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guide 4 teens
tell the cops nothing
tell the paramedics everything
ur eyebrows are fine
Remember kids, "Shut up and laywer up" even if you're innocent. The police officer cannot legally infer guilt by your use of your right to remain silence. Also be respectful to the officer when they speak with you—youll catch more flies with honey than vinegar.
Catholic Asks that range from casual to prying
I thought I would make my own because why not? I tend to always get the same numbers asked so I tried to make enough of them so that you could do multiple answers in case you get asked it multiple times!
1. A saint that influenced you either by their life or writings?
2. Favorite places to pray?
3. What is one of the devotions you have?
4. Tell us about a divine experience.
5. Pick a Holy Day and tell us why you like it.
6. Opinion on [insert specific prayer or devotion].
7. Do you prefer the Rosary, Divine Mercy Chaplet, or some other chaplet? (St. Anne, St. Joseph, etc)
8. Favorite church hymn?
9. Favorite Sacrament?
10. Tell us about a moment when you've felt close to God the Holy Spirit.
11. Tell us about a moment when you've felt close to God the Son.
12. Tell us about a moment when you've felt close to God the Father.
13. When were you confirmed?
14. When did you receive your first communion?
15. When were you baptized?
16. How often do you go to confession?
17. In the last week have you felt God's presence in your life?
18. How often do you pray?
19. What prayers do you do regularly?
20. Pick one thing that you could change about the Church, what is it?
21. Favorite pope?
22. When did you last sit down with God and think only of Him to pray?
23. Do you pray enough?
24. Do you do corporeal or spiritual acts of mercy more?
25. Tell us about a time when you might have felt embarrassed for or of your faith.
26. When was the last time you went to confession?
27. Is there a homily or a priest's advice that will always stick with you?
28. Pick a random quote from one of the Gospels and give us your opinion on it.
29. (If the blogger is female) What is your veiling preference? (If the blogger is male) What do you normally wear to Mass?
30. Have you ever been to a Catholic wedding?
31. Have you ever been to an ordination Mass?
32. Have you ever been to a religious profession Mass?
33. (Female) Nun or active sister? (Male) Diocesan priest or religious?
34. Who is a saint you've always admired from afar but never learned much about?
35. Which time is the best for Mass? (Saturday evening, Sunday early morning, or Sunday late morning)
36. Opinions on getting a tattoo as a practicing Catholic?
37. Opinions on getting piercings as a practicing Catholic?
38. Votive candles or incense?
39. Mary or Joseph?
40. Crucifix (Jesus died for you) or empty cross (that place was for you/die to self)?
if you had a farm…would it be for meat, dairy, produce, or luxury crops? and what kind specifically?
or a flower farm or a homestead!! please please rb and share your farming dreams!
I'd want to grow a bunch of produce—grains and vegetables. Fresh bread is the way to live life.
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Reblogging so I can find it later 🤤
DON’T LET THIS HAPPEN TO CEREAL!!!
Listen in the past the poor have had to improvise cheap food the rich never wanted as a means to survive. And over the many years of innovation made the food taste good until eventually the rich where like: “Oh hay you actually like that garbage? Why on earth would you like it?” Then they try it, love it, start buying it, and then drive the price up so much it becomes a luxury good.
They do this and its devastating, the food typically never becomes affordable again. It don’t matter how cheap the foo dis to produce, it doesn’t matter if there is almost no meat on the bone or its super difficult to eat and messy. Once the poor discover how to make some bit of cheap food taste good, the rich take it away via driving the price of it up.
THEY DID THIS TO RIBS.
Ribs were garage meat. Just look at them, there is hardly any meat on the bone, you have to eat them by hand usually, and they are messy. They where an undesirable cheap source of junk meat. But the poor being the poor made them taste good. (Because they don’t have much to choose from.) The rich discovered the meals the poor made with them and decided they liked ribs too. People discovered they could sell a few ribs to rich people and make way more money then selling lots of ribs to poor people and the price was driven up.
DON’T LET THIS HAPPEN TO CEREAL!!!
They did the same to brisket. You used to be able to get brisket for less than a dollar a pound, which meant you could get a twenty pound brisket fairly cheaply. And then you smoked it, sliced it, and had meat for weeks if not a full month. And it was tasty. I grew up eating brisket at least once a month because my family could afford it.
It was a cheap meat because no rich person looks at the dangly part of the neck of a cow and goes ‘ooh, that looks tasty!’.
But then Food Network started showcasing things like barbecued brisket. Rich people started showing up at places that weren’t just Rib Crib to get their barbeque. And the price of brisket went up. A lot.
