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anawim wrote: ↑Sat Jun 28, 2025 7:56 pm The only people who seem to obsess with Vat. II, are the people who didn't live through it.

Even though I was born a few years after, that seems about right.

peregrinator wrote: ↑Wed Jun 18, 2025 5:54 pm

Tired wrote: ↑Wed Sep 11, 2024 10:03 pm Guilty pleasure... I'm reading Jurassic Park and Ender's Game again (it's fun to read them a chapter at a time and then switch to the other book).

Have you read Speaker for the Dead? Very powerful.

I need to. still haven't. I did enjoy Ender's Shadow.

We have the Glory and Praise hymnal at the parish I normally attend.

https://hymnary.org/hymnal/GAP2015#google_vignette

Riverboat wrote: ↑Tue May 06, 2025 10:33 am Better than halfway finished with The Mill on the Floss by Victorian writer Eliot. Interesting section in which the heroine Maggie Tulliver encounters Thomas a Kempis and the virtue of silence in suffering:

It's been years since I read this but I recall enjoying it.

I have no problem nor qualms about saying the Washington governor is an idiot. He knows this isn't anything that can survive a court challenge. gaslightiing at its finest.

not sure I have a direct answer as I haven't been in that situation. But the whole 'transgenderism' thing is unquestionably the greatest mental illness of our time. I do like mia.s direction. What is your hope, in the end?

Thank you for your posts. Informative, as usual.

Apologies in advance for my laziness in doing research. Just one of those days. In the Good Friday readings (maybe Palm Sunday as well), Pilate has a few lines. One is 'what is truth?' which seems to just be left hanging. The story continues, never explicitly getting back to that question. So why is...

I am absolutely for reciprocal tariffs. Not sure really why people are opposed. And I absolutely do not agree that tariffs will cost an average family anywhere near that amount (in the short term). But I guess we'll see. I also absolutely believe in the long term, the cost will be negative, not posi...

Probably should be a separate thread but... Why would you 'recuse' yourself? And are there actual real people who do not think the topic is 'larger than simply the killing of unborn babies'? @Tired -- I am reading several Christian Ethics books to become very familiar with the topic of Abortion. At...

"...I didn't know that he [Billy Graham] supported abortion under certain circumstances..." quoting brother ProZak. I have learned from watching several news sources that the topic of abortion, the reality for women within the situation of abortion, is a lot larger and a lot more complica...

BTW - question generated by a (nother) reading of one of my favorite books... Theology and Sanity.

Some people find them really interesting as they do all the fantastic stars/galaxies in the universe. I'd but 'because He felt like it'. I'd also buy 'because He knew humans would find them interesting'.

Some - including me - think they are interesting, even if not a die-hard fan or something. But why did God create/allow to evolve dinosaurs, especially so distant in time from humans? For humans' pleasure in studying them, something else?

I can't imagine peregrinator was being anything other than sarcastic.

aussie - your post about Trump/Putin and Trump's followers was hilarious, if not sad. It's hard to even argue/discuss with such cluelessness.

would likely be interesting!

USAID should NEVER, under any circumstances, be resuscitated...

I think you should have said... 'to resettle (mostly) non-legal immigrants'. I can't imagine anyone has a problem with legal immigrants and I certainly don't think there is a problem (actually, I welcome it) if the Catholic Church helps settle legal immigrants. Society has laws for a reason. Most la...