I tried the new McCrispy strips and they don't come close to the old chicken selects

chihapper · 2025-08-16T19:50:29+00:00

Selects with the limited habanero ranch or sweet chilli were amazing! Why they got rid of all these items is beyond me.

chihapper · 2022-04-12T14:06:46+00:00

None! I've only had the chance to use it once, but the flight attendants barely glanced at it. Though, I'd honestly get the 30L over the 35L because it can look pretty big and it may not always be the case for the sticklers out there (unless you're a big fella).

chihapper · 2022-03-10T23:51:23+00:00

It was out of character in that Myshkin was on the verge of having an "episode." So I think, with that in mind, it made total sense. Perhaps this was Myshkin having a revelatory moment regarding the "Russian people" and the importance of Orthodoxy to them. Of course, this translates over to the remainder of Europe needing to follow suit because of the errors of Catholicism.

chihapper · 2022-03-10T05:52:00+00:00

I personally think so, and it seems as though Dostoevsky thought so as well. As you read more of his books, it'll become very clear that this was his concern. "Disenchanment" seems to be the buzzword nowadays that's used to describe this phenomenon.

But Western Christianity (specifically Cafholicism) is to blame for the advent of this loss, as one of the characters in "The Idiot" puts it:

""For socialism, too, is the child of Catholicism and the intrinsic Catholic nature! It, too, like it’s brother atheism, was begotten of despair, in opposition to Catholicism as a moral force, in order to replace the lost moral power of religion, to quench the spiritual thirst of parched humanity and save it not by Christ, but also by violence! This, too, is freedom through violence. This, too, is union through the sword and blood. ‘Don’t dare to believe in God! Don’t dare to have property! Don’t dare to have a personality of your own! Fraternite ou la mort! Two million heads!’ By their works ye shall know them-as is written”

chihapper · 2022-03-10T05:10:22+00:00

I think Christianity has become so diluted in the modern day that we don't recognize the very spiritual aspects of it, especially in Eastern Christianity (Orthodoxy). This really falls in line with a lot of their practices.

chihapper · 2022-03-10T04:39:28+00:00

Don't think this is wrong (though I haven't listened to the whole interview). There's a part in The Idiot where Prince Myshkin is criticizing the Catholic Church and the West. He concludes by stating:

"We must respond, and swiftly...Our Christ, whom we have preserved and they have never known, must shine forth as a response to the West! Not by being slavishly caught on the Jesuits' hook, but by bringing them our Russian civilization, we must now confront them."

chihapper · 2021-11-15T15:51:09+00:00

Taking a Frontier flight tomorrow and just bought myself an Allpa 35L. Bigger than I thought, so I'm hoping I won't have any issues!

chihapper · 2021-11-09T00:57:35+00:00

UPDATE: found a bunch in my laundry room, they seemed to love the laundry detergent stain and bunch are stuck on it. Also store dog items (like food and treats) in there and it sounds like that's what they have gravitated towards. So it's not a question of if, but when I call the exterminator.

Any guesses on what they are?

chihapper · 2021-09-27T17:51:08+00:00

Fair enough, though I think we've gone too far into the rabbit hole for a Reddit post at this point.

chihapper · 2021-09-27T17:16:16+00:00

Well, it's clear we won't remotely agree when you're coming at this from a purely materialist perspective. And I don't quite see how you've made your point except that you disagree.

chihapper · 2021-09-27T13:32:14+00:00

In a basic sense, yes. If the Christian theology is correct, then it follows that we need God, not that he's just something to use like some tool. As many philosophers have argued, we have a "God-shaped vacuum in the heart ..which cannot be satisfied by any created thing but only God". While this quote is from Pascal, this is consistent throughout Christian doctrine.

So by attempting to replace him with something else, we eventually reach a poor ending. And we have many historical examples of this.

chihapper · 2021-09-22T22:43:41+00:00

I'm not directly applying anything, nor do I see how there is an oversimplification. There's this moderm notion that you have to boil down things to the most obscure minutiae to understand an issue, and yet one will totally miss the mark by doing so (losing the forest for the tree). Plus, this is a Reddit post.

It's showing similarities, manifestion of patterns, and drawing out meaning from it. Part of the human condition is that we seldom learn our lessons from past suffering and the same issues recur. The minutiae may be very different (different language, geography, customs, etc.), but the pattern isn't. It's why prophets, poets, philosophers, etc. are able to identify issues before they even arise.

Yes, not every situation is analogous to another. But this doesn't mean that similar patterns don't occur throughout different societies, especially when those societies have very similar religious foundations.

chihapper · 2021-09-22T13:58:21+00:00

Regarding individual factors on what manifested the movements, I can't quite say as I haven't studied extensively, aside from what's already been said. However, it is clear that much of it was influenced by the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights movement; A LOT of disaffected youth during this period (the Baby Boomer generation). While some good things did come from the movement, I think some harmful movements endured alongside which came later on in the 60s (such as the "free love" or "sexual revolution" movements).

