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RileyG · 2025-05-05T18:17:03-0500

MotoToTheMax said:
Mental illness is a reality. Is calling out a belief one holds to their identity an attack?

So you are comparing religion and gender identity? Is that so?

RileyG · 2025-05-05T18:16:32-0500

mourningdove~ said:
Funny that you'd mention this.
I caught abit of a YouTubed TLM this morn ... and it was a mumbly one. (lol)

With so few TLMs to watch, you'd think the priest wouldn't mumble.
But it was early and he was older; maybe he just wasn't awake yet ....

(So there were 55 of us online watching, and barely hearing anything ...
It was like a flashback to 1969! lol!)

With my experience, the TLM is almost entirely silent, with the exception of the prayers after Mass and the homily. Correct me if I’m wrong.

RileyG · 2025-05-05T18:15:20-0500

Michie said:
One thing I will say, I doubt I would have ever become Catholic if it were not for the NO. But I think there is room enough on the Church for both.

Amen! And all liturgies, for that matter.

MotoToTheMax · 2025-05-05T18:14:54-0500

RileyG said:
How is it an attack? Mental illness is a reality.

Good grief.

Mental illness is a reality. Is calling out a belief one holds to their identity an attack?

RileyG · 2025-05-05T18:12:10-0500

MotoToTheMax said:
Pick one.

How is it an attack? Mental illness is a reality.

Good grief.

MotoToTheMax · 2025-05-05T18:11:41-0500

RileyG said:
Attacking Christianity is forbidden on this forum. Period.

RileyG said:
No. Saying someone has a mental illness is not attacking them. Good grief.

Pick one.

Dan Perez · 2025-05-05T18:10:23-0500

Dan Perez said:
AND 1 Cor 15:29 , Else what shall they that do which are BAPTIZED for the DEAD , if the DEAD rise not at all

Why are they BAPTIZED FOR THE DEAD ??

What say you ??

dan p

And for those that believe in BAPTISM or those that BELIEVE in WATER BAPTISM , would like your reply ??

Maybe it has a different answer ??

dan p

RileyG · 2025-05-05T18:10:07-0500

MotoToTheMax said:
Why? Is it attacking your faith?

Attacking Christianity is forbidden on this forum. Period.

MotoToTheMax · 2025-05-05T18:09:42-0500

RileyG said:
Again, showing contempt for Christianity is against the forum rules.

Why? Is it attacking your faith?

RileyG · 2025-05-05T18:08:26-0500

MotoToTheMax said:
But it isn't wrong. The question remains unanswered.

Again, showing contempt for Christianity is against the forum rules.

Ophiolite · 2025-05-05T18:08:05-0500

@Vidu : Select your preferred answer.

Bus, then a walk up hill to school, then upstairs to one or other of the science labs.
Curiosity.
A distaste, at that time for history, foreign languages, PE, home economics and woodworking. (Some of those antipathies remain.)
A fascination with planets and stars, reinforced by books by Patrick Moore, that morphed into a taste for historical geology, since it involved less mathematics.
Being neurologically diverse.
Pure accident.

RileyG · 2025-05-05T18:07:54-0500

Michie said:
Yep. I was discussing the hypocrisy of it all in another thread.

It disgusts me to no end.

MotoToTheMax · 2025-05-05T18:07:48-0500

RileyG said:
It’s poisoning the well, FWIW.

But it isn't wrong. The question remains unanswered.

RileyG · 2025-05-05T18:07:39-0500

FireDragon76 said:
The bill is just an attempt at a not-so-subtle infringement on basic First Ammendment rights, Jew-bashing aside.

I agree.

RileyG · 2025-05-05T18:06:48-0500

seeking.IAM said:
Even more than that, congregations need to have internal controls set up like other not-for-profits. At least two people counting the plate, one person making reconciled deposits. Two people approving every check/bill paid. Monthly financial reports w/ Finance Committee oversight. An annual audit. Clergy never touches the money, other than an approved clergy discretionary fund.

Agreed.

