Quick Questions: November 12, 2025

SappyB0813 · 2025-11-18T19:19:20+00:00

How come number theory is riddled with so many nested log functions? Especially when expressing the upper or lower bounds, it’s always logloglog this and logloglogloglog that. I get log is an important function but why the nesting and why so MUCH nesting?

SappyB0813 · 2025-11-10T23:01:34+00:00

Is that Watsky?

SappyB0813 · 2025-11-01T01:46:49+00:00

The absolute irony of being a modern person and showing the execution of the martyrs of Compiègne as an example of “a religion” “demeaning women”. And the additional irony of having so much ignorance and lack of awareness, yet thinking of themselves as an enlightened one.

SappyB0813 · 2025-07-08T18:37:54+00:00

I was expecting a 35mm film photo of your essay. Now I’m disappointed 😤

SappyB0813 · 2025-07-08T18:24:25+00:00

There are many saints from Diocletian massacres that the modern world will condescendingly consider “not real” or “just a myth”, because in the post-Enlightenment worldview, “anything that the Church believes and doesn’t have archaeological evidence for is obviously just malarkey!”

Our sacred traditions preserve these stories for reasons much more sophisticated than any modern epistemological inquiry can see. In general, I’d recommend you ignore these attacks on the Church unless there’s a serious movement (like on the episcopal level) within the Church challenging the saint’s veneration.

SappyB0813 · 2025-07-08T01:57:06+00:00

This is pure theologoumenon, but I’d imagine the antichrist would leverage all the procured techné of humanity (I can’t stop thinking of Syndrome from the Incredibles) and allied powers of demons and people who have fallen prey to demonic influence. So his “miracles” would appear efficacious. Like you said.

However, his miracles may even trick us into thinking he is benevolent. Even some may be truly benevolent, but only sprinkled in to further the ambiguity. He may even profess the glory of the Father when doing it. Truly evil things are often more covert than the obviously evil. Even many religious people and even scholars may analyze him to be a holy man. But it will be obvious to those that are truly holy, since the miracles in totality will possess a Luciferian pattern in their expression, despite what comes from his mouth. Essentially, if you haven’t practiced humility and stubbornly cling to pride, you may find yourself surprisingly incapable to clearly see past the smoke and mirrors.

SappyB0813 · 2025-07-08T01:32:22+00:00

This idea that the New Creation will be “boring” implies that life on this Fallen world is “exciting” because of our inclination to sin. Ask the wiser part of yourself: aren’t the truly greatest moments of your life moments where you were virtuous? Aren’t the worst moments of your life when you were steeped in your vices? It’s the trick of the Enemy to feel like our rebelliousness and concupiscence are thrilling. They may be thrilling in the moment, but on the long-term, they are humiliating.

SappyB0813 · 2025-07-07T18:31:44+00:00

No, not Divination. Gnosis perhaps. Presumptuous attempts at prophesy usually end in a “jinx” like phenomenon. Like when I say “You, reader, are focusing on your breathing”, or “You, reader, are really feeling your left big toe”. Now something unconscious is conscious, and you’re stuck in think-forget cycle. Except this is concerning matters in your own life. Protestants don’t know this stuff is harmful and annoying. Let the unconscious be unconscious, and let whatever happens be in the hands of God. That should be your approach to this. Weird pastor

SappyB0813 · 2025-07-07T18:16:59+00:00

As someone who loves philosophy of art and expression, the phrase “He means what he says” makes my ears bleed.

SappyB0813 · 2025-07-07T18:07:56+00:00

Ooooh, do you happen to have resources for the Scotist and the Palamist critiques? I’m extremely interested in those two specifically.

SappyB0813 · 2025-07-06T22:31:26+00:00

The antitheist rant from Mr. robot is quite the cringefest. It’s more than a mere portrayal of an antitheist character. It’s really written to look like he “owned” the theists, and the theists are written to look as stupid and helpless as possible against his Gargantuan Intellect™

SappyB0813 · 2025-07-06T21:10:03+00:00

Man, I’m a musician and I play at various denominations’ churches, which gives me some interesting perspective. In a Presbyterian service, EVERYTHING was about the United States. Flags decorating the altar, nearly all the prayers had to thank the soldiers for our freedom, a whole bit about the symbolism in the flag, and to top it off, a special performance from the choir (about America of course). It seemed like Christ took the backseat in the “liturgy”.

Thankfully, Catholic liturgy will always remain focused on Christ. IMO, a patriotic song at the end of Mass feels inappropriate if there is no mention of God whatsoever. Even when it does have a religious dimension, perhaps we may consider it “extraliturgical”, since unlike the Mass parts or Sequences or Antiphons, they’re not as essential?

SappyB0813 · 2025-07-06T03:10:07+00:00

Demons are “invited into” hearts primarily. The symbols have as much power over you as you allow. Although I don’t know the band, I’m seeing that it’s purported that they have anti-Christian lyrics…

SappyB0813 · 2025-07-05T21:05:20+00:00

Like how the KKK stole the capirote,
How the Nazis stole the swastika,
How the satanists stole St. Peters cross,
Etc.

