> kv4p HT is a homebrew VHF radio that makes your phone capable of voice and text communication completely off-grid with at least a Technician class amateur radio license. > The radio simply plugs into the USB C port on your Android smartphone and transforms it into a fully-fledged handheld radio transceiver. It's completely open source (GPL3): the Android app, ESP32 firmware, PCB designs, and 3D printer files. > It's small enough to fit in your pocket and take anywhere, and since it has no internal battery it's the perfect radio to put in a go-bag or your car's glove compartment. via HackerNews any hams see this, and does it look viable?
airrow 2w ago • 100%
I didn't think this was possible but I wish you good luck with it
Wiki on "Christian Demonology": https://infogalactic.com/info/Christian_demonology Catholic encycyclopedia entries: Demonology: https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04713a.htm Demons: https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04710a.htm Demonical Possession: https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12315a.htm Devil: https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04764a.htm Summa entries related to demons: https://www.newadvent.org/summa/1064.htm https://www.newadvent.org/summa/1114.htm Demons are fallen angels Any thoughts on the topic of demons?
October 2nd is the "Feast of the Guardian Angels" (Catholic encyclopedia): https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07050a.htm Hence today I was thinking of angels; "Angels" entry: https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01476d.htm "Guardian Angel" entry: https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07049c.htm Wiki entry on "Angel": https://infogalactic.com/info/Angelology Wiki entry on "Feast of Guardian Angels": https://infogalactic.com/info/Memorial_of_the_Holy_Guardian_Angels > That every individual soul has a guardian angel has never been defined by the Church, and is, consequently, not an article of faith; but it is the "mind of the Church", as St. Jerome expressed it: "how great the dignity of the soul, since each one has from his birth an angel commissioned to guard it." (Comm. in Matt., xviii, lib. II). The angels are thought to exist in a hierarchy of 9 kinds: > In the first hierarchy [Aquinas] places the Seraphim, Cherubim, and Thrones; in the second, the Dominations, Virtues, and Powers; in the third, the Principalities, Archangels, and Angels. Any thoughts on angels today?
Catholic encyclopedia: https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04394a.htm > Fraternal correction is here taken to mean the admonishing of one's neighbor by a private individual with the purpose of reforming him or, if possible, preventing his sinful indulgence. This is clearly distinguishable from an official disciplining, whose mouthpiece is a judge or other like superior, whose object is the punishment of one found to be guilty, and whose motive is not so directly the individual advantage of the offender as the furtherance of the common good. That there is, upon occasion and with due regard to circumstances, an obligation to administer fraternal correction there can be no doubt. This is a conclusion not only deducible from the natural law binding us to love and to assist one another, but also explicitly contained in positive precept such as the inculcation of Christ: "If thy brother shall offend against thee, go, and rebuke him between thee and him alone. If he shall hear thee, thou shalt gain thy brother" (Matthew 18:15). Aquinas on topic: https://www.newadvent.org/summa/3033.htm
Catholic encyclopedia on "Hairshirt": https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07113b.htm > A garment of rough cloth made from goats' hair and worn in the form of a shirt or as a girdle around the loins, by way of mortification and penance. The Latin name is said to be derived from Cilicia, where this cloth was made, but the thing itself was probably known and used long before this name was given to it. The sackcloth, for instance, so often mentioned in Holy Scripture as a symbol of mourning and penance, was probably the same thing; and the garment of camels' hair worn by St. John the Baptist was no doubt somewhat similar.
airrow 2mo ago • 100%
So, do Judaism and Islam not put much stock in converting non-believers?
Christianity does, maybe that also averts some violent conflict
Jews I thought are mostly born Jews (as opposed to non-Jews, or Gentiles, rather). So those not born Jews are already "the other" for them. I have heard of people converting, but is it not the same? I ask because there doesn't seem like much idea that the Palestinians could be converted and become Jews.
Likewise, what's up with Islam's approach to conversion? I thought people can convert to Islam... so why do they have so many radicals dedicated to (violent) jihad against infidels? Rarely do I hear Muslims say that the solution is for Israel to convert to Islam (do they say this?).