RileyG · 2025-05-05T18:06:04-0500

Paidiske said:
True. But I could do that living by the beach, too.

One parish I worked in, the church (and house) were on a short street; at one end was the gourmet chocolate shop, and at the other end was the beach. I figured God had arranged that just about perfectly.

Ooooh, sounds lovely!

Paidiske · 2025-05-05T18:05:42-0500

RamiC said:
Eeeek, but you can sit on a veranda at 11:00pm on Christmas Day, which nobody does here.

True. But I could do that living by the beach, too.

One parish I worked in, the church (and house) were on a short street; at one end was the gourmet chocolate shop, and at the other end was the beach. I figured God had arranged that just about perfectly. :clap:

RileyG · 2025-05-05T18:05:23-0500

rambot said:
I guess my other question is.....Seriously, why do you care SOOOOOOOOO much?

I have a young niece and two young nephews. I don’t want them to be taught this ideology which I find absolutely immoral. FWIW

Always in His Presence · 2025-05-05T18:05:22-0500

Nithavela said:
I was just correcting your apparent lack in reading comprehension. I am not even going to start to try and educate you on prison models.

Perhaps I will after I have been told when this man should have been released.

Ich kann mich nicht erinnern, dass Sie jemals eine Frage direkt beantwortet habenl

RileyG · 2025-05-05T18:03:24-0500

Color me surprised.

Not to mention when Harris supported the drag group that mocks Catholic religious sisters.

rjs330 · 2025-05-05T18:00:50-0500

Never mind.

RileyG · 2025-05-05T18:00:41-0500

rjs330 · 2025-05-05T17:59:39-0500

wing2000 said:
Post #9

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.lawd.210781/gov.uscourts.lawd.210781.1.0.pdf

I said there was no court order. The petition itself is not a court order. Rhats what matters. The petition is irrelevant and has no legal standing to prevent what happened. Not until a judge signs an order.

Ophiolite · 2025-05-05T17:59:26-0500

linux.poet said:
Possess? A.I. is pure, raw, unfiltered intuition that does not have the human facility called intellect that counterbalances intuition and produces sanity.

Intuition is, quite simply, just a group of associations. The three symbols d, o, and g, when assembled, refer to an obedient 4 legged mammal that barks, sniffs, and licks its human companions. But that goes much deeper than language - I associate Johnny Depp with Pirates of the Caribbean, William Shatner with Captain Kirk and Captain Kirk with Star Trek. Intuition is modeled on web diagrams, it's a network of ideas linked together by associations. Normally, these associations reflect reality, but intuition doesn't have to reflect reality. I can associate bees with the color purple all day long and draw purple bees and make an entire fantasy world where purple bees exist. It still doesn't change the fact that there are no purple bees. God created them yellow. There are no rainbow giraffes or pots of gold at the top of them. Sorry.

Today's A.I. are computational neural networks, which are just massive web diagrams with associations between them. They have gotten good enough to associate d, o, and g with a furry 4-footed mammal. They are also able to associate d, o, and g with the words that should come before and after d, o, and g in a sentence. Do these intuitively constructed sentences reflect reality? Only sometimes, just like a real intuition.

In a normal human, sensory data and intellectual data stored in the intellect will constantly inform the human about whether their intuition reflects reality, and suggest accurate associations. The A.I. computer has no such limits or data coming in.

A.I. is computerized intuition, plain and simple.

It is a plausible take on the topic, but you state it as fact whereas I suspect, intutively, that it is opinion. Informed opinion, perhaps, but opinion none the less. Do you agree?

RileyG · 2025-05-05T17:58:55-0500

Fantine said:
He won against a 60 year old woman by playing on racism, misogyny, and xenophobia.
And who many believed faked two alleged assassination attempts to get sympathy. I'm sure if they took comprehensive competency tests side-by-side Trump would be trounced. He would have been trounced by Biden, too.
If he likes Greenland so much then he should move.

She lost because she was a terrible candidate, in my opinion, and people didn’t want a Biden 2.0. And no, I’m not saying Trump is all that great either.

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