some thoughts

-philosophy
-theology
-politics maybe

[Megha @megha_lilly]

It’s okay to get married because of butterflies and puppy love. That is what the seed of mature love looks like.

It’s okay to have a baby because you think babies are cute. That’s what the seed of a mature, competent and patient motherhood looks like.

You do not begin something good fully capable of it. You learn as you go and you let the good thing you’re doing shape you along the way.

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@BMcGrewvy Probably because in Catholicism it is uniquely irreformable whereas in many protestant sects it has provably reversed on this exact question.

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@Tonz1986 @Philip_Goff Animal behavior is amoral since they are not moral agents. Animals rape and kill each other, and no one would suggest, on that basis, that humans mimicking this behavior would be acceptable.

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https://t.co/Ka5vCRrGVk

This is a really fantastic primer on Natural Law from Dr. Edward Feser, and it clears up all of the most common misunderstandings and objections to this account of the world :)

And no! I don't think it warrants a kind of homophobia at all. God loves all people, and he loves us enough to want us to be the best versions of ourselves. This means that even our sexual lives should be virtuous and ordered in a way that leads to flourishing for us and our communities. I think it is appropriate in some circumstances to mock and poke fun at absurd sexual *behavior*, but it isn't a good thing to degrade *people* who have same sex attraction merely because of that experience.

[Edward Feser @FeserEdward]

I agree 100%, but I wish pro-lifers would stop emphasizing cuteness and tender moments, because babies and children are not always attractive and dealing with them is not always pleasant. And murdering them is not one iota less wicked or deserving of condemnation in such cases.

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Yeah I don't think it does map on. The entire point of sexual intercourse is that it is a properly *sexual* interaction, which is to say, a male/female dichotomy. Sexed. The entire point of the polarity of two sexes is for reproduction, if there was no male and female there would be no sex.

Men and women can and should love and care for members of their own sex but it is not a fitting part of our nature to use our sex drives and sex organs to do it.

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100% yes! And this is established Catholic teaching. Sex is both for reproduction and for the pair bonding and comfort of the sexual partners (specifically because reproduction is a risky and costly endeavor for women, it is both necessary and ideal for the man to be pair-bonded to her; and for their relations to be maintained through sexual intimacy)

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@philotheis49253 @Philip_Goff But we still eat and digest them and take in their nutrition, no?

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@Carlcarlhanson @Philip_Goff This is true to a point, but then this is just as much credence to strongly doubt YOUR moral intuitions about sex as mine. Maybe we need to rationally inquire into the matter instead of vehement dismissal on the basis of a culturally conditioned gut feeling.

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Keyword: "in addition to procreating"

Don't you think it would be strange and a little perverse if we started shoving food down our throats for the satisfaction of tasting it and then pumping it back out of our stomachs so that we never had to worry about the nutritional content?

[MM @user_mm_]

I simply *cannot* overstate my love for energy drinks.

The taste. The texture. The crisp hiss-and-crack has you open up a fresh can.

The excitement of walking into a gas station, unaware of what will occupy your hand when you walk out. Whether it be your old faithful, or something new you decided to try that day.

The jolt of lightning that flows through you, not from the caffeine, but from the pure delight knowing that that portion of your day is living up to its full potential.

They've always been there for me, and I will always be there for them.

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sincere question:

Is it possible that the venn diagram of women saying “Me too, Lindsay” and women saying “Lindsay is innocent” is a circle and they aren't actively dreaming of killing their kids and they're just retarded?

[Salty Girl @SaltyGirl09]

If your wife or girlfriend is currently creating these disturbing videos on TikTok, you should take immediate steps to remove your child from her care and consult an attorney to seek full legal custody.

[shoe @shoe0nhead]

imo you literally get that “spark” all over again. everything is a new experience to your kid. seeing a bug? coolest thing ever. eating ice cream. amazing. going for a car ride. painting a picture. even every day normal activities like grocery shopping are an incredible experience with them. holidays like christmas, easter, halloween etc all feel like how they felt like when you were a kid again. everything is exciting again because you are seeing the world for the first time through their eyes

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@tahiniok @shagbark_hick I will try this. My own house is full of them and I find them very relaxing and indistinguishable from incandescents

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Jesus is a Man who is also a Divine Person (meaning-- He has the nature of God)

A further clarification is that Christians actually believe God's nature has three persons (whereas human natures can only have one), The Father, The Son, and The Holy Spirit. They call it the mystery of the Holy Trinity.

Jesus, specifically, is The Son.

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KIKKOMAN OR BUST

[memetic_sisyphus @memeticsisyphus]

Why does that Asian dish taste so good starter pack:

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because it is lazy and unserious.

Even from a strictly pragmatic perspective, merely stipulating a brute fact where a firm foundation truly exists (if only you accept it) will still technically allow your theories to function, but they inevitably reveal errors, quirks, and real troubles around the margins that trace back to the root.

To use a sort of limp analogy, if we posited brute facts just before we gained the observational toolkit needed to actually discover germs, we probably could have operated on "germ theory" alone and gotten more than far enough, but we inevitably would have ran into quirks and troubles around the margins; and missed important facts about germs that would have saved us a lot of trouble.

In a similar way, if you posit brute facts just before you are willing to accept an *epistemic* toolkit that allows you to discover *abstract reality*, you might get most of the way there in your day to day use of a worldview. But you inevitably run into philosophical and moral trouble and miss important truths you should be accepting that save you from trouble in the long run.