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> His feast (29 September) in the Middle Ages was celebrated as a holy day of obligation, but along with several other feasts it was gradually abolished since the eighteenth century (see FEASTS). Michaelmas Day, in England and other countries, is one of the regular quarter-days for settling rents and accounts; but it is no longer remarkable for the hospitality with which it was formerly celebrated. Stubble-geese being esteemed in perfection about this time, most families had one dressed on Michaelmas Day. In some parishes (Isle of Skye) they had a procession on this day and baked a cake, called St. Michael's bannock.
 
via Catholic encyclopedia: https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10275b.htm

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oof

ambient, instrumental

It'll be getting cold here in a few weeks.
 
For me summer just was what it was, I can't really predict anything in life, too many "black swan" (unpredictable) events, there were the highs and the lows
 
How was it for you?

\> consoom pretending to be a criminal

Full text: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11339

So I've seen some sites promote eating roadkill - I have in mind deer you see dead on the side of the road.
 
How about some other uses that might not risk illness from eating them?
 
Could you skin them and use the hide for something?
 
How about the bones?
 
Any other parts of the body that could be reused for something?

This is a response post to a top Reddit story that U.S. Christianity is Shrinking (2022):
 
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/christianity-us-shrinking-pew-research/
 
So which is it? I see factors going back and forth, and I will define "Christianity" broadly as any of these groups that claim to be Christian for the sake of this discussion (although I personally hold it to be a more narrow definition of only being the Church I believe is exclusively the one Christian Church).
 
On the one hand, we have groups like the Amish or Mormons who reproduce more than the general nonreligious population. While I see lots of people defecting from religion, I also see a lot of people doubling down on trying to take religion seriously. Those who have defected from Christianity seem to still seek out some kind of substitute religion, whether it is in science, New Age, Buddhism, or what have you.
 
So what do you think? Is "Christianity" growing or declining?

> In Internet culture, the 1% rule is a rule of thumb pertaining to participation in an internet community, stating that only 1% of the users of a website actively create new content, while the other 99% of the participants only lurk

Variant Bonus: Suspense Sound Effect - https://yewtu.be/watch?v=edIncAZ17XY

> DivestOS is a vastly diverged unofficial soft fork of LineageOS

New "home alone sedevacantist" site up: catholiceclipsed.com ("CE")
 
There seems to be an ongoing debate of us "home alone sedevacantists" versus the sedevacantists who currently believe Catholics have churches to go to, example response post: https://catholiceclipsed.com/2022/09/05/home-alone-hobbits-a-refutation-of-steve-sperays-problems-with-being-a-catholic-during-the-apocalypse/
 
I side with CE in some respects, I don't think Catholics have any (known) churches today ("home alone"), and don't have a pope ("sedevacantist" / sedes). Some other sedes have tried to set up churches and consecrate bishops and ordain priests, but they acknowledge this is not done in accordance with the rules (popes typically need to approve consecrations of bishops, meaning these operations are "illegal" or illicit).
 
In practice some people have had negative experiences with these operations so pairing that with the theological understanding of these operations being created by violating Canon law, some Catholics have therefore concluded there are no (known) churches for Catholics today.
 
The new site for me is a bit refreshing to see, it seems the "home alone" view is growing, although slowly.
 
The other main "home alone" site that comes to mind is betrayedcatholics.com ("BCC") - of course it is absurd for me to also mention that CE had a falling out with the author of that site, for now.
 
But I kind of side with CE, mostly because CE is just a regular guy. BCC is just of a different generation and has a different mindset. But I think BCC has a lot of interesting info, and both I and CE have learned a lot from that site I think.
 
Discuss "sedevacantist" and "home alone" related topics?

So I remember there was a site called "Stumbleupon" that would pick random interesting sites to display when you would click a button. I thought it was discontinued, and was wondering if any sites have been created as an alternative.
 
"This spiritual successor to StumbleUpon makes the internet fun again" https://www.fastcompany.com/90639586/stumbled-stumbleupon-successor
 
(the referenced stumbled.cc site redirects to cloudhiker.net)
 
> Cloudhiker is a collection of anything interesting, weird or astonishing; websites of exceptional quality, sites to kill time or learn something new. You won't find any clickbait Buzzfeed stuff or low-effort blog articles here. All sites on Cloudhiker are carefully reviewed and selected based on strict rules.
 
https://cloudhiker.net/
 
Do you know of any other interesting alternatives to Stumbleupon?

A bit late of a post but still mentioning it

To me it's just believing white people are the "best", and there shouldn't be much wrong with that.
 
It's like liking a sports team, they may not literally be the best but you root for them.
 
It does not imply wanting to "exterminate" the other races any more than liking a sports team means you would want the other teams to literally die. There would be no competition or game if that happened.
 
I guess it just bothers me that this "white supremacy" meme was made in to a "taboo" in society, so I enjoy saying that it should be fine to be a "white supremacist" as I define it. Or some other kind of "supremacist". The vegans accuse meat eaters of being "human supremacists" who put the interests of human lives above that of animals. Most people would probably find this to be an absurd thing, or not a bad title or whatever.
 
So what is "white supremacy" to you and what do you think of it?

> In the United States, Patriot Day, observed as the National Day of Service and Remembrance,[1] occurs on September 11 of each year in memory of the 2,977 people killed in the 2001 September 11 attacks.