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  1. FireDragon76

    Karoline Leavitt accuses CNN of 'encouraging violence' against agents for reports on new ICE tracking app

    Only scoundrels want to operate in the dark. All this app does is provide information to people about ICE's activities, so they can plan accordingly.
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    Why is Politics so Hateful?

    That's not the only way to do politics, but in a culture that has dispensed with wisdom, and made virtues out of vices, the political system is apt to be broken at some point.
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    In search to heal America’s divisions, Fr. Richard Rohr suggests turning to God, ditching identity politics

    While his style is shaped alot by the 160's and 1970's immediate post-Vatican II era, with a very free-flowing spirit and incorporation of insights from depth psychology (similar to Merton), it's not really unorthodox. He teaches contemplation and spirituality, subjects important in mystical...
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    Why is Politics so Hateful?

    The US political-cultural system fits into the type of Babylon in the Bible. I had a long discussion about this with ChatGPT a few days ago, and summarized the discussion as an essay. Dehumanization and performative cruelty are the end result of a dying empire trying to uphold itself.
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    Catholic bishop condemns immigration enforcement on church property: 'Not of the Gospel'

    Jews in the first century usually attended synagogues as well. There was no sharp break from Second Temple Judaism to Rabbinic Judaism in that respect. In fact, criticism of the Second Temple priesthood is something you see even in the Jewish Talmud. Of course some early followers of Jesus...
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    Economic Times: Was 2024 Legit? Voting machines under scrutiny

    I think the discrepancy is better explained by alot of targeted money and strategic campaigning going to swing states in this past election.
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    Homage to Stalin

    This is just political witchcraft, and unfortunately just reflects the mindset of Russia's reigning intelligentsia.
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    Meditation/Contemplation

    Two things you didn't mention were biofeedback and neurofeedback. I carry around an EmWave in my pocket often times, and try to use that a few times a day. If I have time before church, I will spend some time using it. It's a heart rate variability (HRV) coherence trainer. You can also get...
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    Meditation/Contemplation

    Eastern Christians have a practice that is sort of like mindfulness, called nepsis. it means watchfulness. A psychotherapist might call it objectifying ones thoughts, and it can be a useful practice in a world full of vivid imagery, slogans, and other dross designed to colonize the...
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    Meditation/Contemplation

    I don't really like talking about my spiritual experiences openly anymore in too much detail, as its not really comporting with values of sacred reverence and boundaries, but I can affirm what you are saying. Intentions matter, symbols matter. I don't even necessarily pray many repetitions of...
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    Meditation/Contemplation

    I've studied some forms of eastern meditation, such as zazen and yoga nidra in the past, and the similarities between praying the Jesus Prayer and those practices could only be perceived by somebody that lacks real familiarity with the context and substance of those practices. The Jesus Prayer...
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    Meditation/Contemplation

    Christian contemplation isn't necessarily similar to Hinduism. It has different goals, and the phenomenology isn't even necessarily the same. It's a very grounded kind of prayer, whereas many forms of Hindu meditation aim for a kind of dissociation from the body, or a sensation that is more...
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    Economy is worse off than we thought.

    How about less hollow ideology, and something more pragmatic and just: more democratic control of economic decisions proportional to the risks incurred on actual stakeholders, and less leaving it up to the whims of billionaires? That's not socialism, that's responsible governance. Much of the...
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    Economy is worse off than we thought.

    This kind of rhetoric is deeply dishonest and uncharitable. All I'm insisting on is not poisoning the well regarding a legitimate critique of what sounds like a suspect economic theory, by trying to inject religious piety into the mix. That's scandalizing the faith, and it shouldn't be...
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    Economy is worse off than we thought.

    I think that's a category error, to confuse the transcendent with the secular. And it also carries the very real possibility of profaning what is sacred, for no good purpose. Appealing to the Gospel to justify a crazy economic theory doesn't seem holy or wise.
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    Economy is worse off than we thought.

    You're describing a macroeconomic theory, one that sounds completely counter-intuitive. Burning a village to save a village doesn't exactly sound like a wise or sound policy.
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    A lack of real conspiracy doesn't equal no real problem

    Systems theory is useful, but it lacks an understanding of transcendence or purpose. Some of these "emergent" behaviors aren't strictly emergent, but have their own teleology, there's a spiritual dimension not accounted for.
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    They are working with the nephilim underground

    Yes, what you describe fits the folkloric pattern. People have had similar experiences going back centuries, of night-time visitors that come to frighten, tempt, or seduce their victims. Usually there's some kind of symbolic initiation ("fairy food", for instance) or induction into occult...
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    They are working with the nephilim underground

    UFO's and UAP's in the US have been witnessed by many competent, trained observers, including engineers, police officers, pilots, hardly the kinds of people prone to be mistaken about what they saw.
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    They are working with the nephilim underground

    Yes, that's what I meant to say. The US government has admitted they've observed objects or craft that appear to defy physics as we understand it, often moving about with no visible propulsion systems, and without inertia. I think this fits with folkloric accounts that go back centuries of...
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