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Peter Berkman
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digital retrieves the medieval | guy from Anamanaguchi
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People read “simulation” and think Baudrillard, but the Church has its own vocabulary for these concerns, and has been pondering idolatry, illusion, mediation, false likeness, crowd passions, hardened hearts, and estrangement from reality for two millennia.
One could even say that Baudrillard is, partly, a late secular dramatisation of problems long identified by Christian anthropology.
Pope Leo XIV@Pontifex
When simulation becomes the norm, it weakens the human capacity for discernment. As a result, our social bonds close in upon themselves, forming self-referential circuits that no longer expose us to reality. We thus come to live within bubbles, impermeable to one another. Feeling threatened by anyone who is different, we grow unaccustomed to encounter and dialogue. In this way, polarization, conflict, fear and violence spread. What is at stake is not merely the risk of error, but a transformation in our very relationship with truth.
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@asarasehla Their replies were off I was gonna quote tweet lmao
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deleted an angry post i was gonna make instead of posting it
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Leo XIV sounds a lot like Romano Guardini here as for the mission of Catholic universities!
Left: Leo XIV
Right: Guardini
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Pope Leo XIV@Pontifex
The Catholic University can form pioneers of a new humanism in the context of the digital revolution. This is a service to the truth and to all humanity. Without this demanding educational effort, passive adaptation to dominant paradigms will be mistaken for competence, and the loss of freedom for progress. #ApostolicJourney #Cameroon
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Ppl on this app think arguing about religion is somehow gonna change someone’s heart. If you really cared, you’d weep for their soul. If you really believed ur own Bible, you’d pray for them in secret rather than blowing up on them. Where has all the Christlike gentleness gone?
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#Peace is not something we must invent: it is something we must embrace by accepting our neighbor as a brother or sister. We do not choose our brothers and sisters: we must simply accept one another! We are one family, inhabiting the same home: this wonderful planet that ancient cultures have cared for over millennia. #ApostolicJourney #Cameroon
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The combined memorative power of all the world’s networked computers, equipped with hundreds of billions of sensors, with the interpretative power of code painstakingly laboring to make concrete all manner of human bias, as we live today, stands in literal comparison to six words uttered at a table in Jerusalem two thousand years ago: “Do this in memory of me.” Only one of these remains when the power goes out.
Explaining why he called himself an apocalyptic, McLuhan noted that both optimism and pessimism are secular states of mind. “Apocalypse is not gloom,” he said. “It’s salvation.”
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It took centuries for medieval man to become modern man, and the shift from electric humanity to digital humanity is perhaps the most rapid and sweeping change we have ever undergone.
Our response to this must be not to search for enemies – robotic or otherwise – but to look instead to the ways, old and new, God is making himself known to us through the world he has made.
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@AaronBlake we can't do it again we don't have the technology
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MMMBop is closer to the moon landing than it is to today.
RetroNewsNow@RetroNewsNow
🎶Hanson released ‘MMMBop’ 29 years ago, April 15, 1997
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The pope's X team started linking to the full speeches
This is a good improvement and will help with context and avoiding unnecessary confusion
Pope Leo XIV@Pontifex
#Peace is everyone’s responsibility, beginning with civil authorities. To govern means to love one’s own country as well as neighboring countries. The commandment “love your neighbor as yourself” is equally applicable to international relations! #ApostolicJourney #Cameroon vatican.va/content/leo-xi…
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All 73 books of the Bible?
EWTN News@EWTNews
About 495 faith leaders and advocates are set to gather in Washington, D.C., to read the entire Bible aloud ahead of the nationʼs 250th anniversary. America Reads the Bible is a national Scripture-reading event and movement led by Christians Engaged, a nonprofit organization committed “to discipling Americans on biblical worldview and their responsibilities as citizens to pray, vote, and engage for the well-being of our nation.” From April 19–25, a diverse set of speakers including some Catholics will gather at the Museum of the Bible and read the King James Version of the Bible from beginning to end “as a spiritual celebration of our nation’s founding ideals and a call to rediscover the truth that still anchors us today,” event organizers reported. The event is inspired by the Hebrew book of Ezra, where the public reading of Scripture sparked national repentance and renewal, according to a press release. The event will kick off with an opening celebration on April 18 as leaders from more than 100 national ministries will begin to gather for the weeklong celebration. The recitation will begin on April 19 at the museum and will continue with speakers reading each day from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. to complete the whole Bible in a week. Those interested in attending can register to join in person or can watch live online. A wide array of speakers including actors, lawmakers, and advocates will participate in the anniversary celebration. Event sponsors and organizers will speak over the week including Bunni Pounds, America Reads the Bible organizer and president of Christians Engaged, and Steve Green, chair and co-founder of the Museum of the Bible. Catholic companies, set to serve as partners with America Reads the Bible, including Catholic Book Publishing, will also send speakers. Catholic author Allan Wright, whose books focus on discipleship, evangelization, and the Catholic faith, will read. The event is also partnering with CatholicVote and will welcome its president, Kelsey Reinhardt, to read. Catholic figures from the Trump administration will take the stage including Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy. Among others, Christian administration members participating will also include Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins. A number of lawmakers and government representatives will speak, including Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who is Catholic. Others lawmakers scheduled to read include U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, Rep. Ashley Hinson of Iowa, and Rep. Mike Simpson of Idaho. Pro-life leaders will also read, including Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, and Kristie McCrary, adviser to the president. Pro-life advocate Abby Johnson, CEO and founder of ProLove Ministries and And Then There Were None, will read as well. Entertainers and actors from various Christian backgrounds will read Scripture including Catholic actress and author Patricia Heaton, and Christian actress Candace Cameron Bure, America Reads the Bible national spokesperson. Other entertainers will include actors Dean Cain and David Hunt. ewtnnews.com/world/us/nearl…
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@CDvillamayorl Yes! Probably not in a tweet, but it has to do with automata and transitive constructions in language—Dr. Talos's play, his reduction of Severian to "death" archetype, and the "provenance" of the claw. I'd also recommend The Everlasting Man by Chesterton as a place to look!
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@peterberkman Hello! I’m listening to your podcast with Dr. Chapp and just finished reading Citadel of the Autarch. Can you elaborate on what you saw in BotNS and LLMs mythologizing vs doing hagiography?
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@MartinShkreli @duncanreyburn human beings are not "machines" neither are plants animals bugs bacteria
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No decent philosopher believes ‘machine consciousness’ is (or ever will be) a thing.
Polymarket@Polymarket
JUST IN: Google DeepMind hires a philosopher as it prepares for machine consciousness.
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like francis bacon wrote
the arts and the senses
history, memorative
philosophy, cogitative
poetry, imaginative
all inbetween the common sense & the intellect. the action is in the gap
Andrew McLuhan@amicusadastra
we have historians for the past futurists for what’s to come and artists for the now
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“why aRE yOU dividing Christians beFoRe midterms?!” 😭
Dr Taylor Marshall™️@TaylorRMarshall
MAGA: All “MAGA Christians” in 2026 MUST unite under the Judeo-Protestant ✡️✝️ theology of Pastor Paula White, Pastor Doug Wilson, Pete Hegseth, and Ted Cruz in order to be “real MAGA”. Catholics: Nah. I’ll pass on that offer. 🙅 MAGA: Why are CATHOLICS dividing Christians before the MIDTERMS????!!!!! Why are all Catholics so ANTI-SEMITIC???!!!!😡
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@peterberkman I know yr Catholic but non Catholics do not believe this
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