From "An Easy Way to Become a Saint" book by Fr. Paul O'Sullivan (Catholic, 1949) https://archive.org/details/AnEasyWayToBecomeASaintOSullivanFr.PaulO.P.E.D.M. On Morning and Evening Prayers: > Our first and most important prayer is the Morning Offering. Immediately on arising, we should fall on our knees and make this offering, slowly and deliberately, as already explained above. > Morning and evening prayers are most important factors in human life. Far from being a matter of minor importance, they are the most urgent of our daily obligations. If well said, they obtain for us all needful graces and protect us from the many evils that may be awaiting us in the course of the day. If badly said or omitted, we expose ourselves to grievous calamities. Many fall victims to disease or are killed by accidents or meet with premature deaths because they had not prayed. > Morning prayers as found in prayerbooks are five, viz., the Our Father, the Hail Mary, the Apostles' Creed, the Confiteor and Hail Holy Queen. At night we add to these a short examination of conscience with a fervent Act of Contrition. > Had we the misfortune to fall into mortal sin, we must redouble our contrition and go to Confession as soon as possible. By mortal sin we expel God from our souls and give His place to the devil. These prayers must be said slowly, reverently, on our knees and in our bedroom. In this room we spend a third part of our lives, and here we shall probably die. Therefore, it is well to sanctify it by our daily prayers. On Morning Prayer: > The first act of every good Christian in the morning is to fall on his knees and make his Morning Offering. It can be done in this wise: > "Sacred Heart of Jesus, through the most pure hands of Mary, I offer Thee all the prayers, works and sufferings, all the actions of this day and of all my life, in union with the Masses being offered all over the world, for the intentions of Thy Sacred Heart and for the Apostleship of Prayer. Every breath I draw, every beating of my heart, every glance of my eyes, every step I take, every single act I do, I wish to be an act of love for Thee." > This little act takes one minute, but it must be done slowly and with full deliberation. We must mean what we say. It is a short act, but it gives immense value to every action. Our every act, as a consequence, gives glory to God and receives a distinct reward in Heaven. > This offering has still more value if, from time to time during the day, we renew it by saying briefly: "All for You, dear Lord." Who can be so foolish as to neglect this sacred obligation, yet many make the act in a careless, distracted fashion. Some do not make it at all! > All the saints and holy writers attach the gravest importance to the Morning Offering.
> The Transfiguration of Christ is the culminating point of His public life, as His Baptism is its starting point, and His Ascension its end. > About a week after His sojourn in Cæsarea Philippi, Jesus took with him Peter and James and John and led them to a high mountain apart, where He was transfigured before their ravished eyes. St. Matthew and St. Mark express this phenomenon by the word metemorphothe, which the Vulgate renders transfiguratus est. The Synoptics explain the true meaning of the word by adding "his face did shine as the sun: and his garments became white as snow," according to the Vulgate, or "as light," according to the Greek text. > This dazzling brightness which emanated from His whole Body was produced by an interior shining of His Divinity. Catholic encyclopedia on "Transfiguration": https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15019a.htm > The feast was present in various forms by the 9th century, and in the Western Church was made a universal feast on August 6 by Pope Callixtus III to commemorate the lifting of the Siege of Belgrade (1456). https://infogalactic.com/info/Transfiguration_of_Jesus
airrow 3mo ago • 100%
i don't know anything about this but could they study your injury and you work as a participant in the study? (side hustle?)
https://infogalactic.com/info/Dormition_of_the_Mother_of_God > The Feast of the Dormition is preceded by a two-week fast, referred to as the Dormition Fast. From August 1 to August 14 (inclusive) Orthodox and Eastern Catholics fast from red meat, poultry, meat products, dairy products (eggs and milk products), fish, oil, and wine. The Dormition Fast is a stricter fast than either the Nativity Fast (Advent) or the Apostles' Fast, with only wine and oil (but no fish) allowed on weekends.