I regularly see it for over five dollars a pound in stores now. And while yeah, that might not seem like a lot when you’re talking only a pound or two of meat, brisket is normally sold in ten to twenty pound sizes. It’s become completely unaffordable to the people that made it delicious.
Sushi used to be really cheap, too, until it became ‘trendy’. Guess why you’re now paying twelve dollars for your order of California rolls? Because rich people discovered something that poor people had been eating for ages.
Noticed the prices of fajita meat, chicken thighs, or ham hocks has gone up recently? You guessed it. Rich people are taking our food and now we’re scrambling to afford the things that we grew up eating.
Lobster is a perfect example of this phenomenon. For hundreds of years, lobster was regarded as a sort of insect larvae from the depth of the sea. It had zero appeal as a “luxury food” until people living in NY and Boston developed a taste for it. Before the 19th century, it was considered a “poverty food” or used as fertilizer and bait - some household servants specified in employment agreements that they would not eat lobster more than twice a week. It was also commonly served at prisons, which tells you something about prison food.
Only by cleverly marketing lobster as an indulgence for the privileged made it cost so much. It became a vehicle for enormous profit spawning a multi-billion dollar global industry in the process. This mythical affection for lobster flesh - not its practical value in terms of taste, nutrition, or any other reasonable consideration - drives its value.
LMAO. Wait.
Anyone else’s eye twitchin?
Food gentrification is a long standing practice and it’s some of the most evil shit I can think of. It’s why I refuse for example as someone living in the US to buy things with Quinoa in them. It is specifically pricing an indigenous population out of their prime staple food. It’s a horrific invasion of one of the final requirements of staying alive.
Oysters were another too poor to be eaten food, they were almost a waste product of the river pearl industry and were sold in London as cheap as it got, in the winter months oysters were one of the main sources of protein in workhouses. Now they’re a “delicacy”
Same thing’s happened to bacon over the past 15, 20 years or so.
This has happened to ox tails in a major way. Butchers used to throw ox tails out but over the course of the last decade after being featured on food network (Another food outlet originally for free public education that was progressively encroached on by celebrities but a story for another time) the price has skyrocketed to to nearly $10 a pound. For meat they used to throw away because it’s been revamped and brought to the culinary eye with a new gaze, I hate it here.
I grew up eating oxtail. I swear it was like the cheapest thing you could buy. Like ribs, there’s barely any meat on it.
"Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. For example, if a Catholic were to be at odds with the Holy Father on the application of capital punishment or on the decision to wage war, he would not for that reason be considered unworthy to present himself to receive Holy Communion. While the Church exhorts civil authorities to seek peace, not war, and to exercise discretion and mercy in imposing punishment on criminals, it may still be permissible to take up arms to repel an aggressor or to have recourse to capital punishment. There may be a legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not however with regard to abortion and euthanasia."
-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger in Worthiness to Receive Holy Communion: General Principles, 2004
“That sounds like a good idea…….”-“Is there something bothering you with the idea?”-“No, the idea is GOOD…..🙂”
Can someone explain this to me?
Old people use quotation marks to indicate emphasis, as a substitute for italics (which many of them could not produce on the old typewriters they learned to write on), whereas young people use them to indicate sarcasm or falseness. They’re used as “scare quotes”.
And old people use ellipses simply to indicate a pause, or for some other incomprehensible reason I’m not aware of. But young people use ellipses to indicate passive-aggression.
So an old person could type something like:
how are things going with your “boyfriend”….
and what they mean is
How are things going with your boyfriend? [Im so excited for you, sweetie, and I wanna hear about it]
But a young person would interpret that sentence as
How are things going with your so-called boyfriend…. [I say, while seething with contempt for him and possibly for you too]
The linguistic difference across generations is beautifully explained here thank you
Suddenly my Grandma seems a lot nicer
OH MY GOD whyyyy did no one tell me you’re supposed to send thank-yous after interviews?? Why would I do that???
“Thank you for this incredibly stressful 30 minutes that I have had to re-structure my entire day around and which will give me anxiety poos for the next 24 hours.”
I HATE ETIQUETTE IT’S THE MOST IMPOSSIBLE THING FOR ME TO LEARN WITHOUT SOMEONE DIRECTLY TELLING ME THIS SHIT
NO ONE TOLD YOU???? WTF! I HAVE FAILED YOU. Also: Dear ______: Thank you so much for the opportunity to sit down with you (&________) to discuss the [insert job position]. I am grateful to be considered for the position. I think I will be a great fit at [company name], especially given my experience in __________. [insert possible reference to something you talked about, something that excited you.] I look forward to hearing from you [and if you are feeling super confident: and working together in the future]. Sincerely, @mellivorinae
THIS IS A LIFESAVING TEMPLATE
YOU ARE WELCOME
My brother got a really great paid internship one summer. The guy who hired him said the deciding factor was the professional thank you letter my brother sent after the interview.
should it be an email? or like a physical letter?
email, you want to send it within a few hours at max after the interview if you can so it’s fresh in their mind who you are.
