@Shid Cat every time a girl has ever gotten involved in one of my gaming circles they're gone within a week once they realize none of us wanna have sex with them
I'm a CIA asset and I can confirm we had nothing to do with this... maybe one of our informants from the FBI who is here could speak on whether their organization might have been involved
@Deleted User the reason I ask is this gold state guy is getting like 11K views and he's beating out mainstream sources who are also attempting to youtube live stream
at first it was little more than a mantra to me and then i noticed some therapeutic effects and of course skeptically dismissed that as psychological entirely
but then i started to learn to pray the words with my mouth while meditating on the mysteries and i kept up this practice and i can only say my mindset changed as I reflected daily on the mysteries of the faith especially on the sorrowful mysteries, the passions of jesus christ our lord
living for 10 years as an atheist i had picked up a lot of sinful habits that i didn't consider sinful or in any way wrong and they began to feel injurious to engage in, that might've been the first sign
I went down the rabbit hole of reading the entire catechism of the catholic church and just praying a lot to god to show me more, the nature of faith, hope and charity, and to lead me closer to his presence in the blessed sacrament
I was dealing with a really terrible anxiety disorder and didn't even want to leave my house let alone go into a church but I worked up the courage to do so after suffering from years of the damage left after a nervous breakdown I had
I didn't much like the first mass I went to in terms of the setting and arrangements and the priest's homily but I absolutely felt something there and it was life changing to me, such that even with what I thought were lame/boring elements, I saw this greater meaning and wanted to return... however I couldn't work up the courage to talk to that priest about my experiences over the last year
on a whim I went to a different parish a couple sundays later after missing a couple masses and the priest's homily there spoke directly to my experience as he touched on atheism and skepticism
by the end of that mass I remember I felt like I was going to faint my knees were wobbling, but completely uncharacteristic of me I went straight up to the priest and just told him my life story in about 90 seconds, I don't know how I found the words and put them together in so short a time but I did
I guess I tell the story here to drive at the point that the holy spirit works through us, god has been seeking us before we were in our mother's womb, he knew us even then... we have to open our hearts to his grace. the church's teaching on faith and reason also helped me to understand this is not just a blind leap of faith
my entire worldview changed and I still don't exactly understand what happened but I've been healed in many ways from what was ailing me and became a completely transformed person and I absolutely believe in god again
@IAmHiding I have to confess that the tweet itself is not that interesting he's actually saying something very peaceable about God wanting us to call him Father, I think he's addressing how the gaypiscopalians are debating whether to start using more gender neutral terms for God
this is the official translation `God wants us to call Him Father, with the trust of children who abandon themselves in the arms of the One who gave them life.`
