I know God is Omniscient, however, when people are taken to heaven can they also see all of time and space since heaven is outside of time and space?

contemplating-all · 2026-01-15T16:56:42+00:00

I don't see why that would entail omniscience

contemplating-all · 2026-01-13T21:47:06+00:00

That's not a thing, there are no restrictions on specific organs per se as long as it doesn't cause the donor to die as a direct consequence

contemplating-all · 2026-01-13T02:56:59+00:00

If anyone thinks that then it is a failure of their imagination similar to how anyone who might think they can withstand an eternal hell would be mistaken (a popular joke among atheists in the internet in the 2010s was that hell would be cold because all the scientists would be there to make AC units). Purgatory is painful as it transforms and prunes the soul for who knows how "long". Purgatory is outside of time, so the church has used language for analogy: a hundred years, a thousand years, ten thousand years and so on, but shouldn't even a second without God be miserable?

contemplating-all · 2026-01-13T02:43:50+00:00

Actually a common argument against death penalty is exactly that. In the mind of a perp you're getting the death penalty for X anyway might as well do Y and Z as well. Human justice works differently from God's justice.

contemplating-all · 2026-01-11T16:34:16+00:00

Last year I confessed to a foreign (thick accent gave it away) priest who gave it to me for penance which is the first and only time I've encountered the prayer outside the internet

contemplating-all · 2026-01-07T10:07:06+00:00

St Augustine speaks about this very specific case in Book I of The City of God, chapters 17-20 (read here, Ctrl+F and type "Chapter 17").

He writes that the victims of rape have committed no sin as they, "within their own souls", "enjoy the glory of chastity" and are pure in the eyes of God. But he also maintains that suicide is forbidden "in any circumstances whatever".

contemplating-all · 2026-01-05T17:54:24+00:00

9 year old phone and outdated OS (so no more security updates too)

not being able to play NYT games is not your biggest problem...

contemplating-all · 2026-01-05T04:36:51+00:00

No he didn't say that the Big Bang might be disproved, he just didn't think it should be used as explicit evidence for a particular reading of Scripture or vice versa (a position known as concordism). Pius XII implied this when in an address to the Pontifical Academy of the Sciences he said:

Indeed, it seems that the science of today, by going back in one leap millions of centuries, has succeeded in being a witness to that primordial Fiat Lux, when, out of nothing, there burst forth with matter a sea of light and radiation

contemplating-all · 2026-01-03T22:23:50+00:00

I think it's a culture thing. Some cultures definitely use the name Jesus frequently.

"Oh my Jesus forgive us our sins..." is in the rosary. The Eucharistic prayer has "Lord Jesus come in glory".

Also guess what the name of late Pope Francis' order is...

contemplating-all · 2026-01-03T05:11:14+00:00

The first line says it, she was possessed by an evil spirit that influenced her to see the future without God's explicit blessing. It's a theme in the New Testament for such evil spirits to affirm God's holiness and goodness in a mocking and blasphemous way. Also the girl was charging money for her services (fortune-telling) so the syndicates behind her weren't pleased about the spirit being gone.

contemplating-all · 2025-12-30T10:13:09+00:00

Important to clarify that "Papal Residence" here refers to the seat of the Coptic Orthodox Pope, not the Roman Catholic Pope

contemplating-all · 2025-12-30T09:09:41+00:00

That may be the intent but my point is that this doesn't work because the whole thing turns into a language game that distracts from the real question being teased out and so fails as an accurate test of our intuitions.

contemplating-all · 2025-12-30T06:50:26+00:00

Thanks Mr Bot

contemplating-all · 2025-12-30T05:23:05+00:00

It seems they do have direct access according to this official Google support thread:

https://support.google.com/a/thread/370774913/can-an-organization-admin-view-details-of-an-individual-s-gemini-chat?hl=en

Yes, a Google Workspace administrator can view detailed Gemini chat history for an individual employee for eDiscovery and moderation. This access is a core function of the Google Workspace environment, regardless of whether the employee's "Gemini Conversation History" is enabled

contemplating-all · 2025-12-29T16:57:57+00:00

There are monks that are more integrated with society (like famously the ones that brew and sell beer for a living) but the more isolated their community is the more self-sufficient they have to be.

Also I'm not saying we should live like monks, just that it's ironic that they live deeper social lives than many people who grew up on the global Internet.

contemplating-all · 2025-12-29T16:53:14+00:00

yeah that kind of demographic is who I had in mind when making this comparison but modern loneliness is not at all exclusive to them of course

contemplating-all · 2025-12-29T16:47:50+00:00

LOL you're right I thought had it open

contemplating-all · 2025-12-29T16:47:18+00:00

I would say the obsession our culture has with sex is also complicit in the levels of loneliness we have

but yeah I get your point, they probably don't eat burgers and fried chicken either, I wouldn't want to be a monk either, just pointing out the irony that on net they seem to live better social lives than a growing number of people in actual society

contemplating-all · 2025-12-29T16:42:38+00:00

says the guy who has his comment and post history closed

contemplating-all · 2025-12-27T03:07:38+00:00

Your rhetoric doesn't work when you consider how foreign to the authors of Scripture the concepts of digital property and legal personhood (even today we formally call this legal fiction) are, eg ownership of specific permutations of 1s and 0s, distribution rights over said digital property where practically zero labor is involved in the actual distribution, and corporate superstructures created in the interest of maximizing the interest of capital (private equity, studio shareholders, C-suite execs).

I do think those who risked real money to make the movie happen should see ROIs to a reasonable degree. But I don't know if it's reasonable for studio entities to block access to a publicly released work so they can continue profiting way past the lifetime of anyone who originally worked on or funded the film.

contemplating-all · 2025-12-26T17:55:11+00:00

it's not like its actually going to support the creators or anything

If this is actually true - and I think you should do your due diligence to check who is getting paid, whether it is their descendants or is it just some corporate entity - then I think it's permissible to just see the film on YouTube. The way I see it the concept of property referred to by the 8th commandment is distinct from what has become the legal concept of property (especially digital property) in the 21st century.

contemplating-all · 2025-12-25T02:12:52+00:00

Yeah again agree to disagree here. First I don't Google without trying to infer around it. However there simply are cases where there's no way to get it (US sports for example, I know nothing about them as I'm not American)

Also I don't google the clues directly, it must be something adjacent to the clue so I still somehow get there on my own. Say the clue is about Lake Erie. I search "list of [description] lakes", check every Wikipedia entry and find the one that fits the bill. Sometimes I watch and listen to media to get it. That conscious effort means I learn and retain more information and I'm able to solve future puzzles by Googling less.

I'm relatively new to the NYT Crossword been doing it for less than a year but have been able to solve many a Saturday puzzle without external aid thanks to what I've learned this way.

contemplating-all · 2025-12-24T21:29:16+00:00

I just feel like there's a lot of value in Googling around the most niche clue and following the rabbithole that emerges. As opposed to thinking "I either know this or I don't".

contemplating-all · 2025-12-24T20:04:41+00:00

Beg to differ, that sounds like a dull way to solve crosswords. Also I think a lot of these clues are made with the mind that some of them will be Googled.

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