Accents are definitely contagious. In Indiana you've got the standard "Midwest radio news" accent, along with the "blue collar redneck" accent, and a lot of people sort of switch back and forth subconsciously, depending on social context. I was a linguistics student, but I'd never really considered this from a phonetics perspective. I considered it more or less like German, where there's one "standard" version and multiple dialects
Thank you, as always, Jimmy. I’d love to poke the “Opportunistic Attack Theory” to see how it can be defended. It’s hard to see how all of these propositions could be true simultaneously: 1. Most people who become possessed did not open themselves to possession by doing something wrong. 2. You are unlikely to be possessed unless you are invoking demons. 3. People who invoke demons are doing something wrong that opens the door to possession. None of these are direct quotes (because I didn’t have the transcript), but I tried to present each claim charitably. From (2) it would seem to follow: 4. Most people who become possessed opened the door to possession by invoking demons. From (4) and (3) it would follow: 5. Most people who become possessed opened themselves to possession by doing something wrong. But (5) contradicts (1); they cannot both be true. Also, I wonder why only invoking demons is dangerous if the “Legal Right Theory of Possession” is false. I could see why invoking demons would be dangerous on the LRTP, because invoking someone would seem to grant them a right to respond, but-because you are not denying that granting such rights is possible, nor that it’s dangerous, but only that it doesn’t explain all cases of possession-I’m less puzzled by your denial of LRTP than by the prima facie contradiction entailed in the three propositions above.
The tension among the three propositions can be resolved if we assume that possession is EXTREMELY rare, altogether. The "celebrity exorcists" make it seem like blatant cases of possession are more or less commonplace. They also seem to promote a very superstitious form of folk Catholicism that posits that playing around with a child's toy like a Ouija board is an open door to spinning heads and green pea vomit. So, in that worldview, where every other person is full on possessed & can bring that on themselves by not saying three Hail Marys each time they accidentally step on a crack in the sidewalk, it's easy to see how those 3 propositions you listed could not all be true. Alas, it's also to see how folks with such a worldview would live in constant paranoia of demonic influence
Thanks, WayneDrake, I agree that we must avoid scrupulosity and superstition, but I don’t know that simply reducing the total number of people who are actually possessed will work as a solution to the tension, since the problem comes in with words like “most,” “unlikely… unless,” etc. Furthermore, it would seem that using Ouija boards with the hope of or curiosity about the possibility of contacting spirits could be invoking demons, whether or not it was designed as a game. Indeed, the fun seems to be in the hair-raising spookiness. On the bear analogy, saying demons won’t attack if you are using a “toy” to try to contact them is like saying bears won’t attack if you are waving a candy bar to try to lure them. Indeed, according to Jimmy’s theory, they are opportunistic. Why wouldn’t they attack when someone is using a Ouija board to invoke random spirits?
@@wensen4167 ah, yes, the wording of the propositions seems to implicitly suggest at the very least a probabilistic tension. However, there's also a hypothetical situation where, eg, 20 people become possessed each year, and of those 15 did nothing wrong, and 5 invoked demons, and these were the only 5 people on earth who invoked demons. All three propositions then hold, and I'd still file this "harmonizing example" under the general heading of "Legitimate Possession and True Invocation are extremely rare"
andrew klaven once said if you were a roman citizen at the time of Jesus you wouldn’t even hear of him in a newspaper even after his resurrection even though it was the most important event in human history. maybe this video isn’t on par with that but the fact it only has 88 likes is disappointing. definitely the best content on youtube completely under the radar
Catholic Answers kindly notice my question: How many exactly did receive the Holy Spirit during pentecost? it has been a debate wether 120 or just the apostles. Thanks in advance.
Regarding the ascension, I think it makes more sense to suppose that Jesus disappeared in some incomprehensible way, and that Acts tried to describe it according to the common Heaven/Earth paradigm, than it does to suppose that Jesus deliberately ascended in such a way as to visually conform to a technicaly "wrong" paradigm
I'm seeing this from the notifications, and the rest of text is too small to read. But I can read: *Did Angels Forge SWORDS?* Maybe he thought it should have been *Forget?* @@MrSereeus
