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hold on, neither one of you is orthodox, how do you also experience Challenges Of Computer Technology
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it's just hard to tell a computer apart from a crocodile regardless of religious affiliation really it's just chauvinism to think otherwise
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Apr 6, 2018 02:09
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Mr Enderby posted:I'm pretty sure that's not an Anglican thing.
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Apr 6, 2018 02:18
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ulmont posted:That's a funny way to spell "Stellaris." Excuse me, in Stellaris can you order your dimwitted firstborn son to lead a tiny army against impossible odds in a Uriah-style attempt to get him killed so that your vastly superior secondborn son will become the heir apparent? Because the best Paradox game strongly compels you to do that.
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Apr 6, 2018 02:37
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HEY GUNS posted:hold on, neither one of you is orthodox, how do you also experience Challenges Of Computer Technology Oddly enough, true story, last night, I came across some Unclean Images and thankfully by the great grace and mercy of the Lord our God, we lost electricity and it only came back today at noon. Perhaps these challenges are blessings, sent from above?
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Apr 6, 2018 02:56
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in my internet experience, at least internet 2.0, you don't "come across" dirty pictures, you seek them out i mean unless a wedding ring is involved, of course, but that's not a dirty picture just a portrait of an old friend
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Apr 6, 2018 03:22
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HEY GUNS posted:hold on, neither one of you is orthodox, how do you also experience Challenges Of Computer Technology Computer technology gives Rod Dreher and his ilk a place to publish. It's an Orthodox problem at its root, but it becomes one universal.
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Apr 6, 2018 03:29
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Senju Kannon posted:in my internet experience, at least internet 2.0, you don't "come across" dirty pictures, you seek them out That old friend has gotten us all through some hard times. And unfortunately, the internet is not nearly as nice as it once was.
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Apr 6, 2018 03:46
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Mr Enderby posted:Jokes aside, and for all its faults, I truly love the fact that Anglicanism ties itself in knots to avoid Schism and bad feeling between its members. No-one should want to have to call their neighbours heretics. If we sometimes err on the side of laxity, then we do it out of a love of unity and fraternity. anglicans seem to have smoothed over theological differences by creating the most complex polity ever known to mankind
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Apr 6, 2018 04:05
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shame on an IGA posted:That said, Diocese of South Carolina are still dicks. Umm...why?
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Apr 6, 2018 04:32
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Pershing posted:Umm...why? They split off from the Episcopal Church in the US in 2012 when those guys just didn't hate on the gays enough  They're distinct from the Episcopal Church *in* South Carolina, which is comprised of those parishes that refused to go along into schism with the diocese. I don't know too much about it, but the whole situation looks like a proper clusterfuck
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Apr 6, 2018 09:45
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Question from todays Danish class: Can you make a hole in an angel?
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Apr 6, 2018 13:31
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Tias posted:Question from todays Danish class: Can you make a hole in an angel? I don't know how to answer that question.
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Apr 6, 2018 15:14
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that sounds dirty
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Apr 6, 2018 15:19
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Tias posted:Question from todays Danish class: Can you make a hole in an angel? And angel can have as many holes as it wants. John Milton posted:For Spirits when they please
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Apr 6, 2018 16:29
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Tias posted:Question from todays Danish class: Can you make a hole in an angel? an angel can make a hole in you 
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Apr 6, 2018 18:54
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but can an angel make a hole in one? asking for the president
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Apr 6, 2018 19:42
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If they can help in the Outfield, I don't see why not.
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Apr 6, 2018 19:51
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HEY GUNS posted:an angel can make a hole in you Oh, to witness the pikes of heaven
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Apr 6, 2018 21:23
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Yo what's up with Satan. Why is he so obsessed with destruction? He still mad God kicked him out of Heaven? I'm also curious what the mainstream thoughts on Satan are. Do you see him as a literal entity roaming the earth, or something else?
