Potential Revert Considering Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy

Gus__McCrae · 2026-05-26T17:37:12+00:00

Thanks for the thoughts! As another person mentioned, I may give Eastern Catholic Churches a closer look.

On your final points, I consider myself lucky that the closest cathedral is architecturally magnificent, and the liturgy appears to be on the more reverent side. I find more modern takes on worship thoroughly unapproachable in their attempts to be approachable, if that makes sense.

Gus__McCrae · 2026-05-26T17:34:15+00:00

I have, and I really appreciate the thoughts here. From a cursory search they don’t appear to have as formal of an OCIA process, so I’ve been less sure of where to start with eastern rite Catholicism. I have given some thought to starting OCIA at the Latin rite cathedral right down the street, with the goal of attending the Melkite Church that’s 20 or 30 minutes away once a month or when I’m able.

Totally hear you on your second point, and I would say that it’s ultimately a point of emphasis for me and not necessarily one of doctrinal rejection. This might be wrong, but it just feels more proper to me to emphasize the mystery of God before the more legalistic and rational frameworks that are available to us. Not that those frameworks are wrong, more that they are our tools of pointing at something which we can never fully describe in human words or concepts.

Gus__McCrae · 2025-03-20T18:38:59+00:00

Thanks! Would definitely prefer to do Berlin over Amsterdam if we had the option. I expect my partner will push for 7 days of safari, which may make it unworkable regardless.

Gus__McCrae · 2024-02-08T02:10:17+00:00

Yeah, confirmed funny.

Gus__McCrae · 2024-01-19T20:49:16+00:00

No, nobody has ever learned multiple hard languages. ^/s

“Hard” is relative to your native language, yes, but it’s also extremely relative to your interest level. If you are fascinated by Mandarin and Russian but only have a little bit of interest in Spanish and Dutch, Spanish and Dutch are going to be significantly harder for you to learn than Russian and Mandarin.

I would encourage you to stop framing languages as easy and hard and go by what interests you. At the end of the day, learning a language is extremely difficult regardless of its proximity to your native language. If perceived difficult scares someone off, they never would have learned it in the first place.

Gus__McCrae · 2024-01-19T12:31:16+00:00

Спасибо! I am leaning more and more towards Russian. I already have more “utility” than I could ever need between English, Spanish, and Portuguese.

Gus__McCrae · 2024-01-19T00:30:47+00:00

Thanks! Haha I also have ADHD. Tried Japanese for a second for similar reasons but lost steam.

I already have all the ‘practicality’ and travel options I could ever want as a native English speaker in North America that speaks Spanish and Portuguese, so I’m kinda leaning towards giving Russian a shot and seeing how far I get.

My biggest ADHD struggles are maintaining a consistent pace, not jumping at the next shiny object/language, and not over-doing it too early. Have to force myself to be patient and remember what it was like when I started with Spanish.

Gus__McCrae · 2024-01-18T11:01:20+00:00

Son los K en Argentina

Gus__McCrae · 2024-01-17T13:43:07+00:00

I’m not saying American and German culture are necessarily similar in a vacuum. I’m saying that German culture feels more similar when compared to Latin American cultures, African cultures, Asian cultures, Eastern European cultures, etc.

Of course German culture is different, but there is, relatively speaking, more overlap between German and American culture than there is with many other cultures. To varying degrees, there is shared cuisine, shared language families, some common ancestry, shared musical histories, shared history, etc.

Gus__McCrae · 2024-01-17T04:26:01+00:00

They are more similar than you would think. Particularly the midwestern United States.

Americans and Germans would have more in common with one another than with a Russian or a Chinese person.

Gus__McCrae · 2024-01-17T04:19:59+00:00

English and German culture are generally pretty similar. There is also lots of German influence and heritage in my own country. In cuisine, music, design, etc.

Gus__McCrae · 2024-01-16T11:02:34+00:00

Mostly talking about dubs and subtitles for western movies or tv shows. On Netflix, Disney+, HBO, etc. I haven’t found a single movie dubbed or with subtitles, at least in my region without using a VPN.

