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Nabbv

Incels... le scary? 🇬🇧

2 weeks ago#19209
you genuinely need 2 blogs. one as your diary and one when major shit actually happens or you need advice or something
2 weeks ago#19217
Nabbv
GemersonLakeAndPalmer
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Is Gemerson truly catholic or Lying@?
I was an altar-boy at mass for the Archbishop. Read.
nigga i used to read ur blog it goes in one ear and out the other ear because it's SO LONG
TAKE NOTES!
2 weeks ago#19219
Nabbv
you genuinely need 2 blogs. one as your diary and one when major shit actually happens or you need advice or something
I'll make another thread.
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Nabbv

Incels... le scary? 🇬🇧

2 weeks ago#19229
GemersonLakeAndPalmer
Nabbv
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you genuinely need 2 blogs. one as your diary and one when major shit actually happens or you need advice or something
I'll make another thread.
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2 weeks ago#19255
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GemersonLakeAndPalmer
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Nabbv
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you genuinely need 2 blogs. one as your diary and one when major shit actually happens or you need advice or something
I'll make another thread.
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Like if I need to ask something.
2 weeks ago#19963
While transcribing my blog yesterday. I hit the character limit for Google Docs so now I had to create a new one.
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cutebooru

don't take all of my posts here seriously.

2 weeks ago#20537·
idc
2 weeks ago#20541
cutebooru
idc
Leaking so hard.
2 weeks ago#22094
April 1st, 2025: Another Tuesday today, I woke up kind of early to find some texts from my ethics class groupchat about us not submitting the discussion sheet yesterday with Chapell blaming it on the guys. I then got myself some breakfast, which was just cereal and coffee, after that I proceeded to work on the work for our ethics class and created the Google Document while outside of my home. I got some more work done and then finished up with this German assignment that we had to print out and complete. I then entered my German class where we learned more about the accusative case and watched the music video for Zukunft pink. Quentin was there and that was ok. I then got out and found out that the South Korean had done the writeup for the discussion text and submitted it for us. I then decide to buy some fries from this restaurant on my walk over to my second class and I eat some on the way there. I then decide to give the rest to my group and Chapell ends up eating most of them, the other girl ends up eating some but they are all gone by the time the South Korean gets there. Our topic of discussion is to talk to another group about what we have written up. The group we got partnered up with didn't have anything submitted so they just went off what they had memorized. We got our discussions done kind of early so Chapell started to write down the answers for the questions while I started doodling which inspired the other two to do the same, the other girl was drawing Toon Link, I then talked with her a bit and she told me that there was going to be a Nintendo Direct tomorrow which I thought was pretty nice. We then leave and I go home for a bit until I head down to my therapy session. I managed to get in pretty easily this time and we talked a bit more about my lack of friends and issues with my roommate Enosh. The therapist told me that my goal for the next session was to work on asking James the Greater to hang out sometime. I then take the bus back then walking to the Catholic Center for the daily mass, there was no acolytes assisting the priest sadly, when I went to sit down, I noticed that nobody else had elected to sit near me but there was this one girl who sat on the opposite side of the row from me. Elizabeth was there after a while of being absent. Mass went through as normal and then we went to get food. It was Henry's 23rd birthday today so we all celebrated and I went to sit with him. Elizabeth went into the same room as us so I pulled out a chair for her to sit down in, but she ended up sitting at another table. A bit later I asked:
"Whatever happened to Punk?"
Henry replied:
"Wait who?"
I clarified:
"You know, the one person that used to go here and dressed kind of alt, I don't know her name."
Henry's girlfriend added:
"You mean Zephyr right, I know she works at the big building now!"
I then say:
"No not Zephyr, besides where's your job!"
"Excuse me! I'm a shift manager at a gas station!"
This consists of more bickering until they finally say her name, after a bit I then decide to walk home and see Mercurius outside on the phone, I say bye to him and then get back home and go to sleep.

