Justin Saenz🇻🇦

Solvitur ambulando / TAMU ‘21 / Dallas / Baruch 3:13 / I make train go choo choo

[Justin Saenz🇻🇦 @jsaenz1999]

So many have been raised on the false dichotomy that you must pick between science and religion, when really they answer two entirely separate questions. The former is “why are we here” in a physical sense, and the latter is “why are we here” as in, our purpose, or meaning.

[Bishop Robert Barron @BishopBarron]

Friends, in my evangelical work online, I often encounter people who are skeptical of religion—dismissing it as a tired, irrational superstition.

When I meet someone like this, I usually begin by asking them, “Do you believe in science?”

The typical response: “Well, of course.”

To which I say: The condition for the possibility of any science is the deep conviction that the world, in every nook and cranny, is intelligible. It has something like a rational pattern to it that can be understood. Otherwise, science wouldn’t get off the ground.

Albert Einstein famously put it this way: “The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it’s comprehensible.”

So here’s my question to critics of religion: How do you explain that? Where does this universal intelligibility—describable with the most complex mathematics—come from?

The answer I typically receive is “I don’t know; that’s just the way it is.”

I have a better answer: The world is marked by mathematically precise and complex intelligibility because it was made by a mathematician.

[aether @bluewdrift]

the best ever advice to achieve a long term goal by tolstoy.

[Justin Saenz🇻🇦 @jsaenz1999]

If you are single and struggle with lust you need to pray to God to make you into the man / woman he wants you to be, and start becoming that person way way way before you even consider getting married.

[Justin Saenz🇻🇦 @jsaenz1999]

Ah yes, lust, which famously goes away after marriage, thats why married spouses never cheat on each other

Could you imagine how crazy the world would be if they did? The divorce rates would be so high

[Lizzie Marbach @LizzieMarbach]

If you’re single and struggle with lust—you need to get married.

[Fr. Joshua J. Whitfield @frjoshTX]

“The heretics are to be convinced by an example of humility and other virtues far more readily than by any external display or verbal battles.”
-St. Dominic

[Justin Saenz🇻🇦 @jsaenz1999]

@I_Rhy_ Peace isn’t the absence of storms, it’s his presence in them. The storms are there to remind you where your hope comes from.

He’s always with you, even when you don’t feel him. And he never gives you more than you can handle.

Keep praying brother. I will pray for you too 🙏

[Joseph Nolla, SJ @josephnollasj]

“What are the most comforting words you have ever heard?”

“I absolve you from your sins in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit”

[Justin Saenz🇻🇦 @jsaenz1999]

Its good but it never wouldve beat the free credit report dot com jingles

[Kristi Yamaguccimane @TheWapplehouse]

Had Pizza Hut not been cowards this instantly would’ve been the single most iconic Millennial jingle of all time

[𝔃𝔞𝔠𝔥𝔞𝔯𝔦𝔞𝔰 𝔰 @OrdinariateUSA]

It’s because people don’t believe in the Christian God anymore

The most popular religion in the world, by far, is the belief that:

1. A god exists

2. He wants people to be good and nice

3. The central goal of life is to be happy

4. God isn’t particularly involved in your life except when needed to solve a problem

5. Good people go to heaven

This is Moralistic Therapeutic Deism and is the religion of 90% of the world.

The “therapeutic deity” has different names in different cultures: Jesus, Allah, Krishna; with slightly different traits (IE, in the western version of this religion, 5 is replaced with “good people who believe Jesus exists go to heaven”)

Orthodox belief in the True Christian God is a thing of the past. Religion isn’t important to people anymore. All theories about why religion is declining are chiefly because of this.

[Justin Saenz🇻🇦 @jsaenz1999]

Lowkey praying the Liturgy of Hours for about a week now and my mental has been so much better, prayer is so awesome

[Daniel @growing_daniel]

I'm not sure how exactly but I'm convinced it's crucial for your mental health to first thank God for any food you eat

[Justin Saenz🇻🇦 @jsaenz1999]

Dont forget the last part

>remember that Jesus loves me and is always ready to forgive me when I ask him for it

[The Sinanist @thesinanist]

>be me
>commit a mortal sin again
>feel extreme shame
>research what the process of confession is in catholicism (which i cant do anyway bc i havent been confirmed yet, i promise ill be doing it soon)
>find a document called "A Detailed Catholic Examination of Conscience (Second Edition)"
>look through the questions about sins one might have done that go against the commandments or the precepts of the church
>decide to make a personal list of said sins that ive done
>realize how absolutely terrible of a person i am

[That Catholic Guy 🇻🇦 @Catholic_bro]

Reminder

The cross of St Peter isn’t demonic

[Fiama @fiamaetc]

São Tomás de Aquino dizia que a ausência de sentimento não é ausência de Deus.

você reza e não sente nada.
pede e não recebe resposta.
faz tudo certo e o silêncio continua.

aí pensa que foi esquecido, ou que está sendo ignorado por Deus.
como o filho pequeno que puxa a camisa do pai durante uma ligação de trabalho, mas ele está ocupado demais.

