@OurLadyofAntifa Avatar @OurLadyofAntifa Stan of Cleves

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"yes I'm sensing a theme of "the past" Here's every history course Harvard is offering this spring semester. Notice a pattern https://t.co/vNPnLeVHbt Here's every history course Harvard is offering this spring semester. Notice a pattern https://t.co/vNPnLeVHbt"
X Link 2026-02-13T04:30Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@ScoTTU07 @TheCalvinCooli1 @RealShamwowGuy you're thinking of Billy Mays the OxiClean guy"
X Link 2026-02-06T06:03Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@suzania @TallBlondeGuy @IrkedIndeed @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney This I think is specially important for those interested in philosophy. I think our picture of both antiquity and the Middle Ages is prone to give students a false impression that the differences between Aristotelians and people who are correct is much wider than it really is"
X Link 2026-02-08T09:04Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@suzania @TallBlondeGuy @IrkedIndeed @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney What the two schools have in common far outweighs the real differences (imo) especially when set beside nominalism which seems to me to logically threaten not only little things like Christianity or modern science but if rigorously applied even object permanence."
X Link 2026-02-08T09:06Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney Well it's a judgment about what kinds exist which she may be right or wrong aboutthis goes back to some intellectual risks (so to speak) being inevitable. Not a lot hangs on whether "Twinkie" is a genuine ontological category so most of us can face that risk lightheartedly"
X Link 2026-02-08T09:15Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney making it convenient for speculative discussionin some ways. There are other ideas where it matters quite a bit. For instance one reason (of many) that I'm irrevocably opposed to nationalism is that I think it perverts the right hierarchy of values: "man" is a real kind and"
X Link 2026-02-08T09:20Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney has an inherent importance or dignity; but I'm not sold on the idea that nations are ontologically real "kinds" at all and even if they are everything they are depends upon Man so that their good can only exist in combination with its good. Now one could instead oppose"
X Link 2026-02-08T09:23Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney nationalism by rejecting this idea of "kinds" as such and indeed that's how a lot of avowed antifascists go about thingsbut I've always considered that impossible to me because if human beings are not a "kind" then both human rights in the civil sphere and the Incarnation"
X Link 2026-02-08T09:26Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney in the religious sphere seem to me to be logically dead in the water; they have no referent no meaning if "man" is a mere convenient label"
X Link 2026-02-08T09:27Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney I don't think most people have thought through the differences involved clearly or made much attempt to understand their own preferences habits etc. as parts of a coherent system. I dare say lots of people if asked would say they agreed that "cake Twinkies" and "chocolate"
X Link 2026-02-08T09:32Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney vanilla" are the same type of comparison; but whether they just thought "Yeah those are both questions about what someone likes" or recognized that there could be a philosophical question here about why we like thingsI believe you'd have to tease that out through a lot more"
X Link 2026-02-08T09:35Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney follow-up questions and would get a lot of incoherent replies (because most of us in things we don't care about at least tend to adopt views that sound appealing with no reference at all to their credibility or implications)"
X Link 2026-02-08T09:37Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney The way Susannah's describing these usages (either "joking overstatement" or "soft intro to Plato") has been intuitive to me as long as I can remember. I don't know if your way of thinking or ours is more normal like statistically but ours is natural to at least some people"
X Link 2026-02-08T09:45Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@TallBlondeGuy @suzania @IrkedIndeed @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney Here we go http://youtube.com/watchv=JCfeHqRRThY http://youtube.com/watchv=JCfeHqRRThY"
X Link 2026-02-08T09:51Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney explain astronomy better (which proved to be true)"
X Link 2026-02-08T14:08Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney Also something I've been meaning to say for a bit now but I kept sidetracking myself One of the things that I find unsatisfying aboutI'm not sure what name to give your philosophy of sthetics; I try to be wary of putting words in people's mouths as I so hate that when it's"
X Link 2026-02-08T15:04Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney done to me I think I'd call it a "subjectivist sthetic" (If you have a different name you'd prefer please lmk) Anyway one of the things I find unsatisfying about a subjectivist sthetic is that it seems to me to fit very poorly with certain parts of Scripture. The Psalms"
X Link 2026-02-08T15:10Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney spring to mind ("I have loved the beauty of Thy house the peace of Thy sanctuary") and the Song of Solomon ("Who is this that cometh forth like the dawn fair as the moon clear as the sun terrible as an army with banners"); both on a subjectivist theory of what beauty is"
X Link 2026-02-08T15:14Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney or I guess isn'tseem either delusional or narcissistic; "behold how very much I happen to like this" doesn't feel as though it's something God would inspire (A clumsy way of putting it but I couldn't think of a neater one.) Yet it's not even restricted to poetry; in Exodus"
X Link 2026-02-08T15:17Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney see that and wouldn't want to give anyone a false impression on the matter. But there does seem to me to be a disharmony between the two that I at least can't see how to square even in principle"
X Link 2026-02-08T15:22Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@TallBlondeGuy @suzania @IrkedIndeed @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney And for me Analogizing sthetics and ethics is imo legitimate (or can be); conflating them tends to produce monstrosity. But if we are using human likings as a guide to how things work well are we using all of them or only some If it's only some then which ones and why"
