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I would eat a T-Rex in a heartbeat. The “Tyrant Lizard King” needs to be taught who’s really at the top of the food chain.

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Think twice before ordering that chicken sandwich... T-Rexes wouldn't approve of you eating their descendants 👉 #DinosaurDay

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The Prequels are bad movies that love Star Wars. The Sequels are bad movies that hate Star Wars.

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Do you think the sequels will get the prequel treatment in a decade or two? Where the generation who grew up with them will make them more popular than when they released?

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This is why pulp adventures are important. If some wizard said, “Morality isn’t real. It’s a story we tell ourselves,” Conan would have shattered his staff, run him through, taken all his stuff, and rode away saying, “Guess it’s too bad I don’t believe in your story, huh, nerd?”

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Yuval Noah Harari: Human rights are "just a fictional story". "It may be a very nice story, it may be a very attractive story—we want to believe it—but it's just a story. It's not a reality." "And the same thing is also true in the political field. States and nations are

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The Force Awakens: All your heroes are failures. The Last Jedi: This universe must be mocked. The Rise of Skywalker: Actually, it’s the rise of (a) Palpatine.

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The thing is, Christianity isn’t about building a nice, comfortable civilization. Christianity is about the horrible truth that mankind messed up so bad from the very beginning that God had to die for us. And the beautiful truth that he loved us so much that he did.

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"If I had to choose between Christianity and Islam, I'd choose Christianity every single time." Self-proclaimed 'cultural Christian', ＠RichardDawkins, tells @RachelSJohnson he's 'slightly horrified' to hear Ramadan lights were hung on Oxford Street rather than Easter lights.

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People who think this speech is somehow offensive have the incorrect view that education is primarily about acquiring skills to work a job rather than the formation of the intellectual, moral, and theological virtues necessary to be a complete human being and a Christian.

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Harrison Butker chokes up while discussing his wife, encouraging Benedictine College female grads to embrace motherhood.

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Pharisees: Whoa there, bro! Why are you carrying a mat on the sabbath? Formerly-lame guy: The man who cured me told me to pick up my mat and go home. Pharisees: He did WHAT! Guy: He… cured me of 38 years of paralysis? Pharisees: He told you to pick up a MAT! On the SABBATH!

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Imagine thinking, “You wouldn’t eat a T-Rex,” would get any response other than, “Yes, I absolutely would.”

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We are left with two options: 1. The wizard is right, and therefore Conan did nothing wrong. 2. The wizard is wrong, and therefore makes himself an enemy all that is good by trying to sow chaos for the sake of his own benefit. Conan is a hero for defeating him.

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Sodomy is still a sin that cries to Heaven for vengeance and there’s nothing you can do to change that.

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The LGBT community has few images like this. So it is not surprising that they would add their own symbol, the rainbow, in a respectful way, to a beloved image of their mother. How appropriate that she is weeping, for it her son who suffers whenever an LGBT person is persecuted

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There is no intelligible way in which the wizard is right and yet Conan is somehow wrong.

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“Mitre” appears nine times in the KJV. Every time it appears it is in reference to the high priestly vestments first created for Aaron. It is never mentioned in the context of Dagon, who is also mentioned nine times on the KJV.

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I wear a cassock all day, every day. I preach about confession, hell, mercy, and the Real Presence of Our Lord in the Eucharist. I celebrate the TLM. And I’m currently working with a local food pantry to move them into our old school while their current location is rebuilt.

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The liberal ethos that swept the U.S. Catholic Church is undergoing an immense change, with plummeting church attendance, increasingly conservative priests and young people searching for more tradition reshaping parishes across the country.

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“Father, isn’t this a bit wrathful?” “Yes. I admit it’s a vice that I find easy. I take great comfort in these words of St. Paul: ‘A faithful saying, and worthy of all belief, that Christ Jesus came into this world to save sinners, of whom I am the chief’ (1 Timothy 1: 15).”

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If Verhoeven didn’t want me to think the humans were the good guys in his adaption of Starship Troopers, then he shouldn’t have made the bugs chitinous, inhuman, monstrous murder machines.

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>40K exists as a warning Yes. It warns us to not suffer the xenos, the heretic, or the psyker witch.

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$2200 is a non-trivial amount of money. The person tried to handle it privately by going to the parents first. If one doesn’t want to lose a scholarship due to honor code violations, don’t violate the honor code. It’s pretty easy not to take a package off someone else’s porch.

