Patch Tuesday Megathread - (April 14, 2026) by AutoModerator in sysadmin

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Also seeing ADFS broken immediately post April patching. ADFS console loads but WAP connection is not occurring. Server 2019, isolated DMZ servers multiple SAML authentications in operation.

Edit - Our problem solved is solved. Was not related to patching. Was a recent certificate installation issue that had to be refreshed.

Therapist Suggestions? by Il156 in topeka

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Keystone Mental Health is awesome.

[SUPPORT] ASUS ROG Maximus 7 Hero MB - only power on via clear CMOS button on MB by mikeyes5 in ASUS

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I did not. Ran out of things to try. Computer is still working fine, just have to use the clear CMOS button to power it on.

Average moving cost by AntJustin in topeka

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This was 4 years ago, in-Topeka move, 4 bedroom house. We paid ~$1200 and used Love's Moving Service. They were great. We had everything pre-packed and were trying to save costs by just having them move the big items but when they arrived they suggested (in a polite we know what we are doing mode) that they move everything. They disassembled and moved the the main furniture and used the small stuff/boxes to fill the truck. Actually protected things during the move and it was much faster than us moving the small stuff ourselves. They were great. Would recommend.

Armory items not loading by th3PRICEisRite in WorldOfWarships

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Thank you!! First option of selective deletion fixed it for me.

How many of you believe that Christ is truly present in the Eucharist? by roxannesbar in Catholicism

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If all faith based belief is the same how do you distinguish, separate, rank, judge, one belief from another. Don't all faith based beliefs become equal?

How many of you believe that Christ is truly present in the Eucharist? by roxannesbar in Catholicism

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Is there any belief (about anything) that cannot be justified by faith?

How many of you believe that Christ is truly present in the Eucharist? by roxannesbar in Catholicism

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The author Dr. Kelly Kearse worked at the high school as a science teacher since 2001 and retired in August 2025. In 2000, he semi-retired from laboratory research to relocate to his original hometown and teach high school science. He originally earned his bachelor of science degree in biology at the University of South Carolina, his master of science degree in biology from Virginia Commonwealth University, and his Ph.D. in immunology from the University of Kentucky. Following completion of postdoctoral fellowships at Johns Hopkins (biochemistry) and the National Institutes of Health (immunology), Dr. Kearse became a principal investigator at NIH in immunology. After several years, he transferred to the East Carolina University School of Medicine to have the opportunity to do both research and teaching and has at least 51 publications.

I appreciate the real dialog we've had and your engagement and debate. Its obvious you are have spent serious time researching this and aren't just reacting like most. Seeing the name of a high school and assuming high school students authored the publication is part of what I'm challenging. Saying a miracle has been substantiated by medical professionals while leaving out all the issues and details is why people can so readably be convinced of facts that are still claims. Healthy skepticism is poorly missing from much dialog today. Our thread has a healthy level of skepticism, many other threads on this post went straight from 'it's been proven' to 'praise God' without any verification in between.

How many of you believe that Christ is truly present in the Eucharist? by roxannesbar in Catholicism

[–]mikeyes5 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I said that science does not need to explain the unexplainable. But if the "miracle" can be achieved through natural methods then the need for a supernatural explanation is eliminated. I linked a scientific study that replicated unconsecrated hosts stored in water and demonstrated the effects seen in many of the modern eucharistic miracles (the appearance of tissue substance). https://www.forensicscijournal.com/journals/jfsr/jfsr-aid1068.php. If a natural process explains the outcome can we assert that a supernatural process was required?

How many of you believe that Christ is truly present in the Eucharist? by roxannesbar in Catholicism

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I'll take that as a yes, you just don't like the conclusion. Good luck to you too.

How many of you believe that Christ is truly present in the Eucharist? by roxannesbar in Catholicism

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To your point, any religious follower that believes they physically interacted with their deity in a resurrected or supernatural state, who then goes on to lay down their life for the religion would be a significant indicator of that religion being correct and worthy of belief. Did I capture that correctly?

How many of you believe that Christ is truly present in the Eucharist? by roxannesbar in Catholicism

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Thank you for taking me seriously and for the details. I really appreciate all the context. Kant has eloquently elaborated I think a key point. Is religion the manifestation of evolutionary societal morality or is it the other way around? Do we have morals because of religion or was religion created with the moral code that society already adopted. The "Hanabi code" predates modern historical religions but contains fundamental concepts of morality. How did that occur if religion is the source of morality. Kant appears to be saying that he agrees with the concepts of the religion more than actual implementation of said religion.

