I am a grumpy Catholic.

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Cake day: Feb 05, 2023

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He had a good death. Most of his children made it in and got to talk to him an dote on him a little. His last picture was the happiest I had ever seen him.

Thank you for your prayers.


Well, you’ve inspired a lot of people to stop and try and reach out to you. You need real people in your life.

Trust me, I know that families can suck, but they are the first place we go when we are in trouble. Where is your family?




He passed today. He was surrounded by family, he was deeply loved.

Thank you all for the prayers.


My wife made some mayo with bacon fat. It was very yummy. We need to make more of it for sure!!


My Stepfather is dying.
I was already in the Navy when he and my mother got together. 30 flipping years ago.... where does the time go? SO, he was never a real father figure to me but has been part of my life for a good long while. He is 84 with dementia, so it is time for these things. He was declining at a steady rate, but this week the bottom just fell out. I thought he was too stubborn to die. He really did seem a bit invincible. His only religion was a mix of Joel Osteen and Christian Science. I have no earthly idea what that prepares a person for in the afterlife. Rest assured he will have many masses said for him and I am praying for the grace of true repentance and true contrition. He could be an extremely aggravating person to be around which is strange because he was a good salesman... Go figure. I hate this. He will be missed for sure, but I've seen the end of Alzheimer's. This might be better. SO, fellow internet vagabonds. what ever prayers you pray, if you could offer some up for Dave. Thank you
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Lol, I’ve been thinking about what you said here. Basically I can eat all the deviled eggs I want, AND suffer? Don’t threaten me with a good time!



I’ve been learning about seed oils as well. HOLY CRAP that stuff is toxic. I have a lot of things to weed out of my life. Thank you for the encouragement.



I don't know. I have a friend that lost a lot of weight going vegan. He seems happy. I wish I could be vegan, but I function better on meat. Red meat. Hmmm, I might go full carnivore. Still hanging in there with OMAD.
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How is that? There are plenty of thin Christians. I don’t see a correlation. Are you saying something helpful or just being a dick because you’re insecure about your beliefs?


It happened.
Pray for me that this is my moment. I won an award at work which was nice. They wanted to give me a little certificate and take my picture. Take my picture. I work from home and had allowed myself to get fat and gross. I was planning on dieting a bit to get rid of the water weight so I wouldn't be all bloated. I would start on Monday. The Thursday before we were part of a prayer rally and it was late so we all went out to eat. I couldn't fit behind the booth. I technically could fit behind the booth, but it was uncomfortable. We made it work, but something just broke in me. It's hard to explain. Yes it's very embarrassing, but it's not like I can duck around the corner and shed 50lbs. You're just there in the moment, solve the immediate problem. That was Thursday evening and the picture was not the next day but the Friday after. I had 8 days. I fasted for 8 days. That will get rid of all the water weight. I've done slightly longer fasts in the past but for some reason I started feeling sick, so I broke fast and went to OMAD. I've been on that for the past week. Keto and OMAD. I am at 300 lbs, my guess is that I started my fast at 330 lbs. People don't stay 300 lbs, you either lose weight or you go up to 500 lbs. I don't know what to say because I have successfully lost weight in the past and kept it off for years, then life got really stressful, I didn't deal well with it. Food is definitely an addiction for me. Please send up prayers for me that I can stick with my diet. My thought is that by combining Keto and calorie counting then there is no way I can not lose weight. If I stick to my plan eventually I will hit my goal. I'm 6ft plus, 300 lb guy. If I eat 1500 calories a day, I will lose weight. If I eat high fat low carb, I won't get hunger cravings. My last plea to you is - don't get fat. If you have to lose a lot of weight your own biology really works against you. If you need to lose 20 lbs, do it now. Thanks for listening.
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Congratulations!! Marriage can be beautiful. In the Catholic faith it is a sacrament and will make you more holy.

Getting 2 people to believe and act as that is so is the battle. I’ve been married a long time and I’ve seen the best and most of it. I love my wife still and think she is the cutest thing in the world. Even after 20+ years I am endlessly fascinated with her.

All that being said, there is no way in hell I’ll ever get into another romantic relationship.


The male to urge to procreate is one of the strongest things in earth. That being said, relationships are overrated. Nice, but overrated.

