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i used to do this thing when people would angrily disagree with me in a forum thread where i would immediately pretend to launch a text-based rpg called TOWER OF THE WIZARD and provide them with settings and scenarios and prompt action inputs from them and for some reason they would start playing it every time
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80% of OCD sufferers stop ruminating right before they’re about to reach true moral purity … NEVER STOP THE GRIND !!
There’s nothing funnier than American Trad Caths revealing that they’re just Presbyterians that think Baroque looks cool
Oh my fucking god all this is too fucking funny. Lucking forward to having an anti-pope in Houston, Texas. Instead of the pointy hat maybe he can wear a white cowboy hat.
I need people to stop being so funny because I can’t keep re blogging this shit
I am breaking my hiatus briefly for one specific thing because I need at least my followers to understand that the problem here, like the reason (despite all the jokes) isn't that the guy thinks Papa Frank is wrong.
Thinking the pope is full of shit, or that the current sitting pope is actually an anti-pope representative of the devil who has charmed his way into St Peter's seat, or that the current sitting pope is actually a heretic even, is a very common Catholic thing. It happens all the time. I know this isn't part of the popular image of Catholicism but in practice how actual Catholics relate to that on a personal level is varied and broad and depending on the pope you will encounter one kind of person or another announcing that this one is actually Satan's agent or whatever.
Catholics often think the wrong person is on St Peter's throne, even if they'd never quite say it in public. That just happens a lot.
So does just sort of . . . ignoring the pope. Like this specific pope, what he's said today, just sort of not paying attention to it. Yes, of course he's the head of the church but that doesn't mean we have to agree with him.
There's nothing that radical about either believing that the wrong person is pope, or that the pope is wrong. And it's not new, either: these same kind of twerps were mad about John Paul II's papacy too, and were mad that Benedict's didn't actually go as far as they wanted him to go back the other way. It would be eye-roll worthy but not particularly surprising if this guy were simply to announce that obviously Francis is the Anti-Pope or False-Pope.
That's not what happened here or why this is so incredibly mind-bogglingly fucking funny.
This guy is absolutely hysterically mockable because what he's protesting here is the right of the institution of the papacy to have absolute control over the clergy. He is saying that the pope as an institutional figure should be subject to checks and balances and "process". That the papacy should not have absolute, unquestioned and unquestionable authority over the Roman Catholic Church, as an institution.
It is very normal and quite Catholic to object to the specific person who currently occupies the role of St Peter's heir. Objecting to the person, the specific occupant, is a totally normal Catholic thing!
Being shocked and appalled at how the powers of the institution work and implying that they should not work that way? Saying "what are you saying popes can just exercise absolute authority?" like this is astonishing or somehow against the Principles of the Thing?
That is basically as anti-Catholic as you can possibly get. It is in fact. Protestant. The absolute unhindered unquestioned authority of the pope over the institution of the Church was at the core not just the Protestant Reformation but of every single major fight the Roman Church got into with the Orthodox Church(es), every fight they got into with the lay nobility, every fight they got into with any of the local national churches they would successfully subsume, this is like, possibly the most intense core of the specific Roman Catholic institution: the Pope has absolute authority over the clergy.
The provision of law that allows the Pope as head of the institution to remove this idiot bishop at his will is LITERALLY A CENTRAL TENET OF THE INSTITUTION.
Of course as has been elsewhere pointed out, he didn't actually even do that. He did go through the customary process of investigation and discipline for a bishop, which this idiot bishop defied before being removed from his office, because it turned out that there was far more wild shit up with this dude than his objection to Francis' interpretation of canon law as applied to eligibility for the sacrament of baptism.
But that the institutional figure of The Pope has the right to dismiss, remove, relocate, or otherwise preside in judgement and authority over all clergymen in the Roman Church at all times is so absolutely central to the institution of Roman Catholicism that objecting not to the fact that this specific pope did a bad thing but to the idea that The Pope is in his role as The Pope can do this thing is basically being a Protestant.
And that's fucking hysterical and also so, so stupid.
Reblogging for the sheer number of opportunities for Reformation and Schism jokes. Motherfuckers going full Huguenot omg.
“do we think maybe a vegetable would cause less despair” still living in my head rent free
Honestly? I love this, this is great. This is my new favorite line to use when interacting with strangers online.
This is what kitty cats are saying when they sniff each other
‘for being well deserving’ alright
is the tgirl wearing a collar doing it because she has a fetish, or just because it's a cute accessory? is the gay man in leather and a pup mask actually being "indecent" or is he just dressed up like a dog because it's fun? are drag queens doing it because crossdressing is sexy or because drag is an expression of who they are as a person? does the furry walking around in full suit have a boner under their outfit or do they just like cosplaying as their cute cartoon squirrel oc?
you will never know. you can never tell. sometimes even the people doing these things won't have an answer. is it a sex thing? is it kink? who fucking knows! there is no line! public expressions of sexuality aren't immoral to begin with, but if you make any attempt to suppress them, you have to decide what is and isn't allowed, and you are going to get it wrong. there is no way to untangle kink from personality and hobbies and interests. kink does not even necessarily involve sex. sometimes it's just self-expression and vulnerability and sharing a particular dynamic with another person. sounds a lot like (checks notes) literally every other human experience that exists.
i'll say it again: the person wearing a leash in your vicinity is not sexually assaulting you. they're just wearing a leash.
st. catherine of siena drinking from christ's side wound
in a hagiography of st. catherine of siena, alsace, early 15th c.
source: Paris, BnF, ms. allem. 34, fol. 43v
Peace and love on planet earth
OP you cannot just not link the video
how what???
