@catholicpat @msirilla1 It’s the result of forgetting Christus Victor. People don’t realize Christ had real, saving work to do on Holy Saturday.
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Dr. Jacob W. Wood
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Dr. Jacob W. Wood
@traditionwisdom
Director: PhD Theology Program @FranciscanU | Author/Speaker: Aquinas on Creation, Sin, and Grace | Views are my own.
Steubenville, OH Katılım Nisan 2008
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the amount of people who don't know Christ descended into Hell
we have reached the post-Christian west
Reel Updates@worldofreel
Mel Gibson’s RESURRECTION OF THE CHRIST has wrapped its seven month shoot in Rome. Gibson has described his $250M two-part epic as “an acid trip” featuring angelic/demonic battles set during Christ’s descent into hell. tinyurl.com/muutm69c
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This is what it looks like when you step out of the liturgy wars and do real scholarship. Whatever your opinion (and I don’t agree with everything here), he amasses an impressive amount of documentary evidence that is carefully interpreted and deserves to be reckoned with. Well done @HandMissals!
Hand Missal History Project@HandMissals
I’m back with the final installment of “The ‘New Mass’ of 1964” series This article is the conclusion for the whole series It's a huge milestone for me as I wrap up this project, so come along with me for one final thread! 🧵⤵️
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Student loans are like options trading. But it’s not a position or an industry. You’re opening a position on a *person* going into an industry. You go long, and hope this person’s educational success produces a surplus of wealth from which you can profit by interest.
If the person succeeds and the industry succeeds, you win. If either fails, you lose. If either is mediocre, it depends on what payment plan they choose. And most will choose income based repayment, so you still lose.
I don’t think the theological tradition is a huge fan of these sorts of transactions to begin with. But if we’re going to make an incremental improvement, here it is: make student loans exclusively merit-based, and scale them to average post-graduation salaries. In other words, make good monetary investments. If the investments really are good, you’d want to make as many as possible. Put it under Treasury.
But if the investment isn’t good, you have to make a choice: is this something worth having in society? If so, you’d also need to revamp the Pell Grant system. Make it need based *and* merit based. Direct it towards fields that don’t make a lot of money but society needs to foster to achieve higher goods than profit. Put it under NEH. Run the program competitively like you run other grants. And require the same kinds of progress reports.
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Charge them 0% interest. We can even back pay interest to them by rolling it into the loan. The last thing we need is taxpayers subsidizing tuition. But the interest on those loans is usurious and must be cancelled.
CatholicBob@catholicbob
I’m warming to the idea of some kind of relief for student loans. Growing up Gen X, we were told a college degree is the ticket to a professional career. We weren’t told it had to be in a STEM field, any degree would do. Also, college was affordable. A semester of college at the University of Maryland in the early 80s was about $800 for a full course load. Sometime later things changed. Now college costs a lot more and is no longer the ticket to a professional career, but we never stopped telling kids to go to college. Now kids are massively in debt, unable to find work commensurate with what they need to not only service their debt, but also do the things we need them to do, like buying homes and starting families, so that we can enjoy our later years. If we don’t do something, the system is going to crash, and it’s not going to be pretty. What happens when “boomer hate” moves off social media into the streets?
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@TeeplesCY “what churches provide for free: weekly, repeated contact with people who know your name.”
Don’t forget that one of those people is Jesus.
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Poor Americans who attend church regularly are happier than rich Americans who never go.
Behavioral scientist William von Hippel thought he'd made a coding error. He hadn't.
"Regularly attending services has a bigger impact on your happiness than wealth," he writes. "Money buys a fair bit of happiness but connection gives you more bang for the buck."
What's happening? Rich people already have most of what money buys. What they lack is what churches provide for free: weekly, repeated contact with people who know your name.
Von Hippel is direct about the cost: "I suspect that wealthy, educated urbanites are paying a steeper price for their lifestyle than they realize. Many of us have paid too great a price in connection for our increased autonomy."
