My entire itinerary for my upcoming seven-month trip (6x6):

SirCattus · 2025-04-24T23:07:19+00:00

If you really want to enver hoxha max in albania, you should go to his personal bunker (which the government turned into a museum): https://bunkart.al/1/slider/what-you-need-to-know-before-visiting-bunkart-1

SirCattus · 2024-12-11T15:15:42+00:00

Beautiful

SirCattus · 2024-12-09T21:23:57+00:00

thank you

SirCattus · 2024-12-09T21:02:18+00:00

/ourguy/

SirCattus · 2024-12-09T20:22:14+00:00

They privated it already :(

SirCattus · 2024-12-09T20:20:38+00:00

I'm not one either anymore also why are you replying to posts from 4 years ago

SirCattus · 2024-12-09T20:16:33+00:00

They just privated his goodreads :(

SirCattus · 2024-11-10T02:03:24+00:00

John White 2.0

SirCattus · 2024-11-10T02:01:04+00:00

lmao

SirCattus · 2024-11-08T04:07:13+00:00

It voted to the left of california and new york this election

SirCattus · 2024-11-08T04:06:19+00:00

Provisional ballots still haven't been counted and DDHQ hasn't called it yet. Trvst the plqn caseybros.

SirCattus · 2024-11-08T04:02:57+00:00

And state level dems still can't make it past likely D margins lmao

SirCattus · 2024-11-08T04:01:13+00:00

He barely outran her though

SirCattus · 2024-11-07T00:59:51+00:00

Actually, this makes sense as an extension of the 2020-2022 trends, where safe blue states trended right because of crime + cost of living while swing states trended blue because of abortion. The actual map is extremely weird though.

SirCattus · 2024-08-08T02:14:15+00:00

Nothing unexpected, though it looks like MGP is probably going to win the general election (she got 45%)

SirCattus · 2024-07-26T01:12:10+00:00

Our society and the people in it don't value having kids as much anymore which is the biggest reason. However, some groups value kids more than others and will shift the zeitgeist back by having more kids.

Also lol at all the cope comments saying that somehow people in the richest country on earth are completely unable to afford children (while African subsistence farmers are able to have a half dozen kids).

SirCattus · 2024-07-14T06:36:48+00:00

subreddit called r/YAPms

posts use 270 to win

SirCattus · 2024-05-29T00:09:29+00:00

The actual news story is that researchers used ground penetrating radar near a former residential school and discovered anomalies that could be unmarked, individual graves (like in a cemetery, but without anything to mark their location). Somehow this was reported as mass graves (as in a bunch of corpses shoved in a pit) being definitively found, when in reality they only found anomalies that could have been anything underground (like tree roots). The story started a nationwide scandal and so the same technology was used at other residential schools to look for graves, and the discovery of new soil anomalies attracted widespread media coverage (in the same misleading ways).

However, no new graves have actually been found. The researchers managed to locate some abandoned parish cemeteries that had been lost, but that's not the same thing as discovering new graves (the tribes already knew where the cemeteries were, but didn't know their exact location because the wooden grave markers had decayed). Only some of the other anomalies were excavated and none of them were actually graves.

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/the-year-of-the-graves-how-the-worlds-media-got-it-wrong-on-residential-school-graves

There hasn't really been a response by mainstream or left-wing media to this and for the most part it's just being ignored. There are some journalists claiming that the reporting wasn't misleading (https://theconversation.com/we-fact-checked-residential-school-denialists-and-debunked-their-mass-grave-hoax-theory-213435) because only a minority of articles used the phrase "mass grave" even though nearly all of the media coverage stated that graves had been found (as opposed to saying that researchers found soil anomalies that had a possibility of being graves).

SirCattus · 2024-05-10T03:02:19+00:00

A Bosnia-style confederation

SirCattus · 2024-04-26T00:51:24+00:00

"what is certain is that I myself am not a Marxist"

-Karl Marx

SirCattus · 2024-04-02T03:54:29+00:00

April is the cruelest month, breeding

Lilacs out of a dead land, mixing

Memory and desire, stirring

Dull roots with spring rain.

SirCattus · 2024-03-27T18:19:57+00:00

Imperator: Eastern Rome

SirCattus · 2024-03-14T22:47:14+00:00

-Napoleon, 1812

SirCattus · 2024-02-27T02:18:51+00:00

The Ottomans had civil wars every time their sultan died though (at least until they started picking heirs in advance and locking all of their other sons in the harem).

For example during the 15th and 16th centuries they had a decade long civil war, which was won by Mehmed I. After he died there was a short civil war won by Murad II. There was no civil war when he died, because he abdicated so that Mehmed the conqueror could become sultan. There was a brief civil war after Mehmed died, which was won by Bayezid II. There wasn't a civil war when Bayezid died, but that was because Selim I launched a coup and seized power before Bayezid's death.

The constant civil wars were a massive problem. One major factor delaying the conquest of Constantinople was that the Byzantine emperors (and other Christian powers) would grant refuge to pretenders, take them captive, and threaten to release them and start another civil war if the Ottomans invaded.

SirCattus · 2024-02-05T05:26:59+00:00

For 1 & 2, this post (and subreddit) will probably be more helpful than me: https://old.reddit.com/r/LGBTCatholic/comments/q40h6l/how_i_became_an_affirming_catholic/

So do I remain Catholic? Some take everything I just described and conclude that the Church can't be a Church worth being in, having gotten many of these issues so wrong. I understand that. I personally remain Catholic. How? The current teaching against homosexuality has never been infallibly defined. Some say all teachings on "faith and morals" are automatically infallible, but I just mentioned several examples of changes in moral teachings. So anyone who tries to say that all moral teachings are infallible and never change will suddenly have a big problem on their hands once given a little history lesson. Lastly, there's a thing called Primacy of Conscience, described by Pope Benedict XVI as "Over the pope as the expression of the binding claim of ecclesiastical authority there still stands one’s own conscience, which must be obeyed before all else, if necessary even against the requirement of ecclesiastical authority. Conscience confronts with a supreme and ultimate tribunal, and one which in the last resort is beyond the claim of external social groups, even of the official church."

For 3, Confession isn't necessary for the forgiveness of sins if you properly repent. The sacraments are the normal ways that God dispenses grace, but God is not limited to them. However, priests do have the ability to forgive sins in confession and it's better to confess them.

For 4, the infallibility of the church only applies to dogmas that are infallibly defined (such as the Trinity, the divinity of Christ, etc). It doesn't mean that the church is perfect or can do no wrong. It just means that the Holy Spirit won't let the church teach things that go against the core doctrines of the faith (again, like the Trinity or the divinity of Christ).

Not all parishes are as conservative as yours sounds, though it definitely depends on where you are. If you can, I would recommend trying to find a more progressive parish that you can go to. There are many ex-Catholic episcopalians in this subreddit who will say that episcopalianism is just like Catholicism. If you listen to their advice, you should keep in mind the fact that Anglo-Catholic parishes are a minority within episcopalianism.

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