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Chuck Norris,ย the martial arts champion who became an iconic action star and led the hit series โWalker, Texas Ranger,โย has died. He was 86.
Norris was hospitalized in Hawaii on Thursday, and his family posted a statement saying he had died Friday morning:
It is with heavy hearts that our family shares the sudden passing of our beloved Chuck Norris yesterday morning. While we would like to keep the circumstances private, please know that he was surrounded by his family and was at peace.
To the world, he was a martial artist, actor, and a symbol of strength. To us, he was a devoted husband, a loving father and grandfather, an incredible brother, and the heart of our family.
He lived his life with faith, purpose, and an unwavering commitment to the people he loved. Through his work, discipline, and kindness, he inspired millions around the world and left a lasting impact on so many lives.
While our hearts are broken, we are deeply grateful for the life he lived and for the unforgettable moments we were blessed to share with him. The love and support he received from fans around the world meant so much to him, and our family is truly thankful for it. To him, you were not just fans, you were his friends.
We know many of you had heard about his recent hospitalization, and we are truly grateful for the prayers and support you sent his way.
As we grieve this loss, we kindly ask for privacy for our family during this time.
Thank you for loving him with us.
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@ByGraceAL0NE@SecretFire79 Enlighten me. How does this exalt Mary instead of God? Her life story is one of conversion and a total rejection of sin. Whats evil about it and what about it puts her above God?
Porn taught you sex was recreation.
The clinic is where you pay for that lie.
I'm 44. Got married at 21. Had our first kid nine months later because we knew what we were doing.
Five kids total. My wife was pregnant for 8 years of our marriage. We hit the food bank so many times the lady started calling us by name. Pawned my tools twice. Drove a van with no AC in Montana summers and no heat that actually worked in the winters.
We chose that.
On purpose.
Here's what nobody wants to say:
Abortion doesn't start at the clinic.
It starts in a bedroom with a guy who learned about sex from a screen. Who thinks it's entertainment. Stress relief. Something you do because you're bored and she said yes.
Nobody told him his body was designed to make people. Not sometimes. Not accidentally. That's the whole point of the equipment.
The baby isn't the accident.
His orgasm was.
I found my dad's magazines when I was 12. Thought I understood women by 16.
I understood nothing. I understood pixels and fantasy and a version of sex that doesn't exist anywhere outside a camera setup in the San Fernando Valley.
I got lucky. Married a woman who wanted children more than she wanted comfort. We both did.
But most guys? They got the same magazines. The same screens. The same lie.
And now they're standing in clinic parking lots wondering how recreation made a person.
Every abortion has a man attached to it.
A man who said "I'm not ready" like readiness is a feeling and not a decision.
A man who disappeared. Literally. Or just went quiet and let her do the math alone.
A man who wanted the pleasure but not the weight.
Pro-life starts with your zipper. With teaching your sons that sex makes people and that's not a bug in the system โ that's the system.
My oldest son is 21. Got married at 20.
His wife went into labor at 24 weeks.
Blake came out at 1 lb 15 oz. Died twice on the table. Came back twice.
Six months old now. Still on oxygen. Still smaller than the other babies.
Still here.
I look at him and I think about all the math that didn't get done. All the choices that got made before he existed that meant he would exist.
My wife and I chose poverty at 21.
My son and his wife chose to fight at 24 weeks.
Blake chose to keep breathing.
Choices all the way down. Not accidents.
Porn taught an entire generation that sex is content. Entertainment. Something you consume.
Then they're shocked when consumption creates a person.
You want to be pro-life?
Kill the lie first.
Sex isn't recreation. It's creation.
Your body knows this even if your browser history doesn't.
Tbh - i see no problem with this. This is actually pretty smart. Rocky is leveraging his brand and being smart with this partnership. In an era where musicians are fed scraps from the table and streaming pays next to nothing - this is a WIN!
His vinyls have 6 variants. One user can buy up to 4 of each, and they'll count as separate sales, even though they are the exact same album, just with different types of cover art. This allows his most loyal fans to grossly inflate his sales.
But this isn't even the craziest part. Rocky partnered with Bilt, a rent payments app, to promote his album. The platform has a massive user baseโ5 million usersโand rewards people with Bilt Points for paying their rent. These points can be used to purchase several products, including Rocky's exclusive, signed, Bilt Edition vinyl, which literally got its own tab on the app.
A typical vinyl record costs $25-$40. On Rocky's AWGE shop, the DON'T BE DUMB vinyl costs $50. On the Bilt app, it costs $16. This is because Bilt is subsidising his costs. They are doing this because Rocky is promoting their app. So when the album is $16, which converts to a price of 1600 Bilt Points, rent payers on the app can easily afford to get it as a free item with their Bilt Points, which they earn from paying rent every month.
