Good Morning Digital Neighbors! Happy Thursday to all you ADD Irregulars, and Happy Tuesday Fred and Pickleday Ivan! To all of the new members and supporters - Welcome to Padre's!
@CristinaTB Thanks for posting that clip from the show, I did not realize that was the context of the meme that Rich @eclecticRPT posted yesterday. That little conversation so illustrates what is totally train-wrecked about the WOKE ideology. The Left has gone completely off the rails in their anti-person, guiltist, grievance mongering, history hating and self-loathing reality.
Drew Barrymore exemplifies the broken minds and warped attitudes the WOKE espouses for everyone. Dylan is a trolling fraud who is having the time of his life playing a caricature and making being a "woman" look ridiculous.
Treat trans issues as the mental issues they are - do not allow children to make decisions that will alter them for the rest of their lives. If they are adult, have at it and be prepared for the consequences of unalterable reality and a life time of self-inflicted medical issues.
For the less that 1% that have a biological reality associated with their genetic cocktail, they are are the real trans among us and they need whatever help medicine can provide to address their situation.
For all the rest, the mentally fractured multitudes, their Trans-attude is dangerous and caters to emotional fragility rather than address it as an illness. Compassion is not indulgence, compassion is seeing the situation clearly and offering to help address the absence or correct the error that is present. The WOKE corrupt language so much that you can't even carry on a discussion or understand the subject matter so that they sow confusion and keep control of the narrative. It is evil and more need to push back against the lies and the malice that tries to disguise itself as something good and helpful. Gender Affirming is code for mind altering and emotionally controlling submission.
Today marks the three hundred and thirtieth birthday of the Frenchman François-Marie Arouet, better known by his nom de plume, Voltaire (1694-1778).
Born into a bourgeois family during the reign of Louis XIV, the “Sun King” (r. 1643-1715), Voltaire suffered tragedy at a young age when his mother died. Never close with his father or brother, Voltaire exhibited a rebellious attitude toward authority from his youth. His brilliant mind was fostered in the care of the Society of Jesus, who introduced him to the joys of literature and theater. Despite his later criticisms against the Church, Voltaire, throughout his life, fondly recalled his dedicated Jesuit teachers.
Although he spent time as a civil servant in the French embassy to the Hague, Voltaire’s main love was writing—an endeavor where he excelled in various genres, including poetry, which led to his appointment as the royal court poet for King Louis XV. Widely recognized as one of the greatest French writers, and even hyperbolically referred to by ...
Padre - Tom Miller invites you to a Coffee Talk, Speakeasies, Schmoozes, Tea Times, Afterhours and other gatherings.
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2026 Coffee Talk with the ADD Irregulars
Thursday, January 1, 2026
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Occurs every day starting 1/1 until 12/31/2027
Coffee Talk - Daily beginning at 6:00 AM Central Time Zone - USA
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Afternoon Chats - Most Tuesday, Friday & Sundays 2:00 PM Central
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Happy Friday, Digital Neighbors!! Slept in a little this morning. Woke up at my ordinary time, hit the hour timer, and wandered back into short, incoherent dreamland. It was a good hour to try and get a little more rest after a long day yesterday. We had a good staff team-building day with personal prayer and then looking at the DISC tool as a way to appreciate our gifts as we work together for the good of our parish family.
Had a meeting in the evening to explore using our auditorium for an Emergency Overnight Shelter in the winter for the homeless and unhoused in our local area. Lots of potential, lots of work if that is to come to fruition. As I mentioned last night, this is where the rubber hits the road on personal charity. People feel comfortable giving money to support charities, but the possibility of hosting and staffing one is way out of the comfort zone for most. Prayer and time will tell.
Off to some “ifferisms” for your Friday cup of Joe.
If you get gloomy, just take an ...
The Beautiful
Said the Disciple to the Lover, “Sir, before I left the world I heard certain men who were held in high esteem and thought to know the will of the Beloved say that those who loved the Beautiful did not love the Beloved but loved idols, yet in the Garden of the Beloved we are ever striving to create beauty for the pleasure of the Beloved. Were they then speaking the truth?”
The Lover answered, “Those who said this had never glimpsed the form of the Beloved nor ever truly sought Him, for all beauty is but the reflection of the beauty of the Beloved, although seen very dimly as in a dark and faulty mirror, even as all goodness is a dim reflection of the goodness of the Beloved. So it is that those who love beauty and goodness recognize dimly in them the form of the Beloved and though often in ignorance those who are seeking the Beautiful and the Good are seeking after the Beloved.”
