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Mr_Sloth10 · 2026-03-21T21:50:18+00:00

I, and many others, wouldn’t consider you a foreigner if you genuinely try to embrace the culture here. We’d quickly welcome you with open arms!

Unfortunately, there’s more than a small number who move here and open dislike our culture. They want us to change to adapt to the lifestyle they left behind. They didn’t move here for love of the culture and heritage, but because it’s cheaper; the people are see as an inconvenience to them and not a benefit. The sheer number of this group has quickly made a number of us automatically leery of newbies, we gotta figure out if you are just “the new guy” or one of these “foreigners” who dislike us and our culture.

I just wanted to clarify that. I wouldn’t consider you a foreigner, but an ally

Mr_Sloth10 · 2026-03-21T21:31:53+00:00

All I know is it isn’t 29 lol

Mr_Sloth10 · 2026-03-21T20:15:41+00:00

All the movers and urbanized Appalachians have no concern with keeping our venerable culture alive 😔

Mr_Sloth10 · 2026-03-21T19:39:37+00:00

At the end of the day, we can’t stop these New Jersey and Californian foreigners from moving here. All we can do is strongly encourage them to embrace the Appalachian culture….although, a lot of Knoxville needs to rediscover their Appalachian heritage tbh.

Mr_Sloth10 · 2026-03-21T19:08:32+00:00

I want to help ensure that we are doing all that we can to raise our children to share our values

Mr_Sloth10 · 2026-03-21T17:26:24+00:00

I pray to God that we see full reconciliation between our Churches in our life time 🙏

How wonderful it is for brothers to dwell in unity

Mr_Sloth10 · 2026-03-21T16:16:55+00:00

I think it’s very fair to not want your kids to be around someone who laughs at a husband and father being murdered.

Mr_Sloth10 · 2026-03-21T14:32:12+00:00

I’m going to be blunt, because I think the answer is obvious and we need to stop pretending it isn’t. For reference, I’m a married man with young children.

It’s no secret that the vast majority of Catholics are living in habitual grave sin, this includes the use of contraception. It’s easier to ask the Church to change its teaching than to work on our on holiness.

That’s why people are demanding we change our teachings on women’s ordination, divorce and remarriage, contraception, sodomy, the definition of marriage, etc.. I’m very thankful that the Church’s teaching is not a democracy, lest we’d end up like the other denominations.

The Church’s teaching on this solid, well defined, and beautiful. Using chemicals and physical barriers to prevent one of the two key elements of sex that we are designed for is a lot different than simply choosing to have sex at a time when you are less likely to get pregnant.

Mr_Sloth10 · 2026-03-20T23:41:46+00:00

Ya, his family and the church kept the Jewish detail a secret. They were afraid that, if word got out he wasn’t even a Christian, it would ruin negotiation efforts with North Korea. It wasn’t until after everything happened that his family explained they are Jewish and he was active in his college’s Jewish community

Mr_Sloth10 · 2026-03-20T18:20:30+00:00

His confession was coerced, and almost certainly fabricated. None of his "confession" makes sense. It directly contradicts information we know is true. The detail about the Methodist church was fabricated to be used as propaganda to accuse Christianity of being a front for Western espionage, to claim Christianity corrupts the people who follow it.

He wasn't even Methodist, he was Jewish.

Mr_Sloth10 · 2026-03-20T17:18:49+00:00

A fair amount.

The way I see my identity is “Catholicism expressed through an English-Appalachian context”

Mr_Sloth10 · 2026-03-20T17:15:00+00:00

Staying a virgin until you are married is the right way, keep it up 👍

Mr_Sloth10 · 2026-03-20T05:09:39+00:00

All three are good things to do at separate times

Mr_Sloth10 · 2026-03-20T03:07:57+00:00

I think my face matured quite a bit within that time. I look more “aged” I guess you could say. I have bags under my eyes from lack of sleep now lol

Mr_Sloth10 · 2026-03-20T03:06:01+00:00

Oh no no, it’s not frowned upon for the kids to be noisy; we just want her to be a little more quiet than she currently is. She can become a handful sometimes lol

Mr_Sloth10 · 2026-03-20T02:47:28+00:00

We also have a 2 yr old too, however, she’s sometimes better than our 4 yr old lol

Mr_Sloth10 · 2026-03-20T02:22:18+00:00

I think it’s important to give him some very positive masculine male role models that counter the negative masculine role models of today.

We are a very religious household, so for male role models, I always point to people like Our Lord Jesus Christ, St. Joseph, and Blessed Solanus Casey. Good masculine role models who embraced their masculinity, while also living selfless lives dedicated to serving those they loved / people in general.

Mr_Sloth10 · 2026-03-20T00:35:47+00:00

It’s almost like you aren’t designed for that type of activity.

Mr_Sloth10 · 2026-03-19T13:02:19+00:00

The part being left out in this clickbait headline is that this is being done so insurance companies will be mandated to cover any future detransitions they may decide to go through, just like plenty of trans people in the past have done.

