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This is a surprisingly good breakfast. I add a little dab of butter and a tiny sprinkle of brown sugar.

Well, I'm 70, and my childhood was spent in a French speaking area of Louisiana, and Louisiana isn't known for being very forward thinking. It's possible my experience was limited to my location. 😜

Not sure it was a quirk. More likely a carefully thought out practice to insure the hold Catholicism had on people. Priests spoke and read Latin while most laypeople did not. Having to address demons in Latin ensured that the average person needed the priest to help them out, for a fee/donation of course.

I was a very poor excuse of a Catholic when I was a kid. But I still remember Latin being spoken in Mass, and I remember the priest discouraging his congregation from reading the bible for themselves, cuz no way would we understand it without his expertise to explain it to us.

Religion is some weird crap, man.

And do the scriptures imply demons speak Latin? Because that, specifically, is the part Catholicism made up.

This exact thing will happen when society collapses, and we will all call it survival of the fittest.

What would you have these poor people do? Sit on top of the rumble of their homes and watch their kids die of thirst and hunger? Watch them suffer from open wounds? Or take some water, some canned foods, antibiotic cream and gauze from a fully insured store?

The ones taking tvs and things like that are foolish, at least in the short term, but they may be able to trade those items for supplies later.

I'm athiest, but spent many years in church, so here's my understanding of why he references the Old testament:

Jesus said he came to fulfill the law, not to abolish it. (Matthew 5:17-18) So the Law, which is found in the OT, is still in effect. Each denomination and individual decides for themselves what parts they'll pay attention to.

Many Christians throw out the entire Old Testament, but most just pick and choose which parts they want enforced. They love the 10 commandments, for example. But they also wear mixed fabrics, eat pork & shrimp, and some get tattoos...all of which are forbidden in the OT.

This guy plays Pick & Choose. If it's in the OT and he can use it to make this country a "Biblical Republic", he will use those verses. If it means he can't eat crawfish etouffee, then that verse clearly doesn't matter to him.

The scariest part about this dude is that he interprets everything thru the lens of scripture. And he does not believe the separation of church and state is real.

In other news: see what happens after every devastating hurricane. Anyone else remember Katrina?

I know my mixed martial arts stop bullets.

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Was it a sudden distension? I think you need to go to Dr.

Definitely happening in Louisiana. My insurance broker called me in a panic yesterday to let me know how high my renewal will be this year, and it is very, very high.

I'm going to eat the increase because there's no other company offering lower rates. I live in an area hit by hurricanes, and I know insurance companies are for-profit businesses, so I've been expecting this.

At this point, I'm just grateful the company didn't pull out completely.

I'm older than most of y'all, 70. In high school, it was not unusual to have the student parking lot filled with pickup trucks...most of which had shot guns on gun racks hanging on the back window.

It's so weird to think about that now, how very normal it seemed at the time.

He is truly his own worst enemy.

And another Trump endorsement fails spectacularly.

Yep, you've summed it up. Earth will indeed be here forever. The question is whether it will be habitable. And humans don't seem to give a single care, as long as their life span will be over before the environment /climate poops out. And as long as they can take in money with no concern about their child, grandchildren, great-,grandchildren, and on down the line.

We can change this, we can mitigate the damage, but the powers that be refuse to acknowledge their negative impact on the future of the planet, they do not care...as long as they rake in the money.

I've got children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and I CARE. Jesus Pete, how hard is it to see beyond the end of our own noses?

That implies your government is functioning as it is meant to. Here in the US, it's not. It's just not.

A wad of shortening in my mouth, that is exactly what Reese's taste like to me. Tell your wife I've got my fingers crossed for her.

I lost smell and taste after I had Covid in late Feb/early March of 2020. Nothing at all for a couple of months, then parosmia for about 18 months. Back to total loss of smell and taste again, but within the last couple of months I can smell really strong smells, like creosote; also a little touch of parosmia (poop smells like chicken noodle soup, ffs).

Losing 2 of the 5 senses is an incredible loss. I almost feel like it's having a devastating effect on my brain.

I cannot wait to regain those senses. I've tried so many things, and I'll try this too when I can have access to it.

You're looking for

https://www.benjaminlcorey.com/could-american-evangelicals-spot-the-antichrist-heres-the-biblical-predictions/

Could American Evangelicals Spot the Antichrist?

Attend an evangelical or Pentecostal church for a few months. It'll come up. They still believe Jesus is coming back and he can't do so until the temple is rebuilt. Which would require the razing of the mosque.

A family member of mine is a preacher and he and his family are gleefully announcing the end times are here!! It's happening!! The red heifer has been born!! It's absolutely disgusting how they want Israel to get rid of the Palestinians so they can get on with the rebuilding of the temple.

But whose responsibility is it to monitor their internet access? Mom and Dad need to step up and actually parent their children!