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I propose we stop using the term "Deuterocanonical Books" and go with "Christian Old Testament" instead. Because, by and large, the Christians used the Greek (LXX) Old Testament from the beginning.
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Ever feel like the Internet is full of idiots who are all wrong and never listen and everything is awful and it's all just getting worse all the time? Get out of the algorithm. Inject positive behavior training back into the Matrix.
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I'd watch Dr. Whouse, with or without a bit of Fry.
How to Fix Dr. Who @Nerdrotics @disparutoo
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The move from "Mormon" to "Christian" was a pet project of President Nelson for 30 years. Then it became revelation after he was elected.
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I've met plenty of LDS that are absolutely convinced the Bible has been purposefully corrupted & we can't trust all of it completely Yet they've never read all of it & can't point me to where it was specifically been corrupted, either
Replying to @CapturingChrist
Not a good work. He did not fully read the book of Mormon (a 30%), yet, he had a "devasting case" against?
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I rejected God for several years after the death of my brother. It can be harder - oddly enough - when someone isn't directly responsible. But as CS Lewis noted, it was strange to be angry with a God you don't believe exists, and once I heard that the thought wouldn't leave.
This girl's father tried to kill her mother. A stranger stepped in to shield her, and was killed. The father went to prison, mother turned to drugs. She found Jesus eventually -- through family love and youth retreat -- but struggles to forgive. "And sometimes I look up to heaven and ask God, 'Where were you when I was a little girl?' Holy Father, how can I forgive my father for almost leaving me without a mother? How can I truly be reconciled with God?" Pope Leo said the scope of the question should be broadened: "Should we ask 'where was God'? Or should we ask ourselves about humanity, about how we are sometimes prisoners of evil, resorting to violence against others? How is it that we fail to cultivate love and respect for others’ dignity and freedom? So many crime reports, even today, reflect a toxic climate in family relationships marked by abuse and oppression and, in particular, by violence against women, which unfortunately often leads to femicide." "We cannot attribute to God what has been entrusted to our responsibility; we cannot imagine that God, from on high, will automatically respond to our needs or miraculously prevent evil from happening." "He has given us his own Spirit, precisely so that love may be the key to all our human relationships. If violence exists, if selfishness prevails, if even love among family members turns into hatred, we must question the dynamics of our society, the culture of individualism and the temptation of violence — but not God." On forgiveness, he said: "Above all, we must seek forgiveness from the Lord. We must continually ask the Lord — perhaps for our entire lives — to expand the space of love within us, precisely where we have been wounded, that he can help us reconcile with ourselves and with that part of our past that has been marked by suffering, so that he may slowly transform resentment into mercy and compassion." "This is a long journey," the pope said, "and a process that requires great patience. It is an effort we must make, both on a personal level and through other means of support and inner reconciliation." "We must not lose heart: we move forward in small steps toward forgiveness. Reconciliation with the past is gradual. Above all, we must not think that forgiveness always and in every case means returning to the previous situation or having a close relationship with those who have hurt us, especially when there was violence. We can maintain a good disposition of heart toward the person, reject all forms of hatred or revenge, strive to repair the relationship as much as possible and perhaps pray for him or her. This helps us to enter more and more into the dynamic of forgiveness and to be reconciled with God and with others." Video: Vatican Media
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Asking myself this question some 15 years ago eventually led to another question: How does one define "Christian" - and who *gets* to define it? This eventually led me to the realization than an invisible church must have invisible boundaries.
Are Latter-day Saints Christian?
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Not sure how I found this little channel, but it's pretty fabulous. Why did zombie movies explode? An answer Jonathan Pageau would appreciate. youtu.be/-XgCFn6Vbnw?si=QOzT…
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I've really been enjoying Johnny Harris' channel youtu.be/Pc6sCGS6Jfc?si=t4wr…

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Wow. The editorial board of the Globe & Mail just flat out admitted that it screwed up by failing to scrutinize the false 2021 claims that “unmarked graves” had been “confirmed” at Kamloops. It’s taken five years, which is a disgrace, but give them credit for finally saying it
Globe editorial: There is no reconciliation without truth theglobeandmail.com/opinion/…
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My sword broke last winter, and so I went to replace it at the only smith I could find: a vast American hall called The Home Depot. A young man in an orange apron asked if I needed help. He was perhaps twenty. To carry the burden of an entire armory at twenty, he must have trained since boyhood. I bowed deeply. He said "no worries man" and bowed back, which I found very correct of him. I told him I sought a blade. A real one. He led me, without hesitation, to an entire wall of them. I have never seen such a forge. Hundreds of blades, hanging in rows, each wrapped and labeled. This boy guarded more steel than my entire province. I took down a long one. The label read "machete." A foreign school, perhaps. I ran my thumb along it the way my father taught me, feeling for the soul of the steel. "You can get the cover for that too," he said, "keeps the rust off." A scabbard, sold separately. Sensible. I nodded as one nods to a wiser man. I asked him which blade he would carry into battle. He thought about it seriously. This is the mark of a real craftsman, that he does not answer quickly. Then he pointed to a curved one and said "honestly that one's great for clearing brush." Clearing brush. A code, surely. The brush being one's enemies. I understood him completely. Two warriors, speaking plainly at last. I selected three. He helped me carry them to the front. He even asked if I had found everything I was looking for, the way a host asks before you leave his home. I told him he had served his clan with honor. Then a woman at the counter asked for forty dollars, and for my membership number. I do not have a membership number. I have a family name, eight hundred years old. I gave her that instead. She typed it in. She said it was not coming up. So tell me honestly, because that boy was the finest swordsmith I have met in this country. How do I become a member of his clan? I would be proud to serve under that orange banner.