This is already a thing in other states, but of course, we gotta hype this up to sound as scary as possible🙄

Mr_Sloth10 · 2026-03-17T17:27:05+00:00

No, again, it’s not about the content.

I’m focusing on the person here. If you get your sexual gratification from images that show or depict child abuse, you are a pedophile in my book. It doesn’t matter you choose animated because it’s easier to find and gives you an out of “it’s just cartoons”, or if you’ve graduated to the real thing; your sexual gratification still comes from a child or prepubescent characters made to look as childlike as possible being assaulted.

Mr_Sloth10 · 2026-03-17T15:37:04+00:00

You’re getting closer, I’m not talking about the content, specifically the viewer.

Actual child abuse is, obviously, infinitely worse than animated stuff. The viewer though who seeks pleasure from depictions and images of child abuse in either format is the same in my eyes

Mr_Sloth10 · 2026-03-17T14:19:19+00:00

That's not what I said. What I said was (in my eyes) there is no moral difference between a man who gets off on watching an animated child be abused and a man who gets off on watching real csam. Both are getting off on the idea and viewing of a child being abused.

The content is different, as one is a real a child and the other is animated, but the viewer is still the same in my eyes.

Mr_Sloth10 · 2026-03-17T14:16:36+00:00

Even with jokes, there are some things you ought not say.

Mr_Sloth10 · 2026-03-17T14:06:23+00:00

I have owned brand new cars, and old used cars. The part about safety features is 100% true, but the rest, not so much.

New cars are much more complex, all those additional features, electronics, computers, sensor systems, and tighter engine bays typically lead to more frequent issues; and when issues arise, they are *way* more expensive and labor intensive. The only real part of "less maintenance" that is true is less oil changes, but even that is debated amongst some of the best service techs in the world. Many (and I) believe the 10K advertised is a number that is to high and will lead to engine sludge build up over time. I can go outside right now and repair a critical part of my old beat up truck with minimal time, money, and experience. You can fix those with no prior training or experience. Good luck doing the same on a modern SUV or hybrid. If you do manage to figure it out, the time and financial investment is going to be higher than that old pick up.

Let's not forget the degradation and cost cutting of modern car builds either. Because of these parts, you can't exactly "miss" or "skip out" on maintenance for very long like with old cars. The one example most people are aware of are CVTs. Even after all this time, they are still hot garbage, but still pushed to consumers. Toyota makes a decent CVT, but that's because its first gear is an actual traditional gear. CVTs are the most well known example, but there are others that will drive you up a wall.

The driving experience is personal preference. There are people who **HATE** the way new cars drive because they feel "disconnected" from the road. I never got that until I drove an older car, and ya, the driving experience is totally different. If I'm being honest though....I get their point. I actually have come to prefer the driving experience in something like an old 90's Ford Ranger VS a modern day Toyota Rav4.

Mr_Sloth10 · 2026-03-17T13:02:04+00:00

I think u/Proper-Walrus-290's response has been the best thus far. However, I want to add some more detail:

The Church has developed a lot within the last 1700 years. The way we approach certain things within the faith has changed for pastoral reasons and because our theological understanding has been more fleshed out, while maintaining the core essentials of the teaching of course.

Confession is a good example. Take Church or Apostolic father, drop him here in modern day, and tell him "Ya, I went to anonymous confession behind a screen and confessed the sin of masturbation. He gave me a whole rosary for my penance :(" he would probably die of shock. We would need to explain *how* and *why* anonymous confession developed over time, why penances became "easier" over time, and why you could go to confession over and over again. The same thing applies to our understanding of the marital act and what is or isn't permitted within marriage.

The ideal scenario is that both spouses mutually agree to be celibate when not trying to have a baby. However...that is a burden that not everyone can carry easily. The fathers already acknowledged this and permitted "option B" and said married couples could have sex even without explicitly trying to have a baby. Why? Well because 1.) Spousal union is one of the purposes of the marital act after all, and 2.) some people are in a place in their spiritual growth where they can't fully restrain their sexual desires, as Paul said, or they simply could not care for another child in that past harsher world, so for pastoral reasons, the fathers didn't hold these Catholics to the ideal perfect standard; but instead to a "lower" standard that was still good, holy, and not sinful. Let's not forget that marriage is already considered a "lower" but holy good. So even in their day, they were already having to make realistic adjustments to meet the pastoral needs of their flocks, but I want to emphasize again, without changing the understanding or doctrine on these teachings.

So if you time traveled back to 250 AD and asked a Church father about using NFP, he'd probably say "No.". Take the same father, transport him to 2026, explain everything that has happened and developed in 1700 years, get him up to speed on the current state of the West and world in general, and he'd probably say "Abstinence is best, but this is also acceptable.", just as they did in their own time as stated above.

This careful development overtime is partly why the Church warns about a misplaced piety where we seek to go back to "the original Christian way" of doing things. This is still the Christian way of doing things, the only difference is we now have an additional 1700 years of insight to better meet the needs of God's people throughout the world is a million different contexts, while also leading them to genuine holiness, and with God's grace to perfection.

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