X Link 2026-02-08T17:42Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@olivertraldi @morallawwithin oliver no. you have to delete this. it's too powerful"
X Link 2026-02-08T17:46Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney I'm having trouble articulating the problem I have with this because it seems like it's determined to look for something irrelevant (sthetic "rank") and claim that that's what this sthetic theory is about Let me try an analogy. Suppose you're teaching a class math and a kid"
X Link 2026-02-09T00:57Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney raises his hand and asks which number in the book is "the warmest." A little questioning shows that he is talking about the literal physical phenomenon of heat. You try to explain that numbers are abstract but he argues that no they aren'tlook they're right here on the page"
X Link 2026-02-09T00:59Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney and physical objects always have some amount of heat in them so the pages must all have a temperature; only pages are big enough that they'll vary slightly so each page must have hotter and colder spots (however tiny the differences) and one number out of the numbers on each"
X Link 2026-02-09T01:02Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney page must have the most heat and of all the numbers in the book there have to be upper and lower bounds for the temperature . To me at least the initial question is already so counterintuitive that it's hard to know how to answer and the situation is made much worse by"
X Link 2026-02-09T01:08Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney the fact that I guess there's a way to answer his question sort of because that will clearly reinforce the student's assumption that this is a mathematical question in the first place (it's a question about the math textbook and its answer can be given a numerical value). So"
X Link 2026-02-09T01:13Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney I don't think I can refute the idea that a man may be wrong about his wife's precise "rank" in an "algorithm of beauty" but that's because both ranking and algorithm are introducing things into the discussion that this sthetic theory wasn't designed to measure. I really hope"
X Link 2026-02-09T01:15Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney that analogy makes sense; I doubt it's very good but I honestly couldn't think of another"
X Link 2026-02-09T01:17Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney No; what Susannah said (and here I agree with her) is that calling one category of things better than another category of things is what doesn't make sense and we normally took doing so as a joke. Superiority-inferiority is not the only kind of comparison between two things"
X Link 2026-02-09T01:21Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney Sorry to keep harping of Lewis here but he gives an example of this in an essay I forget which naming two poets who both wrote about their mistressesone compares his to "a red red rose" and the other compares his to a violet half-hidden among rocks. Those analogies suggest"
X Link 2026-02-09T01:23Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@normalmaxxedaj @kisstheblade_ for a split second I mixed up Larry Kramer and Tony Kushner and was going to make a joke about the CONTINENTAL PRINCIPALITY OF AMERICA framemogging Clavicular eight ways from shabbos and I guess I did still make that joke. good job everyme"
X Link 2026-02-09T01:47Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney of set theory in orderthat might well help me understand where you're coming from. I might not understand it as I've always been rather slow at maths but I'll take a stab at it and find out 🤞.)"
X Link 2026-02-09T18:26Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"My sentiments exactly. See also the controversy on terms like "the West." Are they a bit silly Can they be dogwhistles Yes. But like hell do neonazis get to have Aristotle and Austen Shakespeare and Steinbeck Dante and Donne Augustine and Avicenna St. Thomas and Tolstoy. I unironically love woke patriotism I love appropriating the things chuds care about and turning them against them. Why should they get to own America they're the ones who suck https://t.co/nXWiPU1U1L I unironically love woke patriotism I love appropriating the things chuds care about and turning them against them. Why"
X Link 2026-02-09T18:55Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Wouldn't this depend entirely on the abridgment in question Like you could call "Girl Goes to Dance Marries Prince" an abridgment of 'Cinderella' but surely you'd be hard pressed to call reading those six words "heritage preservation" in any meaningful sense or to claim People who hate abridged works are acting elitist and misguided. I've never seen a single decent argument against them that doesn't stink of "I don't want as many people as possible to be included in our shared cultural literacy." Heritage preservation is important y'all. https://t.co/tFlfHX0pqt People who hate abridged"
X Link 2026-02-09T19:20Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney I do hold something like it yes: I find the imago in three things: i) human freedom; ii) the human intellect; and iii) human creativity; "the glory equal the majesty coeternal . and of these three none is afore or after other; none is greater or less than another." To me"
X Link 2026-02-09T19:32Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney the imago more or less is the point of the saying about Socrates and the pig (though I don't know when that saying was coined and so wouldn't insist that the person who coined it realized they were talking about the image of God)"
X Link 2026-02-09T19:34Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney Okay I think I followed that; thank you. And as I alluded to above the idea that our sthetic theory is dealing with partially ordered sets is . maybe fine In the sense that it's fine to describe a human being as such-and-such percentages of oxygen carbon calcium etc.:"
X Link 2026-02-10T17:37Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney i.e. there is (according to several schools of thought) a colossal amount of the human person being left out of even a perfect chemical description. I think my follow-up question would be: are you taking our idea of "beauty" to mean exactly one relationship within a set a l"
X Link 2026-02-10T17:42Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney relations like "ancestor of" etc. Because I'm fairly sure that if I were going to use set theory to analyze sthetics I would not define beauty along those lines. (I remain tentative due to still being so new to set theory.)"