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I never know how to answer when a barista asks me, “and what’s a good name for you?” “A *good* name? I know only the one I bear, the one my mother gave me. But a good name—a true name—what man can speak the true name of the smallest leaf or bird, much less himself? I am told that each of us will be given a stone on the last day, and on it shall be etched a name that only we and God shall know. Until then, who can claim to know himself rightly enough to speak the name he deserves! Would we like it if we could? You may call me wanderer, for I was lost, or homeward bound, for that I am. You may call me—“ “Sir this is literally a Starbucks”
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"How do people with such foolish takes get such a large audience?" -you clicked on their take to see how foolish it was -you engaged with it to tell them they were foolish -then you shared it with your own audience to publicly mock its foolishness It is a game and they won it
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Verses I never noticed before examining the Catholic Church: Acts 19:11-12 Healing by relics
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One of the most fundamental paradigm shifts I've undergone as a Protestant convert is moving the idea of being saved *from* something later to being saved *for* something now.
Following a bit of the Protestant polemics against Orthodoxy recently, and I realize just how difficult it is to communicate the mind of the Church across these lines. A simple example is seeing people confused about whether someone who is not baptised and participating in Orthodox communion can be "saved". Protestant are noticing that there are different answers in their estimation, and so are confused about them. The confusion comes from the belief that being "saved" or not is about "where you go after you die", when for the Orthodox "saved" means being made whole, being healed, being restored to the original purpose God had for us. For this reason, when Protestants see declarations of how communion in the body of Christ is the only way to salvation, they immediately think this is a declaration that all the non-Orthodox are going to hell after they die. When Protestants then hear the very same person who just told them that salvation is in full participation to the body of Christ go on to intimate we have nothing to say about the eschatological finality of any specific soul, it is like a short circuit that many Protestants cannot compute. This is what I could see when @OrthodoxEthos and @Acts17David were discussing and it is what I have seen in @gavinortlund's videos. In a similar vein, when a Protestant says he has the "assurance of his own personal salvation", this is confusing to the Orthodox. Orthodox also obviously have assurance of salvation, that assurance is Christ. He shows us what it means to be made whole and makes us participate in that wholeness. But how can I say that I am "saved" if I see that I am still a wretch, still prideful and arrogant and sinful? So the Orthodox, knowing they are are still sinning, though also knowing Christ has made them grow in the virtues will say something like: "I know that I am being saved." That is I can see that I am being healed, being made whole, being reformed to the resemblence of God. But again, this completely confuses the Protestant who just wants to know what will happen when you die. What side of the fence will you end up on? I am not sure how to get accross these lines, and I feel that unless we can, we will perpetually be talking past each other.
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RT @TeawithTolkien: the Pope quoting The Lord of the Rings!!!!!!! I feel so alive!!!!
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I have never seen this, but it feels like it came from the Golden Age of the Internet
I still think about it. The most important video ever made
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Japan now has a baptized Catholic princess for the first time in history.✝️🇯🇵 On September 30, 2025, the Imperial House Economy Council of Japan officially established a new house within the Imperial Family, headed by Princess Nobuko, the widow of Prince Tomohito of Mikasa. Princess Nobuko was born in 1955 into the Catholic Asō family, baptized as a child, and educated in Catholic schools. She now leads her own independent house within the Imperial Family.
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Utterly predictable. I am excited about many of the exciting possibilities with AI, particularly in medical research, self-driving cars, etc. But on the human intelligence front, for MOST people, it seems to make Neil Postman’s “Amusing Ourselves to Death” nightmare come true a thousand fold.
🚨 University professors have been saying AI is completely destroying learning and that we'll soon have an AI-powered, semi-illiterate workforce. Here's a glimpse into the educational apocalypse: "Sarah, a freshman at Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario, said she first used ChatGPT to cheat during the spring semester of her final year of high school. (...) After getting acquainted with the chatbot, Sarah used it for all her classes: Indigenous studies, law, English, and a “hippie farming class” called Green Industries. “My grades were amazing,” she said. “It changed my life.” Sarah continued to use AI when she started college this past fall. Why wouldn’t she? Rarely did she sit in class and not see other students’ laptops open to ChatGPT. Toward the end of the semester, she began to think she might be dependent on the website. She already considered herself addicted to TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, and Reddit, where she writes under the username maybeimnotsmart. “I spend so much time on TikTok,” she said. “Hours and hours, until my eyes start hurting, which makes it hard to plan and do my schoolwork. With ChatGPT, I can write an essay in two hours that normally takes 12.” - "By November, Williams estimated that at least half of his students were using AI to write their papers. Attempts at accountability were pointless. Williams had no faith in AI detectors, and the professor teaching the class instructed him not to fail individual papers, even the clearly AI-smoothed ones. “Every time I brought it up with the professor, I got the sense he was underestimating the power of ChatGPT, and the departmental stance was, ‘Well, it’s a slippery slope, and we can’t really prove they’re using AI,’” Williams said. “I was told to grade based on what the essay would’ve gotten if it were a ‘true attempt at a paper.’ So I was grading people on their ability to use ChatGPT.” - AI in education is a serious topic, and many schools and universities are blindly jumping into the "AI-first" wave without considering short and long-term consequences. It would be great to hear more from teachers and educators to understand potential solutions. This might be a great opportunity for rethinking the education system and how students are assessed. - 👉 Link to the full article below. 👉 To learn more about AI's legal and ethical challenges, join my newsletter's 94,700 subscribers (link below).
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An American made EV for under $30k that's meant to be customized? I am intrigued...
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The Golden Internet is not gone...it's just hiding. Here's a little nugget for you
I CAN'T BREATHE 🤣🤣🤣
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