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and THEN for the pastor to take it like a personal insult when the reaction is "....is this a joke?", and stridently say that there is no way any of this could ever go wrong or be seen as wrong *because he said so*....

.................................yeah

yeah.

my head hurts

and this is not people who have been scheduled for this time, it's people who are just going to be taken as they come in the middle of a party.

if they don't know what they're signing up for, or what it means... i don't think the gesture has any weight at all at that point.

it's worse than meaningless. it's a parody of what it should be. it's an insult

and now it's... halftime entertainment

the new pastor, when my dad politely asked for clarification, got very snippy and said "this is reaching people who won't come on sunday mornings!"

okay, if they won't come on sunday mornings... do they even know what they're doing? do they know what they're signing up for? do they know what any of this means???

again: most important rite in our brand of christendom.

now listen i know most of y'all aren't christians which is of course fine. i know that i'm not exactly the best christian ever over here as well! but like.

baptism is.... one of the most sacred things you can do, if not THE most sacred thing (given the whole, you know, point of being southern BAPTISTS). it's intentionally not something done at birth but instead a profession of faith done willingly, etc etc.

they've also cheerfully announced that at halftime they're going to wheel in the portable baptismal font and do baptisms as the halftime show!!!!!

....

Y ' A L L .

so, they just put out that they're going to do a superbowl party

now it's not my cuppa but i'm not inherently against this. people are allowed to like sportsball even if i personally don't. they're doing it on a big projector, setting up snacks and extra seats in the basketball court/gym area. so it might not be my thing, but i'm cool with all that bit. it sounds like it could be a good thing for some casual fellowship.

BUT.

so not that i've felt at home in my home church for a good long while (what with the pastor i knew and respected retiring), but the escalation of twittery has gone above and beyond here and i think i may be about to stroke out and/or rush in somewhere with a whip and pull a bit of this kinda thing

leans into the fediverse this mornernoon while eating a poptart

so............. are yall good

im getting the feeling yall arent good and that Something has Happened

yall wanna poptart instead

i've probably messed up the threading there at some point so uh. as an apology for spamming up timelines, please accept this corgi getting his ruffle wuffled

so yeah, it's not exactly tearing down the berlin wall here.

but i will say that seeing my big articuno flap its way behind me (and utterly demolish the 8th pokemon gym)?

feels pretty good.

...i finally did what my 10-year-old self would beat herself up for messing up for years.

so i wisely promptly put my switch into sleep mode instead of trying to do it while mostly asleep myself, googled some strategies for the fight, thanked my lucky stars that #PokemonLetsGo is in many ways MUCH more accessible than the original #PokemonYellow , and yesterday...

...i found articuno.

and i remembered all those years of feeling ashamed because i screwed it up and missed out on one of my favourite pokemon.

and then, the other night, i was meandering my way through the Seafoam cave, grumbling about block puzzles into my pillow as i was getting ready to sleep, i hopped up on my eevee's surfboard thinking i had found a way through, and....

fortunately when Let's Go Eevee/Pikachu was announced, i was wholeheartedly ready to hitch my wagon to that nostalgia train. and - while i'm not going to say i'm any smarter than my 10 year old self - i will say i had more experience playing pokemon games at that point thanks to X/Y, Sun/Moon, etc.