X Link 2026-02-10T17:47Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney And I used to be Reformed so I know it's a good deal more complicated than that; a man raised in Geneva does not make his way to Rome without becoming aware of subtleties and subdivisions (Though for the record when I speak of human freedom in this case I'm primarily thinking"
X Link 2026-02-11T00:40Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney in terms of "that which makes us responsible creatures" not trying to enter a discussion of how meritorious our actions can or can't be before receiving regenerating grace.) As to rationality I agree with Susannah: "AI" is a misnomer because intelligence is precisely what LLMs"
X Link 2026-02-11T00:43Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney don't possess; on that score I warmly recommend the explanation given by Dr. Angela Collier (who is neither a philosopher nor a Christian and thus does not have the ah "vested interest" that I do) in this video essay from a few years ago: https://m.youtube.com/watchv=EUrOxh_0leE&pp=ygUQYWkgZG9lc24ndCBleGlzdA%3D%3D https://m.youtube.com/watchv=EUrOxh_0leE&pp=ygUQYWkgZG9lc24ndCBleGlzdA%3D%3D"
X Link 2026-02-11T00:47Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney (I realize an hour is kind of a time commitment but the crucial part is mainly within the first ten or fifteen minutesthe rest is largely illustrating her meaning as it applies to specific spheres including the arts.)"
X Link 2026-02-11T00:50Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney As for infants and the disabled I reject with a horror bordering on anger the idea that they lack rationality. I obviously agree that they're not as smart as the average person but that is a complete red herring vis--vis whether a being is rational i.e. is the kind of"
X Link 2026-02-11T00:53Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney being with the capacity for reason. I was going to say "for intelligence" but that category does also include angels which we're not told are made in God's image and Scripture seems to softly imply that they're not; that said I am okay with the idea that there are other"
X Link 2026-02-11T00:56Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney creatures which also bear the imago though entirely different from ourselves in physical species. I know I keep going back to him but this is why Lewis invented the word "hnau" for the Cosmic Trilogy because that conceptpossession of the imago considered independently of"
X Link 2026-02-11T01:00Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney biological specieswould be (perhaps will be) crucial to an appropriate theological understanding of extraterrestrial life"
X Link 2026-02-11T01:01Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney Actually speaking of the image of God: I think the idea that the image of God consists in or includes the human capacity to create has strong Biblical support; as Dorothy Sayers points out (I think in "The Mind of the Maker") the first and basically the only thing we're told"
X Link 2026-02-11T01:07Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney about God before being told that we are made in his image is he is a God who makes things. We are also told in the New Testament that God proposes to adopt us conferring on us the status not merely of things he has created but sons he has begotten by the only-begotten Son"
X Link 2026-02-11T01:10Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney As humans we have the powers both to beget (making more creatures of the same kind as ourselves) and to create (making objects of a lesser kind than ourselves). But if the project of AI is an attempt to create something which can in turn create on its own initiative that"
X Link 2026-02-11T01:13Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney seems like . like it might be worrying I dare say you will say that this is not a Scriptural argument but merely an argument based on Scripture and sure that's true. But to me this kind of highlights a problem sola Scriptura lands us with (not a disproof of that"
X Link 2026-02-11T01:16Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney doctrine by any meansevery systematic theology lands us with problems) which is that there's only so Biblical our response to the ethical issues posed by new tech can ever be but it doesn't follow that these issues are things we can afford to be laissez-faire about. The"
X Link 2026-02-11T01:19Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney parallel that comes to mind are and I know this may sound nuts nuclear weapons: it is absolutely insane that we have allowed ourselves to harness a force of destruction that powerful with long-term effects that can outlast entire civilizations and there's practically no"
X Link 2026-02-11T01:26Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney specifically Christian pushback against that level of playing God (and not even playing benevolent God). Returning to AI I can't help looking at it along the lines of: well we are by nature makers but that doesn't satisfy the AI impulse it wants to make a person; which"
X Link 2026-02-11T01:32Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney Charles Williams it's giving Simon Leclerc from "All Hallows' Eve" vibes or the "brainless form as of the emperor" in P'o-lu from "Taliessin" and "Summer Stars." (Williams is a very obscure weirdo thoughI'm very much drawing my bow at a venture with these allusions.)"
