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1 hour ago, bluto said:

covid didn’t exist In the Woodlands in the first place.Ā 

It sort of did in TW, and very much so at my Episcopal church. Magnolia, on the other hand, heads totally in the sand. Same with East County, but they don't understand the concept of communicable disease, so that was expected.

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7 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

I think people are confusing you with the MAGA movement because you introduce yourself to strangers with "Hi, I'm Guadaloopy, and I'd like to talk to you a bit about the miracle that is the Tesla automobile."

This guy nailed it 25 years ago.Ā 

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/478.Bowling_Alone

Derek Thompson and Ezra Klein both pimp that book and Neil Postman’s ā€œAmusing Ourselves to Deathā€ more than any others. Ā 
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1 hour ago, TwiceHorn said:

But attempts to "recover" from that often tend to focus on the moralistic rather than the strictly moral.

Brooks spends the first part grounding this and I don’t think it’s accidental he starts with the Greeks rather than early Christians. Ā He’s reaching for a morality than transcends specific cultures or generations.Ā 
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As far as your gentle needling about Brooks, I get it-I feel like 50% of his writing could have ā€œWas I an idiot for being a conservative?ā€ as a thesis. Ā 

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Its an interesting decline when viewed against the laughably ridiculous trend where just about every athlete interviewed on TV after a game begins with some variant of "first I would just like to say that all things were made possible by my lord and savior jesus christ, and I couldn't do anything without him." I heard a guy the other dayĀ  practically begin with a sermon. And then they probably all shower, hit the bars, and fuck a bunch of women out of wedlock.Ā 

Its almost as if celebrity culture increasingly demands you at least pretend to be religious, which I find bizarre when fewer of us give a fuck about the subject every year.Ā My observations of friends, family, and peer's lifestyles mirror the trend of declining religiosity in everyday life, but for some reason the meathead contingent feels the need to parrot the same phrases every time they open their mouth. Maybe its in their NIL deals, who knows.

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On 7/28/2024 at 9:52 PM, BearSchlong said:

And all the conservative assholes departed for the PCA or Pioneer Presbyterian church, and PCUSA is so damned liberal and loving and I am so grateful I’ve never heard anything remotely political at church other than love thy neighbor. It’s a magical la la land where we still sing 300 year old hymns.

Ditto. Ā i’m an elder in the PCUSA, and I remember the dust up over gay ordained ministers back in the 90s. Ā In our contentious session meetings you found out who were the conservative haters, and who welcomed to anyone into the church. Ā  I remember one particularly homophobic elder who was also butt-chapped because our pastor said no - we’re not gonna stick in American flag anywhere near the pulpit. Ā Ā 

it always killed me that the ones having real problems with gay people we’re almost a perfect venn diagram with people who had multiple divorces. Ā Because I’m the same charming person I am at church as I am on Surly, I would ask them why they cared so much about a subject that Jesus did not find to be a problem, when they should be spending time on what Jesus repeatedly said was a absolute no-no…getting divorced and remarried multiple times.Ā 

I also asked them if they thought advice from the same group who gave us the menstruation tent command should be listened to before the advice from the sermon on the mount guy. Ā  Most of those folks wound up joining one of the PCUSA defectors who aligned with some evangelical Presbyterian Church that was essentially Southern Baptist with a different name tag.

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14 minutes ago, Blotto said:

Its an interesting decline when viewed against the laughably ridiculous trend where just about every athlete interviewed on TV after a game begins with some variant of "first I would just like to say that all things were made possible by my lord and savior jesus christ, and I couldn't do anything without him." I heard a guy the other day that practically began with a sermon. And then they probably all shower, hit the bars, and fuck a bunch of women out of wedlock.Ā 

The second I hear some athlete launch i to thanking God, I immediately think of them as a reprehensible piece of shit.

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2 hours ago, LCHorn said:

Derek Thompson and Ezra Klein both pimp that book and Neil Postman’s ā€œAmusing Ourselves to Deathā€ more than any others. Ā 
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Brooks spends the first part grounding this and I don’t think it’s accidental he starts with the Greeks rather than early Christians. Ā He’s reaching for a morality than transcends specific cultures or generations.Ā 
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As far as your gentle needling about Brooks, I get it-I feel like 50% of his writing could have ā€œWas I an idiot for being a conservative?ā€ as a thesis. Ā 

Not needling you, I've cited Brooks before.

It's just that these "common gooders," typically fundamentalist Cathoiics, do a great job of identifying the problems, but their proposed solutions are too white-hetero-Christian in perspective.

https://www.patrickjdeneen.com/

https://archive.blogs.harvard.edu/adrianvermeule/

I think Deneen is more sane than Vermeule.

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2 hours ago, DigglerontheHoof said:

The second I hear some athlete launch i to thanking God, I immediately think of them as a reprehensible piece of shit.

That's pretty harsh man. A lot of them were probably just brainwashed from an early age. You know how many times VY thanked God?

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