The way alastor is portrayed as the bad guy for rejecting Vox looks like how an “incel” sees and react when a “Stacy” rejects them. Wouldn’t be surprised if people rejected medrano in past and instead of moving on she saw them as bad people for saying “no” to her. The fact the most “brutal” thing she can come up with is a rejection for Vox and alastor “rivalry” is highschool freshman anime/theater club drama or in her case first year SVA drama
That is, there are specific things that you have to do, if you want those good things.
If you want to lose weight, write a book, start a business, or any number of other good things, there are certain steps that you need to take to do that. You’ve got to know what to do, and how to do it, if that’s what you want.
You and I know people that have done things like this. And have done them well. They’ve followed a program. Taken the right steps. And accomplished the good thing that they set out to do. Which is great.
But it’s also a problem. Why?
Because when we see success that comes from following a program, there’s something in us that’s tempted to oversimplify. To assume (without really even articulating the idea) that the way to have any good thing is to take certain steps.
That success in any area is all about doing specific things, about following a program. So where’s the problem?
The problem comes when we apply that idea to God. When we treat our Faith as another program. One where we will accomplish the good thing – we’ll have joy, we’ll have peace, God will love us, etc. – if we just do the right things.
This approach is nothing new. In fact, it’s the backstory to Thomas’ question in today’s Gospel. When He asks Jesus, “we do not know where you are going, how can we know the way?”
Jesus is talking about the eternity that He has planned for each one of us. About how He is preparing a place for us and will come back for us.
But that’s not what Thomas hears. Thomas is stuck in program mode. He wants a list of things to do, as if Jesus was talking about “5 steps to your first million followers.”
Jesus’ response to “how can we know the way?” It’s as simple as it is stunning – “I am the way.”
That is, our Faith isn’t a program. Where we’ll have joy, we’ll have peace, God will love us, etc. – if we just do the right things.
What Jesus is telling us (per St. Peter Chrysologus) is that, “we come to God through God.”
Meaning? Our Faith isn’t about doing certain things to get a particular outcome.
It’s about spending time with God. Not just in times of crisis, but as part of your normal. Talking with God, and even listening. Taking the time, getting to know who God really is. Discovering the depth of God’s love for you.
"All I can say now is that I think Meghan was calculated — very calculated — in the way she handled people and relationships. She is very strategic in the way she cultivates circles of friends." -Childhood Friend/Maid of Honor Ninaki Priddy
"She is the Undine Spragg of Montecito" -Graydon Carter, Vanity Fair Editor
Jamie (QVC/Big Brother/Bay Watch) sold a Montecito property to Ted Sarandos (Netflix)
"In 2013, they bought a property for $28.8 million and flipped it to Netflix head Ted Sarandos for $34 million."
Jamie (QVC/Big Brother/Bay Watch) purchased a property from Ellen DeGeneres
"Beauty mogul Jamie Kern Lima and her husband Paulo Lima are listing their oceanfront spread in Carpinteria, California, for $41.95 million. They had bought the Santa Barbara County beach house from talk show queen Ellen DeGeneres and her wife, Portia de Rossi, for $23 million in 2019. (DeGeneres and de Rossi, who have long been active in real estate investing, had paid $18.6 million for the mansion in 2017.)"
Beauty Queen
Bay Watch
Big Brother Briefcase Holder
Billionaire Beauty co-founder with husband Paulo
MM plagiarized TIG that it girl. Jamie actually is The It Girl.
Hardworking, "Christian" & a member of the "Church of Oprah-BreneBrown" Montecito Mom & Wife
2 beautiful children (Wonder & Wilder ) via an east coast surrogate
Jamie's back story:
"I found out I was adopted by surprise in my late twenties, I went on this five-year journey of trying to find my birth mom. And I had very little info on the paperwork, and I didn’t even know if it was actually factual or not. But I called thousands and thousands of women over a five-year period and I would just get hung up on because everyone kind of thought it was a telemarketer. I had a really mixed, blended family growing up.