X Link 2026-02-11T01:46Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney [--]. The question springs to mind "Y'all AI enthusiasts could make new people by simply having kids; why do you so strongly crave the power to design new people" To my mind that desire of theirs is an extremely disquieting symptom and I'm kind of shocked that someone with"
X Link 2026-02-11T01:51Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney a Reformed anthropology is so comfortable with human beings having so much power in the first place let aloneafaictwishing to exercise it to create a more controllable variety of person"
X Link 2026-02-11T01:54Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney I meant to add that this was not meant as any sort of "I don't think you understand LLMs" thingunfortunately I did not add that so that's on me. I actually cited it mainly for the sake of highlighting the philosophical distinction at play though it sounds as though that was"
X Link 2026-02-11T02:03Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney also superfluous; on top of which as I'm making my way through my notifications I've now finally read through to the conclusion you and Susannah reached and am feeling a little . I think the expression is "de trop" 😓"
X Link 2026-02-11T02:05Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@gammarayghoul @LonesomeDoveCap Glorfindel and Ecthelion the only two Elves ever to kill balrogs both did so at the cost of their own lives in the same city on the same day all because Mglin just had to be a little bitch"
X Link 2026-02-11T04:24Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney Yeah this is basically the epistemological issue that convinced me a Reformed approach to Christian authority was unworkable. Any theory of authority requires us at some stage in its reasoning to rely on our own minds; this doesn't necessarily pose fatal difficulties if we're"
X Link 2026-02-11T18:12Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney operating with a Catholic anthropology but with a Reformed one"a fallible collection of infallible books" sounds (to me) more like a mockery than a gift; an intellectual tantalization with the full mythical meaning from Tantalus's story"
X Link 2026-02-11T18:18Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney I'm not certain what you mean by "ontologically-distinct" here. Howeverbecause I have seen people use it in the way I'm about to addressto borrow a word from Van Til the belief of "sacerdotalist" Christians is emphatically not that priests become ontologically different"
X Link 2026-02-11T18:27Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney from lay Christians To us that would mean priests become a different kind of thing from . well from humans upon ordinationand while some Catholic beliefs do get kinda sci-fi sounding in their implications (like angels strictly validating the idea of extraterrestrial"
X Link 2026-02-11T18:31Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney intelligences or the Immaculate Conception having trippy implications about the relationship between timecand causality) "priests are ex-humans" is even for us a little too ehh "Heaven's-Gate-y" In this respectas usual tbhDante is a good guide: one of the last things"
X Link 2026-02-11T18:34Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney that happens in the Purgatorio when Dante has been restored to complete moral innocence is that he is "crowned and mitered" over himself: he no longer needs the authority of state or clergy in his renewed state; both are essentially remedial and therefore not eternal"
X Link 2026-02-11T18:37Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney Mmm even that doesn't sound right to me "Priest" (in the sense) and "layman" are both offices; it feels extremely strange to call on ontology to describe that sort of difference. (I specify "the sense" because there is a different priestly order which we"
X Link 2026-02-11T19:23Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney attribute to the baptized in general; being a is also an officethough I dare say you'll hear more about it when talking to the Orthodox than from an average Catholic.)"
X Link 2026-02-11T19:26Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney That's quite true and is what I was getting at when I said that every theory of authority casts us onto our own resources at some point. The difficulty I had and have with that is not that I find it intellectually intolerable in itself but that I can't square it specifically"
X Link 2026-02-11T20:20Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney with the Reformed view of Scripture which afaict would have me distrust both myself (even after regeneration) and the majority testimony of the Church on this subject; to me that sounds like a cul-de-sac not a way"
X Link 2026-02-11T20:27Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney I don't understand what "it works in practice" means in the context of a topic like this. "Works" as in Protestants can still make lists of the canon But anyone can do that. Or as in one can get on with the Christian life without settling the canon first Which would also be"
X Link 2026-02-12T14:51Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney true in a sense though the obvious conclusion to draw from it would seem to be "the Bible isn't actually that important" which I'm not hot on (and don't believe you would be either). Isn't the whole point of an intellectual authorityespecially for a revealed religionthat that"
X Link 2026-02-12T14:55Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney intellectual authority specifically does work in theory Not to mention that (although the number of doctrines and practices confirmed only by the books of the wider non-Protestant canons is vanishingly smallprayer for the dead is about it) the theoretical authority here is or"
X Link 2026-02-12T14:59Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney so I would presume the thing giving us the rule that establishes whether our religious system does or doesn't work. What good is it to say "it works" when what's at stake is the book that defines what "working" consists in"
X Link 2026-02-12T15:01Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney That aside: yes there are individual saints (some of them doctors of the Church popes even Biblical scholars) who disputed the precise boundaries of the canon. But the very reason the Catholic canon as we now have it prevailed with the Church in council is that these voices of"
X Link 2026-02-12T15:06Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney dissent never won the approbation of the majority of the Church; they were always the exception. (The Catholic theory of authority is more complex than just "majority rule" but it's still relevant that these voices were exceptional.) And the fact that Jerome or Gregory were"
X Link 2026-02-12T15:12Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney neither inerrant nor infallible Do you not think they ought to be I did and still do"
X Link 2026-02-12T15:34Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney I actually don't think this is the only way the canon is known. But I do tend to cite ecumenical councils as authoritative pronouncements simply because it feels a little unfair to "tick someone off" for not getting the Church's belief quite right before the kind of public"
X Link 2026-02-12T15:39Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney disambiguation a council issues. E.g. Cyprian was already wrong in his own lifetime about the full details of how sacraments workthe truth was not like in a quantum superposition before the Church in council defined itbut it'd be much too harsh (imo) to call Cyprian"
X Link 2026-02-12T15:43Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney a heretic (which implies stubbornness from someone who ought to know better) over what was in all likelihood a mere misunderstanding. I know this isn't what you were directly speaking to but I'm trying to limit my total remarks and am hoping this points at more of my views"
X Link 2026-02-12T15:47Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney My opinionI can't name an authority that backs me on this I'm just working from what theology I knowis that recognition of the canon is a grace that always lies with the Church: that it lay with Israel before Pentecost and with the Apostles and their successors afterwards"
X Link 2026-02-12T15:51Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney To me this seems to line up with the recurring prophetic office in the Mosaic Covenant up to the Baptist and the Lord; it seems like it may also have included the high priest ex officio (John 11:51-52) and possibly the Sanhedrin or even the rabbinate en masse (Matt. 23:1-3)"
X Link 2026-02-12T15:55Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney I'm sorry. I am frankly envious. Accepting the authority of both the Bible and the Church has proven bitterly painful for me; I'm gay. Hearing that something I already have other issues with is a "low-stress solution"but it's not like being spiteful helps anything"
X Link 2026-02-12T16:01Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney My understanding is that their view of the deuterocanon was not yet settled at the timethat the Pharisaic canon while wider than the Sadduceic and narrower than the Essene was still being hashed out; indeed the riddle posed by the Sadducees during Holy Week implies this as"
X Link 2026-02-12T16:05Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney a clear parody of the book of Tobit which they'd hardly bother taking a shot at if there weren't at least some Pharisees who esteemed it. (I know the "Council of Jamnia" theory is now dismissed but of course that's only one version of when and how the Judaic canon was fixed.)"
