Michael Hosea

Catholic, former Protestant, Mathematician

[Michael Hosea @mathdood64]

@NatetheLawyer The fundamentals of a self-defense case just weren't there, even in Texas. I don't understand why people don't bother to learn the basics of self-defense law.

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It's not that I ever thought he was innocent, but there were some serious problems with the way the LAPD handled the case. In my view, that's where the reasonable doubt came from--it was created out of nothing by the LAPD. Common sense said OJ was guilty, and so he would have been found if the LAPD hadn't managed to seem variously incompetent or shady.

I think people sorted into two categories with OJ. One category sensed that the system was rotten, regardless of whether or not OJ was guilty, and the case was shining a light on that. The other category believed the only issue at hand was whether he did it. That is to say, if he was guilty, he should be found guilty, regardless. They didn't care whether there had been mishandling of the evidence.

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@SandyofCthulhu F4u for fighters, probably. The father of a friend of mine flew one in the war, though it was my favorite before I even knew that. Only thing I remember him saying about it was that there wasn't much room in that cockpit. B17 for bombers.

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My understanding is that the ancient view is that kneeling is exclusively a posture of penitence. Over the centuries it came to signify homage, submission, and humility in a broad, cultural way. I suspect modern Catholics believe in their bones that context and intent governs what it means, penitence or submission. Kneeling to receive is thus a posture of submission and humility, not of penitence, but for those who come at the question regarding it as penitence exclusively, it does not seem apropos to the context.

[Michael Hosea @mathdood64]

They weren't "spared" as such, not in the sense that you mean. Animals on the ark weren't "spared" for some reason specific to them or their species, either. The flood was designed to reset mankind, and every living creature on land "with the breath of life in it" was collateral to the method God chose. From a PETA perspective, this seems cruel to the animals. Traditionally this has been downplayed by categorizing animals essentially as mere things, but regardless of whether one must go that far, our sense of justice is narrowly focused on what we can see and experience here and now, on this earth. God's justice transcends what we can see and know and carries with it a broader context of existence.

People often point to incredible suffering endured by people who don't deserve it, indeed to many who cannot deserve it because of their innocence. How could God allow this? But we see and know only our narrow slice of reality. God defines justice and put the sense of it into our hearts to begin with, the sense we so often foolishly use to judge HIM. Those who put their faith in Him trust that God's justice will be satisfied in the broader context of existence over eternity. There is nothing wrong that He will not make right, even if we cannot imagine how that will work.

"For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts." -- Isaiah 55:9

[Michael Hosea @mathdood64]

@nmlinguaphile I never thought about it before, but this sort of thing must be more amusing to a linguist. Leftists try to influence what people think about something by distorting the words we use to talk about it.

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I don’t think she was advocating for that, rather arguing against a pejorative rather than pastoral response, i.e., a response that begins with “Abortion is…” or “What you have done is…” probably ends up better than “You are…”. Whatever they are, Christ died for them while they were yet sinners.

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@pipskippip9 @newstart_2024 Mine is osteoarthritis from past severe gout and maybe overuse (martial arts). By the end of day 2, I feel 10 years younger in my joints and tendons. This begins to fade after day 10 or 11 or so. It’s not a sustainable treatment strategy, obviously, but it is something to enjoy.

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A normal response to a subordinate making public comments that one disagrees with is to discuss it with them and then, perhaps, discipline them on that particular point, perhaps by requiring them to make a retraction or clarification to avoid any misapprehension. McElroy clearly expressed the thought in question as a "personal belief", and his response showed docility. Moreover, bringing an entire organization into the matter suggests that no single comment or belief brought this on, rather that the Cardinal disagrees with the thrust of the organization. I don't know much about that organization, but at a glance I don't think it's all about aliens being demons. Whatever this is really about, it has to be more than just aliens, probably something more like bringing explanations of demonic activity into pastoral care. On that point, I think the Cardinal should have been explicit in his accusations about what, precisely, is out of line with official Church teaching.

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@PetriOP This touches on one thing that has always given me pause about delving too deep into theology. The desire to know and understand is strong, but what an ephemeral and incomplete payoff it must be when in heaven everyone will just know and understand without effort or ambiguity.

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@BasilTheGreat I'm never bothered that a person who deserves death for their crimes gets life without the possibility of parole, assuming the prisoner can be held safely so that he doesn't pose a grave danger to guards and other inmates. What irks me is when a murderer gets 20 years or less.

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@Joeinblack @MellingSelect "God willin' an' the crick don't rise." I love that saying. I use it a lot.

[Michael Hosea @mathdood64]

@edjomko @RaminNasibov And Space Quest IV. You could taste anything, sometimes with disastrous effect, but when you tasted the hull of a spaceship on the ground, it just said "It tastes like ship."

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If I have to pick one of these, I'll go with NASB, but not a recent revision. RSV-CE would be my actual preference. NRSV-CE is acceptable. NAB is just OK, but there is a revision of the NAB coming out soon using the Revised Grail Psalms, which will be a great improvement if one prays (sings or chants) the Psalms. That might put it over the top for me.

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@MJO118 @JoshuaBarzon @dlongenecker1 I do like that one a lot. I always loved that it used Yahweh instead of substituting LORD, but for liturgical use they were required to change this in the revised version.

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@newstart_2024 My longest was 14 days, but I don't do that anymore. 5-7 is long enough. If I go longer than 5, I will start adding some fat calories. I will say that if you want to try this, work up to it with strict OMAD first, then try skipping that one meal once in a while.

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@RachelToRome It takes a very principled CEO not to do that these days. The dollar is very, very strong against the Indian rupee. If the rupee doesn't strengthen, this is going to keep happening.

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@Saul_Sadka FWIW, as a disinterested third party who happened upon this for reasons unknown, I think it was clearly a joke.

[Michael Hosea @mathdood64]

@SarahisCensored Didn't bother me. Sounded like a deconstruction that one would do when trying to guess what a word means. BTW, the etymology of that word is a little bit interesting. I'm sure grok can tell you all about it if you care about such things.