waterbadger

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by waterbadger 1y ago
I think the only historical narrative supportable by the evidence (without having a pre-existing axe to grind about what the conclusion can or cannot be) is that Jesus was crucified by the romans and that he came back to life. Obviously nor
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by waterbadger 1y ago
The Trinity consists of three persons, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. The Son proceeds from the Father and the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son. Philosophically we are able to understand that God must exist without
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by waterbadger 1y ago
I believe there are catholic churches in Iraq but that is certainly a more challenging situation! Would still encourage starting somewhere, even just learning to pray the rosary can bear a lot of fruit.
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by waterbadger 1y ago
That is probably a very challenging situation and I don’t know the state of the church there. But I would say life is short and the benefits so enormous I would encourage anyone to do their best to pursue becoming a part of the church in wh
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by waterbadger 1y ago
That’s a great question! Basically all of the religions make truth claims, and these truth claims are contradictory. For example christianity says that there is one God and that Jesus is the son of God, fully human and fully divine. Every
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by waterbadger 1y ago
(I would also recommend going to your local mass and introducing yourself to the priest! they are usually very nice. this is actually a good time of year I think that lots of places have “ocia” classes starting in the fall for people who ar
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by waterbadger 1y ago
The official Catholic church catechism that was published in the 90s is good. Its older but Baltimore catechism “4” (it is the most adult oriented version) is also really good.
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Claudi language makes Claude faster(gist.github.com)
1 points by waterbadger 1y ago|1 comments
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by waterbadger 1y ago
its an invented language. paste it in conversation then ask Claude to recite back warmup corpus and then tell it to write some stuff in claudi. Seems noticeably faster
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by waterbadger 3y ago
Lol, I’m sure you’re a nice person! Not trying to attack or disparage you personally in any way. Just trying (poorly) to share the things I wish someone had told me 20 years ago. My personal experience has been that there are a set of confu
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by waterbadger 3y ago
Good luck on your code! I do appreciate your research and willingness to have a conversation. I think to some degree you yourself are cherry picking isolated data points and taking them out of context to support your point. It’s a straightf
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by waterbadger 3y ago
Yup, I did get a lot of this info from Underground History of American Education. Thank you for the citations! I appreciate your research into the topic.
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by waterbadger 3y ago
If you get into the history of the late 19th century through the mid 20th century there is a pretty clear thread you can draw through: - industrialization - racial theories about immigrants - birth control - the birth of compulsory educatio
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by waterbadger 3y ago
Uh, I would consider something called the “Malthusian League” close enough to eugenics from my point of view. But you are right, birth control itself predates modern era eugenics. What I meant was “modern” birth control. A lot of the people
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by waterbadger 3y ago
Yeah, I wasn’t trying to imply that they are the same. As a Catholic we don’t condone artificial birth control (or believe in divorce!) so it’s very different than the general 20th century perspective on things. I do think it is important t
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by waterbadger 3y ago
Birth control is also rooted in eugenics. From 1909: "The Family and the Nation" by Arnold Gessel is published. In it he expresses the intentions of the The American Birth Control League that: "society need not wait for perfe
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by waterbadger 6y ago
I think the idea is that the way we are wired it’s a pretty natural thing that happens when we are exposed to depictions of other people (real or fictional). One thing I read also suggested that the content we get from media figures is very
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by waterbadger 6y ago
If you Google “parasocial relationships” you might find some interesting content.
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by waterbadger 6y ago
In regards to the black and white thinking that seems common on the internet I think it’s very important to understand and have compassion for the volume of people who have experienced some form of emotional abuse in their life. How you tre
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by waterbadger 6y ago
I’m sure you are trying to be helpful so I’m not trying to criticize you personally or devalue what you are sharing! More of a general gripe for me: Anger and sadness are both very helpful, understandable and ok emotions. There is nothing w
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by waterbadger 6y ago
Animals are lossy at converting plant calories into meat calories (varies for different kinds of livestock obviously). I don’t think it’s an obvious conclusion that more agricultural land would be required.
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by waterbadger 7y ago
Hammerspoon shortcut to toggle grayscale & color (applescript not mine, borrowed from https://github.com/shavidzet/osa-grayscale ) hs.hotkey.bind({"cmd", "ctrl", "alt"}, "c&quo
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by waterbadger 7y ago
Something I started messing around with: add a global stylesheet with the rule body { filter: grayscale(100%); } (only gotcha is position: fixed; elements breaking in Firefox?) It feels a lot easier to focus on what I'm reading and to
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by waterbadger 7y ago
You can also shift-click on links to open in them in the sidebar
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by waterbadger 7y ago
There’s actually a Chrome plugin you can use to blacklist certain domains from search results! It’s called “Google Search Filter” ( https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-search-filt... )