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@BrandonWarmke Don’t let them tell you that you can’t give a great commencement speech. If you listen to the voice inside you, follow your passion, and reach for the stars, you can transform the world of commencement speeches in ways that no one thought possible.
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Last year I published a paper on commencement speeches and the kind of morality they teach young people. Long story short: it’s not great.
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@davidpdeavel @carleolson @EmmausBooks Sam does fantastic work. Under his stewardship, I think that project is going to make countless treasures available for the Church today.
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@traditionwisdom @carleolson @EmmausBooks That will likely be involved. Sam Klumpenhouwer is a friend.
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In the olden days, when footnotes were complicated, it might have been ok to have endnotes. Today, however, we have word processing programs. Footnotes should be the norm for every scholarly book.
Joel J Miller@joeljmiller
Where do you stand in the great Footnote vs. Endnote wars?
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@davidpdeavel @carleolson @EmmausBooks I had a hand in the Matthew volume. Feel free to reach out if you want to discuss.
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@carleolson @davidpdeavel Seriously. De Lubac also uses footnotes like the Glossa Ordinaria uses Tradition. You have a central text, and that text gets surrounded with quotes from the tradition that show you how to read it within the tradition. Example from @EmmausBooks 's recent edition of Genesis.
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@traditionwisdom @davidpdeavel Yes! He's the master of footnotes.
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@jt_kerwin @NC_Renic What does it mean to “set the temperature to zero”?
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@traditionwisdom @NC_Renic The last step won’t work unless the temperature is set to zero, which none of the major models do
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Professor: "in order to prove that you didn't use AI, please save multiple drafts showing your work over time"
Student who writes essay 45 minutes before deadline without AI: 😟
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@GovernorShapiro Just replace “health care” with “baby-killing,” and “mifepristone” with “baby-poison.” Has a bit of a different ring, doesn’t it?
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Abortion is health care. That includes medication abortion.
And despite yesterday’s ruling, abortion — and mifepristone — remain legal here in Pennsylvania.
Visit pa.gov/freedomtochoose for up-to-date information and resources on how you can access the care you need as we prepare to take action against this dangerous ruling.
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@DearMAGnificent @NC_Renic Yeah I’d say this was B-tier cheating. I’ve seen A-tier, it’s pretty elaborate. Different layers of prompts on multiple models. Still possible to unravel if you put in the time. It’s S-tier you have to worry about. Those are the ones that slip right by you and you’d never know…
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@alexgauthier92 @NC_Renic Some detectors are better than others. I use them not as proof but as an occasion to investigate further.
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@traditionwisdom @NC_Renic The detector? The same one that says the Bible was written by AI?
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Dr. Jacob W. Wood retweetledi
🚨 The Fifth Circuit has granted a stay of the FDA’s 2023 mifepristone rules, pausing nationwide the policy that allowed the abortion pill to be prescribed online and mailed.
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@timburchett Thank you for taking care of America’s farmers!
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@CindyS2953989 @0hour1 Ummm... I think it's safe to say that this problem predates Vatican II by several thousand years. "This people draw near with their mouth and honor me with their lips, while their hearts are far from me." --Isaiah 29:13, quoted by Jesus in Matthew 15:8.
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@traditionwisdom @0hour1 What we are seeing is the result of Vatican II and the creation of the Modernist church. Read the 'Pascendi dominion gregis' of Pope Pius X. The answers are there. It foreshadows today's Church.
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Agreed. I strongly prefer what I experienced at St Andrews. Two grades per semester: one on a paper, and one on an exam. That's it. And for some of the older professors even that was a compromise. Once upon a time they didn't used to grade the papers. But you got tremendous feedback. Learning was for the sake of the good, not the grade.
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We should stop try to quantify performance, too, imo. Grading, as we know it, comes from Dewey's era, doesn't it?
Dr. Jacob W. Wood@traditionwisdom
When education becomes an endless series of tasks and skills (thank you, Dewey!), the students become obsolete once AI can do the tasks. A truly student-centered approach to education would turn back the clock, reject Dewey’s pragmatism, get out the pens and paper, and start asking what and why rather than how.
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