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https://infogalactic.com/info/Geocentrism
 
https://galileowaswrong.blogspot.com/p/summary.html
 
> Galileo Was Wrong is a detailed and comprehensive treatment of the scientific evidence supporting Geocentrism, the academic belief that the Earth is immobile in the center of the universe. Garnering scientific information from physics, astrophysics, astronomy and other sciences, Galileo Was Wrong shows that the debate between Galileo and the Catholic Church was much more than a difference of opinion about the interpretation of Scripture.
 
> Scientific evidence available to us within the last 100 years that was not available during Galileo's confrontation shows that the Church's position on the immobility of the Earth is not only scientifically supportable, but it is the most stable model of the universe and the one which best answers all the evidence we see in the cosmos.

 
https://infogalactic.com/info/Conclavism
 
idk of what but he didn’t seem super healthy
 
honestly to me he had one of the most comprehensive understandings of the problems facing Catholicism today intellectually speaking (although many have no idea and just think he “weirdly tried to elect himself pope”), even though I disagreed with view
 
I can try to answer any questions about his views
 
a couple of his sites (I do not necessarily agree with some parts on them):
 
http://pope-michael.com/
 
vaticaninexile.com
 
archive snapshots of his site have different content: https://web.archive.org/web/20070205075739/http://www.vaticaninexile.com/
 
there was a documentary about him but I don’t think it really got in to the issues too much and wouldn’t recommend it too much: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=b96WxyxPfOY

Not going to link it (can be easily found), but I saw there was a hoarders show episode where a person was storing multiple dead cats in their freezer.
 
Also I think they ran out of room so there were a few that didn't make it to the freezer that were decomposing in plastic bags at room temperature.
 
The rationale was that they were going to cremate the cats, which I guess is a thing some people do in some places like California since there are bans on burning them on your property?
 
Still, I found this example disgusting, fascinating, and motivating for me to clean up my comparative smaller messes.

The following series of Meditations has been long in high repute in England. They were originally collected, a long time ago, from the best ascetical writers, which were then in existence, and there is hardly a meditation book of those days which our author has not ransacked in order to form his work.
 
p. 17 gives instructions on how to "meditate" or engage in "mental prayer" (a kind of Christian prayer):
 
How To Meditate Or Pray Mentally
 
St. Augustine is quoted as saying that "any one who
knows how to pray rightly, knows how to live rightly."
Many opinions could be cited of holy and learned writers
who attach the greatest importance to mental prayer, and
for some persons think it even necessary for salvation.
 
Distant Preparation.
1. Avoid venial sins and be exact in all duties.
2. Practise some self-denial; guard your eyes and tongue.
3. Have a habit of recollection and union with God.
4. Be patient and kind.
 
Near Preparation.
1.Read the subject attentively the evening before, and fix it in the memory.
2. Picture in your imagination some object or scene connected with
the subject of meditation.
3. Take a respectful and not too easy posture in meditating. We should try to cometo prayer with a disengaged mind and a tranquil heart.
 
Begin your Mental Prayer by realizing the presence of
God, and kiss your crucifix devoutly.
 
Preparatory Prayer:
O my God, I offer myself entirely to Thee, and beg of
Thee to direct all the powers of my soul to know, honor,
love, and serve Thee. Grant, dearest Lord, that I may
practise the virtue taught by this meditation.
(Recall the picture formed in imagination.)
 
