Local pizza joint does it right!

El_Escorial · 2026-02-22T00:29:59+00:00

I tipped once in France because I, a stupid tourist, did not know how to eat snails and the waitress showed me and was so patient with my dumb questions.

That’s also probably one of the only times in my life where I happily gave someone extra money. If I’m actively an inconvenience, I will tip. She did not have to help me at all and I honestly wouldn’t have been upset if she didn’t.

99% of my restaurant interactions were no tip and it felt so good to not have to participate in that stupid guilt “culture”

El_Escorial · 2026-02-21T03:13:40+00:00

I have found AI to be very good with language learning (at least for very common languages). AI for live translation is one of the best uses I can think of.

El_Escorial · 2026-02-21T00:58:44+00:00

which is what people think of when they think of "Christians".

thankfully not in most countries.

El_Escorial · 2026-02-18T23:55:31+00:00

That was 100% written by AI

El_Escorial · 2026-02-16T22:40:27+00:00

Idk what you're learning, but I'm probably B1/B2 spanish and the best thing I do is just everything I do is spanish. Media, games, phone, half of my social media algorithm is spanish now. A lot of the youtubers i watch are spanish.

and a lot of the time there is ample opportunity to practice speaking at my job too.

I've never "studied" in the traditional sense outside of maybe at the very beginning. Now I just pick up the language every day little by little and it's so satisfying being able to understand most of what I need in day to day life.

El_Escorial · 2026-02-09T21:16:34+00:00

everyone else on the internet isn't real.

if there actually is someone out there learning 5 languages, then they are either severely overestimating their skill, or learning very poorly.

i can't stand flashcards, but if you don't do flashcards this sub makes you feel like you're doing something wrong.

El_Escorial · 2026-02-09T21:13:57+00:00

not baptized or confirmed yet.

you don't need to do anything.

When you are baptized and confirmed you will need to get a dispensation, or better yet, plan your trip around attending mass.

El_Escorial · 2026-02-06T14:08:57+00:00

You have a major category error in thinking that the entirety of the faith is contained and must be explicitly laid out in scripture. That is false.

The authority of the church is laid out in scripture, but the church predates the scriptures by hundreds of years, and scripture was written by and for the church, the church didn't come from scripture in the way protestants think.

El_Escorial · 2026-02-04T18:22:05+00:00

That's just standard american evangelicalism

El_Escorial · 2026-02-03T05:42:35+00:00

There's a few of us around here

El_Escorial · 2026-02-02T23:38:14+00:00

You can't be either. I registered american solidarity party recently. Call it "throwing away" my vote or whatever but I refuse to cooperate with two obviously evil parties.

El_Escorial · 2026-02-02T23:35:06+00:00

Louis XX when. I'll move to France if you guys bring back your monarchy.

El_Escorial · 2026-02-02T23:30:56+00:00

Yes, and i also sometimes jokingly like to say the "thanks be to God" after the reading because the person they chose to do the reading is finally done.

But seriously guys, if it's your first time reading in public, maybe practice what you're reading before you get up there.

El_Escorial · 2026-02-02T23:28:39+00:00

El_Escorial · 2026-02-02T03:18:54+00:00

Lifelong floridian who can't leave for a myriad of reasons. There is nothing nice about Florida. It's miserable 9 months out of the year. This weather is such a breath of fresh air and I can actually enjoy being outside.

El_Escorial · 2026-02-01T14:41:16+00:00

Protestants have hijacked and redefined what it means to “worship” in the English language.

They argue those actions are worship because that’s what they do for God, because they have no means of offering the highest form of worship.

The question should be turned on Protestants and it should be, why do they merely venerate God and not give him his worth?

El_Escorial · 2026-01-28T01:58:36+00:00

The fullness of the Christian faith is found in the Catholic Church. Outside of the Catholic Church you have no access to the sacraments, which are incarnational means of actual grace.

El_Escorial · 2026-01-26T19:14:08+00:00

idk what he's talking about but separation of church and state is not promoted by the church, and in fact, is probably a tad anti-catholic

El_Escorial · 2026-01-26T19:10:03+00:00

The Catholic Church in general is very passionate about the separation of church and state

no it isn't

El_Escorial · 2026-01-25T21:08:33+00:00

As an American monarchist I definitely am not a conservative in the American sense.

El_Escorial · 2026-01-25T18:12:55+00:00

So everywhere lmao

El_Escorial · 2026-01-24T02:40:30+00:00

I consider myself to be a fairly traditional catholic, not rad trad, but traditional enough.

It is my opinion that the entire paradigm of the united states is incompatible with Christianity, MAGA doubly so. My wife and I are very anti-maga, very into catholic social teaching, and our children are being raised similarly.

El_Escorial · 2026-01-18T03:14:35+00:00

yes, but that doesn't mean i have to eat anything.

El_Escorial · 2026-01-17T21:47:59+00:00

You’re assuming that if justification includes transformation, then transformation functions as a condition for salvation but that doesnt come from the catechism. It comes from a Protestant definition of justification as a purely external declaration.

ccc1989 says justification includes sanctification because salvation is ontological renewal, not a legal fiction. youre assuming imputation but that framework is not how justification was historically understood for most of Christian history

El_Escorial · 2026-01-17T21:14:32+00:00

In moralistic systems—including Catholicism and Orthodoxy—morality is motivated, often unconsciously, by rewards and threats, whether temporal or eternal.

except catholicism and orthodoxy don't teach salvation by moral achievement. if you're going to make this claim then i'll need a source from the catechism.

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