This episode of DXP begins with a caller’s suggestion about Jason’s comic book alter ego, after which we address the emotional rollercoaster ride that is our Patreon pledges. We answer some listeners’ questions about Seattle and Satanism, and then segue into the danger of listening to the devil’s music. We then turn to our main topic of love, dating, and heartbreak, addressing such issues as “Is the dating scene really that depressing?”; “Is love worth the oft-ensuing pain it causes?”; and “Does fighting for a relationship equal weakness, and does that matter?” Speaking of love, Christian is biebered by trite platitudes concerning it, while Jason’s bieber is about people getting wet.
Also, if you think this show is scandalous and irreligious, you should listen to it backwards.
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It was Queen: I Want It All
Thank you. 🙂
• Also too, everything tends to turn to shit for Daredevil.
• The Daredevil TV show remains awesome.
• We should never let our daughters meet, Jason. They will either be best friends who gleefully sow destruction and chaos together or one of them will crush the other.
• Just curious, did it ever cross your mind, after your conversion, to try and become a priest?
• What if the copy of the satanic bible you get is bound in human flesh and you hear screams when you open it and you accidentally raised a group of Deadites that are trying to kill you and your friends in the cabin? I’m asking for a friend.
• Ah, Macbeth’s soliloquy. Thanks, Dr. Dinkins.
• It wouldn’t be that hard to deconstruct Christian music to show it’s evil and subversive.
• For starters, like South Park said, to write a Christian song, you take a secular song, cross out words like Baby and Honey and write in Jesus and Lord.
• People are getting kidnapped, but it’s usually by parents in the middle of a custody battle.
• Yes, that was depressing rather than funny.
• I think I’d rather chew my own arm off than ever date again.
• Man, that fraternity experience sounds awful, thank God I went to bible college rather than normal college with all of the heathen sex going on… #sarcasm.
• We should all go back to the biblical model for marriage where a guy goes and buys a girl or seven hundred from her dad(s) and that’s it.
• ‘All human wisdom is contained in these two words – Wait and Hope’
• Well, of course, you want pain and suffering. You’re Catholic.
• The restraining order says to give up, but my heart tells me to keep fighting for love.
• So burning my name on her lawn was a bit too far? Damn… now you tell me.
• I prefer “Everything happens for a reason… and sometimes that reason is God made a bet with Satan to ruin your life…”
• Or this one:
• OT: Leviticus 19-21: in which God repeats himself, invents the welfare state and social justice, says some weird stuff about fabrics, reveals some negative opinions about widows, divorcees, and the handicapped and assures the middle aged priests that yes, he really truly does want them to marry those teenage virgin girls.
Also God hates the Great Zoltar
https://houseofthedread.wordpress.com/2016/08/29/the-tldr-bible-leviticus-19-21/
Nice “The Count of Monte Cristo” quote. My favorite book. Thanks. 🙂
For the record it may be true that some single parents are looking for a serious relationship and co-parent when dating, but it’s certainly not always that way. I’m almost always the one who’s trying to keep relationships casual and non-exclusive, and in my experience it’s always the man who wants monogamy. So I don’t know where this idea comes from that women capture men and force them into LTRs. I’m much happier with 2 or 3 FWBs and my own living space that I don’t have to negotiate with another adult. But my kid is at her dad’s house when I’m out with friends so maybe I just don’t have enough cash sunk in babysitting to be truly invested in serious dating. 🙂
I have a number of friends who feel the same way, so I know it’s not just me. But it is less socially acceptable for a single woman to pursue casual relationships, so maybe that’s a factor. Or you at least have to make it look like you’re looking for a serious relationship.
Well other than the concrete example I was referring to (in which the woman went from 0-60 in no time), the reason I think that casual dating is a luxury lots of women don’t have is the kids. When you have kids living with you the majority of the time, it’s understandable to need something more than a bunch of hook-ups.
But the assumption that because she was a single mom she wouldn’t be contented with a casual relationship even if she claimed she wanted it is based on an admittedly very common but outdated gender stereotype. I thought that was the prediction you were making to your friend in the beginning. I also think it’s a reasonable assumption that someone on a hook-up app isn’t necessarily looking for an LTR.
I think the bigger issue is that the hook-up vs. serious monogamy contrast is a false dichotomy. I’m not interested in a series of hook-ups either. It’s not because I’m a single mom, but because I seek out relationships that involve real connection on various levels. But that also doesn’t necessarily mean I want serious full-time monogamy and a daddy for my kid. There’s all kinds of room in the middle there. I have my kid all week and for at least a portion of most weekends, but that doesn’t mean I feel pressured to find her a daddy.
I’m curious why we (as a culture) don’t assume that all single dads are looking for a mommy for their kids. I’ve certainly met a few who are looking for that, but I’ve also met others who want a relationship for it’s own sake.
I see what you’re saying, and I am sure I was projecting a bit (I am not interested in hook-ups at all). My point to my friend was basically, “Don’t treat this as something necessarily casual. She has small kids, and it might confuse or hurt her if you have no potential desire for anything more than a meaningless fling” (which is exactly what happened).