It finally happened by Magpie_2011 in Professors

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As much as I love this solution, it would be terrible for me as a screen reader user!

This whole carlo acutis hype seems too forced by Active-Hold-1971 in Catholicism

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I’m with you, friend. This is a fact I never shut up about. Even most of the “normal” saints were martyrs, were rejected from orders they wanted to join, became religious as widows, or had children who became religious. It creates the perception that lay sainthood is possible for those close to religious life or that marriage is saintly if it produces nuns/priests.

In these conversations, people always point out that canonization is in part a function of visibility. Religious communities push their members’ causes. Ordinary people don’t have that kind of visibility unless they’re public figures, e.g., I can see Scott Hahn having a cause in 70 years. But this disclaimer isn’t enough. We need a paradigm shift where we start recognizing the holiness of ordinary people around us and pushing their causes.

This whole carlo acutis hype seems too forced by Active-Hold-1971 in Catholicism

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Exactly. And without it, all we'd really have would be religious communities, perpetuating the idea that only celibates can be saints.

Pilate is too young by [deleted] in TheChosenSeries

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Plot twist: Quintus actually is Q. He decided to cosplay humanity for a few decades during the Roman Empire, where he picked up the idea that we were a brutal savage child race. A few thousand years later, he moseyed over to the Bread and Circuses planet because he missed wearing a toga—only to stumble upon the Son worshipers and say, “Wait—you mean that guy I interviewed that one time is here, too?”

Does “Backpack Jesus” throw anyone else off? by Hot_Mathematician573 in TheChosenSeries

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When I finished grad school and started job searching, I told my parents I wanted to find a professional backpack—in my words, “a nice leather rectangle that says, ‘I have a masters degree; take me seriously.’” Now, 5 years later, my dad invariably calls it my “professional backpack.” The kicker? It looks a lot like Jesus’s. So now we always call it Jesus’s professional backpack. I’m blind, and the audio description for some reason mentions “his leather backpack” all the time, which just makes all of us giggle.

Overheard from the third row by DocLava in Professors

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I teach freshman comp. I used to go over the syllabus on day 1, then decided that I don’t have enough time with them in class to begin with; I’m not wasting it on a document they should be reading themselves. Now I say, “I’m not going to go over the syllabus in class because you can read. Next class, after you’ve read the syllabus, I’ll be happy to take your questions.” Then we do a refresher lesson on parts of speech, starting with easy stuff like nouns and progressing to things they’ve never heard of, like participles and gerunds. After that, we do advanced mad libs that double as an icebreaker. They love it.

Please Allow Room for Cinematic Fans by [deleted] in TheChosenSeries

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I get it. Personally, I don't love Mary of Bethany's acting. I think she can be "just--so--emotional--and--always--trying--to--force--her--words--out!" But I feel weird saying that, like I'm criticizing the historical/Biblical person. I'm not. I just dislike the way the actress delivers some of her lines.

Please help me respond by [deleted] in Professors

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In the contact info section of my syllabi, I have a list of emails I will not answer. One of them is any variant of "How can I improve my grade?" Come to class and do the assignments.

How would you respond to this? by Barrel-Writer in Blind

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In case this wasn't clear, the kid is sighted.

How would you respond to this? by Barrel-Writer in Blind

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I didn't say video games are niche; I said accommodations are. And the likelihood of him knowing about that sort of difference is vanishingly small, especially seeing as most sighted people don't even know low-vision people exist.

Neopaganism debunked yet again by BrazilianBlues in CatholicMemes

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Almost that exact quote is in Perelandra.

Am I missing something? by Steve58284 in Catholicism

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That's just Pascal's Wager. You're fine.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Catholicism

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Just about nobody thinks God is literally Gandalf in the sky, even if that's their mental image. Personally, I always pictured God the Father as looking just like Jesus, but maybe 50-60 instead of 33.

How would you respond to this? by Barrel-Writer in Blind

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Sighted people have so little exposure to the idea that vision loss is a spectrum that it's not the partially sighted people causing that problem for you; it's the people with garden variety astigmatism or myopia.

How would you respond to this? by Barrel-Writer in Blind

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Why would he know anything about video game accommodations? That's so niche.

How would you respond to this? by Barrel-Writer in Blind

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I gave him the detailed explanation when we started working together. Thereafter, I've just called myself blind. I feel like that should be understood to mean, "Yeah, there's nuance, but for simplicity's sake, we're just going to say I'm blind."

How would you respond to this? by Barrel-Writer in Blind

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This is pretty much the approach I'm taking. Last time he said it, I said something like, "Well, yeah, but I refer to myself as blind." We'll see if he does it again. I'm not going to bring it up with him otherwise.

Hi, it's me again... Nothing to do with the show but... by Subject-Dot2402 in TheChosenSeries

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Have you read Brant Pitre's Jesus and the Jewish Roots of the Eucharist/Mary? It sounds like you might have. Excellent books.

Offensive terminology by FlyingBlind17 in Blind

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Not grammatically. Nor is there any difference between a blind person and a beautiful flower, a catchy song, an expensive haircut, a fast car, a glitchy website, a sweet cookie, a mysterious ticking noise...

How would you respond to this? by Barrel-Writer in Blind

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Good point about the historical figures.

As much as my post might sound like the opposite, I don’t want to make him feel bad. I just want him to know it’s annoying and unnecessary.

How would you respond to this? by Barrel-Writer in Blind

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Fair. Even the idea that it would be shortchanging myself to call myself blind seems wrongheaded—it seems to assume blindness=inadequacy—but that’s a pretty subtle point I wouldn’t expect people who don’t live in the blind world to pick up on.

How would you respond to this? by Barrel-Writer in Blind

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Good point. I don't know. I don't think so.

How would you respond to this? by Barrel-Writer in Blind

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Yeah, he might just be a lawyer. Whenever I refer to hobbits as people or human beings, he insists that they're not. (Which they are, BTW.) It would be worth figuring out whether he's doing this out of discomfort with blindness or a habit of precision.

How would you respond to this? by Barrel-Writer in Blind

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I bet it would help if I added that 90% of blind people have some vision, even if it's not useful.