airrow 3mo ago • 100%
so, not really the same but the cultural phrase "if you're going through Hell, keep going" comes to mind
Naturally there are corresponding Scriptural passages that might sound like the OP phrase:
There is a way which seemeth just to a man: but the ends thereof lead to death. Proverbs 14:12
^ (expresses opposite sentiment: person putting themselves in "heaven" on earth which doesn't end well)
Blessed are ye that hunger now: for you shall be filled. Blessed are ye that weep now: for you shall laugh. Luke 6:21
The Beatitudes sound like someone suffering now (as if in hell), who is later rewarded (in heaven)
Stumbled upon this concept of "pilgrimages". I feel like it's become a less known idea, of traveling with a religious purpose to a specific religious place. I guess for me it gives more of a purpose to travel, which sometimes otherwise seems to seem less appealing to me. (I've heard the word "travel" comes from a word related to "torture" because travel used to be a lot more difficult before modern times) Any thoughts on the topic of religious pilgrimages? Catholic encyclopedia on pilgramages: https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12085a.htm > Once theophanies are localized, pilgrimages necessarily follow. The Incarnation was bound inevitably to draw men across Europe to visit the Holy Places, for the custom itself arises spontaneously from the heart. It is found in all religions. The Egyptians journeyed to Sekket's shrine at Bubastis or to Ammon's oracle at Thebes; the Greeks sought for counsel from Apollo at Delphi and for cures from Asclepius at Epidaurus; the Mexicans gathered at the huge temple of Quetzal; the Peruvians massed in sun-worship at Cuzco and the Bolivians in Titicaca. But it is evident that the religions which centered round a single character, be he god or prophet, would be the most famous for their pilgrimages, not for any reason of tribal returns to a central district where alone the deity has power, but rather owing to the perfectly natural wish to visit spots made holy by the birth, life, or death of the god or prophet. Hence Buddhism and Mohammedanism are especially famous in inculcating this method of devotion. Huge gatherings of people intermittently all the year round venerate Kapilavastu where Gaukama Gaukama Buddha began his life, Benares where he opened his sacred mission, Kasinagara where he died; and Mecca and Medina have become almost bywords in English as the goals of long aspirations, so famous are they for their connexion with the prophet of Islam. ... > Again it may be noted how, when the penitential system of the Church, which grouped itself round the sacrament of the confessional, had been authoritatively and legally organized, pilgrimages were set down as adequate punishments inflicted for certain crimes. The hardships of the journey, the penitential garb worn, the mendicity it entailed made a pilgrimage a real and efficient penance (Beazley, "Dawn of Modern Geography", II, 139; Furnival, "The Stacions of Rome and the Pilgrim's Sea Voyage", London, 1867, 47). To quote a late text, the following is one of the canons enacted under King Edgar (959-75): "It is a deep penitence that a layman lay aside his weapons and travel far barefoot and nowhere pass a second night and fast and watch much and pray fervently, by day and by night and willingly undergo fatigue and be so squalid that iron come not on hair or on nail" (Thorpe, "Ancient Laws", London, 1840, 411-2; cf. 44, 410, etc.).
airrow 3mo ago • 100%
how about listening to soothing sounds or music and visualizing (to try to fall asleep), like if someone's a recreational climber, they could visualize practicing climbing and listening to the sounds. the key is distracting the attention and focus to something "pleasant" and away from the depression and anxiety (just to get to sleep, maybe those things should be thought of some time during the day when awake)
airrow 3mo ago • 66%
we don't know what gravity is though, just look up "we don't know what gravity is" on a search engine. this gives them leeway for claiming things
airrow 3mo ago • 100%
not an argument though?
airrow 3mo ago • 66%
and yet flat earth beliefs linger because no one can refute some of their arguments
www.slideshare.net
You can't disprove flat earth theory... or can you?
airrow 4mo ago • 100%
I've felt some of those emotions. the main antidotes were purpose (depression) and I think like accepting danger (trying to make peace with God) and also developing skills to cope with various challenges (in the theory of flow, flow is between the extreme of anxiety when challenge is too high and skills are too low, and boredom when skills are too high and challenge is too low... so anxiety is like either you have too much challenge and not enough skill for it and you could scale back the challenge, or if the challenge can't be scaled back then about improving skills)
naturally I think both depression / anxiety may have existential causes, or in other words I think religion is a kind of antidote to some of it. The Biblical literature has some that seem kind of "depressive" (Ecclesiastes? Job?); with anxiety, the apostles were rebuked on occasions ("ye of little faith") and encouraged ("do not worry"), and yet also Jesus had a kind of anxiety to the point of sweating blood in the Garden of Gethsemeni (spell?)
airrow 4mo ago • 100%
does something as simple as listening to music help? maybe visualizing things while doing so?
how about what's causing the insomnia, like if it's anxiety or something, can you do remedies for anxiety?
airrow 4mo ago • 100%
so you are trying to find sleep remedies? have the natural things like valerian not been helpful? sleep hygiene? exercise and all the other things?