São Tomás responderia que Deus não é objeto dos sentidos.
não é o que você sente, o que você vê, o que você consegue captar no momento da oração.
Ele é o fundamento de tudo que existe.
e o fundamento não some quando você não o percebe.

o sol não desaparece porque está nublado.
você é que não consegue vê-lo.

a fé mais nobre não é a que emociona.
é a que persiste, apesar do silêncio.
a que continua mesmo sem resposta.
a que fica de joelhos mesmo sem sentir nada.

Deus está lá o tempo todo

[Fr. Joshua J. Whitfield @frjoshTX]

"It's our duty to become saints. But let nobody know it."
-St. John Vianney

[Justin Saenz🇻🇦 @jsaenz1999]

Yes.

[annie @soychotic]

My first time at Catholic Church was so nice up until they started talking about that transubstantiation nonsense . I looked around like “yall buying this?” and they were

[Justin Saenz🇻🇦 @jsaenz1999]

Our Lord talks in both parables and in a literal sense all throughout the gospels. To reduce him to purely one or the other is a silly and fallacious argument. John 6 has clearly been understood as literal for centuries, by the apostles and by their direct successors.

[taoki @justalexoki]

jesus: talks in allegories all the time
also jesus: this is my flesh and blood, eat it
catholics: oh yeah this part is literal. i am literally eating the literal jesus christ right now. this 2¢ wafer is the holy son of gods literal flesh

[Justin Saenz🇻🇦 @jsaenz1999]

This post is beautiful, an all time engineering post on twitter

[em m0shouris @emm0sh]

Topology optimization? Of course you thought it would solve your problems. You fed the solver a single static load case and watched it chug on von Mises stress like it was Gatorade, all while completely ignoring principal stresses and actual mechanical properties.

Let me guess -- you just finished the SolidWorks Simulation or Autodesk Fusion generative-design marketing deck (or maybe the Ansys webinar), and now you think organic lattices are the future because the pretty red-to-blue plot said so.

You’re going to believe that right up until the first prototype hits the machine shop and they call you, asking why the flanges are thinner than the paper your college degree -- the one you Chegged your way through -- was printed on. Then the part buckles laterally under a moment that wasn’t even in your load case, crumples, and suddenly it’s your problem.

While you’re dealing with that, you’ll finally notice that the “optimized” geometry has internal corners that act as stress risers, which the solver didn’t catch because the mesh was too coarse. Whoops. Now your impossible-to-reach toolpaths are forcing the shop to either use EDM or scrap the whole batch because you gave zero thought to how the part would actually be fixtured, inspected, or survive any real manufacturing process. The QC guys aren’t even turning the CMMs on; they’re just laughing the drawings back to the office.

Then you’ll finally open Hibbeler’s Mechanics of Materials for real this time -- not just to regurgitate the von Mises formula -- and you’ll read the sections on lateral-torsional buckling and realize that the critical moment drops with the cube of the flange thickness and the square of the unbraced length. Your solver maximized both penalties while smiling at you. It never checked geometric nonlinearity. It never asked whether the material was ductile enough for the equivalent-stress assumption to hold. It never cared.

After that, you’ll crack open Timoshenko or the AISC specs, stare at the LTB equations, and it will hit you: topology optimization isn’t failing because the algorithms are bad. It’s failing because you treated a single-parameter stiffness game like it was engineering.

Anyway, Dave from a subsystem four teams away needs to move a bolt pattern over a quarter inch. Do you want to throw your CAD model away, or should I do it for you?

[Cameron Riecker @riecker]

“When a husband and wife are united in marriage they no longer seem like something earthly, but rather like the image of God Himself.”

— St. John Chrysostom, On Marriage and Family Life (paraphrased)

[Justin Saenz🇻🇦 @jsaenz1999]

People with this mindset would benefit a lot from reading the book of Job, I think

[Joakim 🌹🇳🇴🇪🇺 @joakial_]

If God were real, I’d despise him. Given that he is supposedly all-powerful, all-good, and all-knowing, I can’t reconcile the immense suffering in the world with the idea that such a being is worthy of worship or admiration.