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Both individuals were frequently found on "internet" where they engaged in activity under aliases called "usernames"
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What if I told you that everyone single person is a singularly beautiful mystery, that every human interaction contains more meaning than can ever be exhausted or expressed, and that every human action echoes into eternity?
The average couple. Just both mediocre looking, nothing about their entire existences being noteworthy.
They work a boring 9-5, drive run of the mill sedans and spend their weekends watching TV. They’ll have 2 kids, a boy & a girl - who will carry on this unremarkable cycle.
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I think the Hensel twins deserve a privacy that keeps them free from our theological thought experiments
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Importantly, this research was conducted by the guy who invented Positive Psychology
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To clarify: Christianity was responsible for the invention of things like persons, dignity, universal rights, and "the self," but it was *not* responsible for the invention of "sheep" or "shepherd," those notions predate Christianity.
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Remember when Fr James Martin prayed for the unborn at his benediction for the DNC? No one gives him enough credit for that.
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I guess I'm contractually obligated to say something useful about psychology so,
The main takeaway from the "learned helplessness" experiments is that control over an environment (or, importantly, lack thereof) is a key determinant of motivation and wellbeing
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Remembering when Pope Francis first appeared on the balcony of St Peters 12 years ago (and crying)
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I love Aristotle, but I only read his medieval interpreters because they understood his thought much better than he himself did
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Broke: babies cry because of original sin
Bespoke: grown men don't cry enough because of original sin
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This is a genuine and horrifying problem for Christians who believe the human soul is present at conception
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Yes. Also no one talks about the fact that they left Gru for the better the better part of a decade to serve Ron Reagan
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Gonna remake "God's Not Dead" movie but it's "Freud's Not Dead," about a young man in a clinical psych program who has to face off against his CBT-only prof. Climax of the film is when the flustered prof yells "I insist Freud is dad!" and the parapraxis leads to his conversion.
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When I was dating my wife she told me I didn't need to believe that matter was the principle of individuation just because Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas said it was. It literally never occurred to me until that moment that I could believe in formal individuation.
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Just pure chaos from Pope Francis at this point
I was honored to meet with Pope Francis for an hour-long conversation today at Casa Santa Marta. With his permission to share this, the Holy Father said he has known many good, holy and celibate seminarians and priests with homosexual tendencies. Once again, he confirmed my ministry with LGBTQ people and showed his openness and love for the LGBTQ community. It was also a great joy to receive his blessing on the 25th anniversary of my ordination to the priesthood.
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Of all the things I never thought liberals would normalize, rape was absolutely near the bottom of the list
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Apologies to my Marian maximalist friends but this is unequivocally good 👍
BREAKING: Vatican writes that “it would not be appropriate to use the title 'Co-redemptrix' to define Mary’s cooperation.”
Reason given: “This title risks obscuring Christ’s unique salvific mediation & can therefore create confusion and an imbalance in the harmony of the truths of the Christian faith”
Fernández does not reject Co-redemption theology as wrong, but warns against the term.
Co-redemption theology has been taught for centuries & in 1913 the Vatican gave an indulgence to a prayer which ended -- “I bless thy holy Name, I praise thine exalted privilege of being truly Mother of God, ever Virgin, conceived without stain of sin, Co-Redemptrix of the human race.”
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its only going to get harder to google info about Franciscan theologian John Duns SCOTUS in the days ahead.
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If universalism is true, everyone who hates each other on Twitter dot com will love each other eternally in the next life.
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I really love those prayers in the Byzantine churches where it's like "I have never done anything virtuous in my entire life, I have refused to repent for my countless sins, I have so utterly defiled my soul as to no longer be human, so therefore save me oh Good Lover of Mankind"
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DESTROY her Superego.
- tell her that her internalized prohibitions are too strict
- she has NO RIGHT to talk to herself like that
- remind her that these harsh strictures are introjects from an earlier time
- encourage her to live freely and spontaneously
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He went on to try and sell his positive psych ideas to the US military where he found a favorable audience and several multi million dollar grants and contracts
psychologytoday.com/us/blog/…
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I like that part in Freud's Psychopathology of Everyday Life where the guy is anxious about the blood of Januarius not liquifying and Freud uses that to conclude his friend is anxious about his girlfriend's missed period.
Roman Catholics blessing folks with the supposed liquified blood of St. Januarius. While next to nothing is known about him, other than he passed in the 4th century, he is alleged to have been a martyr and his miraculous blood collected in a sealed ampoule.