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Apr 7, 2018 05:27
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Alpha Mayo posted:Yo what's up with Satan. Why is he so obsessed with destruction? He still mad God kicked him out of Heaven? Satan is the embodiment of spite. He can't have Heaven, so he'll do his damnedest to keep you out of there too. Misery loves company. It's pathetic and sad but we must be careful to remain detached as he is the author of much wickedness in men's hearts and so must not let him in. I don't try to understand him or understand evil, but I feel that his influence is one we easily recognise when we see the strong crush the weak, or the rich abuse the poor. Course I'm not mainstream. What's mainstream? Who knows.
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Apr 7, 2018 05:35
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Alpha Mayo posted:Yo what's up with Satan. Why is he so obsessed with destruction? He still mad God kicked him out of Heaven? ask a hundred christians who the devil is and you'll get a hundred different answers. everything from a literal dude causing people to sin to a metaphor for humanity's darker impulses. there's probably even some who thinks he's god's equal, informed more by pop culture than the pulpit
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Apr 7, 2018 06:25
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The devil is also a servant of God, but it's twisted and hosed up. The world's first traitor. Probably responsible for the tiny hosed up thoughts that gather in my brain when I haven't been to confession in a few months. But it too will be redeemed at the end of time.
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Apr 7, 2018 06:29
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When exactly in the canon did we swap over to Satan King of Evil instead of Satan Prosecuting Attorney anyway?
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Apr 7, 2018 06:59
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i'm gonna guess medieval poo poo, that's usually where things get weird like mary magdalene being a sex worker
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Apr 7, 2018 07:10
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the concept of devil/satan was also influenced by other old near east religions. iirc some ancient Jews developed the idea a lot further when they lived among people who followed a religion with two gods, one good one and one evil one
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Lutha Mahtin posted:the concept of devil/satan was also influenced by other old near east religions. iirc some ancient Jews developed the idea a lot further when they lived among people who followed a religion with two gods, one good one and one evil one How do modern monotheists square historical facts like these? I mean, I don't mind so much because I'm not really monotheist, but if your archenemy wasn't a servant but another god, that's got to raise some questions. P-Mack posted:Yeah, its actually playable unlike HoI3. The air and navy stuff doesn't work great and the AI occasionally shits itself but it's still a million times better than 3. holy crap, what the gently caress did I get myself into this game is ultra hard and also I can't stop playing it
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Apr 7, 2018 10:48
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Tias posted:How do modern monotheists square historical facts like these? Me, I say that cognitive dissonance and limited-mindedness are near-universal human properties, but fruitfulness is not. quote:
For me, I did a lot of learning as Spain. The Spanish Civil War breaks out soon, and you choose to side with either the fascists (hiss, hiss) or the republicans (intriguing...). Both sides are balanced, most of the fighting will just focus on land and not air or sea, and there won't be significant foreign intervention. Once you win, you can participate in the escalating global conflict, though of course Spain won't have the industrial or military strength of the super powers.
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Apr 7, 2018 22:02
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Tias posted:How do modern monotheists square historical facts like these? I mean, I don't mind so much because I'm not really monotheist, but if your archenemy wasn't a servant but another god, that's got to raise some questions. There are no "another gods". That's how you square it. People can call something God, but they're wrong, it's not a God. If it were God, it would be God, but it's not, so there you go.
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To be fair, I think he's asking how you can square the idea of an immutable truth claim for your religion with the idea that it developed over times and cultures- if the Jews emphasized Satan more as an enemy of God when exposed to dualistic cultures, are they discovering more about their religion or just changing their ideas to fit in?
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Apr 8, 2018 02:22
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I'm super bummed that I'm not going to Pascha this year because of my newborn! Those of you going, make sure to pray extra hard for me.
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Apr 8, 2018 02:25
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Tias posted:How do modern monotheists square historical facts like these? I mean, I don't mind so much because I'm not really monotheist, but if your archenemy wasn't a servant but another god, that's got to raise some questions. The Hebrews of the Old Testament were pretty definitely henotheistic (recognized there were other gods, but ours is the BEST and strongest) up until the Babylonian captivity. I realize it's a rather lame argument, but monotheism won. I don't have any good empirical evidence that my God exists. I also don't have any evidence that there are other gods.
