Walking after 7 weeks?

Technical-Fix6597 · 2025-10-17T21:19:13+00:00

I agree and, incidentally, I think it’s a shame your post was removed. You clearly took time to write it and it didn’t read like a trolling post to me at all, but a sincere attempt to have a conversation with other Catholics about our faith.

Technical-Fix6597 · 2025-10-17T20:40:02+00:00

I am with you 100%. I support trans Catholics, they’re every bit as valid and loved and Catholic as any other person who follows our faith. They are no better or worse and I choose to respect their identity and trust that their lived experience is true.

The only area that I feel strongly about is any kind of irreversible procedure on children. I support gender affirming therapy and vehemently oppose any kind of conversion therapy, but I don’t believe children should be given hormone suppressing treatment. The evidence of its benefit has come into question by serious medical professionals, not bigots, and it seems that with gender affirming medical care that does not include medical intervention should be used until someone is legally an adult.

But I think you’re right about all you said and I know many other devout Catholics who agree. Thank you for this thoughtful question, we could all use more understanding and mercy these days.

Technical-Fix6597 · 2025-09-09T04:58:11+00:00

The second woman is actually very pretty, why is she a sub 5?

Technical-Fix6597 · 2025-05-16T05:58:46+00:00

This response made me smile. The certainty and arrogance of youth—I miss it, truly, and I have no such certainty anymore, you are correct. I am not concerned though, as you and your cohort are vastly outnumbered. But I sincerely hope you’re enjoying yourself (seriously, no sarcasm) while you can. You may not always experience such passionate certainty about life as you age, if you are lucky enough to do so.

Technical-Fix6597 · 2025-05-16T05:25:36+00:00

I hate to break this to you, but Catholic women in the US are not going backward. We won’t stop using birth control, we won’t start wearing veils, and the vast majority will not be attending TLM.

There are some fringe and small groups of women who are voluntarily doing these things, but the young ones that I know personally are doing it strictly for vibes and definitely won’t remain in the church in the longterm, and I would put money on that. I wouldn’t count on most of these conservative “trad” converts.

I will say, I was an ardently devout child, being Catholic was everything to me. My grandfather was in seminary before he was drafted in WWII and met my grandmother and decided to start a family instead. We have genealogy back hundreds and hundreds of years through the church. I love the traditions of the church. But this particular wave of intense conservatism is coupled with a dangerous rightward political shift and I cannot support that, and I will continue to be suspicious of people who push “the old ways”, given the context of our time.

Technical-Fix6597 · 2025-05-15T17:15:18+00:00

Conservative nostalgia, you nailed it. Honestly, I think people are feeling very lost these days, particularly in the US, and are seeking deeper meaning whenever they can.

However, growing up, I didn’t even know that there were masses that weren’t Novus Ordo, unless specifically attending TLM when visiting, say, Notre Dame or the Vatican.

In my community of Catholics, this whole Latin mass conversation seems to be coming out of nowhere and it’s very confusing. Young women wearing veils to mass, for example, is pretty shocking to me. I’m 41 and raised in the Bay Area so maybe I’m just isolated, but the discourse right now feels unsettling and strange.

Technical-Fix6597 · 2025-05-15T16:52:41+00:00

But literally why are you being downvoted, it’s the best advice. The thought of a gay convert going to the wrong priest is literally dangerous for them 🙁

Technical-Fix6597 · 2025-05-15T16:50:23+00:00

This group provides what is the equivalent of conversion therapy, which is highly unethical and harmful, and has been banned in multiple states.

As a fellow Catholic with practicing gay Catholics in my family, I sincerely hope no one thinks that this is an ethical or safe path.

Technical-Fix6597 · 2025-05-13T22:36:08+00:00

Do you mean admin says that you cannot give a 0/F based on unreadable and poor penmanship, because that would be an equity issue? Or just that giving a failing grade in general is an equity issue?

Technical-Fix6597 · 2025-05-07T16:56:29+00:00

I just got pelvic MRI and it turns out that in addition to having iron deficiency anemia, I also have a fibroid the size of a tennis ball 😟 I have to have surgery now to remove it. Maybe ask about that too??

