abrenuntio

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by abrenuntio 23d ago
Belt and suspenders protection it is.
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by abrenuntio 3mo ago
Call it Houdini already.
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by abrenuntio 4mo ago
For a good Catholic (Dominican) summary of the encyclical: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpptgvohfZc
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by abrenuntio 7mo ago
From the Wikipedia page on the Catholic Church: "By means of Catholic charities and beyond, the Catholic Church is the largest non-government provider of education and health care in the world." Just yesterday I went to see a pres
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by abrenuntio 9mo ago
Because of Krazam it took me a minute or two to accept that this now exists for real
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by abrenuntio 11mo ago
I'm personally rather fond of Java, but even this (or the shorter `Predicate`) still can't compete with the straightforward simplicity of a type along the lines of `string -> bool`.
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by abrenuntio 1y ago
No. The Bible says nothing about a European secular nationalist movement called Zionism. Certainly nothing positive.
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by abrenuntio 1y ago
Some Orthodox Jews are very active against it, on very sound religious grounds.
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by abrenuntio 1y ago
Not sure whether an index is still pragmatic. But I hope the Catholic Church of the future will take the defense of its flock more serious again. Many books (and movies and TV series...) out there contain downright evil ideas, sometimes pre
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by abrenuntio 1y ago
No opinions on the ship itself, but the social proposals are very interesting :-) Earth biomes will be kept intact with respect to their natural evolution. But human society will be treated as an amoral engineering problem seeking to optimi
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by abrenuntio 1y ago
Would a true divine miracle be a suspension of order or a manifestation of it? Will it ever be possible to prove that some future human theory of reality is complete?
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by abrenuntio 2y ago
It might be added that Dominicans had the explicit calling to crown their preaching by leading virtuous lives marked by poverty. As an example of this, especially in the early days, Dominicans traveled a lot by foot as a form of austerity.
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by abrenuntio 2y ago
Yes. You are right. "My sacrifice, O God, is a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart you, God, will not despise." It would not be good to create religious beauty to "impress" God in a boastful way. All that is good
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by abrenuntio 2y ago
"He who testifies to these things says, ``Yes, I am coming soon.'' Amen. Come, Lord Jesus."
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by abrenuntio 2y ago
Correct, he lived in Turkey around the late third-early fourth century.
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by abrenuntio 2y ago
Read it here: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0714.htm (E.g. when discussing the Eucharist.)
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by abrenuntio 2y ago
It's a catastrophe, not just esthetically but spiritually as well. It has nothing to do with austerity or wealth. Some of the churches no longer seek to express holiness ("having been set aside for God") and support the numin
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by abrenuntio 2y ago
"This perfume was worth an entire year's wages. Why wasn't it sold and the money given to the poor?" Sacred art exists to honor the Lord. We ourselves may remain poor and humble in the middle of all this beauty :-)
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by abrenuntio 2y ago
Don’t confuse culture and gradual inculturation with purity of religion and validity of liturgy. In the age of the Messiah the faithful are truly drawn “from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages”. If your wife would go to
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by abrenuntio 2y ago
Napoleon: "don't you know that I can destroy the Church?" Bishop: "my colleagues have been trying for 1800 years and haven't succeeded."
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by abrenuntio 2y ago
When a woman honored the Lord with expensive perfume, it was Judas who complained about this. "Why wasn't this money given to the poor?" Many flawed people belong to the Church. But the art of the Church does not belong to an
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by abrenuntio 2y ago
Indeed: some scholars date the synoptic gospels after 70AD because of their metaphysical assumption that predicting the future is impossible. But late dating creates a host of disparate problems that must be explained. One problem coming
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by abrenuntio 2y ago
The Q hypothesis has issues. For such an important document or source, nothing is known about it. Its existence is not mentioned or hinted at in external sources. No trace of it has been found. In addition, the synoptic puzzle can be laid i
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by abrenuntio 2y ago
Absolutely this. I had the exact same reaction: "mind" as in "mind-body" for me refers to things such as reasoning, qualia, intentionality, the fact that neural patterns somehow receive "real meaning". The mind
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by abrenuntio 2y ago
I'm looking forward to going through this... thank you so much!
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by abrenuntio 2y ago
Definitely not ordinary places. Perhaps Stella Maris, the end point, is the most fascinating of all because of its association with the prophet Elijah.
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by abrenuntio 2y ago
Check it :-) Other popular saints and devotions are "Mary", "Joseph", "Paul", "Sacred Heart", ... can you easily get seven sufficiently special ones on a line for those?
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by abrenuntio 3y ago
Hey I know your proof, the 2005 paper is on my desk :-) If you were to code this in Coq again today, would you do things different in some way?
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by abrenuntio 3y ago
This is a pretty wild but fun topic :-) Saint Augustine discussed a colorful rumour from his time about dog-headed people (cynocephaly). If you look beyond the actual rumour itself, his thinking provides a useful precedent for contemporary
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by abrenuntio 4y ago
It seems faithful cannot receive Communion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papal_ban_of_Freemasonry#Conti...

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