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he characters we ve grown to love with the multi verse in play in the new multi verse surely there is a gay spider man somewhere and by god we had better find him mj will be michael james and aunt may will transition to becoming uncle ben living her best life as peter s uncle in order to assuage the guilt of ben s death get ready for every perverse deviation from all traditional morality family structure sexual attraction gender ideology and all other normalcy and it will all just be waved off as we re really not rewriting spider man at all that one peter parker still exists in that backwards universe where men are men and women are women we re just telling a story about the new better progressive spider man because this story needs to be told i suppose i could be wrong we ll see share this email a link to a friend opens in new window email print opens in new window print share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x like loading filed under current events faith life movies opinion political correctness reviews and tagged catholic marvel movie review movies multi verse opinion spider man wokeness wokism leave a comment dec 31 random thoughts to end 2021 posted on december 31 2021 by the diatribe guy standard 1 why do all international news correspondents have english accents 2 possibly the dumbest thing ever invented that people actually seem to buy are those plastic straws with curves and hoops on them i mainly just wish i would have thought of it 3 the brewers showing in the playoffs this year showed me that craig counsel is a great in season manager and a horrible post season manager 4 i decided that one of my goals in life is to spend an inordinate amount of money on a car stereo 5 introducing my older kids to season one of 24 2022 resolution 6 praying that the momentum in the pro life movement not only continues in the courts and legislatures but in the hearts and minds of the populace support your local pregnancy centers that are there to both encourage life affirming options but are able to actively assist in the transition to parenthood or adoption that decision entails god bless all the good work these places do 7 i hope everyone is continuing to celebrate christmas and that 2022 is a year of transition to an increased person and communal faith in god that reverses some of the crazy trends we ve seen over the last number of decades share this email a link to a friend opens in new window email print opens in new window print share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x like loading filed under catholicism and tagged 2021 2022 happy new year year in review leave a comment dec 29 exipure experiment update 1 week in posted on december 29 2021 by the diatribe guy standard quick update i started taking exipure see previous post on monday on 12 20 and weighed in on that day at 216 1 there s context to my current weight that can be found in my 12 20 post note that i always weigh in after waking in the morning prior to eating anything on 12 27 one week in i weighed in at 216 8 the first inclination is to go lol but i also need to be a it fair this was over the christmas holiday celebration merry christmas by the way and i take this celebration seriously i only exercised one time during the week and didn t do a whole lot else below my baseline activity i also cheated nearly every day on my typical fast until noon standard and there was a good share of desserts and treats so i m not making excuses for the product just being fair in presenting the context in which i gained a bit wile taking it while the christmas octave is upon us and i m on vacation from work i will be celebrating and breaking my fast so we ll see what happens i will track my progress with monday weigh ins at least that s my plan and i will provide occasional updates accordingly share this email a link to a friend opens in new window email print opens in new window print share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x like loading filed under health holidays life personal projects reviews and tagged dieting exipure experiments health herbal supplements nutrition personal product review supplements weight loss leave a comment dec 22 my exipure experiment posted on december 22 2021 by the diatribe guy standard well i haven t posted in over a year but i am doing so now just because i want to honestly document a little personal experiment for anyone who may be interested ok so exipure is an herbal supplement with a supposedly proprietary formula that claims to increase brown fat cells by doing so apparently these magical cells are what then drives metabolic weight loss so i m a pretty level headed guy who looks at most things and sees them for what they are overzealous claims that don t pan out or that do so with all sorts of caveats e g product only works with 12 hours of exercise per day but every now and then i get sucked into the marketing and claims like the uninfallible guy i am and if it makes just enough sense to me i may throw caution to the wind and say oh heck why not that s kind of what i did here when i decided to order a three months supply of exipure also i am not a dieter nor have i ever tried something like this before i have zero stake in this company nor do i have or will i have any intentional link to the product in my post i say intentional because i have no control over how ads get placed on my posts so if you see an ad know that it s by algorithm and not something i in any way benefit from i find it annoying that whenever i try to find any legit opinions on these types of product they all end up saying it works and you can buy it here that s a conflict of interest so i just want to share the results of the experiment so let me share where i am so we can see if this thing seems to work last feb march i weighed nearly 240 lbs for the 2021 lenten season i decided to fast every day until noon shortly thereafter my wife and i started walking 3 miles per day nearly every day when the weather turned i did a lot of outside work and after lent ended i decided to keep my fast until noon on most days i did not significantly alter my diet during this time by the end of august i weighed in at 212 lbs since then i have not consistently exercised i ve been working much more sedentary hours and i was starting to get afraid to weigh myself again fearing i had gained back half the weight i lost it was during this time that i happened to get sucked into this exipure ad and i decided to just give it a shot and see what happens be a human guinea pig if you will now i m not one to throw just random toxins in my body so i had to at least be convinced it wasn t a bunch of chemical garbage that would kill me while i cannot guarantee that i didn t just buy a bottle of poison i was convinced to the point of comfort that it was indeed a conglomeration of things that shouldn t do me serious harm and so i bought it i received my supply last weekend and monday december 20 2021 was the day i took my first dose i weighed in that morning and was actually pleased to see that i had only gained a few pounds i have an electronic scale and take four separate readings and average them as my official weigh in amount my 12 20 2021 average was 216 1 so while i was on a weight loss trend march aug i have been stagnant slightly gaining for about four months now basically my plan is to just document here what happens and to give a brief overview