Recent content by Psychopav

My own terms: the Magisterium is the formal organized teaching body of the Church, which is comprised of the bishops in conjunction with the pope. I think you can identify its formal positions as those adopted by the various councils and ex cathedra papal pronouncements proclaimed down through...

One of my buddies just sent this to me. If you like the Blues and you love the scriptures, check out The book of Ecclesiastes was born to be Sung in Blues imo.

I do find it interesting the amount of time spent in these threads discussing the validity of their existence. Nobody spends pages in the "What's Normal: Do you fold or scrunch" threads debating whether the thread belongs here. lol

I am. My understanding of Sola Scriptura is that all doctrinal truth is revealed in the scripture alone, as opposed to my church's position that scripture is one leg of a three legged stool including the magisterium and sacred tradition. The Catholic viewpoint comes from sacred tradition. I'm...

Too bad things got personal in that other thread. We were just getting to Sola Scriptura, which IMO was pretty good progress while keeping it civil.

Ditto. Love me some chess! Thanks Tim.

Total Shukie 🙄 ;)

Yep I almost pulled victory from the jaws of defeat just before shadrap bit down and gnawed on my lifeless chess corpse. And now I am forever doomed to suffer eternal torment for all eternity. I may be overreacting just a bit. But i can confirm that shadrap won. ;)

It's on like Donkey Kong. Let's do this!

Psychopav_1 here.

Now I'm just playing up the pity angle hoping Dez will hand me a W ;)

We're making progress. I'm guessing we'll be wrapped up in a day, two at the most. I had a kid admitted to the hospital yesterday, which slowed me down a bit.

Circuit City is still out of business and there are no lines on Cyber Monday or Prime Day.

@Dezbelief please go on vacation now. TIA.

I agree, and is why there is value in discussing these types of hypothetical, perhaps even light-hearted, scenarios. In a high pressure, split second decision situation, I have the benefit of thinking this through rationally when emotions aren't ramped up, and I would like to think that work...