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Thirsty Gargoyle
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Thirsty Gargoyle
@thirstygargoyle
Constructive sceptic of the knowledge economy. Author of 'Cannae: The Experience of Battle'. Vulnerable to tea, long walks, and lost causes. Craves disapproval
Dublin, for now anyway... Katılım Şubat 2009
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@infernoxv @LMSChairman It’s certainly how I received in Aleppo.
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@LMSChairman not disagreeing with the untraditionalness of intinction in the Latin Rite, but intinction without the spoon is practiced in several Eastern Rites. Armenians, Melkites, Syriacs, and Assyrians/Chadaeans do it.
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Don’t say ‘intinction must be fine because the Eastern Rites use it’ unless you use leavened bread and a spoon. The abuse in the Latin Rite is completely different, untraditional, and horrible.
🎤E-Knock (Catholic Rapper)@CatholicKingdo1
I propose Intinction to be the standard form of receiving communion. it solves a couple of issues. 1st, it allows everyone to receive under both species. and 2nd it forces communion on the tongue which I believe will increase devotion. pros and cons?
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I particularly love Irish people who’ve bought so far into modern culture war narratives that they champion the Biggaresque line that criticism of British imperialism is attacking western culture and civilization, heedless of what British imperialism entailed in Ireland. /1
The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History@JICHist
See @aljhlester's timely article on 'The British Empire in the Culture War' from June 2023, which can be read and downloaded freely at: doi.org/10.1080/030865…
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Still playing catch-up with my #Inktober efforts, but at this point I’m confident I’ll get there! Here are four more.
Greg Daly@GregDaly
I’m behind both on #Inktober and on sharing my #Inktober sketches, but still: here are four more, featuring Drogheda, the High Cross of Muiredach, Alberta (long story), and Hellboy. I enjoyed trying Pilot Parallel pens on that last one.
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Many thanks to @BritishAcademy_ for this great honour - and, of course, to all the many scholars on whose work we depend to do @TheRestHistory
Gary Lineker@GaryLineker
Congratulations to @holland_tom and @DCSandbrook for winning the hugely prestigious 2023 President’s Medal from the British Academy for @TheRestHistory. It’s the Academy’s highest honour, and we’re really proud to have the show in the @GoalhangerPods stable. Well played 👏🏻
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As usual, this glosses over how a desire to maintain a soft to non-existent border has consistently been the wish of most Northern Irish people, including plenty of unionists. The DUP, after all, got just 30% of votes in the last UK election, and 21% in the last NI one.
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Stockholm really has it all. Runestones in the street, the cosiest of bookstores, swans galore, and people skating to the dulcet tones of Shane MacGowan and Kirsty MacColl.
Greg Daly@GregDaly
Well, Sweden seems nice. Not as nice as seeing our friends, obviously, but the combination’s a charm.
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This is no good, and shows just how ridiculous spectator sports have gotten. Folks, it’s just a game. (As an aside, a friend’s grandad skipped part of the 1916 Rising to go to his nephew’s funeral: these things matter.)
Rugby on TNT Sports@rugbyontnt
A heartbreaking situation for Fiji's Josua Tuisova 💔 With one point needed to make the quarter finals, Tuisova will sacrifice attending his 7 year old son’s funeral in order to represent his country for the crucial final pool match against Portugal. #RWC2023
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@Ms_Ali_B @DavidJazay It looks amazing when so isolated, doesn’t it? Bizarre and yet imposing. And definitely inviting. We should go there again one of these days?
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@DavidJazay @thirstygargoyle saw this and thought of you as the saying goes
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The Lord Edward, Dublin 1985.
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@PartTimePilgrim Not unless we think Benedict was of the view that his conclave was unique, and the only one where a two-thirds majority was a sign and indeed the only one where a majority of the cardinals electing should be understood as God himself electing. Which, I suppose, is possible…
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Nah, I just agree with Pope Benedict XVI, that we can't claim for the Holy Spirit's Divine assistance what history plainly disproves.
It is over-enthusiastic bloggers, not the Church, who push this concept beyond its breaking point.
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@hf_222222 Scott, I don’t think you know how language works.
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@thirstygargoyle In light of the question he was asked, "in the sense", "does not exactly" are said, precisely to show what role the Holy Spirit does have in electing the Pope.
So yes God elects, no God isn't dictating a specific candidate.
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@hf_222222 I’m sorry, Scott. I don’t know how you’re getting this from that. This has him saying only that God allows us freedom to choose, doing so without entirely abandoning us. It’s ‘permissive will’ stuff, which is a far cry from “if the majority of cardinals elect, God is electing”.
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@thirstygargoyle He was explicitly contrasting the various senses in which these things could be said.
Hence why it helps explains his later uses of one of those senses.
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@hf_222222 I’m the earlier quote he said the Holy Spirit did not pick the Pope, but *at most* prevented utterly disastrous choices.
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@thirstygargoyle In both cases he explicitly affirms the Holy Spirit picks the Pope - And in one case he explains the limits of what that means.
There is simply no contradiction in the plain texts - Nor any indication he believed himself to be offering a correction.
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@hf_222222 I’m reading exactly what he said, no more and no less.
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@thirstygargoyle I'm pretty comfortable with affirming both are right, and there is no meaningful contradiction.
You are reading in something that simply isn't in what he said.
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@thirstygargoyle That is *exactly* the elasticity he was talking about in 1997 though.
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@hf_222222 I’m not saying he’s right in either case - they’re both just opinions - just that the latter opinion contradicted the former, and we shouldn’t be quoting the former without acknowledging that he changed his mind on this.
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@hf_222222 You’re abusing logic here. No elasticity gets from “the most he does is prevent things from being wrecked” to “if the majority of the cardinals elect, the Lord is electing”.
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