"Tweet"... "Toot"... 🙄 I'm glad Nostr hasn't come up with a weird substitute word to indicate a post. Keep it simple, I say. But I'm good with the word "zap" since it serves a purpose, has a distinct meaning.

We should be more afraid to break continuity with 2000 years of Church history, teaching, practice, and popes than to resist the agenda of an outlier pope or prelate who himself resists the Church's Tradition.

I miss seeing @Edward Snowden on here.

Here's a secret that my dentist doesn't know: I haven't used toothpaste for years now. He always says everything looks good and that my gums are healthy. I haven't told him yet that I only brush my teeth with a generous pinch of baking soda.

I feel like Mary could've been talking to me when at Fatima she told Francisco that he would have to "pray many rosaries." We have sinned so much, yet have little time on this earth to make reparations, for ourselves and for others. Keep a rosary with you always, and pray it often. I keep a small ring rosary with me so I can pray incognito at odd moments throughout the day. It's surprising how many decades one can go through doing that. It makes it relatively easy to "pray without ceasing" as Scripture says. 📿

Understanding the Catholic Faith is not beyond your reach. If you read this small, simple catechism written early last century you will understand the Faith better than your local permanent deacon and probably most OCIA instructors.

It's best we don't give Adam & Eve a hard time for their sin in the garden, asking "What were you thinking?" They could point to our sins today and say, "You have 20/20 hindsight as Christians -- what are *you* thinking?"

Sophie Cunningham has a knack for earning new fans.

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I have shaved with this Edwin Jagger razor for many years, and it will last the rest of my life. Nothing like a good hot shave in the morning to start the day off right. Save lots of money, too. (Blades are cheap if you order online.)

I am a proofreader and editor by profession, so I'm extra annoyed when I find stupid errors in my Nostr posts. They are typically due to my phone's automicorrect feature, its voice-to-text issues, and/or my not having my reading glasses with me. I do much better when at my computer.

When I consider scourging and crucifixion of our Lord in gruesome detail, I admit to often feeling bad since I was part of the reason for him going through that suffering. But on the flip side, he knew what he was doing. He did it voluntarily, intentionally, out of love for me. How can I not respond in love to someone who loved me that much -- knowing what my sins would be ahead of time?

Since we are blessed to have an extra bedroom, we turned it into a prayer room. A good place for morning prayer & spiritual reading. My wife put together jigsaw puzzles of all five joyful mysteries and hung them on the wall. "Pray, pray, pray," as a good priest used to tell us, is indispensable advice.

You are engaged in real spiritual warfare whether you know it or not, like it or not. If you don't know it or believe it, it's because you're being pummeled and soundly defeated. You will not have a happy death. But it doesn't have to be that way. "Easy believe-ism" isn't the solution, either ("Just accept Jesus"). You have to choose to love God with your whole heart, soul, and strength. Call on him. Put on the whole armor of God and fight, with Jesus as your King and the Blessed Virgin as your Queen Mother. With the triune God -- not Bitcoin or Monero -- all things are possible.

Years ago I almost blacked out from laughing so hard at this. Sometimes you never know what will strike your funny bone.

My wife just texted me: ----- "YOLO." - St. Thomas Aquinas ----- I'm going to have to ask for a citation or reference. I'm not so sure I can trust her on this one.

1. Death 2. Judgment 3. Heaven 4. Hell These are the "Four Last Things." 1 & 2 are inevitable. You never know when it's your turn for 1. Probably sooner than you're ready to believe. 2 will follow immediately after 1, and it will determine your destination of eternal 3 or 4. Don't be distracted. Don't take your eye off the ball. It's not how you begin that counts; it's how you end. You know the Way. Take it. Now.

I think 1-ply toilet paper is of the devil.

I made a custom lightning address with Cake Wallet to use here on Nostr. But then I read about how, technically, we are supposed to report all of our zaps -- sent and received, tracking the value at the time of transaction -- and how it's possible for Big Brother to trace our accounts to our real IDs. I know (right now) all that is ridiculous. but I don't feel like thinking about the theoretical or eventual implications. So I just got rid of my lightning address, for now at least, and will stick with privacy-by-default #Monero for those few who tip and transact that way. Simplify.

I thought I should #asknostr : Is it as risky to directly enter one's nsec directly into an app like Amethyst for Android as it is to do so on a computer's browser client? Browser extensions like "Soapbox Signer" are awesome, while Amber eats my phone battery and data for lunch.

Even though permitted with a dispensation, I super-highly recommend Catholics do NOT marry non-Catholics. A spouse should be a helper and sharer, not an obstacle, in the Faith. And kids learn from both parents. There is loneliness in a one-Catholic household. Unnecessary pain.