Confirmed! I interviewed for a job right after arriving in NY. The interview went incredibly well, and I went home and immediately wrote a thank you letter and put it in the mail. I had a super good feeling about this interview.
I didn’t get the job.
However, a few weeks later, I was called in to interview with another editor in the same company, and I did get that job. I found out later from the initial editor (the one who didn’t hire me) that he had planned to offer me the job, but since I didn’t follow up with a thank you letter, he assumed I didn’t really want it. He offered the job to another contender–but when he got my letter in the mail shortly after the offer had already been made, he went to HR and gave me a glowing recommendation. It was based on that recommendation that I got called in for the second interview.
So: send an email thank you immediately (same day!) after the interview. If you’re feeling extra, go ahead and send a written one too. OR go immediately to a coffee shop, write the letter, and return to the office and give it to the secretary.
Either way, those letters are important.
Pro tip: If you really want HR to develop a personal interest in your application, publicly thank them on linkedin. Just make a short post telling your network about how X recruiter really went above and beyond to make you feel welcome, or about how be accommodating and professional they were, or whatever. Make sure to use the mention feature so they’ll get a notification and see it.
Flattery will get you everywhere… and public flattery that might make its way back to their manager, doubly so.
Obligatory plug for one of FreePrintable.net’s sites: ThankYouLetter.ws. They have a whole section with interview thank you letter templates, and a page with specific tips for interview thank you letters. (There are also tons of other letter templates if you browse around a bit.)
As a former professional recruiter and recruiting manager, I confirm, especially for entry-level positions, where you are competing with oodles of people. This little thing can make a difference. Also the fact that, maybe, you took time to google the “interview etiquette”.
SIGNAL BOOST
The post-interview thank you notes can be a good way to recover in case you got asked a question whose answer you either didn’t know or felt was super weak. So if you follow the above given template, jump in with something like “upon further thought to your question, here’s my revised answer.”
But yeah always send a thank you note after an interview. It’s a small thing but it makes a hell of a difference. And def send thank you messages to any recruiters who may have helped. And also after you get the job. Small things like that really go a long long way.
GO READ ASK A MANAGER RIGHT NOW.
AAM is an AMAZING resource for all work-related questions. This is a good starting place—basically the Big Questions people tend to have. (And some weirdness.) Job searching, negotiating for raises, performance issues, living through toxicity, recognizing toxic situations, dealing with coworkers, managing people, helpful starting-point scripts for all of the above… Do yourself a favor and check it out!
JFC no one ever told me any of this!!!!
You were either a Magic Treehouse kid, a Goosebumps kid, an Animorphs kid, or a Babysitters Club kid.
Magic treehouse gang
So I saw a post mocking white people for getting sunburns in hot climates that they are not indigenous too…friendly reminder that 1) dark skinned people need protection from the sun too, even hunter-gatherer peoples in Africa will make products from nature meant to put on the skin to protect it; it’s a basic human need that has existed for millennia; and 2) YOU CAN GET SUNBURNED IN COLD CLIMATES TOO. Sun burns will happen wherever there is sunlight! Stop spreading false bullshit for internet points, it ain’t cute.
Cloudburns hurt the worst. UV rays can still give you a bad day even if there is cloud cover around so make sure you're careful to protect your skin during cloudy summer days too
“In time, it’s going to be impossible to deny that abortion is violence against children. Future generations, as they look back, are not necessarily going to go easy on ours. Our bland acceptance of abortion is not going to look like an understandable goof. In fact, the kind of hatred that people now level at Nazis and slave-owners may well fall upon our era. Future generations can accurately say, “It’s not like they didn’t know.” They can say, “After all, they had sonograms.” They may consider this bloodshed to be a form of genocide. They might judge our generation to be monsters.
One day, the tide is going to turn. With that Supreme Court decision 43 years ago, one of the sides in the abortion debate won the day. But sooner or later, that day will end. No generation can rule from the grave. The time is coming when a younger generation will sit in judgment of ours. And they are not obligated to be kind.”
