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I just want you all to know that St Carlo Acutis would have been lighting up your replies and DMs if you’re out here trying to dunk on the Pope’s tweets under the guise of some janky logic.
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Be wary of those who would tell you human limitations are also defects. Their views are rarely limited to longevity.
Each time I see people with Down’s Syndrome, I’m both overcome by their joy and comparatively my own limitation. There’s perfection, if we’re willing to see it.
Today, the promises of transhumanism and posthumanism are multiplying. These are ideological currents according to which, sooner or later, technology will eliminate all disease and pain, as well as aging and even death itself. Precisely because scientific progress is a supreme achievement of human intelligence, it must not be confused with a privilege reserved for millionaires seeking immortality, while entire peoples suffer from poverty and oppression. In the face of this mirage, which promotes the illusion of human beings perfected by cybernetics and biotechnology, Christian anthropology reminds us that a limitation is not a manufacturing defect, but rather the very condition of human grandeur. #ApostolicJourney #Peru #MagnificaHumanitas vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/e…
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“…a limitation is not a manufacturing defect, but rather the very condition of human grandeur.”
Today, the promises of transhumanism and posthumanism are multiplying. These are ideological currents according to which, sooner or later, technology will eliminate all disease and pain, as well as aging and even death itself. Precisely because scientific progress is a supreme achievement of human intelligence, it must not be confused with a privilege reserved for millionaires seeking immortality, while entire peoples suffer from poverty and oppression. In the face of this mirage, which promotes the illusion of human beings perfected by cybernetics and biotechnology, Christian anthropology reminds us that a limitation is not a manufacturing defect, but rather the very condition of human grandeur. #ApostolicJourney #Peru #MagnificaHumanitas vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/e…
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For people of faith, “beyond judgment” is really all there is to know about what this debate ultimately reduces to. This is a debate around the interpretations of freedom and ownership. To whom does **each** of us belong? To what do we apply our freedom?
Homo sapiens will start living for eternity. Beyond judgment. And beyond the Pope's shallow interpersonal judgment.
The human is material, representational, and malleable.
G.H. Tel
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You cannot give your life, time, or comfort to someone if those things are infinite and cost you nothing. That’s why limits create grandeur. If we erase our vulnerability to become invulnerable machines, we will erase our capacity to love like Christ.
This is a snarky millennial comment. It also happens to accidentally take the correct message from the Pope.
The world has been so brainwashed into accepting the Religion = Be Nice lie that when the Pope repeats what has been the constant teaching of the Church, straight from our Lord, for 2000 years, everyone assumes he was mistaken or misspoke.
Nope, we really believe that about suffering.
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A good time as any to revive this fun little untitled poem written by the generally polite and zen-like Leonard Cohen to the macho-posturing novelist Norman Mailer.
Today is the ten-year anniversary of Leonard Cohen's death. What a sad loss that was. I remember hearing the news like it was just yesterday. Here's a picture from when I visited his grave on my way back from class a couple of years ago.
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We all know pain and boredom are catalysts toward happiness, right? They are gifts, not threats. If you’re not dissatisfied, you have no reason to seek any change. Schopenhauer would disagree because we always find new problems, but that’s a feature not a bug.
“The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.”
A remarkably concise description of the dilemma Schopenhauer believed defined much of human existence.
Arthur Schopenhauer, The Wisdom of Life
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Tommy on Purpose retweeted
The happiest people I've met don't necessarily have the easiest lives or the most impressive accomplishments. But they tend to have four things in common:
-They take their faith or life philosophy seriously.
-They invest in their family relationships.
-They cultivate real friendships.
-They find meaning in work that creates value and serves others.
These are the four areas of life worth paying attention to if you want to live a more fulfilling life.
The next sentence:
“Today I can say: I have been true to myself I have done what I could to the best of my knowledge and conscience. Whether it was right or not, I cannot say. Suffering was inevitable in any case. But I want to suffer for those things which really belong to me.”
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“Sometimes, immersed in his books, there would come to him the awareness of all that he did not know, of all that he had not read; and the serenity for which he labored was shattered as he realized the little time he had in life to read so much, to learn what he had to know.”
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Something I learned from high-agency individuals is that they neither allow their highs nor their lows to be a judgement of their ego. They measure themselves on whether they chose to act in the first place.
The easiest way to waste your potential is to spend your life protecting your ego. Avoid risks. Never share unfinished work. Never attempt anything you might fail at. You'll stay comfortable, but you'll never discover who you could have become.
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"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion." - Albert Camus
Everyone has to rebuild civilization in their free time now. After they’ve done the work of survival, now we’ve got to figure out how to make natural fabrics, paint classical art, build beautiful buildings and compose music in our 5-9 so we’re not ground to the dust of utility
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The urge to say "this post will go viral" with the wizardry of a kid pointing at a traffic light before it turns green.
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More people should practice launching a project only knowing the starting point. Trust your ability to iteratively solve problems along the way. That's it. That's the cheat code.
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1/ "There is a kind of knowledge that explains, and there is a kind of knowledge that awakens. One tells us how things work; the other changes how we see them. Scientific knowledge belongs primarily to the first category. It seeks causes, mechanisms, and relationships."
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4/ "Perhaps the real question is not whether science has removed mystery but why so many people no longer experience the world as mysterious...The result is not ignorance but a more subtle danger: the illusion of understanding."
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5/ "We cease asking questions not because they have been answered but because they no longer occur to us...The world remains extraordinary; it is the observer who has become accustomed."
fountainmagazine.com/all-iss…
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