it alienates Christians who might consider holding your beliefs, as it turns it in a “us versus them” discussion. In the future, I honestly would either ignore posts that you disagree with like I have been until now, or find more respectful ways to get your opinions out.
Now as for Jeffalo, what I think he should do is first make a statement warning users not to participate in this situation, and lock all posts with the new post locking feature that relate to this drama. I don’t think he should lock this post, because assuming all people have good faith, this post should hopefully stay respectful and clean.
To summarize: I loathe participating in or seeing drama, but I think my points need to be said. Thank you for reading all of this, and I hope you all have a great day.
I appreciate posts like these, but I feel like people really need to stop saying stuff like “The year 20__ has been SUCH a hellscape!”, and similar statements. I really think these statements have largely contributed to the wide-scale nihilism and pessimistic view that we’ve had for the last ~8 years. People need to eventually realize that there NEVER has been a year where nothing substantially bad has happened, and there never will be. Mindset is almost everything, and for as long as you only focus on the bad, every year will seem terrible. I still really appreciate these wholesome posts where they highlight the good, but the first sentence still contributes to the problem.
2026 highlights i’ve appreciated thus far:
the movie industry finally locked in especially with the introduction of new IP by youtubers of all people (markiplier/kanepixels)
mojang has locked tf in in a turn of events that may even bring a new minecraft wave (p2p!!!)
microtonal math rock (AdP ftw) broke free from containment and has reached a mass audience which will hopefully give us a musical revolution to stir the music pot
tom scott hath returned (letsgo)
minimalism is getting out of fashion which may lead to a new and awesome design era
apple got a new ceo who looks promising so we may get some more experimental apple products which could be cool
the existence of scientology speedruns is hilarious
you should refund people in blaze gift cards
The stabbing pain in my chest is just my body begging me to drink ONE more white monster 
next shower on tuesday 
zawg we posted nsfw stuff are we so deadahh…
yo im ngl im trying to quit biting my nails, so i got a nail polish bite deterrent thing off of amazon, and the name of the brand of bite deterrent never struck me as anything odd until JUST now
Fix it yourself. You have 72 hours, Schaffer.
when yo friends are calling you behind the times but yk they trollin because you just found out that wasteof went down for two months