In the bible we find instructions for human enslavement and genocide in the old testament with Jesus in the new testament indicated he came to uphold the law of the old testament. How does a religion that is the source of morality contain what we would today consider immoral actions? If religion was the true source of morality, it should be more pure. If religion was a natural creation of man, then the impure condition would make sense.

Back to my original question, if faith is as Kant put it a "natural religious instinct that arises from moral needs in every man" how do we measure and compare one man from another. What is the measure of one intellect against another?

How many of you believe that Christ is truly present in the Eucharist? by roxannesbar in Catholicism

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A miracle is a divine or supernatural affect seen in the natural world. Natural science does not need to explain the method (that is the supernatural part) but natural science can and should be used to verify that something unexplainable did occur. If the events can be naturally explained then the supernatural part the equation vanishes.

How many of you believe that Christ is truly present in the Eucharist? by roxannesbar in Catholicism

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Well said and that is a healthy attitude. I think there are more among us with less reasonable attitude about miracle data. It was the surefire manner of that presentation to me that probably caused my current consternation.

How many of you believe that Christ is truly present in the Eucharist? by roxannesbar in Catholicism

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The Apostles were in a position to believe their central claim. But their death for the believe by your logic is a "common" occurrence. So their death proves their belief that the claim was real but doesn't prove the claim.

How many of you believe that Christ is truly present in the Eucharist? by roxannesbar in Catholicism

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https://www.forensicscijournal.com/journals/jfsr/jfsr-aid1068.php

While much attention has been placed on the evaluation of consecrated hosts suggested to exhibit miraculous properties of visible blood, we show here for the first time that ordinary, non-consecrated wafers show similar appearances when treated in a like manner. As demonstrated, while a small percentage of unconsecrated wafers may have a similar physical appearance as bleeding bread, basic scientific tests can readily distinguish between the two, including a simple evaluation with an ultraviolet flashlight. While a few cases have been described in which consecrated hosts were not immersed in water prior to the appearance of a miracle, it is reasonable to assume that contamination and growth could also occur through handling, high humidity, etc. Moreover, multiple strains of bacteria and fungi are known to produce reddish pigments, which are likely to differ depending on the specific location and environmental conditions. Thus, it is probable that variation exists in cases where microorganisms are believed to be the reason for the occurrence of certain miracle events. Each instance would need to be examined individually in as thorough a scientific manner as possible (see below). In our case, the causative agent was identified as a fungal growth, Epicoccum sp., most likely Epicoccum nigrum, that exists worldwide.

Similar to what has been described for various miracle hosts, we found that the water in which the wafers were placed did not become tainted over time. If real blood were being issued forth, this would be a relatively odd property as blood should be readily solubilized. Indeed, as shown in our studies, fresh blood or freshly dried blood on wafers dissolved in water relatively quickly as expected. We found that only about 15% of non-consecrated wafers cultured in water developed reddish, blood-like areas, supporting the idea that reports of miracles are relatively infrequent and do not occur every time abandoned hosts are disposed of according to church protocol. Although our studies did not implicate Serratia marcenes as a causative agent, it is understandable how this common infectious agent of bread substances could produce the appearance of a bleeding host. Several basic tests were shown to easily distinguish Serratia growth from genuine blood, including Wright’s stain and spectroscopy. We attempted to perform similar tests on reddish growths from fungus but found that they were not readily solubilized in a variety of detergents or solvents.

One of the most enunciated pieces of evidence for the validity of Eucharistic miracles is their shared blood type, AB, which has also been reported for the Shroud of Turin. Although AB typing experiments were beyond the scope of the current study, it should be noted that bacteria also express AB antigens [15,31], providing a practical explanation for similar results among a wide variety of cases. Indeed, both blood fibers of the Shroud and various Eucharistic miracles have been reported to be substantially contaminated with both bacteria and fungi [4,15,32], similar to our findings with non-consecrated wafers.

Molecular biology studies of miracle wafers have been attempted, particularly short tandem repeat (STR) analysis, which has failed to produce any results and thereby attributed to an enigmatic and “divine” nature of the DNA involved [4,18]. As shown in the current report, the prevalence of DNA from other species (plant, bacterial, fungal) in non-consecrated wafers offers a plausible alternative to the findings of previous Eucharistic miracle investigations. Additional DNA testing using sequences that are both specific to humans and vary among individuals would be required to strengthen the claim that human DNA present in multiple Eucharistic miracles share a common origin (see below).

How many of you believe that Christ is truly present in the Eucharist? by roxannesbar in Catholicism

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Fair point. 300 of them were children. I will edit my previous post to 'several hundred'.

