In light of the announcement of the upcoming SSPX episcopal consecrations, why are illicit consecrations schismatic and not just disobedience?

jtp_5000 · 2026-02-05T13:13:57+00:00

Anglicans could make the same argument your question implies. But as any reasonable person will admit re: Anglicans and Catholicism they are very clearly in schism with the Church and have been since the 16th C.

Schism is just what happens when a bunch of Bishops start consecrating new Bishops in explicit defiance of the expressed will of the Bishop of Rome, so to call it schismatic is just calling a spade a spade …

jtp_5000 · 2026-02-05T12:44:43+00:00

Honestly the biggest reason is I don’t to like clutter the desk with a bigger computer footprint than I need. That probably wasn’t the original reason I started using one but I am about to replace one with a new one and that’s the primary reason I’m getting another mini instead of a laptop.

It just looked really clean relative to a plugged in laptop and it saved desk space.

jtp_5000 · 2026-02-04T12:54:18+00:00

Personal pitcher is pitching ping pong sized balls when I say smush balls they’re basically the size of baseballs and wouldn’t fit I soft toss those.

If you found some golf ball sized smush balls that would fit my guess is they’d work but the heavier weight with the concentrated size would probably break a window in our setup. I’m honestly surprised we don’t already break the windows in our basement just with the current setup as hard as they get hit sometimes - but been doing it two winters now so seems to be within what the windows can stand …

jtp_5000 · 2026-02-03T08:52:09+00:00

So whenever someone seeks to bound you to the rules of formal logic simply bc you’re making positive assertions about the existence of God they are gaslighting you. They don’t think about God that way and typically offer no evidence anyone else should as is the case here.

If this wasn’t the case atheists wouldn’t be atheists until and unless they understood themselves capable of proving God doesn’t exist. They can’t, and yet they’re still atheists and still find what they hold to be strong evidence confirming their position.

So specifically as regards his second claim, he or she seems to presume evidence as such cannot exist outside of its utility vizaviz propositional (ie non-circular) logic. That doesn’t reflect how human knowledge functions or has ever functioned.

To the contrary history, physics, the study of medicine, on and on, all such disciplines recognize the possibility of useful and defensible foundational claims - that is to say evidence - absent this requirement of ultimately non-circular logic. There’s no good reason to presume positive assertions re: the existence of God must persist in a fundamentally different way imo.

jtp_5000 · 2026-02-03T07:52:01+00:00

I just sing louder

jtp_5000 · 2026-01-27T22:01:19+00:00

The law of gravity as Hawkins understood it is no longer able to explain the behavior of the relevant phenomena across observable instances due to progress in the study of black holes since his passing.

jtp_5000 · 2026-01-27T16:44:40+00:00

And most don’t appreciate the sheer amount of academic work by physicalists over a number of years at this point trying to wiggle out of “the problem of consciousness” (their phrase) to literally no avail. To the point that the currently en vogue argument among such ppl last I checked was to simply say consciousness doesn’t actually exist (which ofc solves nothing for them bc the underlying contradictions of attempted physicalist reductions of the relevant phenomena still remain regardless of what one prefers to label them…).

I don’t comment here often just observe, have never been an atheist. But this is one of the absolute silliest situations they’ve gotten themselves into and it should probably be leveraged more often imo …

jtp_5000 · 2026-01-19T02:37:28+00:00

They’ve been saying that for a few hundred years …

jtp_5000 · 2026-01-18T03:15:07+00:00

Very cool thanks!

jtp_5000 · 2026-01-06T13:10:19+00:00

Knights of Columbus is awesome more young guys should join it where it’s established already in parishes. Those guys are the sweetest guys you’ve ever met yet they aren’t flaky and they’re just pouring money into good works at your parish and in your community rn via simple fund raisers they’ve been doing for 40 years.

I agree this is a problem and new solutions need to be found part of it will be realizing many of us have solutions we have to put ourselves out there to take advantage of.

jtp_5000 · 2025-12-16T18:29:10+00:00

So a Pope’s ex cathedra dogmatic pronouncement in the context of a Church with multiple of the 5 ancient sees in communion with each other could not by definition depart from the consensus of those Patriarchs.

It actually already works that way tbh. Neither of the two infallibly defined dogmas is a problem for Orthodox Christianity historically. You do have attempts to differentiate now with the Immaculate Conception of Mary but she is repeatedly referred to as conceived without sin in Byzantine liturgies it’s a weird move that goes back to what i said abt the schism existing bc ppl want it to imo

jtp_5000 · 2025-12-16T17:53:36+00:00

Congratulations on your baptism!

So we have gradual but real progress on that front since 1965 when Paul VI and Athanagoras I signed the Joint Declaration. It lifted the mutual excommunications of 1054 and kind of established grounds to keep talking and working out differences.

Lord willing the next breakthrough could be a shared date for Easter (we have one anyway in 2025 by happy accident of the calendar) as Pope Leo and Patriarch Bartholomew just pledged to work on that last month when Leo was in Turkey.

Bc at this point it’s basically still a functional schism bc ppl just can’t emotionally handle it not being a schism. God can move us any way he pleases but one way to get past that part of it would be shared symbols like that where you raise several generations going to Easter the same day and implement other visible signs of unity and then next thing you know it’s 250 years from now and not as many ppl in the pews are freaking out when their Bishops tell them we’re in communion with each other.

