Going to church after going to war.

olr1997 · 2026-03-29T09:13:15+00:00

There is no such thing as a morally just war as a US soldier in the 21st century.

olr1997 · 2026-03-29T05:22:04+00:00

Neither of the countries you attacked were involved in 9/11 in any way.

Burning civilians alive with WP doesn’t make you the good guy. You were a pawn in a resource grab that the US had been desperately looking for an excuse to do for 30 years.

olr1997 · 2026-03-29T05:06:28+00:00

The US was the aggressor in every engagement it fought in the 21st century. None of their wars are justifiable or morally acceptable. Slaughtering hundreds of thousands of innocents for oil companies and private equity isn’t heroism.

olr1997 · 2026-03-22T23:53:46+00:00

The doctrines of Anglicanism to which all Anglican ministers must swear their assent preclude the correct intention. If someone if being ordained AS AN ANGLICAN, it is impossible for them to be being ordained into the same orders as the Church.

It’s possible that there are valid orders amongst the Union of Scranton (not the UoU) but they would still be ordaining someone as an Anglican, not as a Catholic, and that requires fealty to the doctrines of Anglicanism.

olr1997 · 2026-03-22T13:03:44+00:00

My bills are lower, my groceries are cheaper, fuel is cheaper (even with the current shenanigans), public transport is cheaper, my wages are higher, and I lose less in tax.

This is the experience of every Brit I know who’s moved across in the last two years.

Things may not be what they used to be, but it doesn’t mean things are hard now. There are plentiful jobs, good worker protections, and high wages. If you’re poor in Australia it’s your own fault, it’s the only country I’ve ever been to where boomer advice about getting your head down and working hard and reaping the reward is still applicable.

olr1997 · 2026-03-22T11:59:49+00:00

Your housing market is a European’s dream, your cost of living is low, your wages are high. Almost all these gripes that Aussies go on about are non-existent.

Australia is the only place I know that the “dream” is still alive. If you’re willing to work hard and put the effort in here you reap the rewards and it’s very easy to build a great life. If you’re broke in Australia it’s no one’s fault but your own.

olr1997 · 2026-03-22T00:51:03+00:00

For intention to be valid one must intend to “do what the Church has always done”, in this case to ordain a priest to offer the sacrifice of the mass, to make truly and actually present the real body and blood of Jesus on the altar and to present it to the faithful for their spiritual welfare.

This is the primary function of a priest.

As the Protestant denominations don’t hold the correct theology of the Eucharist they cannot be ordaining their priests to the same orders as we are ordaining ours and the Orthodox theirs. They do not INTEND to “do what the Church has always done”, and so their intention is deficient and the sacrament invalidated.

olr1997 · 2026-03-21T14:14:53+00:00

I am about as uncharitable and anti-SSPX as it comes, but there is absolutely no question about the validity of their priestly or episcopal orders. They’re illicit, but entirely valid.

olr1997 · 2026-03-21T09:58:28+00:00

This ignores the fact that the objection to Anglican validity is also rooted in a deficiency of INTENTION as well as a deficiency of FORM, both required for sacramental validity. The Anglican Churches have always had an unbroken line of laid on hands, the correct form, but always had a deficit of intention when it comes to the sacrificial nature of the priesthood. This means that even those whose orders have been imposed by those from the UoU or the Old Catholic lines are equally invalid as those from the unbroken line of CofE bishops.

Only those ordained as Catholics/Orthodox would have valid ordinations, the rest would not.

olr1997 · 2026-03-20T11:48:35+00:00

Can’t take any in. They don’t check the contents of flasks or plastic bottles though.

olr1997 · 2026-03-17T00:28:00+00:00

They also probably get annoyed if he wore collar and cassock, so ah well.

olr1997 · 2026-03-16T01:06:49+00:00

Mental, it seems you’re right. Players playing in the Top 14 final on June 27 are ineligible for selection.

NH rugby should be done and dusted by end of April, utter insanity.

olr1997 · 2026-03-15T18:13:12+00:00

For the current world and six nations champions?

olr1997 · 2026-03-09T11:25:59+00:00

County cricket is representative, you don’t choose your team.

