@adadjokeforstrings

june, eastern finland, 2023

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Wildfire Preparedness Day 2024

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May 4th is not just Star Wars day, it's also Wildfire Preparedness day! So what better time to finally share my new preparedness poster?

One thing I hear a lot when discussing wildfire preparedness is that people want to protect their most treasured items, so they have them pre-packed to make them easy to grab in the event of an emergency. I've always found this kind of sad. Understandable! But sad. You shouldn't have to hide away the things you love.

Which is where the concept of a preparedness shelf comes in. The idea here is to keep all your evacuation based stuff AND your "save first" items in one spot where they can be displayed instead of hidden away, but still easily grabbed and evacuated.

This has several advantages. For one, you don't have to hide away the things you love but they will still be easy to access in one central spot. For two, if you are not home at the time of evacuation and someone else is (maybe a partner, or your neighbor, or an older child) and they call you and ask what you want them to grab, you do not have to direct them all over your house, just to one central location.

As always, use your best judgement about the hazards in your area and what works for you.

If you are in the U.S.A. and experiencing disaster related anxiety, call the Disaster Distress Hotline at 1-800-985-5990 for support and resources.

If you would like a print of this poster, you can get the high quality digital file on my website for $3, and discounted rates are available if you would like to purchase the right to make more prints! You can get files of the evacuation prep poster the same way!

Can we normalize not swearing in public? There are innocent little ears around us that don't need to hear these nasty words and it is our responsibility to be good role models for children. We must not corrupt their hearts.

05/10/2024

The widdle baybeee!

St. Joan, I love you!

Yulia Belousova

Please pray for C and S, two young women who lost their babies 😔

Hey students, here’s a pro tip: do not write an email to your prof while you’re seriously sick.

Signed, a person who somehow came up with “dear hello, I am sick and not sure if I’ll be alive to come tomorrow and I’m sorry, best slutantions, [name]”.

I mean, if someone wrote that to me, I’d probably believe they were sick.

“Slutantions” has me crying laughing

i once emailed my professor with a migraine. a mistake.

“I amsick will not to choir because i have a heache. i Hope its very and i am so sorry

love,

blue”

the subject line was “OW”

THE SUBJECT LINE IS THE BEST PART JSJFJSJDJS JUST IMAGINE GETTING AN EMAIL WITH NO CONTEXT OTHER THAN “OW”

As someone who has taught college, please send those emails because 1) We WILL believe that; no one would write that on purpose and 2) we need a laugh sometimes.

On the other side of this, once after getting taken to the ER by ambulance, I got an email from the professor whose class I’d passed out in, and the message had no text, just the subject line “you good?”

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Claritin makes me weird, but I have allergies so there’s about a month and a half block of time where I’m taking Claritin and am just weird most of the time.

Anyway, my last year of college, I got the flu or something in late March and was also taking Mucinex. I told my professor I couldn’t come to class one day by email except I couldnt think of what to say, so my medicated ass decided to make a Fry meme. I think it said something like “Not sure if I can go to class with a head the size of Texas, bottom text.” I didn’t think until the next day that it probably wasn’t socially-acceptable to tell your philosophy professor you weren’t coming to class via Tumblr style memes. When i got back to class, i found that she’d printed it out and taped it to the classroom bulletin board.

Oh shit you guys i turned on my WinXP laptop that I used to use back then.

IT WAS ON THE DESKTOP. THIS IS WHAT I SENT.

It’s even worse than i remember it

I laugh myself hoarse every time this post comes around, so here it is again.

Once emailed a professor from my hospital bed high on painkillers after a really bad car crash which my heart actually stopped the email “Dead cant class sory”

Brother Bear (2003) dir. Aaron Blaise & Robert Walker + Kawaii Blue

↳ for lu ✧ @myrcella-lannister

*raised eyebrow* this isn’t really helping your argument that being pro-life has nothing to do with wanting to control women’s bodies. Glad I’m not Catholic.

If you’re not interested in children there’s no point getting married since marriage isn’t about the couple. It’s about the children. That’s why my ex wouldn’t marry me, because she can’t have children. I’m also not catholic either, that’s just one of those norms all of Christendom used to have in common about a hundred years ago prior to the effective collapse the moral authority of the Churches. Largely as a result of the First World War but really enforced by their inability to do anything of note during the Second World War, and the tendency of the church towards state moral compliance ever since.

….love? That’s a point? You’re still allowed get married if you know you’re infertile, what am I reading here

1 Corinthians 7 and Song of Solomon are two oft-quoted Biblical sources about marriage.

Neither mention children.

Children are important but I would argue that they are nowhere near the only reason for marriage.

#how dense……….do u have to be…………..#christianity tag

Y’all really gonna ignore “be fruitful and multiply” and then have the audacity to not even engage in civil conversation to better understand Catholic beliefs before throwing in insults?

