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is there anything we can reasonably do about this? or have we decided on staying fully public and unvetted and are thus doomed to low quality irrelevance?
  
 
the really unfortunate part is that we're all fully aware of how forums like ours are intentionally disorganized by external forces - it would be more unfortunate still to just sit by and let it happen.
  
 
anyone have any opinions or ideas on this matter?

\(From The Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory Film, 1971)

"It's not enough for such governments to lie to you, but they have to force people to repeat the lie themselves, and the more grotesque the lie, the better. To make you repeat it, that way in your humiliation, you become its sissy sub.
 
They extubate through that, the spirit of defiance and self rule, and they make you party to their network of falsehoods."
 
What a wordsmith.

This guy is awesome. "Why not 60? I can do that as well you know, making up numbers"

  
Hello fellow consumers,
  
As always thank you to everyone that participated in the last weekly and remember you are Operation MONKE!
  
NOTE: These weekly threads are run in parallel here and on https://communities.win/c/ConsumeProduct
  
  
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# This Weeks Discussion Theme: [Cooomholics Anonymous #2]( https://www.supersurvey.com/resultsQAMF65MJE)
Welcome to the second Cooomholics Anonymous (CA) meeting. This is a continuation from our [last weekly]( https://communities.win/c/ConsumeProduct/p/12ih0QolqJ) on this topic. The goal of this weekly is to focus on staying no fap and helping cooomholics achieve no fap. Do bring up recommendations, or organizations which offer healthy advice.
Discussion ideas:
* When did you realize that pornography and fapping are detrimental?
* Have you been able to free yourself of coomer brain, how?
* Is the idea of no fap stupid or is it beneficial to reduce or quit fapping and porn?
  
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# Weekly Polls:
  
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# Previous Weeklies:
* [Weekly 85]( https://communities.win/c/ConsumeProduct/p/142BT7bYU3/)
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With jews you lose

Idk how to link here or even if it was real. It was a video of a complex but you could hear thousands of people screaming because theyd been locked in their apartments. Time code was Mar 2nd.

> the Christian celebration of the announcement by the angel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary that she would conceive and become the mother of Jesus, the Son of God, marking his Incarnation.
 
https://infogalactic.com/info/Annunciation
 
https://infogalactic.com/info/Feast_of_the_Annunciation
 
Catholic encyclopedia entry on topic: https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01541c.htm
 
> Mary may not yet have fully understood the meaning of the heavenly message and how the maternity might be reconciled with her vow of virginity, but clinging to the first words of the angel and trusting to the Omnipotence of God she said:
 
> "Behold the handmaid of the Lord, be it done to me according to thy word."

> the Christian celebration of the announcement by the angel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary that she would conceive and become the mother of Jesus, the Son of God, marking his Incarnation.
 
https://infogalactic.com/info/Annunciation
 
https://infogalactic.com/info/Feast_of_the_Annunciation
 
Catholic encyclopedia entry on topic: https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01541c.htm
 
> Mary may not yet have fully understood the meaning of the heavenly message and how the maternity might be reconciled with her vow of virginity, but clinging to the first words of the angel and trusting to the Omnipotence of God she said:
 
> "Behold the handmaid of the Lord, be it done to me according to thy word."

> the Christian celebration of the announcement by the angel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary that she would conceive and become the mother of Jesus, the Son of God, marking his Incarnation.
  
https://infogalactic.com/info/Annunciation
  
https://infogalactic.com/info/Feast_of_the_Annunciation
  
Catholic encyclopedia entry on topic: https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01541c.htm
  
> Mary may not yet have fully understood the meaning of the heavenly message and how the maternity might be reconciled with her vow of virginity, but clinging to the first words of the angel and trusting to the Omnipotence of God she said:
  
> "Behold the handmaid of the Lord, be it done to me according to thy word."

I performed a sin and even though I felt guilty I did not confess or make good to those I wronged until I absolutely had to.
  
In the wake of this, I don't feel clean of my sin or that there is a way to become clean. I feel that what I have done in repentance doesn't "count" because I didn't initiate it on my own free will like I know should have.
  
It was a thing I promised I wouldn't do, in my mind in a prayer to God, and I broke it and on that basis I fear I will go to hell. I am religious but not a Catholic or part of a family that attends church. Should I seek church where a priest will hear my confession even as an outsider?
  
The idea of confessing in this way seems hollow considering I have confessed to my family, those I wronged, and God in prayer (had to be confronted that way). The person I most directly wronged gave me forgiveness, as well as some of those otherwise affected by it, but the promise I made to God in my head was broken and there is nothing they can do for that even if they wanted, it's a private betrayal between the Lord and I.
  
Is there anything I can do? It follows that the answer is to live well and accept my guilt for the past... but this is ALWAYS true as far as I understand. It doesn't feel right that despite having an intolerable sin weighing down on me I would pursue forgiveness from God on a basis of "Whoopsie daisy, guess Ill just go on and try better"
  
What can I actively DO?
  
I have a hard time imagining hearing a priest say I'm forgiven isn't just human comfort. I don't feel secure in taking someone's word for it. I have never related as a Catholic, I have always felt a person's relationship with God is direct. And I feel I violated that in horrifically direct way.
  
What is the best way to repent for a promise you broke to God? Any help is appreciated. If you think I will go to hell, idk how much functional good it will do me to hear it. That is why I ask for advice. I want to focus on how to move forward.
  

If one gets past the Qtard "Trump is still in control" -type content, The Great Awakening board on Scored is a useful news aggregator for mainstream politics.

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