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The devil and his fallen angels are definitely in Hell. I think it likely that there are human persons in Hell, especially Judas Iscariot, given the words of Scripture. I would be overjoyed if it turns out that no human person is in Hell. Hell is real and we can go there.

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This is absolutely the truth. 1. The universe is full of malevolent intelligences. They’re called demons. 2. Intelligent life elsewhere in the universe would likely come about through a combination of, “Morgoth corrupted elves into orcs,” and, “Chaos scattered the Primarchs.”

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The correct response to, “Why do you care so much about this change? It’s no big deal,” is, “If it’s no big deal, why did you care so much about making the change in the first place?”

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“I thought we were discussing the establishment of the Imperial Cult?” “I am just coming to that. You said you wanted a serious conversation, not a talk show. We must first go back to old Colchis, the Primarch Lorgar Aurelian, the Lectitio Divinitatus, and St. Euphrati Keeler.”

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If a soldier, an explorer, an astronaut kisses a picture of his girlfriend, his wife and kids, or his parent when thinking of them, we all know that he’s not showing affection or devotion to the photograph as a photograph, but rather to the people represented therein.

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You don’t understand why a world leader would begin an interview with a 20 minute rant on history. I once ruined a date when she asked me, “What are you thinking?” and I responded honestly with 15 minutes on why Woodrow Wilson was the worst President ever. We are not the same.

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The hardest things about fighting demons in reality is that it doesn’t involve bolter and power sword, but rather denying ourselves certain thing that would feel good at the moment but would be bad for our souls and time spent in fasting and prayer.

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Just so we’re clear: Martyrdom is when someone kills you for believing in Christ. Suicide is when you kill yourself.

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Goblin Slayer is possibly the only modern fantasy series that gets goblins right. At least so far, Frieren is one of the only ones that gets demons right.

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This sentiment by Clovis is good. It expresses a powerful sympathy for Our Lord in his Passion and a righteous thirst for justice. That @iChanticleer is having to argue this for a day at this point is a little nuts. So let me try to make this clear.

Chanticleer

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Born a pagan, Clovis was the first to unite the Franks under a single ruler. When Clovis first heard the story of Christ's Crucifixion, he gripped his ax and proclaimed: "If I had been there with my valiant Franks, I would have avenged Him."

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Okay, but hear me out. Maybe In-N-Out SHOULD have a Christian paramilitary organization with which to bring law back to lawless lands. I’m just saying that the leap from franchisee to baron is probably a lot smaller than one thinks.

Swann Marcus

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People on twitter think In-N-Out has access to a trained Christian paramilitary organization that they should be using to prevent crime at their stores instead of closing them down

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On my old account, I talked about my experience with old cemeteries, and how old graves could move, shift, and be lost. Of all the flack I caught, the most telling was being told that I should shut up because the truth was less important than validating people’s emotions.

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Remember the reporting of bodies of murdered indigenous children found in unmarked mass graves at residential schools in Canada? All a hoax. Never was a single shred of evidence. Not a bone. Nothing. Ground-penetrating radar had picked up underground ‘anomalies’ near a

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@_Messier_33 I pretty much agree. But “human rights” is basically code for “morality” these days. So after much thought, I decided to make the dunk anyway.

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“I've seen things you people wouldn't believe... Goth girls siding with Abbott at the Texas border… Men with foot-tall mohawks falling to their knees in tears as Our Eucharistic Lord passes in procession…”

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The Goths have declared for Texas. We are so back, y'all.

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Sometimes I wonder if the biggest obstacle to nuclear power is the fact that most people’s understanding of radiation is basically formed by nothing except movies, in which radiation is often presented as basically an invisible monster that poisons you.

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Every time someone tries to convince me that crime is merely a social disease caused by material conditions, I remember St. Augustine writing about stealing pears with his friends in his “Confessions,” not because they needed to (they owned better pears), but because they could.

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I wore out our VHS of Sleeping Beauty as a kid because watching Prince Phillip take up the sword of truth and the shield of virtue to do battle with Maleficent, who serves and thus then becomes the ancient serpent, moved me in ways I couldn’t explain till I was much older.

