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Ash Kvetchum (ash_kvetchum@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Jul-2026 15:25:50 JST 
Ash Kvetchum
>it says he's black skinned
This is same as when Black Hebrew Israelites point to the Song of Solomon where he laments he works in the field for nought beneath the harsh sun and his skin and bones are black and they go :dasrite: -
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Ash Kvetchum (ash_kvetchum@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Jul-2026 20:23:50 JST
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Sometimes I want to read A Song of Ice and Fire, but I see the looming shadow of a story never finished.
Still, it's supposed to be a good read up to the point it is written. -
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Ash Kvetchum (ash_kvetchum@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jul-2026 11:32:13 JST
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I can't tell you why Lindsey Graham was on the roof that day, only that he was -
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Ash Kvetchum (ash_kvetchum@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jul-2026 11:19:53 JST
Ash Kvetchum
also:
>shot fires
>a hush and a pause
>the crowd wonders "Was that--?"
>crowd scrambles
>every video posted that day and the days after in which Tyler is visible shows Tyler running with empty hands, bending knees (so no rifle in pant leg after the shot, at least) at the time the crowd starts to run
Say the bullet can be stopped by Kirk's moose-neck. (It wasn't. But for the sake of holdling that as a one's conclusion--)
To get to that point, a person making that case has to accept that Tyler can disassemble a rifle faster than any recorded time (he's an Olympian and should've been in the Odyssey) *or* Tyler put the rifle in a diminsion that's not his hands or pants or backpack *or* all videos showing Tyler on the roof were faked within minutes of the shot *or* the guy on the roof without a rifle wasn't Tyler and Tyler shot from somewhere else.
Those are the only possibilities minus one. (Tyler didn't kill him. Wanted to? Supported the thought? Would've tried? Knew it was the day? Yes. Obviously. They call that a patsy.) -
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Ash Kvetchum (ash_kvetchum@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jul-2026 02:41:54 JST
Ash Kvetchum
tl;dr
Calling you a Calvinist / reducing your view to the familiar and dismissive (though it's mutually exclusive to your view) for what your view has in common with Calvinism is just as useful and "true" as you considering mine a Calvinist view.
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The issue of equating Calvinism (even "Calvinism") to all predistination is like this:
Say there are three fathers and three parks.
One father goes to a park and says any who come to him and sincerely try to listen to him and admit their faults are his children.
One father goes to a park and says he will pick out children from any of the children there to be his and they won't be able to resist his call.
One father goes to a park and says he will come for his children, regardless of whether they are good listeners or not, and will reward them each according to how they behaved (and they will behave better if they heed him, listen)--but he is coming to get all of his children regardless of whether they listen or not. They are children. And he's not coming for those who were never his, even if they run up to him or his children have told these about their father.
The last two are "the same" in that, in both, the father wouldn't come for all children and judges based on something more than their own response action of "I chose Him."
So, sure, Calvinism "=" any predestination. (Of course these are not only not the same but can be mutually exclusive, as with this predestination--just as two categories of parallelograms are both parallelograms yet mutually exclusive shapes. Republicans and Democrats are both Americans but mutually exclusive parties.)
Yet just as well, the first two are "the same" in that, in both, the father wouldn't judge whether a child is his based on what they are, but takes children from any children in the park. (Yes, the first two fathers differ by method in this, just as the last two did in method of election. The first two share full scope in diversity, we could say. The last two share full scope in sovereignty we could say.)
So Arminianism "=" Calvinism.
In reality, the three actions of the three fathers presented are mutually exclusive. -
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Ash Kvetchum (ash_kvetchum@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jul-2026 02:38:29 JST
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I see the connection you're making (and agree!), but it peels away from the idea, in that "pastor" is more of "what someone does" than "what someone is" -
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Ash Kvetchum (ash_kvetchum@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jul-2026 01:19:11 JST
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Though I suppose Jehovah's Witnesses are Calvinist, iirc (hitting all 5 points)
Still lol. Boogeyman, if Jehovah's Witnesses are the big shadow.
Supposedly Presbyterians are labelled Calvinist, but I've yet to meet a Presbyterian who is--of either PCA or PCUSA.