Song of the Day: Zukunft Pink - Peter Fox (2022)
2 weeks ago#22122
April 2nd, 2025: Another pretty hectic day today, when I woke up I browsed Xitter until I saw a tweet something about a guy's YouTube recommended tab being a indicator of who they are, so I decided to open YouTube and then the first thing I see is the new Nintendo direct, I open it and watch the livestream for a while, but I ended up encountering issues with the loading and I wanted more info on the new Mario Kart World so I decided to text the other girl from my ethics class group:
>I’m watching the direct, did they mention the new Mario Kart yet?
<Head back to the -50 Mark, I think they have Mario Kart there
>THE MOOMOO MEADOWS COW IS A PLAYABLE RACER!?
<I guess so lol
<Looks like I’ll have to switch my main
>That’s like 40 confirmed characters.
<Definitely a larger character roster than 8, wouldn’t be surprised if they got even more
>They might finally include Goomba.
<I could see that, I could also see pirahna plant being playable if it’s not already
>They got the stage hazards from that one DoubleDash!! course as racers.
<Yeah! That’s definitely gonna be a fun add-on to the game, I also saw another racing game in the end I’m excited for! :D
>The whole costumes thing is interesting.
>They still need Funky Kong though.
<They might include him
<Speaking of, did you watch the direct after? They did have some interesting Donkey Kong news
>No…
>But it looks interesting.
<There might be a trailer seperate to the Direct, but I’m guessing Funky Kong will be a part of that if anything!
>I mained him in Mario Kart Wii so much!
<Oh! If he was in Mario Kart Wii, they’ll probably have him then! This seems like the Smash Ultimate of Mario Kart tbh
>I thought it was the Super Mario World of Mario Kart.
<That too, but I’m guessing they’ll include some character like Link and Inkling again (they did in 8 Deluxe)
>They should include F-Zero characters as compensation for them not having a game since 2003.
<If I can get a ‘FALCON PUNCH’ scream each time I pint a Kart, that would be freaking awesome
>I would like to play as Captain Falcon.
<I would also like to play Captain Falcon XD
>I remember in this modded version of Mario Kart Wii they used to have an F-Zero track but they got rid of it.
<Oh, they gotta bring that back
<I wanna See the NPCs hey hit not just by themselves, but also by NPC F-Zero Karts
>Oh no!
>Mario Kart World is gonna be a nightmare like that.
>The Goomba King also needs to return.
(The last three messages were all sent within a minute of the first and the last)
I then texted my priest about the public breakfast but he said it was off because he couldn't make it today. It was raining outside so I just sat inside until I realized that there was the breakfast thing that Punk had told me about. I went there a bit after it started; however, through my entire time there, I never saw Punk so I just knew they were avoiding me. The breakfast was ok and there was this one guy who then asked me about my name:
"Hey, what's your name?"
I replied:
"Gemerson"
He then asked this question:
"Who were you named after?"
"Apparently according to my mom, I was named after a king?"
Was my response. After a while there I left and went back home for a bit until it was time to head out to class, I got there and I waited until it was time to go to my next class. I was debating going to my next class but I then decided to go to the map collection alone. I looked around for a short while until I decided to just leave. I then worked on writing my blog entry for the day. My battery was low on my phone but I just finished it up on the laptop. I then went home and then to the convenience store to buy some ramen, I went back and cooked up some for myself and added this sliced ham that smelled kind of weird. I cooked it and ate it before heading out to the Bible study, it turns out that it was canceled because only the Honduran, I, and 2 other people showed up so they just talked about tequila for a bit, the Honduran talked about his special needs brother and then offered to drive me back to campus for my art class, I accepted. In art class, Keleche was trying to be nice to me even though I fucking despised him. I worked on the color wheel with the paint that we were given and got it 8/12ths done. I then went to this Papa Louie's game event on campus and played a perfect full week of Papa's Wingeria. The girl next to me turned out to be Skeleton's girlfriend and she said that she recognized me. I then left but I didn't realize at the time that I had left my backpack behind. I took a shower and after that tried to watch an episode of Severance but I had left my laptop in my backpack and it was back at the place. I got back and grabbed my backpack before heading back home to watch 2 episodes and then went to bed.