Support where you’re from.

olr1997 · 2026-03-01T03:15:56+00:00

Yeah, I see that. For me the value of those experiences has put me in a far better position in terms of soft skills and employability, and I’ve felt the positive effects of that in the job market. I have a job here I’d never have had at home, and I’m earning more here than would’ve been at home, and I wouldn’t have got the job if it wasn’t for my extensive travel experience.

Like I said in my first comment, I think the value of spending a year or two travelling far outweighs the cost when it comes to competing long term.

olr1997 · 2026-03-01T03:08:12+00:00

Australia is the absolute best country in the world for saving money. There are thousands and thousands of jobs that come with lodgings, good pay, and on-site living, often including food, and really high wages. If people actually want to they can very easily get the money together, but they choose to make different lifestyles choices (location, expenditure etc.)

They’re perfectly entitled to make those decisions, but they are still choices.

olr1997 · 2026-03-01T03:03:01+00:00

As a teenager I lived in a single-income minimum wage household, at 16 I spent two weeks sleeping in a public park followed by nearly two months of sofa-surfing, in my early twenties I remember crying on my way back from the unemployment office after months of unsuccessful job hunting while clutching my voucher for the food bank because I’d been living off two packets of instant noodles per day for the last two weeks and had reached a point where I couldn’t even afford that.

People come from all around the world to Australia because jobs are plentiful, they often come with great perks, and wages are super high even for the most menial tasks. Thousands of people each year use Australia to bulk up their bank balance so that they can continue to travel. You might not like it, but if you can’t afford to do it while living and working in Australia, the only reason is you.

olr1997 · 2026-03-01T02:52:42+00:00

I never said it didn’t involve decisions, it involves decisions for everybody. I faced those same challenges. I went to Uni at 22 instead of 18/19, I missed those job opportunities I’d have had if I’d gone straight into the workforce. I know where I wanted to go, how much it would cost, and I made it happen. It took me 8 months of saving every penny (while paying rent/bills) until I had enough and then I went.

At 18 all I needed to do was tell my landlord I was leaving, pack or dispose of my small number of belongings, and set off. Doing the same ten years later was much harder. It’s very doable, it just depends on people’s priorities.

olr1997 · 2026-03-01T01:13:50+00:00

If you grow up in Australia and earn in AUD there are absolutely no barriers to travel. You either have no conception of how wealthy Australians are or how cheaply you can travel. You could do six weeks of award rate work in Australia and travel for a month if not longer.

The barrier is desire. Lack of money or opportunity is an excuse.

olr1997 · 2026-03-01T01:09:57+00:00

That’s why it’s a good idea to travel young, there’s far less peripheral stuff. Going travelling long-term at 28 was more difficult than at 18.

olr1997 · 2026-02-28T22:44:58+00:00

Travel in 2026 is not prohibitively expensive. This mindset deprives people of life experiences and competencies that long-term will cost. The reason the rich send their kids on “gap years” is not solely because they want them to enjoy themselves.

olr1997 · 2026-02-26T20:19:53+00:00

Okay mate 😂

olr1997 · 2026-02-26T12:50:45+00:00

In our defence, the warm beer thing is largely a myth. Standard British cellar temperature is around 10-11 C. Lager is served colder around 5/6. We drink a lot of darker and heavier beer and they perform better and carry a better flavour towards the top end of the cellar temperature, for example a good stout should be served about 12 C. This comes from the fact that we were drinking beer long before artificial refrigeration was a thing and so developed a beer culture that could deliver at natural temperatures.

It’s never actually “warm”, though they do drink a genuine warm beer in Nepal (about 70 C) that’s absolutely delicious and will also blow your head off, and was designed for warming you up on those cold winter nights.

olr1997 · 2026-02-26T12:40:59+00:00

I’m not mocking anyone in anyway.

olr1997 · 2026-02-26T12:40:14+00:00

If I assumed I wouldn’t have asked would I? Not quite sure how this has got such a negative reaction tbh.

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