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sometimes i wonder how many versions of myself i’ve outgrown without even noticing. i look back at old photos and remember the thoughts i used to carry, the dreams i thought would save me. it’s strange how you can live inside yourself every day and still not realize you’re evolving. it’s only when you look back that you realize how far you’ve come, how many lives you’ve already lived in the same skin.
Fatphobia, Victimhood, and the Culture of Dodging Responsibility
When we think of fatphobia, what comes to mind? Personally, I picture someone being insulted in the street, spat on, or banned from entering a public place just for being fat. But… does this actually happen? Let’s be real: no. Most people are too busy with their own lives to care about your body or what you’re wearing.
But then comes the loud narrative: people with morbid obesity claiming that everything is fatphobic. Airlines? Fatp…
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Sometimes I fantasize about disappearing.
Not dying.
Just logging off.
Getting a job no one cares about.
Growing tomatoes.
Writing poems in the margins of a notebook no one reads.
Not as a failure.
But as a kind of freedom.
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AMAZING! A 90 year old Holocaust survivor confronted Trump's ICE director.
What a legend.
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OMG! Bruce Springsteen just demolished Trump on the opening night of his European tour in Manchester “America is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent, and treasonous administration!” Trump won’t like this one!!! Video via Tony Dortie
We live in a time that people are more inclined to obey an unlawful executive order than they are to follow a court order 🤦🏾♀️.
Dictators are created due to cruelty, cowardice, & compliance! IF THEIR ASSES will ignore the Supreme Court, we can definitely IGNORE HIM!
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When Knowing His Name Is Enough
We spend years chasing the hand of God—petitioning for provision, calling for clarity, yearning for the next breakthrough. But something shifts when we stop asking what He can do, and start desiring who He truly is.
The soul, weary of striving, begins to awaken when it whispers His name—not as a formula, but…
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I can understand that some people think that the word Inappropriate is exclusively tied to some sin against the 6th Commandament. Generally speaking that is its only use in confession, i.e. inappropriate touching, inappropriate content, inappropriate movies/video, inappropriate FaceTime, inappropriate social media posts. Certainly inappropriate can indicate something other than something sexual but I would be hard pressed to say that based on my confessional experience.
It is easier to confess one’s sexual sins euphemistically. It soothes the embarrassment.
I just didn't know this was an option! I wish I'd known!
I mean it can’t be so euphemistic father doesn’t know what you mean right? Like you can’t be hiding it on purpose. Also asking follow up and clarifying questions for something Presumably mortifying defeats the purpose of trying to be polite on the first place. But I’m sure your average priest doesn’t WANT to ask clarifying questions on these sins so it definitely needs to be clear enough what you mean 😂