Song of the Day: Blinded by the Light - Manfred Mann's Earth Band (1976)
2 weeks ago#22128
April 3rd, 2025: Final day of classes for the week. I woke up and I had some cereal for breakfast while working on my German homework before class. I decided to go to the coffee shop to get my coffee there, while I was working on my homework I overheard this girl talking about her weight loss and how she was a lesbian, I found it kinda funny. Eventually the group project girl finally texted me back and our conversation went as followed
<By any chance did you see the Mario Kart World cost seperate from the switch 2?
>Yes
<Not even Donkey Kong’s was that high! I thought they still were doing the $60 games
>I’m going apeshit crazy!
<Same here honestly
>I’m gonna pirate that when it comes out if they don’t drop the prices.
I then went into my German class where we learned more about its grammar and then watched a song about parrots as the teacher explained to us the concept of Schlager music in Germany, he described it as sort of a parody of how popular music was but not really. After that I decided to eat at Taco Bell for the first time in my life. The food was ok and I put diablo sauce on it; however, it wasn't spicy enough for me. While I was eating, I got a Snapchat from Vannie saying:
<Cara said she wants to become friends with you because you also like rush and you we were joking that you would tell her I'm cheating on her if I was with anybody else 😭
So I replied:
>I'd only tell Cara if you were actually cheating
<you accused me of cheating when I was with my sister bruh
>'Actually'
>I admit I was wrong on that one
<hahaha it's all good i just thought it was funny and cara was like see gemerson would tell on you!
>Ok Vannie
<ok
I then went home for a bit until I went to my lab for the week. It was pretty easy because it was just working with chmod and permissions stuff, just copying and pasting the commands listed in the pdf. I managed to get checked off after 20 minutes and then I went home. I then remembered that there was Eucharist adoration today at a different college at 7:00pm. I had dinner which consisted of ramen with a slice of ham and an egg. I then took the bus to the college and along the way had to deal with a guy playing music really loudly and then a guy who reeked of cigarettes. I then got there but Father Constanza told me that I was too early and that it actually started at 7:30am. Eventually the adoration started and I got in line for the confessions. I waited a bit for the confession to open but it ended up going extremely quickly and I was told to pray a decade of the rosary. I then got out and stayed in the chapel and had some of the food they served as a second dinner. Eventually I made my way out to the bus stop and it turns out Norah was also there. She said that she recognized me from the holy hour and we talked on the bus ride back. She said that she knew a lot of German and even studied abroad in Salzburg, Austria. I even managed to get her number and she told me:
"If you're ever near my college, just tell me so we can do something together!"
I finally got home, took a shower, watched an episode of Severance, and then went to sleep.

Song of the Day: Ich habe einen kleinen Papagei - Die Schlagerboys (2024)
2 weeks ago#22129
April 4th, 2025: Friday today, I woke up at a normal time and posted my Biblejak for the day, I remembered that I had to acolyte for mass today at 12pm so I texted the priest to give me a rundown but he then said that there was going to be a different priest there at the mass. I got there and then realized that the way he did it was far different from what I would usually do, he did help me understand how to put on the acolyte robes, which included the alb and the cincture and even showed me the two different ways of tying the cincture. He even remarked:
"One way they tell that you're an American in Rome is that you tie it this way."
I then went out and went through the mass while trying to understand what to do. There were 6 people in the crowd, one of which was Gabriel. Thank God for Gabriel because I just gave him a quick glance so I could understand better what to do. After mass I then walked home and got on this call with this girl from Mississippi, she talked about how she used to weigh 600 pounds and then started losing weight until she got to 450 then getting weight loss surgery, I was just appalled by the effects, your stomach capacity shrinks down to a cup and you have to take vitamins because of how inefficient your stomach is made to be. Also she had to constantly sip water because she couldn't drink it all at once. I said to her that it sounds useless because she was already losing weight. She said:
"I wanted to do it faster"
Holy Amerimutt! I then played some more PokeMMO until it was time to go get dinner with Joseph. He picked me up at 5:05pm and we went down to the diner. Our waitress wasn't usually there on Fridays because she gave Joseph a menu and didn't recognize him. He talks mostly about how he thought Douglas MacArthur was a hero who got fired not for proposing that we drop 50 nukes on North Korea, but because he talked badly about Harry S. Truman. I then asked him if he would be willing to do an interview for my school project and he said yes. During dinner this song called Everybody's Somebody's Fool was playing at the diner and Joseph recognized it. I used Shazam to find out the song and it turns out he was right on the name but wrong on the singer. After dinner, he drove me back home and I gamed a bit more until I got a snap from the girl I had removed last year, in it she was super drunk and was talking about me and saying that she would drive over to stay with me. I kept having to tell her no and that she should absolutely not drive anywhere under any circumstances. There was also this other girl who was snapchatting me drunk telling me that I should come to her city and stay in her bed, she gave me her address and it turned out that she was a short walk southwest of where my grandma Jane lives but she wasn't as rowdy. Eventually the first demanded that I facetime her so I went to the storage closet in the basement and called her, she started talking about me with all her friends until it was 11:40pm and I had to go to sleep, she still kept texting me even after I told her I had to go to sleep.

