born for adversity

"And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold."

[born for adversity @foradversity]

@lukei4655 one jilted young woman is having an absurdly outsized influence on Catholic discourse right now

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@c0ntrabane https://t.co/Iz1P9vBVl5

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

In recent years, many young people have approached the faith through social media, successful programs and popular online Christian witnesses. The danger is that a faith discovered online is limited to individual experiences, which may be intellectually and emotionally reassuring, but never “embodied.” Such experiences remain “disembodied,” detached from the “ecclesial body.”

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@libcantfunction https://t.co/PRcJkDJe8h

[RusticLagers @ArtisanAles1]

Women when their guy friend realizes how special they are and wants to spend the rest of his life with them.

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@LibertyValkyrie @Dev1_dj That exact room was used in the Psycho series.

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@Dutchysmomma @prolifefrenchie Yeah, well that just shows how much he fell off.

[Tyler Austin Harper @Tyler_A_Harper]

This is great.

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@mandylu So true. Legend says they glued some video cards together and AI just magically popped out of it. No design - no theory - no plan whatsoever.

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@0rurin @cfryant Since nobody's helping you for some reason.

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@PenseesofPascal There's a simplistic way to frame this objection to Protestantism which would cut both ways, but there is also a real difference in emphasis which gets down to how both versions of Christianity conceive of salvation in the first place.

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@contrarymo I don’t know what’s been going on with Opus, but they need to slam the breaks and start over again with 4.6 as the baseline. Nobody wanted this - nobody likes it.

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@wholyv @rickbrewPDN I am perplexed by the need you apparently feel to bully, belittle and otherwise antagonize a guy who made something cool and useful.

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@aelfred_D "There are two ways, one of life and one of death, and there is a great difference between the two ways."
- Didache 1:1

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@deanwball We don't need to water down our idea of "thinking" to match what an AI does - this is perversely motivated reasoning. The standard for whatever "thinking" means is whatever we do. Our technology rises to that level or it does not.

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@deanwball @JadeAtrophis The disanalogies are vast and impossible to enumerate from the perspective of neuroscience alone, and AI researchers are well aware of that. The existence of the soul simply widens that gap to an infinite degree.

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@deanwball @JadeAtrophis Our luminous pontiff is 100% correct when he elsewhere says: "even when these tools are described as capable of 'learning,' their way of doing so is different from that of a human person". At best it does something loosely analogous to thinking, but not equivocal to it.

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@dioscuri When I was a kid I had dreams of being in an indoor sea. Something about that idea was simultaneously thrilling and deeply unsettling - like an itch I had to scratch - infinity forced into finitude.

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@dioscuri I think a lot of "liminal" imagery taps into the surreal feeling we get from natural things being constrained to an unnatural environment. Indoor waterparks are liminal because flowing water feels like it belongs outdoors. Same for fake palm trees, painted skies, etc.

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@InternetDog_ @ape_detective @SouthApe He also said "if you see it, it's there". He's making a point about paranoia phrased in a provocative manner. Harmful bacteria is potentially everywhere. He means that if you don't have a good reason to think it's there, you shouldn't be worried about it.

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@InternetDog_ @ape_detective @SouthApe He is not denying the existence of bacteria.