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crushedoranges
9hr ago
I want to believe in God, in defiance of the absence of evidence of his existence. Because faith is an absurd notion: but it is like love and hope. It is a necessary balm in a cruel and uncaring world. In the Kierkengaardian sense, I believe in God as the manifest nature of love: eternally abiding, unconditional, perfect. Forgiving. Merciful, to the flawed creatures that are men. In my life, I feel so sad, so forlorn. I feel that only God could love such a creature as I.
It is probably the only love I will feel in this life.
Perhaps that makes me a strange Catholic, but I arrived here strangely, in any case. You could make a secular case of Christ's nonexistence, but that wouldn't change my faith in God, because my faith isn't based in scurrilous readings of the Bible or enscribed onto plates. I don't care to prove my faith or defend it against skeptical inquiry. I base it on love: that transcendent, ethereal quality that is beyond the ability of materialism to define beyond the inadequate language of hormones and socialization.
That is the most profound miracle of all, and beyond the reach of fedora'd Redditors.
4doorsmorewhores
9hr ago
One of my friends with the last name Dong was dating a guy with the last name Beaver for a while. A match made in heaven.
MaximumCuddles
The world-spirit texting on the toilet
9hr ago
“Poasting”.
Real mottezin hours up in this bitch.
It and memes using the audio / poasts discussing the phenomenon are doing massive numbers on X, the only platform it’s not actively being suppressed on.
So… yes.
veqq
10hr ago
Trivial to find: https://odysee.com/@LightElf:0/Kanye-West-Heil-Hitler:9
Not worth listening to, rather terrible, but such is our fallen society that some like rap.
hydroacetylene
10hr ago
Encourage Protestants to use the power of the state to enforce their religious morality and they may well decide to come after Catholicism, which they have traditionally seen at best as a corrupt and degraded form of Christianity.
The dominant strain of Protestantism in the USA does not care about non-moral theological differences within nicene Christianity and is also unable to do much of anything without assistance from conservative Catholics. This is a reasonable worry from a Mormon perspective; and Mormons know this. It is not a reasonable worry from a Catholic perspective.
Catholics, BTW, were mostly not burning witches. Witch burnings by country is basically a Protestant heat map.
Eupraxia
Shut up and quantify
10hr ago
Yep, I recall reading somewhere that Asians tend to respect Jews for their disproportionate influence, the thought process going something like:
You're telling me that this tiny minority dominates your finance, media, and government? Sounds like they're doing something right, what's their secret?
hydroacetylene
10hr ago
He knew he had a shot at one day being pope a long time ago. He may have known this before entering seminary.
I’m kinda surprised the onion hadn’t been making fun of Pizzaballa(because of his name) or Tagle(because of his general tackiness and unpredictability giving them fodder).
hydroacetylene
10hr ago
Is the there anyone who likes him other than some autistic losers?
ABigGuy4U
10hr ago
Given his difficult relationship with Ms. Swift I suspect that might be intentional.
hydroacetylene
10hr ago
East Asia seems not to have adopted that particular prejudice, for one.
TheBailey
soapy mop
11hr ago
link's not working for me...
Hmm...this page doesn’t exist. Try searching for something else.
However, it's loading (cached?) on the main public Nitter instance
https [://] nitter [.] net/kanyewest/status/1920387087049572704
[EDIT: had to mangle link because The Motte worthlessly normalizes them]
Incanto
11hr ago
Played classic in 2019 and a bit of SoD but my guild eventually fell apart in SoD phase 3 and I lost the motivation to continue.
AvocadoPanic
11hr ago
wouldn't call antisemitism universal
Are there peoples or cultures where it's absent? I don't mean uncontantacted people's in remote areas.
RandomRanger
Just build nuclear plants!
11hr ago
Though on the other hand, we might end up remembering having this kind of culture spanning, unifying narrative as kind of comfy compared to total balkanization
Since it's being used as a cudgel against anyone who isn't all on board the multiculturalism and diversity express (or a rhetorical device to back up any Israeli foreign policy strategem), then away with it!
The narrative isn't so highly energized because of objective historical reasons: the Mongols celebrate Genghis Khan as a national hero. The Turks and Algerians couldn't care less about the atrocities they committed, slave-trading, slave-raiding and genocide. Mao and Stalin have mixed but vaguely positive receptions in their countries. The Hitler narrative is there to achieve a political result in the contemporary world, to justify the high and growing costs of this system and military adventurism.
Templexious
11hr ago
The hate fuentes gets on this forum glows brighter than the existing discussion around fuentes himself.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
12hr ago
Did “they”?
Post about specific groups or specific people. If you can’t do so without waging the culture war in the fun thread…don’t.
stolen_brawnze
I am the way Sia says "batteries" in that one song.
12hr ago
I took the opposite interpretation of that Onion article. It's obviously absurd that he would make all those efforts if his true goal were the papacy itself. Exploring how absurd it looks all spelled out like that is supposed to have the effect of humor.
Corvos
12hr ago
That’s what I mean, yes. Reasonably savvy Chinese are allowed to play in the supervised play area. They are not permitted to leave it and do their own thing in secret.
anon_
12hr ago
effective piece of viral far right propaganda
This is quite the claim buried in there. Is I t?
SubstackNecron
13hr ago
This is I think what we used to call "Posting"
I don't think "turnabout's fair play" applies - in most people's minds - to two situations between unrelated individuals who have never met or interacted with eachother, but are instead ascribed some value in the racial side of the culture war by too-online commenters.
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