It's true and you should say it
I've never heard of that encyclical before, but at this rate it sounds like I will learn about it pretty soon 😂
I'll keep an eye out for her npub!
It's a very old idea, going back to the ancient Greeks
How would you explain the first chapter of the Gospel of John, where it says "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God...and the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us"? That points pretty clearly to the divinity of Christ.
Indeed, it actually makes what Christ does for us so much better. If we are adopted into Christ by baptism, and Jesus is truly God, then in Jesus we are divinized—that is, we are perfected by grace and made to share in God's own divine life.
Really? I feel like I have the opposite problem. Follow enough people in different time zones and there's always stuff going on.
"Blessed are You, O my God, because You have not demanded from us as the price of Your kingdom, a long period of suffering, but a very brief one, brief as life, a moment compared with an eternity of happiness!"
-- St. Angela of Foligno
What I'm trying to get at is that we've lost the script, socially. I think the loss of well-defined standards of contributes to the high rates of anxiety we see today, especially among young people.
We're all better off when our elders teach us to take off our hats indoors and to stand when a lady enters the room. Little traditions like that give stability.
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Agreed, getting money right is important, because it is key to a lot of our incentive structures. However, human nature remains the same, good money or bad.
I think the best shot we have at a solution is community. Community helps you establish a home. Community cares for you when you get old. Community enforces social mores that nudge us towards virtue.
As we strive to build better communities, using good money will certainly be a significant piece of that, but I think mutual charity and concern for the common good are deeper.
here is a comparison table
https://afdc.energy.gov/fuels/properties
for every BTU/lb of NatGas you get equivalents of energy output. that is often heat but could be electricity and the output flowing in a pipe is essentially an electrical grid independent of the wires in your neighborhood
Not every neighborhood has natural gas infrastructure though.
I think I'm catching the thought though. Natural gas infrastructure is a means of distributing energy independent of the electrical grid.
It's mostly used for heat, but could in theory be converted to electricity.
Carbon credits have always been a scam. They're just the secular version of buying indulgences
The risk is always that the writers spend more time trying to make the characters sufficiently woke and not enough time trying to make them good characters
Hospitality is big for me. Whenever someone comes into my home I always food or water or coffee or something.
Or vice versa, when someone offers you something it's usually polite to accept.
We suffer from a dearth of standards of etiquette, these days. What are little unspoken rules of etiquette that you always follow?
I started listening to the Song of Solomon again today as part of my daily Bible auditing and I realized this is a romance novel contained within the Bible (which means book of books). I've never read them, but I imagine this is an ancient version of what romance novels are like. Today it would have a cover picture of a hunky Fabio-looking Solomon rapturously embracing the Shulammite woman...
Oh the depth and wonder of the riches of God that He would include reading even for the single and never married woman, those "missed blessings," within His Book! 😄
https://pod.link/1104407866/episode/5151c74ba169acd94c1599a9aa5408da
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I love the Song of Solomon. It's in the middle of the Bible, and in some ways it sums the whole thing up. Traditionally, it is read as allegorical of God's love for his chosen people—first Israel, then the universal Church by adoption—and also an image of God's love for the individual soul.
Chapter 2 contains one of my favorite passages in all of Scripture:
> Arise, my beloved, my beautiful one, and come! For see, the winter is past, the rains are over and gone.
> O my dove in the clefts of the rock, in the secret recesses of the cliff, let me see you, let me hear your voice, for your voice is sweet, and you are lovely.
> Catch us the foxes, the little foxes, that damage the vineyards; for our vineyards are in bloom!
> My lover belongs to me and I to him; he browses among the lilies. Until the day breathes cool and the shadows lengthen, roam, my lover, like a gazelle or a young stag upon the mountains of Nether.
I read that as God seeking after and calling my soul to spiritual union with Him, and the thought that the Creator would seek me out like that moves me deeply.
And?
You either die the hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain
Just a lil salt in the wound.
I honestly stopped watching after she-hulk
https://bamsmackpow.com/2023/09/22/kevin-feige-ready-pull-plug-entire-mcu/
The article talked about a "soft reboot." MCU has already been struggling to make a home for new characters. If you reboot and bring back the old ones with new actors, it just won't be the same, and if you introduce different comic book characters, the question will be "why should we care?"
Never had Twitter. Nostr is fun though