The app also launched a campaign in which they were giving away free credits to their most loyal users. Those credits could be used to purchase the vinyl. This led to thousands of album "sales", but the album was essentially being given away for free. These weren't loyal fans. These were people that were using rent points to get a freebie.
On top of this, Rocky had a game on the app people could play to earn Bilt Points. After the game was done, and users had earned their points, a big button would appear that prompted them to buy the album with their new points. Even if they didn't have enough points, Bilt allowed them to split payments between cash and points. The vinyl was already cheap, and contributing points that they earned in a 3-minute game would make it cheaper.
All of this is why he had 130,000 units sold before the album was even out. We've never seen this level of trickery before.
If it was Drake doing this, you liars would be ringing the alarm. This lets me know that you are totally fine with cheating, as long as it's not Drake.
You people stand for absolutely nothing.
Shout-out to @MC_60sGang who exposed the rent scheme.
Did you know there was a saint that could FLY? He's also the "Patron Saint of failing students."
He was slow, clumsy, and considered unintelligent. He could barely read. But when he prayed, he literally flew.
He would go into such ecstatic trances during Mass that he would levitate off the ground. It happened so often (over 70 recorded times) that his superiors had to ban him from public choir because he was distracting the other monks by floating around the ceiling.
As a child, he was slow, distracted, often staring into the distance. The townspeople called him โBoccapertaโ, the gaper. They thought he was useless. God thought otherwise.
He tried joining the Capuchins, but was expelled for incompetence. Even the Franciscans didnโt want him. Until one house reluctantly accepted him as a servant. He was sent to the stables. There, in humiliation, he began to pray and do penance.
Despite his lack of learning, Joseph had a deep love for the Blessed Virgin and the Eucharist. When it came time for his priestly exams, he was asked the only passage he knew, and passed. They ordained him. The dunce became a priest. But the real miracles were just beginning.
Once, during a procession, he saw a crucifix, and soared into the sky. Another time, he flew to the high altar in front of the Spanish ambassadorโs wife.
They investigated him. But Joseph lived a life of deep humility, obedience, and poverty. His miracles brought no profit, only suffering. He begged God to take the gifts away. Instead, he was transferred, hidden, moved from place to place.
He spent the last 35 years of his life in solitude, under obedience, away from the public. He died whispering the names of Jesus and Mary. The man once called a fool had become a living tabernacle of the Holy Spirit.
St. Joseph of Cupertino is the patron saint of students, test-takersโฆ and astronauts.
Why astronauts? Because he was the first man in history seen leaving the ground without wings. He literally defied gravity for love of God.
Heโs proof that Heaven doesnโt care about your IQ.
It cares about your heart.
Sancte Ioseph a Cupertino, Ora pro nobis!
For those who dont realize it - the insults werenโt just to religious leaders. He also insulted whole towns that were unrepentant.
Jesus called out BS when he saw it. Didnt matter who caught the bullet - if u didnt repent then u were on his list.
Thats the point: REPENT!
@WalmartThomist Why? Its a true statement that I feel all Catholics should find comfort in tbh. We call the Eucharist and the Mass the source and summit of our faith. If thats just a symbol then Catholicism needs to kick rocks.
๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐บ๐ผ๐ป ๐ฐ๐ผ๐ฟ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฐ๐๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐ต๐ถ๐ ๐๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ป.
๐ง๐ต๐ฎ๐โ๐ ๐๐ต๐ฒ๐ป ๐๐ผ๐ ๐ธ๐ป๐ผ๐ ๐ถ๐โ๐ ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐น. ๐ณโ๏ธ
Matt Fradd interviews exorcist Fr. Carlos Martins - and the stories are not Hollywood.
A 300-pound man thrown across a room.
Levitations.
Fluent languages the person never learned.
And during the ritual?
The demon ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ข๐บ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐ฉ๐ช๐ฎโฆ then snapping:
โ๐ก๐ผ, ๐๐๐๐ฝ๐ถ๐ฑ ๐ฝ๐ฟ๐ถ๐ฒ๐๐ - ๐๐ต๐ถ๐ ๐ถ๐ ๐ต๐ผ๐ ๐๐ผ๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ ๐ถ๐.โ
You cannot make this up.
The Church has been dealing with this long before the internet discovered โparanormal content.โ
@RealMattFradd@cmartinscc
#FunFact: Bill Clinton killed the local radio stations and independent artists with his Telecommunications Act of 1996. It allowed iHeart Radio to buy up all the stations. And only play artists they owned the licensing on. This is why you only hear the same handful of artists a 1000 times a day on radio...
I was happy to have seen the live debut of โO Come O Come Emmanuelโ in Houston ๐ฅ
@skilletmusic ignore the hate and ignore the ignorant. Thank u for everything that you have done and continue to do!