Rose

Old Catholic woman, one time Iskcon Devotee, never married. I love my life and my City. 🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱
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[Rose @RoseHappy4Ever]

I never need to wonder what Heaven will be like... it'll be like this

[Rose @RoseHappy4Ever]

@fiercepatricks Yes..Nobody ever specifies Straight Marriage

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@MagdalenesAngel These times when we keep going without the reward of emotions are probably important. I will pray for you

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@twitchyspoonie That is something I never expected to hear. I imagined everyone would want a normal healthy body.

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@KhanSaba1278 22 and 23

[1UpCajun @cdnhntr]

@kristinaEBP What pandemic are we in now

[Rose @RoseHappy4Ever]

@ohhanxiety Only one... and he deserved it

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Swap the phones for newspapers and this is a subway photo from 1920.

A sociologist named Erving Goffman described exactly this in 1963. He called it civil inattention: the learned habit of acknowledging that a stranger exists, then pulling your attention back so you don't intrude on them. A quick glance, then you look away. In a space packed with people you will never see again, looking away is the courtesy.

It's the quiet contract that lets a few hundred strangers share a tight platform without friction. You signal "I see you, you're no threat, I won't bother you." Phones slotted neatly into that ritual. They are the most convincing prop anyone has ever had for performing it.

The newspaper did the same job for a century. Subway photos from the 1920s through the 1970s show entire rows of riders vanished behind broadsheets, every face covered, nobody speaking. Radio got blamed for ending conversation. So did the Walkman. So did the cheap paperback before either of them. Each new object inherited the same eulogy: this is the thing that finally isolated us.

Connection on a subway platform was always rare. Strangers waiting for a train kept to themselves long before anyone had a screen to disappear into. The phone's real footprint is at the dinner table and in the living room, the places where idle attention used to have nowhere to go and now always does.

The behavior in this photo is a hundred years old. The object in everyone's hands is the only part that keeps getting replaced.

[Fr. David Paternostro, SJ @DavidPaternostr]

“For those who were to experience the sorrow of his departure, it was destined to be a unique and abiding consolation”

When Aquinas cooks, the boy COOKS

[Rose @RoseHappy4Ever]

@NotFarLeftAtAll If this is real then I am scared for him. If he only fell off he would really mess himself up having so little clothes to protect his skin, not to mention the worry of him in traffic

[🍁☘️Canadian Fletchy 🇨🇦 @Darth_Pingu]

#PrideMonth2026

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@DrFrancisYoung I wonder if his mother named him that or if he got it at school and it stuck

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@Kristinartz Gary

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@Jassmini2 Faithfulness

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@ThatEricAlper 🐑

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@fire_starter457 Can't speak for all of us, but I don't

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@BhattiLaib9960 Much too tight

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@___TheGOOdWitch There isn't one. Neither Atheists nor Christians are more moral , it's a person to person thing

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@theerealtao Its fine by me

[Rose @RoseHappy4Ever]

@MuireannCait @n00dles71 It makes an announcement on the bus before it pulls up at a floating bus stop

[Jayapataka Swami @JayapatakaSwami]

Please chant the Holy Name - Various atonements, great austerities, can destroy some sin, but the Holy Name is much more powerful. By simple chanting of the Holy Name, it not only destroys sin but gradually destroys the tendency to commit more sin. As Śrīla Prabhupāda said, the seed of sin is also destroyed. So we should all take shelter of the Holy Name.