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JimVH wrote: ↑24 Apr 2023, 13:46 Yesterday, In the theater, on the big screen.

What a treat. How was the turnout?

+JMJ+ The Holy Finger at the Nelson-Atkins is an unusual piece of biblical history https://web.archive.org/web/20230424161450if_/https://i.imgflip.com/7jb570.jpg https://web.archive.org/web/20230424155412if_/https://srv4.imgonline.com.ua/result_img/imgonline-com-ua-twotoone-UhBqQdpp2bp7myU0.jpg The...

+JMJ+ There's an art museum in Kansas City that has a fingerbone of John the Baptist. Cool. As in "Cool in the News" . https://web.archive.org/web/20230214150915if_/https://cdn4.iconfinder.com/data/icons/leto-weather/64/cold_temperature_termometer_winter-64.png Nah. That's old news. I saw...

There's an art museum in Kansas City that has a fingerbone of John the Baptist.

I don't know what to make of this. I just find it fascinating at the moment. Per the BBC: Coronation cross will include 'crucifixion relics' Fragments said to be from the cross on which Jesus was crucified will be included in a newly made Cross of Wales used at the head of the coronation procession ...

I've only just become acquainted with Malachi Martin. It seems he made a splash, both in culture (via the popculture exorcism craze of the 70s) and in the church, as one knowledgeable of the inner workings of the Vatican, who then became a vocal critic, though remained a Roman Catholic all his days....

I've never owned a chainsaw.

Couple of hand saws and a hatchet has been sufficient for menial yard work.

All my neighbors have chainsaws. If ever I need to cut something with a chain, I'll call upon them.

Hugo Drax wrote: ↑17 Apr 2023, 04:27 Sometimes the grace we're given is just enough to keep us getting out of bed and doing our duty.

Amen.

One thing I've been trying to pray with more earnestness is that if I am to go through any sufferings (however big or small), that I would suffer well.

Heads should be exploding, but they aren't. So this is going to continue to escalate. Some people would call this a fascist tyranny. I see the lack of head 'splosions as mostly a vantage point thing. I think many American's heads are exploding over this and loads of other stuff. But almost no one r...

The larger point though, as Wos pointed out, is that Ds and Rs both point and shout across the picket lines that the other side is fascist. Often without know wtf they're talking about, or consideration of the relative structures both sides are working under. I mean, that's a given. But I was riffi...