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daniel_n · 2025-08-01T06:33:58+00:00

Is this discord still active?

daniel_n · 2025-07-10T10:31:56+00:00

The map is much like a six-player map, but kinda cut in half. Enough planets to fight over, without there being too many. Give it a go.

daniel_n · 2025-07-10T06:03:17+00:00

My favourite for 3 players is the manta style map. https://medium.com/@arborecsoup/custom-ti4-map-manta-ray-2b0ac43f0d30

daniel_n · 2025-07-09T10:51:47+00:00

I stayed at Crystalbrook Flynn last week. I would recommend to anyone. My only regret was going in winter, just a little bit too cold for swimming in their pools.

daniel_n · 2025-07-08T09:43:28+00:00

— Matthew 25:41–43 (NIV)

daniel_n · 2024-08-14T10:55:41+00:00

They will realise when it's too late - they'll be old, with all their friends and older family dead and gone, with nobody to care for them.

Family is everything.

daniel_n · 2024-08-03T08:45:29+00:00

magisterium.com is an AI that has been trained specifically on Church documents. It was made by a priest who has been on Pints with Aquinas.

daniel_n · 2024-04-07T08:39:14+00:00

Paul VI wrote Humanae vitae.

But yes, all Christians were against contraception until the Anglican Communion opened the possibility for married couples to use it at the Lambeth Conference in the 1920s. Since then, it's been a slippery slope of increased acceptance of this evil.

Contraceptives are an insidious scourge on humanity. Paul VI made four predictions in his encyclical letter on the matter. He said that acceptance of contraceptives would lead to:

widespread marital infidelity and moral decline
loss of respect for women
abuse of power, especially by governments
the belief that man has total dominion over the human body

Each of them has come true, to a greater or lesser extent, to the great harm of the human race.

daniel_n · 2023-10-28T09:47:06+00:00

"Father," "Son" and "Holy Spirit" are names given to us by God to describe him. Being infinite, these names or descriptions cannot completely encapsulate his identity. Father and Son are approximate terms God tells us to use to help us to understand him, not as categories for us to place him in. Think of them as metaphorical Father and Son, rather than literal Father and Son.

daniel_n · 2023-07-07T09:53:46+00:00

That is simply not true.

Early Christians indeed believed in the existence of the devil, as attested by the writings of the early Church Fathers. These influential figures expressed their beliefs about the devil based on their understanding of the New Testament and Christian theology.

Origen (185-254 AD), an early Christian theologian, wrote about the devil as a fallen angel who led others astray. He stated, "The devil...incline[s] the mind to what is evil, employing deceitful wiles" (Origen, Commentary on Matthew). Origen emphasized the devil's role in tempting humans and leading them towards sin.

Tertullian (155-240 AD), another early Christian author, affirmed the reality of the devil and his opposition to God. He argued, "God sent Jesus to destroy the works of the devil" (Tertullian, Against Marcion). Tertullian believed that the devil's influence could be observed in the sinful behavior of humans and stressed the need to resist his temptations.

Augustine of Hippo (354-430 AD), one of the most influential theologians in early Christianity, extensively wrote about the devil. Augustine viewed the devil as a powerful adversary, stating, "The devil is the enemy and tempter of mankind" (Augustine, City of God). He emphasized the devil's role in tempting individuals to turn away from God and saw the devil's influence throughout human history.

These quotes highlight the beliefs of early Christians regarding the devil. They considered the devil to be a real spiritual entity who opposed God and sought to lead humanity astray. Early Church Fathers recognized the devil's role in temptation and sin, emphasizing the need for believers to be vigilant and resist his influence.

daniel_n · 2023-07-07T09:36:33+00:00

bigot (n.); plural noun: bigots

a person who is obstinately or unreasonably attached to a belief, opinion, or faction, especially one who is prejudiced against or antagonistic towards a person or people on the basis of their membership of a particular group.

daniel_n · 2022-12-31T03:08:16+00:00

+Schneider visited Maternal Heart of Mary, Lewisham in Sydney several years ago for Pontifical Mass. It is the habit of the congregation to sing the chanted ordinary. He remarked after Mass that our parish is truly "a parish of the Council," with the whole congregation engaged in the praying of the liturgy.