Song of the Day: Everybody's Somebody's Fool - Connie Francis (1960)
2 weeks ago#22133
April 5th, 2025: Back to work today, I ended up getting a long ass Snapchat message from the girl that I was talking about yesterday saying how drunk she was. I kinda apologized to her and she said that she was getting drunk again and was going to block me. I ended up copying the message she sent to me and sent it to Vannie, she replied:
<why is that lowkey wholesome
I called her a Redditor. I got to work and it was pretty meh. While I was doing some sweeping up front, this old Black lady started yelling at me that she was eating here because I brought a dustpan near (15 feet) her. I immediately decided to tell the cashier that there was a crazy lady in the store that needed to be removed because she was being an asshole to me and others. They actually did something about it and I smiled for once, someone being an asshole to you and then immediately getting punished was amazing. I then went into the back and found out from Jesse that their plan was just:
"Wait for her to leave."
My mood was ruined. I also had to stock the frozen aisle. My first break was ok and I managed to coordinate a date at 6:30pm with this Black girl at a Chinese restaurant, she was pretty tall and I went back to work then. For lunch I had a Chicago combo sandwich and just chilled for a while until it was time to go back to work. I ended up seeing Norah while I was stocking stuff on the shelf but she didn't notice me sadly. I just proceeded with the rest of my tasks until my second break where fAsherah talked about Old Ozzy Osborne one time asking her to review the lyrics to his cliche love song he wrote. Remembering her not responding to my text, I brought up her alternating between capitalizing nothing and capitalizing the first letter of every word and she said it was her way of putting emphasis on things, I was disappointed with her. I then got started on closings and once I clocked out. I started walking to the restaurant we were supposed to be meeting at, it was supposed to be a 30 minute walk but I ended up getting there in 25 minutes. When I got to the restaurant, I noticed that it was very run down and we couldn't get inside because they made it drive-through only. I texted her about it and she said that she was taking an Uber here so we couldn't do the drive-through. I noticed that there was this KFC nearby so I suggested that we go there instead. I walked there and then waited for 10 minutes before she arrived, I noticed that she didn't appear as hygienic as in the photos because she had severe razor burn and didn't smell good, we got a 5 piece chicken tenders and they were poorly made, dry, and they didn't taste anywhere near as good as when I had it while I was living with my grandpa in Fort Wayne, Indiana. We then go on a walk to the nearby park while seeing all the litter that was there. We stayed for like 40 minutes there until I had to leave to get home, I took the bus home and when I arrived there, I started getting ready for bed when I saw that my roommate Enosh had decided to fucking put the TV in his room on the TV stand right in front of a bigger TV



How dumb can this guy get!?

