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  1. This is a good one.
  2. I can smell this picture. Warm dry barely burnt by heated electronic part plastics in the air. Heavenly.
  3. I was just thinking about this movie, which I too saw on a plane recently, and had the opposite reaction. What bad timing. Had the pope died in the couple of months in the run-up to the Oscars, this movie would have been a must-see and probably gotten a dead pope bump in the academy and voters minds. He dies 6 months later and now a handful of people will watch it on a plane.
  4. The night we went the cast then came back out after the bows and did an auction for an AIDs charity and so we got to hear some ad libbed back-and-forth between Burr and Kieran, etc. I think someone ended up with a signed playbill for $2,000.
  5. Systematic Obesity.
  6. He mentioned he is really stubborn and sort of smirked, as if that was a positive quality, when all I could think of is that his stubborness is what is going to entail him dying on the hill.
  7. Don't forget how cocky we are because of math.
  8. Nico is just so wholly unlikeable. I had no idea how unlikeable he was before this.
  9. Anyone have a link for this? I might as well get my blood pressure up early today.
  10. You people recognize that he will be 99.99% sure be choosing a pontif name immediately, right? Pope Leo the 13th or something.
  11. Yes. There are a % of people whose overweight issues are medical in nature (e.g. hormones, autoimmune, medicines, organ functionality, etc.). I don't think anyone denies or doubts that and some of us probably know of someone like that, but those instances are likely dramatically overstated or real. But also I think the number of people who default or think they can't lose weight because of the above are usually defaulting an easier mental and emotional state of not undertaking the hard work to make some uncomfortable changes. Pre-built excuses which, if you are obese, you likely aren't that disciplined or self-controlled to begin with.
  12. In a lot of circles, offing the Pope is actually positive aura points, is the problem here.
  13. I had a thought last week. Is there a future one day where obesity is a "choice" in the sense that ozempic or wegovuy type meds (which apparently have a ton of good health benefits from reducing heart disease risk to blood pressure and diabetes, etc. and not just weight) are so cheap and readily available? It seems like the optimal and efficient government policy (in long term costs, healthcare burdens, etc.) would be to heavily subsidize or make free these drugs for the poor and obese.
  14. Firing Nico is a tablestake to win back fans like me, it needs to be done yesterday, and it's a very small (but integral) start to rebuilding trust and fandom. That probably sounds gay, but whatever. I'm still hurt.
  15. Speaking of secret eaters, being fat is the one interesting "vice" in that it always manifests itself outwardly to others. You can be a functioning addict of drugs or booze and maybe keep it hidden and "appear" well. But the fat people saying of "What you eat in private, you wear in public" is so true because you essentially cannot hide your weight via irresponsible or irrational eating decisions. I don't think being fat is a moral failing. I've also been alternatively really fit, I've been probably too thin, and I've been fat. These are for a variety of reasons (some health and prescription medicine related) but what I've found is that being really fit takes a lot more work than not. So just maybe there is a bit of privilege in not being a fatty in America in 2025?
  16. “It’s not a crime. Yes, but it’s a sin,” he said. “Fine, but first let’s distinguish between a sin and a crime.” “It’s also a sin to lack charity with one another,” he added.
  17. It seems to me that these are really easy questions to answer and it's interesting that nobody in your life has been able to answer these questions for you, as if you needed the wisdom of Solomon to answer. The one thing I've consistently heard, which seems to check out, is that the biggest threat to Christianity isn't external or outside forces (e.g. culture, anti-christianity fervor, etc.), but it's actually an internal fundamental one: Christians themselves have very little (if any) understanding of their own faith. Biblical illiteracy is rampant and epidemic within the Christian faith, and so you get very little wisdom and a lot of blind leading the blind.
  18. Had Hutchins BBQ yesterday for Easter brunch. Best BBQ for my money (~$40/lb) in a 50 mile radius.
  19. I've seen more Fuzzy Taco's closures in the last 12 months, I think it's doomed. I haven't eaten Subway in 10+ years and would probably just not eat before eating that weird meat and suspect food. But I do love Jimmy John's. I'm a complicated man.
  20. He blessed same sex couples in a union and gave the caveat that it was okay as long as it was clear it a) wasn't endorsing it as a marriage and b) allowing for the blessing just the same as you would give to any sinner that asks for it. The facts as I understand it, and curious to hear where @Ghost of LLgot his information, was that Pope Francis held up homosexuality as a sin (didn't reform that) and actually was criticized by progressives for not being a real progressive (reforming) versus upholding conservative catholic values but with different lanugage (or weasel words if you are less forgiving). Maybe it's incremental gains and his softening of language might be the first step to reform and that is part of his legacy when we look back 100 years from now and Catholics change their views.
  21. 1000%. The most progressive pope of my lifetime for sure (and I'm not a Catholic so don't have a dog in the fight as they say) and I am not sure of the catholic politics or who is the odds on favorite to win, etc., but just wanted to clarify his point because it's a pretty huge distinction.
  22. I don't know that I agree with your police work. From what I've read, he said that being gay is not a CRIME, but still a SIN.
  23. Also the McGriddle is like 20+ years old so it's funny because he was like, "I don't go to McDonald's often so not sure about these brand new menu offerings"
  24. You touched on some of my first thoughts after reading the post. @Clintonaldoyou are and will get a lot of different flavors of thoughts and inputs and advice, but from as strictly a Christian/biblical perspective as I can remember, a few encouragements: 1) Church isn’t a building or meeting or place. “We” the Christians, are the church. It’s written wherever two or more are gathered in His name, he’s there (I believe). We are also called to be in fellowship for a variety of reasons that are good for us, despite it being hard sometimes (or a lot of the times). 2) Singing hymns, songs, music playing, spectacles, etc. is supposed to be an act of worship to God, not for our own pleasures. As mole said, it’s not really supposed to be about us. There are angels and deities in heaven who were solely created to sing holy holy holy and worship, I think. 3) Modern American upper middle class white people churches (which I assume you are referencing) are very much in the land grab of souls business. It seems the modern church mission to win back and grab back the market share of souls they have been lost from Christianity as the secular world got more flat and available to all. Thus it’s a bunch of surface level, Christianity 101 churches just trying to catch the fish. 4) My frustration has actually been because of 3, it feels like church is a waste of time. It’s just mother’s milk when you want solid food, as Paul says. I’ve found that seeking my level of Christian has helped (life groups, men’s groups, bible studies, mission trips, etc.) me to grow my faith, rather than check a box every Sunday and hear the same few stories ad nauseam. 5) Lastly, nothing I’ve said matters and indeed nothing at all matters if your heart is not in it. You can do alL manner of good works and charity and even healing and miracles in His name but if you do it without love, it’s a clangy noisy cymbal. Better to take a break and search your heart maybe and rediscover your gratitude and love and faith then just trudging through luke warm IMHO.
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