X Link 2026-02-12T16:08Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney Going in order: [--]. This uh isn't what I said at all To rewind slighrly the issue I take with the Reformed approach to the canon is that it lands us with problems of definition (what's in/what's out) and interpretation (in the absence of an authoritative prophetic office) @OurLadyofAntifa @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney So the grace of recognizing this piece of the canon had not been extended to them at any point along the 200+ years since the first of these books were written @OurLadyofAntifa @suzania"
X Link 2026-02-13T01:55Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney which to me at least seem insoluble even in principle. If my theory (or maybe "conjecture") is basically right then the situation in the first century wasn't like thaton my conjecture even before the canon is closed the definitive and interpretive issues are already soluble"
X Link 2026-02-13T02:01Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney at the absolute least. This (istm) renders the definition of the canon less urgent; not less important "ignorance of the Scriptures is still ignorance of Christ" but the issue of practical Christian authority is not all riding on the Bible on this theory"
X Link 2026-02-13T02:06Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney That being cleared up to answer your question QT'd below: no I don't. And I'm still learning about the Zugothic and Tannaitic periods so I don't even know whether that's because we don't possess any Judaic canon lists from the period or because I personally haven't yet @OurLadyofAntifa @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney Do you know of any explicit roughly-contemporary affirmation from the Jews that these books were canonical @OurLadyofAntifa @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney Do you know of any"
X Link 2026-02-13T02:13Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney stumbled on the passing reference in the Mishnah that happens to establish such a thing while discussing some completely different point of halakha. My assumption was based on the presence of Tobit both among the Dead Sea Scrolls and in the Septuagint: given that Essene and to a"
X Link 2026-02-13T02:16Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney Validating councils is part of the papacy's function on the big-C Catholic view. It's a major reason I ultimately swam the Tiber rather than the Bosphorus"
X Link 2026-02-13T03:50Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@suzania Canonical penalties for simony cramping your style Good news: we just rolled out Theophylact your AI paraclete for the age to come. He'll redistribute the graces in your portfolio so you can invest those indulgences. (He might tell you to off yourselfdon't that's a bug.)"
X Link 2026-02-13T04:18Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney order of problem. If the conditions of my tweet above were (or one day are) met then I would have to conclude that my theorywhich attributes basically the same degree of divine guidance to Second Temple Judaism as is now enjoyed by the Churchis wrong"
X Link 2026-02-13T17:47Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney principle* there is nothing to practically implement. "We haven't resolved this (that is not yet though we have the tools to do so)" is worlds away from "We haven't resolved this (no resolution is possible).""
X Link 2026-02-13T17:54Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney I mean . yes At this point we have the benefit of two thousand years of the Church's teaching on the subject including a council at Trent confirmed by the pope to be ecumenical which listed the canon for both Testaments and Enoch is not on the list. Or are you asking whether"
X Link 2026-02-13T18:01Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney it was possible to know this in the first century on the theory I've proposed"
X Link 2026-02-13T18:01Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney I . didn't say this at all I said that the conclusion which seems the most reasonable to me is that the canonicity of Tobit etc. was an open question at the time but that it wouldn't be unreasonable to believe otherwise. I should perhaps add I'm not proposing to base any"
X Link 2026-02-13T21:33Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney argument in favor of the Deuterocanon (still less of my general idea of Christian authority) on the claim that some Jews may have accepted Tobit etc.that would be quite silly"
X Link 2026-02-13T21:35Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@twink_kj_apa @BrandyLJensen power move tbh"
X Link 2026-02-13T22:25Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney That's not quite it though it isn't far. Let me take a sec and formulate this properly"
X Link 2026-02-14T01:38Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney Right I think I've got it. The concession I made ("I would grant that my position entailed this dilemma" etc.) was specifically about that dilemma because the options presented in itdescribed in my terminologywere: (1) the Sanhedrin did not possess the authority I was"
X Link 2026-02-14T01:49Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney attributing to it but only a lesser type of authority or (2) the Sanhedrin possessed such authority and had already positively excluded the Deuterocanonical books. To my knowledge the Jewish canon was not considered settled until roughly around the middle of the Tannaitic"
X Link 2026-02-14T01:49Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney period (so around the time of the Bar Kochba Revolt)meaning that there is (on my premises) a third option here: the Sanhedrin possessed the authority I've suggested but had not yet made a definitive pronouncement about the Deuterocanon (though doubtless there would be opinions"
X Link 2026-02-14T01:50Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney that were mainstream vs fringe about each book as there also were about Enoch and so on). This third is the assumption I've been making but could certainly be disproven if I'm mistaken about when the Jewish canon was held to be settled"
X Link 2026-02-14T01:52Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@Luke050 @SketchesbyBoze yes it is what are you talking about"
