It wasn’t the general defunding of education. It wasn’t the defunding and of arts and music programs. It wasn’t the anti-intellectualism.

It was the cheap computers gosh darnit!

No no…

This is a ancient grape cultivation metaphor. They didn’t have grape farms like we do today, with rows of grapevines strung on wires.

They would grow bushes and let the vines grow up through the branches of the bush. Tthe bushes would hold the vines.

In this metaphor the bush a the church and the branches are the people. (Or individual diocese or parishes depending on the interpretation.) But the bush is the Church. And the vine is Jesus abiding in the bush.

Jesus is the vine. You ain’t Jesus. You gotta be something else in the metaphor.

I would say that specific verse you are citing it’s actually specifically calling people to community in the church. The vine is wrapped around the tree, tangled among the branches. If a branch grows to far away from the main tree that’s holding the vine, that’s when the branch is cut off.

I’m curious. Why are you here? If you think it’s all made up nonsense, why did you feel the need to comment on it in an intentionally insulting way?

Did that make you feel bigger?

Certainly the notion of individualizing Christianity is as old as Christianity itself, but I would argue that the contemporary version of it is really pretty recent. Go back 50 years ago and even most US Baptist churches wouldn’t recognize the contemporary version of it.

The concept that we have today really developed in the 80s and 90s.

Sorry, but we aren’t reading the same Bible.

The phrase ain’t in there. And just about every verse that’s interpreted as such is more easily interpreted to be about the community rather than the individual.

Book, chapter and verse?

Misspelled “kidnapped and forced to fight”.

I know this is going to sound like I’m parroting AI marketing taking points, but I don’t think schools should dump AI. The tool isn’t going away. Schools have to teach how to use it responsibly.

When I say this, I mean there should be AI and technology education for the same reason we should have drug and sex education. Pretending it doesn’t exist isn’t helping anyone. Let’s have some faith in our kids and respect them enough to discuss these issues honestly and openly.

Oh, you see? He was the real victim.

The bubble won’t burst so long as there is more money being printed and companies can just inflate their way out of debt.

The greatest of these is love.

I was guilty of that very thing once. During my first programming class back in college, I wrote an Asteroids clone as a project. My professor kept sending it back telling me to fix it. I really racked my brain trying to figure out what he was sending back to me (he wouldn’t tell me, I was supposed to find and correct the error). The game ran just fine. Finally a gave up and asked him to tell me the answer of what my code was doing wrong. He showed me that I had one line of code that was basically making a new instance of the entire game for every screen refresh. (I wrote it in Java, so Java was just correcting it for me in real time.)

It’s funny to me to see people mythologize how perfect video games were before they could be remotely updated.

Sure, game developers rely on fix-it-later updates much more than they should today, but games had bugs back then too.

Progressive voter: “I’m sick of how old cowardly the Democrat party is.”

Me: “Are you going to run for office.”

Progressive voter: “Uh… No. That’s too hard.”

One executive order. It could literally be one sentence long.

With the exception of the spending bill, everything that’s been done by this administration has been done by executive order. The real problem is that the administration ran off all the skilled and knowledgeable workers.

This is, in fact, the opposite of a stable regulatory environment.

Did you make a group?

Did you make a group?

Hello, my fellow Episkopol! I’m new here myself too. If you start one up I’ll subscribe!