Notably, too, the environmental impacts of AI touch some non-human beings that we have much more reason to attribute feelings to than AI.

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Oh yeah, this book is amazing!

Before the local Cistercian monastery closed, I would go for retreats. They had the most amazing cook (outside worker), and when I was sitting there eating my food, I would sometimes wonder how the food actually sat with all the monks.

And of course there's also how, in Maritainian–Lubacian terms, even the angels' freedom and the love which they freely responded to and with, does not necessarily correlate to their nature and station...

... but we know from his own podcast testimony how one Minnesota bishop feels about that!

I'm not sure if this comment will sound unrelated to these paragraphs, but in my mind it's not: part of my own initial attraction to Massignon was his thought's non-contradiction with what I'd absorbed in my Charles Williams (Inkling) years

Oh yeah, dealing with everything about and within the abuse crisis is bad enough without undergoing wild and unanticipated lashings from outside

Or Las Casas...

But I totally did not foresee Feser pushing back with the authority of Las Casas at all, let alone at the head of the line. This is really an interesting exchange.

Incidentally, this is the same account he once used to tell me I had "hysteria" (not on his own page, he of his own initiative wandered into a conversation off his own page and started throwing a fit)—I'm sure he was "hacked" years ago, too

Grégarisme à tel point que, si un étranger va à une messe en thaï, il se peut que le prêtre, du haut de l'ambon, l'accuse de lèse-majesté et provoque des troubles, apparemment parce qu'il est étranger et se met en «espace thaï» (cf. le «nous les thaïs» des chansons «chrétiennes»?). —qqn qui sait

He is not a distant deity in a perfect heaven above us, but a God who is nearby and inhabits our fragile earth, who becomes present in the faces of our brothers and sisters, and reveals himself in the circumstances of daily life.”

It's really odd, too, because there are numerous descriptions of him being quasi-transfigured in his looks and bodily comportment!

Totally, but also—

Would that his antics were restricted to a national stage!

Subtitled “The Only Really Radical Social Revolution”; yeah, the quote comes from the last page of that one

Similarly, Maritain’s “communism, capitalism—neither system is good, and to resign oneself to the lesser of two evils is unworthy of the human spirit” is not some middle-path nonsense but comes from one of his final-years, radical, break-it-all-open pieces, and I’ve always been totally down for that