Yesterday! That’s right, two decades ago my wife and I were visiting SF at this time of year, right around the Bay To Breakers.
To this day I cannot fully wrap my head around the concept that a city would host such a peculiar event with mass public nudity, and I applaud it, a non-prudish attitude towards one’s own body is a healthy attitude, at minimum it’s a step in the right direction.
But instead of going to see the Bay To Breakers, we opted for something… shall we say… a little more refined, more spiritual? We attended Sunday morning service at an African Orthodox church.
There I was, an atheist, dragging my wife to Sunday mass, so what gives? This was something special, The Church Of Saint John Coltrane. Three hour service, two and a half of 'em live jazz, with around 10 or 12 musicians.
Afterwards, we congratulated the bishop for the extraordinary experience, and at his recommendation, my wife and I had lunch at a soul food restaurant nearby.
That was a special, special Sunday, I do not regret missing out on the Bay To Breakers that day.
They have an environmental contingency alert this week, I believe, where cars with license plates with a particular ending are prohibited from circulating in the streets, the next day it’s cars with another ending that cannot be driven, rotating 1/5 of all cars each weekday.
But on Sundays, I believe traffic is by itself much lower than on weekdays, so any and all cars are allowed to circulate.
I saw the whole damn thing in one night, but I had nothing else to do, sitting on standby keeping an eye on my old sleeping cat, he just started medical treatment and the good news seems to be that it’s working and the side effects are not too bad.
But yeah, your post gave me something perfect to pass the time with during the wee hours.
Was Mark an apostle? My memory may be glitching, because I have the impression that only Matthew and John were actual original apostles. About Luke I am certain that he was from Greece and several decades later.
Do many adults still go around spouting believing whatever they heard from their parents or Sunday school teacher when they were children, just to get them to stop asking “complicated questions”?
Maybe, just maybe, also because that may have been the way to get some impulsive but simple-minded people to not make a mess for those around them. Didn’t work with everyone, though. If it ever did, with anyone.
Also, it seems shockingly easy to get some people to commit evil acts as they think they are doing good… and that usually comes carrying a lot of religious ideology and/or methodology, curiously enough.
The events of October 7th, 2023, must also be addressed, or else any morally-superior pronouncements are going nowhere either fast or slow, any speed you choose is equally pointless.
The victims of Palestine are cannon fodder for both Hamas and Israel, both sides have made each hate the other with unfiltered rage.
On the one hand, you have the anti-science, anti-reason, bible-thumping retrograde assholes.
On the other, you can bet that these same bible-thumping assholes break many of the very same ten commandments on a regular basis.
Finally, they could have posted something from the Gospels, from the lips of Jesus himself such as “love thy neighbor” and “turn the other cheek”, but noooo…
“I have been heard loud and clear. Now I sit and lay back like I always do anyway, and wait while fondling my purity then absent-mindedly yet lovingly sniffing my fingers, any moment now they will cater to me.”
This is the most fun I’ve had reading text so far today, it’s like I was transported to another time and place without leaving the comfort of my own couch.
It doesn’t matter what Democrats do (or attempt in a politically hostile environment that tries to sabotage anything and everything they do), the bOtH pArTiEs ArE tHe SaMe LoL aMiRiTe assholes will ignore it, or flip it and force-jam it into their always lazy, cynical and oh-so-savvy, mediocre narrative.
Same day shipping (lemmy.world)
I just skated 150km (i.imgur.com)
It was actually closer to 155, but I started recording like 5km in, so I did an extra 5 just to get the full distance on the app....
The Spectacular Failure of the Star Wars Hotel (youtu.be)
Unholy contortions are the best compliment (lemmy.world)
OG pointy boots (lemmy.world)
It's impossible not to hear this in Rodney Dangerfield's voice (lemmy.world)
Jeez-its (lemmy.world)
Ah, the true path to socialism! (lemmy.world)
Tacos. (lemmy.world)
Vampyros Lesbos (1971) (feddit.nl)
https://feddit.nl/pictrs/image/e9b5bd6e-bf2d-4944-90f0-e10a56f71f6e.jpeg...
Why is time money and not, say... waffles?
The Dog Side of the Force
Next math exam will be a nightmare (lemmy.world)
Very nuanced issue (lemmy.eco.br)
Sacra di San Michele, Italy
Attire of Mastro Titta, executioner of the Papal States, retired 1864 AD
Louisiana becomes 1st state to require the Ten Commandments be posted in classrooms (www.nola.com)
It's okay, tankies love fascism, so they're not put out by the result (lemmy.world)
What is the weirdest flavoured thing you've had?
Was it good?
bUt BoTh SiDeS dA sAmE (lemmy.world)
There must be some other word for a tiny human, but I can't place it... (lemmy.world)
It’s something like ‘chitlins?’