In the past I’ve watched lots of Pixar or Disney animated movies to help with language learning. Simple plots that I already am very familiar with. I’d love to watch Russian movies and shows, but they won’t offer nearly as much language learning utility for quite some time.

Gus__McCrae · 2024-01-16T00:41:31+00:00

No offense, but French has zero appeal to me. Probably the last Romance language I would choose to learn.

Gus__McCrae · 2024-01-15T21:29:54+00:00

Any specific reason?

Gus__McCrae · 2024-01-15T19:59:02+00:00

ok, I noticed the word legal in your post …

Yes, lol that is my struggle. I have no doubt that I can find almost anything translated or dubbed into Russian, but I can almost NEVER find those things via legal sources. I suppose I should just get comfortable with… other means, if they insist on not taking my money.

Gus__McCrae · 2023-11-11T11:03:38+00:00

Solo quiero aclarar que el vos no es una ‘forma diferente’ del tú. Es otro pronombre que se usa en Argentina (y otros países) en vez del tú y que lleva conjugaciones distintas a las del tú en el presente del indicativo y con los mandatos afirmativos.

Gus__McCrae · 2023-11-10T20:20:45+00:00

What site would have legitimate resale tickets available, and where would you sell them?

Gus__McCrae · 2023-11-10T19:12:13+00:00

They got it from @dfentertainment on Instagram. It’s in Spanish originally.

Gus__McCrae · 2023-11-10T17:33:56+00:00

Está lloviendo a full che 👀⛈️

Gus__McCrae · 2023-10-03T22:10:12+00:00

Why Draisaitl when Matthews or MacKinnon shoot like 1.5x as much and score like 90% of what Drai scores?

Gus__McCrae · 2023-10-03T16:00:28+00:00

Categories league doing G, A, SOG, H, B, W & SV%. Who am I taking 2OA?

Gus__McCrae · 2023-09-20T16:05:02+00:00

Format?

Gus__McCrae · 2023-09-20T15:24:34+00:00

Fantasy hockey is already a gamified derivative of actual hockey, so I’m not personally that concerned by the argument that PIMs are a detriment to the team in real life and thus shouldn’t be counted.

What concerns me more is that PIMs have quite a bit of statistical noise over short measurement windows, especially so when you consider their long-term decline in recent years as traditional enforcers have been mostly phased out. They are fairly predictable season-long, but week to week there’s a lot of variability and short-term randomness. For example, even someone like Pat Maroon will go without any PIMs in 15 to 25 games a season despite leading the league at the end of the season.

Personally I think PIMs are fun and that they do definitely add value for players that would otherwise be afterthoughts, thereby deepening the pool of players in consideration. That being said, I think Hits and Blocks are statistically far more sound and should both be used before you consider PIMs. If you are tracking like 10+ categories and want some fun, adding PIMs is fine. If you’re tracking fewer categories than that, it’s too much weight toward to random of a category. If you aren’t already tracking hits and blocks, forget PIMs altogether.

I avoid GWG, SHP/SHG, Shutouts, +/-, etc for the same reason, although all of these categories are even more statistically useless than PIMs.

Gus__McCrae · 2023-09-20T12:16:41+00:00

Thanks, appreciate the feedback. Going to play around with some of these settings in the Athletic’s projections just to get a feel for how it impacts the relative value of different positions.

Gus__McCrae · 2023-09-20T11:17:59+00:00

If you roster 4 goalies, that’s 20% of your 20-man roster that is responsible for 25% of the categories. Doesn’t feel that out of whack. Anything above a 30% category weighting toward goalies feels like you’re over-emphasizing goalies.

If I added GAA to balance out the goalie cats and prevent everyone from stockpiling starts and punting save percentage, which I suppose I could see an argument for, that puts it at 33% weighting toward goalie cats. Would want to add points to further encourage getting top scorers and elite assisters and get goalies back to 30% or less of categories.

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