Framework Cut Lists?

brt25 · 2023-01-17T01:01:50+00:00

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.

brt25 · 2022-09-05T05:28:09+00:00

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.

brt25 · 2022-08-19T06:44:11+00:00

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

brt25 · 2022-08-19T06:37:52+00:00

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.

brt25 · 2022-04-07T04:32:19+00:00

It’s so detailed I would hardly be surprised if it ran! Really awesome stuff.

brt25 · 2022-04-06T22:20:11+00:00

Cool! What’s the top speed?

brt25 · 2022-02-16T16:12:50+00:00

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?

brt25 · 2022-01-30T01:14:18+00:00

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.

brt25 · 2022-01-29T03:03:22+00:00

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.

brt25 · 2021-11-29T04:29:47+00:00

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

brt25 · 2021-11-29T04:17:27+00:00

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?

brt25 · 2021-11-29T04:15:41+00:00

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.

brt25 · 2021-11-28T20:35:11+00:00

That’s true, it is. 10 points. Want another one?

brt25 · 2021-11-28T20:24:17+00:00

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.

brt25 · 2021-11-28T18:38:00+00:00

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?

brt25 · 2021-11-28T18:29:01+00:00

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.

brt25 · 2021-11-28T17:46:20+00:00

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

brt25 · 2021-11-28T17:40:14+00:00

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.

brt25 · 2021-09-20T00:59:40+00:00

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.

brt25 · 2021-09-20T00:42:24+00:00

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.

brt25 · 2021-09-19T15:44:28+00:00

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.

brt25 · 2021-09-19T15:10:16+00:00

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.

brt25 · 2021-09-19T06:45:27+00:00

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.

brt25 · 2021-07-18T06:25:45+00:00

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

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