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by iammisc 5y ago
You must understand that this attitude is the minority. Most people like their workplace because they like the people there. My dad worked in pharma sales for 30 years. Do you think he cared to sell the drugs? I mean... in that the drugs we
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by iammisc 5y ago
That's right. In most of the world, easter is referred to as some derivative of 'Paschal', which is the adjectival form of Easter in English. For example, French: Paques Spanish: Pascua Romanian: Pasti Russian: пасха (Paskha)
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by iammisc 5y ago
It absolutely is, but the idea he put forth... that the elect (presumably meaning those who are getting into heaven) are deserving of secret knowledge is not really something that anyone can say ever existed in the church. They had a whole
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by iammisc 5y ago
This technocratic vision of the future does not square away with human nature and reality. Much more likely is a Butlerian Jihad to destroy automation and return us to a more pastoral way of life, even with advanced technology. Only social
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by iammisc 5y ago
But the comment I replied to was not 'anti-work'... far from it
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I suppose it's realistic in the sense that Christ is depicted as a human as are adam and eve, instead of something else, but there is no presumption that christ actually looked like the way he was drawn.
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by iammisc 5y ago
That's not the elect as you described. Priests are no more deserving of heaven than any other baptised catholic. The 'knowledge' in the archives is not religious in nature. You don't need to have access to it to know God
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by iammisc 5y ago
Why are you being downvoted? You're absolutely right. There's fewer and fewer ways to be self-employed these days. Even traditional avenues of wealth creation (real estate rentals, for example) have been closed to everyone except
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by iammisc 5y ago
You can't mention Felix Culpa though without mentioning Original Sin. Like most things in traditional Catholicism, there is a duality and a paradox. You can't get one without the other. Mentioning the Fall as a strictly good thing
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by iammisc 5y ago
Except, this is a christian fresco, and this is not how Christianity interprets the Genesis story. I understand that Judaism was the source religion of Christianity, but the two religions are substantially different. Christianity has very d
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by iammisc 5y ago
Catholicism has no concept of the elect, at least not in the way you describe it.
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The main problem of this article is that it uses modern cultural and artistic norms to interpret ancient art. Traditional Catholic and Christian iconography was not meant to be accurate, but rather to symbolize meaning. For example, in my c
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by iammisc 5y ago
> cf Easter, Christmas There is no evidence of roman paganism being the origin of either holiday. Easter and Christmas were celebrated before the romanization of Christianity. The only thing that was added were pagan symbology to the e
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by iammisc 5y ago
Meanwhile, Oregon has dropped its requirement that high school graduates be able to do arithmetic, read, or write. It's a race to mediocrity in the United States
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by iammisc 5y ago
Carnivorous plants turn carnivorous because they can't get enough nitrogen from the soil usually. Thus, in these populations, it's likely that the additional genes favoring carnivory evolved first and then, with that in place, the
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by iammisc 5y ago
It's true about the industry, but that is because the industry has grown faster than the profession. There is a group of software engineers who care. They're just completely overshadowed by the mind-boggling amount being produced
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by iammisc 5y ago
Software engineering is the only place where 'its too hard' is used as an excuse to not use superior technologies like rust, haskell, or even c++, which actually offer better discipline than many other commonly used languages.
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by iammisc 5y ago
Thank goodness we don't let authoritarians be social planners.
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by iammisc 5y ago
I just closed all my social media accounts. Let them plumb cake.
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by iammisc 5y ago
It's desirable only because they don't build the outer burbs this way. As you drive out of the city, the time of building gets later and later. When you hit some point where the homes were built in the 60s, suddenly the walkable n
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by iammisc 5y ago
Same in the us
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by iammisc 5y ago
Well I think there are cultural differences and that Europe is not the only acceptable model. Both america and Canada are bigger and wilder than Europe. Cars are nice and a necessity to live in both countries. The neighborhood here is a goo
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by iammisc 5y ago
Two things: (1) I know this shocks most people used to cookie cutter American suburbs and cities, but you can put an apartment building in a small satellite business district surrounded by single family homes. (2) Sure. We drive to costco a
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by iammisc 5y ago
Close-in marin, so Sausalito, Marin city, Larkspur, Corte Madera, San Rafael, and the 'Sir Francis Drake corridor' (San Anselmo, Kentfield, etc) are very walkable. I don't really understand the consternation about bart, the b
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by iammisc 5y ago
We must be twins. My lot is 0.14 acres. My house is a two story colonial plus finished basement. Easily > 2500sqft with room to spare. Also a hundred years old. They don't build them like this anymore. One car as well. For further o
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by iammisc 5y ago
I live in Portland city limits but not downtown. Where I live was built as a suburb but the city grew into it. Actually Portland has a lot of these downtowney areas and they're surrounded by blocks and blocks of single family homes an
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I just disagree. I live in the very environment you claim doesn't exist
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> Everyone is subsidizing your housing appreciation when you don’t allow more housing to be built. The activists who are driving up the price of your property are the activists trying to stop upward growth. It’s pure supply and demand. I
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> If you want a thriving business district with a mixture of local business you need to have density. I simply disagree. You can have single family homes and a thriving business district. Not ginormous mcmansions. But modest, good-sized
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by iammisc 5y ago
Same.... I love driving. But I'm not driving to work ever. Haven't driven to work in years, and I never will. Just not into it.

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