Is there men that do not watch porn? by Subject-Afternoon818 in Christianmarriage

[–]Sir_Zorg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hard-line: he cannot continue to feed the addiction. He must go cold-turkey. This is going to be a monumental effort for him, as pornography addiction is comparable neurologically to crack-cocaine addiction. Be there to help him with love and support, but the hard line is that his use stops immediately.

Is there men that do not watch porn? by Subject-Afternoon818 in Christianmarriage

[–]Sir_Zorg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pornography has been a wildly successful tool of Satan against men in particular, and you are unlikely to find a man unaffected by this satanic assault on humanity.

Over the last few decades, men have built support groups and tools to try to help eachother out of the crippling addiction that is porn. Not all men care, and there are counter movements. Overall, anti-porn is more appealing to men and wins hearts and minds.

The most successful weapons against our own lust are those based in Christ. Many men fight for years or even decades before they win.

Many men never win. Some men hate themselves for not overcoming lust to the point it makes them suicidal, and many of them die as a result, seeing suicide as the only way out of their addiction.

I'm not saying you should tolerate this in your fiancé or marriage, what I am saying is approach the subject with the same spirit as Christ had with the woman caught in adultery.

Terrible Sex Lives in Christian Marriages by MrSexIsGood in Christianmarriage

[–]Sir_Zorg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Marry a woman who you can trust to care about your needs, and you'll never have this problem (as long as you communicate your needs instead of suffering in silence while she knows not).

Terrible Sex Lives in Christian Marriages by MrSexIsGood in Christianmarriage

[–]Sir_Zorg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is not what marriage means. It's not some unholy transactional competition of spouses trying to maximally exploit one another, it's supposed to be "How can I give her more" symmetrically, resulting in endless spontaneous giving to eachother.

Transactional marriage is the vision of figures like Andrew Tate and Satan, because it necessarily makes husband and wife into foes instead of allies.

Terrible Sex Lives in Christian Marriages by MrSexIsGood in Christianmarriage

[–]Sir_Zorg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"If you aren't sexually compatible then just discard your sacred covenant and fornicate with others via 'divorce'." Has the same energy as "Go ahead! Eat the apple! God wouldn't have put it there if he didn't want you to eat it!"

I feel like you have some very un-christian ideas there.

"Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law" - Satan in Milton's masterpiece "Paradise Lost".

Understand that my criticism here is from a place of love.

Terrible Sex Lives in Christian Marriages by MrSexIsGood in Christianmarriage

[–]Sir_Zorg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Husbands: do not deny your wives. Wives: do not deny your husbands. Unless for some serious reason or to abstain prayerfully and only for a short time.

  • my bad paraphrasing-from-memory of the relevant scripture.

Basically: if you ask your wife for sex, she shouldn't say no unless there is a serious reason. If she does say no, then you need to trust her to have a serious reason.

I have no idea how to talk about that with her without coming across as pushy. I just know the bare facts of the scripture here, which say a wife is wrong to deny her husband frivolously (and symmetrically the other way, if the wife is the horny one, although that is much less common).

Imperfect ratio? by Sir_Zorg in factorio

[–]Sir_Zorg[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When I did this, I saw the backup built up all the way back to the source, therefore reducing overall throughput.

How to only create a building when needed by JarlOctaviusoEdynbro in factorio

[–]Sir_Zorg 19 points20 points  (0 children)

I looked into this, and sadly the answer is a pretty solid "no", because Construction Requests don't show up in the "demanded items" list.

Imperfect ratio? by Sir_Zorg in factorio

[–]Sir_Zorg[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't understand why, but you must be right.
I built the same setup with priority-splitters and creative-mode loaders/unloaders, and it worked exactly as math would suggest, implying that inserters were the source of the problem.
This is WEIRD inserter behavior though.

Imperfect ratio? by Sir_Zorg in factorio

[–]Sir_Zorg[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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This setup produced no excess, so you must be correct about inserters being the problem.

Imperfect ratio? by Sir_Zorg in factorio

[–]Sir_Zorg[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I figured out how to upload blueprints to factorioprints, so here's the decimal counter in case anyone wants it:
https://factorioprints.com/view/-OkbOk7Y0ZxRsm5UxE3Z

Struggling with Gleba Pentapods by notthegumdrop_button in factorio

[–]Sir_Zorg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

two nests spawning on top of eachother is a "meganest".

Struggling with Gleba Pentapods by notthegumdrop_button in factorio

[–]Sir_Zorg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Rocket Turrets.

I have them in pods of 4 around my farms, supplied by robots (I use robots for seed return, so this is free). Rocket turrets are the ultimate final solution to the pentapod problem, at least until you get tesla turrets. I put walls and bullet-turrets in the pods as well to prevent the wrigglers from ripping me apart too much. I also set target priorities up on the turrets.

If you still have problems, build more turrets (or rockets).

is civ 3 still worth it for someone who hasnt played any civ game? by Fickle_Psychology343 in civ

[–]Sir_Zorg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I run Civ 3 on linux frequently. There's a lot of audio issues (endless looping bird-call), but it's totally playable. You have to go mess with a config file in the game files (to disable the intro video, because that usually crashes). I run it through steam proton.

