This is not the Church of Galileo’s trial. This is a Church that says: bring us your data, your research, your expertise. Technical knowledge tells us what is possible. Moral wisdom tells us what is right. We need both.
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But when human dignity is threatened by exploitative economic systems, by political structures that abandon the vulnerable, and by technological developments that trample ethical limits, then the Church has both the right and the duty to speak up. Its role, as Pope Leo frames it, is not domination but service.

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#PopeLeo #MagnificaHumanitas #TonyLaVina #HumanDignity #MoralWisdom

Neil Postman's #Technopoly comes to mind

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One of the more refreshing arguments in the encyclical is its treatment of the relationship between faith and human knowledge. Pope Leo insists that Catholic social teaching develops through genuine dialogue between Scripture’s wisdom and the insights of science — economics, sociology, political science, and yes, technology studies.

This is not the Church of Galileo’s trial. This is a Church that says: bring us your data, your research, your expertise. Technical knowledge tells us what is possible. Moral wisdom tells us what is right. We need both.

Magnifica Humanitas also makes clear that the Church does not seek political power or the functions of the state. It does not want to run governments or write legislation.

But when human dignity is threatened by exploitative economic systems, by political structures that abandon the vulnerable, and by technological developments that trample ethical limits, then the Church has both the right and the duty to speak up. Its role, as Pope Leo frames it, is not domination but service.

> The problem was how to calculate the injury, since this varied according to both the physical damage and status of the injured party. Here, Irish jurists developed the ingenious expedient of measuring different wounds with different varieties of grain: a cut on the king’s cheek was measured in grains of wheat, on that of a substantial farmer in oats, on that of a smallholder merely in peas. One cow was paid for each.

> What’s unusual about the Irish material is that it’s all spelled out so clearly. This is partly because Irish law codes were the work of a class of legal specialists who seem to have turned the whole thing almost into a form of entertainment, devoting endless hours to coming up with every possible abstract possibility. Some of the provisos are so whimsical (“if stung by another man’s bee, one must calculate the extent of the injury, but also, if one swatted it in the process, subtract the replacement value of the bee”) that one has to assume they were simply jokes. Still, as a result, the moral logic that lies behind any elaborate code of honor is laid out here in startling honesty.

> Mockery was a refined art in Medieval Ireland, and poets were considered close to magicians: it was said that a talented satirist could rhyme rats to death, or at the very least, raise blisters on the faces of victims. Any man publicly mocked would have no choice but to defend his honor; and, in Medieval Ireland, the value of that honor was precisely defined.

> What makes Medieval Irish laws seem so peculiar from our perspective is that their exponents had not the slightest discomfort with putting an exact monetary price on human dignity. For us, the notion that the sanctity of a priest or the majesty of a king could be held equivalent to a million fried eggs or a hundred thousand haircuts is simply bizarre. These are precisely the things that ought to be considered beyond all possibility of quantification. If Medieval Irish jurists felt otherwise, it was because people at that time did not use money to buy eggs or haircuts.

> Sometimes, one comes on a single haphazard detail that gives the game away. In this case it comes not from Ireland but from the Dimetian Code in Wales, written somewhat later but operating on much the same principles. At one point, after listing the honors due to the seven holy sees of the Kingdom of Dyfed, whose bishops and abbots were the most exalted and sacred creatures in the kingdom, the text specifies that

> > Whoever draws blood from an abbot of any one of those principal seats before mentioned, let him pay seven pounds; and a female of his kindred to be a washerwoman, as a disgrace to the kindred, and to serve as a memorial to the payment of the honor price.27

> A washerwoman was the lowest of servants, and the one turned over in this case was to serve for life. She was, in effect, reduced to slavery. Her permanent disgrace was the restoration of the abbot’s honor. While we cannot know if some similar institution once lay behind the habit of reckoning the honor of Irish “sacred” beings in slave-women, the principle is clearly the same. Honor is a zero-sum game. A man’s ability to protect the women of his family is an essential part of that honor. Therefore, forcing him to surrender a woman of his family to perform menial and degrading chores in another’s household is the ultimate blow to his honor. This, in turn, makes it the ultimate reaffirmation of the honor of he who takes it away.

#DavidGraeber #DebtBook #MedievalIrishHonor

After more than four decades, one of the few things I believe I have really learned is that the teacher, that professional amateur, teaches not so much his subject matter as himself. If he is a teacher of literature, he provides for those less experienced in song and story, including the reluctant, the skeptical, the uncooperative, the incompetent, a model of one in whom what seemed dead, mere print on the page, becomes living, a way of life — palpable fulfillment, a transport into the world of wonder.

