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That and philosophy isn't really considered until college, and even then only if you're in liberal arts, and even then only if they require a PHIL 101 course. I didn't know about substance and accident until I was a junior in college. My church was not very formal on theology, either. Pretty sad, honestly.
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Lutha Mahtin posted:a lot of non-christians are genuinely puzzled by the trinity, which i think is understandable. if it's not something that you have spent some time contemplating, it really is a pretty wild concept to wrap your head around A lot of Christians are puzzled by the trinity too, it can be pretty puzzling even if you have spent a lot of time contemplating it. Not to mention that plenty of Christians have never bothered to seriously contemplate the matter.
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Whenever we talk about the Trinity: https://youtu.be/KQLfgaUoQCw
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Nessus posted:In Buddhism, definitely, although monks might still have restrictions on ornate or heavily-flavored ones. Temple/vegetarian cuisine were major drivers in developing seitan and tofu preparations to simulate various forms of meat. It's still mindblowing to me that seitan is as old as it is. Huh. Thanks for the answer!
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StrixNebulosa posted:I bring a question from the stupid/small questions thread that I'm still pondering over: If you’re in a religion that forbids meat, do they allow practitioners to have the fake meats? Like, Incogmeato brands. Quoting my answer from the other thread Slimy Hog posted:I wasn't at my computer for my last few posts so I was too lazy to type this up, but I've had discussions about fake meat with a couple priests and, like everything else in Orthodoxy, it kinda depends....
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Islam works the same way (tm) You're supposed to have the spiritual benefits of fast, but health is paramount in most schools of jurisprudence, and if you're ill, elderly or a child, then god doesn't mind.
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StrixNebulosa posted:It's still mindblowing to me that seitan is as old as it is. Huh. Thanks for the answer!
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Tias posted:Islam works the same way (tm) I used to have a Muslim friend who was recovering from an eating disorder. She didn't dare to fast, fearing it would trigger a relapse. So she ate her normal diet. However, she abstained from all entertainment, like playing games, reading novels, listening to music, watching telly, etc for Ramadan. she phrased it as "I am fasting, and God knows that I fast in my heart" Also, she would donate the same amount of money she spent on food to charity.
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Mar 25, 2021 01:27
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BattyKiara posted:I used to have a Muslim friend who was recovering from an eating disorder. She didn't dare to fast, fearing it would trigger a relapse. So she ate her normal diet. However, she abstained from all entertainment, like playing games, reading novels, listening to music, watching telly, etc for Ramadan. she phrased it as "I am fasting, and God knows that I fast in my heart" Also, she would donate the same amount of money she spent on food to charity. This is a pretty cool way to handle that.
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BattyKiara posted:I used to have a Muslim friend who was recovering from an eating disorder. She didn't dare to fast, fearing it would trigger a relapse. So she ate her normal diet. However, she abstained from all entertainment, like playing games, reading novels, listening to music, watching telly, etc for Ramadan. she phrased it as "I am fasting, and God knows that I fast in my heart" Also, she would donate the same amount of money she spent on food to charity. sounds almost like she was observing lent lol
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I have a somewhat odd question. In 1 Corinthians 7:18 Paul writes that people who are already circumcised should not attempt to become "uncircumcised" or "remove the evidence of his circumcision," without elaborating. Isn't circumcision irreversible? How would "uncircumcision" be accomplished?
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The real questions of faith. Thank you for bringing this up, I have wondered the same. I imagine fringe genital products/services and their peddlers have not changed at all, ever. See: gas station supplements, popups and the like.