And eventually, I worked a lot of jobs, worked pushing grocery carts in the Safeway parking lot, and waitressed at Denny’s, all kinds of stuff to pay my way through school. Eventually, I was the first person in my family to go to school and got a job in journalism. I was working in what I thought was my dream job anchoring the news. I was moving up markets.
On my honeymoon flight to South Africa, my husband and I wrote the business plan for IT Cosmetics. We got back, quit our jobs, and went all in. We had very little money, very little savings, but we poured it all into making our first product."
"I’ll never forget when in my 30s I met my birth mom and her family for the first time. I was a little worried how it would go but my mom Nina welcomed them into our lives with open arms saying to them “the more people who love Jamie the better.”
2018 & 2020: Paulo and I been going through a very private and difficult journey filled with multiple miscarriages. The moments of hugging each other sobbing were excruciating. If you or someone you love has gone through this, you can understand how painful it can be. So when we learned, that in partnership with our surrogate (the same real life angel who brought our daughter Wonder into the world) that we’re pregnant we were so overjoyed but also so scared.
FYI: I've never watched an episode of Big Brother. Both Jamie & MMarkle held briefcases. Jamie survived the very 1st season in the Big Brother House. Here's a 60 sec clip of Jamie's intro:
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If you search Jamie's name, the algorithm is overwhelmed with MM. Here's Jamie's sycophantic commentary on Meghan Markle:
Meghan, Duchess of Sussex is an American member of the British royal family, an entrepreneur, author, actor, Founder of the lifestyle brand As Ever, that just sold out of stock completely in the first hour of its recent launch into the world, congratulations! Her new Netflix show “With Love, Meghan” just debuted Season 1 as a top 10 show on Netflix…. She’s also a mom to her two beautiful kids, Prince Archie
Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, in her First EVER Podcast Interview! This is the Exclusive Worldwide Premiere Episode of The Jamie Kern Lima Show podcast with our guest today, Meghan, Duchess of Sussex. This is such an inspiring conversation, and please make sure to share this episode with everyone you know who needs a boost of joy, inspiration, empowerment and self-belief today! I ask her all the things, like do you use the name Meghan Markel anymore? Will you ever run for office? Are you planning to write another book? And so much more!
I’ve had so many heart-felt moments with Meghan in these chairs, and today YOU are invited to join us! So, come as you are, cozy up, lean in and get ready… this is the Worldwide Premiere of Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, in her first ever podcast interview…and she’s doing it with you and me today right here, on the Jamie Kern Lima Show!
For this special episode, in the studio today, I have my favorite rocking chairs for the first time ever. These are the ones I sit in all the time just outside of my kitchen with friends, where we catch up, share our day, our hardships, our joys, our pain, and have our most intimate conversations. I’ve had so many heart-felt moments with Meghan in these chairs, and today YOU are invited to join us! So, come as you are, cozy up, lean in and get ready… this is the Worldwide PremiereShe’s also a mom to her two beautiful kids, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet and wife to husband Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex. She’s a mama of rescue dogs, and she’s also an incredible champion of women, and an amazing friend!
She just recently debuted her brand new podcast called “Confessions of a Female Founder!” Where, while Meghan builds out a business of her own, she’s getting advice and insights from amazing women who have scaled small ideas into successful companies. And guess what, I’m so grateful to be one of the guests on her show as well! Meghan and I had the MOST incredible conversation on insights and stories I’ve never shared before…from when I was a waitress at Denny’s with big dreams but a lot of self-doubt, to starting IT Cosmetics in my living room, getting hundreds of Nos for years, to eventually getting 1 yes that changed everything. I share the stories behind the stories, some for the first time ever on Meghan’s new podcast, our episode comes out tomorrow so make sure to listen and share it with everyone you know, who it could help inspire…whether its to keep going in their business or in their dreams! You can listenstories, some for the first time ever on Meghan’s new podcast, our episode comes out tomorrow so make sure to listen and share it with everyone you know, who it could help inspire…whether its to keep going in their business or in their dreams! You can listen to our episode of Confessions
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Des Moines beauty queen banished from `Big Brother' Sep 28, 2000 Mark Rahner Seattle Times
This was one pageant Seattle-area beauty queen Jamie Kern didn't win. Kern, the image-obsessed 23-year-old Miss Washington USA from Des Moines, was the final contestant to be "banished" from TV's "Big Brother" household last night. Characterizing Kern's stay in the camera-riddled house as relatively uninvolved, the show's official Web site said of her, "She stayed completely focused on one thing and one thing only: her image."