I admit to insulting your POV, and that was poor form. I’m sorry. That wasn’t cool.

But also?? You look at all the Biblical marriages that were childless for years, for decades, and tell me that somehow they were invalid UNTIL God gave them children. Look at Abraham and Sarah. God never once told them their marriage wasn’t “good” because they were barren. Look at all the modern marriages between earnest Christians who love Jesus, but they’ll never have their own natural born children. Why would God do that? Why would God trap someone in an “invalid” marriage if they’ve already jumped through the other clearly outlined hoops of being straight and Christian?

If you need children to have a marriage, then why doesn’t God open every barren womb? Please explain this to me.

To be fair, nowadays we have a lot more test and other stuff to prove infertility. So it’s not likely that they could have figured out fertility issues until AFTER they had tried to conceive.

From what I was taught at my church, a married couple must always be open to the possibility of children, even if it seems unlikely. I actually know a family in my church where the mother was told she was infertile, adopted a boy, but then proceeded to have five kids of her own. I know that’s not every case, but miracles can happen when you are open to life. However, if you know you are infertile before you marry, I would consult a priest on whether you should attempt to marry.

Children isn’t the ONLY purpose of a marriage, but it is the primary purpose, I mean, if your following what the church says about sex, then odds are, you’re not going to be having kids unless you’re married.

Finally, while I somewhat disagree with Ginnie, as I believe adoption is still open to life, I’m not entirely sure why a fertile couple would only adopt??? But maybe I’m missing on some context.

As a now-married former seminarian, I have the unfortunate duty of providing canon law context about impotence and sterility.

First, the adoption point: There are two ends of marriage: unity of spouses and procreation and education of offspring. No marriage is valid without at least intending to pursue both of these ends and no act of sexual intercourse is moral while directly and intentionally thwarting either of these ends. While it is morally licit for serious (or grave) reasons to attempt to space children through natural methods, each an every act of marital intercourse needs to be open to a new child, if God grants it. This is why intentionally excluding the possibility of children through marital intercourse invalidates marriage and why wanting to adopt is not open to life enough. It is because being open to life is a moral requirement of sexual intercourse and not marriage.

Next, the vocation point: as alluded to by @synthetic-blanket-hairs, there were plenty of Biblical marriages that happened to be childless, even though the spouses wanted children (so it was valid to enter into). But if children are the core of marriage, what happens when they grow up and leave? “A man shall leave his mother and father and cleave to his wife.” This is why the Catholic Church has held that, while children are the “crown” of marriage, they are not its central vocation. The vocation of marriage is a sacrament, that is an efficacious sign. The radical fidelity of the partners until death is the core of the Sacrament of Marriage because it is a sign of the mystery of Christ and the Church, who was faithful until death (Ephesians 5:29-33). The total self gift of the spouses over a whole life is the core, even if their hope of children is thwarted by conditions out of their control

For more on the necessity for intending sex and children at marriage vows, see here

And finally, the uncomfortable canonical question: Canon 1084 states

Ҥ1. Antecedent and perpetual impotence to have intercourse, whether on the part of the man or the woman, whether absolute or relative, nullifies marriage by its very nature.

§2. If the impediment of impotence is doubtful, whether by a doubt about the law or a doubt about a fact, a marriage must not be impeded nor, while the doubt remains, declared null.

§3. Sterility neither prohibits nor nullifies marriage, without prejudice to the prescript of ⇒ can. 1098 [deception by malice invalidates]”

I have the unfortunate duty to point out that if before marriage, someone was incurably unable to have a complete act of sexual intercourse, no true marriage can be entered into. Canon Law commentaries go into completely what that means.

Mere sterility (i.e. the inability to have children) does not invalidate a marriage, for many of the Biblical reasons above.

God makes sacraments out of people who cannot have children, but as long as they can give themselves to each other in the marital act, they can have hope and trust in God’s will.

saw a post that was like "breakups are being forced to un-love someone" and my immediate reaction was well no wonder you're feeling like garbage. stop trying to un-love what you can't un-love and work on loving them right instead. brother and sister and fellow human being are all RIGHT THERE FOR THE TAKING and you're like "eueueueuuuh i must un-love this person" like wtf no you don't. i have never stopped loving anyone in my entire life and i wish them all well and they broke my heart a thousand times but it was theirs to break anyway and don't you get it don't you understand i am not going to un-love you when the only point of my loving you at all was that you were worthy of my love.

“Time is but a shadow, a dream; already God sees us in Glory and takes joy in our eternal beatitude. How this thought helps my soul. I understand then why he lets us suffer.” St. Therese of Lisieux

1st letter of my name: 2nd letter of my name: 1st letter of my mom’s name: 2nd letter of my mom’s name: 1st letter of my dad’s name: 2nd letter of my dad’s name:

My child’s name would be…