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From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ?
Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2024 15:11:04 +0000
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On 22/12/2024 11:02, D wrote:
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> 
> On Sat, 21 Dec 2024, rbowman wrote:
> 
>> On Sat, 21 Dec 2024 12:14:28 +0100, D wrote:
>>
>>> Yeah... he's not my favourite pope. I wonder if there will be a huge
>>> backlash and a super conservative pope when it's time for him to go? I
>>> heard rumours that one contender for the papacy is the only swedish
>>> cardinal Anders (?) Arborelius.
>>
>> I had hopes for Benedict. I think he got tired of a fight he knew he
> 
> Interesting. My wife had a private audience with Benedict once. She said 
> he seemed like a nice guy.
> 
>> wasn't going to win. There is a lot of local controversy after the bishop
>> banned the Latin Mass altogether. I think there is a Society of Saint 
>> Pius
>> V priest who still does a traditional Mass two or three Sundays a month.
>> SSPV is sedevacantist, rather than SSPX which skates on thin ice which is
>> a quandary for the trads who don't want to go the whole route.
> 
> The great strength and the great weakness of christianity is that they 
> are bound by the book. This is a problem in todays woke world, but if 
> they let it go, they won't be christians any longer. I respect the guys 
> who struggled to reconcile the book with todays world without giving it 
> up completely.

I square the circle by thinking of the Bible and religion a 'not life as 
it was or is, but life as it ought to have been' .

That is it expresses a desire for a particular way of life, and gives 
pragmatic hints on how to achieve it.

Its confusion with esoteric philosophy and mysticism is its greatest 
weakness

-- 
Renewable energy: Expensive solutions that don't work to a problem that 
doesn't exist instituted by self legalising protection rackets that 
don't protect,  masquerading as public servants who don't serve the public.