Recent content by Idolater

Good bye!!!!!!

When interests align, you don't need a conspiracy. That's basically Adam Smith's invisible hand, if you apply the principle to economics at scale. But also when interests align, that is the only time a conspiracy makes any sense as a live possibility. Nobody is going to conspire if their...

Reminds me of Candace Owens and what she's trying to do rn re Charlie Kirk's open-and-shut murder trial. Except it's an open secret that Owens will abstain from saying something, literally due to liability. So she's following in Jones's tracks, but she's learned from Jones's mistakes too...

I like metal, or heavy music. Not exclusively, I like it "in the rotation" though. I could try opera. I have not tried opera. I certainly haven't given opera the chance I gave to Megadeth, Iron Maiden, Slayer, and other bands, artists, and acts. Fair is fair. Cool. :cool: It's nice to...

OK. What if you sin but without emotional pain or any guilt? Would you just conclude that that person isn't saved? This problem is nuanced because we need to first identify the line between what is, and what is not sin. Scrupulosity for example is when a Catholic feels guilt and experiences...

... you're still retarded. You don't know what you're talking about! = In Germany the social welfare system interestingly enough, pays the Catholic Church! One has to wonder, given all the headlines over the years about "the German bishops" if there's some connection between this and the...

I never got in to Slayer. I tried, I can't remember what it was that turned me off, but the equation of pros and cons just didn't favor Slayer. They're in good company, I couldn't get in to Megadeth either, or Iron Maiden. The equation just didn't work out, for me, for them. There is a lot...

Interesting that we don't hear so much anymore about the disparity between the American social welfare system and European and Anglosphere social welfare systems anymore. That used to be a big talking point in the discourse but I haven't heard that one in many years now. It's a dead issue...

Just as in previous military operations we can't know all that our politicians and civilian government workers know, we're left reading tea leaves. I'm saying, sure you could read the leaves in the cynical way, but also, and just as justifiably, you could read them in a less skeptical way...

Maybe, but see above, where @annabenedetti (Anna Brain-a-Deady) gives us a chart of inflation the last three years to rebut me. Expand the chart, out to, say, our lifetimes. What's it look like now? It looks just like how I describe inflation, which is the near polar opposite to what @Arthur...

It's extremely important to engage Iran militarily rn. We didn't get into this because we're bored. We got into this because it's extremely important to engage Iran militarily rn. You get your information from late night television talking points. Or from the internet. Or from some...

Nobody does that. And if they do, they do it in error, and it is not authorized Catholicism but distorted Catholicism. idk what's to complain about. I like him. It's historic to have a native born English speaking pope, first one ever, and it's got to grind the gears of the British that...

" His brothers James, Joses, Simon, and Judas " are identified as being sons of another woman named Mary (Mark 15:40; cf. John 19:25 where's she's said to be married to Cleopas; these are His cousins), this is what the New Testament Gospels say. Do you think Enoch would call God his Savior...

You did a good job thinking about it; that was interesting. Gnostics also say they have secret knowledge. This is the most concerning thing about some of your ideas is that no one ever heard of these interpretations, this idea that we exchange our life with God, it doesn't appear in the...

Prayer is one of those things we're committed to if we're Christians. Not that you are duty bound to pray all the time (beyond Mass attendance, we're not obligated to pray at all, not even a lick), but that it must mean something, and prayer must do something. It's part of God's invisible yet...