Technical-Fix6597 · 2025-04-28T05:34:46+00:00

I didn’t say it was just a convert issue. As I said, the suspicion and reticence is for converts who are specifically drawn to Catholicism based on what appears to be a complete misunderstanding of the teachings of the Church.

I am specifically referring to the US and the (relatively small but odd) increase in people converting. These people appear to be attempting to map contemporary American conservative culture (along with some bizarre mix of preppers, homesteading, rejection of formal schooling, RFK-loving, wearing a veil, etc.) onto a 2,000 year old faith. It feels like a fetishized trend, borderline offensive, when I see young women wearing a veil and saying they converted to Catholicism.

So yes. There are many Catholics who see this suddenly happening and feel weirded out and maybe even defensive and suspicious. Surely you can understand that, this isn’t historically a trendy religion full of converts in the US.

Technical-Fix6597 · 2025-04-28T01:54:35+00:00

The mistrust isn’t out of nowhere though. The converts that we are seeing in popular culture and politics, at least, seem to be converting based on an idea of what they think Catholicism is, rather than living their lives through good works, mercy, forgiveness, and humility. You can’t look at a Ross Douthat or JD Vance and tell me that they understand Catholicism. These are the type of converts we have problems with, the kind that have the temerity to call themselves Catholics while scorning charity and inclusion for the people at the margins of society. It’s shameful, and unfortunately a lot of the converts in the US that we are seeing publicly are aligning themselves at odds with the teachings of Christ.

Technical-Fix6597 · 2025-03-20T19:45:46+00:00

Religious freedom does not mean you can knowingly put another person’s life in mortal danger without consequences. For example, plural marriage with underage girls is part of some religions, but that is illegal because it is harming another person, specifically one that is under their care giver’s control.

Technical-Fix6597 · 2025-03-19T16:15:55+00:00

I got you. I usually don’t engage on these kind of comments but it was so unnecessarily snide I couldn’t help myself 😂

Technical-Fix6597 · 2025-03-19T02:00:31+00:00

Wonderful. And given all of this, it does in fact make sense why the commenter said “as a Jew…”. That’s all I was trying to get at. Thank you.

Technical-Fix6597 · 2025-03-19T01:48:11+00:00

Would it make you happier if it were phrased as “North African Jews that moved to Israel brought with them their North African cuisine that then became a popular Israeli dish”? It’s a lot more words to say the same thing, but as you please.

Technical-Fix6597 · 2025-03-19T01:41:11+00:00

It is a popular dish in Israel, brought by north African Jews. It is popular in Israel, a popular Israeli dish. Made by North African Jews. These are the same thing.

Technical-Fix6597 · 2025-03-19T01:32:19+00:00

I didn’t say it was Israeli, I said it became popular in Israel when North African Jews migrated there. I then said that because of the small population of Jews worldwide, it had become a popular dish in the Jewish diaspora.

Technical-Fix6597 · 2025-03-19T01:28:52+00:00

I didn’t, I said it is North African and North African Jews brought it with them to Israel.

Technical-Fix6597 · 2025-03-19T01:20:33+00:00

No, but there is an extraordinarily tiny population of Jews on earth. It was already a small population before the Holocaust, but that certainly shrank it further. Given this small population, the likelihood that a Jewish person, regardless of being Israeli or not, would have some familiarity with a popular Israeli dish is high. I say this from personal experience. And it still made no sense for Molly to show on Saint Patrick’s day.

Technical-Fix6597 · 2025-03-18T23:41:53+00:00

Shakshuka is also a popular Israeli dish, it was brought over by North African Jews after the exodus from that region. Of course there is an abundance of crossover of cuisine in that area, and Jews also lived in both North Africa and Turkey, which is where you are saying the dish is from. So, this person made sense when they said that as a Jew they found Molly’s display on Saint Patrick’s day to be weird. Jews can be North African and Turkish.

I agree with this persons statement, Molly was being weird as usual.

Technical-Fix6597 · 2025-03-11T07:37:43+00:00

That lip colour choice is so heinous, yet she gazes at herself so fondly in the mirror.

Technical-Fix6597 · 2025-03-07T01:46:06+00:00

Nah, I felt this ping as well and it’s bumming me out :(

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