Update for Everyone VII: Insert Something Philosophical Sounding Here

[bagelman]

I also tried the healthcare.gov webzone after being told I'm off medicaid this summer. I'm then told I'm eligible for medicaid.

and Christmas Eve is when I get the bills from the doctor's after 3 months. Sky high. Thanks Obama and congressional dinocrats for being neoliberal pussies.

[Boobs]

I will be tantalizingly close to visiting Kalawao County, but sadly the logistics won’t work out. An excuse to visit again, I suppose.

[An American Tail: Fubart Goes West]

I will be tantalizingly close to visiting Kalawao County, but sadly the logistics won’t work out. An excuse to visit again, I suppose.

Dang! My dad was talking about going to Molokai to get that county when he and my mom went to Hawaii. They didn’t have the time either.

[HillGoose]

dude owes me nearly $1,000 and isn't paying me bcuz he's "in debt" well figure it out dude, go take out a loan or something because u were supposed to pay me over a month ago.

this is what i get for being nice and loaning money to people.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

dude owes me nearly $1,000 and isn't paying me bcuz he's "in debt" well figure it out dude, go take out a loan or something because u were supposed to pay me over a month ago.

this is what i get for being nice and loaning money to people.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXId5jOTxdg

[muon2]

I will be tantalizingly close to visiting Kalawao County, but sadly the logistics won’t work out. An excuse to visit again, I suppose.

Dang! My dad was talking about going to Molokai to get that county when he and my mom went to Hawaii. They didn’t have the time either.

They definitely missed out. It was one of the highlights of my life, I suspected it would be, so I planned the time from the outset.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

dude owes me nearly $1,000 and isn't paying me bcuz he's "in debt" well figure it out dude, go take out a loan or something because u were supposed to pay me over a month ago.

this is what i get for being nice and loaning money to people.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXId5jOTxdg

https://youtu.be/SD1n-DKUIeE

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Sadly, I think I just attended the last service of my church where I'll consider myself a member. UU congregations vary, and the one I have attended for the last six years or so has gone into politics in a major way and I'm not wanting to mix religion and politics. Moreover, I'm worried if they have the capacity to do what they want to do, and that they haven't adequately considered if they can. Last and least, I don't think the tack they propose to take is the best use of time and resources to address the issue they want to address. Their hearts are in the right place, but I think their heads are in the clouds here.

However, I'd been drifting from them for a while anyway as the current pastor's sermons rarely speak to me.  They're social studies and/or lessons /civic holiday of the week/month more than spirituality insights. Today's sermon was a case in point.  It focused on National Disability Employment Awareness Month and how we shouldn't put disabled people in a box labeled "courageous" when they do the same things everyone else does.  All well and good, but even with that cheesy topic there was much more that could have been done that would have spoken to my spiritual side. (Or even someone else's!) There was no attempt to plug this topic into any religion or philosophy whatsoever. Even if it had been kept 100% secular, rather than simply being about how we shouldn't treat the disabled as "inspiration porn" for accomplishing ordinary tasks in a manner different than we do, I think a more effective approach would be to point out that we're all courageous and inspirational when we do the difficult task of living, not just the disabled. An effective sermon needs to about not just the other, but also the self if it is to speak to the soul.

She means well, but it's time to bite the bullet.  It looks like ELCA is where I'll be headed now. I've been attending an ELCA church occasionally, and regularly participating in bible study there. Moreover, the pastor there, she's the one who did our prenuptial counseling. My main concern is that I take creeds seriously, so I have yet to decide if I'll become a full member or just show up more often.

So far, my old UU church has validated my concerns they weren't as ready as they thought they were for what they're wanting to do.

I ended up deciding that while strictly speaking I'm not 100% onboard with The Book of Concord, my beliefs line up well enuf with several of the churches that the ELCA is in full communion with that joining doesn't violate my conscience. Hence, I'll be joining despite The Book of Concord indicating a belief in the perpetual virginity of Mary. (I'm agnostic on the issue of the virgin birth, but a belief that the means that God provided for humanity to be fruitful and multiply is sinful and therefore perpetual virginity is a prerequisite for the mother of Jesus is crazy, IMO.)

The official becoming a member of the ELCA is scheduled for January 27. (The Revised Common Lectionary readings for that Sunday other than the gospel reading speak to my reasons for making the switch. I'm not presumptuous enuf to think Luke 4:14-21 speaks to my situation.) I'll probably be going out with a bang from my old church on January 6. I think I've laid out my reasons respectfully and with a minimum of drama, but one never knows how rejection will be received.

