that's one possible problem, the other problem we are now seeing is more "never marrieds" as a lot of people were told they were "too young for relationships" and then they had a short "accepted" window which passed and now are too old to marry / have kids
as the other comment touched on, at some points in history their ages were acceptable for marriage up until like only very recently
I sometimes wonder what people were like as adolescents because I felt very attracted to the opposite gender from like age 10 onward...
biologically in an alternative timeline I could see myself having married as a minor, although it's a good social rule of thumb to delay marriages for non-biological reasons
I only expect this conversation to become more dysgenic, with "conservatives" being against people marrying until 21+ or older ages, playing in to the "extended adolescence" meme
I think some people said huxley was one of "them" just saying what "they" were doing
yeah, not sure radiation is "therapeutic", or as much as other diet and exercise and supplement protocols
"And there was one called Barabbas, who was put in prison with some seditious men, who in the sedition had committed murder." Mark 15:7
thought Barabbas was more than a thief
"Exploding Heads" Lemmy Instance is Moving to Nostr:
https://scored.co/c/General/p/16c2IAcPXU/exploding-heads-lemmy-instance-i/c
EH was one of our more conservative / independent instances for representation on the Fediverse / Lemmy network
There were too much defederation issues which was thought to be de facto censorship so they decided to embrace Nostr as a mitigation against this issue
c/nostr to discuss nostr
Casti Connubii (On Christian Marriage) by Pope Pius XI (1930)
https://www.papalencyclicals.net/pius11/p11casti.htm
Arcanum (On Christian Marriage) by Pope Leo XIII - 1880
I was banned from [c/nonewnormal](https://communities.win/c/nonewnormal) so I opened up a new no new normal on c/nonew
Dormition Fast Ends (Feast of the Assumption)
via Wiki:
The Feast of the Dormition is preceded by a two-week fast, referred to as the Dormition Fast. From August 1 to August 14 (inclusive) Orthodox and Eastern Catholics fast from red meat, poultry, meat products, dairy products (eggs and milk products), fish, oil, and wine. The Dormition Fast is a stricter fast than either the Nativity Fast (Advent) or the Apostles' Fast, with only wine and oil (but no fish) allowed on weekends. As with the other Fasts of the Church year, there is a Great Feast that falls during the Fast; in this case, the Transfiguration (August 6), on which fish, wine and oil are allowed.
In some places, the services on weekdays during the Fast are similar to the services during Great Lent (with some variations). Many churches and monasteries in the Russian tradition perform the lenten services on at least the first day of the Dormition Fast. In the Greek tradition, during the Fast either the Paraklesis Great Paraklesis (Supplicatory Canon) or the Small Paraklesis is celebrated every evening except Saturday evening and the Eves of the Transfiguration and the Dormition.[1]
The first day of the Dormition Fast is a feast day called the Procession of the Cross (August 1), on which day it is customary to have an outdoor procession and perform the Lesser Blessing of Water.
(note: not sure what should be posted on this community anymore so I might just post posts in general unless asked to post separately?)
I'll take both tbh
can baking soda in water kill cancer?
https://drsircus.com/sodium-bicarbonate-baking-soda/baking-soda-and-lemon-juice/
I think given other comments I've seen, that maybe a lot of these events might be able to have Christian subgroups within them, and that maybe expecting one big event that's Christian might be a big more to hope for than is necessary
Porcfest has been on a "maybe someday" list for me...
casting pearls before swine
Yeah I guess there are some novus ordo or these "trad" group events, theologically I just don't think they go far enough against Vatican 2 so it feels awkward to try to participate... but they're also not as far removed from being Catholic in my view
The Church has a long history of Christianizing non-Christian things however
perhaps not much is needed to satisfy a Christian, truly
although there have been Christian feasts and festivals throughout history I think
That's interesting, I guess I've seen the effigy may have been "appropriated" or used (appropriately) in some "Christian" contexts; there have definitely been certain feasts or communal Christian festivals and gatherings that wouldn't need to devolve into quasi-neo-pagan excess as at Burning Man
need to make an alternative to hollywood, alt-hollywood
as the other comment said, it's probably more of breaking a taboo. or the abusive aspect, like abuse among adults. of destroying innocence. I can kind of understand motives, they're just vicious
I was revisiting thinking of the virtue of obedience and various issues that may come up with respect to it. Some authorities may make non-authoritative commands, or sinful commands, or some people may make commands who do not possess authority. I recall people arguing the "Nuremberg Defense" that Nazis were "just following orders" (being obedient to the Nazi political authorities) was not valid. Civil rights movements have promoted the idea of "civil disobedience" over laws which were not sinful, but which created inconveniences. The idea of "American freedom" to pursue one's self-interest may seem to be contrary to obedience, when taken without limit.
Have you run in to instances as these or have some to bring up to discuss?
Back when the pope was catholic :)
To be clear in my view, Francis is not a Catholic pope, so it would still be consistent to say popes were always Catholic in that sense
prayer
It's a good prayer
How would your idea be different?
That's a good question, I don't know if I have too much to contribute that's "unique", but I did see an anti-drug pamphlet recently and... it's not how I would go about it.
One problem is these programs peddle things that are false, and once people learn the truth, they start to think maybe drugs are ok or not as bad as they thought. So it's important to maybe talk honestly and clearly about things.
I guess my philosophy is that people turn to drugs when some kind of need or desire isn't met, and they could basically just meet that need or desire in healthy ways.
I classify drugs into three basic categories of uppers (give energy), downers (give relaxation), and psychedelics (stimulate the mind). Does that cover all of them, and if not what am I missing? For something like an upper substitute, a person could exercise, or for downers a person could relax, or for psychedelics people could consume pieces of art. I think that's a simplistic way of describing it - does that seem clear? So possibly they just need some healthy substitute, and if they don't have that, they try to fill things with drugs.
So if we have a culture that already has people who have decent fulfillment, they won't turn to legal or illegal drugs. We already have things like alcohol that not everyone thinks to themselves, "wow that's legal, I need to go get drunk off it". I remember Ron Paul had asked people that if heroin was legal, would they go shoot up tomorrow or whatever? Probably a lot of people wouldn't, so if we can create this kind of culture of "alcohol's legal, but I only have a glass of wine now and then at dinner" then I think we would have less drug problems.
I suppose if such a culture existed as well, it would vote to legalize drugs anyway without concern of them being abused.
heroin
comes from opium which is used medicinally I think as a painkiller and derivatives
cocaine
comes from coca which is used to relieve altitude sickness
meth
apparently used to treat obesity (lol?) and ADHD, although perhaps controversially?
fentanyl
actually a weird example as someone I know received some from a hospital recently (so apparently it's used medically?); I had no idea it was being used in hospitals. So I'd assume the answer is yes, it should be legal since it's being used with a purpose, and then yes it should be available over the counter, because why would we want to let doctors have the ability to cut us off from drugs we want and need for our health? The covid disasters have shown how dangerous that can be.
so again one angle I look from is related to medical freedom, but I'm certainly concerned with problems of addiction and violence related to drug trades
I appreciate the clarification, so it's: illegal with extra steps
Yeah, I think there's a whole conversation that just isn't happening... some people are "too young", but then when you're a little older it can become different (or impossible to have kids at some point too, you can get too old)
There are a lot of declining fertility rates and I think this is part of that culture ("too young to have kids" ... to the point where people just don't have kids)
yeah, but I just expect people to keep moving the ages to older and older