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Anne M. Carpenter @catholickungfu.bsky.social · 5h

I mean if it helps treat the new guy at the parish with kindness and attention and if he trusts you then catechize him and if not fine, pray for him, because that dude is your brother now.

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Anne M. Carpenter @catholickungfu.bsky.social · 6h

I’m very serious! We aren’t the heavenly church yet!! That one is desperately praying for this one because we need it!!!

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Anne M. Carpenter @catholickungfu.bsky.social · 6h

It’s important to learn from some of old school Catholicism and to see belonging as absolutely primary to one’s virtue or authenticity. Detecting real or fake conversion seems impossible and stressful, distrusts the sacraments, and imagines that God can’t use imperfect things to make people better.

Zach the Autumn Lord @maximumrider217.bsky.social · 6h

On the other hand, Catholicism is ostensibly rapidly gaining new members. Which, if true, still doesn’t give me hope because I can’t help wonder how many of those conversions are genuine and how many are primarily motivated by politics.

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Anne M. Carpenter @catholickungfu.bsky.social · 6h

I don’t even LIKE [redacted Christianity A] or [redacted Christianity B]. I don’t admit this or explain it, because I’m not a jerk or a moron. But I will defend those people, dammit, because that argument is dumb. Some of the silliest churches are packed to the gills, what are you even saying.

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Anne M. Carpenter @catholickungfu.bsky.social · 6h

I disagree with “lol, that denomination is rapidly losing members, that’s data that I both understand and can explain, and by that I mean say that those guys suck.”

It only seems like logic, and worse, it assumes that people make good decisions all the time. (gestures at the USA) Does it now?

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Anne M. Carpenter @catholickungfu.bsky.social · 6h

More reasons “you’re a nun” is the surprisingly least insulting option.

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Anne M. Carpenter @catholickungfu.bsky.social · 7h

Disaster.

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Anne M. Carpenter @catholickungfu.bsky.social · 8h

Sometimes finding the appropriate phrase is because I don’t know what I’m saying. And saying a new word won’t fix it until I do the other thing, and yet… I have to find words until I know it.

Anyway (lays down, cries)

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Anne M. Carpenter @catholickungfu.bsky.social · 8h

You shoulda read all the sentences I wrote and deleted today trying to describe the objectivity of a correct judgment. Miserable. Then I thought I said a cool thing about God and I read the next paragraph in Lonergan just to be sure and that paragraph basically meant “that cool thing is wrong.”

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Anne M. Carpenter @catholickungfu.bsky.social · 8h

I prefer people considering me a nun or maybe a Jesuit. If I’m tired enough I won’t try to correct anyone.

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Anne M. Carpenter @catholickungfu.bsky.social · 9h

Relatable but I’m not the literal Government.

Federal Worker Rights @fedworkerrights.bsky.social · 9h

Here's the error-filled table of contents of the Government's brief opposing a TRO of the shutdown RIFs

Table of contents of government brief opposing a TRO of Shutdown RIFs. Where page numbers should be, the document says, "ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED"

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Abz-J-Harding ☾ @abzjharding.bsky.social · 9h

Becky and Ratmir lost in the snow.
Pencils from 2024.
Inked 2025.

A little girl and her big Romanian werewolf guardian trudging in the snow.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 10h

The historical parallels are glaring.

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 13h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Anne M. Carpenter @catholickungfu.bsky.social · 11h

YOU UNDERSTAND ME ❤️

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Anne M. Carpenter @catholickungfu.bsky.social · 11h

I would call it stupid finesse. Yeah.

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Anne M. Carpenter @catholickungfu.bsky.social · 11h

The Great Awakening III: The Revenge of Christian Tradition

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Dan Schkade @danschkade.bsky.social · 11h

Scam calls always spike in the fall. Remember, legitimate callers won't:

-Threaten to report you to law enforcement
-Get defensive about the call's legitimacy
-Hang up when you ask for a supervisor
-Ask for your SSN

If you EVER don't like the vibe, just bail. If it's real, they'll call back.

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Anne M. Carpenter @catholickungfu.bsky.social · 11h

Unimportant but “it has just been learned” is a wild use of the passive voice before nuclear tariff math.

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Curiousboy 🏳️‍🌈 @boycuriousboy.bsky.social · 12h

Don't forget Newton et his research in alchemy, astrology and esoteric mathematics !

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Anne M. Carpenter @catholickungfu.bsky.social · 13h

Oooh I’m confused enough by the chart to wonder if that’s good or not.

Anne M. Carpenter @catholickungfu.bsky.social · 13h

Aristotle is wisdom biology send tweet.

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Anne M. Carpenter @catholickungfu.bsky.social · 13h

“No only modern science” well then fuck you where are Copernicus and Galileo AND Albertus Magnus? And Blaise Pascal AND his dad whose first name I don’t remember! Where are my progenitors of Calculus; if Leibniz is on here then give me all my Calculus homies and I want my Albert the Great THE MOST.

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Anne M. Carpenter @catholickungfu.bsky.social · 13h

If we can include Frankenstein and Faust then I demand a place for Aristotle, Plotinus, and Albertus Magnus.

tanadrin @tanadrin.bsky.social · 16h

all scientists can be classified according to just two variables: whether they're more mad physics or mad biology, and whether their hubris is in calling up what cannot be put down, or seeking to understand what no man was meant to know

we were definitely not meant to know about that worm with a hundred buttholes, for instance

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Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 16h

“Every scientist is actually either Frankenstein or Faust. Von braun? Frankenstein. Newton? Faust. Now you’d think Von Neumann would be Frankenstein, but he’s actually Faust”

SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 16h

every scientist since newton and leibniz is acktually von neumann (20th), von braun (20th), dr moreau (19th), faust (19th), and dr frankenstein (19th) bsky.app/profile/tana...

tanadrin @tanadrin.bsky.social · 16h

older than that. 17th century is 1600s. he's back-porting an extremely mid-20th-century archetype to (generously, assuming the very end of the 1600s) the time of the golden age of piracy and the glorious revolution.

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Anne M. Carpenter @catholickungfu.bsky.social · 13h

Oh… no just the magazine, which is irredeemable liberal nonsense.

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