Alejandro Teran

@RussNRoses Welcome home! Don’t you se you are a catholic now? I love converts to catholicism, they seem to be better catholics than most of us who were born in a catholic home.

As a Protestant - I talked with many people about what drives a lifelong Protestant like me to Catholicism. So I wanted to show you all my most basic reasoning. 1. Tangibility: The sacraments, the literal implications of things like the Eucharist & the basic concept of the Christian life imputed on to us. Both body & soul are important & require tangible nourishment. If it's just an idea - what's the value? The word became flesh. Is means is. That's so important. 2. Unity: I would believe an omnipotent God would want his people, his chosen people unified. God is not a contradiction - so neither can be his church. Protestants say - that the Church is body of all believers - but how can God - this God of no failure be OK with theological contradiction, fights & 1000s of different interpretations. That sounds insane to me - so I must believe there is one full truth out there & it just begs the question: What it is?... 3. Verifiability: Catholicism definitely by most rational standards has history & traditional teachings on their side.... Take out the fallible middlemen, where I say Eucharist is literal & you say not... Who can be right? If we tread it academically, historically by knowledge verification, all points show towards Catholicisms claims at least potentially true - how can you reform something you fan never show was there early to begin with, and the fact that all Protestant denominations are built on disagreeing founders one after another... 4. Contingency: If you look and start even at the OT - everything from Genesis to Revelation - there was a contingent line of succession built, God chose many humans for their roles: Abraham, Noah, Moses, David, Mary & Joseph & the Apostles... They all were handpicked to build a line & do God's work on earth. Special privilege came with lots of responsibility handed out. Leadership & such was given to them. It shows the Sainthood, that authority, and that it isn't the Reformed Protestant Version of: Just God - no other mediators as they like to say. No - time & time again - God's saints & chosen people where selected for the great deeds they did. That's community, sainthood, intercessory & all things Catholics believes verify this to me. 5. Founding At a foundational level - the Catholic Church existed for 2000 years.. it's strong to this day. And yes - I did struggle with people in the Catholic Church doing bad things... but that is not different in Protestantism either... But other than Protestantism - the Church survived bad people. The theology & tradition seem to be safeguarded by something... I think this is what The Bible meant when it said: I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven." (Matthew 16:19) & „And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.“ (Matthew 16:18) Now that's foundation, confirmation & at the core given authority.... I have never seen a Protestant being able to give a sufficient answer & apply it to them. There's more. But this is what it comes down to, too. (More reasons to come later or another day - these are long & hard to write by hand ❤️🙏)

Fascinating paper just published in Science. The authors analyze the career trajectories of top performers across multiple domains, including Nobel laureates, elite chess players, Olympic gold medalists, and more. Their central finding challenges a common belief. Intensive, single-discipline training at a young age does confer an early advantage, but this advantage fades over time. By contrast, individuals exposed to multidisciplinary practice early in life tend to start more slowly. Yet, over the long run, they are more likely to reach world-class performance, eventually overtaking early specialists, who often plateau just below the very top. An important reminder that breadth early on can be a powerful investment in long-term excellence. Link to the paper in the first reply.

¡Inscríbete! Para estudiantes universitarios, auspiciado por el gobierno de Austria: ai-hackathon.at/?fbclid=PAQ0xD…

¡Empezamos mañana! (sábado 4 de octubre), 12:00-13:30 hrs. Topic: #Catequesisadultos Time: Oct 4, 2025 12:00 PM Mexico City itam.zoom.us/j/94999431756?… Meeting ID: 949 9943 1756 Passcode: 868684

Catequesis de preparación para recibir sacramentos (bautismo, primera comunión, confirmación, pláticas prematrimoniales) para mayores de 18 años. Gratis, en línea, sábados 12:00-13:30 hrs). Mi parroquia ofrece comprobante de preparación. Empezamos sábado 4 de octubre.

Este es el cuadro que más ha hecho contra el ateísmo de la historia. Caravaggio se empeña en explicarnos que la existencia de Dios se ha podido experimentar científicamente. ¡Y lo consigue! Te explico cómo en el siguiente #HilodeSantoTomás

Curso (en línea y gratuito) de formación religiosa para adultos (18+años). Sábados 12:30-14:00 hrs. Mi parroquia otorga constancia de preparación para recibir sacramentos (Bautismo, Primera Comunión, Confirmación, pláticas prematrimoniales). Info: DM

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Voy a dar curso de formación doctrinal a partir del sábado 20 de enero, (12-13:30 hrs) vía zoom. Puede servir: (1) conocer mejor el catolicismo, (2) preparar para sacramentos (Confirmación, prematrimonial, etc.): mi párroco dará los comprobantes correspondientes. Info: vía dm.

If graphs are the royalty of data structures, trees are the queens. Second part of our graph theory quickstart with Alejandro Piad Morffis. Whenever you want to model relationships between objects, you have a graph. Today, we will explore one special type of graph: trees.

Understanding graph theory will seriously enhance your engineering skills; you must absolutely be familiar with them. Here's a graph theory quickstart, in collaboration with Alejandro Piad Morffis. Read on:

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Explora La Sandunga de Yo-Yo Ma & Lila Downs en Amazon Music music.amazon.com.mx/albums/B09BXD1…

La 4T es un plagio entero del PRI de los 70s. Página por página.

Como otros años, os dejo por aquí algunas postales de Navidad que he pintado en los últimos años, por si queréis felicitar con ellas por vuestras redes sociales, están a vuestra disposición.

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Paciente mujer de 65 años de edad que llega a nosotros como consecuencia de esa intuición que en muchas ocasiones aparece en alguien de la familia cuando tienen la impresión de que algo no termina de cuadrar.