@djsundog too bad it's winter and covid; lotta good concerts at the Gorge in George
celebrate his conception, celebrate the revealing of his divine nature to the world, recognize his trials, remember his death, these all make sense to me
the day he popped out of his mother’s womb?? why?? he didn’t do anything important that day
@Satsuma i wonder if that is common and whether the LDS church like, even cares, since i don't think they have much of a Marian theology?
@Satsuma oookay so after doing more research Mormons believe God the Father has a wife, and some believe that the spirits of humans are their literal children, as a result of fucking, and that Jesus was God’s firstborn through this method
however the Heavenly Mother is not Mary, who, presumably, would also be a child of God
@Satsuma yeah the mormon encyclopedia cites both the bible and mormon prophets identifying Mary as a virgin (the latter are presumably less ambiguous)
i don’t think it’s really a theological focus though
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@aescling yeah nobody does but that's partially because there aren't any homepages to USE anymore
@Satsuma it’s not uncommon for people to think this; the bible mentions “brothers of jesus” and some people interpret this as biological brothers via Mary and Joseph (although Catholics do not)
@Satsuma the mormon line seems to be that mary was a virgin at time of birthing jesus but not a virgin perpetually
@Satsuma look i’m not particularly strong on the whole “virgin mary” thing but for the record i do NOT think this qualifies
@aescling as someone who has studied higher math, it is a failure of both
it is true that if you understand math as axiomatic and understand that the axioms you choose determine the possibilities of the system, a whole world of nuance opens up
but mathematics is still characterized—perhaps solely characterized—by its persistent divorcement of those axioms from any significatory power beyond their mere logical outcomes
anything else is, at the very best, “applied”
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