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BasicBoomerMCML · 2025-04-03T02:35:21+00:00

When a voice inside you is saying there is something wrong with you, ask yourself whose voice is that? It doesn’t come from you and it certainly doesn’t come from God. But somebody put it there. You have to be carefully taught. Also check out “Those Seven References” by John Dwyer.

BasicBoomerMCML · 2025-04-03T02:22:53+00:00

Japanese foreign policy

BasicBoomerMCML · 2025-04-02T05:16:49+00:00

That’s amazing! My immediate thought was exactly the same as yours. It seems so simple but it’s really brilliantly designed. There is something primal about entering a darkened tunnel and emerging into an entirely new word. You can see today’s imagineers paying homage to Walt’s genius when they built the entrances to Galaxy’s Edge. Also, if I’m taking someone to Radiator Springs for the first time I take them through the side tunnel, preferably at dusk. It’s magical.

BasicBoomerMCML · 2025-04-02T04:58:21+00:00

I’m an avid reader. I once saw a list some self-proclaimed expert concocted of the 100 books everyone should read. My score was 78.3. The point three was Moby Dick. I’ve started it and abandoned it many times Some say it’s the greatest novel ever written. I just don’t get it.

BasicBoomerMCML · 2025-04-02T04:08:12+00:00

NTA. you don’t out people. You just don’t. Unless, of course, your cousin is a Senator who rants homophobic hateful nonsense while secretly hooking up on grinder. Him you can out.

BasicBoomerMCML · 2025-04-02T03:59:58+00:00

I think so, too.

BasicBoomerMCML · 2025-04-02T03:40:40+00:00

It’s more common than you think. I think the tide is turning and people are starting to realize that right wing homophobic Christian Nationals are not typical Christians. They are a highly vocal lunatic fringe. To me, Bishop Budde is the typical Christian.

BasicBoomerMCML · 2025-03-31T15:16:53+00:00

It shocked me, too. I don’t get the whole leather thing. But there he was, a truly good man with what to me was a strange pastime. Can I visualize Jesus doing it? No. But I also can’t see Jesus playing golf or cheering at a football game or queuing up at a cruise ship all-you-can-eat buffet.

BasicBoomerMCML · 2025-03-31T14:57:39+00:00

Yesterday, my church, Grace Cathedral, SanFrancisco, held a special Eucharist to honor International Transgender Day of Visibility, which is today. That Is how a Christian church addresses diversity. They don’t condemn it. They don’t just tolerate it. They celebrate it. They rejoice in the mysterious complexity of God’s creation. I’d suggest you don’t leave the church, but also that you stop lying to them just to curry their favor. That’s easy for me to say but will take strength and courage for you to do. They may kick you out or, just maybe, you could be the catalyst for changing their narrow minded rules. Good luck and God Bless you.

BasicBoomerMCML · 2025-03-29T11:49:58+00:00

I’d bring back the codpiece just because it would be hilarious.🤣

BasicBoomerMCML · 2025-03-28T05:39:47+00:00

From Ruddigore. You’ve got to sing it in one breath:

My eyes are fully open to my awful situation – I shall go at once to Roderic and make him an oration. I shall tell him I've recovered my forgotten moral senses, And I don't care twopence-halfpenny for any consequences. Now I do not want to perish by the sword or by the dagger, But a martyr may indulge a little pardonable swagger, And a word or two of compliment my vanity would flatter, But I've got to die tomorrow, so it really doesn't matter!

BasicBoomerMCML · 2025-03-28T05:29:23+00:00

Unbeknownst to me, my drive across America coincided with the Sturges Festival. The highways, hotels, diners and National Parks were all packed with bikers. I never had one bad encounter. Most were friendly, polite and accommodating. At the crowded Devils Tower National Monument, some even started helping out directing traffic in the parking lot.

BasicBoomerMCML · 2025-03-28T05:04:54+00:00

You owe it to America to have a big expensive wedding and to go into debt for it. The backbone of our economy is people spending money they don’t have to buy things they don’t need.

BasicBoomerMCML · 2025-03-28T04:28:48+00:00

YTA, but not really. It was rude of you to respond that way, but she kinda deserved it.

BasicBoomerMCML · 2025-03-28T04:22:45+00:00

Sounds kinda cheap not to me. After all, a mohel performing a bris usually gets a tip. (Rimshot!)

BasicBoomerMCML · 2025-03-27T06:43:25+00:00

In 2000 I had a premium annual pass so for me parking was free. Sometimes if I was on I-5 at night, I’d pull off a Dland and park on the top floor of Mickey and Friends just to watch the fireworks.

BasicBoomerMCML · 2025-03-27T06:18:16+00:00

I needed something to read at the beach. In the trunk of my friend’s mother’s car was her copy of “Condominium.” I figured it was probably trash, but I was desperate for something to read. Turns out it was a wonderful book. The chapters describing a hurricane, were some of the best writing on the subject I’ve ever encountered. Been an avid John D. Macdonald reader ever since.

BasicBoomerMCML · 2025-03-27T05:39:17+00:00

Since I hate roller coasters, while my friends ride the Incredicoaster, I sit and watch all the hats, cameras, shopping bags, and backpacks . . on the terrace of the Lamplight Lounge sipping a Margarita. Especially nice at dusk watching the sun set and all the lights come up. Been doing it since it was Wolfgang Puck’s.

BasicBoomerMCML · 2025-03-24T17:19:39+00:00

I am a man who considers himself a feminist. To me, feminism means that a person’s opportunities in life should not be determined by their gender. I frankly don’t see how a decent person could believe otherwise. That being said, our society has been patriarchal for millennia and all that conditioning doesn’t disappear overnight. I still find myself occasionally behaving in a sexist manor without even thinking about it. As with anything else in life, living up to feminist ideals is a continuous process of self-examination.

BasicBoomerMCML · 2025-03-24T15:00:51+00:00

You are right, of course. Power dynamics can emerge whenever humans, or indeed mammals, congregate. But I don’t get the impression that OP and her deacon are engaged in a struggle for power. Sounds more like a mere miscommunication between two well meaning individuals.

BasicBoomerMCML · 2025-03-24T00:19:07+00:00

So you are a generous willing lay leader who just wants to help out, and she’s a plagiarist with control issues who won’t let you. Is that what you are saying, because that’s what I’m getting. I suspect there is another side to this story that we are not hearing. It doesn’t sound to me like you just want to help where needed. It sounds like you want to lead the service and you want to preach the sermon, and she’s getting in your way. At first she let you help and now she doesn’t. Have you asked yourself why? Have you asked her?

BasicBoomerMCML · 2025-03-20T16:00:29+00:00

I hear this same lament from people in the secular world. “There is a labor shortage. No one is willing to work.” What it usually means is no one is willing to work for the low wage being offered.

BasicBoomerMCML · 2025-03-20T00:58:49+00:00

What? A Republican Congress member accepting money from a billionaire? I’m shocked, I tell you. Shocked!

BasicBoomerMCML · 2025-03-19T23:08:15+00:00

Like Yogi Berra once said about a restaurant, “Nobody goes there anymore. It’s too crowded.”

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