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#91

Theology / Re: Spiritual pleasures ⋙ carn...

Last post by Geremia - July 09, 2023, 05:28:05 PM

St. Alphonsus, La vera sposa di Gesù Cristo, cites S. Bernardus, epist. 111, n. 3:

gustato spiritu, desipit omnis caro
"The spiritual tasted, all flesh is insipid."
[or:] "When one tastes the spiritual, all flesh becomes tasteless."

#92

Forum-Related / Re: Mirror the ebook library.

Last post by Geremia - July 09, 2023, 04:24:48 PM

She offers to set up an SFTP server for you to upload to.

I'd never heard of Anna's Archive. I contacted her.
Grazie.

#93

Forum-Related / Re: Mirror the ebook library.

Last post by Pali - July 08, 2023, 11:34:26 PM

Hi Geremia, I contacted the admin [on Twitter] of Anna's Archive (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna%27s_Archive), a repository/aggregator that backs up book collections to preserve knowledge, and I recommended that she also support your excellent Isidore Calibre collection. She's willing!

She offers to set up an SFTP server for you to upload to.

I hope you find this a good opportunity. It looks to be a great aid in bringing these excellent Catholic resources to a wider audience (even bigger than LibGen, whom they also back up). And of course, thank you so much for your work, Geremia; readers here can't thank you enough 🙏

#94

General Discussion / Re: OpenAI Whisper audio trans...

Last post by Geremia - June 28, 2023, 11:14:41 AM

faster-whisper project from GitHub with an RTX3060

I have a Quadro RTX 4000. I'll see if I can try faster-whisper in a Python virtual environment ("python3 -m venv") myself. Thanks.

Update: I've testing it out, and I'm impressed. I wrote a little script to STT all specified audio files in the cwd:

Code (Python) Select Expand

import sys
if len(sys.argv) != 2:
    print("One arg required: regexp of filenames to glob, e.g., '*.m4a'")
    sys.exit(1)

from faster_whisper import WhisperModel
import glob, sys
from tqdm import tqdm
import pysubs2

model_size = "large-v2"

# Run on GPU with FP16
model = WhisperModel(model_size, device="cuda", compute_type="float16", download_root="/tmp")

# or run on GPU with INT8
# model = WhisperModel(model_size, device="cuda", compute_type="int8_float16")
# or run on CPU with INT8
# model = WhisperModel(model_size, device="cpu", compute_type="int8")

regex=sys.argv[1]
audio_files = glob.glob(regex)

for i in audio_files:
    print(i)
    base = '.'.join(i.split('.')[0:-1])
    segments, info = model.transcribe(i, beam_size=5)
    print("Detected language '%s' with probability %f" % (info.language, info.language_probability))
    txt_file = open(base+'.txt','w')
    results = []
    for s in tqdm(segments):
        toprint = "[%4.f → %4.f] %s" % (s.start, s.end, s.text)
        tqdm.write(toprint)
        print(toprint, file=txt_file) # print to txt file
        segment_dict = {'start':s.start,'end':s.end,'text':s.text}
        results.append(segment_dict)
    txt_file.close()
    subs = pysubs2.load_from_whisper(results)
    subs.save(base+'.srt') # save subtitle file
This generates a plaintext file and an SRT subtitles file.

#95

General Discussion / Re: OpenAI Whisper audio trans...

Last post by Strider3000 - June 28, 2023, 08:15:40 AM

Did you do the transcription, or does SoundCloud do it?

I did the transcription. I'm using the faster-whisper project from GitHub with an RTX3060 - transcribed a couple thousand hours of YouTube and other content so far. Let me know if there is something you would like me to transcribe.

#96

General Discussion / Re: Ernest Hello and Leon Bloy

Last post by Geremia - June 08, 2023, 12:59:00 PM

Garrigou-Lagrange converted after reading one of his books

The Sacred Monster of Thomism p. 9:

the young Garrigou-Lagrange began studies at the University of Bordeaux in 1896. While at Bordeaux he experienced a profound religious awakening, occasioned, as it were, by his reading Ernest Hello's L'Homme: la vie — la science — l'art.

Does anyone know if Ernest Hello was into luciferian ideas apparently as well as Bloy?

Catholic Encyclopedia "Ernest Hello":

Hello rejected the method inaugurated by [Rosicrucian?] Descartes and generally adopted in the systems of that day, making use, instead, of the principles of theology and philosophy as found in Scripture.

It seems Hello was a practicing Catholic.

#97

General Discussion / Ernest Hello and Leon Bloy

Last post by ptlopes - June 07, 2023, 04:05:52 PM

Hey everyone,

Leon Bloy was a French author, held in high esteem among many traditional Catholics, who espoused many strange ideas which some regard as luciferian.

Ernest Hello was another French author, who wrote about Philosophy and Theology. Garrigou-Lagrange converted after reading one of his books and St. John Mary Vianney once said that his genius came from God. Hello was a kind of master to Bloy. The two men gave credit to the alleged visions of Anne-Marie Boulé, an ex-prostitute, and apparently were into milenarian ideas.

Does anyone know if Ernest Hello was into luciferian ideas apparently as well as Bloy?

Best,
Pedro

#98

Philosophy / Re: Declaration of Independenc...

Last post by Geremia - May 10, 2023, 04:37:05 PM

That is naturalism and barbarism.

I ❤️ Fr. Fahey's insistence that society originates from man's (social and rational) nature, not from an instinct (as in a "society" of bees or ants) nor from an artificial social construct.

#99

Philosophy / Re: Declaration of Independenc...

Last post by Kephapaulos - May 09, 2023, 10:08:22 PM

That is naturalism and barbarism.

#100

Philosophy / Re: Declaration of Independenc...

Last post by Geremia - May 07, 2023, 06:47:58 PM

@

Madison et al. were clearly deists/materialists, influenced by Newton in their idea of "justice" as a "balancing of (vector) forces" between opposing "factions;" the more opposing "factions," the more balanced ("just") the country will be. They think citizens are like molecules in an ideal gas! Improving the system by statistical analysis, not the perfection of the citizens, is their solution.

Fr. Fahey treats this topic excellently in The Mystical Body of Christ and the Reorganization of Society, §"Economic laws become exclusively physical laws":

This doctrine, according to which moral nature is reduced to physical nature and which holds that political and moral laws flaws in the first and second sense mentioned above) are merely laws of social physics (laws in the third sense) is termed mechanism or materialism. Politics in this system is merely the art of conforming the conduct of societies and the laws of states to the physical laws so discovered and formulated.