Andrew Snyder

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As a reminder, Sleeping Beauty is the best thing Disney has ever produced. True Love (literally) wields the sword of truth and shield of virtue to slay the chaos monster, awaken Beauty, and thereby awaken the Kingdom. Also, the animation and music have not been surpassed.

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That’s Servant of God Isabella the Catholic. The idea that the Spaniards were somehow the bad guys for driving out the Islamic invaders that conquered them with the sword is and has always been real “Black Legend Brain” nonsense.

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How Isabella of Castile created the Spanish Inquisition and how it ended Spain's many centuries as a home to all three Abrahamic faiths.

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As I get older, the constant refrain of missing the point found within the Lenten readings becomes more and more obvious. Probably because I recognize myself in them more and more.

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“Warhammer is for everyone!”* *but not you

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Her statement is Leigh Brackett erasure and I will not stand for it.

That Park Place

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Star Wars Director Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Declares “It’s About Time We Had A Woman Come Forward To Shape The Story In A Galaxy Far, Far Away”

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Please pray for the nine young men and women of my parish who will be receiving their first Holy Communion tomorrow.

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My brother in Christ, St. Paul wrote before all the Evangelists did. If they thought he preached a different Christ, they would have told us. They did not.

David Hayward | Artist

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Who will win?

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The modern world seems to boil down to saying, “We should be able to do evil to avoid the consequences of the choices we made.”

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The God who is love is also the Word who is written in every verse of Scripture. So none of the verses contradict love. Not even the ones you don’t like. Not even the ones that seem mean. Love only wins when we take the verses seriously (John 14:15; 1 John 5:3).

David Hayward | Artist

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My wife, Lisa, thought I should repost this today. So I am. Love is greater than any verse. Love wins. Hands down. Every time.

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Christus resurrexit! Vere resurrexit! Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!

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One of my favorite moments in “The Boy and the Heron” is when Himi tells Mahito she can’t wait to be his mother.

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“Jesus was an only son, yeah.” I would like to formally thank Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins for publicly upholding the orthodox position on the “brethren of the Lord” and Our Lady’s perpetual virginity.

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“St. Augustine was right.” “About what?” “About everything.”

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“Oi bruv, ye got a loicense for commenting on social media ta go along wit yer loicense for singin church songs outsoida church?”

Metropolitan Police

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@ExploringAlway We're aware of significant social media commentary. Some of the comments are personal and hurtful. This is unacceptable.

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I love the Tucker/Putin memes because every man who makes one would absolutely, if given the opportunity, go on the exact rant he is referencing in his post. Dudes rock.

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Also, this is sacrilege, as it unworthily drapes Our Lord and Our Lady in imagery of, at the very least, concupiscence, from which neither of them, being free of Original Sin, ever suffered.

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@MorlockP On the one hand, In-N-Out not being to be able to safely and profitably run their business in a community is a perfectly good reason leave. On the other, In-N-Out hiring a private army and taking over what has become lawless lands, setting itself up as a baron would be neat.

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On June 18 I can change my bio from “Administrator of St. Ursula Parish” to “Pastor of St. Ursula Parish.” Please pray that God who has begun his good work in me might bring it to completion.

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This is why you bless your library and why you periodically go through your books and remind yourself why you cherish each one.

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In #JapaneseFolklore , kyorinrin is a #yokai that occurs when ancient books, scrolls and scriptures are left neglected and unstudied by their owners for many years. As with other tsukumogami, once reaching advanced age the objects obtain their own spirit and... #WyrdWednesday 1/2

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Psalm 104:15 KJB, “And wine that maketh glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face to shine, and bread which strengtheneth man's heart.”

Earnestly Contending Ministries

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Proverbs 20:1 KJB, “Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.”

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The First Doctor’s original companions were his granddaughter and her male science teacher and female history teacher who eventually married, but sure.

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Imagine thinking this is the problem with Republicans. Also, imagine this is in any way applicable to a book that ends with the restoration of the fantasy version of the Holy Roman Empire.

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This is how feudalism comes back. Some franchisee builds a private security firm and promises protection to staff both at work and at home in exchange for wages and fealty. Suddenly you have Tim of Denny’s, First Lord of Oakland, Defender of the Airport Approaches.

Tim Young

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A Denny's that's been in business for over 50 years is closing in Oakland because of safety concerns... In-n-Out, Starbucks and more are also closing there. Vote for Democrats and this is what you get.

