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by gottebp 5y ago
That truth itself, has a source, and that source is God.
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by gottebp 5y ago
This is a secondary cause, that while true came much later. The earliest cause is 1 Corinthians 7 where St. Paul indicates that the unmarried state is superior. That is why many of the Apostles, who started out married, embraced unmarried l
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by gottebp 5y ago
Aristotle explored this long ago, mapping out levels of friendship: 1) Friendship of Utility: Affection is based on usefulness, and if usefulness fades so does the relationship. 2) Friendship of Pleasure: Affection is based on pleasant enjo
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by gottebp 5y ago
Since the hijacked cells expressing the spike protein are your own, presumably they still emit "friendly" signals to the immune system (eg: I am self, do not attack). I am curious how the immune system would even recognize the spi
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by gottebp 6y ago
As one who loves the Catholic faith, despite the failings of its members, and who yet also fails to live it well -- I agree with you that hypocrisy is a massive problem. The group Jesus is harshest with in the Gospels is in fact the hypocri
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by gottebp 6y ago
Her last letter, written the night before she was executed, is so tender and touching; revealing a very different person from what we were generally taught [1]. The French Revolution was no exception to "History is written by the victo
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by gottebp 6y ago
This is a really clever joke. The OP did say "There's nothing sinister about a copycat."
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by gottebp 7y ago
A beautiful document. Fans of G.K. Chesterton (Chesterton's Fence, etc.) might be interested to know that Rerum novarum profoundly affected the man's life, and there is a fascinating outworking from it, misleadingly named "Di
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by gottebp 7y ago
Why would genetic engineering (or lack there of) be a necessary sign here? The Wuhan lab regularly collected and studied various naturally occurring coronaviruses from all over China. It is perfectly possible that a collected sample from na
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by gottebp 7y ago
Hell is simply this: Your own free-will rejection of the Godhead, who is all good, all love, and all truth itself. We are used to the end of romantic relationships hurting. If you end the relationship with transcendental love, goodness, and
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by gottebp 7y ago
We would have had a massive uptick in pneumonia related deaths if this was the case. If anyone has stats on that they would be an interesting look.
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by gottebp 7y ago
My grandfather was an alcoholic. It came about because of the great sorrow he felt after his own father died in a car accident. A small drink each day became a larger one. This iterates. Time passes. I remember when he was in rehab once, as
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by gottebp 7y ago
Just look at the dignity here in this humble creation he has made! > [...] she interrupted me mid-sentence and hollered in exaltation to her husband: ” THE VIDALIA MAN! THE VIDALIA MAN! PICK UP THE PHONE!” The happiness I feel reading th
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by gottebp 7y ago
PA2200 Nylon is not water soluble so any particles would stay with the discarded grounds. It’s pretty harmless stuff anyway. Breville’s version wears fast but the ShapeWays one has held up really well. Check out the two year wear study on t
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by gottebp 7y ago
This makes my day. Full circle to Hacker News. Enjoy your espresso.
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by gottebp 7y ago
I would like to if time permits. There is a huge untapped market here. The difficulty is in locating the parts that are both unavailable and 3D printable. I keep it in the back of my head as I repair other items. So much expensive stuff end
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by gottebp 7y ago
Breville coffee grinders are impossible to get internal parts for. I designed a 3D printed upgrade for the main wear-part in their BCG800XL and BCG600SIL Grinders. The storefront is through ShapeWays[1] and I use iFixit[2],[3] to drive the
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Ask HN: How do you handle invoices and purchase orders?
11 points by gottebp 8y ago|5 comments
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by gottebp 8y ago
I love Distributism. As G.K. Chesterton said, "The problem with Capitalism is not that there are too many but too few" Distributism seeks the maximum number of families and individuals privately owning a small bit of capital. I
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by gottebp 8y ago
In addition: We had 27 large banks in the early 90's. These have merged into four enormous ones today [0]. We had 50 media corporations in the early 80's. They have merged into six today [1]. [0] https://www.visualcapit
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by gottebp 8y ago
What distinguishes a Twitter or Facebook from a phone company? At scale these platforms have become vital to public communication in the same way as certain utilities. Perhaps it would be better if businesses facilitating speech communicati
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by gottebp 8y ago
If something is cultural, why does that imply it is automatically bad or should be tossed aside? This is not to say any culture is all good or all perfect, however didn't much of culture come about through generation after generation e
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by gottebp 8y ago
Most Christians fail to live up to their own theology, however the thing itself is beautiful. In Catholic terms, lust is precisely the desire to have or use the other apart from love. In theological terms an 'evil' is always a
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by gottebp 8y ago
"Where your talents and the needs of the world cross; there lies your vocation." ~Aristotle There is debate whether the above is really from Aristotle. The idea behind it works however, and it works in a way that --at least anecdo
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by gottebp 8y ago
A wise person here once suggested viewing the world population as a parallel computer, with each human mind working to move us forward. With this view in mind, as soon as space travel opens the solar system Malthusian philosophy dies foreve
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by gottebp 8y ago
Perhaps you misunderstand. I am not opposed to taxes that support the common good. Simply pointing out why it is hard to distinguish between reasonable taxation and excessive taxation made necessary by irresponsible use of revenue.
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by gottebp 8y ago
These things are never so cut and dry. Politicians know to cut funding from the most visible places first -- parks, police, roads, fire, schools, etc. It allows them to justify raising taxes. Then they turn and put the new revenue towards
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by gottebp 9y ago
The time flexibility, coupled with remote-work, is a lovely idea. I hope it spreads.
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by gottebp 9y ago
It's a philosophical dilemma that demands rigour. When does a human person begin? If a few cells cannot be a person, well, adults are only bigger clumps of cells. What is the threshold? If personhood begins when the cells are independ
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by gottebp 9y ago
The primary injustice is that the rules don't apply equally to all businesses. Small businesses are more fragile, yet will never get special tax deals. Like any sport, the rules should apply equally to all players. Anything less is cor

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