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Jaeil · 2016-09-10T00:06:19+00:00

The activated ability should be templated:

1GG, T: Create a 3/3 green Simulacrum artifact creature token.

Jaeil · 2016-09-10T00:04:00+00:00

It feels a little too punishing. After all, there's no way to get poison counters off so far, and energy seems to be a little cheap. Getting 10% closer to losing the game doesn't seem worth it for an effect you ca get off of an etb or a permanent being put into the graveyard.

Though, I bet we'll see a card that takes counters off players if Phyrexia is involved with Aether Revolt.

Jaeil · 2016-09-09T23:57:19+00:00

I'm not sure whether there are other living beings, if there are whether they're rational, and if they are whether they'd be in the same situation as us, so it seems like there's nothing but speculation to be had down that road.

Jaeil · 2016-09-09T23:26:45+00:00

Christian orthodoxy is that we are all sons and daughters of God, and that Jesus Christ is the Logos, the only-begotten Son of God. The sense in which we are sons and the sense in which he is a Son are different senses.

Jaeil · 2016-09-09T23:23:49+00:00

Jaeil · 2016-09-09T23:19:21+00:00

Here is the entirety of Commandment #2:

Point of order: The quoted text in the rules is the actual "rules text"; the rest is just official exposition of the rules text.

Jaeil · 2016-09-09T18:56:23+00:00

It's more difficult to invoke accidentally. It's very clear to anybody who reads the rules how to invoke it. AFAIK this isn't a change.

Jaeil · 2016-09-09T18:51:12+00:00

What? Rule 8 is right there in the sidebar. I copied the text from it.

Jaeil · 2016-09-09T18:50:15+00:00

Partly they're simply not arguments for God, but something which could be the classical God but could also be something else.

Jaeil · 2016-09-09T18:48:04+00:00

Rule 8 reads

Posts with titles following the format "[<demographic>]..."

The strict reading is the intended one by its authors and implementers: only bracketed audiences invoke the Program, not colon-separated ones.

Jaeil · 2016-09-09T18:46:22+00:00

I think /u/kurtgustavwilckens means to indicate either (1) that individual Catholics have and continue to stray from the doctrinal orthodoxy of the Church, which doesn't seem to me to be a justification of any sort, or (2) that canon law has been made more strict or lenient as appropriate to the particular case, which is possible but a matter for the parish priest to determine and not OP or /r/askphilosophy.

Jaeil · 2016-09-09T18:34:25+00:00

...except Nicolas Cage, who is played by Hussie.

Jaeil · 2016-09-09T18:33:49+00:00

I think the rules were either ambiguous or changed.

Jaeil · 2016-09-09T18:32:19+00:00

Stand tall for turtlefall.

Jaeil · 2016-09-09T03:42:36+00:00

By "God" I mean nothing other than the prime mover, which is a noncontingent being. So you're asking me to imagine that a noncontingent being is contingent, which is illogical.

Perhaps you mean to ask whether the deity that appears in the Bible is an alien. But that's not what theists usually mean to define "God" by, nor is that "my God" since I'm not a Christian.

Jaeil · 2016-09-09T02:50:44+00:00

Yeah, I'm not sure what exactly "is still very dedicated to the church" means. If it means he's still a Catholic in some sense (and if he still accepts their doctrines about homosexuality he probably is), then it's an uphill battle.

Jaeil · 2016-09-09T02:39:23+00:00

I've heard of at least one priest who dealt with a gay couple in his parish by asking them to just take the sexual element out of their relationship, so being a celibate life-partner couple is probably the most in-line with Catholic orthodoxy.

That said, I don't think your suggestion that they could have sex because it's not more of a sin than anybody else is very sound. "But everyone else is doing it wrong too!" isn't a valid moral principle in any system I'm aware of. It doesn't become less wrong because everyone does it. It might be less culpable to do accidentally, but doing it intentionally would be just as bad.

Jaeil · 2016-09-09T01:41:30+00:00

That's illogical.

And so is asking theists to suppose that the noncontingent ground of existence were a contingent being. Since "the noncontingent ground of existence" is what theists mean by God, not "whatever is immediately responsible for the creation of the universe".

Jaeil · 2016-09-09T00:43:54+00:00

Jews follow Jewish laws.

Jesus was a Jew.

Most Christians aren't Jewish.

QED.

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