Kern lost a phone-in viewer poll to three male finalists known on the show only by their first names: Curtis, Eddie and Josh. Kern is the last of the 10 original house guests to be excised with no prize money. One will leave during tomorrow night's finale with the $500,000 grand prize. That choice, too, will be made by a phone poll.
Kern's instincts as a beauty-pageant contestant apparently kicked in when the news was announced last night on live TV. She registered no emotion as she congratulated the other three. CBS' "Big Brother" is one of a spate of recent "reality shows" in which a group of average people is gradually pared down to one big cash winner. "Big Brother's" contestants live in a house completely wired with video cameras, allowing no privacy and no interaction with the outside, save for occasional banners flown by pranksters overhead. Kern's family flew to Los Angeles to be at the "Big Brother" set when the banishment results were announced on live television.
"We're going to give her a big hug," her stepfather, Dennis Kern, said before departing. She was just being herself on the show, said her mother, Nina Kern. "She's not trying to put on any kind of an act or anything like that. She's a thinker. She thinks before she speaks most of the time. . . . Some people have said she's too quiet, but that's the way she is." Nina Kern said she doesn't know what her daughter's post-show plans are. An acceptance to Yale University for an MBA program has expired, but not one to Columbia. And she will promote her Miss Washington USA title, her mother said. But pageant official David Nold fumed, "Jamie has had less involvement as Miss Washington USA than any titlist I've ever known. Jamie focuses on promoting only Jamie, not Washington, not the pageant, only Jamie."
Nold is vice president and general legal counsel for Northwest Pageants, which runs the Miss Washington and Miss Oregon USA pageants. Angered when Kern's talent representatives issued a statement last week claiming she represented the state well on the CBS show, Nold said, "She hasn't done anything to represent Washington state." Dennis Kern responded that the family had had a "very, very uncomfortable association" with the pageant, and claimed that it was, in fact, Nold who wouldn't return his stepdaughter's calls. Nina Kern called "Big Brother" a once-in-a-lifetime chance for her daughter. But hearing the assorted slams on her - including less-than-flattering remarks from the show's analyst, Dr. Drew Pinsky - was never easy.
"Some of the banners that have been flying over the house - some of them are just mean. There are some mean people out there," Nina Kern said. After seeing one banner that accused her daughter of being two-faced, the family paid for a banner with a supportive message on it to be flown above the house.
Not charity. Not from religious groups. Not conditional. I'm tired of this when it's presented as a way for folks to feel better about themselves. Because they separate themselves from those they are helping. Mutual Aid is all about needing help and giving help in a reciprocal way. Not transactional. It's just meant to be a default way of moving through community.
I'm tired of seeing church groups handing out supplies and food to folks on the street and making them sit through a service. How about we don't condition their receipt of help on their willingness to be proselytized to? Why should that be expected?
One time I was handing out soup in a vacant lot and some church folks were there as well. The church folks started preaching in the middle of the space so no one could escape hearing it. Talking about the virtue of suffering. Ew. These are folks often in the worst place in their life and you're telling them should be happy and that it's good they're at where they're at.
No! That just serves capital keeping the poor down by mollifying them with this notion that they deserve this or that it's virtuous in any way. It isn't. This folks need to be pissed and loud and angry. We all do. And acting like we should just take some drug to put us to sleep so we can waddle our way through this existence while those who flourish, flourish because folks are stuck on the streets. Nah. Everyone needs to be pissed.
