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娘が産まれて100日目！クリスチャンなのでお食い初めはパスしますが、代わりにいつもより集中して子供のために祈る時間を取ろうかなと思います♪
神様が私に与えてくれた宝物…😭
娘どころか、結婚さえもできると思わなかったので感謝しかないです。
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Ethan Hawke is correct.
This growing destruction is our next chapter.
It is not our last.
Something comes afterwards.
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It's interesting to consider how "caloric post-scarcity" has to factor in on the death penalty question.
First, it stands to reason that creating opportunities for repentance is a fundamentally merciful act, and should be done if possible.
In a poor society with scarce energy, technology, foodstuffs, etc -- it would make sense that extended bouts of incarceration might constitute an unconscionable misallocation of precious resources. In those cases, the death penalty was probably a reasonable course of action for quite a few crimes.
And in fact, the poorer and more energy-scarce the society, the more often the death penalty would've made sense, even for fairly mundane crimes...
But in the richest society in human history by orders of magnitude, where caloric survival for a single human being is, in economic terms, a rounding error -- why NOT keep those who have done heinous crimes alive indefinitely, to either die a natural death or, more preferably, to repent and to take up the Cross of Christ?
The only reason incarceration is so expensive in the USA is because of ridiculous bureaucracy. There is not really any reason we couldn't do it extraordinarily cheaply.
Corn meal, lard, and Tang orange drink could keep somebody alive for many, many years. The US also has many uninhabited islands where prisoners could be kept insanely cheaply; all it'd take is a USCG security detail to patrol them. Use passive geothermal tunnel-tubes to keep concrete block bunkers at 45f all winter. Make prisoners do 100% of the maintenance on buildings with the absolute cheapest materials possible, as the Russians do with some of their modern penal colonies. Provide the absolute most basic level of EMT care and nothing else. Allow Priests to station themselves on the islands for the care of souls.
It would not be a fun existence. It would largely be miserable. But because it could save the souls of criminals from hell (as Christ did for Saint Dismas on the day of His Crucifixion), and because it could be done VERY cheaply if we wished -- why not do it?
Why insist on killing criminals when we have an infinite supply of calories, cheap concrete, and uninhabited islands where they could be kept dirt cheap?
If we were constantly on the edge of famine, this might be a different matter entirely.
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May it have its intended, medicinal effect.
My Catholic Priest publicly announced at every mass he was denying me Holy Communion following the assisted dying vote. Children who are friends of my children were there. This followed a direct threat in writing to do this four days before the vote. 1/3 observer.co.uk/news/national…
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The Catholic Church found itself the target of the largest smear campaign in history. That’s part of the story. The other part is simply that many people wanted it to be true.
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Dear friends,
I would like to share a
special message with you.
After several years of private discernment, I would like to announce to you with great reverence and care that, with the blessing of my religious community the Sisters of the Society of Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity (SOLT) and the Archbishop of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, his Excellency Jeffrey S. Grob, I am officially entering into a time of public discernment of the foundation of a new religious community, Friends of the Bridegroom.
The pathway here has been richly blessed by the wisdom and guidance of my spiritual director, my superiors, the competent ecclesiastical authorities, and so many dear friends and advisors.
As many of you know, my years of work in the area of healing, as well as my work with religious sisters, general superiors, bishops, and priests have allowed me to see and experience the need and ache for the ongoing healing and renewal of our clergy and religious sisters.
For the past three years, I have served as the Executive Director of Friends of the Bridegroom with Fr. John Burns. Friends of the Bridegroom is an apostolate that seeks to renew the Church through the renewal of religious life and the priesthood. It has been a profoundly blessed time, and the Lord has continually stirred a desire in all of us in the apostolate to discern the foundation of a new community of priests, religious sisters, and laity who would work toward this important renewal.
During this time of public discernment, the Friends of the Bridegroom ministry and my public activities connected with this discernment will remain under the pastoral care and oversight of Archbishop Jeffrey Grob, Archbishop of Milwaukee. I am deeply grateful for his willingness to accompany and guide this discernment during this important time.
I am truly grateful for the support of so many people over the years and I continue to count on your prayers and support as we discern this very important step. During this time of public discernment, I remain a Sister of good standing with SOLT and will continue to wear the SOLT Sisters habit.
Once again, I extend my tremendous gratitude to Sister Mary Aloysius of Jesus, SOLT General Sister Servant, her General Council, and Archbishop Jeffrey Grob.
Please pray for the renewal of the priesthood and religious life.
To learn more about Friends of the Bridegroom, please visit our website renewreligious.org
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God bless him and his family and everyone working with him for a cure. Thank you for living. And making us laugh and understand suffering is not the end.
