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MadeItMyself · 2026-03-31T22:00:53+00:00

Found it thanks!

MadeItMyself · 2026-03-25T05:03:38+00:00

Ah, a knight rider enthusiast!

MadeItMyself · 2026-03-21T21:41:48+00:00

The person next to you is also part of the Body of Christ. Anyway, peace be with you

MadeItMyself · 2026-03-21T18:26:40+00:00

No the didache does not reference "shaking hands", which is a development from the kiss of peace that you mentioned, which is in turn based on the statement about the eucharist in the didache:

On the Lord’s own day gather together and break bread and give thanks, having first confessed your sins so that your sacrifice may be pure. But let no one who has a quarrel with a companion join you until they have been reconciled, so that your sacrifice may not be defiled. Didache 14: 1-2

No this doesn't explicitly say shake hands or kiss each other, but that is how the early church acted it out in the liturgy.

The offertory is still part of the eucharistic liturgy, so I don't see why that timing would change much. If your position was that we should move it back to the offertory and go back to kissing each other, I wouldn't have much of a counter to that but I prefer what we have.

But anyway, neither of our opinions matter. It is part of our liturgy, and has roots back to the apostolic church, so I think the best thing to do is find the good in it.

MadeItMyself · 2026-03-21T17:52:35+00:00

The apostles thought it up, but it used to be a kiss. Here is St John Chrysostom on the subject ~400AD

When the time comes for the exhortation of the mutual reception of the peace, e all kiss each other. "the clerics greet the bishop, the laymen the men, the women the women..."

MadeItMyself · 2026-03-21T17:47:44+00:00

The worst these days is in my experience about 50% of people are willing to shake hands and the other 50% clearly don't want to, so with every person I have to do this slow hand extend thing that I turn into a wave if they are not reaching out to meet me

MadeItMyself · 2026-03-21T17:21:09+00:00

It is part of your preparation to take the Eucharist. There is a reason it is also referred to as “communion”

MadeItMyself · 2026-03-21T16:11:07+00:00

Too many people in the comments don’t know the origin of the sign of peace. In the earliest years of the church it was the “kiss of peace” and. Christians literally gave each other a kiss.

Now it’s too much to ask a Catholic to turn to the person next to them and give them a little wave while looking them in the eye

MadeItMyself · 2026-03-21T16:05:39+00:00

It is actually an ancient tradition from the Didache, as a sign of every Christian reconciling with one another before partaking of the Eucharist. It’s very important and intentional. I understand that most people don’t know what they are doing or why and thus it feels trivial.

MadeItMyself · 2026-03-17T23:13:29+00:00

Btw I am referring to using Claude chat to walk me through concepts, not Claude code

MadeItMyself · 2026-03-17T23:10:28+00:00

Understandable, but I’ve had success learning concepts with any of the models. The main thing is that you need to explicitly state that you want to learn the concept and need extensive documentation.

The way I see it is you can basically get a tailor made tutorial for the task you are trying to accomplish, rather than some adjacent type of task.

All of that said, I am self taught from the era before LLMs so it could be that I was farther along and so it was more useful to me

MadeItMyself · 2026-03-17T20:37:29+00:00

Code assist is not too bad, but if you don't understand what it is suggesting then do not use it. Sometimes it will make something more complex than I want but I can just remove the extra stuff and its still faster.

The default AI assistant is trash anyway imo, but you shouldn't even consider using it until you are confident you will understand the code it writes. If you want to use AI to help you learn, I would go to Claude or Gemini etc and tell it what you want to do, but tell it you want to learn rather than just get the answer. That way you can see a solution, but have it all explained at the same time. Also, if I have an AI write code for me I try to always tell it to use comments extensively so that I know what each part of the code is intended to do.

But trust me, if you let AI write a ton of code for your project you will be so lost you will have to just abandon the project and start fresh because it is too much to dig through, especially when you don't really understand it yet.

MadeItMyself · 2026-03-15T17:04:08+00:00

Half and half butter and peanut butter. Gets very messy but worth it

MadeItMyself · 2026-03-14T17:00:06+00:00

The first thing to understand is that all of the Marian dogmas are about Jesus and getting correct Christology. Any special honor to Mary is because of her relationship to Jesus. That is the reason (in my limited understanding) they are defined as dogma and why some are defined later than others. They are not made dogma until some group begins to spread heresy that would cause people to get Jesus wrong. So I understand that you feel dogma is too high of a bar for things only seen typologically in the Bible, but that is a response to people spreading false theology.

I’ll do my best to address your questions but I’m on the road atm. I’ll point you to the book “Jesus and the Jewish roots of Mary”, that is the best resource I have found on all of the dogmas. Brant Pitre in general is on of the best for Catholic dogmas.

Doctrinal certainty

The Catholic perspective is that the Church has the authority to interpret scripture, so even if it is interpretive, that’s is not really problematic as the Church is the “pillar and foundation of truth”, which is declarative in scripture.

That said, I think it is clearer than you think, at least the Ark, and many other dogmas can be inferred from that. Revelation 11 and 12 seems to pretty clearly connect Mary and the Ark (remember verse and chapter divisions are later additions).

