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I suggest that you edit the formatting. You have every verse in a separate paragraph, which is space-inefficient and hard to read. I think that you should use plain line breaks between verses. That increases readability and adds one level to the visual hierarchy, so you can have paragraphs of verses.

If you end a line with two spaces (at least it you edit in Markdown), the line break is kept in the result. Example (Notice spaces at ends of lines.):

Roses are red;  
violets are blue.  
Paragraphs visually separate,  
which line breaks don't do.

Roses are red;
violets are blue.
Paragraphs visually separate,
which line breaks don't do.

Protestantism came from an attempt to reform the Catholic church; it was not meant to be a separate thing until the reformers were excommunicated. You shouldn't think about Catholicism as necessarily separate from reformed traditions i. e. protestantism. It is clear from what Jesus said that church unity is good, so, if Christians were more united on doctrine, the world would be better IMO.

Differentiating from others is not a core value of Catholicism. Contrarily, it's claiming to be the default way of Christianity, which is expressed by the “catholic” in the name. Catholicism claims to continue by apostolic succession from Peter by an appointment of Jesus. So, if top Catholics realize that justification by faith alone is an idea from Jesus spread by the original apostles, it is fitting to accept that officially.

I think that the point of the original post is highly unrealistic, but I wrote this because it seems that you miss the point of Catholicism.

I think that Unicode implements Turkish wrong. I tried to make a proposal to Unicode, but, when I gave that for checking to someone involved in Unicode, I was told that such proposal would be futile because Unicode can't break compatibility.

Presently, there is a case pair of I where the small I is dotted, and the capital I is dotless, then there are separate dotless small I and dotted capital I. My proposal was that the common case pair of I would have unspecified dottedness, and there would be a separate case pair of dotted I and a pair of dotless I for Turkish.

This was done with the idea that, in most languages, dottedness of I is just a typographic choice similar to the shape of small A. My proposal would enable fonts where small I is by default dotless like in the Carolingian minuscule but which support Turkish.

on Despite Suffering · c/believers · 0 pts · 1y

At this point, I fear more giving my address to a stranger than not breathing temporarily.

on Despite Suffering · c/believers · 0 pts · 1y

I can't speak from experience, but I think that, if you would just caused me pain without injuring or limiting me, I would not be bothered by that. It would be like with Wolverine, that, when he extends the blades, they cut through his hands, which causes pain, but the hands heal quickly, so he has got used to that.

on Despite Suffering · c/believers · 0 pts · 1y

Although I would not let just anyone torture me if the choice was mine, this worldview entails that I should be able to suffer torture for an ultimately good cause.

on Despite Suffering · c/believers · 0 pts · 1y

It follows from my previous comment that the only way to torture is to make something wrong, and I would not let you do that.

But that was a serious question. What is a people's case against suffering?

I read something about them (mainly in Wikipedia), and I see some parallels in artistic style or symbolism, but I don't see a substantial parallel in their stories, although I didn't find much about the story of Sol Invictus. I don't see that someone was nursed as a significant parallel because almost every human was nursed.

I focused on parallels in their stories because I don't see parallels in the style of art depicting them as problematic to Christianity. But most of your previous comment was about artistic depictions, so, if you think that they are problematic, please, explain that more in details.

on Despite Suffering · c/believers · 0 pts · 1y

Why do people dislike suffering so much? I understand it as an indicator of that something is wrong. So trying to eliminate suffering without figuring out what causes it is like fighting global warming by destroying thermometers in my perspective.

I think that suffering in this life is not ultimately significant, although it has ultimately significant causes. For every person, suffering in this life fits into one of these cases (from a Christian perspective considering also other worldviews):

  • If the person ceases to exist, the suffering is forgotten, and there is noone who would experience any suffering.
  • If the person goes to heaven, all causes of suffering are resolved.
  • If the person goes to hell, there is suffering regardless of suffering in this life. Although not that hell is bad because there is suffering; there is suffering because it is bad (in various ways).
  • If the person reincarnates, previous suffering is forgotten, although there may be some karma according to which past lives affect future lives, so buddhists try to reach nirvana, which is similar to the second case.

Right. But monospacedness is not a requirement for programming fonts. So I often promote proportional fonts for programming because they are better IMO. I mean that variable width allows fonts more potential to be good at what I want from fonts, not that every proportional font of better.

Ideally, texture healing would distribute the resizing over the whole word, so it would look better and be used in more cases. But that is not possible with OpenType fonts as far as I know.

Commit Mono has smart kerning, which is similar, but it only shifts, not morphs, the shapes. So it avoids that the same letter looks differently in different places. It also works on triplets, not just pairs, so it is more widely applicable. See this comparison.

I Like Input Sans for programming. iA Writer Quattro is similar to that. Now, I use for programming Recursive, a variable font with variable monospacedness among others. It has a configurator where all axes and features can be fixed for better compatibility.