Daniel Watts

[Daniel Watts @Dgw2793]

@BreeSolstad You americans forget the church is global, i'm from africa. All liturgy here is NO, and yet same sex marriage would be 0%, contraception also 0% confession higher. If the NO is a soul killer why didn't it take in africa?

[Daniel Watts @Dgw2793]

@poperespecter1 Both, interpreting it as though endo agrees with rodrigues is a bad way of reading it. Endo has said he sees himself most in Kichijiro. Rodrigues does the 'bad thing happen therefore no God but it destroys him', and it is a betrayal ( the cock crows thrice at his apostasy)

[Daniel Watts @Dgw2793]

@roddreher whatever his sincerity, he is now being a handmaiden to nearly every policy he stated he opposed, including a war branded manifestly unjust by the same church he claims to submit to

[Daniel Watts @Dgw2793]

@HariSel57511397 eh for the reapers sure, but for the quarian/geth conflict and the krogan genophage they mattered tremendously. Didn't like the main climax but the way they wrapped the genophage was great. If you play differently it can actually be the right call to sabotage it in 3

[Daniel Watts @Dgw2793]

@Sargon_of_Akkad You guys mocked him alot during the last campaign, and tbf the call to vote tory was cringe. But he was right about both starmer and Reform way before you were

[Daniel Watts @Dgw2793]

@roddreher Iran is evil, okay but the us happily works with Turkey (a semi-theocracy) the house of Saud, and the gulf monarchies, it happily accommodates evil regimes when it suits their interests. In what way was Iran a practical threat to the US? Their missiles can only strike the region

[Daniel Watts @Dgw2793]

@RomanCabanac Which terrible regiemes do you fight? Trump isn't fighting Iran because they are evil, they are against his interest. He's happy to work with dictators, who do things as bad or worse than the iranians. That he's fighting in defense of the america is as naieve a notion as Tuckers

[Daniel Watts @Dgw2793]

@RomanCabanac there is very much a plan - the syria option. It's in israel's strategic interest to collapse the state. Whether or not the state collapses or a puppet is installed is irrelevent. Problem is the plan isn't attainable

[Daniel Watts @Dgw2793]

@firasmodad To borrow the old aphroism, ' we must do our christian duty and forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged,'

[Daniel Watts @Dgw2793]

@RomanCabanac when you say piety what do you mean? Piety is a feature of every civilisation from middle age serfdom, to the fantasically wealthy (and savage) assyrian empire - our age's secularism is an oddity. Not unherd of but odd

[Daniel Watts @Dgw2793]

@holysmoke Don't start there, it's a culmination of the other novels.
Pick your translator wisely, most commonly sold one (Pevear & Vohrovsky) are dull as dishwater. I recommend oxford world classics. Crime and Punishment, The Devils, notes from the underground are a good background

[Daniel Watts @Dgw2793]

@DeanTTraining what's the advantage of this vs the rdl? Rdl is my glute main and this seems to the same thing?

[Daniel Watts @Dgw2793]

@gavinortlund would never think such a thing. I would be curious how you would square the clear emergence of death into the world pre the fall though? Angelic fall? My main hesitancy with it. I don't claim a position but that's my main gripe with old earth

[Daniel Watts @Dgw2793]

@foliosociety Loved Pasternak Slater's translation of Crime and Punishment. I almost certainly won't be able to afford this version, but if you do get to a non limited one, you'll have my money

[Daniel Watts @Dgw2793]

@DeanTTraining ran out of ketlebell weights can hold a barbell at chest and it works just as well.

[Daniel Watts @Dgw2793]

@poperespecter1 gotta be honest, as someone weighing up this question it seems a big downside. Most of the Catholics i know don't really know anyone at all that well in their parishes. It seems lonely

[Daniel Watts @Dgw2793]

@DSPetolicchio You do realize the aphrosim is descriptive not proscriptive? It's not saying young people should burn down a village to feel it's warmth, it's saying the will if they feel no warmth from it. How describing a real phenomenon is satanic is beyond me dude

[Daniel Watts @Dgw2793]

@zulu_brah I've sorta checked out of this space on x, will look up specific questions etc, but this space is just a breeding ground for vice

[Daniel Watts @Dgw2793]

@redeemed_zoomer @Feaz87 and what about Rousseau, Voltaire, Marat et al? Most of the radicals that fomented revolution were formed by the intellectual currents in protestant countries, Rousseau in geneva, voltaire in britain etc. They took it further, but came from hatred of catholicism not love of it.