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Where now the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing? Where is the helm and the hauberk, and the bright hair flowing? Where is the hand on the harpstring, and the red fire glowing? Where is the spring and the harvest and the tall corn growing?

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Bernard Hill has passed away at the age of 79 . The actor who played Theoden in ‘The Lord of the Rings’ Trilogy won 11 Academy Awards throughout his acting career. R.I.P.

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“We also have four rotating taps.” “Great! What do you have right now?” [proceeds to name four IPAs] Lord, save me from products of lazy brewers and the selections of unimaginative restaurateurs.

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@cirsova @jd_sauvage And yet when I say, “The correct answer is to save the kid and burn Omelas to the ground,” I’m told that I “don’t understand the story.” What a world.

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Don’t think about it. Don’t try to be cool. What was your favorite book when you were 12?

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Don’t think about it. Don’t try to be cool. What was your favorite book when you were 12?

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I wonder if anyone else has ever experienced having their sanctuary radically changed by altar removal and the like in, say, the last 50–60 years? It really makes you think. 🤔

NCR

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St. Elizabeth of Hungary's altar was built by a priest and once used by a cardinal who's on the path to canonization. It's now dismantled and damaged, after the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest came to the Cleveland parish.

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This post got me thinking about the differences between angels and men, and what that tells us about the question of Hell. So here’s a 🧵

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Two things can be true. It can be true that Christ and his martyrs willingly give their lives, and also true that those who unjustly take these lives deserve to have justice meted out to them. Be like Clovis. Be moved enough by Christ’s Passion to hunger and thirst for justice.

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Sadly, this is to be expected. We live in a world in which how a person feels NOW defines them entirely. Facts of the past—baptisms, names, the sex one was born—are inconveniences to be done away with. Why should the fact that a baptism happened be more important than feels?

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The Catholic Church in Belgium has said it will fight an order to erase an entry in a baptismal register, amid a reported rise in “debaptism” requests.

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If it makes me an “infernalist” to believe what pretty much every Christian, from the greatest Doctor to the lowliest peasant, believed and taught until yesterday, so be it. That’s all I’ve got to say about that.

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You know what would really subvert my expectations in this, the year of Our Lord Jesus Christ 2024? A show being straightforward in its storytelling and having respect for the history of the characters and ideas it’s inherited without trying to subvert my expectations.

That Park Place

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Netflix’s ‘Terminator: The Anime Series’ Will Feature Female Protagonist, Showrunner Promises It Subverts Expectations

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“Don’t watch my show!” “Okay.” “Hey! Why aren’t you watching my show!”

Fandom Pulse

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Ncuti Gatwa Says Its "Really Sad For Them" That Fans Aren't Watching Doctor Who After He Told Them To "Turn Off The TV"

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Your regular reminder.

Prof. Brian Keating

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Sam Harris says "consciousness is the ground truth of reality" and even the notion of free will is nonsense. What do you think?

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I like where your head's at, Fr Perricone

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In seeking to correct the error of treating animals as if they were people, we need to be careful not to overcorrect into the opposite error of treating them as Cartesian meat machines. There’s nothing wrong with affection towards animals as long as it is properly ordered.

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>changes rules and gives out asterisk awards with his friends when wrong people get nominated >blames others for “toxicity”

Culture Crave 🍿

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George R.R. Martin says social media is dominated by 'anti-fans' "Toxicity is growing. It used to be fun talking about our favorite books and films, and having spirited debates with fans who saw things different… but ... it is no longer enough to say “I did not like [this]

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Christ is King. Simple as.

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If believing what the Church teaches and has always taught is “right-wing,” then…

AF Post

@AFpost

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Polling shows Catholic priests are becoming more right-wing every ordination year. Follow: @AFpost

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If you want to satirize the humans as overblown, evil authoritarians who “other” their enemies, you can’t also present the enemy to the audience as completely and utterly other, incapable of being communicated with and seeking to do nothing but kill and devour.

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@GlomarResponder If Denis wanted me to think Paul was bad because of Chani, he shouldn’t have made Paul entirely justified* in his actions and Chani insufferable. *Yes, entirely justified. The houses of the Landsraad are pusillanimous cowards who should’ve bent the knee when they had the chance.

