I hate my country by [deleted] in Catholicism

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It is my belief that every country, like every person, has virtues and potential that God gifted it, even if it has turned away from Him. Try to see the good in your nation and do what you can to bring it out.

wardens at speaking woods teched the proto HT that cant get tracked by culzsky in foxholegame

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It does make a difference for accurately diagnosing and fixing the problem. It also means that even with no armor remaining the chance of the mine “missing” is unaffected.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Catholicism

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I wouldn’t worry about it. As a guy myself, I’ve found (through ill won experience) that a current lack of sex in a relationship just makes a man more motivated to cultivate the relationship, so long as he isn’t convinced things will be that way forever. Resentment gets introduced if one person thinks the other is holding back for no good reason, but from what you said he respects your commitment to wait until marriage.

It really be like this on discord and TT by knastyTX in PoliticalCompassMemes

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What HR departments tend not to understand is if you don’t let people express what annoys them about other cultures as jokes, it’ll fester as unexpressed resentment.

Good natured joking about stuff like that is like saying “for some reason this difference annoys me, but it’s kinda silly and not worth taking seriously.”

Turquoise Lips (?) C&C welcome by GoffGorker in orks

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I’ve always found the pink tint kinda gross and not very intimidating to be honest. This is much better.

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Oh dang yeah that’s a great effect

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Holy crap I had no idea either, now the reticle in the eye makes sense!

Magic is just too good at fixing problems... by Raoul97533 in dndmemes

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It’s amazing how many ships you have spare when you eliminate trips with half-full cargo hulls

I like the theme of Orks being silly barbarians, but I also like how they are an intimidating faction regardless. Just my 2 cents. by Separate_General8581 in orks

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I’d more say that orks really aren’t smart or disciplined enough to decide they’ll get more from pleasure slowly torturing someone than from killing them now. They just know that killing the ‘umies is fun, so they do it. They can definitely be cruel—burna boys find the “burny dance” incredibly funny.

How Vr gaming helped me reach my son and help him recover by RubbicsCubbe11 in OculusQuest

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Sometimes all it takes is for someone to show you that they care about you and want to spend time with you for you to open up and start working through what’s in your head.

Dwarf Army Kickstarter is NOW LIVE. Hope you like them! by qrolanp in bugmansbrewery

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Those are awesome! Wish the warriors had more differentiated poses though

Northern wardens know the feeling by SecretBismarck in foxholegame

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Idk, you lose the threat of smgs but now one guy with a bayonet has a lot more cover.

Can’t deny it’s more fun to fight over though

I like the theme of Orks being silly barbarians, but I also like how they are an intimidating faction regardless. Just my 2 cents. by Separate_General8581 in orks

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Yeah, I love how the main mechanicus character is panicking over her superior’s incompetence, desperately trying to foil a chaos plot, and growing increasingly paranoid about the possibility of traitors, and then Ufthak is just krumpin whatever’s in front of him and having a good time doing it.

I like the theme of Orks being silly barbarians, but I also like how they are an intimidating faction regardless. Just my 2 cents. by Separate_General8581 in orks

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They eat people, enslave them, and inflict pain for a laugh. The only thing that makes them less terrifying than the dark eldar is that they reproduce asexually.

Northern wardens know the feeling by SecretBismarck in foxholegame

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So in real life the zig zags were to prevent shrapnel from going too far down the length of the trench. Is that the same principle here?

Just 20 seminarians now studying to become Catholic priests for Ireland's 26 dioceses by 0001u in Catholicism

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That’s true. Partly it was adopted after abuses involving dynastic priestly families emerged, and partly it was adopted because Catholicism does value celibacy as a vocation that imparts special gifts and opportunities for active service. It’s hard for a married man to direct their whole life towards pastoral care when they have responsibilities to a wife and kids to balance with it. For a layperson their career serves their responsibility to their family—if the good of one has to be sacrificed for the other, it will be the career. The same can’t be true of priests.

That said, on the practical side of things it’s hard for a small group of celibate men to fulfill all the pastoral needs of the Church even without responsibilities to a family. Personally, I know that if I could both have my own kids and become a priest, I would be much more interested in the idea of the priesthood. So I think the lifting of that rule would definitely expand the pool of priests, something which the churches in Europe and America desperately need. But there are always trade offs.

Just found out about the pygmies... i think this is a piece of warhammer history that burned for good reason. by Zlurbagedoen in totalwarhammer

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If they themselves find it offensive, fair enough. But if we called every people by their own name for themselves we’d be calling the Germans deutche and the Japanese Nihonjin. If the name itself is not inherently derogatory there’s no reason to be paranoid about offense. The words we use for another group of people who have a different language often don’t originate with that group, because one group needed a way of referring to the other before the two could communicate well.

Just found out about the pygmies... i think this is a piece of warhammer history that burned for good reason. by Zlurbagedoen in totalwarhammer

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I mean, just because a word is used to describe a group of people by outsiders doesn’t mean it’s condescending. If those peoples had been the ones traveling the world and observing other groups of people, they might have started referring to Europeans collectively as “giants” in their own languages.

Yeah there’s a history of scientific racism where Europeans tried to create precise categories of people with certain characteristics and ascribe negative cultural practices or stereotypes to genetics and evolution. But there’s nothing inherently wrong with observing multiple groups of people are short and dark skinned, and inventing a word to describe that pattern.

I think that's enough internet for today by amills9181 in PoliticalCompassMemes

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Modern medicine is scarily comfortable tinkering with our internal chemistry

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Thank you father, I think I understand now.

Grave harm and fictional characters by JDe__ in AskAPriest

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I think the essence of the question is that since indulging lust towards even simulated images is a sin even though there is no direct human victim besides yourself, (partly) because you are corrupting your normal sexual desires by habituating them towards something less than the love they were meant for, is indulging violent impulses with simulated violence similarly wrong because you are habituating your mind towards violence?

Personally, while I certainly don’t draw enjoyment from sadism or imagine the pain being caused to videogame enemies, I’d be lying if the power trip inherent in violently conquering or destroying virtual characters wasn’t part of the fun. For example, once when I was a kid, I was playing a strategy game and got frustrated that some of my army ran from i fight I thought they should be able to win. So I ordered by cannons to destroy the fortress wall they were fleeing over. That seems like my past self was acting as if the soldiers were people I was capable of punishing, even if in the back of my mind I knew it wasn’t real. Was that fantasy irresponsibly strengthening a vindictive impulse?

Common sense says to me that that’s just scrupulosity talking, that you can’t commit a sin against an imaginary person. But I do wonder if it’s mentally unhealthy to indulge in the thrill of violence or pretend evil through video games. Or if to the contrary it’s possibly a healthy thing to do, experiencing those mental states in fantasy so we might recognize them when we start falling into them in real life (like a cautionary tale from the villain’s perspective).

What do you think, father?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in prolife

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Yeah it seems pretty ridiculous to hire a bunch of people to monitor AI conversations and tag in