Maybe the--forget what it's called--Evangelical Presbyterians of America (or something like that) are.
Predistination (not Calvinist) seems more common (and not common at all), yet gets the "Calvinist!" cry (I've received this) to the same misattributed/not getting it tune as ourguys getting the "Republican!" cry (I've received this) -
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Ash Kvetchum (ash_kvetchum@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jul-2026 01:14:37 JST
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True 🍻
The idea too that perhaps what one is carries a determination in how one will be / should be judged (not just what one does)
For example: race or sex or family -
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Ash Kvetchum (ash_kvetchum@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jul-2026 01:13:32 JST
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That would be an actual, solid use of the term. Same for the OP meme.
Just sighing a bit here at the frequency of use / misattribution of a favorite term in the evangelical circle, akin to 'communist' and 'nazi' among the mainstream right or 'valid' and 'narcissist' among the left. -
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Ash Kvetchum (ash_kvetchum@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jul-2026 01:12:45 JST
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I get the meme, and it's funny 🍻 . I was stepping from the meme just onto a wider topic/thought spoken aloud--that I hear the term as a pejorative often and (nearly?) never as an actual position. Like "racist" used between the mainstream left and mainstream right.
inb4 someone out there informs me xyz denomination exists. I know. lol I'm saying I see Jehovah's Witnesses or Mormons more frequently than I see the boogeyman Calvinist, but I hear accusations (misapplications) of "Calvinist!" more, and I find that funny/noteworthy -
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Ash Kvetchum (ash_kvetchum@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jul-2026 00:24:03 JST
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"Calvinist" approaches boogeyman status to me. I'm sure they're out there as a community (somewhere?), I've never met one in person nor online, and yet I've heard warnings and huffing and scoffs from every denomination about them (and applied every time to those not remotely Calvinist). -
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Ash Kvetchum (ash_kvetchum@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Friday, 10-Jul-2026 13:58:00 JST
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if i wun't n Gen VI how did i take dis selfie n Lumos City mang?
we wuz Gen VI, kang -
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Ash Kvetchum (ash_kvetchum@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Friday, 10-Jul-2026 13:57:57 JST
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Their avatar response collection is--God help me--funny, too.
Good job, strange fox.
Type 'nigger' for us.
It's in the dictionary. You can do it. -
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Ash Kvetchum (ash_kvetchum@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Friday, 10-Jul-2026 13:32:54 JST
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>WHO ARE YOU PEOPLE
Me?
I'm Ash Kvetchum.
From Niggertown. -
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Ash Kvetchum (ash_kvetchum@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Friday, 05-Jun-2026 01:28:09 JST
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Ash Kvetchum (ash_kvetchum@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Friday, 05-Jun-2026 01:28:08 JST
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Transgender Wonder Woman steps into an active school shooting and doesn't know which side to take -
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Ash Kvetchum (ash_kvetchum@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 30-May-2026 21:59:38 JST
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I'm definitely not 6', and I dated a girl who was 6'1 for over a year
Used to just say either "We're the same height horizontally" or "I'm taller at night"
Gotta say I'm not a guy who fantasizes about a taller girl, though I see the appeal. There were two benefits to not always seeing eye-to-eye -
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Ash Kvetchum (ash_kvetchum@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Monday, 25-May-2026 14:37:36 JST
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Plums, too
I bought some plums for the first time in a long while, last week. Every one was meh (weird ripeness--maybe too soon) 😭
And even then: top tier
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Ash Kvetchum (ash_kvetchum@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 09-May-2026 00:48:59 JST
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>a fraternity
🤣
You've got a bead on it. He pressed endlessly for me to join a fraternity, too
I talked to them. Didn't join. There came a point where I had to (sadly) keep my dad out of my affairs for some years. He probably could have given me better advice for some parts during that time (I was young, so of course), but I needed his "He won't mind if I sign him up for this, drop him out of this" and so on overreach away. -
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Ash Kvetchum (ash_kvetchum@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 09-May-2026 00:45:14 JST
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🍻 I didn't take that road (and here I've been)
Point of contention between the old man and me. We didn't talk for a few years for it
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