Michael J. Fox was just awarded the Bob Hope Humanitarian Award, which has only been given out 7 times in Emmys history. here's his full speech
"Initially, I kept my Parkinson's diagnosis a secret. I worried that it would affect my work and my relationship with audiences. Would they laugh if they knew I was sick? And then I was stunned by the support I got. The support from all of you. It was so uplifting. It made me feel like I could keep doing this and I hadn't lost what I do and they couldn't take this away from me. And it's because you stood up for me, and I really appreciate it."
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VOYAGER 1 JUST CAME BACK FROM THE DEAD
Something thought to be broken for more than 20 years has suddenly come back to life on a spacecraft more than 15 billion miles from Earth.
NASA’s Voyager 1, launched in 1977, recently faced another problem that could have threatened its ability to communicate with us. Engineers needed backup roll thrusters to help keep the spacecraft’s antenna precisely aimed at Earth. But those thrusters had been considered unusable since 2004 after their tiny heaters stopped receiving power.
Then NASA engineers took another look at the old failure. They suspected the heaters might not actually be dead, but stuck in the wrong electrical state.
So they sent a carefully planned command into deep space.
The signal took more than 23 hours to reach Voyager 1. There was no instant response and no way to intervene if the spacecraft reacted badly. Engineers had to wait.
Then, more than a day later, the telemetry arrived.
The temperature had risen.
The heaters were working.
A system believed to be lost for two decades had been brought back to life from billions of miles away.
The timing matters. Voyager’s working thrusters are slowly becoming less reliable as fuel residue builds up inside their narrow tubes. Meanwhile, the spacecraft’s nuclear power source loses about four watts every year. NASA has already been forced to shut down instruments to conserve its shrinking supply of electricity. Only two science instruments remain operating.
And Voyager 1 is still heading farther into interstellar space.
In November 2026, it is expected to become the first human-made object to reach a distance of one light-day from Earth — about 16.1 billion miles away.
A spacecraft built nearly half a century ago is still whispering information back to Earth from the darkness between the stars.
And somehow, every time it seems ready to fall silent, engineers find another way to keep it talking.
Source: NASA/JPL
ALT VOYAGER 1 JUST CAME BACK FROM THE DEAD Something thought to be broken for more than 20 years has suddenly come back to life on a spacecraft more than 15 billion miles from Earth. NASA’s Voyager 1, launched in 1977, recently faced another problem that could have threatened its ability to communicate with us. Engineers needed backup roll thrusters to help keep the spacecraft’s antenna precisely aimed at Earth. But those thrusters had been considered unusable since 2004 after their tiny heaters stopped receiving power. Then NASA engineers took another look at the old failure. They suspected the heaters might not actually be dead, but stuck in the wrong electrical state.
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The events described, including the Voyager 1 backup thruster revival, occurred in March 2025 and were announced by NASA in May 2025.
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📺DEBUT: The animated series 'Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!' premiered 57 years ago, September 13, 1969, on CBS
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be dennis ritchie
> create C
> co-create Unix with Ken Thompson
> give generations of programmers the foundations to build on
> win the Turing Award
> your work reaches billions of people who never learn your name
> die in October 2011, while the world is mourning Steve Jobs
> your death makes far fewer headlines
> somewhere today, someone writes their first “hello, world” in your language
imagine building something so lasting that people begin their life’s work inside yours.
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In March 2001, The Lone Gunmen aired its pilot, featuring a plot about a plane being remotely hijacked and deliberately aimed at the World Trade Center.
Six months later, 9/11 happened.
You couldn’t write a more unsettling coincidence.
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Wow.
In 24 years of watching 9/11 memorials and the reading of the names of the dead, I have never heard applause.
This morning the crowd did — because one brave widow, @TerrySStrada, looked at the leaders in front of her and refused to let the day pass in silence.
She called out Saudi Arabia’s role, the broken promises, and a string of administrations that protected the Kingdom instead of helping to deliver justice for the families.
A stunning, must-watch minute. Stand with the families.
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My school on Long Island didn't tell us what had happened, and sent us home at the end of the day, not knowing whose parents would be missing.
I will always remember my 6th grade math teacher cheerily teaching about the associative and commutative properties and saying "commutative like 'commute!' Do anyone's parents commute to the city?"
She asked each kid where their parents worked and nothing seemed strange to us. She was always chatty and she loved us. I don't know how she kept her voice steady and her affect warm when one of the boys said his dad worked at the World Trade Center. (He turned out to be a survivor).
Our school had worse than no plan. I don't know what she did after our math class—if she went to the office, if she did anything to try to make a plan for that kid and all the others.
It wasn't until I got home and found out what had happened that I realized that what she had done for us.
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“There's nothing easier than imitating an example that's already been provided. Providing that example yourself is something altogether different.”
— René Girard, ‘When These Things Begin,’ ch. 12
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Friends, I’m here in Nashville. This morning I spoke with Theo Von, and tomorrow the Good News Conference kicks off. Before the conference begins, I wanted to share a few reflections on country music, Johnny Cash, and the "Christ-haunted" South.