To do so effectively, he must show himself capable of responding not only to those works which his students are not likely to discover without his guidance, but also to those which have persisted in spite of critical disapproval. He must, moreover, teach such works in the same courses, as chronology or theme or his own whim dictates, thus avoiding even the semblance of celebrating already established works at the expense of those still despised, much less those preferred by an elite at the expense of those loved by the great majority. Only in this way will he be able to make clear the continuity of all song and story, preprint, print and post-print, high, medium and low.

I am not talking about English as vocational training, much less English as elitist brainwashing. I mean English for everyone: an introduction to works of the imagination over which all humankind can weep, laugh, shudder and be titillated; communal dreams, shared hallucinations, which in a time when every­ thing else tends to divide us from each other join us together, men and women, adults and children, educated and uneducated, black and white, yellow and brown-- even, perhaps, teachers and students.

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#LeslieFiedler #EEnglish #EveryonesEnglish #WhatWasLiterature #LitCrit

wtf

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Conexión y dualidad en las relaciones

La conexión y dualidad en las relaciones románticas representan la unión de dos personas distintas, equilibrando la afinidad emocional con la individualidad, creando a menudo una "dualidad" donde las debilidades de uno son cubiertas por las fortalezas del otro. La conexión genuina fomenta la confianza, aceptación y comunicación, mientras que la dualidad integra mundos, ritmos y formas de pensar dispares para crear una vibración extraordinaria.

Aspectos Clave de la Conexión y Dualidad

Conexión Emocional: Se caracteriza por la presencia genuina, confianza y la sensación de ser visto, escuchado y aceptado tal como uno es.

Dualidad de Pareja (Sociónica): Se describe como una relación donde la cercanía natural permite a los miembros relajarse, sin temor a que sus debilidades sean criticadas. Es una mezcla de dos formas de pensar, estilos de vida y pasiones que crean un equilibrio.

Retos de la Dualidad: Aunque a menudo idealizada, la dualidad también implica retos como la posible dependencia, el estancamiento, o un desajuste en el ritmo de vida.

Integración Interna: La dualidad no es solo externa, sino que también implica la aceptación de nuestros propios conflictos internos (emociones vs. razón, seguridad vs. aventura) para conectar mejor.

Diferentes Enfoques sobre la Dualidad

Relación de "Anam Cara": Se refiere a la idea de almas gemelas o una conexión profunda donde dos personas se sienten iguales, trascendiendo convenciones.

Dualidad como Conflicto: A veces la dualidad representa la lucha interna entre el amor y la duda, o la dicotomía entre "partes dignas" e "indignas" de ser amadas.

La verdadera magia radica en aceptar la dualidad no como una pareja perfecta sin dificultades, sino como la integración de dos seres distintos que deciden complementarse.

#momentozen #namaste #espiritualidad #gritosdelalma

¿De dónde vienen los escrúpulos?

De una piedra en el zapato.

Literalmente.

La palabra “escrúpulo” proviene del latín scrupulus, que no significaba otra cosa que :

“Una piedra pequeña y afilada”.

Los soldados romanos lo sabían bien. En sus largas marchas, las piedritas se colaban dentro de sus sandalias (kaligae) y causaban un dolor constante.

Entonces, los legionarios debían decidir:

¿Sigo marchando con dolor… o me detengo para sacarla, arriesgando retrasar a todo el grupo y recibir castigo?

Esa incomodidad constante, ese dilema entre actuar o no actuar, dio origen al concepto de :

“Tener Escrúpulos”.

Con el tiempo, el término salió del ejército y se instaló en la vida civil.

Pero he aquí el giro:
senadores, jueces y políticos romanos no caminaban

Viajaban a caballo, en carruaje o en litera.

Como los políticos de hoy, que van en auto con chofer.

Nunca tuvieron piedras en los zapatos.

Por eso, tampoco tuvieron escrúpulos.

TRUMP'S "JUSTICE" DEPT Disappears Study that Proves Most Violence is Caused By Far Right Radicals

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#PoliticalViolence #usa #unitedstates #rightwingterrorism #rightwingextremists #farrightextremism #rightwing #Doj

Github's recent changes broke release downloads but fortunately the wget solution posted in a gh thread about this works on linux.

until wget -c <url>; do :; done

Replacing <url> with the direct link to the file you're downloading.

#github #githubReleases #linux