![]() Easter has always been more highly ranked, and it’s more that the secular celebrations around Christmas have given us an inflated view of its importance (granted, you can’t have Easter without Christmas, but Easter is the culmination of the Grand Plan of Salvation). ![]() (3) Christmas – the feast of the Incarnation. (2) Pentecost – the descent of the Holy Ghost and the birthday of the Church ![]() (1) Easter (this includes the Triduum starting with the Mass of the Lord’s Supper on Maundy Thursday and concluding with the Easter Vigil Mass on Holy Saturday/Easter Sunday) – the celebration of our salvation by the redeeming death of Jesus I’d definitely go with Pentacost, as dodrian suggests. But it’s worth remembering that a lot of institutions in our society (science, the justice system, democratic government, honest and competent civil servants) are not guaranteed to work well by some kind of law of nature–instead, they are fragile and barely work now and would be easy to wreck, and once wrecked they’d be hard to fix. I’m not sure I agree–I think it’s easy to over-weight current events, and I doubt that social media will continue to function as a huge multiplier of influence of woke outrage mobs forever. It can be wrecked, and then it will mostly stop working and we’ll just stop getting its benefits. Science as a cultural institution isn’t something that’s guaranteed to keep working. The incentives align with scientists keeping quiet, since outrage mobs can and have wrecked scientific careers for speaking simple truth.Į. The scientists who should be responding are mostly either philosophically disarmed by their own liberalism (so even if the attacks seem nonsensical, they can’t bring themselves to disagree) or disdain the kind of philosophical thinking that would let them see the attacks as worth responding to and fight back.ĭ. Objectivity in science is under attack by ideologues of various stripes of wokeness.Ĭ. Objectivity in science is an ideal that we never reach, but people trying to reach it yields a huge amount of value.ī. Now work emails come in when they’re supposed to and I’m not repeating myself like a parrot all damn day long.This post by Razib Khan is pretty depressing–as I interpret his argument:Ī. Comes in really handy talking through masks too. I was using stand-in words at the beginning, but that didn’t work as well.įed up, I printed, cut out and pinned the phonetic alphabet on my desk, wrote out my email in same, memorized it in a day and now I save myself and the person on the other end of the phone a bunch of irritation. To add an extra layer of annoyance, my name is a variation on a common name with one letter changed, and my last name isnt common either so I’d never get away with being Joe Smith where people could sort it out on their own. I found myself constantly repeating my name and email 2/3 three times on calls because “N” sounds like “M”, etc. Over the last few years there has been an uptick in business conducted by phone vs in person for me (and probably a lot of you too!), and a lot of in-person communication done through masks and plexi barriers. I am not military, just a regular civilian.
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