We all have a choice. To stand, not kneel. To oppose, not obey. To live, not just exist

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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • It’s going fine.

    The day my mother died my aunt came into the funeral house yelling that I had betrayed her because in the obituary I added my fiancee and her parents. Thing is, she doesn’t like my fiancee (foreigner), classic racism and elitism stuff. My mom was her last sister alive (two brothers also deceased). Anyway I was not mad I told her calmly that she was mad, I wasn’t, and if she had a problem it was on her not me.

    That night her daughter gave me a lecture about how distant I was with family and blah blah blah, it ended with me pointing out that on my mom’s side during the last three months of her life only her two best friends were with me and that neither her nor her only alive sister were with me, or her, until she was already sedated. I left, friends invited me to dinner and I decided that is she wanted to be back at my life she would need to go above and beyond apologizing not because of what happened to me but because they disrespected my mom’s and they can’t backtrack on that.

    My fiancee is Filipina, I am Spanish. They have a problem with that, my mom didn’t have a problem (she even gave me the ring to ask her to marry me, which I did three months after my mom died). I am marrying her on Thursday.

    I looked up to them a lot before all this, and I didn’t need them to be with me when my mom was dying, her friends (one is like an older sister and the other is like another mom to me) where more than what I, or her, could have asked for and the neighbors were very worried about us and that’s a testament to who my mom was, again the issue was and is on hers I defended my mom, my fiancee and her parents (two woman, not married, not lesbian, it’s complicated.

    They are a hateful bunch because they refuse to know and learn.

    My dad’s family is totally the opposite and they are, in theory, “less educated”. Not all my mother family is like that though, the widow of her younger brother is very happy for us too.

    So in short, I defended what I loved and I know I would take my fiancee over them any day of any week.


  • What did he do exactly to help the poor that other popes didn’t?

    He didn’t do anything that other didn’t. As a Catholic with connections in the Church I can tell you there are more gays in the Church (priests) that I have met outside of it so they are very tolerant of it, the problem is some of them do have sex (between them too)

    Pope Francisco was a pope of words not actions.


  • If Jesus was the son of God (and God Himself) and He was sent to the Earth to fullfil the law and He was going to be betrayed and executed then Judas was doing God’s plan, and he was a very impotent part of the plan.

    God knew Judas would betray Jesus and knew it was important that he did because without the betrayal there is no resurrection.

    Point being Judas wasn’t the bad, at no point he was the bad guy and he was so confused, broken by what he did that he killed himself. A merciful God would have him be in Heaven because he fulfilled his mission not knowing that it was his mission and suffering immensely for it.






  • I was also right libertarian, although I have been called a fascist for that, , anyway I shifted from that slowly into anarchocristianism and I will stay here. I just don’t believe in government anymore only in communities and obviously in God but that’s another story.

    I just want people to have their needs covered, to have strong sense of communities (love your neighbors) in non violent environments and I think human government is inherently violent either physically violent or economically violent. Jesus spoke of all this.

    What I think people needs to understand is it’s not the same to be left in the US than in Spain for example, different countries have different kinds of issues caused by different ideologies. So it’s easy to understand why someone in Germany loves worker unions but in Spain don’t because in Spain the biggest ones (UGT and CCOO) work for the government (the so called Leftist Psoe)


  • That time my cousin and aunt made a scene the first night in the funeral home after my mom died. That’s irreparable because

    1. My mom died that fucking day, 2 years after my dad and they were supposed to all be close.
    2. It was due to my personal life (my soon-to-be-wife). To add some context: she is a foreigner so there is a lot of racism and a bit of classism.
    3. Her only living sister.
    4. It’s been 6 months and they haven’t contacted me, apologized or anything,

    Don’t get me wrong. They are forgiven, but it hurts and it will hurt for the rest of my life so I don’t be able to ever open the door for them to come back into my life.


  • Spaniard@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world*Permanently Deleted*
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    29 days ago

    My parents were my best friends too. I could talk with them about anything (they both died in the last 3 years) but I also had a network of friends, I grew up with them, then people I have known along the way and people my parents were friends with I am trying to keep the connection. Then there is the woman I am going to marry with whom I have a relationship like my parents but with obvious differences.

    It’s not bad that you dad is your friend but you need to know more people, you are young though.