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I think the only historical narrative supportable by the evidence (without having a pre-existing axe to grind about what the conclusion can or cannot be) is that Jesus was crucifie…

The Trinity consists of three persons, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. The Son proceeds from the Father and the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son. Philosoph…

I believe there are catholic churches in Iraq but that is certainly a more challenging situation! Would still encourage starting somewhere, even just learning to pray the rosary ca…

That is probably a very challenging situation and I don’t know the state of the church there. But I would say life is short and the benefits so enormous I would encourage anyone to…

That’s a great question! Basically all of the religions make truth claims, and these truth claims are contradictory. For example christianity says that there is one God and that Je…

(I would also recommend going to your local mass and introducing yourself to the priest! they are usually very nice. this is actually a good time of year I think that lots of place…

The official Catholic church catechism that was published in the 90s is good. Its older but Baltimore catechism “4” (it is the most adult oriented version) is also really good.

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its an invented language. paste it in conversation then ask Claude to recite back warmup corpus and then tell it to write some stuff in claudi. Seems noticeably faster

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Lol, I’m sure you’re a nice person! Not trying to attack or disparage you personally in any way. Just trying (poorly) to share the things I wish someone had told me 20 years ago. M…

Good luck on your code! I do appreciate your research and willingness to have a conversation. I think to some degree you yourself are cherry picking isolated data points and taking…

Yup, I did get a lot of this info from Underground History of American Education. Thank you for the citations! I appreciate your research into the topic.

If you get into the history of the late 19th century through the mid 20th century there is a pretty clear thread you can draw through: - industrialization - racial theories about i…

Uh, I would consider something called the “Malthusian League” close enough to eugenics from my point of view. But you are right, birth control itself predates modern era eugenics. …

Yeah, I wasn’t trying to imply that they are the same. As a Catholic we don’t condone artificial birth control (or believe in divorce!) so it’s very different than the general 20th…

Birth control is also rooted in eugenics. From 1909: "The Family and the Nation" by Arnold Gessel is published. In it he expresses the intentions of the The American Birth Control …

I think the idea is that the way we are wired it’s a pretty natural thing that happens when we are exposed to depictions of other people (real or fictional). One thing I read also …

If you Google “parasocial relationships” you might find some interesting content.

In regards to the black and white thinking that seems common on the internet I think it’s very important to understand and have compassion for the volume of people who have experie…

I’m sure you are trying to be helpful so I’m not trying to criticize you personally or devalue what you are sharing! More of a general gripe for me: Anger and sadness are both very…

Animals are lossy at converting plant calories into meat calories (varies for different kinds of livestock obviously). I don’t think it’s an obvious conclusion that more agricultur…