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Apr 8, 2018 06:37
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Tias posted:How do modern monotheists square historical facts like these? I mean, I don't mind so much because I'm not really monotheist, but if your archenemy wasn't a servant but another god, that's got to raise some questions. Probably about the same way that pagan revivalists square the historical fact that their practice originated amongst late nineteenth and early twentieth century phantasists and proto-fascists?
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Apr 8, 2018 06:41
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Numerical Anxiety posted:Probably about the same way that pagan revivalists square the historical fact that their practice originated amongst late nineteenth and early twentieth century phantasists and proto-fascists? Eh, that's a bit harsh imo. Tias is pretty strongly anti-fascist. You are however correct that Norse/Germanic paganism basically died out in the 11th and 12th centuries. They didn't record their rituals or beliefs so there isn't much to go on.
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Apr 8, 2018 06:46
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Pellisworth posted:Eh, that's a bit harsh imo. Tias is pretty strongly anti-fascist. I don't dispute Tias' character but if we're opening questions of historical development, why not? The early attempts at pagan revival were attempts to recover "national religions" over and against a universal (or, depending on context, "semitic") Christianity, no?
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Apr 8, 2018 06:56
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Christos anesti to all Orthodox itt! 
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Pellisworth posted:The Hebrews of the Old Testament were pretty definitely henotheistic (recognized there were other gods, but ours is the BEST and strongest) up until the Babylonian captivity. The Old Testament seems split on this in my opinion. There are passages that go either way, though I'd say it falls more to the side of other gods not being real.
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Numerical Anxiety posted:Probably about the same way that pagan revivalists square the historical fact that their practice originated amongst late nineteenth and early twentieth century phantasists and proto-fascists? Nice try. Most reconstructionists in Scandinavia base their practices on the sagas, and invent the rest out of whole cloth based on personal gnosis. As such, it is either from the nineteen hundred and nineties or from the year 1000, you pick. It's extremely lame to make such a dig out of my honest question, and shows only how insecure and afraid you are at the moment. E: In fact, the nazitru we have today, such as the Asatruar Folk Assembly, wrote their rituals and neo-nazistic theology in the nineteen hundred and seventies (give or take), though also based on some of the odd nazi rune dudes of the early nineteen hundreds, as well as taking a lot from Gardnerian Wicca. StashAugustine posted:To be fair, I think he's asking how you can square the idea of an immutable truth claim for your religion with the idea that it developed over times and cultures- if the Jews emphasized Satan more as an enemy of God when exposed to dualistic cultures, are they discovering more about their religion or just changing their ideas to fit in? This. I wasn't going to take it quite as far as you do, I believe in the christian God too, after all - but if Satan is in fact a God all his own and not a rejected servent from heaven, it raises some really interesting questions about his role in the cosmos. Tias fucked around with this message at 10:29 on Apr 8, 2018 |
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System Metternich posted:Christos anesti to all Orthodox itt! The earth covers me as I desire, oh mother, but the gatekeepers of hell tremble as they see me, clothed in the bloodstained garment of vengeance: for on the Cross as God have I struck down mine enemies, and I shall rise again and magnify thee HEY GUNS fucked around with this message at 13:37 on Apr 8, 2018 |
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I'm not religious and I've never read the Bible before. I'd like to read it and understand the contexts of it because at the end of the day it's one of the most influential books that exist. Can anyone recommend a study guide (or preferably iPhone/iPad app) for me to do just that? It's such a big book and I have no idea where to start, especially cause (from my understanding) there are contradictions from chapter to chapter. What I'd like is something like, "read these chapters, and pay attention to this and that" coupled with "this is maybe the historical basis of what you just read." I'm not looking for anything that's religious or trying to convert me, because there is a 0% chance of that, but from a historical perspective.
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