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November 07, 2024

Good Morning Digital Neighbors, I have done some post election clean-up on Locals. Over the years I have supported various content creators often out of appreciation for their work. My biggest complaint about this format was its promise of interaction and often the actual absence of those creators from their communities. I believe they were open to Locals, but more open to the monthly income boost rather that actual interaction with their community. I don't blame or malign them, but it was a disappointment to me. I am thankful for the great free thinkers and curious questioners I have met in many of these communities. The community members are great and I am so thankful for the ones I have connected with in the communities I mention below. Thank you to the host and creators of these communities that have lived up t the Locals promise of free speech, free thought and interaction and involvement with their communities. Thank you for being here for more than just the money.

@DaveRubin - Thank you for the Local's godfather. I am so thankful when Paetreon turn WOKE you had the vision to start Locals. It is part of my daily experience on the internet. My mornings begin with Locals after I finish my morning prayers and looking through e-mails. While I don't pst as often on the Report, I still look through it daily and love the community you have gather here. Having just met @SEPTUAGENARIAN Sept and @THK233 Theresa was enough and there are many others.

@bridgetphetasy Thank you for your continued engagement with Phetasy. While I am not as active your community as I once was. I check in on it every day like Rubin Report. I have met so many good people in this community. I am thankful that @Fred_Bourque @eclecticRPT and a number of other on-line friends came into my life. There so many funny, wonderful, and insightful people in the PHAM.

@ScottAdamsSays Coming back home to Coffee with Scott Adams. I joined your community back in 2020 but orbited out as I wandered to other Locals communities. Having listened to your videos over the last 8 years I must admit that you are the GOAT of Locals when it comes to interacting with your Locals communities. @Fred_Bourque and @AudreyAudrey comments about you over at Padre's made me reconsider joining your community. I don't how much involvement I will have here, but I look forward to rediscovering the unique individuals you have gathered around you.

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Triggernometry - It was among the first four Locals that I joined but I think Francis and Konstantin were looking for something more. I am thankful for the people there that have drifted over to Padres. My favorite Brits come from Triggernometry!

Russel Brand - Lots of posting, seems like really good folk, just not enough time to explore there.

Matt Fradd – Good stuff, especially for active Catholics, just not enough time to spread around.

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Voltaire's birthday 11-21-1694 - A brief essay by Steve Weidenkopf

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 ...

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Speakeasy – Friday - 2:00 pm Central

At Padre's TEAMS CHAT. Join your Digital Neighbors for some informal and unscripted conversation. No set subjects—just don’t be a jerk. Always invited, never expected. They usually run an hour, sometimes longer, sometimes shorter. Hope you can join us! Please note: This is not sponsored by The Rubin Report, Phetasy, or Outspoken. Those are all communities in which Padre (Fr. Tom Miller) participates. There has been some confusion in the past when sharing these invites. Have a great Friday!

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January 01, 2026
2026 Teams Talk @ Padre's

Padre - Tom Miller invites you to a Coffee Talk, Speakeasies, Schmoozes, Tea Times, Afterhours and other gatherings.

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Afternoon Chats - Most Tuesday, Friday & Sundays 2:00 PM Central

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Good morning, digital neighbors! Happy Friday to all you good chaps and chicks scattered across the internet at the Rubin Report, Phetasy, Outspoken, and at Padre’s. Statistics say that members of those communities are 50% smarter than the general population, 37% better looking, and better at practicing good hygiene. Happy Friday! Rather than writing about the word of the day, how about some more “ifferisms” for your Friday ruminations? Here are some humorous ones for your launch into the weekend.

If it weren’t for the fact that the TV set and the refrigerator are so far apart, some of us wouldn’t get any exercise at all. — Joey Adams

If a pig loses its voice, is it disgruntled? — Anonymous

If it tastes good, it’s bad for you. — Isaac Asimov, citing “The First Law of Dietetics”

If Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none. — Mel Brooks (Happy 100th birthday to the legend last June 28th!)

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Garden of the Beloved - read by Lady Clare - Chapter 10
The Beautiful

 

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.”

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Garden of the Beloved - read by Lady Clare - Chapter 9
The Comforting of the Disciple

The Comforting of the Disciple

Now the Beloved often came into the Garden both because of the great joy He had in the Garden and because of the great love He bore the Lover and the Disciple.  Often He talked with the Lover, but the Disciple because he was not yet perfected in Love could neither hear nor see the Beloved, though he often felt a strange joy, he did not know why.  Therefore he was sorrowful, for it seemed to him that on account of his sins he would never find the Beloved.  So weeping he came to the Lover and said, “Sir, I know that I am a very sinful man and I much fear that though I search all my life yet on account of my sins I shall never find the Beloved.”

In reply the Lover smiled gently and said, “My son, when you first came into the Garden do you remember what sort of day it was?”

“Yes,” said the Disciple, “I remember it.  It was dark and gloomy as if no sunlight ever entered the Garden.”

“When you began to strip off your rich robes,” the Lover asked, “what happened to the day?”

“It seemed,” said the Disciple, “as if the sun had suddenly broken through the clouds and the whole Garden shone with glorious and celestial light:  such light as shines daily in the Garden.”

The Lover replied, “Know that the Beloved Himself is the light of the Garden, so that when you began searching for the Beloved even then you found Him, for how can any know the desire to search for the Beloved if He had not already without his knowing revealed Himself to him.”

So the Disciple was greatly comforted by knowing that although he could not see or hear Him he had already found the Beloved, and he labored the more joyously to do the service of the Beloved.

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