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Fixer. Alabama. Happy husband, happy dad, happy Catholic. I like people who kindly disagree with me. I love weird solutions.

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Went this morning. Glad I didn’t let all the negative anti-hype on X from people who haven’t seen it dissuade me from going.

It might be the best movie I’ve ever seen. It’s Nolan’s 9th Symphony. There’s only been two movies that I’ve walked out of the theater feeling stunned and in awe, The Passion of the Christ and A Clockwork Orange. Now I can add the Odyssey to it.

It was as perfect of a movie as I’ve ever seen. An absolute masterpiece. Christopher Nolan is a freaking genius.

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You didn’t see it did you? The cinematography was absolutely amazing. It’ll win the the Oscar for best cinematography and it won’t even be close.

Accurate to Homer? You’re right, no one would watch a movie in didactic hexameter. The major plot points were all there, the screenplay adaptation and dialogue were incredible.

I didn’t feel like any of the characters phoned in anything, Damon was great, Tom Holland was great, Anne Hathaway might win best supporting actress Oscar for it.

Not trying to start anything, but I don’t think you’ve seen it and are forming a convenient opinion based on info you’ve read on X.

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@FiredUpCoug 🤣😆🤣😆 I’d be vicariously disappointed if it wasn’t!

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@FiredUpCoug Hahaha, “Well, not with that attitude you won’t!” is my #1 go-to boomer dad joke and even though I’m only 40 they can have my joke back when they pry it from my cold dead lips!

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@LordSquirrely @kangminlee Saw it today, it was absolutely incredible. One of the best movies I’ve ever seen. You should see it with your own eyes, it was about as perfect as a movie can get.

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@FiredUpCoug Best root beer I’ve ever had! (Obviously that’s a highly subjective and controversial topic, lol).

What are some of your favs? I’m always looking for a new root beer to fall in love with!

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Bro, they had the Red Crème Birch Beer? Welcome to paradise! You sound like a Root Beer veteran, but if you’ve never had a birch beer before, it’s very similar but birch has a little less bite than the sassafras they use in root beer. You’ll love it!

Let me know what you think! Put it in the freezer for 10 min before drinking it!

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@MbarkCherguia Kowabunga, food!

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The Odyssey is the closest thing to perfection I have ever witnessed. I’m not being hyperbolic, it’s a masterpiece. It’s not a movie, it’s Nolan’s 9th Symphony.

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@NyanDiamond @JeffDeCola @SECNAV Except not at all, because it was in the air and making a slight bank. Notice that no one commenting is a pilot or has any experience flying. This was not a risky maneuver.

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@NathanielSami “Mercifully.” Bessent has the best balance between statesmanship and spiciness of anyone I’ve ever seen.

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@Protestia I mean it’s a short clip, but at the same time Bell never really “came back” from his deconstruction experience.

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@HORNACEJACKSON @DudespostingWs But then it wouldn’t be a flex when they posted it to Facebook…

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@mooktakim @Shpigford 1) Google made this change over a decade ago.
2) It wasn’t all due to pre-fetching (Gmail has been doing heavy prefetching since the 2000s), but also to handle additional authentication methods inside of their SSO ecosystem.

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@Shpigford @xbyjgwillis Was wondering why he popped on my feed tonight, then saw your comment. Are you from Alabama too? X changed the algo today and my feed has been throwing me bangers all day! 🤣

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@xbyjgwillis Dude, great content. I thought to myself, “dang, this guy sounds like he’s a Bama boy like me.” Checked your profile, yep! You caught a follow!

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@EricRSammons You still have the most reasonable takes in all of Catholic-Twitterworld.

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You do get to say that, and I’d agree. That the fruit of a strict hierarchical authority structure (much like a well-trained military) can, for a time, reinforce abominable behavior by sheer will of position and power.

Sin and abuse (the self-victimizing and other-victimizing colors of sin, respectively) exist wherever people do. I know we both already agree on that.

The abuses within the Catholic Church are never to be excused, minimized, or handwaved. To do so would be a sin, so you’re doing a good work by pointing at it (genuinely).

I would, likewise, point back to the fact that once the truth began to trickle out to the broader Church (outside the tranches that were directly involved), there was outrage, grieving, acceptance of the errors in the protection of children, and reform. Serious, aggressive, and overarching reform. I know you to be a very educated and informed man, so while we disagree on some theological minutia (and you being an Anglican and I a Catholic, in the scheme of salvation, they would largely be minutia), I’d wager that you would agree with me that in 2026 the Catholic Church and its various ministries is one if the safest places in earth for children.

I couldn’t say that about the 1980s, but I can say that today.

There is no mechanism for solving such problems in the Protestant church (of which I don’t categorically consider you or the CoE as a full participant in, given your “middle way,” it’s a unique status and despite some wild and ludicrous moves over the last 30 years or so, your priests largely maintain valid (though illicit) apostolic succession and ordinations.

Every issue in the Protestant churches seem to lead to further splits, while issues in the Catholic Church tend to lead to correction and reform, though sometimes after a time of tribulation.

We are an Easter people, and after the cruxifiction always comes the Resurrection.

The sexual abuse in the Church was never celebrated nor defended by, nor are the tiny charismatic groups within today (in re: to your 2nd response, a good one too as it’s a fair point to make!).

The spiritual abuses of the charismatic Protestant churches are growing, not shrinking. And neither you nor I remotely entertain the thought that they’ll ever receive correction or submit to any other body besides their own feelings. “Corrections” in the Protestant traditions are nearly non-existent, they just sub-divide and split and go their own way. The body of Christ being continually cut up into smaller and smaller pieces who reject one another.

We’d both agree, though for different reasons, how brutally sad and fruitless that path is.