Song of the Day: Hey Radiofunker - IFA Wartburg (1998)
2 weeks ago#22139
April 6th, 2025: Sunday today, I woke up at 6:00am and posted my Biblejak for the day on the Booru and finished off the s'more poptarts for my breakfast. I texted my mom about doing my taxes and asking her to review it and she said that I should call her once I get home from work. On my wait for the bus to work, the Catholic Center's priest saw me and rolled down his windows to say hi. I then got to work, which just consisted of stocking the beverage aisle and then the shelves, the original owner still wasn't there and I asked fAsherah and Sabrina about it, they said he was probably off in Arizona again. When I went on my lunch break and while I was sitting down, Biker started talking to me while holding his W-2 he got from work saying:
"They really need to start taking out more money for federal taxes, I owe money now!"
I then checked out his W-2 and it showed him only having $63 taken out for federal taxes on an income of $5,000 (We got 2 W-2s from work because of the business transfer, I think this was the smaller one) and I found it weird because I got $54 taken out of mine and I did the math and realized that the withheld tax was roughly half that with the new management. I continued eating my food. I continued stocking the freezer and even got done with my tasks early. There was smoke coming from another room because a washing machine broke and a few people investigated it. At around 5:00pm I clocked out of work and waited for the bus. I then realized I could perform an experiment, I would request to follow Asherah's roommate, specifically the one who also likes Emerson Lake And Palmer, who I decided I will be calling Elinor. I easily found her account and then requested to follow it, closely monitoring the situation. I took the bus then got home at roughly 5:20pm and called my mom, she just told me to call her back in 30 minutes, I had some of the jambalaya Enosh made and then called her back. She just gave me some standard advice and stuff. I then got dressed for church and ran there. Lucas was serving as an usher and I also sat near Bartholomew, Isaiah was also there and Joseph decided to sit next to me, when he sat down next to me he said:
“I decided to sit with the peeps for once!"
The church was packed because Pops was the presider for the mass. He gave a homily on the difference between Shakers and Quakers and how Shaker furniture is like Jesus. The mass then proceeded as normal until it came time for the eucharist. There was this one lady that was being really slow in line for no reason so our side got really clogged up. After that I walked home and I decided to stop by the convenience store. I got close to this blue car while walking up to it and there was this White guy driving it with this girl that looked sort of like Elinor in the passenger. I was fucking cursed, there goes my attempt to not look weird because I just happened to encounter her late at night. I went in and bought some of those red white and blue popsicles, went home, had one, took a shower, and then went to sleep.

