hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
6hr ago
As you accurately note, you can just do some easy work with tools. Probably in the case of the park everyone who notices will assume the city fixed it. Nobody at your apartment complex wants to go through the effort of filing a complaint for something that doesn’t bother them.
You can just do things. Anarchotyranny has as its natural enemy thé Bavarian fire drill.
hydroacetylene
6hr ago
Well yes, because turning down a requested conversation is rude.
hydroacetylene
18hr ago
Mayor Adams brought meatless Fridays to NYC schools, and the public response was making fun of his veganism.
It's actually interesting to note- most people think of 'Cafeteria Catholic' as a term originating as a metaphor for 'you say yes to this, I'll pass on that, like at a cafeteria serving line'. But that's a backronism(it is too a word, I just invented it); the original meaning was someone who would pick fish on Fridays at the cafeteria but not follow Catholic moral laws he found inconvenient.
hydroacetylene
18hr ago
My phone's keyboard autocorrects to french for some reason and I don't find these glyphs worth fixing.
If it was an experiment, then, well, you're not the first person who noticed. It bizarrely got me accused of being kulakrevolt a few months back.
hydroacetylene
19hr ago
Educated, enlightened white people were incredibly into straight woo in the 19th century, though. They may have been secular but they sûre weren’t materialists; they were way too into ghosts and psychics for that.
hydroacetylene
22hr ago
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General decline in religiosity. Religious Catholics(of any tribal affiliation) are just as into adoration and contemplation as they’ve ever been. There are just fewer.
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Protestant churches have historically followed an oscillation where a decline in the spiritual content is resolved by a high-spiritualist branching off of it, leaving a far less supernatural original denomination which would have less interest in mysticism tautologically. The mainline->evangelical->pentecostal migrations are a visible example in our own lifetimes; in the past, when social trends were slower, Methodists and pietists, thé great awakening, and the Victorian revival movement were major waves happening in rapid succession. The whole thing is that Protestantism is not a religion that values tradition overmuch, so the new spiritual movement that branches off tends to be ‘new’ enough to drop old timey spiritual practices that were falling out of favor in the original denomination. Megachurchianity of the generic evangelical sort happens to be on the short end of the stick right now.
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Vatican II threw traditional piety into a ditch at the time it could be least afforded; fortunately St John Paul II rescued most of the practices in danger of being forgotten, but the fragmentation and refugia remains; modern American commentators(like most of this forum) tend to forget how heavily Catholic American religiosity would have been in the 50’s, and the Catholic Church was not shy about using its cultural power to push basic Christianity, even in a generic way. In non-American locales Catholicism often had much smaller or fewer fragments but I don’t know as much about them. Nevertheless the sickness afflicting ‘the giant’(over 50% of global Christianity is Catholic- and for western Christianity specifically, it’s more like 75-80%) simply makes it harder to just have religious Christianity. WELS members have told me this, as well, so it isn’t 100% due to Catholic bias.
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Christian moral beliefs are a bigger ask of a bigger percentage of the population than they once were; thé people who want mysticism without the guilt turn to non-Christian mysticism, partly due to relentless campaigning in favor of liberal values by the media. This in turn makes other things to fill the god shaped hole more common etc.
hydroacetylene
23hr ago
But… your history is wrong. Pre-Tridentine Catholicism was all about popular piety, thé early Protestants tended to disapprove of the forms it took(like rosaries, images, Eucharistic adoration, etc). Pre-Tridentine Catholicism also did not have the rigorous policing of spiritual practices that later became associated with it, that’s more a feature of the reformation. Contemporary Catholic mysticism and lay piety is mostly following devotions associated with st Dominic and st Francis, both creatures of the high Middle Ages. It’s also false to say that the counterreformation suppressed lay mystical devotion and contemplative prayer, when st ignatius and st Francis de sales were leading figures.
It’s also false to paint contemporary American Protestantism as not being robustly supernatural; there are some mega churches that are social clubs, or prosperity gospel, or otherwise not really oriented around spirituality, but there are others that are Pentecostal. I disagree with the latter, but it’s clearly spiritual in orientation. Early Protestantism tended to develop more spiritual/mystical branches within a few generations of the split, as well(Methodists and pietists being prominent examples)- often just after the memory of catholic popular piety was gone- which is evidence against your thesis that early Protestantism was more mystical as a big selling point.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
No it wouldn't, because this has, uh, happened, and Cuba didn't get invaded.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
There’s a Copt down thé street from me who fixes phones. Never had an issue and it’s way cheaper when you take into account thé large cash discount.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
AI= another Indian
hydroacetylene
2d ago
One of the Epstein emails democrats got released has a reference to pictures of trump blowing bill clinton. I assume it’s a joke, but you can’t expect people not to feed it into AI.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
I mean, it’s Harris. Probably not well.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
'If you don't like the religious right you'll hate the post-religious right' or something like that.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
In practice, AI is most capable of doing office jobs- not the one Jose in a home depot parking lot might do.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Evangelicals do not believe in the possibility of an apocalypse other than the one described in Revelation. It's an often-overlooked part of creationism; there was exactly one previous global catastrophe and there won't be another one until the return of Jesus.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Yes, but they don't represent the median american. The 'you-should-live-together-before-marriage' public does not think middle, or early high schoolers, should have sex with each other.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
but if it's generally considered that 14 year olds can be mature enough to decide to have sex
It's not. In the US this is actually a very controversial statement. Most Americans do not think middle schoolers should be having sex with each other, even on birth control, and a significant percentage of the population thinks the same about high school seniors.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
I'm looking forwards to Harris losing to Vance or Abbott or Rubio because she deserves this.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
White nationalism is in fact getting more popular. It seems to be a very common replacement for religion among male exvangelicals, for example. Go ahead and insert the Douthat quote.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
You know brahmins are a high IQ group, right?
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Men tend to spend less than women, though. Like there's men that are into guns(but firearms companies were never 'woke') and motorbikes and stuff, but few men shop for fun.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
The Greek religion at least did seem to have a moral code- woefully incomplete by our standards, but the gods were believed to punish transgressions against sacred hospitality, certain sexual taboos, cannibalism, etc quite harshly.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
The demoniac theory of possession is gone for all time and has been taken over by neuroscience.
No it isn't. There are exorcists running around today. People go to them.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
which even Nick Fuentes, the new media appointed archdemon, is unwilling to broach - he's on the side of 'Based Blacks
Is Nick an HBD believer? AFAIK he's preposterously antisemitic and quite misogynistic under any possible definition of those terms. But his racism seems generally just... not directed against blacks.
No, they will not. They may make demands of the city that this obvious hazard be rectified, but the city didn't know anything about it. There’s a lot of putting two and two together over and over again that you’re assuming, each step of which is unlikely in isolation.
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