JollyJim

4x survivor, Winter of Severe Illness and Death ☠️. Niti, quaerere, neque cedere. Sic semper tyrannis

[JollyJim @StochasticUltra]

@Harvard1988 is there water in it in that photo?

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@LeMeTellUSumtin I'm sure the Cardinal offered a private correction first, right?

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@EricRSammons at my parish, the 0600, attended by 10-20 before work is typically no homily. the 0800, attended by 20-100 homeschooling families and retirees normally has a 5 minute homily

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@Robkearney1981 Did the Cardinal correct the Msgr in private first or did he just fire for effect?

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@david_m_wagner @WashArchdiocese It's McElroy unless he assigns someone

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@hthieblot there was a webcam/stream called "African Watering Hole" that livestreamed a watering hole in Africa. I'd keep that running on my desktop to see if anything interesting strolled up. This was 2004-2005.

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@FrBMulcahyOP @diezba There is a large daily public Mass for the pilgrims

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Ballroom meant something completely different in the Clinton White House...

[Hillary Clinton @HillaryClinton]

This is what Trump's done to the people's house:

A third of it is rubble.

Another third is a cage match.

What a metaphor.

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@JoshuaBarzon Douay-Rheims or Knox for me

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@notate_bene @eckilepsie you act as if there was not a large public mass for the pilgrimmage

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@SGTWipper1Each wherever it will take me

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@dvb_eck been to 32 countries without a passport

[Kenny Carmody @KennyCarmody]

Every obedience experiment in history had the same overlooked finding.

Not everyone complied.

In Milgram’s lab, 35% refused to deliver the final shock. In Asch’s line experiments, 25% never conformed, not once, across any trial. In Zimbardo’s prison, at least one guard refused to dehumanize. One prisoner demanded a lawyer instead of a doctor and broke the psychological frame entirely.

We spent decades studying the ones who obeyed.

We barely asked what made the others different.

That question matters more now than it ever has.

The resisters in the COVID era were not difficult to find. Physicians who filed exemptions and lost their licenses. Nurses who walked away from careers rather than mandate patients into decisions they hadn’t genuinely chosen. Scientists who published contrary data knowing what it would cost them. Parents who stood alone at school board meetings. Ordinary people who simply said, quietly, without drama , no.

What made them different?

Research consistently identifies a cluster of factors. Not personality traits you either have or don’t. Situational and cognitive patterns that can be cultivated.

First: prior reflection on authority. The resisters had usually thought, before the crisis, about the limits of institutional trust. They weren’t cynics. They were people who had already asked the question “under what conditions would I refuse?” before anyone was asking them to comply.

Second: a concrete reference point outside the consensus. A value, a principle, an oath, a relationship that existed independently of the institutional structure demanding compliance. Something the system couldn’t reach.

Third: at least one other person. Milgram found that a single dissenting confederate reduced compliance dramatically. The resisters rarely stood entirely alone. They found each other. Sustained each other. Gave each other permission.

Fourth: the willingness to tolerate social pain. Not immunity to it. Tolerance of it. They felt the pressure. They felt the exclusion. They chose the discomfort of integrity over the comfort of belonging.
None of this is innate. All of it is learnable.

The most important thing Milgram, Asch, and Zimbardo taught us is not how fragile conscience is.

It’s that conscience can hold, if you’ve trained it, named its limits, and found even one other person willing to hold theirs beside you.

Build that now. Because the experiment is always running.

Until then stay humble.

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@TD_Barrett @crean_fr 😂😂😂

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@PoliceScotland Why is "fight" not on your list?

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@LeMeTellUSumtin @TLM_Ryan The places that rejected Fiducia Supplicans have the highest Mass attendance 🤔. I'm sure Leo will make a bunch of Cardinals from those countries soon

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@TradJackBurton How do they celebrate Mass without altar girls and EMHCs?

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@kumxem self-taught post-college, beginning with this cookbook and some recipes from my mother

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@JDesqOH @EdwardPentin You shouldn't be confused. The friars and sisters were traditional and that is the one thing intolerable to Francis-Leo

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LMAO. No. The closest SSPX chapel is more than 100 miles away and they had no idea of SSPX vs FSSP vs ICKSP vs anything else. There was no diocesan TLM in the area. Many of the ordinary faithful at my former conservative parish believed that people who attended a TLM were "schismatic" because they believed that Mass was banned.