as a structural matter, catholics can only be triumphalists — our only choice is in how loud we want to be about it
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oh yeah: the strategy for the moment needs to be finding corners in which the Church can hide out for the time being.
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no, there is not a chance that the hospitals survive; the liberals hate the church too much and resent being shown up by her good works: but some monasteries might be able to hang on
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This is the paradox of the "smart people should just decide everything" theory. There are a lot of reasons to believe it, especially if you're smart, but if you're smart you know you should almost never say it.
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Lots of reasons to believe it <<<<< Being around actual smart people your whole life Conclusion: Smart people should not run everything.
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How much time have you spent around IQ < 100 people? Anyway, I'm not saying it's true; I'm saying there are many reasons to believe it, and furthermore there is a self-serving reason to believe it if you are smart, which leads to the paradox about saying it.
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There are a TON of reasons to believe it And basically one objective reason not to The thing is that that one objective reason not to believe it is greater than the product and sum of all the reasons to believe it
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Incidentally: 1) Plenty 2) That is irrelevant because the reason has nothing to do with why smart people are better, it has to do with why putting them in charge of everything would be disastrous
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I think the experience you're referring to just amounts to the fact that you need to exclude high IQ people with low conscientiousness or obvious mental problems. (high IQ + high conscientiousness may already rule out mental problems)
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Nope, still not the problem.
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US Catholics have really been severely memepolluted by Protestant nonsense, and it's just depressing.
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Edict of Milan was a mistake.
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both outcomes are likely, actually
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