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General Discussion / Re: CBDC - It Begins: This Is ...

Last post by OiseeLo7 - September 17, 2026, 04:58:58 AM

source: LifeSiteNews, "Epstein ranch exorcised by Catholic priest over three days"

 

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General Discussion / "Es mi Rosa bella" lyrics

Last post by Geremia - August 31, 2026, 01:36:33 AM

Es mi Rosa bella del cielo primor, y es de la hermosura toda admiración; ¡el alba la admire, celébrela el sol!	She is my beautiful Rosa, a delight from heaven, and her beauty is the object of all admiration; May the dawn admire her, may the sun celebrate her!
Es en todo tan hermosa que si mira la atención, la hallará, cuando la mire, divino objeto de un dios. ¡El alba la admire, celébrela el sol!	She is so beautiful in every way that if you look closely, you will find her, when you gaze upon her, a divine object of a god. May the dawn admire her, may the sun celebrate her!
Coplas: En el campo de Los Reyes donde Rosa se plantó a toda flor fragante en su natal usurpó. ¡El alba la admire, celébrela el sol!	Verses: In the fields of Los Reyes, where Rosa took root, she surpassed every fragrant flower in her native land. May the dawn admire her, may the sun celebrate her!
En la gracia de sus ojos, toales virtudes mostró que es para todo veneno, la triaca superior [sic]. ¡El alba la admire, celébrela el sol!	In the grace of her eyes, she displayed such virtues that she is, for every poison, the supreme antidote [sic]. May the dawn admire her, may the sun celebrate her!

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Theology / Re: ScholaThomistica

Last post by k42s - August 29, 2026, 09:16:49 PM

Stumbled on Mind of the Church, part of the same open-source translation movement. Under their Fellows page they list some commendations of which Isidore is included.

Isidore.co · see also a library of great older works · the Calibre library
A quiet library of Catholic books and translations — scholastic commentaries, manuals, and rarities gathered in one place.

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General Discussion / WhisperX & diarization

Last post by Geremia - August 27, 2026, 02:43:47 AM

@Strider3000, today I discovered WhisperX, based on faster-whisper. It does diarization!

Also, I'm using the Systran--faster-whisper-large-v3 model.

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Theology / Re: ScholaThomistica

Last post by Geremia - August 19, 2026, 01:51:05 AM

Julio Alonzo's process on his Substack.

Sounds similar to @Strider3000's BookTranslation process.

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Theology / ScholaThomistica

Last post by k42s - August 18, 2026, 10:48:06 PM

ScholaThomistica, a digital library of Scholastic theology — built to be the central hub of Scholasticism in the digital age.

A bit on Julio Alonzo's process on his Substack. The comments also mention the Church Writings site for Biblical commentary and patristics.

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Philosophy / Locke's mechanistic checks-and...

Last post by Geremia - August 14, 2026, 11:20:36 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.

Dr. John Rao's foreword to Wemhoff, John Courtney Murray attributes this mechanistic conception of politics to Locke:

Locke's modus operandi allows so many denominations to function and command popular attention that they end by "checking and balancing" one another out of any practical social significance. Fight all they want, none of them can ever win control of the political order, which is left to be dominated by the godly "pragmatists".

Related to this is John Adams's 2 October 1780 letter to Jonathan Jackson where he warns against a two-party system (my emphasis):

There is nothing I dread So much, as a Division of the Republick into two great Parties, each arranged under its Leader, and concerting Measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble Apprehension is to be dreaded as the greatest political Evil, under our Constitution.

^{🎩-tip: OldPadawan}

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General Discussion / Epstein New Mexico ranch exorc...

Last post by Geremia - August 13, 2026, 07:54:31 PM

source: LifeSiteNews, "Epstein ranch exorcised by Catholic priest over three days"

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Catholic Resources / TF-IDF

Last post by Geremia - August 11, 2026, 10:51:21 PM

TF-IDF

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Catholic Resources / Re: The Distant Reader

Last post by Geremia - August 08, 2026, 08:00:45 PM

Under "stacks" there's a subfolder "pamphlets" with the description "about half (2,700 PDF files) of the Hesburgh Libraries Catholic Pamphlets Collection".

https://distantreader.org/stacks/pamphlets/

I wonder if there's overlap with the

University of Notre Dame Catholic Pamphlets Collection
They span from 1800 to 2010, but the post Vatican II ones (e.g., the 1969 Catholics and Masons: Now Good Friends!) are not recommended.
There are catechisms (like the New St. Joseph's Baltimore Catechism) and many other good books. They're also categorized.

that Archive.org since took down.