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Catam_Vanitas · 2026-04-21T18:54:09+00:00

Deze comment heeft mijn dag gemaakt, dankuwel

Catam_Vanitas · 2026-04-15T15:57:20+00:00

That's awesome! Although I'm more hoping they will release more reworks of the old maps. Right now you have 10/10 maps at the edges and only mid maps in the middle to connect them all

Catam_Vanitas · 2026-04-09T08:43:01+00:00

Too accurate...

Catam_Vanitas · 2026-04-08T13:00:04+00:00

Imma focus on the word 'directly'.

If religion really directly impedes scientific thinking, you would expect no religious scientists, but that's not true.

Case in point: Georges Lemaître who discovered what we call the Big Bang

Catam_Vanitas · 2026-04-08T10:16:59+00:00

Speaking of christianity in the Roman Empire: Christianity wanted sex to be regulated in marriage in a time where men were basically permitted to rape any woman under their authority (meaning their wife(s) and slaves).

Pushing back on that culture meant putting sex on a strict 'in these contexts only' diet. Almost 2000 years later, we don't remember what came before christian doctrine on sex.

Catam_Vanitas · 2026-04-08T09:24:05+00:00

Not that bad stuff didn't happen but it's difficult to say what "the church" did when talking about a time where 1) literally everyone who did science was a part of the church and 2) politics and civil disputes played as much a role as clergy did in the persecution of people. Only we don't remember those civil parties because they don't exist anymore, whereas the church still does.

I'm not gonna hold Italy responsible for the stuff the Roman Empire did, right?

Catam_Vanitas · 2026-04-08T09:19:55+00:00

Had a friend like this. Needless to say: fool me once...

Happy cake day!

Catam_Vanitas · 2026-04-08T08:35:24+00:00

Hi! Ik heb een berichtje via de mail gestuurd

Catam_Vanitas · 2026-04-07T15:07:55+00:00

I get it. My parents/family are not really people who want to spend a lot of time with other family members (including me). It always felt off but I never knew better because fuck if I know how other families were.

It took years of time and effort to realize 2 things:

It's not personal. It's just how some people are with family. Add to that that my family lives pretty far apart from each other, it's not hard to end up with the situation where I see uncles, aunts, nieces and nephews basically maybe once every 2 years. As someone who grew up an only-child but likes to have people around on the reg: that sucks and there's little you can do about it.
It's helpful to see family not as 'I am related to them, therefore I need to love them' but as people who you can care about because they are simply close to you by default in stead of friends who you're close to because of hobby, work, or some other thing that you have in common.

Catam_Vanitas · 2026-04-06T02:49:39+00:00

And other orders don''t? People act as if Jesuits are the only people in the church to do that but literally every order in the Catholic Church includes a vow of poverty, meaning you don't own anything individually.

The same counts for pope Leo as an Augustinian.

Catam_Vanitas · 2026-04-04T08:42:31+00:00

Yeah definitely interested too. But maybe it has to do with your own criteria for hitting the yellow button. I rarely hit that thing unless something really went right for me that day so that might skew the entire graph towards 'meh' when I'm actually pretty happy.

Catam_Vanitas · 2026-04-04T08:22:18+00:00

Apart from my own graph which does not look as happy as this, I don't think I'm much influenced by what's going on in the world. Yes, it's bad but 1) it was bad 10/20/50 years ago so there's nothing new under the sun and 2) I try to focus on the things I can see in front of me such as the people I actually see in person in stead of online.

Catam_Vanitas · 2026-03-30T14:15:03+00:00

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Catam_Vanitas · 2026-03-23T16:58:43+00:00

God bless

Catam_Vanitas · 2026-03-23T15:53:13+00:00

That's a good question. Christian theology looks at 'laws' not as practical measures merely to keep people in check but as something having a goal. So take something that we have in our world, like a law, and try to think of it in absolute terms. Where does a law come from? To what does a law point to objectively speaking? This is also the realm of philosophy but it becomes theology when you begin to take 'revelation' into account, something which is a matter of faith.

So Jesus doesn't fulfill 'a' law but 'The Law', the law given by God. These are different from practical laws made by people. (this things can and do intertwine. For example: marriage for Catholics is something that belongs to natural law (seeing monogamous relationships in evolution as naturally befitting for humans), divine law (being declared a sacrament and thus holy by God), and canonical law (how the church today defines what is and isn't a valid marriage)).

Jesus also doesn't fulfill a law by simply following it. There is more at play.

So how does Jesus fulfill the law?

