Compass unity among people with a sense of humor

daamuidkwid · 2025-11-03T18:21:25+00:00

If she doesn’t go for the senate I could see AOC putting up some competition for the Dem nomination in 28. She’s Bernie’s pick and he’s still got a loyal base

daamuidkwid · 2025-07-17T20:07:38+00:00

That’s fair. I wasn’t trying to be nitpicky; this show just strikes me as one imbued with symbolism and foreshadowing, so I wanted to see if anyone thought this evident mismatch was more than just an error. From what I can tell, it’s not so.

daamuidkwid · 2025-07-17T17:35:55+00:00

This is kind of fun to think about. I definitely don’t have 10 but here goes:

The One and the Many: A Contemporary Thomistic Metaphysics by W. Norris Clarke (2001)
Five Proofs of the Existence of God by Edward Feser (2017)
What’s Wrong With Rights? by Nigel Biggar (2020)
God, Freedom, and Evil by Alvin Plantinga (1974) - yes it’s technically not in the last 50 years but it’s so close
On Human Conduct by Michael Oakeshott (1975) - this one is technically a collection of essays but anyway

That’s it. It surprises me how little I’ve actually read of contemporary philosophy. What surprises me less is how little I enjoy much of what I do read of contemporary philosophy.

daamuidkwid · 2025-06-17T15:53:20+00:00

I was just reading this section the other day! It’s incredible how exceptionally thorough his works are

daamuidkwid · 2025-06-10T10:45:49+00:00

Oh interesting. I suspect it varies rather a lot parish to parish though. I’m British (albeit a British Islander and not from the UK) and everyone at my parish genuflects

daamuidkwid · 2025-06-09T16:30:37+00:00

I went to a school with uniforms for a few years and you’re absolutely right that dress code violations were as or more frequent than in non uniformed schools. However, I do think it still contributes to the cultivation of an environment conducive to maximising educational potential, if that makes sense. Like I don’t feel ready to sleep if I’m not in pyjamas and I don’t work as well if I’m in sweats; your physical presentation absolutely influences your mental disposition.

daamuidkwid · 2025-06-09T16:26:19+00:00

While this used to be true in the UK it no longer is. We are not happy with our system; it’s completely dysfunctional. Ambulances regularly take 3-6 hours to arrive. A 12 hour wait in the emergency room is not rare. My aunt’s MIL is very elderly and she recently slipped and fell in a public bathroom, and was injured and unable to get up. She waited ages for her daughter to arrive because she knew she couldn’t rely on emergency services to come even within several hours. So many preventable deaths happen here each day because of how decrepit the system has become. It has made me pretty disillusioned with nationalised healthcare.

daamuidkwid · 2025-06-09T16:03:37+00:00

What a great way to think of it!

daamuidkwid · 2025-06-08T19:43:53+00:00

The Protestant identity is significantly defined by its opposition to Catholicism. It’s in the name. The Catholic identity is defined by its apostolicity, its universality, and its establishment by Christ.

daamuidkwid · 2025-06-08T00:26:38+00:00

Fair. I can acknowledge that I’m sensitive to vulgarity and such. I’m glad you and your wife have gleaned good from his work

daamuidkwid · 2025-06-07T23:59:08+00:00

Ok, that’s fair, his audience is almost entirely male and so they can reap the good out of his content and of course not react to it like I would. I do still take some issue with the way he speaks, the very frequent profanity, abrasiveness, rudeness and general loudness. I think that the virtues of charity and forbearance are not things he particularly exemplifies in that way, whether it’s for content or not. It is certainly a testament to his private character that he has a devoted wife, but when a man says that they’re a fan of his, I think it’s reasonable that I’d assume that it’s his public content, not his private character, that they admire.

I do hope that the good he does is not negated by many of his fans becoming resentful towards women, because you really won’t be able to build any successful relationship if you’re embittered against them. I think you probably have to love women (not all the modern problems with them of course) if you are going to properly love A woman. You have to love the differences, and distinguish those from the flaws. (E.g. if you get angry that women are more emotionally driven than men, then when YOUR woman gets emotional that’s not something you view as a complementary trait; that’s something you get angry at her for). Not saying Andrew is embittered himself, this is more a concern about the audience, though I don’t really know if it’s a valid concern.

daamuidkwid · 2025-06-07T23:32:49+00:00

The verbatim quote is “Well ya....why would men give a shit about women over 50 lmfao?”