Song of the Day: Trilogy - Emerson Lake and Palmer (1972)
2 weeks ago#22143
April 7th, 2025: School week starts today. I woke up at roughly 6:30am and I stayed in my bed mostly for like an hour. I then finally got up and had some of the cornbread that Enosh had left out for breakfast. I had originally planned on finding a restaurant nearby to have a traditional diner breakfast at but the bread had already nourished me. I then got back into Baldur’s Gate I after a while, I managed to progress to Chapter 2 but I kept being killed by Neira whenever I tried to enter the inn even though there were times that I had nearly gotten her to a low enough health, my party was me (as a Skald), Imoen, Xzar, (Whenever he yells:
"Stop touching me!"
It always cracks me up) Montaron, Jaheria (only level 2 character somehow), and Khalid. After a bit I then started working on studying for the in-person quiz that would be happening for my first class. When I saw a post on Instagram about a blood drive going on, I decided that I would go to that after my first class. I sat through my first lecture and then completed the quiz pretty fast. I decided to skip that class and I noticed that Elinor had accepted my follow request and even followed me back, which was quite the pleasant surprise. I was expecting some more people to show up for the blood drive but I was one of 3 people there to donate blood at 2:10pm behind 8 other people that had gone to this blood drive beforehand that day. 2 others came in after me. I did my health screening and they said that I wasn't a high enough weight to have me donating red blood cells (150lbs) but I could still donate whole blood as I had usually done before. Anyways here's the measurements they took of me:
>Weight: 142.9lbs
>Blood pressure: 102/63
>Temperature: 98.8°F
>Pulse: 87
>Hemoglobin: 15.2
After filling out the questionnaire and sitting on the chair, they asked me about any allergies to iodine or shellfish, I answered no and asked why the shellfish question (I knew the iodine was for disinfecting the spot where I would be drained) and she said it was an additive. I then got the iodine applied and was set up to go when they injected me with the needle as I waited for a few minutes until it finished. After sitting around in the seat for a while, I was then asked by the lady who was assisting me throughout the whole blood drive:
"What would you like to drink?"
I asked her:
"What is there to drink?"
She then said:
"Water, Sprite, Coca-Cola, cranberry juice, apple juice."
"Of the cranberry juice and the apple juice, which one has more iron in it?"
"Neither of them have any iron in them."
I was honestly perplexed at this, why would they not provide any drinks which contained iron for someone participating in a blood drive, I mean there was water but you couldn't always be sure. I then got up and walked over to the snack table and closely inspected the snacks they gave us. I saw they had some trail mix, both the normal and tropical kind to eat and each of those had the same amount of iron, 8% of the daily value according to the nutrition label. So I decided to eat a packet of the tropical trail mix and then snag one of those small drink mixes to go. I walked back home in the cold and put my backpack down. I then sent the priest a text asking if there was a written guide that I could review before the Archbishop would come to the mass and he texted me:
<I can put some notes together
I then walked over to a pharmacy to buy a bottle of iron supplements. I ended up settling on either one of two choices, they were the same size, same amount of pills in each bottle, same daily iron value, but one was $13.99 and the other one was $17.99, neither of them appeared to be name brand at all so I purchased the cheaper one. I went up to the counter and it turned out that the cheaper one was $17.99 despite the price tag saying otherwise. But I still bought it and then walked back home and took a pill to boost my iron. For dinner before my final art class of the day. I just had a packet of chicken flavored ramen. I then walked over to my art class where we learned about our next project as I continued with the color wheel exercise. I could hear Keleche talking about his OCs (original characters) to another student and the oldest guy in the class said that one of his daughters was a freshman at the college we attend which I found to be a neat piece of trivia. I fucked up on the opposite color progression thing for the orange to blue and the teacher told me to just redo that part and praised Ginger girl's color scale and that I should look to her as a guide. I didn't but I ended up getting a call from the Red Cross asking about donating blood (the blood donation drive earlier today was run by a different company.) Eventually class got let out and I went back home. At home I decided to go through her Instagram account and found some interesting things like how she knew Asherah longer than me (August 30th, 2022 vs sometime on or before July 28th, 2022) and that she had attended both a Hindu temple thing and mentioned All Saints Day for 2022 in a story with Asherah. Also there is a possibility that she had met my mom before (or at the least, there is one degree of separation between her and my mom without going through me via a politician (multiple politicians could fill this role)) and she started college a semester before me despite being younger than me. I then ate some more snacks, finishing off the ranch flavored takis I had bought and throwing them away. I completed more German homework due tomorrow and started on this machine learning assignment that was due at 1:00pm on Wednesday, April 9th and then took a shower, I browsed Twitter some more until it was time to go to bed but I just couldn't go to sleep sadly, 45% because I felt like shit mentally, 45% because I shouldn't have been on my phone so late at night, and 10% me worrying about serving as an acolyte on Tuesday.

Song of the Day: One of These Things First - Nick Drake (1971)
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Dunching or something