X Link 2026-02-15T04:50Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@palfriendpatine I was expecting based on the previews that TENG would be wretched and had no intention of seeing it; I don't remember when or why I did end up watching it (I think it was once it was out on video) and I'm blown away to this day by what a delightful little film it is 😄"
X Link 2026-02-15T09:56Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@palfriendpatine I think it was Roger Ebert who said it was basically a feature-length Looney Tune which is a perfect description; also finding out that Yzma was voiced by Eartha Kitt (RIP) as in "the woman who sang 'Santa Baby'" actually made me go from hating to liking that song"
X Link 2026-02-15T09:59Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@lydianreddot @TheCinesthetic iirc Roger Ebert called the film a feature-length Looney Tune (and meant it as a compliment)"
X Link 2026-02-15T10:06Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"this forces me to believe that Nicolas Cage is a supervillain who either changed his mind about being evil or is still putting the pieces in place for one of the greatest schemes in the history of the human species Unfortunately I will never write a better lede than this writer who profiled Nicolas Cage for the LA Times in [----] https://t.co/8PGmUYgcQ5 Unfortunately I will never write a better lede than this writer who profiled Nicolas Cage for the LA Times in [----] https://t.co/8PGmUYgcQ5"
X Link 2026-02-11T19:57Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"This is a common misconception. Golden Girls are traditionally sorted into two factions one "light-aligned" and one "dark"; but some ("Grey-Gold Girls" in the literature) are known for operating outside the code and practical authority which govern Golden Girlhood proper Little known fact about Betty White. She was originally known as Betty Grey before she fought the Balrog. Little known fact about Betty White. She was originally known as Betty Grey before she fought the Balrog"
X Link 2026-02-16T16:54Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Early access to tomorrow's post is live for my Patreon sponsors https://www.patreon.com/posts/gospel-of-john-150508722 https://www.patreon.com/posts/gospel-of-john-150508722"
X Link 2026-02-11T18:01Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"I don't really get why but my aging father geus threatened to cast himself into the ocean if I didn't finish. Or if I quote "bring one of those Minoan broads home to meet me if you know what I mean" No dad. No one knows what you mean Situationship Yeah I'm in this weird situation where I'm trying to replace every piece of this ship and decide if it's still the same thing afterwards Situationship Yeah I'm in this weird situation where I'm trying to replace every piece of this ship and decide if it's still the same thing afterwards"
X Link 2026-02-13T22:04Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"It was a day of war and yet also a day of peace in the Land of Make-Believe Without naming the book tell me a line that readers of it will instantly recognize. Without naming the book tell me a line that readers of it will instantly recognize"
X Link 2026-02-16T17:03Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney I should probably have phrased some things better but this is very nearly my position3 being to my mind the most crucial point. I'd make some adjustments to [--]. i. I don't know whether for this purpose you distinguish between consensus and authoritative definition; I would"
X Link 2026-02-15T16:11Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney and my understanding is that the Torah Nevi'im and some but not all Ketuvim enjoyed the latter (this would call for a higher standard of proof on my part than consensus alone would need). ii. I consider it relevant that the Torah and Latter Prophets (basically Isaiah-Malachi)"
X Link 2026-02-15T16:18Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney were among Pharisees already above dispute; it isn't merely (imo) that any book existed which enjoyed this authority but that the "most central" books theologically were among them. iii. I wasn't sure from your phrasing whether I made this clear but while [--] addresses a"
X Link 2026-02-15T16:26Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney serious potential problem it lies downstream of [--] and its differentiation from the "fallible collection of infallible books" idea is mainly theoreticalthe two ideas might feel similar a lot of the time"
X Link 2026-02-15T16:28Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney Re 1) that's entirely fair (and reminds me I haven't gone hunting for that Latin I wanted to look up). Re 2) the difference I see between the Catholic and Protestant theories of the canon is precisely the theoretical differencein other words while I recognize that problem"
X Link 2026-02-15T19:00Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney of how we can know the canon doesn't bother a vast majority of Protestant believers the difference I see between the two ideas is that I find the Catholic idea more coherent and less circular whereas the reason I finally abandoned the Protestant position was that however"
X Link 2026-02-15T19:04Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney little it bothered other people it bothered me that that theory could not give me the same confidence about what the canon consists in that it expected me to invest in that canonand not just "couldn't do so yet" but couldn't do so ever by the nature of its design"
X Link 2026-02-15T19:08Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney Re 3) . You have been polite to me: I don't want to be rude to you in return. I have never been able to and cannot now make sense of the assertion that the Bible is "self-authenticating." Indeed the only meaning I can hazard for it is something along the lines of that"
X Link 2026-02-15T19:14Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney thing LDS missionaries say about how if you just pray to know if the Book of Mormon is legit you'll receive this spiritual intuition that it is. I have difficulty believing believing that that is what you mean by calling the Bible "self-authenticating" but again I don't even"
X Link 2026-02-15T19:20Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney have another guess about what this phrase is intended to convey"
