Today, we are tackling the mighty man of the Reformation himself, Martin Luther. We will start with the document that started it all, which starts, by blessed providence, with theses on repentance. Naturally, such a great deserves more than a short devotional, like Calvin, so we will visit Luther again later. Post tenebras lux!
「Out of love for the truth and the desire to bring it to light, the following propositions will be discussed at Wittenberg, under the presidency of the Reverend Father Martin Luther, Master of Arts and of Sacred Theology, and Lecturer in Ordinary on the same at that place. Wherefore he requests that those who are unable to be present and debate orally with us, may do so by letter.
In the Name our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
1. Our Lord and Master Jesus Christ, when He said Poenitentiam agite [Do penance], willed that the whole life of believers should be repentance.
2. This word cannot be understood to mean sacramental penance, i.e., confession and satisfaction, which is administered by the priests.
3. Yet it means not inward repentance only; nay, there is no inward repentance which does not outwardly work divers mortifications of the flesh.
4. The penalty [of sin], therefore, continues so long as hatred of self continues; for this is the true inward repentance, and continues until our entrance into the kingdom of heaven.」
- Martine Luther, "Disputation of Doctor Martin Luther on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences" (1517)
" Including: Gulf War, ant-war demos, Berlin squatters vs cops for 3 days, squatting in Central America, cop watching, arrests at needle exchange, letters, reviews etc. Author Gulf War Submitted by Fozzie on August 12, 2024 Copied to clipboard Attachments TheShadow_Issue_15.pdf (14.01 MB) Book traversal links for The Shadow #15 (October 1990) The Shadow #14 (October 1990) Up The Shadow #36 (June 1995) PDF Comments "
" Including: Lower East Side squats threatened by "development", New York Times vs squatters, Community Board sleaze, anti-war rally, Mohawk Nation, cop watching, Bible burning event, etc. Submitted by Fozzie on August 9, 2024 Copied to clipboard Attachments TheShadow_Issue_14.pdf (14.56 MB) Book traversal links for The Shadow #14 (October 1990) The Shadow #13 (August 1990) Up The Shadow #36 (June 1995) PDF Comments "
" Including: solidarity with Ricardo and Enrique Flores Magon, votes for women in England, against war, etc. Submitted by Fozzie on July 24, 2024 Copied to clipboard Contents Think of the Magons - Edgcumb Pinchon Preparedness Shadows on mist - Robert Morlett Reflections (abolishing war, the Magon borthers, San Francisco longshoremen strike) To the Pope of San Francisco Why women will get the vote - B. C. Federationist Hoist the flag of betterment - Rebekah E Raney Attachments The Blast vol1-14.pdf (10.2 MB) Book traversal links for …"
a man’s lifespan increases by months for each kid he has, and a woman’s increases by months for each kid she has up until kid #14 when a shallow drop begins to appear
@splitshockvirus@NEETzsche >I feel like nobody here actually has anything going on. Entirely possible, but I'd like to project a bit more optimistically. I suspect anyone looking at my recent posting history here would assume all I do is make obtuse anime references and engage in crass banter with a handful of people, but I like to think I have a little more going on than that that I just don't bring to this platform, and I think I just expect that it's a similar situation for anyone else I see here with less than 100 posts per day.
Some of the stuff feels so mundane to me that I just assume nobody else will care, others I get out of my system in a close-knit IRC group and leave at that. I've never really cared much for putting things up publicly, since I'm too lazy to do proper opsec with it and I don't want to spend too many of my waking hours thinking about that in particular.