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The thing is, any serious Christian sees himself as fighting spiritual evil everyday. In his own heart and soul, in his society, in the world. Athanasius contra mundum. Combat is one of the prime analogies to the spiritual life. The Church on earth is the Church Militant.

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I already like superhero comics, Alan. You don’t have to sell them to me.

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Prayers up for the Princess of Wales and for all who are battling cancer. St. Peregrine, pray for them.

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2 months

BREAKING: Kate Middleton announces she is receiving treatment for cancer, following abdominal surgery in January

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@Goodtweet_man They aren’t talking about real people. They’re taking about the people they created in their head so that they could feel righteous indignation.

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If there is no canon/if everything is canon, then the God Emperor has always been Trump. Sorry, I don’t make the rules.

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Bees: frens and neighbors; keep the peace with them to everyone’s benefit. Wasps: war to the knife, knife to the hilt.

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Gene Wolfe is the kind of author who makes you contemplate buying an expensive academic translation of Zoroastrian creation myths just to see if it sheds light on a single chapter of a multivolume work that’s part of a cycle of multivolume works.

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Every time I think, “There’s no way Woodrow Wilson could be worse. I’ve plumbed the depths of his perfidy,” I’m proven wrong yet again.

Saber (Ballistically Vs. X Ver.)

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3 months

you think you hate Woodrow Wilson and 1910s railroad cartels enough, but you don't

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Dear @amazon , You could have simply written, “We negligently and maliciously wasted money to ruin the Lord of the Rings and the Wheel of Time on @PrimeVideo , so now you have to watch commercials.”

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4 months

And Elessar, Elfstone of the Dúnedain, Estel, the hope of his people, was Kenough.

Punished Saxon

@ExiledSaxon

4 months

Remembering now that they actually made Arwen and Aragorn versions of Barbie and Ken back in the day.

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What has happened to this site that now I click on some tweets and get a wall of text? I’m not reading that that. I’m happy for you, though. Or sorry that happened to you.

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4 months

I accidentally switched from the “Following” tab to the “For you” tab for a minute. Apparently the algorithm @X uses interprets, “You are a Catholic priest and follow a bunch of Catholics,” as, “Here, please have some of the worst Catholicism takes ever.”

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4 months

Off tomorrow, so deciding on a late-night movie. Looking at all the movies I have to watch that I haven’t watched yet. Deciding to watch Dredd for the umpteenth time. Because Dredd.

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Elon Musk is worth almost seven times that. Jeff Bezos is worth five times that. Bill Gates is worth almost three and a half times that. Why don’t they solve it? They’ve got more money, so they could do it quicker.

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So many people who can’t admit that the side fighting the demons are the good guys. What mean? 🤔

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4 months

Year of the #BROSR .

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5 months

Fans have shown you can edit out the excesses of the Hobbit Trilogy to get one pretty accurate Hobbit movie. I can see no way to edit the Rings of Power to get anything that resembles accurate Tolkien.

The Mellon Heads - LOTR Podcast

@mellon_heads

5 months

What are your thoughts on the Hobbit Trilogy AFTER seeing the first season of The Rings of Power?

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Twee&D player: “What name should I give my PC to go with my complicated and emotional backstory?” Published novelist Kumo Kagyu: “The rookie priestess is ‘Priestess,’ the high elf archer is ‘High Elf Archer,’ and the goblin-slaying protagonist is ‘Goblin Slayer.’”

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2 months

Christianity obviously has civilizational and political implications. I never said otherwise. But those exist to serve the preaching and living of the Gospel.

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It seems to me that if you don’t find, “You’re welcome to play the game, but not to demand that we change the game for you,” welcoming, then you didn’t really want to play the game in the first place.

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I guess what I can’t understand is this: 1. Thinking it completely justifiable to fight a fratricidal war to free men from their chains… WHILE ALSO 2. Thinking that we can’t do anything to prevent the murder of innocent babies that might count as imposing our view on others.

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6 months

Reminder that Our Lord taught in parables, so the stories we tell matter.

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4 months

This is entirely correct. This is good theology. This is why I posted almost an entire chapter of the Apocalypse earlier this week. Christ is a CONQUEROR. He is KING OF KINGS and LORD OF LORDS. He wields a TWO-EDGED SWORD.

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Maybe talk to real people instead of making up imaginary people in your head that you can be mad at so as to feel the thrill of righteous indignation.

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