This is how my dad grew up in the 50s in Miami, snook fishing at dawn in the mangroves with his friends, skipping school to go to the beach The pain in his eyes when we visit Florida today is heartbreaking old Florida has been wiped out more than any other part of the US probably
@BYUProvo@IMAO_ In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God; all things were made through him, and without him was not anything made that was made.
@AmericaOnlycast@LostMyHats Hey so Lucifer/Satan is an angel, and Jesus is the only-begotten Son of God, consubstantial with the Father, and from whom with the Father the Holy Spirit processes. Hope that helps
America is dotted with mid-sized regional hub cities like Chattanooga that are in general the closest to a best of all possible worlds as far as urban life/rural life mixture a place can get, lots of cultural activities and cool urban aesthetics with generally more manageable traffic and lower cost of living than the “big” cities.
People in the big cities spend much of their time shitting on these lovely manageably sized regional hubs because they’ve never been to them and are by and large the most provincial closed minded people you’ll ever meet
Ive talked about how gothic horror is a fear of the remains of a now dead decadence of the past, ie haunted castles or old haunted mansions. Our modern version of this is evidently empty shopping malls and anamatronic pizzaria arcades
everyone i know in their late 20s is having an existential crisis because we skipped our mid 20s in the pandemic. relationships fast-tracked, careers faltered, we lost those core identity-building years and now we feel like 23-year-old brains in bodies approaching 30