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A thread on why Jesus Christ is certainly resurrected from the dead:

@Earldormancy I consider him an occasion to grow in patience He calls himself a misanthrope all the time even though he is ironically more likely to make me one than anyone else lol

@countmaculad Consider that his intentions are of a pure heart

There are some days at work I just can’t even stand to look at people Don’t talk to me, don’t look at me

Presuming he wasn’t misheard, this is bad lol Hierarchy eliminating competition of SSPX again award

@lefebvrists @Back2Byzantium I was never invited to that lol

@countmaculad @Back2Byzantium I was informed that Fr. and Monsignor's ordination dates (and possibly even birthdays) are incredibly close to one another. I just can't remember when their birthdays are. IIRC there was a group-activity-thing planned but I may have chosen not to be there. idr.

The two priests at my chapel also: cake time!! :D

@lefebvrists @Back2Byzantium Monsignor’s secret VIP club

@countmaculad @Back2Byzantium wait.. did we have "cake time"???? did i miss that too???

Please pray for me. Semi-urgent

@lefebvrists @a1sakata1ga_ @PelopeAl41549 I still remember how the song goes

@lefebvrists @a1sakata1ga_ @PelopeAl41549 Due to my excellent memory, I still remember thinking about him pretty much all day during my first day in Kindergarten. He was my hero, I really loved that show

You can tell a lot about someone based on if they were a Nickelodeon kid, a PBS kids kid, a CN kid, or a Disney channel kid

Agiat and CT's points are true broadly speaking, because there is a clear progression from nominalism to subjectivism. Jay Dyer did well to use this sort of historical narrative. For people listening to Tucker Carlson with no prior philosophical experience, this should make people think about *reality* and wake them up from their slumber of modern subjectivism. But it's a bit complicated when dealing with the direct claim in question which is more academic. There is a need on a scholarly level for more careful analysis of Occam and Biel and there has been an excess in pointing to them as the sum of all that we consider to be "Nominalism" and then saying that they revolutionized everything. Father Copleston points this out in his History of Philosophy which should be seen as *the* standard for Catholics. Occam specifically regarding his view of universals, is not as revolutionary as we like to make him out to be, he doesn't get enough credit for his gifted logical abilities, and in modern pop-philosophy books no regard is given to his distinction between the spoken word, the written word and the concept (direct apprehension of a concept). Instead it is seen that Occam was some overly simplistic idiot who got rid of Thomism because of its later excesses. Biel is even more complicated, because it makes it difficult to connect him as "the nominalist" to Protestantism as Biel is one of the intellectual targets of Luther. (Oberman's book the Harvest of Medieval Theology is a starting place on how Realists can understand how there still is an influence despite this) I think the way we can start to understand this is to realize that Ideas *do* have consequences and lead to other ideas, especially if in opposition to or in correction of an excess they are used in an overly simplistic way to signify opposition. Historical philosophy is extremely important for establishing a narrative and way of understanding the world, but in order to not get lost in the weeds we should avoid oversimplifications while pursuing the question of "How can we show that things have stable essences and that there are truly universals right now?" Thomism I believe is the best way to establish this and to *live this* en masse

Greatest answer I have ever heard. Wow.

I think wrong ideas which are seemingly safe per se can lead to further developments in thoughts centuries later which are disastrous. Not a perfect analogy (since Protestantism actually is evil), but comparable to how the Reformation impacted how people thought of authority for the worse. And so though he isn’t a proximate or immediate cause of it, Luther can be considered a remote cause of, e.g., rampant feminism.

@countmaculad Do you unironically think nominalism is the reason we have transgenderism?

Yes, not blaming “nominalism” is the pretentious midwit take

whether or not you call it “nominalism” or even trace it back to a particular medieval theory at all for that matter, the fact does remain that many modern errors do in fact stem from a rejection of received common natures imbued in things which themselves have real moral import

@CTrefugees @ClassicalTheis Uh. Okay.

I have donated $150 to @ClassicalTheis in order to make it very clear that it is not acceptable either to abuse the Church’s teaching on modernism by turning it into a label for whatever you happen not to like, or, more fundamentally, to promote pseudo-trad vibe slop over and against the actual theology of the Church. Our Lord Jesus Christ could have balanced the entire visible universe on the head of a pin, and that miracle in the order of nature would still be inferior to the infusion of supernatural life into a single human soul.

I showed this to a liberal and xe killed xirself instantly

"Atheists get morality from the Government"