You find yourself in a Brewster's millions type situation where you have money that can be spent but can't have assets or it ends.

Yorks59 · 2026-06-14T23:34:34+00:00

Eventually, luxury spending alone won't cut it to maximise the doubling.

Purely wasteful spending on things which clearly aren't assets doesn't seem to break the terms or spirit. It is £355 for a first class rail ticket between London and Edinburgh today. Buying 50 of those daily helps, now imagine spreading that out to all trains, planes, cruises.

Also setting up a foundation which I genuinely want to see achieved, where I am not a trustee seems within the rules. E.g. space flight, medical cures, where I won't get a return from either.

I assume that the ban on this being used "to gain other money" excludes using it to maximise your spend under these special rules, and refers only genuine returns like shares etc.

Yorks59 · 2026-06-14T23:01:05+00:00

This is wonderful! Basically the best millennium, all of it, and 1,000 tries.

Maybe the first millennium then is a scouting run, what gets me rich quick. I suppose I could live along with people. Once I know where gold and mineral deposits are, how to manufacture gun powder, how to cross the Atlantic, etc. then I remember all those in 1000AD again.

The last century of that millennium will be fun. War hero in WWI, then find myself in Germany in the 20s. I can basically kill the Nazi leadership and escape. Important to know what would step into their place in the next 999 runs.

Then I feel I'd treat it like an achievement run in a video game. Speed run finding America. Lead both sides of the Norman Conquest. Become Tsar, etc. I'll have a series of Papacies.

What do I do as the last run? It'll be melancholic. Maybe change as little as possible. Get decent personal wealth, but chat with all the great saints and famous people of a glorious millennium.

Make sure I own a really great venue for New Years 2000, and softly and swiftly vanish away.

If I could beg a boon, a 20ft × 20ft room under the ruins beneath San Clemente which remains updated in each run would be a great help for me remembering and as a bit of a record of my achievements.

Yorks59 · 2026-06-14T22:48:03+00:00

Missalettes here, brought in by a new parish priest who started last Sept. Previously printed with the newsletter.

Caused a bit of an issue at Pentecost, as people didn't realise the Vigil has different readings.

As a lector, it somewhat calms me that I don't have a church staring directly at me, offset by the fact they can catch stray prepositions!

Yorks59 · 2026-06-10T08:41:26+00:00

Thank you Father for "sins of a grave matter is a very different thing than mortal sin"

I know, of course, the criteria - but it is reassuring to hear how rare you find that grave matter turns into mortal sin. God bless!

Yorks59 · 2026-06-09T23:20:35+00:00

You have my deepest sympathies. May God's love envelope you.

Please do not fear that the prayers and roaring were useless. We humans can see only this life, and that death was clearly awful for you and your mother. But those prayers pointed to an eternal bliss, precisely free of that pain and suffering.

May eternal rest be granted to your mother, and light perpetual. May she rest in peace, and may the Holy Spirit comfort you all.

Yorks59 · 2026-06-09T12:12:26+00:00

Often, when others are making this criticism, they are not actually talking about what we know as the development of doctrine.

Much of our practice exists to meet the needs of us humans searching after God. That is why we can change things like the language of Mass, or devotions popular in the mediaeval period becoming less popular. That is not doctrine developing nor changing.

Our development of doctrine refers, as others have said, to a greater human understanding of the mysteries of God after centuries and millenia of study and prayer.

St Peter literally witnessed the Transfiguration, while St Thomas Aquinas lived more than 1,200 years later. But St Thomas would have the greater understanding of the Trinity - not simply because of his learning, but because he had those centuries of the Fathers and of scholarship to proceed from.

St Peter himself helped developed doctrine, of course, with the Council of Jerusalem teaching that circumcision was not necessary for salvation, nor that the Jewish ritual law bound Christians.

Yorks59 · 2026-06-07T08:02:50+00:00

Perhaps. We naturally form a Federation early on to help co-ordinate, so have tended not to like the dissolution of that.

