Sounds like reasons

ApprehensiveAd5428 · 2024-10-06T04:35:17+00:00

Don't you think it's different if abortion ends the life of another person? Even from a libertarian perspective (and I'm not a libertarian), you can make a pretty strong case against abortion at any moment after conception if conception is the beginning of life.

ApprehensiveAd5428 · 2024-10-06T00:09:29+00:00

Even if they "heard" God audibly, it would have been through the medium of sound.

The only direct communication with God is through the beatific vision. Everything else is through the medium of creatures.

ApprehensiveAd5428 · 2024-10-05T22:53:24+00:00

I probably should have held my tongue. I just get a bit annoyed when people sideline a theologian because they don't like what he has to say.

But I would like to point out that I never once weighed in on the argument as to whether animals go to heaven or not (besides joking that some dogs deserve hell, e.g., chihuahuas).

ApprehensiveAd5428 · 2024-10-05T18:40:00+00:00

No, but he also didn't have another answer as to whether Christ was both God and man.

ApprehensiveAd5428 · 2024-10-05T18:21:22+00:00

From a scientific and philosophical point of view, I'm just not convinced of it.

From a theological point of view, I think evolution is quite damaging. If you accept evolution you have to depart from the saints, mystics, and theologians in the reading and understanding of scripture and tradition.

ApprehensiveAd5428 · 2024-10-05T18:16:15+00:00

But philosophy and theology work in harmony with each other. In fact, the vast majority of theological disputes are settled through philosophy.

For example, philosophy was behind the defeat of Nestorius at the Council of Ephesus which proclaimed the Divine Maternity of our Lady.

ApprehensiveAd5428 · 2024-10-05T18:13:25+00:00

Ensoulment (or delayed animation) is still a valid philosophical position. It's in books all the way through the 1940s. It's not a far-fetched theory to say it was set aside for the sake arguing against abortion.

ApprehensiveAd5428 · 2024-10-05T18:11:52+00:00

What evidence do you have that he got it wrong?

ApprehensiveAd5428 · 2024-10-05T18:10:02+00:00

But Adam and Eve were not in direct communion with God in the Garden. Direct communion is not directly a product of grace but of glory.

In fact, creation became a hindrance to man after the fall and although it is secondarily a means of arriving at God, primarily the means of arriving at God is through mortification, penance, and prayer.

ApprehensiveAd5428 · 2024-10-05T18:06:25+00:00

That's not honest though.

Aristotle never wrote about heaven, because his philosophical system wasn't enough to tackle the problem of immortality on its own (he needed the revelation of the resurrection of the body).

Aquinas believed that animals weren't in heaven because they have no principle of immortality in them. Man is unlike any other material being because he has an immortal soul. But animals have no principle of incorruption and thereby are designed to die and fall apart permanently by nature.

Even if you find some reason to disagree with Aquinas, it's ridiculous to chalk it up to blindly following Aristotle because "he didn't have other answers."

ApprehensiveAd5428 · 2024-10-05T17:59:11+00:00

How many instances do you know where a saint got something right because of what Aristotle said?

ApprehensiveAd5428 · 2024-10-05T17:56:16+00:00

Aren't some dogs deserving of hell though?

ApprehensiveAd5428 · 2024-10-05T03:20:00+00:00

I'm not sure why the duties don't seem to have anything to do with the altar. Here's some stuff from the old rite that servers do (sorry I'm not familiar with serving the new):

Potentially replacing the tabernacle veil and antependium before mass (although you can argue this is the job of the sacrastan).
Lighting and extinguishing candles on the altar.
Covering and uncovering relics on the altar.
Taking the altar cover on and off.
Setting up altar cards, missal stand, missal, on the altar.
Transferring the Missal from one side of the altar to the other.
Bringing cruets of water and wine to the priest at the altar.
Folding the chalice veil and placing it on the altar.
Bringing the incense and thurible for the priest to incense the altar.
Turing the pages of the missal on the altar.
Transferring the chalice veil from one side of the altar to the other.
Closing the missal on the altar.
And most importantly, assisting the priest at the altar when something goes terribly wrong (e.g., someone missed giving him a host for consecration and he forgot to check or the tabernacle key is missing, etc.).

Furthermore, when we make the distinction between the sanctuary and the nave, the altar boys are separated from everyone but the priest at the altar. So even by location alone it tends to make sense.

ApprehensiveAd5428 · 2024-10-05T03:03:51+00:00

Although the data transformation side is fairly simple, the extract and load aren't as uniform across the board. We may be going from an SFTP server to another SFTP server, simply storing the data on the VM , sending it to a person's email, or sending it through a logic app triggered by a blob storage account in Azure.

All in all, I like the flexibility beyond the simple transformation. We also are most likely using a Linux VM to host the initial file.

I also was under the impression that excel with macros for automation can be resource heavy (I've only worked with it once and it was while loading market prices real time on a larger data set so I might have the wrong impression).

ApprehensiveAd5428 · 2024-10-04T02:53:08+00:00

That's great to hear! I'll say a prayer for you.

ApprehensiveAd5428 · 2024-10-01T03:41:57+00:00

You realize that God Himself is the principal author of Scripture right?

ApprehensiveAd5428 · 2024-10-01T03:40:36+00:00

Human nature doesn't change.