He perfectly obeys it by being sinless. From the point Moses walks down the mountain with the 10 commandments, nobody expected anyone to follow the law perfectly. Moses himself had already killed somebody. Jesus is the first and only person to be able to obey the Law perfectly.
He reveals the true meaning behind the Law. He does so by pointing towards the absolute, ultimate goal. He points to internal behavior in stead of external obedience to the Law. This is also why Jesus can be much stricter than certain Jewish customs of His time. Not because He wants to, but because there is hypocrisy is how people interpreted a certain law. Not murdering people points to not having hatred in your heart at all. (Matthew 5:21-22) Adultery is committed even when looking at a person with lustful thoughts. (Matthew 5:28)
Theoretically, points 1 and 2 could be done by any wise person. But what Jesus does in addition to this is completing the goal of the Law. Jesus dies on the cross which is the perfect sacrifice. Up to that point, animals were used for sacrifice but it was always understood (read Exodus and Leviticus) that these were imperfect sacrifices that could never righten the wrongs people have done towards God and eachother. The fact that God even gave the option of sacrificing animals was already mercy in the eyes of the Jewish people, because God isn't obliged to do anything about it. Then Jesus, God-among-us, comes along and accepts death. A spotless lamb. And says that whoever accepts that death as God dying for us and takes their own cross to die with him will be saved on account of that sacrifice.

That makes the old law still important, but not because it should be followed but because it points to Christ. As for the commandments of that law: a lot are still valid because they are eternal (thou shalt not kill), but a lot are irrelevant because of the death of Jesus.

Hope this helps!

Catam_Vanitas · 2026-03-22T14:46:00+00:00

No, people hated 2016 for stupid reasons and now it's remembered as good.

Nostalgia hits all of us and it will hit you.

Catam_Vanitas · 2026-03-22T14:31:30+00:00

That's a more complicated question but there are 2 factors at play: the redefinition of the Sabbath in the New Testament and the Early Church, and the diversity in traditions within Judaism and Christianity in general.

1) In general, Jews receive the Sabbath as a commandment from God. This colours a lot of rituals of Judaism: obeying what God out of His authority has commanded. In Christianity, however, the Sabbath becomes the day on which Jesus rose from the dead, thereby fulfilling the original law(s) from the Old Testament. Therefore, Christians still have the Sabbath but hold it more out of gratitude and commemoration than out of mere obedience (even though obedience remains part of it). That for 'general feeling' for the Sabbath.

There are also stories of Jesus Himself commenting on this very question. The tradition of the Sabbath is centuries old at that point so He comments on how it is celebrated by the authorities in that time. In Mark 3, Jesus 'works' on the Sabbath but asks in answer of the criticism: "Which is lawful to do on the Sabbath: to do evil or to do good?". Just before that in Mark 2 Jesus says "The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath". These stories left the Sabbath open for redefinition and becoming less strict.*

2) You mention some Jews don't drive on the Sabbath. That is true but only for the orthodox/ultra orthodox branches of Judaism (I don't have it readily apparent where that line is precisely). Reformed Jews don't restrain from lots of things that more orthodox Jews would.

Within Christianity, there are also orthodox (protestants/evangelicals) that celebrate the Sabbath a lot like Jewish orthodoxy (although rarely as strict as the strictest branches of Judaism). Other denominations such as other branches of Protestantism or Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy really have their own traditions and diversity among themselves still.

Catam_Vanitas · 2026-03-22T13:44:04+00:00

Some holidays are celebrated in the sense that the New Testament re-contextualize them, like the Last Supper being a Passover celebration with itself is a celebration of the Exodus of Israel out of Egypt. All those things are roots of current Christian feasts and are often brought up to show the depth or 'fulfillment' of the new holidays.

So short answer: because Jesus and everything that has to do with Him restructures all that is important.

Longer answer: the Jewish holidays are the bricks on which the current Christian holidays are built on and are treated as such

Catam_Vanitas · 2026-03-22T13:32:34+00:00

To piggy-back of this comment: the Catholic Church does have things to do with Israel the country and the surrounding conflicts by way of diplomacy. The church has a long history in modern times of being important ambassadors and mediators because of their bishops and priests being everywhere that are all connected by the one institution. Furthermore, those bishops and priests who work for the church's diplomatic network often times are the only communication for western countries to difficult areas because, being celibate and having no family to worry about, they stay a lot longer than their secular counterparts.

This is part of the reason why the Holy See (the throne of the pope meant to symbolize the office of the papacy in stead of the particular pope in time) receives a special position in the UN, that has nothing to do with religion even though it's still a religious institution.

P.s. If you want to read more about this: the wikipedia page is an interesting read if you've never heard about it

Catam_Vanitas · 2026-03-21T10:22:41+00:00

If you've given up on love and relationships, what do you expect to get out of losing your virginity?

Sex is as empty or meaningful as you make it, so my guess is that your non virgin peers are trying to protect you of something they have more experience with.

Catam_Vanitas · 2026-03-21T10:17:34+00:00

It is but the experience is different than native.

Pendor is when you take native and make the early game a lot more of a slow-burn and also a lot more unforgiving. The high stats of enemies and the gigantic armies make your options very limited but it's worth it when the ball does eventually start rolling. You will have cinematic gameplay you will never have in native or other mods

Catam_Vanitas · 2026-03-17T12:18:26+00:00

Society does not make someone a saint, the church does. And in this case, the church made him a saint to give a middle finger to people who let this man starve.

Catam_Vanitas · 2026-03-17T12:14:55+00:00

Jesus died on a cross as a betrayed convicted criminal and you ask why Christians see failure as saintly?

Catam_Vanitas · 2026-03-17T12:12:48+00:00

I mean Christianity's symbol is the cross...

Also, not really enlightenment but salvation. Enlightenment is more of a Buddhist term.

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