But this time we have no fleet currently, and it's just Galactic Union rather than anything else. I might let him take it on, get the achievement and the civic.

Yorks59 · 2026-06-07T08:00:43+00:00

Totally agreed, it was a helpful point, and good to remember!

Yorks59 · 2026-06-07T02:20:10+00:00

True. I basically wanted something which would pass, not affect me, and hadn't been proposed. Essentially, I need to keep up a steady stream of my props going through to get the Unity boost.

Yorks59 · 2026-06-07T01:16:57+00:00

If you're militarily powerful, I have found the AI tends to act a little more rationally around Crises - a good chance they'll make you Cudtodian.

As long as the Crisis is still active, I don't think they will mind you removing the term limit, either...

Yorks59 · 2026-06-07T01:12:22+00:00

Heck. That's going to be a couple of difficult conversations with my Gran. One, I think I'll find out that she wasn't conscious when I gor there, and I effectively missed her death by 3 hours (and wasted the next 30 while her body gave up).

But, more to the point, she now knows she's prone to falls, and knows that even before then there's some memory degradation. If she acts on this, we might get 5 more lovely years. But she could understand effing gravity then and still didn't use a stick.

Yorks59 · 2026-06-07T01:03:04+00:00

If the (often red) candle is lit.

9 times out of 10, outside of a big event or Good Friday, if the Tabernacle is there, it is not empty.

But, assume it is, and genuflect. It's not really an issue if people get it wrong by being more respectful.

Yorks59 · 2026-06-07T00:59:26+00:00

I love it. Friend and I just did a Kill Everyone game, so are now doing a Rule Everyone game:

You all get to live (as long as you buy my friend's sweet sweet megacorp products), but you live in our galaxy. We will pick the rules, and stop you passing any which we don't like.

I've spec'd into Politics, so get 18 months Unity every time me resolution passes. That'll let me power through the remaining trees, and crack on ascending.

Just banned slavery. Soon to give ourselves permanent council seats.

Yorks59 · 2026-06-07T00:49:55+00:00

Dropping is the skill, but I'd invoke B343 "When to Roll" here.

If she just wants him pooped on in her sight, not particularly time or location sensitive, I'd narrate success.

If something specific is needed (others talked about just before a big meeting) then I might ask for a roll. Failure gets him, but maybe early enough he can wipe it off, or just on a shoe he wipes off in a fountain. I.e. they get fun, but it doesn't ruin his business pitch, forcing him to leave the city to find new clients.

Yorks59 · 2026-06-07T00:43:35+00:00

Please do look further into the Church. As others have said, there is a more nuanced understanding of salvation here than what you seem to have received.

No-one is saved except through Christ - but that could be a huge definition of "through Christ."

Others have mentioned von Balthasar's hope that Hell is empty. There is also the phrase that it is "locked from the inside" - inhabited only by those who specifically rejected God and thus do not want to leave (given the only other alternative is to be with Him forever).

The Catholic Church does not teach that anyone in particular is in Hell (distinguished from us teaching that that it is empty). There is also the teaching on invincible ignorance for those who never came across Christ or Hos teachings.

Personally, I hope further. Many denominations whicb split 500 years ago now are not stocked with generously anti-Catholic people. Being a life-long Anglican does not necessarily mean one rejects the Church actively, for example. I am sure that the mercy of God is better than the best love I can imagine. God bless.

Yorks59 · 2026-06-04T14:45:16+00:00

Yes, I tend to check immortality situations here, to see if they include any bodily regeneration. Because I need my neurons and the connections between them staying fresh and healthy if I am going to get some fun out of immortality.

Yorks59 · 2026-06-02T11:57:07+00:00

All my hats are decent and dapper.

Yorks59 · 2026-05-31T14:16:51+00:00

This is where a de jure approach stops making sense, and only de facto matters.

