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Just an old, analog woman living in a digital world. Leaving the porch light on for Western civilization so it makes its way back. American of Italian heritage.

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Please explore the FishEaters website, and if you like what you see, tell others about it and link to it. Let's reclaim the West for Christ!

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When Christianity makes it into a movie or TV series (usually only to be attacked), it's typically Catholicism that's depicted. They love the cinematic stained glass and candles, and they love the "sexiness" of their too-short Catholic school uniforms on young females -- worn not with their white shirts tucked in, but tied at the midriff. When the liturgy is depicted, it's almost always the traditional Mass or one of those unicorn Novus Ordo Masses with lots of Latin and chant. The invariably alcoholic or pedophile priests will be wearing cassocks, and the vicious nuns will be in habits. Of course.

Catholic teaching, especially about sex, won't be shown as the sine qua non of civilization, but as an unjust, repressive way of thinking that produces neuroses, psychosis, and serial killers.

Even when non-Catholic Christians are depicted, they use Catholic imagery (e.g., the statue of St. Sebastian showing up in the closet in the 1976 version of "Carrie"). It's all so tiring.

[Netflix @netflix]

Patrons saints.

[Anthony @Catholicizm1]

The kids still love Jesus. Good to see.

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@RCCoulombe One can't expect much from a cleric wearing a candy corn stole.

[Wojciech Pawelczyk @WojPawelczyk]

It is always visually stunning to see cemeteries across Poland on All Saints Day after dark lit by grave candles like this:

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

Here’s the thing about spotting the horrendous, soulless AI-generated writing infecting every corner of the internet now: it’s not just about the words — it’s about the patterns.

And once you start noticing them, you can’t unsee them.

The unnecessary em dashes. The polished transitions. The examples given in groups of three.

The weird metaphors that kind of make sense but kind of don’t — like a parachute opening inside a submarine.

The load-bearing use of the term “load-bearing.”

The random one sentence paragraphs.

The way a bunch of bland gibberish is quietly reframed as a profound insight.

The on-going and un-necessary hyphenation of every-day words that really don’t need it.

The cliches.

Read that again.

Cliches.

Louder for people in the back.

Tons of cliches.

That’s not a typo.

Sit with that for a moment.

And the biggest red flag? Asking yourself a question and answering it.

Because honestly? No sentient human writes like this.

And truthfully? If you can’t identify these red flags, you might not actually be sentient yourself.

Because really? If this formatting doesn’t immediately strike you as awkward and artificial, it means you don’t read books.

Ever.

Seriously.

But here’s where it gets interesting:

It doesn’t.

The point has been made but I’ll keep going. That’s what AI writing is all about.

Let’s delve into real problem. It isn’t the technology. It’s the people using it because they’re too retarded to generate an original thought of their own.

That’s not thoughtfulness. It’s intellectual laziness wearing digital makeup.

It doesn’t make the internet more fun. It makes me want to throw my phone in the river and forsake all of humanity and live as a hermit in the woods for the rest of my life.

Seriously this shit fills me with despair. I’m not kidding.

And the distinction matters.

Especially when you’re saying the distinction matters without actually drawing a distinction.

But here’s what nobody tells you.

When you ask a machine to manufacture your personality, you’re not just automating your writing. You’re quietly announcing that you’re a boring, insipid dork with nothing interesting to say.

Let that sink in.

The uncomfortable truth?

AI didn’t turn these people into tedious midwits.

It quietly revealed what they already were.

And perhaps — just perhaps — that’s quietly the most important takeaway of all.

But what do you think? Let's unpack this together in the comments. 👇

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November 2 is All Souls Day. Learn about its meaning and traditions at the URL below:

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@Do_Mi33 @trad_west_ the 9th century antiphon "Media Vita" (https://t.co/CUjfMj350p)

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@Egazeey @trad_west_ @grok It's the 9th century antiphone "Media Vita" (https://t.co/CUjfMj350p)

[Peter Kwasniewski @DrKwasniewski]

Here's a beautifully argued sociological mini-study by Hanael Bianchi on how the diocese of Lincoln, NE, supports the thesis on liberalism as the wrecking-ball of the Catholic Church by offering a counterexample of a diocese where that liberal agenda was resisted and the statistics went in the opposite direction. A taste from the conclusion:

«Few historical events are more difficult to comprehend than the stalemate on the Western Front during World War I. Each semester, I ask my students why military planners continued to believe that the next wave of soldiers might succeed where the last had failed. Did they not watch the previous battalion climb out of the trenches, charge into machine-gun fire, and fall by the hundreds? At some point, one would expect them to recognize the futility of their tactics. Why did they not change course? As a historian of the modern Church, I often find myself asking a similar question of Church leadership.

In 1899, Pope Leo XIII warned American bishops against the idea of liberalizing the faith in order to win converts....

The problem remains that some in the Church still refuse to accept the historical facts. Was the Synod on Synodality not déjà vu? Why send your spiritual sons and daughters “over the top” to their spiritual deaths? I can understand the optimism of the 1960s. Church leaders then lacked the benefit of hindsight. Church leaders today have no such excuse.

