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“No amount of argument can overcome the evidence for the fact that apart from Rome there only exist national churches such as the Armenian or the Greek church, state churches such as the Russian or Anglican, or else sects founded by individuals such as the Lutherans, the Calvinists, the Irvingites, and so forth.

The Roman Catholic Church is the only church that is neither a national church, nor a state church, nor a sect founded by a man; it is the only church in the world which maintains and asserts the principle of universal social unity against individual egoism and national particularism; it is the only church which maintains and asserts the freedom of the spiritual power against the absolutism of the state; in a word, it is the only church against which the gates of Hades have not prevailed.”

— Vladimir Soloviev: Russia and the Universal Church

#vladimir soloviev #catholic

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“[Liberalism’s] ends have been achieved through the depersonalization and abstraction advanced via two main entities—the state and the market. Yet while they have worked together in a pincer movement to render us ever more naked as individuals, our political debates mask this alliance by claiming that allegiance to one of these forces will save us from the depredations of the other. Our main political choices come down to which depersonalized mechanism will purportedly advance our freedom and security—the space of the market, which collects our billions upon billions of choices to provide for our wants and needs without demanding from us any specific thought or intention about the wants and needs of others; or the liberal state, which establishes depersonalized procedures and mechanisms for the wants and needs of others that remain insufficiently addressed by the market.”

— Patrick J. Deneen: Why Liberalism Failed

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“I do not see ghosts; I only see their inherent probability.”

— G.K. Chesterton

pls reblog for sample size etc

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Anyway I’m wearing a new polo to work today. Purple with tiny skulls.

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sudden-blooming, quick-fading

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People are being weird (unaffectionate) in the St. Rita of Cascia tag 😔.

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#music #april #2024

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Mayerling.

Melissa Hamilton and Rupert Pennefather.

Lauren Cuthbertson and Thiago Soares.

Natalia Osipova and Edward Watson.

Melissa Hamilton and Rupert Pennefather.

Natalia Osipova and Edward Watson.

Sarah Lamb and Steven McRae.

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“Conforme los participantes poliamorosos dejen de ser instrumentos complacientes al yo, pasarán a formar parte de los basurales históricos de dicha aventura […]

Lógico es que, a medida que el idilio del poliamor vaya creciendo en participantes y peripecias, la despersonalización, el desatino sentimental y la ausencia de consideración vayan en aumento. Por no hablar del caos parental que supondría la procreación en semejante sindiós”.

— “Poliamor”

#poliamor

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“To imagine that a chatbot can be a catechist at all indicates a profound misunderstanding of how evangelization works […]

There’s nothing wrong with consulting reference material to begin exploring a question about Christ and his Church. But it’s the interplay of cor ad cor loquitor that is sought in conversation. It’s wrong to simulate this through AI, whether the computer is pretending to be a priest or an ordinary layperson. When a seeker comes forward desiring to be known, it’s not a true witness to offer the hollow, clanging cymbal of a bot that offers to pray for its new ‘friend’ but is unable to keep its promise […]

Non-human tools work best when they free up our time for our most humane work. I run the laundry machine, rather than wash clothes by hand, so I have more time to play in the dirt with my daughters. God invites us to imitate him as sub-creators. It is a profound misuse of that invitation to build tools to take over our most human and relational tasks.”

— Leah Libresco: “The Defrocking of Father AI”

#artificial intelligence #leah libresco #catholic

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I must not scroll. Scrolling is the task-killer. Scrolling is the little-death that brings total procrastination. I will face my tasks. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the task has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

#text

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Starting to think of my mutuals as beautiful, awe-inspiring landscapes that I may never get the chance to visit, but am still able to be glad/thankful for their existence.

#contra el dejo de resentimiento que me genera la distancia a veces

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Suicide, for me, would be the ultimate impatience.

#(almost) eight years gone #mind you. I’m an impatient person

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Got a moral hangover (not sure if the expression exists in English) over driving a bit recklessly this morning. Doesn’t feel great but it means I haven’t become deaf to my conscience. I will keep “fine tuning”, like I’ve been doing since the last time it happened.

#bleh #to be deleted

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“Duffy’s stunned mind scrabbled for an explanation like an atheist at the Second Coming.”

#the drawing of the dark

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My Spanish edition of the Nicomachean Ethics says in 1096a, “En cuanto a la vida de negocios, es algo violento” whereas the English translation says, “As for the life of the businessman, it does not give him much freedom of action”. Um, what?

I'm no Greek expert, by the Alianza translation for the same passage goes "En cuanto a la vida dedicada al dinero, es un género violento", and on a footnote, it has the following:

"Es un apelativo no muy adecuado, por lo que se ha sospechado corrupción textual. Aspasio parece haber leído baiós (insignificante) en vez de bíaios (violento). Sospecho que este adjetivo puede estar encubriendo un originario bíos seguido de un adjetivo que se ha fundido con esta palabra y se ha perdido. Por otra parte podría haber una interpolación, aunque muy antigua, inducida por la clasificación pitagórica en la que hay los "comerciantes". De hecho en principio se habla de tres clases de vidas, lo mismo que en la EE [Ética a Eudemo] y en el Protréptico."

Bottom line: the passage is obscure, and generally understood to be corrupted from something else. What else? Nobody knows. It may also be an insertion that wasn't in the original text, but if it was, it's a very early one.

I do wholeheartedly recommend Alianza Editorial's editions for all these translations into Spanish. They tend to be good and reasonably priced, with a good critical apparatus (Gredos is generally considered better, but the price goes up considerably).

#philosophy #language