John A. Monaco
@johnamonaco
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Byzantine Catholic layman. Dominican tertiary. Husband, & father of 3. Doctoral candidate in theology, seeking the true, good, and beautiful.
San Francisco, CA
Joined December 2016
As much as I love Twitter/@X, I'm realizing that (especially with the younger generations) many people prefer video/audio format. 3,000 word blog posts aren't for everyone. So I will ask you all:. Should I finally create video content?.
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The Church needs less apologists, & more saints. You should only attempt to be the former insofar as it leads you to become the latter. Apologetics can easily become tainted with pride, & fame can tempt a person to lead a double life. "Qui habet aures audiendi, audiat.".
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"Thou hast formed us for Thyself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they find rest in Thee.". St. Augustine of Hippo (A.D. 354 - 430)
hey does anyone know what's supposed to go in the gaping void??? i've tried art and music and friendship and regular career and artistic career and romance and drinking but they don't quite fit.
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Adding screens to classrooms (iPads, TV monitors, etc.) was a disastrous decision for student learning.
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If you think that the rise of autism cases is simply due to "greater awareness", I have great news for you: you're wrong!. Mix the modern Western diet, screentime for children (something our brains weren't prepared for), an ever-increasing number of vaccines jabbed into infants. .
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The majority of autism treatment is reduced to managing symptoms, rather than addressing root causes. We're told "It's something people are born with"; "it's genetic"; etc. Treatments usually just assume it can only be mollified, and not cured. Why is this? Profit margins.
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Disclaimer: I am not "anti-vax" as a matter of principle. I just think giving infants a cocktail of vaccines in one shot isn't healthy. Many cases of "autism" can be traced to a vaccine injury, which can cause mitochondrial disorders & cerebral folate receptor autoantibodies.
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The meteoric rise of "autism" is related to a combination of factors, including the modern Western diet (processed foods, refined grains, refined sugar, seed oils) and—yes, the vaccine schedule. And the fact that we cannot question the latter is profoundly un-scientific.
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My extremely unpopular opinion today is this: most people should simply not have pets whatsoever. Even in cases of loneliness (an elderly person living alone), there should be efforts by the local community to promote human companionship and interaction. Pets have become idols.
Extremely unpopular opinion today but if you are gonna have a pet you should always have AT LEAST ten grand set aside for them at all times in case of serious emergency.
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Great appointment. Bishop-elect Hennan, unlike other prelates & priests, *actually* ministered to persons with same-sex attraction. He brings the Gospel, solidarity, & the universal call to conversion WITHOUT affirming the disordered attraction. He's not Fr. James Martin, SJ.
Pope Leo just appointed Fr. Thomas Hennan — who's spent years ministering to LGBT Catholics — as bishop of Baker, Oregon.
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When I was 8, the local metrologist (who loved puns) invited viewers to submit jokes that he would read. I immediately called in and said, "What do cats like to read? A catalogue!". He ended up reading it on-air, ripped up the paper and said "Stop taking submissions, we're done".
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Also, voters, please give reasons why you voted the way you did!.
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In some ways, I view the turn to video (including short-form Reels, Shorts, and TikTok) as a sort of mission territory that needs to be evangelized. There is so much garbage out there (religious and non-religious alike) that it requires content with substance and nuance.
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My preference, of course, is long-form writing, particularly essays, articles, and on here, threads. But postmodern man has very little patience for the genre. I remember my former high school students would try to argue a position, & when I asked for their source, it was TikTok.
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There's a very odd dogmatism when it comes to vaccines. I am not "anti-vax" by any means, but it is scientifically demonstrable that certain vaccines can injure some children with medical predispositions. The idea that exemptions cannot be made is profoundly anti-science.
1) have a child. 2) go for their first Dr. appointment . 3) try to tell them that you’d rather not/delay vaccines . 4) watch a friendly, amicable old man turn into an enraged badger before your eyes.
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What ESPN tries to market as "bringing the energy 😂" instead reveals the vacuous and superficial existence of our modern "influencers", many of whom are so shallow that they ought to wear a "No Diving" sign around their necks.
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Alex Cooper never achieved fame from her soccer career, nor has she contributed anything of substance to society. Her claim to fame is a raunchy podcast that women listen to in order to have their vices validated, to anesthetize their feelings of emptiness and rootlessness.
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We find this sort of behavior across various types of modern people. They lack respect for tradition, hallowed and hokey alike. The attention must always be directed back to themselves, because receiving attention is borderline currency in our digital age.
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