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Recent content by HardHead

  1. HardHead

    In Europe, Black Friday is triggering fierce protests

    The daily life of a general Canadian is pretty much identical to a US person basically in all social classes. The social safety-net is perhaps better in Canada given matters such as health care, but Americans earn more than Canadian in general, and pay less for daily goods and services...
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    In Europe, Black Friday is triggering fierce protests

    Regarding Canada, the lifestyle is basically identical with some political differences in the background. Even so these differences are, at least in my view, superficial. Canadians in general do not see any real issue with Americans. None. If we do, we can always drive to Buffalo NY, Detroit...
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    please pray for me due to a developing vision problem ...

    Please pray for me. I am experiencing decreased vision in my right eye over the last two to three days. I am going through assessments and diagnostics now with an MRI of my optic nerves and brain coming soon. Right now they cannot tell me what is happening but I am in for more hospital visits...
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    In Europe, Black Friday is triggering fierce protests

    It does feel like that. At times I think people complain for the purpose of complaining. It is a matter of focus for sure. I don't see how a secular change can be obtained. Instant gratification is not easy to give up on. Getting feedback from a priest that the things you are doing need fixing...
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    In Europe, Black Friday is triggering fierce protests

    Regarding the environment, for me it's not so much about the stuff or the sale, it's where the stuff ends up when it is no longer useful. Continually cycling through ever-newer stuff is detrimental in one view since it creates landfill, pollution, and energy waste during the production process...
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    In Europe, Black Friday is triggering fierce protests

    I work with US colleagues for about 1/2 of my job as a chemical engineer in Canada. I have one US colleague who apologized to me last year, as a joke, for the USA exporting Black Friday to the world. He was kidding, but in my opinion, it is a mess. In my view, it's part of coveting, or at the...
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    Allegedly, Patriarch Bartholomew says there is no doctrinal difference between Orthodox and Catholic

    I'm not sure I get this. I see many differences regarding canon. It seems a bit odd. Time will tell.
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    Plots to infiltrate the Catholic Church

    This is true. I recall, in my twenties ( three decades ago now :) ), seeing John Paul II as a fulcrum in the end of the Cold War. He was certainly a force in this direction at the time. I agree. I also hope you can see that this is not limited to any one kind of totalitarian state. For...
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    Plots to infiltrate the Catholic Church

    This is interesting. I don't typically think in such terms in general but I often thought that this could be possible even though I have absolutely no evidence of this myself. As a matter of general subversion, it makes sense. I will view the video.
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    Advent action calendar

    That is pretty cool. Planting in december is not the best idea in Canada but it could work indoors. The rest is do-able. :)
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    EGR priest denies Communion to gay judge

    Freedom of expression is like any other freedom. Someone else is free to disagree. Without that, the freedom makes no sense at all. In my view the priest is completely within his mandate to make this decision. What he chose to do is up to him.
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    It's not a great time to be converting. Converts- would you do it again now??

    There is something to be said about a universal church that has rock-solid theology that is preached by properly educated and uncompromising priests. For me this means either Eastern Orthodox, Catholic, or Anglican. I would not second-guess the conversion process.