>going to see the odyssey
>order popcorn
>worker asks if I want a themed bucket
>I ask her if it’s Odyssey or Iliad
>she doesn’t understand
> I pull out a chart explaining what is Odyssey and what is Iliad
>she laughs, “it’s a good bucket sir”
>get themed bucket
>it’s Iliad
In mid-march, the "best cancer doctors in the United States" told me that I only had days to live.
I refused to accept my fate, so I fought, and fought, and fucking fought harder than anything I've had to fight for in my entire life.
Humanity, created by God in all its grandeur, is today facing a pivotal choice: either to construct a new Tower of Babel or to build the city in which God and humanity dwell together. In Jesus Christ, this humanity in its grandeur becomes the Way, the Truth and the Life, opening the path for each of us to grow toward fullness. #MagnificaHumanitas
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ducks: in a row
elephant in the room: addressed
eggs: several baskets
bigger fish: fried
monkeys: not mine and not at my circus
cards: on the table
chips: all in
two cents: given
money: where my mouth is
George Lucas revived the monomyth for a new generation by wrapping it in a Flash Gordon-style pulp space adventure. He paired it with John William’s Wagnerian opera score complete with some of the most imaginative visuals ever put on screen. Just pure cinematic magic that has reshaped our culture forever.
Own a gladius for home defense, since that's what the great Julius Caesar intended. Four bandits break into my villa. "By Jupiter!" As I grab my helmet and gladius. I thrust my sword and pierce the heart of the first man, he falls to the ground lifeless. Draw my pugio on the second man, miss him entirely because it's a short-range weapon and it hits the clay pot. I have to resort to the ballista mounted at the top of the villa loaded with javelins, "For the glory of Rome!" The javelins pierce through two men in the blast, the sound and extra splinters shatter the nearby vases. Fix my pilum and charge the last terrified bandit. He bleeds out waiting on the Praetorian Guard to arrive since pilum wounds are difficult to heal. Just as Julius Caesar intended.
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> The generation that told us phones would rot our brains is now doomscrolling harder than their grandkids
> They spent 20 years saying "get off your phone" "go outside" "you're addicted to that screen" "back in my day we talked to each other"
> Now grandma is on her iPad at 2am watching AI generated Jesus videos and sharing posts from accounts that didn't exist last week
> The funniest part is they're not even good at it.. Gen Z doomscrolls and knows it's bad for them.. Boomers doomscroll and think they're "staying informed"
The generation that banned screen time watches more screens than anyone in the house
In highschool, i was complaining about how long the school day was then my teacher looked into my eye and said:
"The days are long but the years are short"
I was like "Are you tripping?"
And then the bell rang and now i'm in my 30s