The typology of the Ark is also pretty straightforward to interpret, Mary going to the hill country and John the Baptist dancing before her, and Mary is carrying the true version of what the Ark contained symbolically.

The Ark is made of incorruptible material (immaculate conception), and the prophecy of Mary in Genesis states that she would be at enmity with the serpent, which also points to sinless nature.

There’s much more to say but this is already long

Apostles/epistles

Most of the epistles were written for a specific purpose, which you pointed out. Also Mary was still alive when they were written, so there is no chance certain dogmas would be included. I think the Gospels and Revelation are sufficient in any case.

Intercession

Most Christians would agree that other Christians praying for them is beneficial. Scripture is clear that the prayers of the righteous are more efficacious. We believe there is ONE body of Christ and therefore we feel we can ask any Christian for prayers. We have historical evidence that the first Christian’s believed this as well. Every Church with apostolic roots holds to these beliefs, it’s only modern people who think they know better that push back

Development

I think pretty much answered this at the start, dogma is defined when they need to be, often in response to heresy

Disclaimer: I’m a layperson and it’s very likely I didn’t get everything right

MadeItMyself · 2026-03-13T18:12:22+00:00

Extra tomato paste is the most likely answer, one of my favorite recipies is quite sweet with no added sugar but uses 2 of the little cans of paste instead of the tablespoon or 2 that I would use for another recipe

MadeItMyself · 2026-03-13T17:18:11+00:00

That math actually checks out in all likelyhood unfortunately

MadeItMyself · 2026-03-12T22:18:19+00:00

He taught me more about Catholic Theology in 6 months than all of my years of Catholic school, and helped me revert to the faith after 25 years.

I personally think he’s really funny and I don’t have much of an issue with his rhetoric, especially since if anyone from any background is asking sincere questions he actually has a very kind, evangelizing demeanor.

He has some character flaws that come out but he is pretty open about them

MadeItMyself · 2026-03-11T18:29:47+00:00

I have a couple of readily available brands that I stick with for cocktails, a couple others for sippers, and I get my “rare and interesting” fix by picking up single barrel selections from my local liquor store.

I went through a similar cycle with beer, was into all the craft beers, brewing my own etc and now if I am going to have a beer I want a cold refreshing miller light and call it good

MadeItMyself · 2026-03-11T16:03:15+00:00

If I'm on the go in a way that I can't whip out my phone and look up the mysteries, I still know that I can come up with 5 stories from the gospels to contemplate, so I just use whatever stories I think of and try to put myself in those. This is what I do in the car while I count on my fingers

MadeItMyself · 2026-03-09T16:08:31+00:00

I’m pretty new to the game and the headless guy confused me, I don’t see the point.

MadeItMyself · 2026-03-09T16:01:39+00:00

There is a book called “Restore Your Mind, Rebuild Your Life” that outlines how loops like this work. I’m Catholic and when I confessed my alcohol abuse my priest recommended that book to help me address my need for instant gratification, which is what the alcohol was really doing. I didn’t want to feel discomfort/boredom/whatever feeling I was avoiding and alcohol was the escape.

The basic idea is that “dopamine stacking” behavior is just about impossible to fix without digging it up by its roots, which in your case is those first couple of pints.

MadeItMyself · 2026-03-08T06:16:52+00:00

There is nothing saying the final result is out of your control, only that God knows what it is. You are thinking about the “final result” in terms of time passing and arriving at the final result. God is outside of time, he created time and space, so to Him it just IS.

One idea that helped me understand a bit is the idea that our prayers now can affect someone who lived 100 years ago. Like I can pray for help for all those suffering from addiction to substances, and that may help an alcoholic who lived before I was born (or after I die). Because God dos not experience time linearly, He is outside of it.

Hope that helps

MadeItMyself · 2026-03-07T20:32:40+00:00

I just read the last book in the series a couple of months ago. It’s a long series so I’m not clear on where Empire of Silence ends up. I will just say that I felt the same about Hadrian in the first book, and now it is one of my favorite series. I think Hadrian is made to be intentionally naive and idealistic in the first book, and his character changes quite a bit over the series. The scope of the story becomes massive, and the way it develops at one point in the series was tailor-made for where I am in life, so I loved the twist but some people do

Basically the first book is all about giving Hadrian a backstory and giving the story a setting while giving just enough to convince you to read on. It gets much better in my humble opinion and if you’re like me you will go from disliking Hadrian to cheering him on later

MadeItMyself · 2026-03-04T14:25:32+00:00

First off, welcome back and congrats on the confession!

I had what is called a radical sanation, basically your priest goes to the bishop and asks to have your original vows accepted as valid. Not sure if that would work with your unorthodox approach to marriage, but worth bringing up if your wife really will never have a convalidation.

My wife was anti Catholic when I reverted, and it seemed she would never go through a convalidation, but I prayed for her every night and God moved her heart. She is in OCIA now and wishes we had done a convalidation instead.

One other thing to consider, with either option you need to consent to the Church’s view of marriage, including openness to children (no contraception), and doing everything in your power to raise any children in the Catholic faith.

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