Watch your bro get raped in divorce court and then some more with alimony by his whore wife. Relationships are not worth killing yourself over.







Working from home, so I can sleep in, look like a slob, and have easy access to naps. Of course the naps make it hard to sleep the next night, it’s a vicious cycle.


I have issues with that. Too much on my plate and stressed out. I can sleep during the day, harder at night.




My favorite character was the snake expert. He played the role totally straight despite the overwhelming campiness of the film.


Snakes on a plane
I finally saw Snakes on a plane. Compared to what is available today I thought it was rather good. I did not appreciate the nudity and the language... well, Samuel L Jackson was in it and that is what he is known for. Frankly Father Stu was worse on language than Snakes on a plane. PROS: Fun Movie CONS: Bewbs and language.
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Catholics aren’t really permitted to speculate on who is destined to go to hell.




I believed in Lizard people when I found that it was easier to think of a non-human entity being that evil rather than actual humans dreaming all this crap up.


After the honeymoon… “I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe.”


But we oppress some people. Criminals for one are people I would say are oppressed. Even if they amend their lives, integration into society is very hard. Yet we oppress them pretty freely in this society. This is one area where I think we need a better prison system.

You presented oppression as a bad thing. If it is bad then society widely does it. Over all I don’t view it as a bad thing. It is certainly not always evil. If it is not always evil, then how is it a substitute for undeserved suffering in my previous example?




Thank you for your thorough response.

Just one question. Why is oppression bad?



If they weren’t dressing like whores it wouldn’t matter. They could make dreadlocks down there and no one would know, but then, we wouldn’t be paying attention to them would we? Maybe that’s the real issue.




I can give a good rebuttal with the Catholic world view.

Suffering is good. Unwanted suffering is good, necessary and even a gift from God. All of the most well known saints have suffered in the most horrible ways, sometimes at the hand of the very Church they served.

It isn’t an exact opposite because suffering isn’t the highest good, but it does reverse most of the leftist world view. If even suffering is good, useful and profitable - then ALL of existence and creation is good and right. Erasing people from it without a very good cause is evil. Lying and every other sin is evil because they all twist and distort a persons relationship with existence.

I could probably expand on this more if needed, but I am wore out. I am juggling work and posting… Whew, oh how I suffer for you…

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The leftist world view.
I had a bit of an epiphany and I'm not sure where to post this. This is my sincere effort to not be a troll and post the clearest version of the leftist's world view as I can - AND it's consequences. Here goes. Undeserved suffering is evil. Undeserved suffering is the only evil there is. Deserved suffering is fine, so you can torture Nazis - they deserve it. You can also suffer to get a better job or position in life, that is wanted suffering. While it isn't good, it isn't evil. Since undeserved suffering is the ultimate evil and the only evil there is, we must rearrange government and society to eliminate all unwanted suffering. You can change your body, change your sex. You can decide to be anything at all as long as it alleviates or removes unwanted suffering. Abortion is seen as a heroic act because it removes the unwanted suffering of the mother, and the child growing in a disadvantaged household will suffer undeservedly so aborting the pregnancy is a doubly heroic act. Suffering is the only evil. Even if it is murder they don't care. Murder isn't evil, only suffering is evil. Murder is only evil if it causes someone to suffer, the same with lying. Lying is only wrong if it makes someone suffer. Here is the poison in the ideology. Are you going to suffer things in life that you don't want to? Yes. With almost absolute certainty you will suffer things you don't want to. Suffering is the only and ultimate evil. They might not say it explicitly but since suffering is evil and all who exist are almost guaranteed to suffer - existence itself is evil. They will deny this, but the rampant nihilism on the left all but proves my point. The left believes that the very act of existing is evil. Need a carbon tax to save the planet but it will kill a billion people? Not really a problem because you are ending their suffering - existing is evil and with fewer people we will be better able to mitigate their suffering.
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I really don’t argue in bad faith for starters. I’m sure I am unpleasant to people who think that anyone who disagrees with them is unpleasant. I tend to disagree with many people.

I can’t help what other people do. Yes I laugh at a lot of memes that are at the left’s expense, but I never have and never will call them stupid.

I think I am starting to understand the lefts position so it is not totally bewildering to me, but the left and the right operate in two completely different paradigms. That is why communication is next to impossible.

