The mind virus will not stop spreading, making corporations do your critical thinking is not a good path. People will become dependent on a subscription service for everyday life.
Religious claptrap is the OPPOSITE of critical thinking.
Pope tells priests to use their brains, not AI, to write homilies
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#192Earlier quoted context omitted.
Right, that's why they have massive churches adorned with gold and intricate sculptures. Just because it technically isn't required to pay does not mean that years of brainwashing won't condition you to give your money away. I've only been a few times, but seeing old people queue up to give a sizable part of their pension to the church just made me sad.
And your world view is very jaded and myopic if that is all you see. There are plenty (majority) where your anecdote is not true.
A majority of the bible is not true.
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#193Earlier quoted context omitted.
Imagine the pope being a man of science a couple of hundred years back... How much better the world could be.
I don’t know about popes, but many prominent mathematicians, philosophers and early scientists were priests or monks: Mendel, Copernicus, Bayes, Ockham, Bolzano... It was pretty much the only way to get the kind of education, intellectual culture, time and focus required for hundreds of years (at least in Europe), until the upper-middle class widened around the enlightenment and industrial revolution. The friction be…
> There are always exceptions like Galileo
Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you enjoy the play?
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#194No priest will feed sufficient context about their community into the context window - even if they were skilled enough to do so, unless the model was locally hosted, doing so would be a violation of their vows of silence. Good homilies are written with the particular community in mind. If it were more effective to write a homily for a generic public, the Vatican would have started publishing standard homilies long a…
"We value your privacy! Do you consent to sharing the contents of your confession with our 2137 partners? [ACCEPT ALL] [MAYBE LATER]"
Was the number of partners you picked random or you chose 2137 on purpose? As it's actually somewhat related to the topic...
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#195Earlier quoted context omitted.
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It will surprise you but we don't literally believe there is a face in the sky looking down.
Yeah, but you literally and officially hate LGBTQ+ people, treat women as property, condone slavery, and literally hallucinate that crackers and wine are flesh and blood in spite of what your eyes, nose, taste buds, and all scientific instruments and measurements tell you.
Edit: yet you can't counter the objective fact that the Catholic Church is a hateful abusive power hungry cult full of dogmatically hallucinating lunatics, homophobes, and misogynists. Go eat your Jesus flesh and drink your Jesus blood, you cannibalistic vampire whack job.
You know as well as I do that the bible and church writings are chock full of evidence proving my point, so you can google it yourself.
And you also know that your church has such a long sordid history of raping children and protecting rapist priests than Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor's molestations and Trump's protection of pedophiles make them look like saints in comparison, and you can google that yourself too.
You don't deserve the favor of me giving you proof of something you already know to be true, because you're not arguing in good faith, you know very well you're wrong and I'm right and that all the evidence is on my side and easily found and documented, and I know very well you will reject all fact based evidence because of your bad faith.
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#196Cyberpunk headline
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#197Earlier quoted context omitted.
There were two sides on the evidence available at the time. The Tychonic model was probably the one best supported by evidence. its worth bearing in mind that the Copernican model is also badly wrong - the sun is not the centre of the universe, just the solar system.
I think incomplete would be a better description; it was roughly right for our solar system and far more right than thinking everything revolved around the earth.
I think that is a reasonable take with regard to Copernicus - and however you look at it he made a huge advance on any previous model.
Geocentric models may look silly with the benefit of hindsight, but Galileo’s claim that the Copernican model was proven was entirely unwarranted at the time. The evidence did not exist until much later.
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#198Earlier quoted context omitted.
"We value your privacy! Do you consent to sharing the contents of your confession with our 2137 partners? [ACCEPT ALL] [MAYBE LATER]"
Was the number of partners you picked random or you chose 2137 on purpose? As it's actually somewhat related to the topic...
Entirely random of course. I would never reference unsavory memes about past Popes or anything like that.
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>If we wanted to know what Claude thought, we’d ask him. You would be surprised how many people don't do this. It's very common for people to ask others questions that could be easily googled or clauded.
What an absolutely awful take. Asking people questions, even if it’s less efficient or has the chance to be misleading, is the absolute number one way to a) learn, and b) make connection. Even if you’re just asking a stranger the time, you don’t know what you might learn.
Except that nowadays it feels more like people asking you for the time every 2 minutes while standing just in front of Big Ben.
I see it everyday on forums/Discord servers where some users will treat you like their personal search engine simply because they are too lazy to spend 10s reading the results themselves.
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#200The same pope who declared an influencer boy a saint? https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/07/pope-leo-xiv-d... Let's be honest, the entire concept depends on advertising like nothing else.
Died at 15 of leukemia... I don't see how this is the church jumping the shark, it seems like a nice gesture considering he spent his short life promoting the church.
I do think the whole parading a wax replica of his body is a bit creepy, but I am not religious, people who are appreciate these things.