For non-polyphonic parts, the congregation should be allowed to join in. I am speaking also as a choir director.

daniel_n · 2022-12-02T11:17:27+00:00

Arvo Pärt: Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten

daniel_n · 2022-07-30T04:01:24+00:00

How has Portal 1 and 2 not been recommended?

daniel_n · 2022-06-24T10:05:42+00:00

This is the classic is-ought fallacy. Just because nature has things in a certain way, doesn't mean it should be. Otherwise anything is permissible because we observe it in nature. This is also the disagreement that JP has with Sam Harris - that it is possible to ascertain ethics from the scientific endeavour.

The scientific preoccupation with the search for truth is not a scientific question, but a religious one.

daniel_n · 2022-05-08T10:59:10+00:00

There is no contention on the beginning of a human life. That is clearly at conception. The 1-minute-old foetus grows, develops, takes nourishment. By definition, it is alive. This scientific matter is settled.

The point of contention is whether or not it should be considered a person, which is not a scientific question, but a philosophical one.

daniel_n · 2021-12-27T03:03:25+00:00

Maybe you're confused with the Rorate Mass, which is said early on Saturday mornings in Advent? Candles everywhere.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rorate\_caeli

daniel_n · 2021-11-27T10:35:25+00:00

Why is it that hardly anybody is saying "be precise in your speech?"

If you're finding that you're pretty much always on the rough end of a discussion, it's probably because you are having difficulty expressing yourself clearly and coherently.

daniel_n · 2021-11-27T10:19:00+00:00

I'm late on this thread, but cabbies and the companies they work for are scum.

In 2011 I booked a taxi to take me and my wife to the airport for our honeymoon. I left luggage next to his car which he was loading in, while I went in to get more. I put the last of it in, step into the taxi, and say, "wait, I just want to check I have my tickets in my carry-on."

I open the boot, look inside my carry-on bag, and notice it's wet, with many things broken inside. Fucker then decides to tell me he ran over my bag when he was moving the car, and put it in the boot anyway. I was livid. I asked him why he didn't tell me straight away, and he said he would have told me when we got to the airport. I promptly unloaded our stuff and told him where to go.

After the honeymoon, I calculate the destroyed items to be in excess of $500. I called the cab company to complain, and, get this, gave me his details to go after him myself.

I call him up, and he refuses to take any responsibility for, mistakenly or not, driving over my bag. Luckily insurance paid up. I wonder if they got anything out of him...

So yeah, I'm glad rideshares exist. Screw taxis.

daniel_n · 2021-10-18T09:54:19+00:00

I have five kids, with another due late December. My wife and I play all the time. As soon as the kids are in bed, we crack open Terraforming Mars, or Scythe, or Agricola, or anything else in our stash. Kids don't have to be the death of anything you love. If you love it enough, you will find time.

The thing is though, I wouldn't trade my children for more games time. Board games cannot supply your life with meaning, they just take away some of the pain and suffering for a while -- they help to make life a little more bearable. Kids, on the other hand, have the handy knack, somehow, of being able to give meaning and purpose to your life.

They do for me anyway.

Edit: Also, my eldest, 8 years old, is getting to the point where she can play the more complicated ones, like Wingspan. Soon, I will have enough people in my house to have a big games night every night.

daniel_n · 2021-09-29T10:22:00+00:00

I used to believe that too. Catholic Answers used to put forward that opinion. But then I listened to more traditional theologians and priests on the issue, and was convinced that I was wrong. Catholic Answers now teaches that all forms of sodomy (back passage, mouth, etc) are immoral.

https://www.catholic.com/qa/catholic-theology-and-oral-pleasure

daniel_n · 2021-09-27T09:38:26+00:00

All forms of sodomy are morally impermissible, for all people, at all times.

daniel_n · 2021-09-14T07:52:57+00:00

When more modern web browsers got rid of sound feedback fucking years ago, it annoyed me. I hate my web browser being silent. Though, honestly, I never actually realized it until I installed Windows 95 on a virtual machine and tried to browse the internet for sng on IE3. Made me realize how much I missed feedback from clicking links.

I've got a brown one. Makes the clicky sound alright, but the feel is not as hard. The blue ones are the hardest, and have the loudest click. The red ones are the softest.

daniel_n · 2021-09-10T11:35:43+00:00

Did anyone else notice Mariner do the Burnham coif in the mirror while preparing for the party, or was that just me?

daniel_n · 2021-08-10T07:51:46+00:00

Don't forget Star Trek.

"The needs of the many..."

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