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@yourdistantkin
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nice person, vacillating between introversion and extroversion, Catholic, culture seeking, mother, optimist.
Rochester, NY
Joined May 2023
What does this mean for my life
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"Advent is a time of being deeply shaken, so that man will wake up to himself."
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But most important of all, Merry Christmas! I know it's dark tonight, so very dark, but that's to help show a star on the horizon that marks a sacred destination. Let's journey on together, toward the source. See you all there.
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The birth of baby Jesus, made from stones on a Devon beach! Credit: Beach4Art
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What we are seeing in NYS (and across the Western world) is that when rights are not anchored by principles they simply become whatever a group really, really wants and whatever society accepts as fashionable. There is no right to kill yourself @GovKathyHochul
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As Christianity fades, we’re going to start experiencing the equivalent of planes falling out of sky and huge sinkholes opening up. All sorts of things that were held in place and kept clear will become untethered and overrun.
Christianity already solved the problem of differential human capacity (you don't have to be smart to be good). DEI is just the vicious, pointless and self-defeating attempt to violently forget this.
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“We do not draw people to Christ by loudly discrediting what they believe… but by showing them a light that is so lovely that they want with all their hearts to know the source of it.” Madeleine L’Engle #advent
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Anyone who doesn’t name this cat Noodles should go directly to jail
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Mary is the Co-Redemptrix of all people. Let’s proclaim it! She doesn't just distribute the fruits of the redemption won by her Son. She is by God's will an instrument in the work of redemption itself. No, Mary, no salvation. No Mary, no heaven. (Though her role in the work of
I am both insanely excited and absolutely terrified at the same time. Pray that Pope Leo handles this right! It is time to proclaim the Fifth Marian Dogma, please!!!🙏 Give it to me straight….What is your expectation for this?
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The beaming pride with which everyone recycles the same desperate copypasted rhetorical gambits as if they came up with a devastating witticism on their own -- and the willingness of their audiences to delight in them as if they hadn't heard it repeated dozens of times -- is one
Jennifer Welch on Riley Gaines: “You’re an insufferable twat. Nobody likes you and no matter what you will always have been the dumb bitch that tied for 5th place. The only place you can get a job is at bottom-feeder Fox News you insufferable twat. Nobody likes you except for the
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Unpopular opinion: There are plenty of bad actors within the Catholic Church, but the Catholic Church is actually right about everything.
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Only the woman who gives life to her baby can know the answer to the question of what would have been. Only she knows what life is actually like with her baby, only she knows the great loss that would have been without them. Abortion limits the imagination to one way.
You have missed so much.
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Hot take: most people aren’t as emPaTHeTIc as they imagine themselves to be and tolerance of disorder is mostly about preemptively excusing one’s own personal failures
I assumed that getting my life together would make me more moderate. I’ve been clean and sober for a while now. I’m eating better, gainfully employed, and starting to work out. And people are telling me I seem more extreme than ever. Interesting.
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Develop a nose for people without an agenda and without a utilitarianian purpose for every conversation and act. Develop a nose for the sweet fragrance of childlike simplicity, curiosity, wonder, holiness.
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I agree that those interested in leadership, history and politics (and law) should read @herandrews essay. The trouble is that grand theories are risky because they tend to underestimate the complex causes of a phenomenon. That is very much true with the Great Feminization
This is a seminal essay, one everyone interested in organizational leadership, history and politics should read. We are now in a rare moment where we should be free enough to speak about the causes of the cultural revolution we just weathered, in a way that is true and a warning
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I increasingly don’t think I understand what these people think “is happening.” They’re always talking about “what is happening.” Have you heard about “what’s happening?” I just can’t tolerate “what’s happening!” But…what’s happening?
Today I participated in the “No Kings” protest, here in Tallinn, even though I was all alone. I stood for an hour in front of the US embassy. I cannot accept what is happening in the US. This is not the country I grew up in.
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Every young woman who thinks she doesn’t want to have kids needs to spend time volunteering with elderly people who don’t have kids
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