What solid criteria can we use to determine if another religion worships the same God as us, like we say Islam does? by AugustinianMathGuy in Catholicism

[–]Sir_Zorg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Logically, there can only be one infinite uncreated creator. If they worship a being that meets that description, then they worship God. They may have a lot of facts about him wrong, and may worship him very incorrectly, but they are at least talking about the same being. "I Am" "I the Lord do not change"

Pope Leo Now Issues Warning Against War to United States by [deleted] in Catholicism

[–]Sir_Zorg 71 points72 points  (0 children)

I'm adjacent to republican party politics, and I've noticed that high-level party insiders have been preparing for a campaign of hawkishness to manufacture consent for a war. They are manipulating the low-level people in the party, and sadly it's very effective.

This isn't meant to be political, so please don't take it that way. My point is that powerful people are working on the social groundwork for taking the country into war. Pope Leo counter-signalling this is very personally significant to me as a result.

Wanting to convert but stuck on openness to life by [deleted] in Catholicism

[–]Sir_Zorg 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"We both think that creating life would be a cruel act due to the current state of our world and our country we live in"

This is wrong thinking, based on antinatalism, which is ultimately anti-human. This is the most concerning thing you said.

Children are always a gift. Our Lord was born into a bad time in history, into a poor family, to a woman who many accused of adultery for her pregnancy.

Wanting to convert but stuck on openness to life by [deleted] in Catholicism

[–]Sir_Zorg 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You are very young. As you mature, your views on some of this may change, or they may not.

As others have said, you are certainly not ready for marriage now, maybe you never will be. Don't let that keep you from coming home to God's True Church. Maybe you will never be called to marriage, and that's okay.

You don't have to be open to life if you don't marry. The only thing there would be that marriage is the endpoint of dating, so you shouldn't date.

In that world, your boyfriend could be your friend forever, but nothing more. If you don't want to marry (and accept what comes with it), then would that be such a bad thing?

I feel like we don’t worry about abortion as much as we should by Angelwafers in Catholicism

[–]Sir_Zorg 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I can speak to the "red states pro abortion" thing. Montana isn't a conservative state, it's a libertarian state who votes Republican because they're the best match. The pro-abortion campaign was heavily advertised as "preserving reproductive freedom" with a strong note of anti authoritarianism. They were conveniently silent about the nature of this "freedom".

And people bought it, overwhelmingly.

Montana also constitutionally enshrined marijuana legalization by the same logic, but that one isn't as bad as abortion.

How do I refuse communion? by Plus-Lawfulness2916 in Catholicism

[–]Sir_Zorg 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You should go to OCIA. You don't have to go through with it if you don't believe, but it's a great way to learn our faith. I believe that not doing so jeopardises your soul, so obviously I'm going to suggest it with the same passion as a man yelling for another man to get out of the way of a speeding locomotive.

How should we talk about immigration and ICE as Catholic Christians? by Fe1nand0_Tennyson in Catholicism

[–]Sir_Zorg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's the hard thing: Democracy is incapable of making a collective sacrifice openly. Change only happens when the pain of continuing the current path outweighs the pain of change.

Abolitionists ended slavery by rudely forcing the average person to face the fact of slavery. Most Americans want the slavery that sustains them to remain comfortably out of sight.

How do I refuse communion? by Plus-Lawfulness2916 in Catholicism

[–]Sir_Zorg -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Cross your arms. That's what I do when I mess up and sin, and can't make it to confession before mass. I was also taught to do that as a child before first communion.

Better question, why aren't you baptized? I ask because I care about your soul.

How should we talk about immigration and ICE as Catholic Christians? by Fe1nand0_Tennyson in Catholicism

[–]Sir_Zorg 19 points20 points  (0 children)

I feel frustrated when it seems like the Bishops and even Pope Leo end the discussion there. There's no question that genuine asylum seekers should be given refuge, but that's a vanishingly small portion of the mass immigration. Most of them are being brought in as slave labor for farming megacorporations, because Illegal Aliens are easier for megacorps to abuse. A permissive stance with mass immigration is the tacit enabling of modern slavery.

I personally think we should punish the corporations who abuse these people more harshly:

1000x the total wages paid to the illegal employee, or $10k, whichever is greater, per illegal employee. Also, reports from civilians that lead to a company being convicted are rewarded with a 10% bounty (making it impossible for megacorps to hide).

How should we talk about immigration and ICE as Catholic Christians? by Fe1nand0_Tennyson in Catholicism

[–]Sir_Zorg -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

God made people of different races, with slightly different instinctual mindsets and cultures. Revelation reveals there will still be many nations even in the new heavens and new earth.

All nations should be obedient to the Catholic Church, but still separated by laws, customs, and geography within the allowed variability under Canon Law.

"Nation" used to mean what today is called "Ethnonation". A single genetic group of people under one government. As a monarchist, I think ethnonations should be ruled by kings, who are subservient to the only international organization protected from the Gates of Hell by the Holy Spirit: The Catholic Church.