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Elvie 🕯️🕯️🕯️
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catholic (normal). love Jesus, love mary, hate sin, hate the devil.

opinions are my own and have not been approved by a censor librorum.

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it would help me immensely!!!

and sometimes if it's a hymn or song I know & love well enough I will be able to overcome the awkwardness, and I have experienced me singing it causing people near me to start up as well. now if only we had practiced singers who could rehearse & do the same thing....
December 22, 2025 at 4:54 PM
I think this is like fundamental psychology that cannot be overcome by force of will. but you can fix it with audience plants! mic like four of them in the Choir Zone and spread the rest of the choir around!
December 22, 2025 at 4:46 PM
I am part of the problem bc I do not have a good voice (genuinely) and *cannot* bring myself to sing above a whisper if no one else near me is singing. I try and I physically can't make myself do it. but once like 20% of people are singing aloud I will too! and I know others are the same way.
December 22, 2025 at 4:43 PM
one of the youtube ads we keep getting the last few weeks is him and some other guys I've never heard of advertising for saudi arabia. like just going to the country
December 22, 2025 at 4:34 PM
-mel every time they make a new friend
December 22, 2025 at 4:32 PM
we will!

PS I do refer to you all as "my friends in my phone" when talking to my husband (I exclusively log on via desktop which makes this 'joke' extra funny to me)
December 22, 2025 at 4:28 PM
he's being completely normal and sprightly and hungry etc except for his Symptom. at least it's not an ER vet!! it's a real vet with appointments. probably tests and an x-ray. but prayers up that it does turn out to be something simple and resolvable
December 22, 2025 at 4:12 PM
it's the kind of "GI Stuff" which could be basically nothing and resolve on its own/with the help of probiotics, or could be some kind of latent emergency. when you bring in a lab with GI symptoms the first thing the techs say when greeting them is "what did you swallow little guy?" lol
December 22, 2025 at 4:10 PM
"everyone is being totally insane, and it's snowing" perfect christmas movie
December 22, 2025 at 3:40 AM
sounds like you're getting it
December 22, 2025 at 3:39 AM
so many possibilities
December 22, 2025 at 3:39 AM
he absolutely goes off on what you're talking about in book 12. a whole lovely digression about how if he'd been commissioned to write genesis he'd have hoped to be able to write it such that the simple can grasp it and also any truths wise minds could come up with could be found in the same words.
December 22, 2025 at 3:36 AM
one of my fav bits from confessions - "see now how stupid it is, among so large a mass of entirely correct interpretations which can be elicited from those words, rashly to assert that a particular one has the best claim to be moses' view, & by destructive disputes to offend against charity itself"
December 22, 2025 at 3:36 AM
ben you have been absolutely cooking lately
December 22, 2025 at 3:26 AM
I love it so much lmao
December 22, 2025 at 3:25 AM
December 22, 2025 at 3:21 AM
under vatican 3 there will be no anglosphere popes allowed
December 22, 2025 at 3:14 AM
someone once told me he'd never met ANYONE who voted for our then-governor (implication: vote by mail fraud) and I was like. well, I did, and all of my friends who bother to vote for governor, and also >50% of the rest of voters
December 22, 2025 at 1:06 AM
interesting to see someone say "you're telling me social media is lying to me? I don't buy it!" right out loud lol
December 22, 2025 at 1:05 AM
thanks a lot vatican 2
December 22, 2025 at 12:47 AM
either way, the adjective satanic predates laveyan satanism by a ways
December 21, 2025 at 8:36 PM
those you think deserve it, treating anyone who "annoys you in your lair cruelly and without mercy," "destroying" people who won't stop bothering you in public, etc.

you might be thinking of the temple of satan, a satire group who do intentionally edgy stunts to promote freedom of religion
December 21, 2025 at 8:35 PM