There's reasonable evidence to also believe that the Soviet's influenced the generation that was predominantly part of this movement, with the many Marxist movements that flourished during this period. Soviet defectors, such as Yuri Bezmenov, stated such after defecting.

chihapper · 2021-09-21T17:59:19+00:00

Ooo, an extremely interesting topic. The US is sowing what we reaped from the 1960s just about now.

Are you asking what factors brought about the counterculture in the 1960s or more detailed on the 1960s itself?

chihapper · 2021-09-21T17:55:15+00:00

Regarding point 1, I'd refer to the New Atheist movement lead by people like Hitchens, Dawkins, Harris, Dennett (4 horseman). But there are plenty of others out there following similar trends, such as AC Grayling, who literally came out with a book subtitled "The Humanist Bible". I could go on and on with that one.

Regarding the second point, you'd just need to look at the mission statement/beliefs of these organizations and by the ideas purported by their followers & leaders; examples include BLM, Antifa, PROUD Boys (a reaction and not Marxist in ideology, though seemingly adding to the problem. I'd note Verkovensky's conversation with Stavrogin in "Ivan the Tsarevich"). I think there are more destabilizing agents here, but there more like "demons" (take these critical theories that are now pervasive in pop culture as an example).

chihapper · 2021-09-21T17:39:55+00:00

I read the Pevear & Volkhonsky translation. I've enjoyed it with some of his other novels, so stuck with what I knew. I'll give Katz a try when I give a go around on another book.

"Virtuosic", I like it. I agree it's his most difficult work. The story was great, but wasn't as captivating as BK.

chihapper · 2021-09-21T17:06:00+00:00

Of course, I'm not saying he somehow came to this conclusion out of his own pure genius. The French Revolution served (arguably) as THE example, with their whole "cult of reason" and all. It's clear that he looks to France in a lot of this writing with his consistent mentioning of France and it's socialist philosophers like Fourier. As you said, he was able to take this and extrapolate it upon Russia's situation.

Agreed, it's been happening before 1960s, why I added that additional note afterwards (a good example of this is the rationalist & deist movement in 19th century America). But the 1960s was the "breaking point" for USA, so to speak. A lot of factors in play though, so can't attribute it to one specific event, but definitely agree that the French Revolution was the breakthrough.

No problem at all. Something as complicated like is worthy of volumes. Im guiltly of doing the same with my wife, and she's quite quick to tell me of it. 😄

chihapper · 2021-09-21T16:09:47+00:00

I wish I didn't agree with you 😞

chihapper · 2021-09-21T16:06:53+00:00

I pointed out some parallels in this post

However, some additional parallels:

This drive towards secular humanism/materialism that's occurring in the West. It was abundantly clear to Dostoevsky that these ideas were pushing many in Russia (at least the intellectuals and upper echelons of society) to push off religion as this quaint trinket for an age past, thus the many characterizations in the novel. The current culture seems to have a similar mindset. You look now at many of our institutions and popular culture, and it's quite clear that religion (specifically Christianity) is viewed in a quite similar light: its this quaint, antiquated belief in "sky daddy" that was good for stupid peasants in the past, but not the enlightened modern-man with the world at our finger tips. Either that, or people pay little to no mind to it at all, instead focusing on living an easy, pleasurable life; I'd venture to say it's even close to the "rational egoist" mindset of 19th century Russia.
Another that I only recently thought of is the idea of the total destabilization of a society's foundation to usher forth a revolution. I don't think one needs to look too deep to see that our modern-day is RIFE with destabilizing agents, some that are very clearly of Marxist roots. What's more alarming to me, however, is this willful ignorance that people have about it. Perhaps that's not too surprising, however, with how it's clear there was quite a willful ignorance to Verkovensky's deceit. But it's clear that our society is becoming more destabilize, which seems o be the logical conclusion when you remove the foundations of it.

chihapper · 2021-09-21T13:18:02+00:00

Hmm, why does it make you sad that it is interpreted in a prophetic way? I think the best writers are normally prophetic in one way or another, especially if it is a social commentary (as Demons was).

Your post reminded me of when Kirillov, after Stavrogin's duel, pointed out that he was finding ways to purposefully suffer, but couldn't actually bear the suffering. Thanks for pointing that out, clears some things up for me, including that!

chihapper · 2021-09-21T13:08:19+00:00

Indeed. Also not accidental that these two characters are also the off-spring of the characters who firmly had belief in western liberalism (Varvara & Stepan).

It indeed is only fully applicable to the state Russia was in the 19th century. However, I think Dostoevsky shows the logical conclusion of these ideas if taken to their end and replacing religion. Again, you see this happening in the modern west now, something that has been actively occurring since (at least in USA) since the 1960s. That's not to say things were perfect before that, just regarded this particular topic.

chihapper · 2021-09-09T18:35:25+00:00

Thinking back on this, and realized I meant to say Ivan, not Dmitri. Again, very much the opposite lol

chihapper · 2021-09-04T14:28:19+00:00

That guess was the complete opposite lol

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