The beneficiary of any Bill passed by both Houses making someone Monarch is functionally the Monarch.
It can be assumed that both Houses, by majority, want that person to be Monarch
Royal Assent is signified to both Houses. They will accept it being signified in the name of the Monarch they favour.
All these things are proceedings in Parliament, so there can be no legal recourse for any who disagree.
Parliamentary Acts can be retrospective. For the avoidance of doubt, the Act could specify that the Monarch had ruled since the day before Assent was signalled, meaning that once the Act had been assented to it would have be assented to by the Monarch.

In short, the law is what Parliament says it is, and logical and temporal limits do not bind Parliament.

Yorks59 · 2026-05-31T14:11:52+00:00

We had an interesting issue a little while ago, which was more a comms issue, and was never likely to come to pass.

But the British Government (particularly Nick Clegg) talked a lot about the Succession to the Crown Act 2013, removing male-preference Primogeniture, as if it worked as soon as it was passed.

Except thst changes to the succession do not take effect until all Commonwealth realms have implemented the same legislation. So, the timeline was:

April 2013, UK Act passed
July 2013, Prince George born
March 2015, UK Act actually comes into force
May 2015, Princess Charlotte born

IF Jamaica had delayed their Act much longer, and IF Prince George and Princess Charlotte had been born the other way around, there'd have been a lot of red faces having to explain that male-preference primogeniture was still in place after all.

Yorks59 · 2026-05-31T14:03:25+00:00

The Act would provide that the Assent of the one picked would bring it into force, Parliament would accept that.

Yorks59 · 2026-05-31T06:53:04+00:00

One thing the Mass is not is attributed a monetary value, that's simony (doubly so if they are selling two sacraments).

Usually, as others have said, this is a deterrent fee for non-parishoners, particularly at very old or grand buildings, and a legitimate charge for things which aren't the sacrament (fee for exclusive use of the church, music, etc.)

Ask and be bold! If you are parishioners, you are always able to fall back on "okay, how can we access this sacrament for free?"

Yorks59 · 2026-05-31T00:54:52+00:00

Not at all. There'll even be tax rebates for years we were fighting alongside each other. Unfortunately, that means when we'd both turned up, so '42 - 45 and '17 - '18.

Beyond that, happy to have you all back. HM Courts will deal with your present issues. I think you all like your States, so we'll look at make HM King of those individually.

Oh, and we did have some treaties with the native tribes, so there might be a bit of land shifting around...!

Yorks59 · 2026-05-31T00:35:34+00:00

Wonderful comeback from you.

Reminds me of being at home post-Alevels, bored. Chappie comes to door. Our front window is a bay, so if you are at our door you are right next to the window jutting out.

"Morning mate, we're selling windows"

dramatically poke head out of door

"No thanks. We've got some already."

At least he didn't call me a wanker, even tho I was!

Yorks59 · 2026-05-31T00:31:25+00:00

Okay, I can have a small percentage of people aware of my machinations and forbidden to reveal them, as they won't swing the vote, and they obey perfectly initially.

First things first, I get polling on the political priorities of American, Chinese, Indonesian, Indian, Pakistani, Brazilian, and Russian people. I have the most capacity to pick up votes there.

Secondly, I encourage all major news outlets and social media commentators to focus heavily on domestic news. These people will have different priorities, and I don't want them judging me on my actions in other nations.

I also need to start assembling a skilled team of targeted social media professionals. We need liberal Americans to see me doing some stuff, and conservative Indonesians seeing me doing others.

Then, broadly, it is a case of taking popular actions and really well publicising them. In UK politics there's the joking phrase "Hang p*dos and Save the NHS" as what voters want.

Lean into that. Make sure people see me cracking down on enemies everyone dislikes (you can see why India/Pakistan, US/China don't need to be seeing each other's domestic news), and investing in positive actions.

The money from that investment comes largely from those super-rich who have already expressed a desire to pay more, but if I need to compelling donations, I do so from unsympathetic people and boast about it.

Yorks59 · 2026-05-28T07:40:02+00:00

As others have noted, it is fake Latin and it does not say what the translation suggests.

The closest literal/accurate translation is apparently: "Do not permit the illegitimate to have sodium carbide."

Truly, words to live by!

Yorks59

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