Sean Thomas

Forgiven sinner. Work in progress. Husband. Father. Chemistry teacher. Geek.

Coercive grant hater.

[Sean Thomas @seanthomas85]

If you can't make your point without being deliberately insulting or condescending, I'm not engaging with you.

Ad hominem = automatic mute.

kthxbye

[Sean Thomas @seanthomas85]

Two things:

(1) This second reply is a tad condescending because I acknowledged the exceptions you invoked. Restating them was patronizing, unnecessary, and hardly charitable.

(2) This is X. Posts are supposed to be concise. While not typical of actual behavior here, charitability and good faith is not found in construing someone's argument in the narrowest possible fashion.

[Sean Thomas @seanthomas85]

@BPeregrinus @Ruesavatar @berrysweetlady This is true, but sort of an "edge case."

It used the word "fertile" because if the wife is on any kind of birth control -- far more common than natural infertility -- then her vagina doesn't qualify as a valid "depository" from a Catholic perspective.

[Sean Thomas @seanthomas85]

@OVTweetmarck One button: "I just don't like it too tight around my neck."

Two buttons: "It's a warm day, ventilation is important."

Three buttons: "Austin Powers is unironically my role model."

[Sean Thomas @seanthomas85]

@GoombaBohunk @srthomas32 @tetheredtoed1 @pmarca It's so silly when people alienate someone who largely agrees with them by arguing in a combative, patronizing manner.

[Sean Thomas @seanthomas85]

@LateForTea5 @wil_da_beast630 I had to Grok this to know what you were talking about, and now I must say, sincerely: Thanks for that. 🤣

[Sean Thomas @seanthomas85]

Ehh it's X, so in the name of brevity I was concise. There are exceptions: natural infertility doesn't disqualify, and even voluntary sterilization doesn't disqualify if sincere confession has occurred.

My understanding is that -- for example -- if I were Catholic, and I genuinely regretted my decision to get a vasectomy, if I confessed my vasectomy to a priest, then going forward my infertility would be "treated as" natural because the mortal sin of sterilizing myself was forgiven.

[Sean Thomas @seanthomas85]

As far as I know, yes, but I'm not sure about "extensive cleansing." I'm pretty sure the expectation is "formal confession and repentance."

I'm not Catholic, though. Too structured and ritualized, and suffering from the same legalistic creep that Christ harshly critiqued in the Pharisees and Sadducees.

[Sean Thomas @seanthomas85]

@Ruesavatar @berrysweetlady You're not understanding.

At the end of the day, formal Catholic doctrine forbids ejaculation anywhere but inside a fertile vagina.

It doesn't say you can't go down on your husband. Just that you can't finish him off that way.

[Sean Thomas @seanthomas85]

@YoubeliveImhere @IanCopeland5 Counting on his followers to not actually listen. Just nod along and obsequiously "like".

[Sean Thomas @seanthomas85]

Genocide and racism should not be complicated but the left has done a pretty good job of making them so.

[Sean Thomas @seanthomas85]

@SouthernKeeks Not all of them. My wife is the sort that always manages to pick the worst line at the grocery store.

[Sean Thomas @seanthomas85]

@QuantumPinball NYAAAAAAAAAAAHH!!!!

[Sean Thomas @seanthomas85]

@alendrel You can understand the assignment and still turn in C-quality work, unfortunately.

[Sean Thomas @seanthomas85]

@mobydeekhead We already had "deep-throated, serious Skeletor" and there's no point trying to top him.

[Sean Thomas @seanthomas85]

@genejchan It is NOT just you.

It is very hard to get "campy" right and this scene... doesn't.

[Sean Thomas @seanthomas85]

It's very difficult to thread the needle of "campy on purpose."

This scene falls flat to me. Hopefully the larger context of the film will give an answer, but my optimism for this film has suddenly dropped from a 7 to about a 4.

[Masters of the Universe @mastersmovie]

Respect the crescendo. Masters of the Universe - only in theaters and IMAX this Friday. Get tickets.

[Sean Thomas @seanthomas85]

@spinturf @shellenberger Calm down there, Dr. Kendi.

It takes approximately 3 seconds of serious thought to realize the horrible second-order of consequences of this kind of thing.

[Sean Thomas @seanthomas85]

The hard part is that the average person will engage in a kind of "bad faith" argument style because they just... don't or can't understand what a "good faith" argument looks like.

Very difficult to suss out who is being disingenuous because they genuinely don't know any better and who is doing it deliberately for clout.

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But I hope people reading this chart understand that it's net positive, meaning ~51% of respondents were in favor of more data centers. (50 + 2/2)%

And Nigeria's "net 68% positive" would be something like (50 + 68/2)% = 84%.