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@AmericanPresby @PresbyXian I love it as a window into Early Modern English orthography. There are a lot of cool features seen just on the first page:

@PresbyInn Also discussed in Article IX of XXXIX.

Westminster 6.5 "This corruption of nature, during this life, doth remain in those that are regenerated; and although it be, through Christ, pardoned, and mortified, yet both itself, and all the motions thereof, are truly and properly sin."

A clarification: Allberry could be talking about any sinful desire here. Overeating. Wrathful anger. Sloth. It doesn't matter. The problem is that he is teaching that the disordered motions of the soul, wherein our corrupted appetites overpower the will and cloud reason's judgments about what is good, are not in and of themselves sinful unless acted upon. He may even concede that consenting to these disordered motions by deliberating over whether to sin in thought, is sin (it's not clear in this video). The problem, however, is that he is saying that the mere presence of disordered appetites yearning for false goods (or true goods inordinately) is not sin. This is the doctrine of Rome. And it was repudiated by the Reformers with appeal to Scripture and to Augustine. And it mattered for the doctrine of justification (e.g. how/what kind of sins are remitted by Christ's righteousness). "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's." - Exodus 20:17

The problem with the Onion’s takeover of Infowars is that left-wing satire is structurally impossible Satire relies on mocking commonly observed social patterns, and the entire epistemology of leftism rests on denying that such things exist

Griggs v. Duke Power was decided in 1971 and led to the proliferation of college degrees as a proxy for intelligence.

women moved left while men stayed sane because social media algorithms optimized for emotional reactions while society implemented more censorship policies women are more emotional and reactive (higher neuroticism across every culture studied), so they got captured while men largely ignored the feeds (or got captured by different things: porn, gambling, video games, manosphere) smartphones and social media built a culture where shock, outrage, and emotional bait won every engagement war and obviously women responded to it harder than men. facebook 2006, iphone 2007, instagram 2010 all coincide with more female leftism. teenage girl's mental health collapse closely correlates with this too the algorithms weren't designed to capture women but attention, and it ended up capturing the half more sensitive to consensus pressure first. women also complain more, and in a feminized society complaints carry institutional weight. universities, HR, media, education, healthcare etc, every institution they enter bends toward what they feel. censor any disagreement that seems "mean" and you get an algorithmically captured society. so they live in a made-up reality where everything validates their collectivism, their victimhood and their certainty that anyone who disagrees is evil (the TV and the movies and the media say so, so it must be true). four years of college, then thirty years inside institutions that never push back and you get this

Academia over time:

British elites responded to Brexit by punishing the electorate.

@CalebDixonSmith @OrwellNGoode If thatʼs the case, voting is not the remedy.

@wandlearner @OrwellNGoode Irrelevant But if you walked into the booth and the ballot said, “If this law passes, whoever voted against it will be killed”, well…

@JoelKatz @theblessedsalt @therealchucko The meaning of the sentence before the colon isn't indisputable. It could mean: 1) only the two assumptions would make pressing blue rational 2) pressing blue is the only rational option with the assumptions I know you (falsely) believe 2, but those aren't good assumptions.

@wandlearner @theblessedsalt @therealchucko I think it's indisputable that it is only rational to push blue if you add two assumptions to the original problem: 1) Most people are rational. 2) At least some people are not rational. But without modifications like that, it's a psychology experiment, not a logic exercise.

I think the Team Red people are just pretending not to get it at this point.

@JoelKatz @theblessedsalt @therealchucko This is a game of hypothetical Inception™, but the very nature of the hypothetical makes those results unreliable. If the poll results reflected the actual results (within the hypothetical), I would be happy, but that doesn't make the blue button pusher rational.

@wandlearner @theblessedsalt @therealchucko Pretty much every poll shows that the likely result were it real is that enough people are sufficiently rational that nothing bad would happen. In fact, it might even restore some people's faith in humanity.

@JoelKatz @theblessedsalt @therealchucko This hypothetical is purposefully unrealistic, and the likely result were it real is quite nasty, yes. That is part of the reason that voting (if valued as a decision-making mechanism) should have low costs of participation with a sense of civic duty instilled in the electorate.

@wandlearner @theblessedsalt @therealchucko The point is simply that comparing odds the way you did leads to nonsensical results. If everyone did it, we'd all be much worse off.

@JoelKatz @theblessedsalt @therealchucko Voting is a civic duty...one that ideally doesn't involve a coin flip over oneʼs continued survival. The cost in time and effort of voting in America is trivial compared to what this hypothetical imposes.

@wandlearner @theblessedsalt @therealchucko It's irrational for anyone to vote because it has non zero cost to them and the odds your vote will affect the outcome of the election is something like one in a billion.

@cremieuxrecueil What do you think are the odds of dying if you push the blue button? What are your odds of saving the blue button pushers if you push the blue button? Did you ask those questions in your poll?

Accurate cartoon. In my polling, almost 6% of people said they picked the wrong button when they were prompted about it. Assume the global error rate is higher and kids' responses are random, and easily 1-in-6 to 1-in-5 hit blue by mistake. So, if red wins, society is ruined.

@theblessedsalt @therealchucko What is your estimate of the odds?

@wandlearner @therealchucko Nope.

@CalebDixonSmith @OrwellNGoode Do you have a significant chance of dying when you enter a voting booth here in America?

@wandlearner @OrwellNGoode That's a very imbecilic approach to what voting is and how it works in general

@theblessedsalt @therealchucko Very rough odds.

@wandlearner @therealchucko Your math doesn’t math.

@CalebDixonSmith @OrwellNGoode No, that's not how the odds work. When you push the blue button, you have a ~50% chance of dying and a ~1 in a billion chance of saving anyone.

@OrwellNGoode This is stupid. It should be, "Kill everyone who presses blue" vs "Kill nobody"

@theblessedsalt @therealchucko The odds aren't commensurate. You're trading a ~50% chance you'll die for a ~1 in a billion chance of saving people.

@therealchucko If my kid’s life were on the line? In a heartbeat.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, one of the great benefits of the Book of Common Prayer is protection of the laity against the bright ideas of bishops and presbyters (deacons usually aren't in a position to be as dangerous).

@MitchellHe93733 @PartBaptist1689 Yet the Greek books translated from the Hebrew Canon cluster strongly with themselves and the Greek of the New Testament in stylistic similarity while the Greek Jewish literature (including Greek additions to Daniel and Esther) has a different style: x.com/i/status/20436…

The Protestant canon (66 books) is a subset of the Catholic canon (73 books). The Catholic canon includes the deuterocanonical books (Tobit, Judith, Wisdom, Sirach, Baruch, 1 & 2 Maccabees, and parts of Daniel and Esther), which were present in the Greek Septuagint—the Bible most widely used by the apostles and early Christians. Historically this info wasn't easily available to everyone (the truth), if you search for the truth it brings you back to the Catholic Church. Its not you vs me, its who is searching for the fullness vs who is avoiding it.

The protestant cannon is more catholic than the Catholic cannon.