paisios ☦️

Orthodox Christian ☦️

[paisios ☦️ @romneywords]

@DudespostingWs I get that he’s being disciplined, but how gay is this and how stupid is it that we have to live like this?

[EternalFaithEO ☦︎ @EternalFaithEO]

“Addiction is proof that you are capable of intense devotion.

You are simply serving a false god.”

- Saint Paisios

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

When you have kids, older parents will tell you “they grow up fast.” You’ll hear it a million times. Then one day you’ll realize how true it was. The time flies by as your kids get older. The days are short. Years don’t feel like years anymore. It’s bewildering. Impossible to talk about without sounding cliched.

[Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 @mtgreenee]

Artificial Intelligence.

[Hippie Mikey @_Hippie_Mikey]

These are seriously demonically possessed creatures posing as humans.

Everything about this screams evil lady talks with smile and evil eyes. 👀

[Fr. John Whiteford ☦️ 🇸🇴 公 公 @frjohnwhiteford]

Public Orthodoxy... still fake and ghey.

https://t.co/oPKL3wHcRG

[Owen Shroyer @OwenShroyer1776]

Hit after hit.

[Buck Johnson @buckrebel]

@Truth_matters20 Oh goodness. We are in the age of information. People know this isn’t true. If you’re really seeking Truth, you will find it. ☦️

[Owen Shroyer @OwenShroyer1776]

It'll be almost impossible explaining life before smart phones and flat screens. It was zen. Everyone present in the moment.

All you can do is show the videos of the before time and remember.

[Father Spyridon Bailey @Fatherspyridon]

Western politicians are preparing a future in which our Christian grandchildren will suffer persecution.
Sometimes through incompetence, sometimes in ignorance, but often in their hatred of Christ.

[paisios ☦️ @romneywords]

@abc198820 @JayDyer Who?

[Astez @AstezXperience]

@Nexiraluv Modern architecture decided joy, personality, and happy colors were bad for us all, from Fun place to eat fries to Depressive grey prison where you have no choice than to eat silently in your car 😭

[Owen Shroyer @OwenShroyer1776]

Are we all losing our minds?

[Nick Hinton @NickHintonn]

Basically, Father Seraphim Rose was 100% correct when he said Zionist evangelical Christianity would merge with transhumanism and Hinduism to form the Antichrist religion in the end times.

[KD$ign @KnoxEndemic]

Calling your friend’s house used to mean occasionally having a two minute conversation with his mother, father or sister before you even got to him

You knew their voices. They knew who you were. His mom might ask how school was going

The cell phone quietly removed an entire layer of low grade relationships from American life

[paisios ☦️ @romneywords]

@JesusIsLord0405 Welcome home ☦️

[paisios ☦️ @romneywords]

@Elina_Ox 1-4

[Nikola ☦️ @Nikola41p]

This grass is an icon; this stone is an icon; and I can kiss it, venerate it, because it is filled with God's grace. The world is not for us to take things from, but a place where we cast off our passions and desires.

Saint Paisios, Mt Athos

[WMJS @booksandbbq]

At 44, I'm discovering that I'm more like I was at 15 than I was at 30, or even 35. I probably spent close to 20 years running away from myself only to rediscover 10th grade me a few years back.

I like him. I like me. I didn't like him, or myself, for too long.

[Selene Mariposa @Selene_Mariposa]

McDonald's is spending 8.5 billion dollars to find out why families stopped coming.

I can save them the 8.5 billion.

They took out the playground.

The plan, announced Wednesday at investor day. Better food, faster service, new equipment, AI tools, hospitality training, and a bigger push into chicken and beverages. They call it Next. The goal, they say, is making customers feel more comfortable.

Wall Street loved it so much the stock fell 5 percent to its lowest since 2022.

Over five years McDonald's shares are down 3 percent. Burger King's parent is up 14. The owner of Taco Bell and KFC is up 13.

This is not a hamburger problem. This is a McDonald's problem.

So let us talk about who used to eat there.

Parents. That was the whole business. Parents at 5:40 on a Tuesday with three kids in the back and nothing thawed at home.

You did not go for the burger. You went because your kids could run screaming through a plastic tube for 40 minutes while you sat with a coffee and experienced silence.

That was the product. The food was the cover charge.

The first PlayPlace opened in 1971 in Birmingham, Alabama, and for fifty years it did one job. It made small children demand to go to McDonald's.

Then 2020 arrived, every play area in the country closed, and a great many never came back. The equipment came out during a remodeling program named Experience of the Future.

The Experience of the Future turned out to be a touchscreen.

Their own chief executive said he did not know if ball pits were in their future.

Sir, you were not selling ball pits. You were selling forty minutes.

So now there is no counter, no playground, and no reason for a seven year old to want to go. A screen, a window, and a bag.

And for that we pay prices that require a moment of reflection in the parking lot.

For thin, overcooked, oddly uniform pucks that taste like a memory of beef.

I did not love them because they were good. I loved them because I was eight and there was a slide.

And have you seen the new buildings.

The old ones were unmistakable. Red roof, yellow arches, legible from a highway at 70 to a child who could not yet read.

The new ones are a flat gray box with a small logo and a drive through wrapped around it. A regional claims office with a fryer.

They removed the color, the characters, the counter, and the playground, and then hired consultants to find out why it no longer feels like anywhere.

Which is why, when I have to eat fast food, I go to Chick-fil-A.

Not for the politics. For the competence.

They have led the customer satisfaction index for fast food eleven years running, and average 8.5 million dollars per location against McDonald's 4 million.

More than double, while closed on Sundays. Fifty two days a year with the lights off, and still double.

A seventeen year old hands you a bag and says my pleasure and means it about 70 percent, which is 70 percent more than a touchscreen has managed.

McDonald's is spending 8.5 billion on hospitality training.

Chick-fil-A earns 8.5 million per restaurant by just having some.

So here is my consulting proposal, free of charge, on behalf of mothers everywhere.

Put the playgrounds back.

Not a nostalgia campaign. Not a retro cup. The structure. Tubes, slides, a door the kids cannot open from the inside, and a bench where a tired woman can sit.

And understand what you are buying, because it is not lunch.

A six year old does not know your food is bad. He has no basis for comparison and no functioning palate. He thinks the burger is incredible because he is standing in a castle made of tubes.

That is the window. That is the only window you get.

You catch them before the taste buds arrive, and thirty years later they drive past your sign, feel something they cannot explain, and pull in anyway.

That is not a menu strategy. That is imprinting, and you shut it down in 2020 to save on cleaning.

Eight and a half billion dollars for AI tools and hospitality training.

Or a slide.

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