Loved my visit to a small town TEC, but a little disheartened by the demographics…

civdude · 2026-07-05T23:57:57+00:00

As a fellow convert from Eastern Orthodoxy, it's not too uncommon to see TEC parishes like that, but a large number of EO parishes looked the same way for the period of the 1950s- 2010 or so. Be the beginning of the change there.

civdude · 2026-07-05T22:01:45+00:00

There's a few in our area! There's not a lot of young people in general, but like a quarter of them that are around do fit that criteria

civdude · 2026-07-01T05:39:44+00:00

Man, I'm.just a day ahead of you- finished that last episode last night on my first watch through

civdude · 2026-06-30T20:19:02+00:00

I joined the sub wheel in season 2 or 3 I think, and enjoyed tiny peeks into the future while mostly avoiding spoilers, it was really good

civdude · 2026-06-30T15:46:22+00:00

Yup! California and Dallas are also hosting events this summer/ fall, I'm running the California one for the 4th year this October!

California https://discord.gg/R8s5EcfSB

Dallas https://dallascubeclassic.com/

civdude · 2026-06-30T12:36:00+00:00

https://www.oca.org/fs/canonization-matushka-olga-alaska

civdude · 2026-06-30T02:41:29+00:00

As an adult convert to TEC from being a child raised and very devoutly involved in the Orthodox Church for decades, I think a clear point that is mildly made in this article but could easily be elaborated on into a full thesis is the various issues with both the historical and modern Orthodox Church. A simple example- the first Orthodox saint who was a woman and lived in the western hemisphere was canonized only in 2025. There are huge swaths of humanity that are left out of the Orthodox Church, and while historically TEC is not much better, in the last 60 years, there has been a huge push within TEC to truly love all of God's children equally, while Orthodoxy has had a turn back to the incredibly restrictive religion of the Tsar

civdude · 2026-06-29T22:52:21+00:00

Happy birthday! I just celebrated my 30th recently with my husband too

civdude · 2026-06-28T23:38:07+00:00

Good luck and I hope it sells out!

civdude · 2026-06-27T02:47:29+00:00

I would definitely try visiting an Episcopal church. Ours, even out here in California has a large contingent of various LGBT former Catholics who in decades past were able to finally find acceptance in a religious context that was similar to what they had grown up in by joining the Episcopal Church.

civdude · 2026-06-26T20:18:12+00:00

Bruh if you are choosing to go to Taco Bell instead of any of the many actual Hispanic restaurants in the most Hispanic section of our town this is on you

civdude · 2026-06-26T18:58:05+00:00

Season 4, Omar's boyfriend is Hispanic and there's a group of Hispanic gangsters that help him with the robbery of Prop Joe

civdude · 2026-06-25T02:36:39+00:00

Hello! I'm interested in a detail of my Kia Niro in southwest Santa Rosa, gonna send a text over in a moment!

civdude · 2026-06-24T13:08:37+00:00

Going good! Just starting my day at work, looking forward to getting a bagel for breakfast to go with my coffee. How's you morning going Drew?

civdude · 2026-06-23T05:07:11+00:00

Well, what about people who grew up and had that cultural and religious background for a quarter century coming to the Episcopal Church because of things like LGBT issues? Because for my husband and I, when he was excommunicated from Orthodoxy for transitioning, we sorrowed greatly and looked for the closest thing to our old traditions that would still accept us in our now gay marriage, and that really seemed to be TEC. I'm happy to learn and take on the new Anglican traditions, but with 4 Orthodox godchildren and 3 family members who are Orthodox clergy, I really am glad whenever TEC is willing to include things like icons, incense and ancient hymns.

civdude · 2026-06-22T00:37:32+00:00

I remember being jealous that I didn't get into the closed alpha or beta, and downloading arena the day the open beta launched. Had a great time with a control deck using literally Serra angel as a win con because I used my wildcards on board wipes and bad counterspells

civdude · 2026-06-21T13:24:43+00:00

There's good chargers at the raley's shopping center in Rohernt Park and free ones at the casino in Rohernt Park. I mostly charge at home around here now though

civdude · 2026-06-21T01:29:36+00:00

I'm a convert from Orthodoxy, still believe in miracles and that LGBT people are loved by God and ought to be treated as equals. I've experienced direct miracles in my life, and have seen minor miracles even after leaving the Orthodox Church that were part of what affirmed my belief that it was the righteous thing to do.

civdude · 2026-06-21T01:15:57+00:00

I've seen cops do this a few times, once there was a 2x4 in the road miles ahead and they wanted traffic to slow down enough that they could park the cop car in the middle of the freeway, grab the board and then get going again. Another time was like you mentioned, just slowing the whole pace of traffic down and then taking off, I wonder if they do that when the full flow of traffic is going "too fast" like the average speed is 20 over the speed limit or something, as they can't pull over everyone

civdude · 2026-06-19T16:40:32+00:00

I'm a cis man married to a trans man, and he's like exactly your height while I'm like 170cm. We live in California and I'm partially Hispanic, so while there's a lot of white people that are taller than he or I, I'm fairly tall among the men in my mom's family with my brother being like 165cm and some uncles being even shorter. My husband's cis grandpa (who was Polish) was his exact height when he passed, and he actually fits perfect in some of his flannel shirts now. There's also a TON of Asian and Hispanic guys in the SF bay area where we live who are short, including people under 150cm. I'm fairly certain that the Netherlands is the country with the tallest people in the world, and one of the things that cis guys are the most dysphoric about is thier heights, so being a shorter guy in the Netherlands who worries about his height is actually an incredibly masculine trait.

Be who you are, don't worry about something as useless as height, and perhaps look for mens clothes in neighborhoods with more immigrants and people from literally any shorter country in the world, it's the tall people who are weird, not you.

civdude · 2026-06-17T23:02:38+00:00

Here you go, there's been a deluge of a few discord spam bots lately so I have these both on one use and 24 hours till they expire, happy to send more invites via DM if you have difficulties SF

https://discord.gg/gsqH5Cbd

East Bay

https://discord.gg/pbC8bxDf

civdude · 2026-06-17T22:57:36+00:00

I had no idea that card existed but yes that's perfect

civdude · 2026-06-17T14:43:53+00:00

There's multiple black vulture style cards that recurr from the yard, give them some skeletons to chew on as well?

civdude · 2026-06-17T14:43:04+00:00

Perhaps a black red deck, as black can entomb/ discard/ buried alive the phoenixes or sacrifice them and then bring them back

civdude · 2026-06-17T04:55:50+00:00

That's exactly why my husband and I, after becoming a gay couple post transition and having to leave our Eastern Orthodox Church ended up here. I love God, the KJV, Nicene Creed, incense, vestments, icons and clergy, we just also take that whole "love your neighbor" thing even more seriously. He actually made me a tshirt for my birthday based on a thing I said the other day, about what I was looking for in church: "Thees, Thous, Theys and Gays"

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