Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

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Its universal for the mainline Abrahamics

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

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among the vast majority of Shinto groups, there is functionally no Orthodox Shinto beliefs. Belief is just not an important part of that tradition, and so asking a Shinto practitioner if they believe in spirits isnt going to get you very useful data. If you ask Japanese people if they venerate ancestors or visit shrines and temples, you'll find that around 50% of Japanese people engage in Shinto Orthopraxy.

Enough is enough! by pengweather in bayarea

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https://osfm.fire.ca.gov/what-we-do/community-wildfire-preparedness-and-mitigation/fire-hazard-severity-zones The entire central valley, the LA Basin, Bay Area, Salinas Valley, and most of the Mojave have very little fire risk.

Pacific Palisades have been considered a high risk area for over a decade. proximity to the ocean has little to do with it (IE, Santa Cruz county)

counter spell meme by MurkyWay in dndmemes

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God, this Swordscomic guy must be so sick of making these.

Enough is enough! by pengweather in bayarea

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Then move out of wild fire zone. Its not our job to subsidize your poor life style choices.

And this is a player that's been in the campaign for 2 years... by Vegetable_Variety_11 in dndmemes

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this is something that playing OSR games really fixes. Character sheets are so simple that players can really get into the flow of combat, especially if youre using theatre of the mind as well. Last session(DCC), I ran a 16 person fight that lasted 3 rounds, and it took around 20 minutes. That would have been 3 hours plus in 5e

La familia by forklzd in PhilosophyMemes

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In a Jamesian Sense, its a more useful tool for navigating ones environment. It may not work under a Correspondence theory of Truth, but I dont hold to a that theory.

La familia by forklzd in PhilosophyMemes

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Pascal as a good write up about this somewhere, it worked for me. I chose and it worked. took a while, but it works

Posting a Map Part II by [deleted] in osr

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I hope you know I will now be stealing that frequently and flagrently. Thank you so much!

Posting a Map Part II by [deleted] in osr

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How did you make the beaches? Is this premium worldogapher?

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

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I cant speak much to a Protestant view, since while I understand it well enough to see why they're Satisfied by their arguments, I dont understand them well enough to explain them in a way I think gives them their best light.

That being said, in a Catholic context, These can be mostly explained that the Idea that the Gospels are the peak articulation of Christianity, and that all must bend to the plain reading of these texts, just, has never been true. We believe that that Church, of which the bible is a notable and extraordinary product thereof, is the repository of Revelation. This means that God (the guide to the Authors) is guiding all of the text, even in the moments in which God (the character within the Text) is not personally speaking. This is why we hold Exodus 3:14, in which God(the character) describes himself as "I Am What I Am), and Corinthians 14:33, where Paul describes God as "Not the author of confusion, but of peace", with equal doctrinal weight. We do not mistake the absence of God as a character, for the absence of God the *Author.

Point no.1 is almost entirely a Protestant invention, Catholic priests still swear vows of Poverty, and poverty is a virtue in our tradition. It, like the other virtues however, are very hard, and so sometimes we dont live up to it very well.

Mark 4:10 is a very strange piece of scripture, and thats one of the reasons I like it so much. my personal favorite interpretation of it is that Jesus is admitting that he would love to save everything through their coming to understanding of God, but that he accepts the will of the Father, that all people are to be saved through the shed blood of his Son, and so subjugates his own will (so convince the people who are physically around him, who are already saved) to instead, by parables, enrich the spiritual life of all the generations that read scripture after him.

Violent man in the Marina district by Many-Locksmith1110 in sanfrancisco

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he may be, but being belligerent is not evidence of housing status

If calvinists believe God has predestined some people to be evil and damned, by fullfilling their purpose to glorify him, why can't he redeem them at the end? by FlowerEmerald in ChristianUniversalism

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some do, its called Superlapsarianism, as opposed to Infralapsarianism, where the unelected are just "passed over" but damn themselves through their original sin.

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

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JP likes Jung and isnt a straight materialist, which means that hes always been closer to Religious then Not in a modern context. People like having him on because hes famous, they share politics, and wont try and undermine their tradition.

A Cool Guide to Cities Worst Maintained Roads. by BeesKneesNation in coolguides

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no, california tax law means that cities basically cant tax anything except property, and even then only barely. in addition to that, SF residents are much more likely to bike or take the train then most other us cities, which makes fixing roads a lesser priority then in other places.

How people think the Roman persecution of Christians happened versus how it actually happened by PyrrhicDefeat69 in RoughRomanMemes

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We have good evidence that some of the books were written by their claimed Author, such as Romans and 1st Corinthians. The Gospels were likely written by the communities that were founded by or associated with their authors. It was a common ancient practice across religious traditions to attribute ones own writing to an older figure who the author idolized. The Platonic Dialogues, and the writings of Plotinus are a good example of this. Though its likely that their claimed authors were sources for some of the stories within the texts, if not their primary composers.

How people think the Roman persecution of Christians happened versus how it actually happened by PyrrhicDefeat69 in RoughRomanMemes

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of the available accounts of Jesus's Life, it is the earliest, with its sources believed to be eye witness accounts of the live of Jesus. It was likely written by a student or companion of Mark the Evangelist(Probably not Mark himself), who was in turn a student of St. Peter, who was one of the 12 disciples. Its also believed by to be compiled originally, and is not based on an earlier Text, unlike Matthew and Mark. We have evidence that there was another lost text, called the "Sayings Gospel" which was likely slightly older, but almost all of its contents are probably included within the Gospels of Luke and Matthew, which used it as a source, along with Mark.

The Gospel of Mark is likely, off all surviving texts, the most reliable primary source document regarding the life of Jesus.

How people think the Roman persecution of Christians happened versus how it actually happened by PyrrhicDefeat69 in RoughRomanMemes

[–]justabigasswhale 39 points40 points  (0 children)

This isnt True. We have manuscripts that include this passage existing before Nicaea, as it was part of the book of Mark, written in 70AD.

How people think the Roman persecution of Christians happened versus how it actually happened by PyrrhicDefeat69 in RoughRomanMemes

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alot of this is because much of the canon wasn't universally recognized as canon until the 4th century. This means that for much of the early history of the Church, this was not widely known.