• PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works
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    8 months ago

    I had one crazy aunt who went to HP book burnings back in the day. She wasn’t even anything that weird, just regular Catholic. Dunno what made her think she needed to do it because the rest of the family is also Catholic and they weren’t doing it.

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        8 months ago

        Catholics got some extra crazy somewhere around 2000-2008, I can’t pinpoint when it happened, but the community changed somewhere around that time. Like there was normal conservative Catholic, and then suddenly I noticed that Evangelical type start to join up. I’m no longer practicing now and consider myself agnostic.

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          8 months ago

          They were preparing for the rapture of 2012. Must have been quite akward the following Sunday at church when everbody showed up.

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            8 months ago

            I read an interesting take on 2012, which the Mayans or some ancient civilization also predicted. That the end of the world would be slow, and take years. It’s not going to be instant. I think it’s happening now, this cursed timeline that we’re all in.

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        8 months ago

        Yeah that’s what I thought I also remembered about the time. I was just a kid though but it’s stuck with me for some reason lol

        So fucking weird.

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      8 months ago

      I read it as hp love craft and pictured her in the 40s burning books. Everyone was dressed like in the godfather.