IDK, you’re welcome to stay. I hope you do.


Except I meant that in an extremely literal way. It would be very horrifying.


Are all of the lefties gone?
They argue in bad faith, they are rude and generally unpleasant. I saw a few brave souls having civil discussions even if they weren't profitable. You're better men than I am. Not that I want to be rude. But when the conversation leaves the realm of ideas and becomes tactics and maneuvering to win points, then I am done.
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If you can’t make the argument logically all you’re left with is force. Once the left gained ascendancy they couldn’t hide behind the equal rights schtick. Their argument was always ‘we just want the same as everyone else and to be left alone.’ Most people were fine with that and from a secular world view it makes sense.

Now they just want to control everything and end civilization - but they are still using the same old 'Leave us alone, don’t be mean arguments." That doesn’t hold. They have no argument, so force is all they have.

More to the point, they have no argument, and they know it. But they still want all the power. All they can do is name call, bully and censor. Welcome to the world of echo chambers. They know their position doesn’t make sense logically - but with enough dead bodies they can prop their ideology up.





What happened?
I'm just minding my own business and all of the sudden we were inundated by all of these lunatics talking nonsense. Were we invaded by shitjustworks? Did they think that calling us toxic was going to win arguments? I don't really know how federation works. I assumed that a new instance would automatically be federated and then the crybabies would run away. I don't understand the sudden influx. Of course they would be butthurt.
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End world hunger
1 gram of refined uranium has 18 billion calories. If everyone ate 1 gram of refined uranium they would never be hungry again. Some times the solution to big problems is simple.
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Bitchute is buggy
Well, it is. I am trying to upload vids to bitchute, it keeps mixing them up.
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I got a new phone.
I had a Samsung Active 8. Loved it and held onto that thing forever - until it died. About 6 years or so. I wound up buying a budget phone, a Moto G stylus. It wonderful for the money. It is really polished in parts and then other apps seem almost childish in design.
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Playing with ChatGPT again.
Okay, challenge accepted! Here are the lyrics to "Who's the Real Physicist?", a fictional rap battle between Sir Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein: [Chorus] Who's the real physicist, please stand up, please stand up We're gonna have a showdown, that's what's up, that's what's up Who's the real genius, don't act up, don't act up We'll settle this score, now let's rap up, let's rap up [Verse 1: Sir Isaac Newton] May I have your attention please, I'm Sir Isaac Newton My laws of motion are the best, no one can refute them I discovered gravity, that's a fact, not fiction My calculus is solid, it's the foundation of physics, listen I'm the king of optics, the first to split light My laws of cooling and heating, they're out of sight Einstein, you can't hold a candle to my brilliance I'm the father of modern physics, no need for resilience [Verse 2: Albert Einstein] Hold up, hold up, let me intervene I'm Albert Einstein, the physics machine My theories of relativity are the pinnacle I explained the photoelectric effect, it's so simple My famous equation, E=mc² Revolutionized physics, what did Newton do? He thought light was made up of particles, that's absurd I proved it was waves, my genius is heard [Chorus] Who's the real physicist, please stand up, please stand up We're gonna have a showdown, that's what's up, that's what's up Who's the real genius, don't act up, don't act up We'll settle this score, now let's rap up, let's rap up [Verse 3: Sir Isaac Newton] You may have had a fancy formula, but don't forget I made the laws of motion, without which you'd regret Your theory of relativity was just an extension Of my laws of motion, it's a clear connection Your genius may have been impressive, but let's be real I set the foundation, without me, your theories would be nil [Verse 4: Albert Einstein] I'll give you credit, Sir Isaac, for what you've done But my impact on physics, can't be outdone My explanations of the universe, profound and true The world was never the same, after I was through You're a legend in your own right, but I am the one Who revolutionized physics, with relativity, it's done [Chorus] Who's the real physicist, please stand up, please stand up We're gonna have a showdown, that's what's up, that's what's up Who's the real genius, don't act up, don't act up We'll settle this score, now let's rap up, let's rap up [Outro] So who's the real physicist, you decide Is it Newton or Einstein, whose theories provide A better understanding of the universe we reside In the end, they're both legends, and both stand with pride.
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