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Post by terentiusfaber on Nov 3, 2024 20:01:50 GMT
I'm definitely not a sedevacantist, nor even a sedeprivationist, but I do find frequent fault with the policies and courses of action chosen by various popes. There's a lot of superstition kicking about concerning popes and their acts and decrees. Bottom line is, that the pope is as fallible as anyone else except when speaking ex cathedra, and the last time that happened was 1950. The time before that was 1870, at the First Vatican Council. Paul VI made a point of not speaking ex cathedra at the Second Vatican Council.
So far as I know, Francis is definitely the pope. Even if his election were invalid - as some often claim - he has been received as pope by the universal Church and as such, is such.
When speaking of sedevacantism, we ought to distinguish good, old-fashioned sedevacantism from the new variety doing the rounds. The old version dates from the pontificate of John XXIII, whom sedes reject as pope and all his successors with him. Then there's the Novus Ordo sedevacantists, who accept all the popes up to Benedict XVI, but reject Francis on the grounds of his manifest heresies.
As Alice Thomas Ellis once wrote to Anglicans thinking of becoming Catholics, "Come on in! It's awful!"
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Post by Etaoin Shrdlu on Nov 4, 2024 1:55:44 GMT
Man get out. Why did I never see this?
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Post by Etaoin Shrdlu on Nov 4, 2024 11:36:32 GMT
Unfortunately, Paul got there first. Tasty little French thing, is it? Hubby, pack your bags! (9)
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Post by Etaoin Shrdlu on Nov 4, 2024 11:39:45 GMT
In other news, potatoes were introduced to North America from Ireland.
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Post by kizolk on Nov 4, 2024 17:02:09 GMT
Unfortunately, Paul got there first. Tasty little French thing, is it? Hubby, pack your bags! (9)Who's Paul? In the context of our recent discussions, a certain Paul comes to mind, but the fact that this precedes what looks like a crossword clue makes it confusing. The fact that this was posted on this thread, as opposed to the crossword one, also adds to the confusion. A confusing post altogether. |
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Post by Etaoin Shrdlu on Nov 4, 2024 18:41:18 GMT
It could have been posted on the crossword thread.
Paul noticed the possibilities of mange tout before I did. Pereant qui ante nos nostra dixerunt.
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Post by kizolk on Nov 4, 2024 19:09:19 GMT
I actually had done a quick search to find the name of one or two crosswords setters you had mentioned before, but I quickly gave up.
There's an acceptation of "mange(-)tout" that neither the French nor the English Wiktionary has: in woodworking, a mange-tout is a cutting tool a bit like a saw blade but it's used to make tenons. Well, at least that's how we call it at work, but it doesn't sound like an inside joke. The fact that this tool is rare doesn't help; I'd never heard it mentioned (by this name or any other name) elsewhere before.
Took me a while to get "man, get out".
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Post by kizolk on Nov 4, 2024 19:18:39 GMT
Also, I thought "is it?" was a homophone pointer regarding "Tasty little French thing". Vicious.
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Post by terentiusfaber on Nov 4, 2024 21:22:58 GMT
In other news, potatoes were introduced to North American from Ireland. Seriously? |
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Post by Etaoin Shrdlu on Nov 4, 2024 22:31:33 GMT
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Post by Pacifica on Nov 10, 2024 4:52:12 GMT
"The term broadcasting evolved from its use as the agricultural method of sowing seeds in a field by casting them broadly about." (Wikipedia)
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Post by Pacifica on Nov 11, 2024 19:24:39 GMT
I just learned the word "sanewash".
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Post by kizolk on Nov 13, 2024 5:06:31 GMT
 See the Highest-Resolution Atomic Image Ever Captured (Scientific American)"Behold the highest-resolution image of atoms ever taken. To create it, Cornell University researchers captured a sample from a crystal in three dimensions and magnified it 100 million times, doubling the resolution that earned the same scientists a Guinness World Record in 2018. Their imaging process could help develop materials for designing more powerful and efficient phones, computers and other electronics, as well as longer-lasting batteries." The technique used is ptychography. The image was published in 2021 but I had missed it. |
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Post by terentiusfaber on Nov 13, 2024 17:00:43 GMT
To actually see the things that were only theorised when I was at school still seems like sci-fi to me. Floreat scientia!
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Post by kizolk on Nov 13, 2024 17:27:00 GMT
To actually see the things that were only theorised when I was at school still seems like sci-fi to me. To be fair and epistemologically accurate, the atomic theory is still a theory. Just a very firmly established one  |
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