Announcement: I'm the new Pope

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I posted an announcement to my Bluesky account today.

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Oh, that’s beautiful! I may have to print some of those up to hand out at our upcoming kink camp. :smiley:

Edit: I would want to the option to fill in my own pronouns, of course.

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I for one welcome our new Pope-overlord!

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Oh, I am very much not an overlord! :laughing:

I am happy to take the title of “Servant to the Overlord,” however:

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i did hear that in this interim period between popes that sins are consequence-free, so everyone get to sinning!

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I never stopped!

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fair enough – i didn’t either! but now you can sin away, consequence-free! (if you believe in that sort of thing)

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I thought the conclave would select a Pope who would unite the world.

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Will your parties wilder than the Borgias’?

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Did you fill out the form first?

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Warning, Space Pope Karen, at 2 o’clock! Alert the Pah-Wraiths and Gul Dukat!

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The flipside: In parochial school one nun told us that, at the very moment every single person on Earth was not committing some sin by deed or thought, God would instantly destroy the Earth so that everyone would die in a state of grace and thereby gain everlasting life in Heaven.

Yep… I know, I know. Fucked up Catholic school fantasizations (says this altar boy of that time).

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as a one-time altar boy myself, i have to say i have NEVER heard this before. that’s SO INSANE, lol. i guess the fact that here we still are says that humans gotta human, amirite??

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I don’t know. Maybe God got it wrong and flipped the switch too soon, and everyone alive now is actually in Hell.

I’m guessing this was (or perhaps still is?) a “norm” for altar boys: Snacking on unblessed hosts. Same for you?

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i can’t say i remember any outright snacking on them, but i’m sure we nibbled on them at some point, and we certainly snuck some of the unblessed wine.

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Wine? No, not based on my experience. But I’d bet the house that other altar boys before and after my time took sips every now and then.

Were you hit with this church fable: A congregant, instead of consuming their host, pocketed it. While walking home after the service, the host began to bleed unstoppably, a process that was finally stopped by returning the host to the church and consuming it there.

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Father Ted was a hoot, and Ardal O’Hanlon stole the show.

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