X Link 2026-02-15T19:21Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"realizing this is what made me mad in the first place "MARC" You have power over your mind not outside events. Realize this and you will find strength. Marcus Aurelius You have power over your mind not outside events. Realize this and you will find strength. Marcus Aurelius"
X Link 2026-02-11T18:41Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"still waiting for the copyright to expire so I can pitch my idea for "Christmas Ape Goes to Summer Camp" Is "If I Had Legs I'd Kick You" the most Troy McClure sounding movie to be nominated for an Oscar Is "If I Had Legs I'd Kick You" the most Troy McClure sounding movie to be nominated for an Oscar"
X Link 2026-02-11T19:01Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"first ever (because the castle is enchanted. which means the stuff in it is also enchanted. this was set up in the opening minute and a half of the film) do you think the furniture rehearsed Be Our Guest beforehand or was that the first-ever runthrough do you think the furniture rehearsed Be Our Guest beforehand or was that the first-ever runthrough"
X Link 2026-02-14T08:34Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"I'm fairly sure that this is not so much a case of "We as a society traded chivalric romances for tales of world-altering flatulence" as it is "One of these was written for eleven-year-olds and the other was written for six-year-olds." Because childrens books went from this to this https://t.co/v9Oz1n0Tlu Because childrens books went from this to this https://t.co/v9Oz1n0Tlu"
X Link 2026-02-15T05:24Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"desperately want to find a wayany wayto get cultural conservatives (especially those connected with education) to stop falling for and peddling the myopic political alarmism that both makes them look like hysterical morons and eats away at their own movement"
X Link 2026-02-15T05:24Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@Tyler_A_Harper I think your clavicles have to be showing for it to be frame moggery (not to be confused with frame-mongery which can come with or without clavicles)"
X Link 2026-02-15T05:46Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@suzania I was looking already 😄success http://youtube.com/watchv=Nw1U22DeJSA http://youtube.com/watchv=Nw1U22DeJSA"
X Link 2026-02-15T05:52Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney No this is just the point I'm disputing. What I've been contending is that under the previous covenant even before "Israel in council" (so to speak) made any formal pronouncement about a given book there was in any case a body known as competent to do sowhich I consider quite"
X Link 2026-02-16T16:21Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Universal Studios comes down HARD against Nagy thesis in favor of tradition maintained by pseudo-Plutarch Universal exec says Christopher Nolans The Odyssey will be a cinematic masterpiece that Homer himself would quite likely be proud of. https://t.co/8uW4zOM2P3 Universal exec says Christopher Nolans The Odyssey will be a cinematic masterpiece that Homer himself would quite likely be proud of. https://t.co/8uW4zOM2P3"
X Link 2026-02-16T17:08Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@_45Automatic @celinatruckstop No you don't. We all think we want it like we all think "Yeah but the thing that happened to my friends who tried this won't happen to me." Then you wake up two days later with a stitched-up scar on your left lat and you're barred by law from ever entering Djibouti again"
X Link 2026-02-17T04:14Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@growing_daniel @BeSaintly the Church did for a while play a larger role in the practical administration of society-level charitywhich went hand in hand with much greater amounts of wealth (including land movable property and money) in the hands of the clergy with all the complications and corruption"
X Link 2026-02-17T04:49Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@growing_daniel @BeSaintly that tends to entail. But the state has always been part of this too; heck it was involved in it while the New Testament was being written. Speaking of which the idea that taxes for this purpose are "stealing" doesn't make a lot of sense in the first placeI mean why would it"
X Link 2026-02-17T04:54Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@TallBlondeGuy @suzania @IrkedIndeed @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney Totally divorced from the philosophical discussion here but I learned from Geography YouTube that naturally-occurring carrots are usually white or purple like beetsyellow and later orange carrots arose through deliberate cultivation I'll try and find the link and post it"
X Link 2026-02-08T09:49Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Because they don't read my blog the best and yes only way to understand the Bible earn God's love and lose weight without diet or exercise: https://www.patheos.com/blogs/mudbloodcatholic/ QUESTION: What is the MAIN reason Christians don't read the Bible more regularly https://www.patheos.com/blogs/mudbloodcatholic/ QUESTION: What is the MAIN reason Christians don't read the Bible more regularly"
X Link 2026-02-11T04:39Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"translated from WHAT"
X Link 2026-02-11T04:59Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"New post in reply My translation of Christ's exchange with the Samaritan woman in John [--] plus its ties to everything from the calling of St. Bartholomew to the divine Names to the plot of the book of Esther"
X Link 2026-02-12T16:12Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"https://www.patheos.com/blogs/mudbloodcatholic/2026/02/the-gospel-of-john-the-witness-of-sychar/ https://www.patheos.com/blogs/mudbloodcatholic/2026/02/the-gospel-of-john-the-witness-of-sychar/"
X Link 2026-02-12T16:12Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

""C. S. Lewis would love AI" is more "Charlie Brown had hoes" than "Charlie Brown had hoes" was Someone told me C. S. Lewis would love AI False. Please read That Hideous Strength a book that features evil humanity-hating scientists seeking to build God & a talking head thats basically a demonic chatbot. An eerily prescient dystopian novel that reads like a prophecy. https://t.co/KIu1xvgFDj Someone told me C. S. Lewis would love AI False. Please read That Hideous Strength a book that features evil humanity-hating scientists seeking to build God & a talking head thats basically a demonic"