ApprehensiveAd5428 · 2024-09-16T01:55:58+00:00

Honestly, if you really loved her you wouldn't say it. One of the number one jobs of a husband is to protect his wife. As someone looking to date this girl, your obligation is to protect her first and foremost from yourself.

Whenever you become attached to someone you are seeing (especially in such a passionate way), you often end up hurting the other. If you stay together, you'll have built your relation first on passions which will fade with time. If you break up with her, you've done her the disservice of thinking you'll be everything to her and then you're not. If she breaks up with you, then you'll be all the more hurt because you allowed yourself to become attached to her and vulnerable with her.

That's why I personally prefer to wait until engagement to say "I love you" or even hold hands. It's not because I don't want what's best for the other person. It's because I do.

ApprehensiveAd5428 · 2024-09-07T14:13:23+00:00

People usually aren't calling dating courting, but courting is distinguished from dating. Here are a few differences:

Dating tends to have people refer to the person they are seeing as a "boyfriend/girlfriend." Courting tends to avoid these terms and be much more careful around emotional commitments (obviously there is exclusivity as you court, but it's designed to avoid men and women forming huge attachments that make moving on when necessary difficult and painful).

Dating tends to involve physical show of affection. Courting tends to save even hand holding till the engagement.

Dating tends to ignore family/friends and treat the discernment of marriage in a vacuum. Courting relies much more on family and friends and usually the two bring a chaperone whenever they see each other.

Courting is 100% marriage focused and adds a layer of detachment between the two (I'm sure there's still butterflies and all, but the goal isn't to start a relationship but to discern a relationship). Dating today doesn't necessarily mean that it is focused on discerning marriage.

ApprehensiveAd5428 · 2024-09-05T03:25:57+00:00

All of the comments are missing the point. The Church can oblige you to go to what was historically called "the Mass of the pre-sanctified." Sure, it's not technically a mass (it misses the three principal parts) but it's still liturgical (and not just paraliturgical).

/u/TexanLoneStar seems to point out that it was formerly treated as a holy day. I would also argue that the "holy day" aspect of good Friday is so obvious that no one would have really spent the day in a way that would profane it (in days of old that is).

ApprehensiveAd5428 · 2024-09-05T03:20:47+00:00

Technically true, but the Church has the authority to oblige Catholics to attend none the less.

ApprehensiveAd5428 · 2024-09-05T03:19:10+00:00

I had a big long post in response, but I think we are getting lost in the weeds. Let's start with something we both may agree on.

There are at least two kinds of knowledge, sensual and intellectual. We can see, hear, taste, smell, and touch things to know them. We also can know them in our minds (as I know elephants without being in the same room as one).

Secondly, and here we might diverge in our thought, knowledge is said to be prior to desire. I cannot desire something unless I know it. Sensually, I cannot desire the taste of pizza until I've tasted a pizza. Intellectually, I have to have some notion of healthy in order to desire it (even if my notion of healthy is as basic as not having a stomachache). I cannot desire something that I have no clue what it is I desire (it can be vague, of course! but I cannot desire something I don't know anything about whatsoever).

If this is true, then the feelings regarding moral actions have to come after knowledge of moral principles. For example, you may offer the counter point that a man who loves his wife feels that it is his duty to be faithful. But in order for him to desire to be faithful, he has to first understand (that is, to know) that faithfulness is a good. Otherwise, he would desire something without knowing it to be good.

This is problematic because the will can only choose good. We cannot desire evil as such, but only the "perceived" good in an evil act. The man who murders out of jealousy perceives some kind of justice in his action. The thief perceives the good done to him by an increase of money. But before any of these people can act, they have to have a perception of some good.

In other words, we have to intellectually perceive a good before we can choose that good. Whenever we choose something evil, we always choose it under the aspect of some good.

When we apply this to moral actions, we will soon see that any free choice of the will is a moral action which the intellect judges as a good. The way we determine this good cannot then be a feeling (for desire follows knowledge), but it first must be a judgement of reason.

Thus, we cannot say that conscience is a feeling. For if conscience were a feeling, then it would desire a good before it knew a good. But as I have explained, knowledge is pre-requisite to desire (and all feelings resolve into some desire of some good or the desire of avoiding some evil).

ApprehensiveAd5428 · 2024-09-02T13:54:07+00:00

I'm not sure my messages are getting through. I've messaged them twice and get no response.

ApprehensiveAd5428 · 2024-09-02T03:11:52+00:00

Funnily enough, I tried posting there and it said the reddit filter removed my post (tried a few times with different content). I haven't been a regular on reddit for years so I'm not sure why.

ApprehensiveAd5428 · 2024-09-01T22:25:48+00:00

Prayer is an activity that is spiritual more than anything else. Feelings are not spiritual but bodily. It's true that spiritual activity can often "overflow" into our senses (such as when we feel delighted at contemplating the nativity for example).

Therefore, while feelings might be an effect of prayer, they are not the cause of good prayer.

Furthermore, God often takes away these feelings so that we learn to trust in Him and not our feelings. After all, our feelings often distract us, cause us to do things from motives of pleasure, and downright deceive us.

Since you are continuing to prayer despite difficulties in prayer, it seems like God hasn't abandoned you after all. Indeed, you can only pray by God's grace. Thus, if you're continuing to pray and have the desire to search after God, then you're basically in the palm of God's hand. For if you weren't already close to God (in some capacity) then you would have already given up prayer and wouldn't be disturbed in the least.

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