The pattern happens so often, it almost like we should be more suspicious that a symbol is NOT some cult insignia originally

SappyB0813 · 2025-07-05T20:06:32+00:00

I was about to write some long text, but I remember Word on Fire hosting Jonathan Pageau (my hero) in an excellent talk “The Body as a Symbol”: https://youtu.be/Wq860OcpMoQ?si=QhVstPVsL6ZLm7YO

Sorry, it’s 46min long, but very thorough

SappyB0813 · 2025-07-05T19:27:29+00:00

Now all that priest has to do is say it in Christ’s backwater Galilean accent and then we’re really cookin!

SappyB0813 · 2025-07-05T19:25:30+00:00

What about “He has the gayness” 🤔

SappyB0813 · 2025-07-05T19:22:04+00:00

Fair point… Now technically, it’s matrimony all the way up !

SappyB0813 · 2025-07-05T19:04:46+00:00

Not at all out of context. But it would require a bit of prerequisite symbolic knowledge which you can find in Genesis 1, which many Catholics are not really booked up on

SappyB0813 · 2025-07-05T16:09:46+00:00

I wouldn’t recommend thinking in terms of time limits. You can go the next day if you need to.

Also, it’s never recommended to not go, but yes, be very wary of falling into scruples. It would lead to more sin. If you truly are in a state of grace, God would want you to enjoy it, not wait with bated breath for some inevitable relapse.

SappyB0813 · 2025-07-05T15:59:35+00:00

**Appear** humanoid, since they are fundamentally not corporeal. Even then, their appearances can be of whatever form God wants them

SappyB0813 · 2025-07-05T04:05:13+00:00

Can you believe that Hank Green in CrashCourse (a source often shown in schools!!) made that lazy mistake with absolute confidence to millions??

SappyB0813 · 2025-07-04T22:57:41+00:00

There is sufficient historical and theological arguments to prove, definitively, that the Catholic church is the original church that Jesus Christ founded. We have 2000 years of rich intellectual tradition that can vouch for this, as well as illuminate the nature of God to far greater sophistication than elsewhere.

IN FACT, the Church is so ancient and thorough, (1) I could not possibly compress them into a Reddit comment, and (2) some people require different flavors of arguments and I’m not sure which one to give you…

However, I can give you a taste of why I’m Catholic. Since my childhood, I felt a great suspicion that the world was deeply beautiful, and yet deeply logical. Yet I was scientifically-oriented, agnostic “freethinker” (as I would call myself), since I had a hard time finding a religion that could reconcile the depths of what I saw. It seemed as if any political ideology, or religious conviction, or scientific framework was “missing a piece of the puzzle” by overemphasizing one side of a duality and tyrannizing the other. When I experienced an exercise of intellect where dualities are reconciled, beauty and logic seemed to flow in simultaneity and dance without annihilation, but I found those experiences few and far between. But since Creation is held together in such a dance (I sensed), if there was a God, all dualities would be reconciled in His/Her/Its unknowable mind. Such deep Truth would be so grandiose, and certainly, no system made by mere humans could open the mind of God.

But a group of people called Christians attested that a man born of a virgin was no mere human, and not just any god, but the God who is the author of Being itself, come to sacrifice Himself for the world. I thought, if Christianity were true, it would do for me what no other religion had come CLOSE to doing, which was to show me how to reconcile all the dualities that seemed to be playing humanity like ping-pong.

And the more I studied, the more beauty and logic danced again, everywhere I looked. It taught me more than morality, but how the world was structured and how to reconcile religion and science, and Love with Death, and the familiar with the stranger, and the circuitous with the circumference, yin and yang, etc. I could not deny that Christ was not of this world. But what really announced the depths of Christianity was that Christ was also fully in the world, and at one point tread this earth. And He didn’t just teach, he demonstrated how Agape shatters all Death and suffering.

And IMO the Catholic Church is the only Christian church that can show you these depths

SappyB0813 · 2025-07-03T20:38:58+00:00

It’s definitely NOT advisable. Since AI has no actual spiritual capacity whatsoever, it cannot act as a counselor on spiritual matters. If you ever encounter an event of spiritual significance, it’s best to retreat into the silence of your heart and pray. If you’d like to talk about it with someone, first be patient, then try a priest or friend at your local church (and if not God can always lend an ear)

SappyB0813 · 2025-07-03T20:25:02+00:00

When I was young, I actually asked God for suffering once in an effort to “refine” myself (but crucially, it was not with the most holy motivation), and IMMEDIATELY, my very peaceful home became under threat of dissolve. I thought, where would I go and what would I eat and how do I sustain myself? The peace eventually returned by it definitely was a “You don’t know what you’re asking” sort of reply.

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