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It seems to me that ideologies like Catholic integralism or integration or integralism or whatever, that is, that these contemporary Catholic thinkers, and they, they can’t live with the fracture and the disorder of contemporary life. And rather than going to the foot of the cross, they try to go to the top of the dome. Rather than going to the foot of the cross, they try to go to the top of the cathedral. And they’re trying to cram everything in the world underneath this cathedral that they have constructed in their mind that harkens back to some alleged golden age, maybe in the Middle Ages when everything was neatly ordered under a vision of Christ that rose up to create these cathedrals. But I don’t know anything about history in that era much, but I do know how the world works, and it seems to me that any time something big and great like that gets built, it’s usually done by an egomaniac who collects money and harms the poor in order to create their vision of life. And it seems to me, as beautiful as those cathedrals are, they are tombs. They are tombs because they are the artifacts of spiritual death of people who would extort labor to build non-essential things. I hope I’m wrong, but I doubt it.

I mean, it seems on point to me. I mean, I think the thrust is right. I mean, I think there’s always nuance, but it seems to me like what you said makes it even more plausible. Like if they’re going pre-Vatican II and they’re trying to integrate the state and the church and put the state under the church, that to me is the same animating influence of the dome. It’s like we’re gonna, rather than Christ’s kingdom, which is scattered seeds, we’re going to build the Tower of Babel.

Why White Churches Never Have and Never Will Help Our Black Brothers and Sisters in Christ

🎧 Why White Churches Never Have and Never Will Help our Black Brothers and Sisters in Christ

How dare you make a mistake!

Stay positive. = Stay delusional.

Citing strain on the power grid, FCC bans all forms of communication except social media. The National Restaurant Association is pushing back on behalf of coffee shops, however AI powered coffee-shop-convo apps have been pitching the VC community around the clock.

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I was going to create a society of straight white males, but then I realized that’s just plain old society. #virtuesignaling

Serial Killers Criticize ICE for Lack of Creativity

A bipartisan coalition of serial killers announced today that the ICE tactics are not working for them. 

They said, for example, there were no copycats. Instead, ICE was creating protests against them. 

The serial killers said that if ICE was going to continue to murder people, they needed to have a more mystique type of approach to the killings. 

It was not sufficient, the serial killers said, for ICE to use brute force and to wear uniforms in broad daylight. Instead, the serial killers suggested that ICE decide to have a couple of “rogue agents,” to go out and kill people at random while stalking them for several minutes ahead of time. This, according to the serial killers, would not only add some mystique to ICE’s serial killing, but it would also give them plausible deniability, which would create much more drama, i.e., who is the bad guy inside ICE—versus the brute force of multiple law enforcement agents killing people. 

The serial killers said that ICE is clearly operating by committee rather than allowing individual members to access their creative powers. 

Further, the serial killers said that with the current approach, ICE is not going to be remembered for anything in particular other than brute force killings, which, according to the serial killers, does not lend itself to any panache or made-for-TV movies. 

The serial killers also said that when they contacted ICE, ICE tried to recruit them, but they said that they had moral objections to becoming part of ICE and would rather serve as independent consultants.