2 weeks ago#22175
@GemersonLakeAndPalmer Were you Catholic since childhood or did you convert later?
2 weeks ago#22180
April 8th, 2025: Archbishop visit today. Woke at 7:30am in the cold, I got out of bed and felt the cold stone floor at my feet and was absolutely chilled. I reached around for my flip flops and put them on before I grab my robe and put on pants. I walked to the kitchen and finished off the grits. I then started on preparing the coffee. I started working on the daily Biblejak. I ate my bowl of grits and drank my coffee while posting my Biblejak. I then completed my German assignments before my class. While browsing Twitter, I noticed this insufferable troon of the handle @Liv_Agar who tweeted:
<Catching up on like a months worth of discourse but I broadly do not care what you have to say about feminism if you can't agree that most men hate women
So my Twitter mutual @BillTheKid1603 replied with a screenshotted tweet from @evildarkempath of them saying:
<Nothing super against mtf misandrists but at times it feels like the zeal of the convert
And watching the sheer rage from troons made me laugh. Even Liv saw the tweet and it commented:
<I bet this goes hard as fuck if you’re stupid
I saw other funny quote tweets like this one from princess marcy ⚢ (@gaylilrat):
<"no offense to mtf misandrists but ur not real women and ur anger at the patriarchy is unjustified and a laughable attempt to try to be one" dude, die
Another one by sam (@femalehabermas) which went:
<some guys on here love to post incontrovertible proof that they’ve laid hands on a woman Before
To which @BillTheKid1603 replied:
<Were you trying to call me a virgin or a domestic abuser because they are basically mutually exclusive
Of course there were voices of reason in the comment section like from Sr Comics Luchador (@Mr__Comics):
<How can you have once been a man and still think all men hate women, I'm sorry but did transitioning make you not sexist???
After a bit I then finally went to German class and we learned more on nominative vs accusative. We then watched this music video by Helene Fischer, the teacher remarked:
"You can use this video to find Germans because they can't resist breaking out into song and dance with this!"
It felt pretty generic and was just normieslop from the Obama era (even though Angela Merkel was Chancellor of Germany then/) After class was let out I posted on my Instagram story about the mass and then walked to my second class for the discussion. Along my walk, I ended up seeing Lizzo but I was much higher up compared to her so she didn't see me. I got in and Chapell was there along with the nerdy girl and the South Korean. Our discussion task for the day was to talk about hacking and if it was wrong or not, including instances about Wikileaks getting financial aid cut off, Ken Thompson talking about how hacking should be treated like home invasion, and if stores which take credit cards should use a PIN or a signature to prevent credit card fraud (I think PINs are useful and if you can't remember your PIN, you're too stupid to remember what year you were born (2003 for me), signatures aren't checked at purchase time so no) I got out early so I then had this text conversation with Joseph:
>When are we meeting to go to the memorial?
<I can pick u up 12 30
>I have class until 2:15pm.
<Ok does 3 00 work
>Yes!
I then worked on writing down my blog entry for the day. I got done with it at 2:57pm and walked out to wait for Joseph. I then get in his car and we drive out to the museum. On the walk to the entrance he points out the statue of Douglas MacArthur and how he was his hero. We walked in and the first thing we saw was the exhibit on POWs, he started talking about the Hanoi Hilton and Senator John McCain being a famous prisoner there, I then asked him:
"Did you get sent there?"
He answered:
"Oh heavens no, never got captured!"
"Wait where did you serve?"
"Well my last 6 months of my duty were spent in Berlin, Germany. West Berlin to be exact, this was before the wall fell."
We then went up to the exhibit on all the medal of honor winners and looked at the TV, I remarked on the fact that they even had people recorded from our state for the Boxer Rebellion. We then walked outside past the eternal flame and went up to another part of the museum and walked around the hall and looked at all the war bonds posters. We saw the wall of African-American soldiers and eventually made our way into this office where we talked with this guy about this project he was doing. Joseph knew him from the setting up of roughly 27,000 mini American flags for volunteer work. He even offered me an internship over the summer so I got his business card. After that Joseph walked me back to the car and he talked about how this major road would flood because of a lake a lot and they eventually solved that. He drove me to the Catholic Center but when he got there he said:
"Oh, I'm gonna go home now, I won't be able to attend the mass!"
(POST SPLIT IN HALF DUE TO CHARACTER LIMIT)
2 weeks ago#22184
