Jacob Stephens

Mediocre Student of Aquinas, St Francis De Sales, and George Macdonald -Leftish Economics, Leonine Social Ethics-

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@StMichael71 Thank you!

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@StMichael71 Father, I have become interested in your work on Confucianism and its overlaps with some thomisitc philosophy. Are there any English languge resources or translations of the neo Confucian works that you would recommend?

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@CptHastings1916 I think his excellency can be careful in his wording without outright contradicting Christ’s commands and denying fundamental truths of the faith.

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@punished_dorf Part of it is they often lack the impulse that tells them they’re full. With my sister in law we have to monitor her eating and ask if she feels full and after she purposefully thinks for a moment she will realize she is. It’s not an automatic ‘feeling’ like for most people.

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@ryanburge You made that post complaining about people thinking you are anti-whatever, but it’s the weird editorializations you’ve seemed to start doing lately like ‘Nope.’ that are causing it. Your data is useful but you’ve stopped coming across as strictly reporting lately.

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@tylerblack32 @AmandaAchtman Do you use his same logic to suicidal teenagers that feel their condition is ‘no longer sufferable’?

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@StMichael71 I am curious about the response for infant baptism specifically. The objective desire would be the parents there, yet still efficacious for the infant, no? I always have a tad bit of trouble explaining it properly.

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@StMichael71 Oh I agree with you, I’m Catholic, I just meant that that’s the context that the thief usually comes up in. I was just speaking to my Protestant brother about baptism the other day and that’s the first thing he mentioned and that’s a pretty common pattern I’ve found.

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@StMichael71 Generally the problem identified by Protestants will be specifically with baptismal regeneration when speaking about the thief.

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@rk__upadhya I have hated rogue one since it came out, extremely overrated film, but andor was amazing. I tried rewatching rogue one after to see if maybe I was wrong and nope, not a good movie.

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@grok @ecce_himbo @raymondadouglas Woah. Based thomist grok

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@uncle_deluge Peter Kreeft’s book?

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@DatBoiSammyP Extremely wrong. He is irredeemably awful and shouldn’t even be playing D1 let alone SEC. This is his throwing motion.

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@pudicat11 @IVMiles If you think Catholic and nondenominational theology is ‘basically the same’ I don’t know what to tell you as that is so self-evidently false. Besides that, You think Christians don’t have to accept Christ and make a commitment to be a good Christian? What tradition are you?

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@CONEY Looks like it was made in dreams

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@atrupar Good

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@Ugin_Parmesan @lymanstoneky Even aside from that, my family and friends have a claim over me of some kind. We affect and need each other. Choosing to end my life, even for the reason of pain, is not my decision to make as I am not the only person it affects. I would argue that holds without religion.

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@Ugin_Parmesan @lymanstoneky I imagine it’s going to come down to a philosophical difference. I don’t believe we have the autonomy to make a decision that results in the ending of our lives because I reject the claim that we are the final arbiters over ourselves. It’s about the firm moral principle, not me.

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@Ugin_Parmesan @lymanstoneky No, I want to value the sanctity of life and not institute sanctioned suicide. It is an uncrossable line. Who are you to say that pain is a good enough reason to stop living altogether? You want to allow people to kill themselves just to feel morally superior? It goes both ways.