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@frogfriendsy I honestly was soooo disappointed after all the hype. YMMV; if you already like Backrooms horror stories and games, definitely go for it.
Before LSD blotter paper, we had microdots. The most famous of these miniature pills was a batch called "Orange Sunshine".
Dosed at 200μg & rumored to be extremely pure, they were created by Owsley Stanley—a clandestine chemist & sound engineer for the Grateful Dead.
@ObtainerOf Hating the big lebowski is a massive indicator that you're still in the atheist edgy phase of your life... most stay there and never evolve
I think some people look at a book like DOTTIE FOR YOU and see nothing but a cannibal porn homage to Nabokov and de Sade, but to me, it's a love story about two people receiving a gift from God: sudden relief from intense loneliness after a lifetime of incomprehensible alienation and the gradual overcoming of deep insecurity.
And recreational amputation, and some other stuff.
I feel like if my confessor knew how much I RT then think better of it and delete OR how often I choose not to post an absolute banger, maybe he would start to cut me a little slack. It shows character growth, at least.
I see your profile picture. That’s Johnny Cash. My hero too. Arrested seven times. Smuggled 668 amphetamines across the Mexican border in 1965. Took every drug there was and drank like I did. Cheated on his first wife. Slept with more woman than I ever did. Hit bottom in a cave in Tennessee in 1968 trying to crawl off and die. And then he got up. He got clean. He spent the rest of his life singing for prisoners and addicts and the people the country threw away because he knew he was one of them.
That was the whole point of the Man in Black. He wore it for the poor and the beaten down. He wore it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime. He wore it for the ones who never heard a word of Jesus. He wore it for the addicted and the dying. He wore it as a standing witness that no one is past saving.
You picked his picture. You did not pick his message. Try listening to the words.
One of the practical benefits of my time serving St. Vincent de Paul is knowing exactly how long I can let my electric bill slide before the cons outweigh the pros.
I wanted to discover how long I could not pay my power bill before LA county comes and shuts me down. Turns out that answer is two and a half years. It's been a sick run 🫡
This:
1. Throws a bone to conservatives because she's from EWTN
2. Throws a bone to EWTN itself
3. Is hard for liberals to openly criticize because she's a woman
4. Is on firmer theological ground because the DfC doesn't exercise the magisterium or governance
5. Puts someone highly competent in charge of the Vatican's largest Dicastery
Just a really, really savvy move on Pope Leo's part. I'm genuinely impressed
@AnaKrivolapova We need a writer murder or something so we have an actual reason to cancel someone. Everyone is so goddamn boring we are canceling each other over vague feelings of dislike.