> For his own part, Strickland said his observation of the papacy had reached a “devastating conclusion” — “the man who occupies the Chair of St. Peter does not love the truth.”
I think as an exercise I will translate "the man who sits on the Chair of St. Peter loves the truth" and "the man, sitting on the Chair of St. Peter, loves the tr…
> For his own part, Strickland said his observation of the papacy had reached a “devastating conclusion” — “the man who occupies the Chair of St. Peter does not love the truth.”
I think as an exercise I will translate "the man who sits on the Chair of St. Peter loves the truth" and "the man, sitting on the Chair of St. Peter, loves the truth" and "the man, loving the truth, sits on the Chair of St. Peter" and then move on to the same in aorist tense (I am still taking Ancient Greek and if I stick it out to the next semester we will get into one of the Gospels which is why I am melting my brain over e.g. Chapter 13 in Athenaze, but I have to remind myself of it pretty often.) The process of learning a language by being dumped headfirst into a bucket of it (or "immersion", or in short, drowning in two inches of water) requires either a real need in natural circumstances (like a little kid learning language in the first place) or a determined trust that although it is constantly frustrating, it is "working as intended" so don't quit now because spending an hour today on it will pay off (even though it feels useless, or like a terrible failure, or both at once) whereas spending an hour getting mad on social media will not pay off (even though it feels great like I'm accomplishing something). Actually, though, I talked to someone today who accidentally learned to understand Japanese by watching a lot of anime(?) with both English and Japanese subtitles on at the same time (he reports that he cannot speak or write it, only understand it, and was interested/surprised to learn experimentally how compartmentalized these abilities are from one another). We pray because 1. we need to in order to obtain something, or 2. we trust that prayer will change us in some way although it only seems to be frustrating, or 3. it is as enjoyable as watching anime. Case 2 is where we are most tempted to just do something else that seems more like it could change the world (it's always the world that needs to change, right? Not ME. *I* don't need to change, although I am technically part of the world. For example: The bishops need to [xyz]; the pope needs to [abc]; the faithful need to [mnop]. All of these people need to change, and if I don't tell them to, perhaps at the judgment Christ will say to me: "I was wrong on the internet, and you did not post a long explanation of why I was wrong and why, in particular, I do not love Jesus.")
> For his own part, Strickland said his observation of the papacy had reached a “devastating conclusion” — “the man who occupies the Chair of St. Peter does not love the truth.”
I think as an exercise I will translate "the man who sits on the Chair of St. Peter loves the truth" and "the man, sitting on the Chair of St. Peter, loves the truth" and "the man, loving the truth, sits on the Chair of St. Peter" and then move on to the same in aorist tense (I am still taking Ancient Greek and if I stick it out to the next semester we will get into one of the Gospels which is why I am melting my brain over e.g. Chapter 13 in Athenaze, but I have to remind myself of it pretty often.) The process of learning a language by being dumped headfirst into a bucket of it (or "immersion", or in short, drowning in two inches of water) requires either a real need in natural circumstances (like a little kid learning language in the first place) or a determined trust that although it is constantly frustrating, it is "working as intended" so don't quit now because spending an hour today on it will pay off (even though it feels useless, or like a terrible failure, or both at once) whereas spending an hour getting mad on social media will not pay off (even though it feels great like I'm accomplishing something). Actually, though, I talked to someone today who accidentally learned to understand Japanese by watching a lot of anime(?) with both English and Japanese subtitles on at the same time (he reports that he cannot speak or write it, only understand it, and was interested/surprised to learn experimentally how compartmentalized these abilities are from one another). We pray because 1. we need to in order to obtain something, or 2. we trust that prayer will change us in some way although it only seems to be frustrating, or 3. it is as enjoyable as watching anime. Case 2 is where we are most tempted to just do something else that seems more like it could change the world (it's always the world that needs to change, right? Not ME. *I* don't need to change, although I am technically part of the world. For example: The bishops need to [xyz]; the pope needs to [abc]; the faithful need to [mnop]. All of these people need to change, and if I don't tell them to, perhaps at the judgment Christ will say to me: "I was wrong on the internet, and you did not post a long explanation of why I was wrong and why, in particular, I do not love Jesus.")