April 8th, 2025 (Continued): I went into the chapel and saw that there was already a good amount of people here and preparing. I then walked upstairs and prayed a decade of the rosary before I saw that Elizabeth was struggling with putting 2 fallen polaroids, putting them up lower than they should be. So I put them up higher to match the pattern that was present. The Archbishop walked in and we shook hands. I ended up locating the acolyte who would be serving as crucifer and we then started looking around for the other acolytes, the next person to come was thurifer and then finally Mercurius arrived, he and I would be the candle bearers, I was first tasked with checking and replacing all the candles at the 15 stations of the cross to make sure the candles were ok and then replacing them if needed. Next I got dressed and then I was told to light all the candles for the stations of the cross and then I would go outside the room with the lit candle and walk in behind the crucifer and thurifer. Before we went in, the Archbishop thanked us for serving. We proceeded in and then put our candles back in place and varied between sitting and standing at our seats. I saw Rose, the Honduran, Gabriel, Kaitlin, Henry, Elizabeth, and others in the crowd. The Honduran did the first reading. It came time for the gospel reading where Mercurius and I stood facing each other in front of the ambo, he was just looking straight at me without blinking. We sat down for the homily and then went in front to kneel with the candles for the preparation of the eucharist. I ended up kneeling kind of weirdly which resulted in me feeling unstable and kind of wobbly and my robe was messing me up, plus the heat and smoke from the candle made me feel woozy. Mercurius had gone to be on both knees so I shortly followed his actions after that. We received the eucharist and finally proceeded out once the mass was done. We did the stuff for after mass like blowing out candles and getting undressed before I went upstairs and got some tacos for dinner. While waiting in line for dinner the Honduran told me that he used to go to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign for one year and the Catholic center there took credit card, so he would usually donate $25 each time he went and wouldn't spend much on anything else, which resulted in his dad questioning him about it, I noticed the engaged girl looking at me so I decided to glare at her, she got freaked out lol. I sat with Henry, his girlfriend, and the Honduran and watched the Honduran draw his friend who he and a few others joked was a Shia Muslim. The engaged girl was looking at me again so I glared at her again and she got that weird look, I started to laugh to kind of diffuse the situation We were able to fill out this paper slip asking the Archbishop some questions and I asked:
>What was it like the first time you served as an acolyte?
And
>Who was your baptismal saint and who was your confirmation saint?
At 7:00pm, the Archbishop started answering questions, which included him talking about having 81 Brown Jersey cows on his farm growing up with him giving his parents nickel wafers as communion wafers, his habit of when he was young of constantly practicing to play pretend mass with the animals at his farm, his baptismal and confirmation saint being Saint Joseph, his opinions on dancing, how he thought the Catholic church would deal with creating new diocese when we go into space (by the way, the usual protocol for this is for it to be under the diocese of whoever first landed on it, which means that the Moon is under the Diocese of Orlando ever since 1969), and his craziest moments serving at mass being whenever someone has a health emergency. Pen Guy had arrived a bit later and was eating this weird burrito with onions, rice, and cheese. He said it was because he was pre-diabetic two years ago. Mercurius and Pen Guy talked about exchanging messages relating to books or something. Punk walked in later and sat in the dining room to eat alone so I took a chair and sat there because all the other seats were filled, they had a nearly empty pitcher of pink lemonade so I poured myself some of it and then silently motioned to ask if they wanted the rest, they nodded and I poured the rest in. Punk seemed to be feeling half depressed, half disgusted with me. When they were done with their food I asked if I could take their plate up and they refused. They started to leave so I waved to them goodbye and they saluted me back so my wave turned into a salute. After the questions were done, I got a few pictures with the Archbishop and then walked home, I completed some more of my homework that's due tomorrow and then went to sleep/

Song of the Day: Atemlos durch die Nacht - Helene Fischer (2013)
2 weeks ago#22197(edited 2 weeks ago)
Dunchenman
@GemersonLakeAndPalmer Were you Catholic since childhood or did you convert later?
I was baptized as a baby on December 27th, 2003, got my first communion May 6th, 2012, but I only ever went to mass at my dying Lutheran architecture church when my grandma was around, I converted during the events of this blog and then started going to mass in June of 2024. I got confirmed in November 2024.
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