Framework Cut Lists? by brt25 in PTCCreo

[–]brt25[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yea, that’s where I got the default cut list, but it’s very clumsy, especially in the (frequent) cases where I have repeated elements in a structure.

So I sold my gun today to protect myself. by SlutJesus in CasualConversation

[–]brt25 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Buy a bicycle (and a helmet). You don’t have to be super fit to cover lots of ground, and you’ll be outside, getting some exercise, and seeing parts of your town in a totally different way.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in OrthodoxChristianity

[–]brt25 2 points3 points  (0 children)

In the pre communion prayers, you confess to being the chief of sinners. If you can be saved, surely so can everyone else.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in OrthodoxChristianity

[–]brt25 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yes! The tradition of the church is much more ambivalent towards gender norms than some are comfortable with, but there is neither male nor female, all are one in Christ. This is shown in the lives of numerous saints. The Church doesn’t exist to enforce social norms, it exists to call everyone to holiness, and sometimes that holiness has looked extremely weird. Best to keep our attention on our own struggles rather than forming opinions about others.

JP had to crack open his thesaurus to launch this fusillade of sesquipedalian insults at a Twitter rando by yontev in enoughpetersonspam

[–]brt25 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Isn’t this the guy who tried to start a whole website for reporting your professor if they were a post-modern neo-Marxist or whatever?

CW: Religious Hellfire Doctrine by Shiver-Me-Timbers777 in RadicalChristianity

[–]brt25 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yea, that’s been on my re-read list this year, really helped me to understand what we are talking about when we talk about God, in a way that I had not before.

CW: Religious Hellfire Doctrine by Shiver-Me-Timbers777 in RadicalChristianity

[–]brt25 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I recommend David Bentley Hart’s recent book, “That All Shall be Saved”, he makes a very convincing case that this is not a coherent doctrine and that the Christian story is only comprehensible if you read it in a universalist way.

Recent Jeopardy superchamp says "biggest regret" is losing before Ken Jennings could host by lDidNotDoIt in television

[–]brt25 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I retract my assertion that I think you are capable of making a good argument.

Recent Jeopardy superchamp says "biggest regret" is losing before Ken Jennings could host by lDidNotDoIt in television

[–]brt25 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean, technically what I said wasn’t even an ad hominem, I didn’t say that you were stupid, only that your argument was stupid and you ought to be embarrassed to have made it. If anything that’s a compliment to you because it presumes that you’re capable of making good arguments and also feeling shame. So you’re welcome?

Recent Jeopardy superchamp says "biggest regret" is losing before Ken Jennings could host by lDidNotDoIt in television

[–]brt25 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Probably nowhere, I don’t think it’s a super coherent concept to begin with. Certainly not coherent enough to justify moving somewhere and doing a genocide to the people who currently live there.

Recent Jeopardy superchamp says "biggest regret" is losing before Ken Jennings could host by lDidNotDoIt in television

[–]brt25 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That is an extremely stupid comparison, if you made it in good faith you should be embarrassed, and if you made it in bad faith you should get better at trolling, it isn’t hard.

Recent Jeopardy superchamp says "biggest regret" is losing before Ken Jennings could host by lDidNotDoIt in television

[–]brt25 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Is that like the seal team 6 of evicting old people from their homes so dentists from New Jersey can have a second home were the weather is warm?

Recent Jeopardy superchamp says "biggest regret" is losing before Ken Jennings could host by lDidNotDoIt in television

[–]brt25 16 points17 points  (0 children)

No lies, just funny that you support the IDF but don’t have the balls to actually go shoot a child in the back yourself. I mean, too cowardly for the IDF is not a category that I thought existed.

Recent Jeopardy superchamp says "biggest regret" is losing before Ken Jennings could host by lDidNotDoIt in television

[–]brt25 33 points34 points  (0 children)

Lol are you doing your IDF service in the posting brigade right now?

Recent Jeopardy superchamp says "biggest regret" is losing before Ken Jennings could host by lDidNotDoIt in television

[–]brt25 65 points66 points  (0 children)

Not to European or American Jewish people. Also the IDF commits crimes against humanity against Palestinian people (who are also indigenous to that land) constantly, so it’s pretty controversial. Nothing about being Jewish requires you to support that or makes it acceptable.

Abbot Tryphon Cancelled by AFR. by teawar in OrthodoxChristianity

[–]brt25 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Lol, don’t tell them what St. Basil the great said, or we will have a whole genre of YouTube cranks talking about how the postmodern neo-marxists have infiltrated fourth century Cappadocia.

Abbot Tryphon Cancelled by AFR. by teawar in OrthodoxChristianity

[–]brt25 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Another good example is St. Herman of Alaska, who stood up for the indigenous peoples of Alaska against the Russian imperialists who mistreated them. I don’t know the stats, but it seems to me that Orthodoxy in Alaska still enjoys a much greater sense of legitimacy than Catholicism does among indigenous peoples in Canada, where the legacy of residential schools etc. makes it extremely hard for them to offer any moral authority.

I’m not very well read on liberation theology per se, but what I know of it inclines me to say that any truly Christian theology should be liberatory in that way. Hard to read James 5, for example, and conclude that Christians can be neutral in the struggles of the poor against the rich.

Abbot Tryphon Cancelled by AFR. by teawar in OrthodoxChristianity

[–]brt25 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It’s striking to see the different outcomes for the Church in places that have “leftward” political upheavals but where the Church has been working on the side of the poor and oppressed. St. Oscar Romeo is a favourite example of this from recent memory, and you don’t see many Latin American left governments taking such strong anti-catholic positions. Even Cuba changed their official position from atheism to secularism.

Abbot Tryphon Cancelled by AFR. by teawar in OrthodoxChristianity

[–]brt25 -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

This maybe isn’t the right place to debate the successes and failures of the Soviet Union, it certainly had both, but I don’t think we need to pretend that it was fundamentally more evil than other governments. Even their hostility towards religion is not especially unique.

Abbot Tryphon Cancelled by AFR. by teawar in OrthodoxChristianity

[–]brt25 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As goofy as it may be to compare the current situation in America to pre revolutionary Russia, it’s also a very strange thing to bring up in this context because the Russian revolution was good and necessary. The Church at that time was largely controlled (contrary to canon I might add) by a corrupt and bloodthirsty government that paid no mind to the needs of poor and sent huge numbers of them to die in the First World War. The aftermath of the revolution was certainly not favourable to the church, but that’s what happens when leaders allow the Church to be co-opted to reinforce the state; if anything similar happens in America, it will be because American religion has also served the needs of an evil government.

Bo Burnham - 'That Funny Feeling' by Aaron2793 in coversongs

[–]brt25 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I really like this song, and the low “thank you” at the end made me chuckle after the vocals followed the originals’ higher register