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OK, BOYS, SIT DOWN:
Sharking, sexual humiliation, and the spectacular collapse of basic human decency. A woman should be able to buy her damn groceries without becoming an unwilling participant in your disgusting little sex game.
By Lilithea Adasia10 days ago in Journal
Confession Is Not a Performance
Confession is not a performance. It is not a speech you rehearse so the priest will be impressed. It is not a therapy session with a stole. It is the sacrament in which a baptized person names their sins out loud to a priest and receives absolution. The Church has kept this practice because it does what private regret cannot do. It restores the soul. That is why ordinary Catholics still get in the line, even when the line is short and the hour is inconvenient.
By Overdrive Records11 days ago in Journal
The Mass Is Not a Meeting
The Mass is not a meeting. It is not a weekly gathering where Catholics share thoughts and then go home. It is not a lecture with better music. The Mass is the sacrifice of Christ made present. The Eucharist is the Body and Blood of the Lord. That is why ordinary Catholics, including those who grew up with cassette decks and parish basements, still come back for it. They are not there for the bulletin. They are there because something happens that does not happen anywhere else.
By Overdrive Records11 days ago in Journal
The Saints Are Not Museum Pieces
The saints are not museum pieces. They are not statues you walk past on the way to a better exhibit. They are not names on a calendar that exist to fill empty dates. They are men and women who lived, died, and now stand before God. The Church keeps their memory because their lives still argue with the way we live. Most of the time the argument is simple. They did the ordinary things we avoid. They did them long enough to become holy. That is why ordinary Catholics still learn their names and still ask them to pray.
By Overdrive Records11 days ago in Journal
The Rosary Is Not a Background Prayer
The Rosary is not a background prayer. It is not a string of beads you keep in a drawer for emergencies. It is not a Catholic version of a short verse you can scroll past and still claim you prayed. The Rosary is a full way of walking through the life of Jesus with Mary. Each decade asks you to stay with one scene long enough for the story to do its work. That is why it still teaches the Gospel better than a line on a screen.
By Overdrive Records11 days ago in Journal
THE DOUBLE STANDARD NOBODY WANTS TO TALK ABOUT:
If we're going to demand respect, accountability, and equality, shouldn't those rules apply to everyone? Or does equality only count when it benefits us?
By Lilithea Adasia11 days ago in Journal
What Is Entailed In "Psychophysiology" From A Leadership And Sageship Perspective
Written by a human, for humans, always. What is "Psychophysiology"? It is a question that I am asked frequently when I talk about how important it is in Sageship...
By H.E. Dr. Cody Dakota Wooten, COIE, DFM, DHM14 days ago in Journal
BFM Ordered to Pay RM358,400 After Unjust Dismissal Ruling
A landmark ruling from the Industrial Court has delivered a clear reminder that suspicion is not proof even when allegations are as serious as sexual harassment. In a 98-page decision dated September 21, Chairman Pravin Kaur Jessy ordered BFM Media Sdn Bhd to pay former producer and presenter Umapagan K Ampikaipakan a total of RM358,400, finding that his 2019 dismissal was carried out without just cause or excuse. The judgment examines the gap between conducting a fair inquiry and establishing proven misconduct, and where the employer fell short.
By Mark Lim 19 days ago in Journal
Why I Re-Recorded My Entire Kettlebell Audiobook. AI-Generated.
Most authors record an audiobook once and never touch it again. I just re-recorded mine from zero. Here is why. When I first released the Russian audiobook of SILA GIRI — my kettlebell training program — it sold. People listened, people trained. On paper, everything was fine.
By Max Buffett23 days ago in Journal
Chris Sund and the 92 Percent Question
Open the requisition. Widen the funnel. Pay the premium. Fill the seat. That is how most companies think about capacity, and Chris Sund has spent more than a decade inside that cycle, first as a recruiter and now as president and chief operating officer of Uniti Med, GQR Healthcare, and Nebula, an AI-powered talent sourcing platform. He also writes about leadership and workplace culture for Inc. and Forbes.
By Vipan K.29 days ago in Journal
Creed and Nickelback Paid the Bills. That Is Part of the Story
The polite history of late 90s and early 2000s rock has a punch line ready before the needle drops. Creed. Nickelback. The format villains. The bands you are supposed to apologize for knowing. That punch line is easy and incomplete. Active rock after Seattle still needed songs that could live on a shop radio, a night shift, and a daytime hour. These two paid those bills. The sneer never killed the catalog because the catalog was never asking the sneer for permission.
By Overdrive Recordsabout a month ago in Journal
The Cassette Was the Real Record Label
The official history of heavy music likes labels, catalog numbers, and the day the CD showed up looking like the future. Fine. That history skips the actual distribution system a lot of us used. A TDK. A Memorex. A handwritten spine. A second-generation copy that already hissed. The cassette was the real record label. It got Slayer across a county line before the shop had the jewel case. It got Metallica out of a bedroom and into a dash. It turned thrash into a chain letter with better riffs.
By Overdrive Recordsabout a month ago in Journal