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[Fake Messiah]

Another love story between the members of Catholic clergy.

Their Calling Was Supposed to Be the Priesthood. Then They Met.

Priesthood was supposed to be the future for Brazilians Melqui Ferraz and Denisson Santos. Instead, their time in the seminary led them somewhere neither man expected: into each other’s arms.

According to Melqui, the feelings between them were always there, but they had to be kept quiet because of their religious vocation. Their superiors eventually tried to separate them, including transferring them to different cities.

Despite the distance, the memories of their time together stayed with Melqui.

“I carried with me the memories I made with you in that city, like the celebrations we attended, pretending to be brothers when, behind closed doors, it was love,” Melqui wrote. It is a simple but powerful description of what it was like to care deeply for someone while having to hide what that relationship really meant.

Melqui also described attempts by their superiors to keep the two men connected, but only discreetly and away from public attention.

For Melqui, living that way was not enough.

“If loving you and living with you caused these so-called doors to close, then let another thousand close!” he wrote.

Eventually, Melqui chose to leave the seminary so he could live his life and his relationship with Denisson more openly. It was not necessarily an easy choice. Leaving behind a path they had spent years preparing for meant stepping into an uncertain future.

Their story has resonated online, with many people praising the former seminarians for choosing authenticity despite the pressure they experienced.

They may not have become priests, but they did find something meaningful along the way. They found each other. And sometimes, finding the person you love is enough to make you brave enough to change the rest of your life.

https://instinctmagazine.com/two-priesth...l-in-love/

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Another love story between the members of Catholic clergy.

Their Calling Was Supposed to Be the Priesthood. Then They Met.

Priesthood was supposed to be the future for Brazilians Melqui Ferraz and Denisson Santos. Instead, their time in the seminary led them somewhere neither man expected: into each other’s arms.

According to Melqui, the feelings between them were always there, but they had to be kept quiet because of their religious vocation. Their superiors eventually tried to separate them, including transferring them to different cities.

Despite the distance, the memories of their time together stayed with Melqui.

“I carried with me the memories I made with you in that city, like the celebrations we attended, pretending to be brothers when, behind closed doors, it was love,” Melqui wrote. It is a simple but powerful description of what it was like to care deeply for someone while having to hide what that relationship really meant.

Melqui also described attempts by their superiors to keep the two men connected, but only discreetly and away from public attention.

For Melqui, living that way was not enough.

“If loving you and living with you caused these so-called doors to close, then let another thousand close!” he wrote.

Eventually, Melqui chose to leave the seminary so he could live his life and his relationship with Denisson more openly. It was not necessarily an easy choice. Leaving behind a path they had spent years preparing for meant stepping into an uncertain future.

Their story has resonated online, with many people praising the former seminarians for choosing authenticity despite the pressure they experienced.

They may not have become priests, but they did find something meaningful along the way. They found each other. And sometimes, finding the person you love is enough to make you brave enough to change the rest of your life.

https://instinctmagazine.com/two-priesth...l-in-love/

This, along with your post about the two formers nuns, is almost enough to make one suspect that the Catholic Church is selectively breeding for homosexuality.

Boru

[Fake Messiah]

This, along with your post about the two formers nuns, is almost enough to make one suspect that the Catholic Church is selectively breeding for homosexuality.

Boru

Yeah, the lifestyle of people living with people of the same sex will obviously draw homosexuals, especially in times when being gay was forbidden.

And there was that psychological experiment with the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in 1967 to unleash "personal liberation," leading 300 nuns to reject their vows, shed their habits and become lesbians. Even those that left became "radical lesbians."

See in this video. Starts at 23:05

[Angrboda]

How the wage cap works and why it's a problem

Under current law, Social Security's Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance payroll tax is 6.2% for employees and employers, each, but only on wages up to the annual taxable maximum, which is $184,500 in 2026. Once a worker's income crosses that threshold, Social Security taxes stop for the rest of the year — no matter how much more they earn.

The wage base limit was put in place because of the way Social Security's funding mechanism works. Social Security benefits are earned benefits — you pay taxes on your income and, in return, receive benefits equal to a percentage of the average wages you earned over your career. To prevent people with very high incomes from receiving very high Social Security benefits, the wage base limit was created. The system was intentionally symmetrical: pay less in above the cap, collect less out.

The problem is that this symmetry is creating a solvency crisis. The Social Security trustees said that the OASI trust fund is projected to be depleted in the fourth quarter of 2032, after which 78% of scheduled benefits would be payable. Without congressional action, that means an automatic benefit cut of roughly 22% — affecting every retiree in the country.


What Warren is proposing

Senator Warren's solution is direct: make high earners pay Social Security taxes on all of their income, not just earnings up to the cap. In an X post, Warren wrote: "Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos shouldn't be paying the same amount in Social Security tax as someone making $175,000 a year. Billionaires are not paying their fair share."