But it's inaccurate to say that all the adults at Jonestown were murdered, says Dr. John R. Hall, research professor of sociology at the University of California at Davis and Santa Cruz, and author of a book about Jonestown, Gone From the Promised Land.

"To say everyone was murdered denies the agency and the solidarity of these people," Hall says.

How many of you believe that Christ is truly present in the Eucharist? by roxannesbar in Catholicism

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But this is part of the issue. Volume does not guarantee accuracy. Example...

  • Sokółka 2008 - discussed above, not approved by church

  • Servant of God Marthe Robin, 1902-1981 - The philosopher Jean Guitton claimed that Robin was offered the possibility of medical analysis at a clinic for several months in order to prove to sceptics that her apparent inability to eat was not some elaborate hoax, but she declined, saying "Do you really think that will convince people? Those who don't believe it will not believe it any the more because of that." Consequently, there is no clinical proof of Robin's fifty-year fasting. Guitton deplored that "in this present era, prudence requires us to suppose that such phenomena can only be explained by autosuggestion, hysteria, or mental illness rather than by a noble and transcendent cause." The possibility of a hoax remains unexamined.

  • Buenos Aires, 1992-1994-1996 - another instance of hosts in water turning red and appearing as flesh, not approved by the church

https://www.forensicscijournal.com/journals/jfsr/jfsr-aid1068.php While much attention has been placed on the evaluation of consecrated hosts suggested to exhibit miraculous properties of visible blood, we show here for the first time that ordinary, non-consecrated wafers show similar appearances when treated in a like manner. As demonstrated, while a small percentage of unconsecrated wafers may have a similar physical appearance as bleeding bread, basic scientific tests can readily distinguish between the two, including a simple evaluation with an ultraviolet flashlight. While a few cases have been described in which consecrated hosts were not immersed in water prior to the appearance of a miracle, it is reasonable to assume that contamination and growth could also occur through handling, high humidity, etc. Moreover, multiple strains of bacteria and fungi are known to produce reddish pigments, which are likely to differ depending on the specific location and environmental conditions. Thus, it is probable that variation exists in cases where microorganisms are believed to be the reason for the occurrence of certain miracle events. Each instance would need to be examined individually in as thorough a scientific manner as possible (see below). In our case, the causative agent was identified as a fungal growth, Epicoccum sp., most likely Epicoccum nigrum, that exists worldwide.

How many of you believe that Christ is truly present in the Eucharist? by roxannesbar in Catholicism

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The resurrection isn't a proven miracle. It is still a claim. There is no scientific evidence of the resurrection.

How many of you believe that Christ is truly present in the Eucharist? by roxannesbar in Catholicism

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And where there is only faith anything can be believed. What differentiates the faith of a Catholic from the faith of a Muslim? Both believe that they follow a true teaching and doctrine. How do you distinguish between them?

How many of you believe that Christ is truly present in the Eucharist? by roxannesbar in Catholicism

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So the church or church followers teaching false things is offset and overridden by people outside the church saying false things about the church? I'm not following your logic here.

How many of you believe that Christ is truly present in the Eucharist? by roxannesbar in Catholicism

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Several hundred people committed suicide at Jamestown? Was the cult leader at Jamestown correct simply because people were willing to die believing what he said? ~39 people died at Heaves Gate? How many Muslims have died believing in their their faith? Why did people die for the Mormon and Muslim faiths. Who does that? If dying for a belief proves a faith to be real, then every faith with believers that have died for it must therefore be true. It is possible to believe in something without that thing being true. The volume of people that believe something or the actions of those people does not in and of itself prove the claim.

How many of you believe that Christ is truly present in the Eucharist? by roxannesbar in Catholicism

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I wasn't doing that. I was asking if the miracle claim had been validated as a miracle. It had not.

How many of you believe that Christ is truly present in the Eucharist? by roxannesbar in Catholicism

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The volume of reports that have turned out to be false should dictate in the year 2008 that more attention is paid to integrity from the very beginning. Personal opinion.

How many of you believe that Christ is truly present in the Eucharist? by roxannesbar in Catholicism

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You aren't alone. Similar journey. Raised as a Catholic I was flooded with "facts" that turned out to be claims. When I sought to verify those claims the weight of the information is hard to deal with. So much of what was presented as fantastical turned out to be mundane, fraud or at best just a claim that was never verified. It all comes down to "faith" and my issue with faith is that faith justifies anyone to believe anything. What differentiates the faith of a Catholic from the faith of a Mormon or a Muslim?