X Link 2026-02-13T05:47Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"The Victorian era was feckin' weird man. Scornful skepticism about every tradition folk belief and legend under the sun combined not only with Christianity but with casual acceptance of complete fabrications about the past with no sourcing at all (not even bad sourcing) https://t.co/OjeJMM9V5B https://t.co/OjeJMM9V5B"
X Link 2026-02-13T21:59Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"We'll see whether ICE complies with the not-at-all optional requirement of the court but at least the court did make a good decision (and helped illustrate just how barbaric this administration is). Judge rules ICE must let religious leadersintoIllinois facilityfor Ash Wednesday https://t.co/JfI0TibwMb Judge rules ICE must let religious leadersintoIllinois facilityfor Ash Wednesday https://t.co/JfI0TibwMb"
X Link 2026-02-14T02:06Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@newstart_2024 "String theory has not got us anywhere" is your standard for whether anything has "happened in physics" Mr Carr"
X Link 2026-02-14T02:09Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney A small but important clarification: afaik the canonicity of the Deuterocanonicals was open to debate at the time (and I believe I've read somewherebut of course I don't recall a source 😩that Ecclesiastes and Esther were still doubted in some circles; so a bit like the"
X Link 2026-02-15T02:07Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney situation of the primitive Church up until maybe Marcion's time: there was a core of undisputed worksin Judaism the Torah and for Pharisees the Former and Latter Prophets; in Christianity the Gospels Acts and the strictly Pauline letters i.e. Hebrews doesn't count for"
X Link 2026-02-15T02:12Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney the purposewith a broader penumbra of antilegomena though there were probably central vs. fringe views about these too; as in there were Jewish circles that treated Enoch as Scripture and Christian circles that did the same with the Apocalypse of Peter but it wasn't just"
X Link 2026-02-15T02:19Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney a total "doctrinal Wild West" situation even son). Now to properly answer your question I think that discerning inspiration in these "edge cases" before or without an authoritative decision from those who "sat in Moses' seat" would have been a judgment call BUT that call"
X Link 2026-02-15T02:22Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney seems to me to be essentially different from the Protestant/Reformed approach to the canonfor two reasons that are substantially one. First crucially this "judgment call" did not apply to the whole canon Even the Sadducees acknowledged the Torah as an absolute minimum. And"
X Link 2026-02-15T02:27Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney second there was an authoritative body in a position to resolve the question. The Protestant approach to the canon lacks the first advantage and as far as I've ever been able to tell it has to because it has from the outset ruled out the possibility of the second. So that"
X Link 2026-02-15T02:30Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney the Jew making a judgment call about Enoch or Tobit or Esther or Zechariah though doing "the same thing" in mechanical terms is really not in the same position as the modern Protestant philosophically; there is a ground under his feet which Protestantism has walked away from"
X Link 2026-02-15T02:34Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney Finally the later definitive exclusion of the Deuterocanonicals from the Hebrew Biblewhile I'm not like happy about itdoesn't perturb me intellectually because (afaik) it didn't take place until after the locus of authority had shifted to the Apostles"
X Link 2026-02-15T02:36Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney a weighty difference. It might not be "practical" in the sense that it would affect everyday lifedefinitions of that kind are rare since most books aren't inspiredbut it'd be practical in the sense that a definition could be issued. That's an essentially different situation"
X Link 2026-02-16T16:27Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@IrkedIndeed @suzania @TallBlondeGuy @NeilShenvi @joe_rigney from the Protestant scenario. (I should note mine is a Catholic view of this question not necessarily the Catholic view. Afaik the Church has not defined a specific idea of how authority worked in the Mosaic Covenantsomeone could consider infallibility a grace proper to"
X Link 2026-02-16T16:29Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"really struggling to see how this opening phrase and this ensuing clause work together syntactically say what you like about Henry VIII the ruins of all the monasteries he destroyed are very pleasant to look at. https://t.co/Ko8MTn5ZWy say what you like about Henry VIII the ruins of all the monasteries he destroyed are very pleasant to look at. https://t.co/Ko8MTn5ZWy"
X Link 2026-02-16T17:14Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"It also reveals another facet of these folks' ignorance of the Rome they pretend to admire. A story passed down about Rome's founding was that Romulus welcomed outcasts granting asylum and eventual citizenship to fugitives who reached the Capitol; fact or not it's observable Claiming people come to America because of Irish Scottish and English heritage is a selective origin myth. People come for freedom stability opportunity and the rule of law not ancestry. And saying people will only defend a country if they share a certain economic https://t.co/ZlD8nb4yB6 Claiming people come to America"
X Link 2026-02-17T04:43Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@growing_daniel @BeSaintly Granted Christ did not command anyone to steal to support the poor (though we sometimes forget that many saints like St. Brigid and St. Francis did just that). But the idea that "the Church used to be the social safety net but then the state took over" is simply false. Yes"
X Link 2026-02-17T04:47Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@growing_daniel @BeSaintly be theft to take five dollars from someone and give it to a beggar but (as far as I've ever heard) not theft to take five dollars from them and build a nuclear bomband also contradicts the New Testament's own explicit account of why we pay taxes (see Romans 13)"
X Link 2026-02-17T05:00Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

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