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The odds of him being made a cardinal are about 500x greater than the likelihood of this deranged fantasy coming true
James Martin should be brought to the Vatican with an appointment with the Pope. When there he should be escorted into a room where there are 6 Swiss Guards and a running video camera. There is a table with a letter from the Pope. A layman walks out and tells him to open the envelope and read the letter. James reads it. It states plainly that he is laicized (returned to the lay state) and any comment by him to the press will force the Pope to excommunicate him. When he is done reading the Swiss Guards escort him out of Vatican City.
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Psychologists of a certain bent like to control as many variables as possible. The original learned helplessness studies were quite rigorous and well-designed. Ofc the results seem intuitive in hindsight, but this is often the case with psychology research
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I've still never seen anyone adequately answer @FeserEdward 's argument in "Kripke, Ross, and the Immaterial Aspects of Thought"
In short, we humans do not have “magic meat”. Consciousness is the result of physical processes and can be duplicated artificially.
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Christianity is probably closer to being a "universal acid" than evolution (Dennett's phrase) given the way it destabilizes every civilization and every ideology and continually draws us out, beyond ourselves, and lays waste to our best laid plans,
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Catholic Answers permanently closed their forums last night... end of an era. Anyone else used to hang around there circa like 2012?
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Lmao some of you watch this and don't believe in actual literal demons / evil spirits who prowl about the Earth seeking the ruin of souls ??
Canadian abortionist and MAID doctor Ellen Wiebe was recently featured in a BBC documentary on assisted-suicide. Check out what she had to say on laws and practices of assisted-suicide in Canada below.
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The Christian tradition holds that Mary's response was the single most consensual act in human history but okay
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Charles Taylor so based (Jeffrey Epstein's friend @sapinker will never recover)
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Reminder - now that the DDF has made universalism a dogma of the Catholic Church, every baptized person must assent to it on pain of eternal damnation
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I wanna see the reverse of this where it's a Christian guy who keeps trying to be an atheist and studied w like John Mackie and lived in a house w two guys who write for Skeptical Inquirer and went to a Reason Rally and it's just not taking
This is why I don’t believe that God exists.
Full video —> piped.video/Wu2hvtR5-5M
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A blue check would be nice so that I could collect my 15 dollars in winnings or w/e this viral tweet is worth
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I can't believe Catholic Integralism is actually happening wtf
Joe Biden has appointed Lady Gaga as co-chair of the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities.
The committee advises the President and the heads of U.S. cultural agencies on ways to enhance federal support for the arts and humanities.
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i actually couldnt tell this wasnt real life cos it looks so hi-tech and realistic. pretty soon we wont know whats "real" and whats metaverse
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God's work is being carried out by such a lowly rag tag crew. Its kinda beautiful when you think about it
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The exegetical key to Fr Ripperger's entire intellectual project, whether it's his writings on mental health, evolution, the integral good, demonology, or social ethics, is the fact that he's really really dumb.
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I had a heart attack when it panned to the host for half a second and I realized what podcast this was
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I get this and obviously like I approve of people finding ways to be psychologically healthy but I *still* think there's a healthy and freeing sense of identifying as a depraved sinner before an infinitely merciful God
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The kind of thing you go to Hell for publishing
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That's always been the craziest thing about Peterson and his grift. Like, get him going for more than 10 minutes and he'll start talking about how reality isn't real and we construct the world with our minds and shit
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Private revelation fans don't constantly lie challenge impossible
🔥Number Going to Hell🔥
"Out of one hundred thousand sinners who continue in sin until death, scarcely one will be saved."
- Saint Jerome, Father & Doctor of the Church🇻🇦
"The number of the elect is so small — so small — that, were we to know how small it is, we would faint away with grief: one here and there, scattered up and down the world!”
- Saint Louis Marie de Montfort🇻🇦
"So vast a number of miserable souls perish, and so comparatively few are saved!"
– Saint Philip Neri, mystic🇻🇦
“The greater number of Christians today are damned. The destiny of those dying on one day is that very few – not as many as ten – went straight to Heaven; many remained in Purgatory; and those cast into Hell were as numerous as snowflakes in mid-winter.”
- Blessed Anna Maria Taigi, mystic🇻🇦
“Among adults there are few saved because of sins of the flesh. […] With the exception of those who die in childhood, most men will be damned.”
- Saint Remigius of Rheims🇻🇦
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Incidentally, someone posted this on r/catholicism just yesterday
Just an FYI, and this is purely anecdotal from our work with survivors, the people most effected or targeted by predatory priests in confessionals seems to be children (either sex) and adult women.
I’m sure other women / women advocates may have something better to offer here.
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queer and/or nominally Leftist Christians will continue to love you with the love of their Lord Jesus Christ
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Oh, the guy who secretly texted with Alana Chen about her sexual behavior when she was a teenager, against Chen's mother's wishes and then reminded her of her risk of damnation shortly before her su*c*de
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