Then carry on a conversation, as it were, with Al-
mighty God, while you exercise your memory, understanding,
and will (either all together or separately),
asking,
I. What am I going to think of?
(who ? where ? when ? why ?)
II. What doctrine or practical truth is to be learned from this ?
III. What reasons or motives for it
from authority, reason, experience, or from the subject
itself ? (Is it becoming ? is it profitable ? is it agreeable ? is
it easy? is it necessary ?)
IV. How have I done in the past ?
(in thought, word, action; towards God, my neighbor, myself ?)
V. What must I do in the future? (hourly, daily,
weekly, monthly, yearly ?)
VI. What obstacles are in
my way ? (internal, external ?)
VII. What means must I use ?
(determine on one or two things, and no more.)
Finish your meditation by a most fervent address to
God the Father, to Jesus Christ, to God the Holy Ghost;
also to the Blessed Virgin, the Angels and Saints.
After Meditation, examine yourself as to the prepara-
tion for your mental prayer; as to the manner in which
you have made the meditation itself (posture, attention
place, time).
If it has succeeded, thank God; if it has
not, find out the cause and resolve to do better next time.

> 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.

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> Honda cars have been found to be severely vulnerable to a newly published Rolling PWN attack, letting you remotely open the car doors or even start the engine...

Classic math text

Partially what made me think of this was a book I stumbled upon "Biblical Literalism: The Gentile Heresy" in which I believe the author argues that certain traditional Christian understandings of Scripture contradict an interpretation Jews would give to reading certain stories in the New Testament. For example, the author argues the story of the multiplication of loaves and fishes was not a literal miracle that happened (as is traditionally believed) but is a retelling of some older story and is simply a narrative rather than something that actually happened. I wanted to comment on this in another post, but I was wondering if the author was basically rehashing the ideas of modernism and "judaizing" (note the links may be biased):
 
https://infogalactic.com/info/Modernism_in_the_Catholic_Church
 
https://infogalactic.com/info/Judaizers
 
https://infogalactic.com/info/Nostra_aetate
 
On Nostra Aetate, it is argued:
 
> (f) The Jews are not presented in Scripture as rejected or accursed.
 
> "It is true that the Church is the new people of God, yet the Jews should not be spoken of as rejected or accursed as if this is followed from Holy Scripture." (Declaration on the Relation of the Church to Non-Christian Religious Nostra Aetate, paragraph 4).
 
> For evidence of the true doctrine in relation to this remarkable assertion, we may start with Our Lord's parable recorded in Matthew 21:33-45 and the Church's traditional interpretation of it. "The rejection of the Jews and the conversion of the Gentiles are here foretold, as Christ teaches in verse 43," says Cornelius a Lapide in his commentary on this passage.
 
> Then, of course, there is Matthew 27:25: "And the whole people, answering, said: His blood be upon us and upon our children." Presumably something follows from this passage in Holy Scripture, and one wonders what the Fathers of Vatican II had in mind. For the traditional Church teaching in relation to that passage, we return once again to Cornelius a Lapide, where he comments on it:
 
> "And thus they [the Jews] have subjected, not only themselves, but their very latest descendants, to God's displeasure. They feel it even to this day in its full force, in being scattered over all the world, without a city,7 or temple, or sacrifice, or priest or prince... 'This curse,' says St. Jerome, 'rests on them even to this day, and the blood of the Lord is not taken away from them,' as Daniel foretold (Daniel 9:27)."
 
> And out of interest, if we were asked which, out of all the Vatican II passages that we are offering, we believed to be the most difficult to explain away even with the most subtle debating devices, we should probably choose this one. We do not maintain that it is more definitely heretical than the others, but it does seem to present the fewest escape routes, especially as the Fathers of Vatican II expressly elected to have their doctrine judged against Holy Scripture, which is explicit in making it absolutely clear that the Jews have been collectively reprobated for their part in the Crucifixion. (Numerous other texts from the New Testament could be quoted to this end, but we think we have already given enough evidence.)
 
> Theological censure: HERETICAL.
 
from: https://www.holyromancatholicchurch.org/heresies.html

"Just 41 out of the 327 new car models sold in the United States in 2020, or 13%, are offered with a manual transmission"
 
MSM source: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/15/manual-transmission-cars-are-disappearing-but-purists-prefer-to-drive-a-stick-shift.html

No need to click the link, just citing the source and article title should make my point:
 
"Almost half of the world's food thrown away, report finds"
 
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/jan/10/half-world-food-waste

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