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Universalism is the ultimate mind trap. It's actually Great Filter-tier.

@sasakiMTG Yes lol

日本人としていいね押していいのか悩むw

@Deep_Fried_Jeff @task_fortress Catholicism also uniquely allows for a certain diversity in local “rites” such as Syriac or Byzantine or Latin. I have wondered if one day a Japanese Rite would be possible. I’ve often thought about the potential for overlap between the Franciscan tradition and Shinto.

@task_fortress Yeah Protestantism and Catholicism have major disagreements about their teachings, like what constitutes idolatry. But saying to become Christian you have to stop being Japanese is bullshit. "Catholic" is latin for "universal," no need to shed your ethnicity for it.

何故日本でキリスト教が広まらないかの答えはこの辺にあるのではないかと思います。😥 x.com/i/status/18474…

@AgingAnarchist Many things are better than $20, not least among them, a deepened friendship.

留学生のころ、仲良くなったアメリカ人のご近所さんに1日中引っ越しを手伝ってもらったとき、20ドルあげようとしたら怒られたっけな。XのBBQ交流見てて思い出したよ。彼らそういうとこあるんだよね。

The recent flood of appreciation from the Japanese and Americans for each other's culture highlights the importance of real diversity by maintaining and protecting distinct cultures Americans want the Japanese to exist in 100 years, not an island with the geographical borders and name of Japan but full of Indians, Palastinians, and Somolians The Japanese feel the same way about America We want our grandchildren to be able to visit and appreciate the cultures as we see them now, but that requires our dedication to maintaining the character of our homelands An island named Japan that's full of Hattians would not be Japan, it would be Hatti with some cherry blossoms Diversity is the enemy of this effort, not some great strength

@BasedTorba And commissioner

Jewish team owner btw

@chicagobulls You are evil

@dominbydigdug No such thing!

I've been buying too many books recently.

IQ is a bellcurve. Someone with an IQ of 83 is as divergent from the mean as someone with an IQ of 117, definitionally. But whats more fascinating to me is that if you have an IQ of 130, youre as neurodivergent as someone with an IQ of 70. If you have an IQ of 150, youre as neurodivergent as someone with an IQ of 50. This is why I say having a high IQ is itself a disability- society is *also* not set up for you and your hyperlexia, pattern matching abilities, and ability to rotate complex shapes in your mind barely compensates for that at all.

This is ridiculous. St. Augustine's entire spiritual journey is that of a man fundamentally rejecting hatred of his own existence in light of himself, in the loving, reconciling eyes of God. This secular view of the great saint can only come from a man who does not believe that God really shows man to himself in the light of God. And while a man may believe this about himself or believe that this does not exist, it is obvious that Augustine, as well as a great many contemporary Christians, believe and fully understand this. I am not God. Hatred of my sins in light of God is not really just my hatred of myself.

Probably the most disappointing discovery of becoming politically aware is that the “sensible centrists” are not merely cowards but profoundly unserious and often very stupid people.

@xenocosmography Lmao you pose the most funny questions sometimes. Can’t help but admire it.

Elevator pitch Karl Marx: Capitalism is implicitly communism. (So much of this about.)

This is one of my 10-year-old daughter's practice sheets from last October when she was first learning Carolingian calligraphic script. She has since then hand-written 20% of the Latin Psalter. Children can learn to do things with care and make things they're proud of.

@SonohennoKuma It’s so surprising that Fukushima was such a source of shame for your people. I never would have guessed that. If anything you all deserved compassion for such an event, and it was handled very very well by you.

このことに本当に驚いている。他の国からは、特に福島の原発事故の後に向けられた悪意や差別が酷かったので。 もう一つ意外だったのは、アメリカの伝統的を愛する人達の方が、むしろ寛容で多様性を愛しているように見えること。 「排他的」と誤解されがちな我々日本人とも似ているのかも知れない。

"We pray, therefore, not only for the unwilling, but also for the objecting and resisting. What, then, do we ask, but that from unwilling they may be made willing; from objecting, consenting; from resisting, loving?" — St. Augustine (Contra Pelagianorum IV, 26)

A little overcooked and bare, but I had to do it for the Japan bros

@m966021 I was interested in a broader conversation about the merits or lack thereof of universalism, but if you’re only interested in the very narrow technical point then there is no reason I suppose.

@vertere_oculum The question was never about whether fear could blossom into true virtue. My point was that acting out of fear is not a moral motivation. If you don't disagree, why are you talking back?

Purity of heart is to will one thing. If your motivation to act morally is from fear of eternal suffering, you're not acting morally at all.

Get me to the ancient history side of Japanese X.

@zhuphilia I was the Confucius kid lol

obsessed w/ the expectations vs. reality going on here

I’m not even disagreeing with fear being an imperfect motivator. Filial fear is an effective starting point for initially developing metanoia and therefore theological virtues (true charity). Anscombe herself would agree with this, it’s very standard Catholicism. You keep sounding like your virtues end is the pagan ideal of “the good life”, which is incompatible with Christianity from the start.

@vertere_oculum Hursthouse's section on Moral Motivation in "On Virtue Ethics" does the best job explaining this line of thought, but you find this in Anscombe and Stocker in his paper on Moral Schizophrenia (though he mainly deals with ethical theories as a whole).