Hah it's a historic landmark
do cats display jealousy of what you're doing?
the dog will nose the laptop right out of my lap when he thinks i've had too much screen time.
i just recommended a friend to go to Hawaii. What island is Boracay comparable to? i would go back to the Big Island.
18 BTC
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hah, yes. actually praying bad spirits out of people may be what's necessary
just kidding...
i'm booking a ticket to El Salvador if anything fishy happens.
i only have 4 ramen packets in the cupboard, and at least in El Salvador there are chickens laying eggs in the jungle.
in case the supply chains stop working for some reason. i'm hoping that will only happen in January so there may be time to pack up some more stuff.
This quote is a little adjacent to your point, but since you mentioned " initiation of young men", the very next section contrasts what I assume is a Christian church service. St Augustine praises "the separation of the sexes". I normally read stuff like that and think about how much more advanced we are nowadays and scoff.
However, since the rest of his stuff is so logical, I'm trying to think why does a smart man 1700 years ago see a need to separate sexes in a public place.
In the back in of my mind the AI videos of giants building the pyramida are playing, and I'm thinking was it there dress code, maybe they use the same restrooms. Were they just so much healthier that their hormones and sex drive were better?
Or is sex like a battery and he's keeping the terminals separate. And that's how they built all those aqueducts 
That reminded me of this St Augustine City of God page, where he's pointing out to Romans that their gods apparently try to hoodwink the 'better people ' with clandestine moral instruction and purposely ignore instructing the rest of the public who run about direction-less.
JD Vance referring to himself by his own name caught me off guard. Am i being too harsh? i suppose if you are this smart, you are going to be just a little off (coming from someone who is very off and not too smart).
My thoughts on J.D. Vance after his Rogan interview:
better watch yourself, ya smart young whippersnapper.
I'm glad PBD agrees:
I fell into the YouTube algorithm of people converting to Catholicism.
Videos Of Alley Beth Stuckey (apparently protestant apologist YouTube Megastar arguing with prominent Catholic apologists)
I'm waiting to see the Alley Beth Stuckey video "why I'm converting to Catholicism" next.
It would be funny if the YouTube algo is causing more conversions due to some parameters some engineer set in Silicon Valley.
Like Maybe the CIA set a parameter to "radicalize people" that backfired and ended up in a black hole of Catholic conversions. Btw, are all radishes radicals?
But I get the draw to Catholicism. I was hanging out in a park and a young guy comes over and invited me to play Frisbee. I asked him what meetup group he was organizing. He said, we are from St. Mary's down the street.
He then advertised the fact they have a big organ, which is definitely a draw for me as a organ/piano music lover. And I walked past the ornate atone building which looks older than any other in the city.
It's a lot simpler to say ,"I'm Catholic" nowadays than to say, "I'm trying to be a follower of Jesus, and of the type that holds traditional values". Especially since I'm breaking this fact to many gay friends, and I don't want to offend them so much.
So it's easier to just say"Catholic" and let them look up the doctrine of the church to realize they prob shouldn't invite me to ...
After all getting sprinkled seems like less of a commitment than a "baptism". Being a Maxi wrt religion seems antithetical.
Next video I will prob see is " how the YouTube algo drive me to celibacy"
i did hear something about testoterone existing to help us enjoy doing hard stuff that requires effort
i saw that last night.
i do wish the interviewer had gotten more details, like, why did he jump to the spiritual explanation right away. what was in the dream. He says he's sleeping in the bed with his wife and 4 dogs... were the scratches the size of any paw marks?
i need a Megyn Kelly style court-of-law evidence style interrogation
A tale of best friends forever
Who said two dudes can't love each other?
Actually, in this case it looks like one dude loves the other dude. And then the dude's sister loves the other dude. and then the dude's other sister loves the other dude.
then the entire country loves the other dude. first celebrity? B.C. era Elvis?
1 Samuel
17:58 And Saul said to him, Whose son art thou, thou young man? And David answered, I am the son of thy servant Jesse the Bethlehemite.
18:1 And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.
18:2 And Saul took him that day, and would let him go no more home to his father’s house.
18:3 Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.
18:4 And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was upon him, and gave it to David, and his garments, even to his sword, and to his bow, and to his girdle.
That teaching thing is a gene I'm convinced. My grandparents, parents, and uncles were all teachers. But it skipped my generation. My siblings and I run away from all teaching engagements.
But if you have the passion, it's like you must teach even if it's just 12
Something about how they bottle it requires different treatment than when it's kegged.
Some day in vacation I'll go to a German brewery and have a beer. And a pork knuckle and a knodel.
And maybe a pretzel. And some strudel
I did fall for a bottle of cider at the grocery store because it reminded me of tasting fresh cider on a farm. Someone said beer tastes better out of kegs than bottles, and I'm now very curious about that.