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How many people were brought into the church at your parish during the Easter vigil? I'm reading incredible numbers: 100 in a single parish in Texas. 5000 in the archdiocese of Los Angeles, almost a thousand in Detroit. Just in the small Trenton archdiocese I'm hearing numbers like 19, 30, and even higher for small suburban parishes.
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I can't believe that in approximately 12 hours, I will be a brand new Catholic.
Over a year ago, long before the thought of converting ever crossed my mind, I dreamt about a man dressed in Tudor clothes, who was speaking to me. He was very kind, carried this air of quiet joy anout him, and really wanted me to join him. He was bold about saying he “had prayed.” The dream had that ‘realness’ factor I knew was Important.
The dream baffled me until recently. (I dream so much, I keep a dream journal …
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The almost total avoidance of coverage of the current government threats to freedoms as basic as habeas corpus, due process and free speech on campus is quite something. And when there is coverage, it’s nitpicking in order to defend Trump.
Did they mean none of it?
aura-farming behind his beatitude.
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Okay, I realize I am a *little* strident in my disdain for the COVID dumpster fire paranoia. (Trust me, my disdain is well-documented!) However, even at that, I remain baffled about the "stickiness" of masking. They do not do anything beneficial. And when I say that, I mean actually, measurably, NOTHING positive. They are a symbol, at best, in operating rooms. The science for their widespread use against a respiratory virus is on the order of justification for not listing the number "13" on an …
Masks do something VERY beneficial -- just not the thing being claimed.
Don't think about masks like an engineer, but like a psychologist. Masks reduce anxiety. They're a magic talisman to keep the demons away, a rain dance to end the drought, but with enough cargo-cult science vibes to be superficially convincing to secular moderns.
Mask also enable cheap status-seeking: with masks, they're very smart people following the science, and heroes protecting the community, and they get to sneer at their "selfish" inferiors, all without having to make any real effort or sacrifice. (Since masks have become a "blue" tribal marker, there's an assertion of group superiority as well.) And frankly, a lot of mask fanatics don't seem to have much else they can leverage for social status.
When we point out that masks don't actually work -- including tacitly, by not wearing them ourselves -- we're taking that away from them. You can see why that would be upsetting to them. How to break that spell, I don't know: the more you show it's true, the more upsetting it is, and the more fanatically it must be rejected.
Still, challenging them may at least stop others from falling under it. And challenging them annoys them, which is all to the good.
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I find it ridiculously ironic - they wear them to feel less anxious, but in wearing them actually stresses the body, making them feel more anxious🤔😐🤦♀️
Quite so -- as with anxiety disorders and OCD, the things people do to "protect" themselves are often harmful in the long run. But they provide relief for the moment, and that can be very powerful motivation to do (and believe) things.
Difference is that we normally recognize that as pathology and encourage people to overcome it -- rather than treating it as The Science and making everyone else play along.
For some it's a virtue signal, for the rest it's just humiliating and dehumanizing. https://www.algora.com/Algora_blog/2021/10/24/its-the-mask-of-your-enslavement For the elite, it's also an easy spot check of the general sentiment of the public and their willingness to comply, and it probably gives them a good chuckle.
Awesome! #PreachingToTheChoir
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