— Frederica Mathewes-Green, Abortion Won the Day, but the Day will End
They are not obligated to be kind
Meet Narnia, a rare two faced cat
This cat will either a) ask me to choose heads or tails while flipping a coin or b) say Edward
That’s the Phantom of the O-purr-a
How does it feel to be the funniest person on my dash tonight?
What is the best version of the Bible for the most accurate English translation?
Personally, I prefer the RSVCE2. And I'll explain why in a little bit.
When considering Bible translations—or really any translations of a text—there are two things that we should consider: translation emphasis and source. I apologize in advance if this is too lengthy. For the first, you have to think if you prefer a thought-for-thought (or meaning-for meaning) or a word-for-word (literal) translation (there is a third translation strategy, which is to paraphrase the text, but I consider it an abomination). Both of these emphases have their place in Biblical translation but are important to balance or else you can end up with very strange translations of the same text. Part of the problem with heavily word-for-word translations is the difficulty of expressing the message of one language into English without the nuance of the original language. Ancient Hebrew is a language with relatively few words, thus those words tend to have multiple meanings (as well as double meanings). Additionally, there are issues translating Koine Greek to English too because of the grammatical features the language has that English does not share with it. So a word-for-word translation can lack a lot of nuance. Below I have included an example of why only word-for-word translations kind of fail at their goal (although this is a problem with translation in and of itself and why knowledge of the original language is always good).
Genesis 2:25, 3:1 (English Standard Version)
"25 And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed." "3:1 Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made."
In the original Hebrew, a comparison between Adam and the Serpent is drawn (because remember, chapters and verse numbers were added much later) but we cannot see it in English. In Hebrew, the words "naked" (עָרוֹם) and "crafty" (עָרוּם) or cunning derive from the same root and thus look really similar written out even if they are pronounced differently because of the vowel niqqud. This problem could be solved with footnotes but to capture every single time this happens in just Genesis 1-3 would take a lot of space and reading footnotes in this way would get messy and unintuitive to read.
On the other end of the spectrum, you have the thought-for-thought translations which attempt to convey the original meaning of the text with phrases and idioms familiar to the reader which can be very good as an introduction to the biblical text, especially for children, but it becomes less useful for bible study or historical analysis. It can be helpful when this type of translation is used moderately but I've seen some pretty extreme thought-for-thought translations and they honestly make me kinda ill because it hurts me that they've butchered it or tried to modernize the text too hard. The ideal balance is some negotiation between the two (however, I think word-for-word orientated translations are better for study because you can learn the context for the translations and I find this easier than decoding modern idioms and trying to figure out what the original text actually said and meant).
Then language. The language that the English translation is sourced from is really important and honestly probably the most important part. It can really radically affect how a single verse is interpreted. The original languages of any given text should be consulted during the translation process however if a translation uses a Septuagint translation of the Old Testament I consider it fine. But the given translation into English should probably also cite the Hebrew or Aramaic text.
The RSVCE is a Catholic edition of the RSV (which is in turn a re-rendering of the loathsome KJV). It, in its own words, "consults the most ancient authorities" in its translation. The obvious benefit of the second edition is that it thoroughly restores the new testament by incorporating older Greek manuscripts not available to the original translators and also re-adds sections of the text that was omitted in some ancient sources such as Mark 16:9-20 (the longer ending of the Gospel) and John 7:53-8:11 (Jesus forgiving the prostitute) as well as parts of Luke. It reads well and I trust the academic rigor that went into place to ensure both an accurate and whole text in light of the Church's tradition. And I prefer it to English translations of the Vulgate which tend to be antiquated and difficult for me to read. It's also a matter of accuracy. I'm fine with the Vulgate in Latin (I'm in the process of learning) which is a translation of a translation (in the case of most of the Old Testament) and a translation of the original (New Testament). But the English translation is too far removed for my taste.
I hope this was helpful for you.
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The Virgin John Lennon: “Imagine there’s no heaven … Imagine there’s no countries … And no religion too … Imagine all the people / Livin’ life in peace … I hope someday you’ll join us / And the world will live as one.” (Imagine) The Chad Pope Francis: One model of globalization in fact “consciously aims at a one-dimensional uniformity and seeks to eliminate all differences and traditions in a superficial quest for unity… If a certain kind of globalization claims to make everyone uniform, to level everyone out, that globalization destroys the rich gifts and uniqueness of each person and each people”. This false universalism ends up depriving the world of its various colours, its beauty and, ultimately, its humanity. For “the future is not monochrome; if we are courageous, we can contemplate it in all the variety and diversity of what each individual person has to offer. How much our human family needs to learn to live together in harmony and peace, without all of us having to be the same!” (Fratelli tutti, §100b)
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