[HillGoose]

gonna get plastered tonight and tomorrow night brah

[Co-Chair Bagel23]

My sister got her first car today. Subaru Forester 2019.

[Joe Republic]

Me: I’m having a really nice morning. The weather is nice, the traffic was light, everything is going great right now.

My long-term memory: Yeah but what about that scene in Apocalypse Now where the water buffalo gets hacked to death

[muon2]

I think last night I may have just tasted the best fried chicken in my 60 years. I'm often looking at ideas for where to stop for food on the road, and one suggestion was A Q Chicken House in Springdale AR. I had the chicken sampler which included a traditional fried breast, coal-fired thigh, and a BBQ sauced leg. The first two were out of this world, juicy but not greasy. The BBQ sauce was a little too sloppy for my taste, but it's probably great if you like your sauce heavy. If you can get to NW AR bring your appetite and some wetnaps.

[HillGoose]

dude i overdid it on the tequila at the party tonight lmao

[Co-Chair Bagel23]

New year so I finished my dues to my lost bet. Phew, feels so good and relieving to not have to have Ocasio as my sig anymore, so new sig now!

[wesmoorenerd]

New year so I finished my dues to my lost bet. Phew, feels so good and relieving to not have to have Ocasio as my sig anymore, so new sig now!

FF sig!

[100% pro-life no matter what]

Haven't done as much international travel as I would have liked the past few years, so I booked a trip to Argentina and Brazil for this April.  Looking forward to seeing somewhere new!

[America Needs a 13-6 Progressive SCOTUS]

Haven't done as much international travel as I would have liked the past few years, so I booked a trip to Argentina and Brazil for this April.  Looking forward to seeing somewhere new!

Be prepared to be stuck in Brazil and not be allowed to leave due to an emigration ban likely to be imposed by Jail Bolsonaro.

[Alabama_Indy10]

Haven't done as much international travel as I would have liked the past few years, so I booked a trip to Argentina and Brazil for this April.  Looking forward to seeing somewhere new!

Be prepared to be stuck in Brazil and not be allowed to leave due to an emigration ban likely to be imposed by Jail Bolsonaro.

Gosh some of y’all are getting so worked up over him lol

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Saw the bass player girl again over the weekend. Hm.

[Mr. Smith]

Got one of my teeth pulled.  Glad it's gone, but it feels weird still to have 31 teeth after a decent quarter century with all of them.

[100% pro-life no matter what]

I decided to poll my Facebook feed (largely the same vein of movement conservatism that I am) on a hypothetical Romney vs. Trump 2020 primary, and it is a nail-biter right now!  Trump currently leads 51% to 49%, and it's going back and forth.

[HillGoose]

I decided to poll my Facebook feed (largely the same vein of movement conservatism that I am) on a hypothetical Romney vs. Trump 2020 primary, and it is a nail-biter right now!  Trump currently leads 51% to 49%, and it's going back and forth.

damn how many friends you got on fb?

I once did a poll on facebook asking whether the ceiling or the sky was what's up, the results were interesting, all my friends who voted for "the ceiling" were male and all my friends who voted for "the sky" were female. lmao

[100% pro-life no matter what]

I decided to poll my Facebook feed (largely the same vein of movement conservatism that I am) on a hypothetical Romney vs. Trump 2020 primary, and it is a nail-biter right now!  Trump currently leads 51% to 49%, and it's going back and forth.

damn how many friends you got on fb?

I once did a poll on facebook asking whether the ceiling or the sky was what's up, the results were interesting, all my friends who voted for "the ceiling" were male and all my friends who voted for "the sky" were female. lmao

Probably about 1000 friends or so, but this is out of 76 voters.  Trump led 39 to 37 when I posted this.  A slight gender gap with women going 55% Romney and men going 54% Trump (more men than women have voted).

Will provide the final numbers tomorrow night.

[Co-Chair Bagel23]

When I was home alone today, a glass slipped out of my hand because it was wet and shattered in the dishwasher, and a few chunks nicked me on my hand, including one on my wrist. It had no potential to be fatal, but it could have been worse, and it still somehow reminded me of the fragility of life and despite my youth, I'm not invincible. I guess life is kind of like a glass. You can be empty or full or half full or whatever with many things, but you won't last forever, and when you break and cease to exist in present form, so goes your attitude and whatever else you had... kind of sad.

[Virginiá]

stop spying on me Google



(and no, I wasn't searching the color. I misspelled an eCommerce platform name)