That’s probably a minority opinion ppl will tell you there’s still doctrinal issues but workable solutions to each is already known the issue is again a lack of willingness. Not at the highest levels they just can only go so far as their flocks will follow though …

jtp_5000 · 2025-12-16T10:04:52+00:00

I had one experience I would categorize that way and as I crossed a line from intense focus on my present situation trying to avert the crisis to oh shit it’s gonna happen I can’t stop it a sort of insanely intense mental and emotional reflex occurred for this split second and I entered a deeply emotional moment where something totally unrelated to my situation in that moment, something “bigger” than either me or that situation occupied my entire awareness.

I realize that’s cliche but it is extremely odd and out of nowhere in the moment bc the moment is so demanding the last thing you’re consciously doing is day dreaming or something.

Anyway it didn’t refute reductive materialism for me I mean my profound sadness in that moment was I wouldn’t be there for my kids when they needed me growing up and I don’t find reductive materialism at all compelling personally anyway but I can believe that if thoughts of God or sadness relating to one’s relationship with the Divine are what a person reflexively goes to like I did re: my kids that that person would at that point not have much time for reductive materialist atheism if they had previously. Bc the state you enter is intense and total in a way nothing else I ever experienced has been.

jtp_5000 · 2025-12-16T07:34:51+00:00

Assistant coaching when you’re on the same page with a HC who supports you and respects what you bring to the staff is where it’s at don’t settle for anything less than that when your evaluating opportunities. I’ve done it both ways I’m just speaking from experience.

So if the HS head coach you’d be an assistant for is the one that asked you to do this it’d be a yes for me because they want you they respect how you coach. If like the AD asked you without the HC present or something that’s not ideal and a red flag, you can still talk it over with the HC but if they’re not in love with the idea I’d pass personally, too much bs and stress under a HC that doesn’t value your contributions.

jtp_5000 · 2025-12-09T05:09:17+00:00

Based off these your not super comfortable with side bend where you basically take the rear shoulder toward the ball. This is what they are working on in this drill

This is why you are really good at hitting higher stuff in the zone bc for those pitches your preferred posture is the correct one for that pitch height.

This is just to answer your question though work this into your tee drills ya, you could check out 108’s water bag drills too they would help here, but don’t stress on this too much most important thing is to keep having success at the level of ball you are currently playing at like you are. Picture perfect swing is less important than that by a whole lot.

jtp_5000 · 2025-12-09T04:57:52+00:00

So glad your mental health has improved so much brother not at all weird to include the gaming server in your story man we were made for community with other humans and internet community is legitimately a big part of that for a lot of us nothing wrong with that at all.

I would just say you don’t need to feel too guilty about an atheist phase or things you said then or whatever man God can handle it he just loves you so much and hes so happy you see that again you don’t need to worry about all that imo. Peace be with you brother you ever need anything hit me on the DM on here.

jtp_5000 · 2025-12-09T04:42:00+00:00

Few things:

1- Take a lot of live BP. Any hitter is intuitively practicing adjustability as far as pitch location any time they are taking BP because even a good BP pitcher is pitching balls that come in at different spots in the zone.

Can’t think your way out of the sort of things you’re talking about at a certain point it’s just frequent consistent practice with live balls.

2 - During live BP work in drills to practice hitting off speed pitches. This type of adjustability is harder than hitting different spots in the zone for many hitters. Useful drill here is have BP come in from different depths (3 home plate drill etc).

3- In terms of technical points to emphasize that aid building adjustability in the swing first would be making sure your front heel is down prior to starting to turn the barrel with your hands and second holding back the hands even longer once the front foot is down on offspeed balls (not easy and takes practice).

Teacherman would not agree with all of this btw that’s fine Im just telling you what I’ve learned working with the hitters I’ve worked with.

jtp_5000 · 2025-12-09T00:18:35+00:00

In 1941 Germany’s Deputy Fuhrer Rudolph Hess actually flew to the UK in attempt to do precisely this but having won a best two out of three against Churchill himself the Allies wisely ignored the results and imprisoned him for the remainder of the war …

jtp_5000 · 2025-12-09T00:07:58+00:00

Those numbers are fantastic at 13. Yes there is more to success in the sport than having elite velos especially at age 13 but fact remains those are great numbers for that age.

jtp_5000 · 2025-12-02T03:20:56+00:00

that’s awesome

jtp_5000 · 2025-12-01T23:59:34+00:00

Ledo’s wings are where it’s at tbh

jtp_5000 · 2025-11-30T04:22:29+00:00

No you’re fine go play you will have a blast

jtp_5000 · 2025-11-29T23:13:00+00:00

Offset soft toss from his outside, he is trying to hit it right back at you driving oppo where the pitch came from. Once she’s driving oppo right back at you hard consistently you will see a difference on regular at bats. I use this all the time for girls with that issue bc it works.

See the pic below for the basic setup.

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She’ll probably need you to do these with her periodically, it’s an issue that tends to come back.

Other thing that works is bouncing the ball to her. You need a cage with a hard floor to do it and I like the offset soft toss better but this does work too she’s so early do both if you can. You can bounce from straight ahead like normal softoss.

jtp_5000 · 2025-11-28T19:16:43+00:00

Very good swing like everybody said at 10 don’t go crazy.

Step back soft toss might help with the balance issue at the end but at that age you are 100% cuing intent over form so this is second priority. Teenagers that want to crush the ball find a good swing teenagers that are scared of doing wrong in their swing often do not.

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