One hope of my book [A Liberal Revolution] was to completely disprove the correlation argument. Liberals like to parade out the "post hoc ergo propter hoc" fallacy when confronted with the historical data. I demonstrated that the new collegial organization caused the decline in lay participation, that the democracy surveys caused polarization in the Church, that the liturgical changes caused confusion, and that new music and art caused a negative reaction among the laity. The liberal argument that remains is on life support.»

Read this: it's very important for understanding the big picture.

https://t.co/UfrKaHI5eG

[Owen Shroyer @OwenShroyer1776]

Well that's weird.

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@trad_west_ For the love of all that's holy, try something other than that Media Vita song once in a while.

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@Truth_matters20 We are saved neither by faith nor works; we are saved by the grace of Christ alone which we receive by faith that works in charity.

See https://t.co/uwiPRs25cP, look around, and take the challenge at the top left of the page.

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November 1 is the Feast of All Saints. Learn all about it at FishEaters:

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November is dedicated to the Poor Souls in Purgatory.

First Friday: November 6
First Saturday: November 7

About First Friday Devotions to the Sacred Heart:
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About First Saturday Devotions to the Immaculate Heart:
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A Hoosier Halloween tradition, at least in my family:

Little Orphan Annie
by James Whitcomb Riley

Little Orphant Annie’s come to our house to stay,
An’ wash the cups an’ saucers up, an’ brush the crumbs away,
An’ shoo the chickens off the porch, an’ dust the hearth, an’ sweep,
An’ make the fire, an’ bake the bread, an’ earn her board-an’-keep;
An’ all us other childern, when the supper things is done,
We set around the kitchen fire an’ has the mostest fun
A-list’nin’ to the witch-tales ‘at Annie tells about,
An’ the Gobble-uns ‘at gits you
             Ef you
                Don’t
                   Watch
                      Out!
Onc’t they was a little boy wouldn’t say his prayers,—
So when he went to bed at night, away up stairs,
His Mammy heerd him holler, an’ his Daddy heerd him bawl,
An’ when they turn’t the kivvers down, he wasn’t there at all!
An’ they seeked him in the rafter-room, an’ cubby-hole, an’ press,
An’ seeked him up the chimbly-flue, an’ ever’wheres, I guess;
But all they ever found was thist his pants an' roundabout--
An’ the Gobble-uns’ll git you
             Ef you
                Don’t
                   Watch
                      Out!
An’ one time a little girl ‘ud allus laugh an’ grin,
An’ make fun of ever’one, an’ all her blood an’ kin;
An’ onc’t, when they was “company,” an’ ole folks was there,
She mocked ‘em an’ shocked ‘em, an’ said she didn’t care!
An’ thist as she kicked her heels, an’ turn’t to run an’ hide,
They was two great big Black Things a-standin’ by her side,
An’ they snatched her through the ceilin’ ‘fore she knowed what she’s about!
An’ the Gobble-uns’ll git you
             Ef you
                Don’t
                   Watch
                      Out!
An’ little Orphant Annie says when the blaze is blue,
An’ the lamp-wick sputters, an’ the wind goes woo-oo!
An’ you hear the crickets quit, an’ the moon is gray,
An’ the lightnin’-bugs in dew is all squenched away,--
You better mind yer parents, an’ yer teachers fond an’ dear,
An’ churish them ‘at loves you, an’ dry the orphant’s tear,
An’ he’p the pore an’ needy ones ‘at clusters all about,
Er the Gobble-uns’ll git you
             Ef you
                Don’t
                   Watch
                      Out!

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October 31 is All Hallows' Eve -- Halloween. Visit FishEaters to learn all about this day and find ways to amuse your children:

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"But you're happy to say that to a WOMAN" -- can't touch them, can't even talk to them in a way they dislike. Men are supposed to let women do and say anything they want, any time they want, in any way they want, all the time, anywhere. Women can't be challenged in any way whatsoever.

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It's up to $379,514 as I type :)

[Collin Rugg @CollinRugg]

Internet users have raised over $120,000 for the Red Baron worker who went viral after an influencer started harassing him.

The man has been identified as ‘Walt Z’ from Michigan and he is thankful for the support.

“Walt Z out of Michigan sends a heartfelt thankyou, and is absolutely blown away by how much people have cared over this,” the GoFundMe organizer said.

“They are requesting privacy, and GoFundMe is taking the lead in transferring all of this to him. You're all Rockstars, and it shows.”

Glad to see this man is being taken care of. GoFundMe link is below.

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@FamedCelebrity Johnny Knoxville after getting KO'd by Butterbean: "Is Butterbean OK?" LOL

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It happened to Elijah and Enoch:

2 Kings 2:1-12
"And it came to pass, when the Lord would take up Elijah into heaven by a whirlwind...And fifty men of the sons of the prophets went, and stood to view afar off: and they two stood by Jordan....And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven....And Elisha saw it, and he cried, My father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof. And he saw him no more..."

Hebrews 11:5
"By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God."

And predicted of Mary in Psalm 132:7-8:

"We will go into his tabernacles: we will worship at his footstool. Arise, O LORD, into thy rest; thou, and the ark of thy strength."

Why is "ark" relevant here? See https://t.co/4sNaXniQ4w Then see https://t.co/i5NBkuaYMu, look around, and take the Challenge to All Non-Catholic Christians at the top left of the page.