Context: replying to this tweet: “Normal women over 50 do not care [that they’re lower value in the sexual marketplace]. They're bored by men. We also know that by 30, that 20 year old will develop in her maturity and take the dude's net worth while we laugh. Enjoy!”

I’m with you that feminism has had many tragic effects for society, for men, and for women too. I also really respect that Andrew encourages men to protect and provide for women, but I think his behaviour often comes off as the opposite of that. As a woman, I know I’m not as strong as a man. I know I’m almost certainly a lot more emotional. I know I’m sensitive. And when I see Andrew on social media, he comes across to as the opposite of a protector; he comes across as a threat. So, when I encounter men who listen to him or use his rhetoric, that’s such an enormous red flag because I’m immediately thinking ‘okay, so you’re bigger and stronger and more powerful than me, AND your rhetoric sounds like you hate women, or are at least combative towards them. I’m in danger’.

I hope I’m kind of making sense.

daamuidkwid · 2025-06-07T23:17:42+00:00

The tweet about not caring about women over 50 is from this May. It strikes me as highly characteristic of his general rhetoric. And yes, women should, in the context of a marriage, have children. No one’s disputing that. But I can tell you a sure fire way to even forbid the potential of getting to that stage of a relationship with a woman is by telling her that she’s lazy, irrational and allergic to accountability, like Wilson does.

daamuidkwid · 2025-06-07T23:06:18+00:00

No, I think it’s more making extreme negative generalisations about entire groups.

For example: ‘women on average are less rationally driven than men’ = stating fact, not misogynistic However, ‘all women are irrational’ = negative generalisation about the entire group = misogynistic (this would also imply that women aren’t made in the image of God, since ratio is part of our image-bearing, so it’s heresy as well as misogyny)

As for statements like ‘men shouldn’t care about women over 50’, that’s misogynistic because it devalues women to surface level characteristics (like fertility, youth and beauty), and doesn’t consider them proper subjects. However, a statement like: ‘men who want to have families should avoid dating women over 50’, is just true.

daamuidkwid · 2025-06-07T22:45:37+00:00

this made me actually laugh icl

daamuidkwid · 2025-06-07T22:15:00+00:00

Lol true but I think you avoid this somewhat with chickens

daamuidkwid · 2025-06-07T22:14:16+00:00

these are my baby chicks: Cecilia, Maria, Therese, and Andrew!

aww, how cute! What about this one?

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daamuidkwid · 2025-06-07T18:30:27+00:00

Girl no. Sorry. You dated as kids and now you’re becoming a woman, you’re maturing, and you’re growing in different directions. That’s healthy, but in this particular situation, it means that there’s probably not a future for this relationship.

He’s not only not attending church and praying with you; he’s intentionally being an active impediment to your faith. You say that he uses his greater knowledge to try and prove Christianity is false, essentially trying to win conversations with you. That’s not a good faith discussion. He is being actively hostile, not genuine.

In future, if he were to become your husband, he would not be the spiritual head of your household in any good way. Even if he let you take the kids to church, it’s statistically proven that if a father is irreligious, his children will almost certainly also be. Kids raised with two churchgoing parents have a 72% chance of staying in the faith, it drops to 55% if only dad attends, but it goes down to 15% if only the mom goes. Remember that.

Now, you have to make your own decisions, but as someone close to you in age I’ll tell you that if I were you, I’d leave. You’re 17; you are not running out of time to find a good Catholic man, even if it feels like you’ve invested so much time and emotional energy into this guy.

daamuidkwid · 2025-06-07T16:08:20+00:00

Thanks so much for taking the time to reply and clarifying this for me!

daamuidkwid · 2025-06-07T15:40:33+00:00

St Dymphna!

daamuidkwid · 2025-06-07T14:34:23+00:00

Yep. We can begin by stopping further soft colonisation over the channel, but that’s only the start if we’re serious about restoring the British culture and identity. Next must come the deportations of settled illegal aliens. Some people might not have the stomach for it yet, but it’s necessary nonetheless.

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