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CrypticFox posted:I have a somewhat odd question. In 1 Corinthians 7:18 Paul writes that people who are already circumcised should not attempt to become "uncircumcised" or "remove the evidence of his circumcision," without elaborating. Isn't circumcision irreversible? How would "uncircumcision" be accomplished? IIRC one of the reasons Jews were discouraged from Greek athletic events is that the athletes performed naked and thus Jewish athletes would be tempted to disguise their circumcisions, but assuming I am recalling correctly, the source I read didn't go into any greater detail. Wikipedia says: quote:At the neonatal stage, the inner preputial epithelium is still linked with the surface of the glans.[49] The mitzvah is executed only when this epithelium is either removed, or permanently peeled back to uncover the glans.[50] On medical circumcisions performed by surgeons, the epithelium is removed along with the foreskin,[51] to prevent post operative penile adhesion and its complications.[52] However, on ritual circumcisions performed by a mohel, the epithelium is most commonly peeled off only after the foreskin has been amputated. This procedure is called priah (Hebrew: פריעה), which means: 'uncovering'. The main goal of "priah" (also known as "bris periah"), is to remove as much of the inner layer of the foreskin as possible and prevent the movement of the shaft skin, what creates the look and function of what is known as a "low and tight" circumcision.[13]
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There’s a whole online community of people who are angry about having been circumcised as an infant (they consider it genital mutilation) and they have a few techniques to help regrow the foreskin. They don’t work.
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Thirteen Orphans posted:There’s a whole online community of people who are angry about having been circumcised as an infant (they consider it genital mutilation) and they have a few techniques to help regrow the foreskin. They don’t work. I always roll my eyes whenever I hear somebody try to equate circumcision with cutting off a girl's clitoris. The most First World of First World Problems.
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The foreskin cannot be regenerated but the skin can be stretched a little and the methods used nowadays would have been accessible to the ancients, broadly speaking. I imagine their goal was more along the lines of "I don't stand out as a Jew in situations where my dick's hanging out," which I am told would have been fairly frequent in ancient Greece.
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CrypticFox posted:I have a somewhat odd question. In 1 Corinthians 7:18 Paul writes that people who are already circumcised should not attempt to become "uncircumcised" or "remove the evidence of his circumcision," without elaborating. Isn't circumcision irreversible? How would "uncircumcision" be accomplished? He's using "circumcision" to refer to the state of being under Mosaic law or not. (Circumcision was the sign that someone had entered into a covenant with God to follow Mosaic law.) So he's basically saying "If you were a Jew when you converted to Christianity, you don't have to adopt the customs of the gentiles or Greeks, and if you were a gentile or Greek you don't have to follow the laws of Moses after converting to Christianity."
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Please pray for my grandfather, Hal (son of Hope and Southard). My mom just got the call from his hospice nurse and then one from his social worker that while he isn't transitioning yet, it isn't far off.
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Nth Doctor posted:Please pray for my grandfather, Hal (son of Hope and Southard). My mom just got the call from his hospice nurse and then one from his social worker that while he isn't transitioning yet, it isn't far off. Lord Jesus, please bring Hal close to you in order that he may experience your Heaven and your resurrection. O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.
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have a good voyage, hal https://youtu.be/dfe8tCcHnKY
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So I feel very fortunate. While my Grandfather's care team don't see him as getting better, neither has he begun "transitioning" as my parents put it. I was able to speak to him and his wife tonight. He's still lucid, and cheerful though he couldn't recall Mrs. Doctor's name. I was able to have my kids say hello and tell him that they loved him. Death and dying stuff. My father's stepfather, my other grandfather essentially, went into the hospital after a fall last March, tested positive for COVID, developed a UTI, and then passed away on Easter morning last year. I never got a chance to say goodbye to him, let alone my kids. Because of all of the lockdown stresses and such, we didn't even tell them anything until after he had passed. A UTI is also what happened here, and so in a lot of ways this feels like history echoing. I'm thankful that I was able to call and have a conversation. I'm not sure how many more I'll get.
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Nth Doctor posted:So I feel very fortunate. While my Grandfather's care team don't see him as getting better, neither has he begun "transitioning" as my parents put it. I was able to speak to him and his wife tonight. He's still lucid, and cheerful though he couldn't recall Mrs. Doctor's name. I was able to have my kids say hello and tell him that they loved him. I'm so glad of that. I was with my father on the day he passed away and it meant the world that I was able to be there, though he wasn't conscious. I feel very lucky that I was able to say goodbye.
