Good morning digital neighbors. Happy Thursday and August friends across Locals! When I first became active on Local’s in May of 2020 one of my morning habits became posting over on Rubin Report and Phetasy. Soon I ventured on Trigonometry and eventually decided to open my own community over at Padre’s. All the ADD Irregulars and Curmudgeons at Padre’s know this and many in the other communities I have visited over the last few years. I am still thankful for Locals as a place for connection with other individuals who respect freedom and diversity of thought. Each community has its own vibe, some are very active with the Content Creator being very present and engaged, others the CC is more like the absentee landlord collecting the monthly rent. Your experience may vary. Either way I hope you find a place worthy of your time and interest.
After faith, laughter is probably the most important disposition of the heart that I can cultivate. Playful humor, laughing at ourselves, chuckling at life are so important to keeping what is serious in perspective. Without laughter, the serious become too much of a crisis. Without laughter that dangerous sense of inflated self-importance creeps into the ego and begins its work of souring the soul. Ideas and attitudes are important and vital to the wellbeing of society and culture, but without humor we can become consumed by those ideas and attitudes to the degree where self-questioning and curious doubt never dawns on one’s awareness.
Have a great Thursday Digital Neighbors! God bless all you ADD Irregulars, Humorous Curmudgeons and Weird Shit Niche Aficionados at Padre’s! Have a great day Friends & Refugees at the Rubin Report, Phamily & Misfits at Phetasy and all you Awakening Wonders at Russel Brand.
“The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.” Margot Fonteyn
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
6:00 AM - 8:00 AM (CST)
Occurs every day starting 1/1 until 12/31/2027
Coffee Talk - Daily beginning at 6:00 AM Central Time Zone - USA
White Pilled Wednesday - A break from the heaviness of news and current events to focus upon things more personal & positive for the first hour of Coffee Talk.
Afternoon Chats - Most Tuesday, Friday & Sundays 2:00 PM Central
Other chats as posted in the community.

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.”