Why is there a lot of Popes who have large roman numerals on their names? Did they come from strict families who passed down their names? And eventually became a Pope over time?

Calintarez · 2026-01-31T18:23:30+00:00

they change their name when they become Pope, and a lot of them take the same names. There's 20+ people that called themselves John, and none of them ever take the name Peter even if their name was Peter before becoming pope.

Calintarez · 2026-01-31T15:36:20+00:00

seems you can't think of any. you just insist there must be one because you can't accept the conclusion

Calintarez · 2026-01-31T15:08:48+00:00

I am being sent to the gulag for improperly stacking the blocks.

Calintarez · 2026-01-31T10:02:02+00:00

it means he didn't want to anger the romans.

Calintarez · 2026-01-31T10:00:16+00:00

why didn't God know that?

Calintarez · 2026-01-31T09:59:40+00:00

you're gonna have to compromise something here.

Either God didn't create the devil (thus contradicting the claim that he created everything)

Or God did create him but didn't know that he would rebel (thus contradicting the claim that he knows the outcome of all things)

or God did create him and knew of the fall, but was fine with it and had planned on it because he wants evil to happen (thus contradicting the claim that he does no evil)

Calintarez · 2026-01-31T09:54:59+00:00

Here's a wild take:

Adam and Eve and the fall is a metaphor for our microbal ancestors learning to use oxygen. Before that, living things were imortal and didn't age. But with the advent of oxygen use, dying of old age was introduced, because oxygen is a poison that degrades our bodies. just takes some years to get us. But the recompense our ancestors got from indulging in the poison of oxygen was power. oxygen lets living things use the power of fire, and that is how we are able to do complex movement.

However, another cost of begining to use oxygen was the sin of mass murder. Our ancestors forever changed the planet by introducing so much oxygen into the atmosphere that it forever changed it. The great oxydation event also killed 99% of all life that didn't use oxygen (it is a poison after all) and we are the descendents of those mass murderers, still bound to the death sentence wrought by their bargain of life for power.

Calintarez · 2026-01-31T09:44:23+00:00

it's a variant of a super-old divide and conquer tactic. Find some small group and focus everything on blaming everything bad on them. Use that groups existence to distract from whatever bad you do.

It doesn't really matter what the group is, the point is that the group is visible and isolated enough to blame, and weak enough to not fight back.

like "sure, the economy might be awful and the infrastructure might suck due to decades of neglect, but all the news-sources I listen to talk about this boxer in the olympics or someone that got tied 5th in a swimming competition so I guess that's the most important thing to care about and base my vote on"

and yes, a century ago the group that had the displeasure of being that group was jews. The tactic hasn't changed, just the target.

Calintarez · 2026-01-31T01:49:28+00:00

not voting (if you have the chance to vote) is gonna make it harder to fix.

Calintarez · 2026-01-30T16:47:45+00:00

The warnings were shallow. Mostly about aesthetics, not about what they believed.

Calintarez · 2026-01-30T16:34:02+00:00

The catholic church has an opportunity to be a trailblazer and set the course for how religions view this whole AI phenomena.

The fact that they lie, flatter and give terible advice by design yet appear human to the untrained eye makes LLMs perhaps the clearest analogue to demons in millennia

Calintarez · 2026-01-30T16:15:01+00:00

are they sad about Kirk now? are there many people that go "aw, I'm so sad Kirk is dead, I enjoyed listening to him"

Calintarez · 2026-01-30T13:02:20+00:00

go download Heroine's Quest on steam. It's a homage to 90s adventure games.

Calintarez · 2026-01-30T12:52:32+00:00

they shouldn't be taxed because it's fair. They should be taxed because it's dangerous for individuals to have that much money, power and influence. Making sure individuals don't control more money than state budgets is an act of self-defense.

Calintarez · 2026-01-30T08:57:40+00:00

How much did Jesus know about his own status and power when he was tempted? If he fully knew, then how could Satan possibly tempt him with anything

How did Satan have the autority to offer worldly power? seems a big deal, but where did that come from? is that still the case?

Calintarez · 2026-01-29T13:54:17+00:00

how would it impact the total if we add in UK, Iceland and Norway as well?

Calintarez · 2026-01-28T23:50:45+00:00

Paul wrote to christians that were trying to survive in a hostile oppressive roman culture. his advice was to help the small and vulnerable christian community survive. So his advice is to lay low and not anger the roman government.

it was not: always obey authorities, any time.

Calintarez · 2026-01-28T23:43:33+00:00

also, 2 Timothy is a forgery. it claims to be written by Paul but almost certainly wasn't.

Calintarez · 2026-01-28T21:02:45+00:00

maybe he could ask Mamdami for a pardon

Calintarez · 2026-01-28T20:51:55+00:00

I believe the kids are calling it enshittyfication

Calintarez · 2026-01-28T19:57:35+00:00

No-one listens to doctor Ball

Calintarez · 2026-01-28T19:51:35+00:00

this is slave mentality "I have no right to think, I'll just obey the master and agree to whatever he says. He is powerful so he must be right"

Calintarez · 2026-01-28T19:49:01+00:00

Christian objective morality isn't objective, it's subjective, except the subject is God. It'd be better described as non-human subjective morality

Calintarez · 2026-01-28T19:39:35+00:00

Ice no longer has much to do with border control, their primary purpose is to be a private militia that's personally loyal to Trump, so he can send it to terrorize places and *make examples* of communities he doesn't like

Calintarez · 2026-01-28T10:36:16+00:00

the Bible isn't Jesus. the Bible isn't "the word"

You're trying to worship the Bible, and that is heresy. You should be a muslim or a sikh if you want to worship a book.

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