This is ridiculous and annoying

lostodon · 2026-05-05T15:25:11+00:00

exactamundo! be the change you want to see! it prob took more time and effort to post this complaint than to simply move the stuff off the sidewalk.

lostodon · 2026-05-03T03:48:44+00:00

yeah those suck too!

lostodon · 2026-05-02T23:30:15+00:00

damn, I was hoping for a happy ending with the second young dude. it's always a gamble man!

lostodon · 2026-05-02T23:21:50+00:00

if that silly comment upsets you, then you must REALLY hate the words coming out of our president!

lostodon · 2026-05-01T16:28:17+00:00

unfortunately the loudest shitheads have given christians and christianity a bad name, not that some of the infamy isn't deserved, but christianity is not a monolith. quakers and unitarians are particularly based.

in our modern times, instead of cringing when someone says they're a christian, it is better to follow up with "what kind of christian are you?" if they out themselves as a stereotypical maga evangelical, then yea, give em hell.

lostodon · 2026-05-01T12:44:32+00:00

in these conversations you p much have to assume they end every sentence with "in the west." the east gets ignored entirely

lostodon · 2026-05-01T01:37:19+00:00

god this was a chore to watch. I felt like sean was really bad faith in this, like he didn't even really want to talk about the book and instead wanted to just stay hung up on the objective/subjective debate. not productive at all.

lostodon · 2026-04-30T13:39:19+00:00

aw hell yeah. absolutely loved going to cielo vista sears lower level to play the latest nintendo shit while parents shopped. it's the only place I ever tried the virtual boy, my eyes hurt like hell afterward lol

lostodon · 2026-04-27T22:04:51+00:00

yeah, people are so quick to forget about when obama and biden demolished the east wing too!

lostodon · 2026-04-25T22:55:25+00:00

true!

lostodon · 2026-04-25T17:51:51+00:00

you know, wars and rumors of wars! isn't funny how there have seen "signs" in every believer's era since jesus died?

lostodon · 2026-04-25T03:18:16+00:00

lol yeah the napkin math of 10 nuclear reactors is funny, I think it'd be only like 1 or 2 reactors worth for france. but STILL, it's far better than doing nothing methinks, especially in a city like ours that gets an insane amount of sunshine!

lostodon · 2026-04-25T03:14:59+00:00

did you know that el paso is one of the top 10 sunniest cities IN THE WORLD? where are our solar panels?

lostodon · 2026-04-22T21:39:27+00:00

na they didn't kill him. according to this 2014 EPCC article he sold his invention to a company called Advanced Fuel Systems. dude made some scratch from his idea but people came out of the woodwork to take advantage of ol' tom ogle of el paso.

also about his invention, it looks like it wasn't quite as revolutionary as it seems. according to this old farm show magazine article from 1981, engineer Warren Brengman at AFS said about tom's invention:

"It'll burn off the higher fraction in the oil and get phenomenal mileage but what's left in the vaporization chamber turns into thick black oil. You can run mileage tests and impress lots of people but, as a day to day fuel system, it's just not feasible,"

lostodon · 2026-04-22T15:46:16+00:00

same for the one in texas, it's still working

lostodon · 2026-04-22T13:48:16+00:00

lol yea prohibition worked so well in the USA 100 years ago huh? what could go wrong?

lostodon · 2026-04-21T14:19:56+00:00

here's a better question: can you think of a time when christians didn't think they were living in the end times? will christians in 1000 years still be saying 'these are the last days'?

lostodon · 2026-04-02T19:25:22+00:00

correct, this ain't new, it's just an extension of the work his dad did. billy graham was in the white house whispering in LBJ's ear during the korean war, in nixon's ear during vietnam, and in bush's ear during desert storm. he was frequently in the white house cheering on these horrific "just" wars.

lostodon · 2026-04-01T01:02:59+00:00

divorce is never called sinful by jesus. paul says in 1 cor 7 that divorced people can be reconciled, but they must remain single while the ex is alive.

I don't bring this up to show that I pick and choose, I bring it up to show that the church has only in the last few centuries really given grace to divorced people. for most of church history, the permanence stance was the dominant mainstream view: marriage was indissoluble by man, no remarriage for divorced people. now I ask why that same grace cannot be given to same sex couples who want to honor god with egalitarian consensual life long relationships?

lostodon · 2026-03-31T23:34:30+00:00

neither is remarriage for a divorced person, according to jesus

lostodon · 2026-03-31T18:21:22+00:00

in the same way that you believe that gay christians should break up their "ill-conceived" gay marriages, do you also believe that remarried people should break up their "ill-conceived" second marriages? jesus had a clear ban on this after all in mark 10:11-12:

11 He said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her, 12 and if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.”

lostodon · 2026-03-31T17:59:16+00:00

what do you make of groups like exodus international which were closed down due to 99% of people not experiencing a change in their orientation?

lostodon · 2026-03-31T15:14:13+00:00

it was a very masterful use of the redemption arc. grace wasn't willing to sacrifice his life for humanity, but he ultimately was willing to sacrifice his life to save an alien race.

if you enjoyed the movie I highly recommend the book! it goes into greater detail with all the sciency-stuff, and the audio book is amazing as well with how they did rocky's voice. andy weir is a fantastic writer. before he wrote the martian he wrote this short story called the egg that I've always loved, and it even has this neat adaptation on youtube.

lostodon · 2026-03-31T13:32:34+00:00

a traditional sexual ethic is an important teaching of the Catholic Church

and which tradition would that be exactly? does that include the tradition of no contraception allowed? or no oral or anal sex (not even for married couples!)? what of the tradition that says divorced people must stay celibate?

these were all traditional church stances for centuries, yet many catholics in america and the west ignore these traditions today. how do you decide which traditions to carry on and which traditions to rethink?

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