Warren used an annual salary of $175,000 as an example, but remember that the 2026 maximum is $184,500.

Warren's proposal would raise enough revenue to increase benefits by $200 a month for every senior, a meaningful boost for households that depend on those checks for basic expenses.

Warren's position also reflects a broader Democratic approach to the solvency question. Eliminating the payroll tax cap has been a popular proposal among Democrats, with Senators Warren, Bernie Sanders, and others proposing to apply Social Security payroll taxes to all income over $250,000.

https://financebuzz.com/jim-cramer-eliza...security-2

[Angrboda]

3 minutes vs. 90 minutes: Which workout is better for your health?

Three minutes of intense exercise may have more beneficial impacts on our physiology and health than 90 minutes of more moderate exertion.

That idea could sound far-fetched. But in a groundbreaking new study published in August in Cell Reports Medicine, scientists found that the blood of people who completed three minutes’ worth of all-out exercise — in 30-second bursts over the course of 23 minutes — teemed afterward with far more molecules associated with health improvements than the blood of people who rode bikes relatively moderately for an hour and a half.

Those molecules may then travel through the blood from one organ to another carrying messages from the muscles, liver, immune cells, intestines or other organs to far-flung tissues such as the brain, body fat or adrenal glands. These messages can spark reactions that may influence and improve health, the scientists found.

After several minutes of brief, intense exercise, there were signs of greater interorgan cross talk than after longer, gentler workouts.

With these results, the ambitious new study helps both to answer and raise new questions about how exercise works and which types may be most potent.

“We know exercise is associated with beneficial health outcomes,” said Paul Cohen, a cardiologist and associate professor of molecular metabolism at The Rockefeller University in New York City, who oversaw the new study. “But we don’t have a deep understanding of how that occurs and how different organs signal to one another during and after exercise.”

[Fake Messiah]

I guess they both got tired of his missionary position.

[Deesse23]

Loks Like she was.....ok with it

[Fake Messiah]

Louisiana inmates accused of using Bible to make cigarettes

A group of inmates at the Evangeline Parish jail in Louisiana are facing brand new charges after investigators accused them of using pages of the Bible to make cigarettes.

According to the Evangeline Parish Sheriff's Office, or EPSO, late Friday night and early Saturday morning, inmates were seen going into one dorm restroom and appeared drunk and stumbling while they walked. The deputies immediately notified the warden of the suspicious activity and after entering the dormitory, they smelled burnt paper, according to the sheriff’s office.

After searching the room, deputies allegedly found pages of a Bible rolled into a cigarette that appeared to be soaked with cleaning chemicals and other substances. Using two batteries, a magnet, a metal plate, and a staple they managed to light the Bible pages, and then smoked them, according to the ESPO.

Evangeline Parish Sheriff Charles Guillory said that it is disheartening that the inmates would use the Lord’s book, saying that their act of tearing out the pages and smoking them gets to him. Guillory also said the inmates were deceiving the leaders of the ministry classes they were attending in jail because their ultimate goal was to steal papers out of the Bible.

https://wng.org/sift/louisiana-inmates-a...1790278566

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

^Not the worst use the Bible has been out to, and

pages of a Bible rolled into a cigarette that appeared to be soaked with cleaning chemicals and other substances. Using two batteries, a magnet, a metal plate, and a staple they managed to light the Bible pages, and then smoked them, according to the ESPO.

at least they’re learning a trade.

Boru

[Angrboda]

AI chatbots are serving up fake support numbers to millions of users

Researchers have uncovered a widespread campaign that manipulates ChatGPT, Gemini, and Google AI Overview into citing fraudulent contact information for 374 major brands.

Security firm Vigilance has documented an active, large-scale disinformation campaign that exploits how generative AI models source and cite information, tricking ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and Google’s AI Overview into surfacing fake phone numbers, email addresses, and login pages as legitimate brand contact information.

The affected organisations span Fortune 100 companies, major airlines (Delta, Lufthansa, United, Emirates, Qatar Airways), top-tier banks (Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Chase, Citi), and travel platforms (Airbnb, TripAdvisor) — 374 companies in total, according to the researchers’ findings.

The Technique: Generative Engine Optimization, Weaponized

The attack repurposes Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) — a legitimate discipline marketers use to get AI models to cite their content — for fraud. Researchers built a detection pipeline that queries the three AI platforms and their underlying sources, scoring each for signs of GEO-driven manipulation and flagging cases where a fabricated phone number, URL, or email address was returned as fact. The scan surfaced tens of thousands of malicious pages across mainstream platforms.

Unlike classic phishing infrastructure hosted on throwaway domains, the poisoned content lives on trusted, high-traffic surfaces: social media, forums, YouTube and Vimeo video descriptions, Medium, GitHub Pages, WordPress sites, PDF uploads to .edu and government domains, and job boards and fundraising platforms. Any site that accepts user-generated content is a viable delivery vector.