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duvarki 1 month ago

Article XVII, the longest article, has given me much comfort when it comes to the doctrine of predestination. I therefore treat it as one that I should not try to meditate upon as it is, much like the Trinity, incomprehensible to our minds bound to space and time. I believe it was St. Ignatius who said "pray like it all depends on God, work like it all depends on you". This thought has been sufficient for me.

discreteideas 1 month ago

I'm not sure. I think the trinity is something we can and should meditate upon and the same with predestination - that doesn’t mean we will understand them because of-course the very idea of an infinite God is not indescribable with finite thought or words.

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discreteideas 1 month ago

sorry: "is indescribable " not "is not indescribable"

duvarki 1 month ago

Perhaps meditate wasn't the right word to use. I meant that we shouldn't try to understand it fully, and that we should live accepting a reality we won't be able to comprehend. The article does indeed say that predestination should be a comfort to believers, but it can lead to all sorts of weird places if you were to try and dig deeper in a rational kind of way. I appreciate that Anglicanism leaves it at that.

discreteideas 1 month ago

Yes your probably right. Like I said in my post my thinking is basically vibes based "I think I have free will because I feel like I have free will" - I think this is a rational way to think, but to say much more I would need to study the corpus of Christian (and non Christian) writers who have thought about the topic a great deal.

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discreteideas updated their site.

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discreteideas 1 month ago

I have significantly restructured and simplified my site. Discrete Ideas has been live for ~3 months and over that time my vision for what I want it to be has shifted and grown. I am hoping that now it will be easier to navigate for first time visitors as I have removed the bloated number of sub-pages.

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duvarki 1 month ago

I am excited to see what the future holds for your site! How has your vision changed recently? Is it in connection to your recent entry in your chronicles?

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discreteideas 1 month ago

Hi duvarki, it's more that I am focusing on the Chronicles posts as a way to write essays. When I started I expected I would write whole essays in one go - but its really not very realistic given the time requirements

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duvarki 1 month ago

I see, that does make sense. Mine took a year and a bit to write, so a more short-form way of sharing thoughts makes sense and I find it quite tempting myself. I just don't have many opinions or thoughts that I feel can be sufficiently justified with just a few words. But your approach does sound appealing, to share ideas as they come in order to compile them into a coherent essay if need be.

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othala 1 month ago

I have kind of the same feelings as you, that not only am I unqualified, but I'm a catechumen myself. I often feel like its not appropriate for me to be a teacher and I have to carefully navigate that. I look at the content on my site as anecdotes about my experiences and how I got to this point, so that maybe other other people can find their way, but ultimately we have to point people to real teachers.

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discreteideas 1 month ago

I think that’s a great way to think about it. And yeah I think it’s natural that people like you and I would want to share our thoughts and perspectives but my hope is that, ultimately, people go to an actual Church. Btw I quite liked your posts about the practicalities of actually going to Church from the perspective of a former Atheist - it can be daunting

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discreteideas 1 month ago

A theological telling of Star Wars. Cliché I am aware although the theological implications may be a tad controversial.

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duvarki 1 month ago

I had fun reading it! I haven't seen the Star Wars movies, but I think there is some truth to the monomyth idea

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discreteideas 1 month ago

You haven't seen the Star Wars movies?!

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duvarki 1 month ago

I can only vaguely remember seeing The Force Awakens, it kinda turned me off from watching the rest I think

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discreteideas 1 month ago

That's your problem - I can't blame you for not getting into it if the Force Awakens was your introduction. When I wrote "by this I mean the six proper films" I excluded the force awakens.

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duvarki 1 month ago

Haha I see. If I were to start watching the series, where should I start? I heard someone recommend Rogue One before

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discreteideas 1 month ago

Rogue one is quite good considering its a new film. But I would say two paths are best: Story order (Episode 1, 2, 3 (the prequels), rouge 1, episodes 4 , 5, 6 (original trilogy) Or release order to get the authentic experience (4, 5, 6, 1, 2, 3)

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discreteideas updated their site.

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discreteideas 1 month ago

Two chronicles posts today as I wrote a short post on my notes app on sunday but didn't have the chance to convert to HTML

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that1rogue 1 month ago

an HTML formatter is a useful tool. I had AI write one up for me so I can dump in my blog posts and get a full page HTML file without much of any effort.

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discreteideas 1 month ago

I did see that and think it was a neat idea. Although my posts are just paragraphs in tags for the most part. Mainly I don’t post on my site when I’m not at my computer, which try to avoid on weekends

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duvarki 1 month ago

I have just noticed, why is temptation rendered "costning", rather than something like "forseeking" or "forleading"?

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holyanglish 1 month ago

"Costen" is a now-defunct word meaning 'try, tempt', from O.E. "costian, costnian." I prefer it because it keeps the old understanding of temptation as a test or trial for the faithful (that's was Latin "tentatio" means as well).

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duvarki 1 month ago

Ahh I recognise it now! It is somewhat related to Dutch "kiezen", and I have it in my own language project as well in the form of "keusan"

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discreteideas updated their site.

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that1rogue 2 months ago

I in no way am intending to be pedantic, but I just wanted to let you know that your update says "That one rouge". I don't care, but I figured you might, since it seems you (rightly) care about what you work on.

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discreteideas 2 months ago

Thanks! I am terrible at spelling and usually type in a word processor before copying over to VS code. But I didn’t for this as it was a quick update

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