That is a fantastic phrase! I'm going to have to integrate "grift wrap" into my vocabulary.

> Grift wrap: the persona and branding of a malicious party to make a poor offer seem palatable.

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Marketing and sales, if it can be called good, must be motivated by a desire for the benefit of the other, not a fat bottom line. Greed is what gives the free market a bad name and why people thing communism can actually be an option.

Yep. The protestants don't want to admit that's what happened. Martin Luther was a bad dude with daddy issues and a tendency to despair. Only way to cope was to remove the parts that made him feel bad and convince a third of Europe to apostatize with him.

Where did this comment come from?

> We don't have to respect religions as we have to respect people.

Why must we respect people, and why does that not include their religion?

Save your energy. This is a troll. Shake the dust off your feet.

This is another reason I don't like calling Holy Scripture the 'Word of God' in that exact phraseology. Holy Scripture doesn't call itself the Word of God. Rather, it says the Son is the Word, and the Word became Flesh. The Holy Scriptures written by the Church are witness to the Author and Perfecter of the Faith, the Source and Summit of our Faith, the Word made Flesh, Jesus Christ Himself.

We do worship the Word, which was with God, was God, and became flesh. We however do not worship Scripture, the witness of the Word.

This is the other note that is a powerful confirmation, but I imagine not as convincing to Protestants. Just because one translation is super old and has been used and unchanged for millennia doesn't exactly mean that it is the most reliable, most authentic, authoritative, etc. However, as a Catholic, I take great comfort in those facts, because my trust in the Church is yet more confirmed.

What is moral, what is good, and what is beautiful are things that science can't judge. Science can observe that certain things result in preferred outcomes.

For example, by science one may observe the law of reciprocity results in better social cohesion, but science doesn't judge whether social cohesion is good per se. That would be the person's own judgment that comes from somewhere other than the scientific method. Science can go further to observe that people in society generally prefer cohesion, that the longevity of those people may be higher, that suffering may be lower, etc. if the law of reciprocity is followed by the members of the society, but it cannot judge whether those are good things. Good is a human element one imposes upon science, a presupposition when once engages in the scientific method.

When milisat zaps?

Assuming 10-sats eventually becomes the value of a decent burger (pretty possible IMO), regularly getting 1-sat zaps could feed your family.

Peter Piper picked a purple pepper. Peter Piper is now packing heat. Where the peck is Peter Piper proceeding if Peter Piper's purple pepper packs too powerful a punch for people's palates?

I will warn you against too-cheap tobacco, if you ever do wish to try. They can be too harsh or just have an unpleasant flavor. If you have a friend who does pipe, I'm sure he'd give you a bit to try, and simple cob pipes are super cheap.

I do like a nice neat pour of Jamison or Dewar's White Label 👍 Only way to make that better is to sit around a bonfire with friends chatting about something meaningful.

True. Quakery comes from all over. The error seems to be similar: the primary source of belief needs to say something about the other domain of thought.

Science can't say what's right or wrong, and religion doesn't say how electricity, gravity, and computers work.

My reaction too. It was a no-brainer, though. Of course someone had to write the books of the New Testament, and of course someone had to choose which ones went into the Canon. The Holy Spirit didn't dictate the Scriptures, nor the list of the Canon, but they reasoned, prayed, and allowed the Holy Spirit to work through them to do so.

The other thing to note is that the Jews didn't have a set Canon, despite what Protestants want to believe. The Sadducees only had the Pentateuch, the Pharisees had the Torah (which I think is smaller than our Canon), and IIRC the Essenes had a much larger Canon (possibly all that was found in the Dead Sea Scrolls). The Church had to determine for Herself what was to go into the Church's Canon.

Adding you to my list 🇻🇦🫡

Today was a real nostr day. One really poor conversation, and one really great one. Surprisingly, the same subject, just different quality people.

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Bummer. Pipe and cigar don't (normally) get inhaled, so I don't expect it would be harmful, but don't take that as medical advice. I don't touch modern cigarettes with all the nasty chemicals they put in it, but also because I don't think smoke belongs in lungs at all to begin with.

I only fairly recently started, first cigar just a few years ago, and this pipe my wife bought me for Christmas, but I find it a fun and relaxing pastime. Early morning and late evenings are best.

This is so hard for secularists to fathom, for whatever reason. It helps at least a little when they see the list of Catholic clergy who have made some of the most important scientific discoveries and authored the greatest theories. Georges Lemaître I think is one of the biggest for our day and age.

That's a cool idea. I like it. Might be hard to be on at the same time.

Anyone else on here like a nice pinch of tobacco in s pipe on a cool autumn evening?

Is #pipestr a thing yet?

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