Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ?

On Sun, 22 Dec 2024, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

On 22/12/2024 11:02, D wrote:

  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.

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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' .
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That is it expresses a desire for a particular way of life, and gives pragmatic hints on how to achieve it.
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Its confusion with esoteric philosophy and mysticism is its greatest weakness

I look at it from an exoteric and an esoteric way. On way is the condensed wisdom of our forefathers, giving practical advice for how to live. The other part, is the original (in my opinion) esoteric experience, that can only be lived or experienced, and never passed on through words.
Different religions have different mixes of the two components and different levels of authoritarianism vs "anarchism" built in.