A happy Independence day to those in the U.S. This holiday I'm thinking of the relation of technology to freedom and politics: does technology make us freer, or less free? A variety of views seem to exist, from authoritarians viewing technology as helping them to enforce views of an authority, to authoritarian views that technologies are dangerous to authority and they wish to suppress them [1], to views that technology takes away freedom, to views that technology enhances the freedom of the individual. What are your views of technology and the relation it has to politics? 1. https://infogalactic.com/info/Internet_kill_switch
Someone shared this: https://apnews.com/article/covid19-vaccines-deaths-hospitalizations-3258cacee8d5d2d08ddaf4341470a7de > About 300 COVID-19-associated deaths were occurring weekly in May, according to the most recent provisional CDC data. So I looked up for comparison CDC's flu stats, for 2023-2024 season: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/preliminary-in-season-estimates.htm > according to this CDC page there was a lower limit of about 25,000 deaths to flu per year (2023-2024) which comes out to about 480 / week on average I suppose then multiple questions are asked, like do we have a flu pandemic if there are worse deaths? Do we not take flu seriously? Do we take "covid" too seriously? Are covid deaths just flu deaths? etc. Chime in on your thoughts of the data
www.computerhope.com
> The Break key is a keyboard key whose original purpose was to immediately halt execution of a running a program. On modern computers, it has no default function. It is not commonly used, although any software may use it for its own purpose. The Break key may also be remapped with a program like AutoHotkey.
www.instructables.com
> We will all have seen disabled people who do not have the use of their hands, attempting to communicate using 'unicorn sticks' or even eye-tracking technology. I considered this and wondered if the simple Makey Makey board could be pressed into service to provide a quicker and lower-cost way to replace a mouse and thus facilitate a whole host of ways to communicate. > We all know how sensitive and controllable our tongues are. We can easily send our tongue to any tooth and the tip can easily determine items as small as a piece of trapped food or even a human hair. > Since many disabled people still have the full use of their tongue, it occurred to me that it may be possible to put together a mouth controller using the Makey Makey interface to connect to an onscreen keyboard. Was brainstorming some ideas like this and found something that already exists that I thought was interesting to share
airrow 4mo ago • 100%
thanks for the heads up for people
airrow 4mo ago • 100%
Honestly I think you agree with him a bit more than you realize, if we reframe the discussion a bit. Presumably you think "big corporations" are out to get you, right? Wealthy people are the same as "globalists" in this discussion... so do you agree "globalists" ARE out to get you? Or do you think rich people who are "exploiting" workers are "on your side"? You don't have to agree with everyone Jones says here, as I think he is mixing things that aren't true with those that are, but you do like understand he's correct on some of these things, right? Like, do you believe in "corporate conspiracy theories" if I reframe it that way? Companies make people sick so they can profit off giving them a cure? Companies messing up the environment so they can make money cleaning it up? So I guess is there any possibility of recognizing disagreements while also identifying points of agreement?
airrow 4mo ago • 50%
zero hard evidence
Well with Sandy Hook, there were videos like of one of the alleged fathers laughing and then suddenly turning serious for a camera, which led to speculation that these people were acting and not true victims. It was bizarre behavior for someone whose child just died. I get some people saying that everyone handles "trauma" differently.
like this video: https://inv.tux.pizza/watch?v=s-ZfxxPc0r0 (you could substitute youtube.com/ for inv.tux.pizza if you want, it's just an adless proxy)
Other anomalies were detected like this. Certainly you can connect the dots and understand where these people are coming from in having a theory they may not have absolute proof for? Like evidence of a crime without the absolute surveillance tape that shows the crime happening? A person at the wrong place at the wrong time that a jury could convict, that kind of thing? At least do you understand the perspective such adherents of the theory have? They didn't have "no reason" to ask questions about facts that didn't add up, right?
what do you think has substance in contrast?
airrow 4mo ago • 100%
sometimes there's metaphors, sometimes literal descriptions
like for example Christ is spoken of as something like a "New Adam" I think, implying a literal Adam and Eve existed and that that story was not purely a tale from a Christian perspective
airrow 4mo ago • 100%
bro it's good just try it
"you vill eet ze ryhind"
airrow 4mo ago • 33%
The OP comment may be thought to have done something like this, arguing for subjectivity of claims of truth and yet argued my views of religion were false; I suppose if we allow subjectivity of value to dominate, then we would simply have mutual disagreement
airrow 4mo ago • 50%
hoping for the best for you, been thinking of you from time to time