person101x

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by person101x 4mo ago
I was a lapsed Catholic / agnostic CS major in college. Met a crazy chaplain priest who would show up at lots of university events and got to know students, and who was very good at explaining the Catholic faith and the Scriptures. At
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by person101x 1y ago
Once upon a time there was an ethos that employers, which were at that time called lords, had a duty and responsibility for the good of their employees, who were called serfs or peasants, and vice versa. While nobody is advocating a return
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by person101x 2y ago
If you're looking for personal value out of attending funerals, there's good evidence for psychological benefits to doing so. Grieving is hard. Humans are evolved to process negative emotions through complex rituals. Funerals are
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by person101x 2y ago
For me it boils down to this: the Catholic Church exists as a body of members who are all sinners- laymen and women, priests, bishops, cardinals, and the pope included. The clergy are simply functionaries within the church who serve very im
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by person101x 2y ago
Fair enough. Thanks for the correction.
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by person101x 2y ago
> I'm sorry but I can't see how the first sentence supports the second in any meaningful way. It's easy and pointless to shit on religion and I'm not doing that here, but "evidence" is something other than c
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by person101x 2y ago
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by person101x 3y ago
10 year fountain pen user. Nobody seems to have mentioned what are, in my opinion, the most compelling and practical reasons for fountain pen usage: their ergonomics. Fountain pens are supposed to be held lightly, so much so that someone sh
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by person101x 3y ago
The economy isn't a zero-sum game. Everyone wins in the long-term when we help each other succeed.
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by person101x 4y ago
Caring parents aren't in an impossible situation. The problem is that we have given up on the old adage that it takes a village to raise a child. Corporations have, intentionally or not, contributed heavily to the destruction of our vi
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by person101x 5y ago
You may be interested in the Light Phone which uses an e-ink screen. I've been thinking of getting one myself, but can't quite pull the trigger.
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by person101x 5y ago
Cancel Linux! Anyone?