Hell is a bureaucracy

Y'all need to stop calling people NPCs? The level of dehumanization inherent in the term is staggering

I would think that when there is a Catholic community to be ministered to, then the influencers will come. So our best bet is probably just to build online Catholic communities on Nostr in the first place

Got an interesting insight from a friend last night:

We often throw parties "just because" in the hope of creating a celebratory mood, rather than as a response to an occasion worth celebrating.

There's always something worth celebrating. Make a meaningful toast. Tell your friends why it's an occasion for a party. Ground your joy in something real.

#leisure #liturgicalliving #party

Happy Michaelmas!

#Catholic #Michaelmas #FeastDay

One of my projects in life is to live more liturgically with the seasons, fasts, and feasts of the Church, and to bring it into daily life. It's counter-cultural, so it's not easy, but I think it's a worthy pursuit

There's a whole discussion to be had about the relative merits of using the law to mandate the minimum versus using it to recommend the ideal. The Western Church tends to lean more towards the former, but traditional practices like the Ember Days are always there if we want them.

I didn't know that, that's so cool!

Little seasonal traditions like this are one of my favorite parts of being Catholic

Interesting ecumenical discussion in this thread

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Airports are more human when there is live music

☝️ We are made sons of God by participation in Christ, by which we are given a share in his divinity. This is possible because the Word first became human, thus uniting human and divine nature in his person.

No, that is a contradiction in terms. As long as we are speaking about God as a self-existent entity from which all being proceeds and on which all being depends, there can be only one such entity. So God cannot create another of himself, properly speaking.

Right, the Logos is a person, and he is not he Father. But he is God, and he is eternal. "In the beginning was the Word." Going back to Genesis, there is nothing "in the beginning" except God. Scripture speaks of no moment in which the Logos was created, but it does say that the Word "was" in the beginning, that the Word was "with" God, and that the word "was" God. This points to an eternal person coexistent with the Father.

Likewise, if we look at John 1, the Logos cannot be the same person as God the Father, because it also says "the Word was with God." It is nonsensical to say something is with itself. So that Logos is both separate from the Father, and he is God, and he became flesh. Thus we say that Jesus is God.

Why is it such a leap to affirm that the Logos is a person? John 1 literally says that the Logos *is* God. If we believe that God must be personal, and we believe that the Logos is God, then the Logos must be a person, or he is not God.

The devs and bitcoiners are super active, but yeah it seems the non-laser eye accounts are pretty quiet

How do you keep up with all the stuff on your feed?

What if the TSA is just a scheme by Big Plastic to make people buy more travel-size containers?

The ancient Greek term from which we get "economy" is "oikonomia," and it means "ordering of the household." Obviously you can't have a household without a spouse and children. So economy is founded on the family and those bonds of love; all other economic activity is downstream of that

Calling it an economic good can sound like an oversimplification. The truth is we humans are built to go outside of ourselves in self-gift to others. This actually is the foundation of economy