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This year I attended the Maundy Thursday service hosted by my original childhood church, held via Zoom. Attendees were invited to choose an object they had that symbolized hope for them, and hold it up for the camera to see during the offertory hymn. Some of those objects were:
"In every corner of the galaxy, the downtrodden and oppressed know our symbol and they put their hope in it." - Admiral Amilyn Holdo, The Last Jedi (Yes, I am a giant nerd. Blessed Triduum, all.) PurpleButterfly fucked around with this message at 11:58 on Apr 2, 2021 |
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Spacegrass posted:Could also mean there is more than one God. Sub-Gods or whatever. Anyway, the confusion is overwhelming to me. Here's a three minute https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQu8T7b8LpQ and eighteen minutehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrT8qs8HGRo video that discuss this topic.
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My confirmation / first Communion was tonight, I'm now officially a Catholic!
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Zazz Razzamatazz posted:My confirmation / first Communion was tonight, I'm now officially a Catholic! Congratulations! Ad multos annos! By the way, I have heard it on good authority that Christ is risen.
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Zazz Razzamatazz posted:My confirmation / first Communion was tonight, I'm now officially a Catholic! Congratulations! Welcome home.
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Zazz Razzamatazz posted:My confirmation / first Communion was tonight, I'm now officially a Catholic! Hooray!
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Zazz Razzamatazz posted:My confirmation / first Communion was tonight, I'm now officially a Catholic! Congrats on finding your spiritual home
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Worthleast posted:Congratulations! Ad multos annos! He is risen indeed!
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Paladinus posted:He is risen indeed! It is eerie how I can hear the entire congregation say this despite not going to church in years. The rituals and responses of the christian church are really, really good and awe-inspiring in the old meaning of the word. Also, happy easter everyone!
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Worthleast posted:By the way, I have heard it on good authority that Christ is risen. Confirmed. https://twitter.com/iresimpsonsfans/status/1378678148489969664?s=19
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Happy (Western) Easter everyone!
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Happy Easter! He is risen wheeee Saw 'Mary Magdalene' trending on twitter and had a sensible chuckle.
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Happy Easter! We participated remotely in an Easter service in the town of Ylivieska today. (It was televised nationally.) It was really a moving experience. So many things to tell but I'll list some: Exactly 5 years ago, the same mass was held next to fresh ruins of the 230-year-old church. A mentally ill person had lit up the church just before Easter and there was no saving it. It burnt down nearly completely. This morning, it was time to bless the new church. The bishop was there for the blessing. He equated Easter with the burning and building of the church and it just fit. First he blessed the building and then the babtismal bowl, the pulpit and the altar separately. (The big three of Lutheranism besides, you know, Father, Son and Holy Spirit: pulpit for the Word of God and bowl and altar for the sacraments; the three means through which God gives His grace.) Parishioners read relevant passages from the Bible for each blessing. The bishop also talked about how the mere existence of the church is in itself a message, how the building itself evangelizes. I'm usually of the opinion that the circumstances don't matter much, people do, but I have to agree and reverse my views. I have no doubt the the destruction and building of the parish church is worth way more than if the money had been used in some other way and the parish had instead started to rent an auditorium or something for the services. I doubt there are many people in Ylivieska and the surroundings who haven't had to take a long deep thought of what church and all it represents means to them personally. Also, the retired vicar of the parish was there. He was supposed to retire five years ago at spring, but agreed to keep working a couple of years longer to support the people of the parish in their sorrow. Now he got to lead the first mass of the new church. In addition there was a bunch of talented musicians, a few other assistants and the camera crew. And then that was it. 700 people could fit inside but because of corona they couldn't be there. So many things. And to me the most important thing was that our teenager was glued to the screen. He was born in Ylivieska, though we moved out when he was 1. So good, so blessed.
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Christ is risen indeed! I can never get over how many times John repeats that he won the footrace to the tomb.
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Nth Doctor posted:Christ is risen indeed! Because he was younger and faster, not like the old creaky fisherman Peter (who was probably only three or four years older, but details), and yet he was polite enough to wait, look at all his
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zonohedron posted:Because he was younger and faster, not like the old creaky fisherman Peter (who was probably only three or four years older, but details), and yet he was polite enough to wait, look at all his He waited for slow Peter, of course, because he got there first. By being faster. 
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Hi, Thomas the Fact Checker here, and we give this claim of a Risen Christ five Doubting Me's until such time as we are able to personally examine the wounds in this so-called risen...hang on, someone wants to show me something. (Happy Easter)
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