Fr. Harrison Ayre

gonna post a thread of the Rivendell Lego set. Took a break for a while because doing Lego with a sling became too hard. so some of these are older. Fun way to keep track of progress

@erind90 all talking heads who lack real substance. it is very sad to see.

@ShelleyBreaud that is amazing, in part because Fr. Champagne did my diaconal retreat! so maybe it's a graced insight from the connection all those years ago!

@FrHarrison fb.watch/H5S77D0r4s/?fs…

Just came up with the best name for a Catholic food truck. Friar Truck

@MyDailyCross unsure.

@FrHarrison Should that not be Fryer Truck

@kevinjjones @NickSenz except they don't call it "Friar Truck"! :). but that is awesome.

@FrHarrison @NickSenz The Denver Capuchins already have a Friar Truck! capuchins.org/capuchin-food-…

@NickSenz that is where the idea came from!

I guarantee you’re a better writer than ChatGPT. Never butcher your own writing or relinquish your own voice to put your name on the dead-eyed, mechanical hallucinations of a bunch of 1s and 0s. People who know good writing and AI have no trouble recognizing AI-generated garbage.

Jesus Christ is Risen from the Dead

@SimonSimplicio @agostino_harry Blondel actually came to love Thomas later in life. He was fed up with the manualists. But when he read Thomas later in his career, he devoured him and loved his philosophy and found it to be in line with his thought.

@agostino_harry And for that reason I'm sort of contractually obliged to take digs at Thomism even if I still have some fondness for it.

Blondel has been called "the philosopher or Vatican II." He influenced virtually every important 20th century Catholic theologian. Wojtyla, Rahner, De Lubac, Von Balthasar. The encyclical 'Fides et Ratio' bears a Blondelian imprint, and not a Thomistic one.

@SimonSimplicio you should read my master’s thesis if I can remember where I stored it ;)

And so has Jesus.

Doctrinal office says SSPX bishop consecrations constitute ‘schismatic act’ subject to excommunication - @jae_journalist @osvnews osvnews.com/doctrinal-offi…

“What if the Superman and Braveheart movies had a baby” Answer:

@EndOfDaysWoman :(

my algorithm sucks

what makes this movie interesting to me is the meeting of modern form and ancient substance. whether nolan pulls it off is another question. he doesnt in every film.

this fundamentally misunderstands Nolan. Because it approaches myth as form, but does not get myth in substance. Myth attends to man searching to pierce the limits of the immanent frame, and fail. That is thematic to Nolan’s films. It is myth in modern form, ancient in substance.

John Stuart Mill was all about utility after all…

Your brain physically rewrites itself every time you pick up a pen. Neuroscientists at Norwegian University scanned students' brains while they handwrote letters versus typing the same letters on a keyboard. The results shattered decades of assumptions about how we process information. Handwriting activated massive networks in the sensorimotor cortex, the visual processing centers, and the hippocampus simultaneously. Complex neural symphonies lit up across multiple brain regions, creating rich interconnected pathways between motor control, visual recognition, and memory formation. Typing the same letters? The brain activity looked like someone had dimmed the lights across entire cognitive districts. The neural networks that flourished during handwriting simply went dark. The difference? When you form letters by hand, your brain constructs elaborate spatial maps of each character. The motor cortex learns the precise pressure, angle, and trajectory needed to create an 'A' versus a 'B.' Your visual system tracks the ink flowing from pen to paper in real time. Your parietal lobe integrates hand position with eye movement. Your hippocampus encodes not just what you wrote, but how the writing felt, where you paused, which words required more pressure. Typing activates almost none of that circuitry. You press a key, a letter appears. The motor movement is binary. The visual feedback is uniform. The spatial relationship between thought and symbol gets mediated by a machine that standardizes every character into identical fonts and spacing. Your brain treats these as fundamentally different cognitive tasks. The evolutionary context makes this obvious once you see it. Human hands developed for manipulation, creation, and fine motor control over millions of years. We painted on cave walls, carved bone tools, and shaped clay vessels long before we invented written language. When writing emerged 5,000 years ago, it built on top of existing neural infrastructure that already connected hand movement with symbolic thinking. Keyboards appeared 150 years ago. Touchscreen typing maybe 20 years ago. From an evolutionary timeline perspective, we started using them approximately yesterday. Our brains are still running ancient software that expects physical engagement with symbols. That software produces dramatically different learning outcomes. Students who take handwritten notes consistently outperform students who type the same information on memory tests, comprehension assessments, and creative applications of the material. The difference persists even when researchers account for typing speed, note length, and time spent studying. The act of forming letters by hand forces deeper processing at the moment of information encounter. You cannot handwrite as fast as someone speaks, so your brain must actively filter, summarize, and prioritize information in real time. The motor effort required to form each word creates additional memory traces that typing does not generate. Children who learn to write letters by hand develop reading skills faster than children who learn letters primarily through typing or screen interaction. The sensorimotor experience of creating letterforms helps their brains recognize those same letterforms when they encounter them in text. Adults who handwrite shopping lists, daily schedules, or meeting notes remember the information better than adults who type identical lists into phones or computers. The spatial memory of where you wrote something on a page provides retrieval cues that digital text does not offer. These findings collide directly with how education and work environments have evolved over the past two decades. Schools replaced handwriting instruction with typing classes. Offices converted from paper systems to fully digital workflows. Students take notes on laptops. Professionals draft documents on screens. We optimized for speed and efficiency while accidentally severing the neural pathways that evolution spent millions of years developing. The implications reach beyond memory and learning into fundamental questions about human cognition. If the physical act of forming symbols changes how your brain processes ideas, what happens to thinking itself when you remove the physical component? Digital text is infinitely searchable, instantly editable, and perfectly shareable. But it may be creating brains that process information more superficially, store memories less durably, and connect ideas more weakly than brains that regularly engage in handwriting. The neuroscience suggests we traded cognitive depth for technological convenience without realizing what we were giving up. Some of the most innovative thinkers across history were obsessive handwriters. Darwin kept detailed handwritten journals. Einstein worked through complex theories in handwritten notebooks. Virginia Woolf wrote her novels by hand before transcribing them. Steve Jobs famously took handwritten notes during Apple meetings even as he was building the most advanced computers on Earth. Perhaps they intuited something about the relationship between hand, brain, and insight that we measured in brain scanners but somehow forgot in practice. Your pen is literally a cognitive enhancement device that activates neural networks digital keyboards cannot reach.

I am editing chapter 3. I realized I over did it on biography of Dempf. like…by 15-20 pages. I went through 5 minutes of “but I worked so hard on this” then came to and am ok with cutting (pending supervisors thumbs up obviously)