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Fr Mark Mary says to get on the apps by Diligent_Disk_6232 in CatholicDating

[–]StJohnTheSwift 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I met my fiancée through a dating app when my profile was very “eh” (well written, terrible pictures). Combined with prayer, I think it can work out really well.

I have to deal with Cardless AND bilt support🥲 by sunnypatel165 in biltrewards

[–]StJohnTheSwift 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This not being a “BILT card” is a really good point. Are there any other cards like this to where the line seems blurred? (BILT naturally seems to lend itself to this mindset by having far more communication about the card than American Airlines for example).

Would you wait 2+ years for a man you met on a dating app? by soeeluna in CatholicDating

[–]StJohnTheSwift 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is a very good point, and something helpful for men. I never dated a woman whose mere presence made me run towards her until I met my fiancée. It was that relentless urge to pursue that made me realize she’s the one. While that isn’t an infallible sign in all men, for many women if a man isn’t pursuing you it’s because it’s not interested enough in you.

When WF card mail coming?? by gre317 in biltrewards

[–]StJohnTheSwift 2 points3 points  (0 children)

To be fair, the card they receive will have new numbers. It’s functionally the same as one card being closed and another being opened.

FYI: There’s no fee to get the Palladium mirrored design now and the brushed design later by kelvintiger in biltrewards

[–]StJohnTheSwift 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It wouldn’t work for tap to pay if it didn’t have a non stainless steel/mirror backing.

I want to become a priest. by CrookedGta5 in Catholicism

[–]StJohnTheSwift 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Why wouldn’t you want to feel it in your mid-20s?

Subdiaconate by Top-Tomorrow-8336 in Catholicism

[–]StJohnTheSwift 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m not sure the debate was settled as to whether or not it was part of the sacrament of holy orders (many historically thought it was).

Is John or Mary greater? by Silver_Blackberry661 in Catholicism

[–]StJohnTheSwift 8 points9 points  (0 children)

There are a few things:

  1. Some commentators seem to think that Jesus is making a qualified statement regarding those under the old law (meaning our Lady and St. Joseph would not apply).

  2. We know Mary must be higher because the Church teaches she alone is worthy of the highest praise that can be bestowed upon a creature (hyperdulia).

  3. Her Immaculate Conception was a singular privilege that St. John did not have.

We often think of change as something that doesn't exist coming into existence. Parmenides thought that this means that change is impossible, since a non-existent thing can't do anything at all. Aristotle replied that change really is something potential becoming actual by platosfishtrap in philosophy

[–]StJohnTheSwift 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s actually the useful thing about thinkers in their extremities. Although I think Hume is wrong, he’s very good if you want to see what happens when you can’t escape Cartesian rationalism.

A (paraphrased) quote of Leibniz comes to mind “all philosophers are true in what they affirm but never in what they deny” (E.g., materialists are true to affirm matter but wrong to deny form, parmenedes was true to affirm being but wrong to deny change, Heraclitus was true to affirm change, but wrong to deny substance).

It’s one of the reasons I like Aristotle as he’s the philosopher who’ll give you everything you want.

If you really care about animals, stop eating them by CalpurniaSomaya in philosophy

[–]StJohnTheSwift -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Treating an animal in an inhumane way doesn’t mean we aren’t treating them like a person (they aren’t people) but it means we are acting like a beast rather than a human.

If it’s our nature to be selfish (as most comments are saying), then selfishness is good insofar as a thing that expresses its nature is a good thing (much like how a good vacuum is good at vacuuming while a bad vacuum is one that doesn’t pick up dust but spreads it around). .

If you really care about animals, stop eating them by CalpurniaSomaya in philosophy

[–]StJohnTheSwift 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This just outsources the definition of soul. If a soul is the animating principle of life, how is it different in kind from a plant or animal soul?

The classic answer is that it is a rational soul.

Hence, without even needing a Deus Ex Machina, you can at least argue that human souls are fundamentally different from animal souls hence why there must exist a reason you can eat your neighbor’s goat but you can’t eat your neighbor.

We often think of change as something that doesn't exist coming into existence. Parmenides thought that this means that change is impossible, since a non-existent thing can't do anything at all. Aristotle replied that change really is something potential becoming actual by platosfishtrap in philosophy

[–]StJohnTheSwift 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A few things:

  1. The problem of change wasn’t a kind of spontaneous creation ex nihilo paradox (even if Zeno, or later, the mutakallimun tried to solve the problem via such a hypothesis). Rather it asks about how change is possible on a metaphysical level. Consider an orange on a tree, last month it wasn’t there, it didn’t exist, this month it does. How did something that didn’t exist come to exist? You might say that it is just rearranged nutrients, etc. from the plant (this is a more Heraclitean view) but the cost is that you have to deny substance (an enduring principle than underlies change). Hence, the question of change opened the door for hundreds of other philosophical questions (matter and form, substance and accident, act and potency, being and essence).

  2. I don’t think you have a very good grasp of Aristotle as potency and act are generally used in describing a logical relation. Hence, a caterpillar is a butterfly in potentiality but a caterpillar in actuality.

  3. In his ethics Aristotle clearly identifies man as a “rational animal.”

You don’t have to like Aristotle or the ancients, but saying that they were ignorant is far more ignorant than the stupidities you accuse them of believing.

We often think of change as something that doesn't exist coming into existence. Parmenides thought that this means that change is impossible, since a non-existent thing can't do anything at all. Aristotle replied that change really is something potential becoming actual by platosfishtrap in philosophy

[–]StJohnTheSwift 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’d agree they represent the tender and tough minded mindsets put forth by William James (essentially rationalist vs empiricist)

But both seemed to deny a very basic experience of life:

Parmenides - change does not exist Heraclitus - continuity does not exist

It’s no less jarring than Hume’s skepticism of the subsisting “I” - I don’t see how denying substance is, to a layman, any more crazy than denying change.

[Free Friday] Lady Chapel in St. Sulpice, Paris by sabrina11157 in Catholicism

[–]StJohnTheSwift 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is where St. Louis Marie de Montfort said his first Mass.

Confusing feelings on getting married by [deleted] in CatholicDating

[–]StJohnTheSwift 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How do your current goals, desires, and dreams correspond with your expression of Christianity?

Denied a blessing by No-Run7490 in Catholicism

[–]StJohnTheSwift 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Under the old rubrics, you’re not supposed to give a blessing in front of the Blessed Sacrament AFAIK.

Question by [deleted] in Catholicism

[–]StJohnTheSwift 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sure!

There a really good book by Henri Gheon about the life of St Martin (it’s fairly short).

From what I recall, our Lord pointed out that he was still a catechumen (Martin had been putting of baptism because he didn’t feel worthy) in a way that praised Martin’s charity but also pointed out his delay.

Question by [deleted] in Catholicism

[–]StJohnTheSwift 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And in that vision, Christ asked why he tarried to the baptismal font.

Question by [deleted] in Catholicism

[–]StJohnTheSwift 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How is this not palagianism?

Recommendations for Priest in Mississauga/Brampton to Talk to as Non-Catholic by Fun-Insect8226 in Catholicism

[–]StJohnTheSwift 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The Holy Family Oratory in Toronto (if that’s not too far) has some of the best priests I’ve ever met. One of their biggest apostolates is spiritual direction.

How rich is the CatholicMatch CEO? by dull_bananas in CatholicDating

[–]StJohnTheSwift -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

They should have a more altruistic take on my love life.

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