As a random example of something that got a few lines on IRC recently, the other day I was contemplating my usual hair hack 'n' slash and thought about how if I had a clipper guard comb larger than 12mm I'd use it, since it always took a few weeks after that to get to a length I liked. I figured there might be some pitfalls beyond the obvious "it's nontrivial to keep hair straight enough for a consistent cut that way the longer it is", and I didn't think just linearly scaling up what I had on hand was an ideal starting point, so I guggled oversized clipper guards and saw that it was indeed not a novel concept and had some reference images to reason about the shape to aim for. Then I took some measurements of my guard combs, shat out a 40mm model in OpenSCAD, printed it, cursed printer for centering it on the print bed against my instructions and adding support and lifting a few minutes in, coerced it with a small strip on the opposite corner for round 2, noticed my arc profile was a bit too aggressive to print supportless in this orientation but the deformation wasn't too severe, attached it to my clippers, tolerances were a bit off so it got stuck (and is still stuck on there, I'll likely have to break it and print a new, looser V2 when I need to use another guard comb on it), but it did exactly the job I hoped it would and now I can trim my hair a bit more regularly to a length I like.
Then I looked into what a #2 cut even means, and it turned out that the numbers are eighths of an inch, making my 12mm guard a #4, and my new 40mm guard something like #12~#13. Another funny number is that average hair growth is close to 1/8inch per week, so a #2 cut would be similar to a #4 cut after a couple of weeks, and a #12 cut would be like my old #4 cut after around 8 weeks. Maybe I'll do actual #12, #13, #14 sizes to better approximate the results of the #2 top & #1 sides, #0 patterns after a few weeks.
Libcom: **Communism - central organ of the Internationalist Communist Group**
" Online archive of Communism published by Groupe Communiste Internationaliste / Internationalist Communist Group. Author GCI-ICG Submitted by Fozzie on March 9, 2024 Copied to clipboard Communism #2 (May 1985) Communism #3 (May 1986) Communism #4 (Winter 1987-88) Communism #5 (October 1988) Communism #6 (September 1989) Communism #7 (April 1992) Communism #8 (July 1993) Communism #14 (January 2009) Book traversal links for Communism - central organ of the Internation…"
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Daily Inspiration: "Keep an eye on the edges" - Futurist Jim Carroll
(Note: I know Mastodon/Federation is heavily tech-oriented, so nothing new for you here. This series hits many other audiences....)
Increasingly, the future is created out in the crowd, out on the edges, and it's in your interest to watch the crowd and live at the edge. No doubt you are aware of the open source movement - the collective initiative responsible for Linux, the dominant computer operating system in the world. Developed in the open through close collaboration and cooperative goals and ideas, the system is the foundation of much of our technology-based world of today.
If you want to understand the future, you need to understand both the history and future of ideas and concepts like this. That's why should keep your eye on what's happening with concepts such as open science, open data, open innovation, open collaboration, and of course, crowdsourcing and crowdfunding. While the popular belief is that many new products, ideas, solutions, and concepts are developed by corporations in sophisticated research labs, equally more occurs in global collaborative communities that share common goals, beliefs, values - passion, and purpose. Those initiatives then actually become the foundation for what much eventually transpires in those research labs!
The whole idea is that 'open' development will help to eliminate errors, improve quality, remove hidden agendas, demolish the idea of 'control' of platforms and technologies, and much more. As many will like to point out - the future is open. Or at least, it should be open. - and should happen within global, collaborative communities that have nothing to hide. Keeping an eye on - and even participating - in these collaborative communities and open initiatives will help you to understand so much more about how the future will evolve, and that's why this is strategy #14 in my 24 Strategies for 2024 series.
" Including: ID cards and surveillance, Barcelona anarcho syndicalist co-ops, water workers, repression in Wales, IWA conference, lessons from Warringon print workers strike, unions banned at GCHQ, Augustin Souchy obituary, Frank Kitson book reviewed, etc. Submitted by Fozzie on December 2, 2023 Copied to clipboard With thanks to Kate Sharpley Library for providing a copy to be scanned. Files Direct-Action-DAM-15-1984.pdf (4.7 MB) Book traversal links for Direct Action #15 (1984) Direct Action #14 (1983) Up Direct Action #17 (August? 1984) PD…"