I’m not good with the science of this or anything (someone who knows more feel free to add) but fish can play??? Fish can play like any other animal?? People saying it couldn’t breathe, do human kids not hold their breaths to go under water for fun? It’s just the opposite. Air is water, water is air. In the same vein as a kid being thrown up and into the pool and enjoying it, the fish is playing.
okay… as someone who studies marine biology I need to clarify something:
fish are unable to hold their breaths. They literally cannot take a deep breath like mammals do.
We have lungs that can take in a specific volume of air, fish have gills that work when they are ventilated enough. There are different kinds of gills, yes. Some fish have something called ‘operculum’ which is like a cap on top of the gills, helping to protect them and increasing the water circulation through the gills. Some fish DONT have this structure and need to swim in order to be able to breathe.
But the fact that they cannot hold their breaths doesnt mean that they cannot survive without water for a while - in fact, fish can (usually) survive being without water WAY LONGER than we could survive being without air.
I cannot tell if this fish does this for fun, but it sure looks like it. But I am not a behavioural biologist, so I can’t tell for sure.
It is abundantly clear the fish is a willing participant. It’s sort of arrogant to assume animals other than humans don’t play like humans.
Im not a behavior biologist either, but I have spent a lot of time around fish and ive spent a lot of time talking to and helping people that care for fish. (Former petstore fish guy that took his job too seriously)
That fish is having fun, and fish absolutely DO have fun!
There was a regular who came into the store I worked at a lot, and he kept several varieties of chichlids, a very smart, aggressive type of fish.
He would come in and talk to me about all the drama his fish get into. The different territorial disputes they were having, who had paired off with who, who broke up (yes chichlids are like this)
But he had a jack dempsey in particular that LOVED to chase his hand around the tank, not his wife’s hand, not his friend’s hand, it HAD to be him. He said that as soon as he entered the room where this fish’s tank was kept, the fish would TEAR UP the tank decor, knocking things over and acting a fool off his shits until this dude stuck his hand in there and let the fish chase it around back and forth.
He theorized that his fish learned that if he knocked the tank decor around, his owner would obviously have to stick his hand in to fix it. So when he wants to play “chase dad’s hand” thats naturally how he knows he can get the hand to appear. He wont do this behavior for anybody but this one guy and he won’t tear up the tank anymore after he had received sufficient “play time”, usually once a day when the guy got home from work. He likened it to having a dog that wont leave you alone till you play tug o war for a bit.
I had a betta that would spend twenty minutes at a time just swimming up to the waterfall of the filter, letting it push him down to the bottom of the tank, only to swim back up and do it again, like it was a fucking slide.
Bettas are weak swimmers, and they dislike strong currents, but this guy was using the filter current like a slide. Kinda like how we don’t really like getting thrown around, but we still enjoy rollercoasters.
I also have countless stories about goldfish trying to “give hugs” (re: shove themselves into their owners hands during tank maintenance)
My betta knows how to lie and he will only beg for food in front of those he knows have not fed him yet.
There is so much evidence I’ve seen that fish are waaaay smarter and affectionate than we think. They absolutely have fun and I honestly don’t think enough studies have been done on fish brains and fish behavior in general.
And honestly, having worked in a pet store, fish are generally treated like they don’t have brains by even the fish care brands that claim expert knowledge.
Its definitely worth noting that hard scientific evidence presenting that the very opposite is true would probably lead to more robust animal welfare laws that would definitely upset the aquatics industry. Food for thought.
I think you’re absolutely right on that last point. The misconception that fish are too thoughtless to have feelings facilitates the abhorrent conditions in which they are kept and ways they are treated by the industry.
I used to have a lovely tank, I think it was 50 gallons, and among other things I kept glass catfish. All the research at the time said they were hard to keep in captivity and prone to refusing to eat and starving themselves, and that they did not live long in captivity. But I was fascinated and had to try it. It took me about three days to realize none of the literature said a word about them being nocturnal. I started feeding them at night right before bed, and had zero problems getting them to eat, saw they were incredibly active as soon as the lights went off (I have exceptional night vision) and I kept them in excellent health for years. Exponentially beyond their captive life expectancy.
I think the commercial pet fish trade is abysmal in terms of actual working knowledge of fish.
every time I put something in my ass I think about that tweet that's like YOU DESTORYED YOUR ROOT CHAKRA! it's over and you aren't going to make it!
Encountered today: a math professor wearing a shirt his grad students made for him, depicting him as a Moomin saying “I will literally kill myself if I don’t mention the orthogonal group”
