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@Mattssmattedd Ready

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@MATTSMATTED $QQQ

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@OperatioNemesis Yea in Sweden they don’t even feed houseguests. Western Europe is wack except for the Catholic parts. Quite warm peoples.

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@OperatioNemesis I still struggle with face to face sometimes though 😭 but it helps a lil

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@OperatioNemesis As long as it gets done :) but to break this spell I forced myself to do a confession face to face. I’d encourage you to try it one day as a practice in humility :))). Praying for you 🙏

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@OperatioNemesis @Faebled1 Start with the mortal sins. There should be an “examination of conscious guide” id just search the web. It’s just to jog your mind if your sins. They give us this when we go to adoration.

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@OperatioNemesis But in reality none of that matters. What matters is the condition of your soul. And what matters is only what God thinks. If he can carry the cross for us then surely we can suffer a little uncomfortableness. You got this!!!

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@OperatioNemesis As someone who goes and used to be like this it’s always tough. But after some deep introspection it was because I didn’t want to be judged by the priest (whome I knew well). But in reality it was pride and vanity that did not want to be seen as bad in the eyes of man.

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There was a demographic problem 2,200 years ago, and Polybius wrote exactly what caused it. Read carefully:

"In our times, Greece as a whole is experiencing a lack of children and, more generally, a decrease in population. Because of this, cities have become deserted and there is a lack of productivity, even though we do not suffer from constant wars or epidemics. So if someone advised that we send priests to the gods to ask them what we should say or do to become more numerous and better inhabit our cities, he would not seem foolish, since the cause is obvious and the solution lies in our own hands.

People have turned to arrogance, greed, and laziness, and they neither want to marry, nor, if they do marry, to raise their children. Instead, they have only one or two children with difficulty, just to leave them wealth and raise them in luxury.

This evil grew rapidly, and we did not notice. For when there are only one or two children, and one is lost to war and the other to illness, it is obvious that the cities will inevitably become deserted, just as a beehive weakens little by little, so too do cities that lack population become unable to survive."

Source: Histories, Polybius, 36 (ΛΣΤ)

The similarities after 2,200 years.

The demographic issue has been a problem several times throughout history, and none of those times was it due to the economy, but rather a result of prosperity, comfortable living, and laziness. My Greek grandparents had children even when they had nothing to eat, and the kids grew up barefoot, eating bread with olives and feta cheese. Money was never an obstacle.

Nowadays, people prefer partying, doing drugs, and living for today rather than having a purpose, building a family, and leaving a positive footprint in this world. They choose the easy life. It’s sad watching people who passionately want to have kids but can’t, compared to people who don’t want kids because it would take them out of their comfort zone, because a child would stop them from going to clubs, drinking, and partying like a meaningless person.

- Homer Pavlos

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@_pssspsspss_ You will become mean again soon

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@OperatioNemesis Aw man that sucks. I gotta visit one of these days then

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@OperatioNemesis Ah yes! Didn’t they find the ark recently or something. Maybe that’s why Turkey wants it so bad. I read that it’s restricted and you can’t go there

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@OperatioNemesis Super Christian yes

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@OperatioNemesis That’s why I like learning about geopolitics because it allows me to Ragebait people. By far Turks and Europeans are the easiest.

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@OperatioNemesis Are they talking about the Albania im thinking of?😭 I don’t know too much

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@OperatioNemesis Will offer some prayers for them 🙏

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@OperatioNemesis Hopefully you weren’t there too long. The place just feels so cold. I don’t understand why they don’t make it feel warmer tbh