of anything that could sway things from baseline average i consider baseline at the moment to be 1 fast until noon on most days 4 6 days per week 2 typical meals and snacking no restrictions but not gorging myself silly either trying to limit nighttime eating more for gerd issues than weight loss reasons 3 desserts soda candy etc are all on the table though i try to keep a little eye on things 4 exercise 1 or 2 days per week 5 limited additional taxing physical work the above is sort of what the last four months has looked like so if i work out an extra couple days for an extended period i will note that if i eat a gallon bin of christmas cutout cookies i will note that my plan is to take this for three months and see what happens i don t know how often i ll report back and i doubt anyone is reading this anyway so it s more just for the fun of having documented it in the meantime merry christmas and happy new year share this email a link to a friend opens in new window email print opens in new window print share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x like loading filed under health life personal reviews and tagged dieting exipure experiment health product reviews supplements weight loss leave a comment sep 9 a little about father james altman posted on september 9 2020 by the diatribe guy standard priest making waves might not be trending on twitter but if it were there would be a picture of father james altman those who have been longing for a courageous priest to tell it like it is are embracing him as a new hope that not all is lost in this world or in the catholic church those who are a little more conciliatory have taken great offense you can t be catholic and a democrat period ok father tell us how you really feel i m not here to argue on behalf of the good father he can handle himself i have seen a couple silly attempts at rebuking him through analysis and feel inclined to at least mention a couple things about that firstly anyone who starts off an analysis by proclaiming himself as neither a republican nor a democrat in order to assuage the critic of his own passivity and neutrality so as to give the appearance of someone better served to analyze remarks than someone who is a democrat or a republican is engaging in psychological sleight of hand arguments and analysis stand on their own merits the fact that someone is too jelly like to stand firm on one side or the other to take a stand or just actually admit they are one thing or the other hardly elevates their logical credentials it s as if to say an agnostic is better served to analyze a religious opinion as opposed to an atheist or those pesky christians secondly when the first segment of analysis takes father altman s words about not loving anyone in borneo and goes into a full throated admonishment of that statement from a priest as some unbelievable offense against god and church i know i m not dealing with an honest reviewer it is so self evident that it need not be explained except apparently to this guy that by saying he does not love anyone in borneo he is not talking about a general love of mankind that desires everyone to be treated with dignity fairness justice and to live a life of freedom and liberty while working out their salvation he is obviously saying he does not love anyone in borneo in the sense of relationship just like none of us grieve and mourn over the death of every person around the globe every day because we don t love them in a familial relationship or as a close friend it makes perfect sense to say that one doesn t love everyone in the context that he is talking about he didn t say he didn t care about anyone in borneo he didn t say he wishes ill to those people he was making an obvious point that only someone being purposely obtuse wouldn t understand thirdly going into a criticism about using the baltimore catechism as some nefarious mechanism in making a subversive point instead of the catechism we should use the cathechism of the catholic church is simply silly i have no issues with the ccc it s a fine work as is father hardon s catechetical work as is the baltimore catechism one does not negate the truth of the other the baltimore catechism didn t cease to be relevant just because there is a new version any more than st thomas aquinas ceased to be relevant when subsequent theologians wrote their insights in the centuries that followed this is about as far as i got in reading that particular review because it was clear at this point it was not the supposedly neutral and balanced assessment of father altman s words promised by someone staking that claim by proclaiming his absence of partisan affiliation but all that is really unimportant so here is my disclosure i am an unapologetic republican not because every element of their platform or everyone they elect is perfect far from it but because we have a two party system and one party is diabolical and evil period so yes i agree with father and while some may appease their consciences by not voting at all or voting for a third party this simply moves the sin from complicity to passivity i will grant that if there is any remote realistic chance that a third party candidate might win then go ahead and campaign and contribute and do all you can to give him or her a chance but as it becomes perfectly clear prior to the election that this will not under any circumstance actually occur then you are doing the equivalent of standing by idly and doing nothing about evil occurring right in front of you sometimes it s not good enough to just not participate in evil sometimes you need to stop it period my other disclosure is that i am in the same diocese as father altman i know him casually he probably doesn t even remember me i spoke with him at a friend s house one day at a party i have been to mass with him when he was in his previous assignment but i was not a member of his parish i have gone to confession with him here is my insight about the man from those few occurrences one for someone who is as forthright and at times scathing as he can be towards the targets he feels deserves rebuke i have never experienced a more gentle compassionate and joyful confession one might think his fire and brimstone homilies indicates a no nonsense guy with little patience for imperfection nothing could be further from the truth in fact he loves hearing people confess because he believes in the power of the sacrament his issue like jesus is not about the average person struggling in a world of sin and falling for various traps stumbling and falling his rebukes are for those who are leading people into that sin especially those who should be doing just the opposite going to confession takes courage and he loves courage my other takeaway is that at the heart of everything he says it s because he wants people to go to heaven you can critique whether or not his approach works but it is his firm belief that milquetoast sermons and spineless priests and bishops who are afraid to call a sin a sin are making people feel good in the here and now at the potential expense of eternal salvation of souls as a parent i feel a desperation of sorts to make sure i am doing everything i can do to see my kids grow up and have not only temporal opportunities but to know god at times i may switch gears from gentleness to firmness i may even yell and punish but don t hold that against me father altman i...
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