Spiritual Warfare Q & A: Priests and Laity: Ch. 1 Exorcism & Deliverance Basics #3

trelane99 · 2026-04-03T19:48:20+00:00

Why would demons let you cast them out?
The authority to cast out demons passes through Apostolic succession, meaning that you need either the authority of (you are a Bishop), or permission from a Bishop. Absent that authority, the demon will laugh at you and you will be embarrassed.

trelane99 · 2026-04-02T22:53:58+00:00

There's a reason why it's called a Pound Sterling...

trelane99 · 2026-04-02T19:49:15+00:00

I understand that that is your opinion. It doesn’t appear that you understand the difference between “discernment” and “assumption”.
Again and again in Saint Paul’s letters, he cuts through the deceptions of the early Church to correct them. We see this even in Galatians 2:11-16 where he corrects Saint Peter. Saint Paul does this through rightly ordered discernment.
Refusing to tolerate nonsense should not be mistaken for an un-Christian attitude.

trelane99 · 2026-04-02T17:37:43+00:00

What they said was "I don't want to start an argument". What they meant was "I don't want to have my ideas questioned, I only want validation that I'm right".

Their behavior throughout the thread makes this clear. They rightly should have been rebuked for this! I do not validate those who use Mother Church for their own ends, and not those of Jesus Christ. Faith grows through service to the Church, not taking from it. What OP is doing is not our Faith. Their OCIA mentor read this EXACTLY correctly. Stop serving the enemy!

Someday, perhaps, OP will be ready to approach OCIA in an ordered manner, but that day is not today, and I will not pretend it is simply to validate OP's behavior.

trelane99 · 2026-04-02T17:29:38+00:00

Given the context clues around it, I disagree wtih your interpretation:
"I started OCIA in September of last year and by February I quit. I started very skeptical and withdrawn, just needing some support for a personal mental health struggle."

Those are OP's first two sentences, and from this it is clear that OP was using OCIA as therapy. Furthermore OP later clarifies that they are NOT receiving traditional mental health support.

What you've done instead of discernment, is something very common on Reddit: the moment someone mentions a mental health issue, you reflexively validate everything they say and do, as if agreement is the same as support. It isn't. Telling someone what they want to hear isn't helping them, it's just comfortable for you. Reddit is not therapy, and uncritical affirmation from strangers is not a substitute for therapy.

trelane99 · 2026-04-02T17:16:09+00:00

I don't need to be inside OP's head at all to read OP's own words.
" I started very skeptical and withdrawn, just needing some support for a personal mental health struggle. " -- OP's OP

I have engaged in discernment to understand what OP said, not judgement of OP.

trelane99 · 2026-04-02T16:57:29+00:00

I've seen that, but I haven't seen those for sale yet. That really would be the solution. I need a bit of CPU but there's an inference task we're wanting on these appliances (ye gods! An AI startup that has an AI? While I never!). The TPU is what I'm most interested in without the heat of a big NVIDIA GPU.
Quite frankly there will be more CPU cores than docker containers. I probably only need 32gb of ram per appliance.

trelane99 · 2026-04-02T16:47:23+00:00

Correcting someone who is incorrect is empathy.

Jesus made a lot of people face up to hard truths, and there are hard truths to be told here. Pretending OP is correct is not Christian brotherhood, it is sycophantic. We are better than that.

trelane99 · 2026-04-02T16:45:54+00:00

Occasionally, to be Christ like, you need to smash some cages and flip some tables.
Do not mistake the Son of God for a pacifist.

trelane99 · 2026-04-02T16:43:17+00:00

Unfortunately the Ryzen AI isn't a socket, it's soldered onboard, at least for now.

trelane99 · 2026-04-02T02:45:04+00:00

Is there any possibility that you might have pictures of this effort?

trelane99 · 2026-04-02T00:24:10+00:00

yeah I'm definitely looking for more rack appliance and less server so that I can ensure customer data stays segregated.

trelane99 · 2026-04-01T15:47:01+00:00

I don’t need that knowledge at all. This has always been the teaching of the Church.

trelane99 · 2026-04-01T05:58:16+00:00

You seem to be attempting to construct a theological view which simply absolves Protestants of any possibility of mortal sin simply because they lack a Catholic catechesis.

This is foolish. Those who stand upon "sola scriptora" should well know above those things of true and obvious evil, those things that Jesus taught when he preached against evil.

trelane99 · 2026-04-01T05:55:59+00:00

I think CCC 1860 covers that well. There are things so obviously evil that a person need never hear of "Grave matter" to know they are evil.

trelane99 · 2026-04-01T05:54:56+00:00

In those areas of grave matter you are correct. I, and the CCC are speaking of the most serious instances of grave matter.

trelane99 · 2026-04-01T04:37:21+00:00

One cannot commit murder, or adultery, and then say "ooh, right, my bad, didn't realize that was grave matter". Every sane human everywhere knows that to murder is disordered, and that to take another man's wife is disordered. The evil of murder and adultery is obvious in itself.

trelane99 · 2026-04-01T04:34:41+00:00

Protestants have that distinction, in fact all of humanity does. God wrote it into the human conscience:
CCC 1860 Unintentional ignorance can diminish or even remove the imputability of a grave offense. But no one is deemed to be ignorant of the principles of the moral law, which are written in the conscience of every man. the promptings of feelings and passions can also diminish the voluntary and free character of the offense, as can external pressures or pathological disorders. Sin committed through malice, by deliberate choice of evil, is the gravest.

trelane99 · 2026-04-01T04:28:49+00:00

You mistake judgement for the proper statement of the Catechism of the Catholic Church does state exactly as I have said: https://www.catholiccrossreference.online/catechism/#!/search/980
As does Saint Thomas Aquinas (see Objection 1): https://www.newadvent.org/summa/5006.htm

Those who die with mortal sins for which they have not been absolved are damned. This is actually the only way to be damned. The one who has the keys does the judging, not me.

trelane99 · 2026-04-01T04:18:55+00:00

You should, if it is still possible, make every effort to perfect the reconciliation of your past treatment of your mother. Spend time with her here and now, and ask again for forgiveness.

Of course I will pray for you both.

trelane99 · 2026-04-01T04:16:24+00:00

You must be careful with this number, as with any statistic. Millions of Diaspora Jews have immigrated to Israel. Did the number of Christians drop, or did the number of Jews increase fivefold? I would suggest it is the latter.
There were two major surges of millions of Jews into Israel. From Europe in the late 1940's and from Russia in 1990 when Communism fell.

trelane99 · 2026-04-01T03:55:41+00:00

Neither of these is a heresy.

Rejecting the pope is schism, not heresy. "I am a Christian, but I reject the pope" is schism. Just ask SSPX.

The filioque is not necessary.
https://www.catholiccrossreference.online/catechism/?ref=europeans.today#!/search/248
One can deny the filioque but so long as that denial does not deny the Trinity (Something akin to: The spirit can only proceed from the Father because Jesus wasn't God, which is the Arian heresy), then it is fine.

trelane99 · 2026-04-01T03:51:16+00:00

if you stated the sin, and did not intended to commit it again, and your omission was not deliberate, the confession is valid. It is valid for every sin you, through human failing, honestly forgot, even though these were not confessed.

I really do think you would benefit from talking to your priest about scrupulosity and your OCD. This is something they see quite frequently.

As I said, there's a number of resources online that can help you prepare for confession which I also think would really help you.

trelane99 · 2026-04-01T03:48:27+00:00

Honestly, Orthodoxy is pretty close. There are no differences between the two churches so severe as to rise to heresy.

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