George Lorenz
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Board games are the solution! eg. Health: a diet, which boardgames can help by taking your mind off your stomach. WWIII? A lot of nothing to do but play.
"Who made God?". That's easy: stuff exists for a reason. Physicists don't yet know what that reason is, but the reason is also a thing that has to exist: the 'existence-thing'. Logically it must exist of itself (no creator) since its fundamental nature is existence. That means…
The pursuit of personal happiness makes a lot of people suicidal.
“If you do not stop burning your children to death as sacrifices to the metal god Moloch, I will destroy you”, seems pretty reasonable on the face of it, and pro life.
X/twitter is said to be full of porn and toxic, nasty people by some, but this isn’t my experience. Just don’t engage with difficult persons and dubious ladies of the night, and neither will you experience this (much).
Catholic ladies, what do you think makes women instantly unattractive to men?
Innocence and sweetness is often what we fall in love with, in my experience/observation. Just another reason to not have sex before marriage where for the baptized that goes straight down the toilet (the unbaptized may not be so affected as they have not been united to God).…
A couple of useful tools of reasoning (and why God can't do things, eg. get people out of hell, yet is still all-powerful). 1)from Aquinas: opposites by absence, eg. darkness in itself doesn't exist, but is the opposite of light, and also evil as the absence of good. So God…
"Faith Alone" so violates justice and reason that I believe it to be the cause of the atheist Enlightenment.
Sad news; he died in his sleep. But also maybe worth bringing attention to a little discussed issue that could cause this: too much iodine from dairy and/or seafood. Or supplementation. This can cause an obscure form of hypothyroidism. And in extreme cases can cause a heart…
AI images have this downbeat, tobacco cast. In a graphics app you can adjust the white-balance/temperature (top-right), brighten etc (bottom-left), and in Gimp I used a canvas effect on the final image just for fun (zoom to bottom-right to get a better idea of it). Share to help.
It doesn't need to be in the Bible to be true. the idea that Mary was just a normal, sinful woman is a particular insanity of modern protestants. Could a sinful woman conceive God? Even Martin Luther called her "Mother of God", and that's not in the Bible either, but it's…
Could someone please tell me which religion this is? I've never read that in the Bible.
St Paul was against "works of the >law<" not works per se. The works of charity are not optional "...and you did not feed me..depart from me..". The Holy Spirit within us gives us the power and strength of Christ to resist grievous sins (those listed by Jesus and Paul) and do the…
As a non-literalist who believes everything in the Bible happened, it's an interesting exercise to explain things. So, Noah's Ark: one of the traditional spots for Eden is Ethiopia (which I personally favor over modern T&E), and which is composed of vast flood basins. And if we…
Claude 4 and o3 are really simulating a thinking process. Gemini 2.5 Pro just guesses. I'm curious about the reason for this difference. Given that the only visible difference in the architecture is the context size, I think Google, to support fast self-attention computation for…
There are a handful of doctrines that massively assist intelligent people in making the conversion to Catholicism. #1 is lack of insistence on biblical literalism. #2 is "disinterest" in arguing about evolution. #3 is a broad view of salvation, including non-Christians.
A common way to atheism is to ask"God, if you exist please reveal yourself to me", get complete silence and then jump to the conclusion it's all BS. (I would add "..and show me why the innocent must suffer".) On the one hand people need to know that asking that question needs to…