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I am religious and believe in free will

71 (27.5%)

I am religious and do not believe in free will

10 (3.9%)

I am not religious and believe in free will

116 (45%)

I am not religious and do not believe in free will

61 (23.6%)

Total Members Voted: 253

[toastercultist]

PTW, this is really interesting.

[Strongpoint]

Which of course means that all patterns will eventually cease, since all patterns need some other pattern to exist and no interchange of energy is perfectly efficient.

Eventually may be so beyond a reasonable timeframe that it can be replaced with eternal for human-scaled periods.
Also, self-replicating means errors in copying, means mutation, means evolution. These patterns will cease to exist to be replaced by their descendants

[Duuvian]

Religious Heads folder

Pope subfolder

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/29/us/catholics-american-conservatives-pope.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/29/world/europe/pope-francis-american-cardinals.html
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/12/18/vatican-approves-blessings-for-same-sex-couples-under-certain-conditions
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/senior-vatican-official-makes-case-married-priesthood-2024-01-07/
https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/08/world/pope-ban-surrogacy/index.html
https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/17/us/cecilia-gentili-funeral-st-patricks-cathedral-cec/index.html
https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/19/opinions/cecilia-gentili-funeral-st-patricks-catholic-church-hope/index.html
https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/16/us/pope-conservative-critics-suicidal-attitude-hnk-intl/index.html
https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/17/europe/vatican-guidance-supernatural-phenomena-scli-intl/index.html
https://www.timesofisrael.com/pope-laments-that-lessons-of-wwii-are-being-forgotten/
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/its-ok-joke-about-god-dont-offend-pope-tells-comedians-2024-06-14/
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/democracy-is-bad-health-pope-francis-says-2024-07-07/
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/pope-francis-says-climate-change-common-cause-during-istiqlal-mosque-visit-2024-09-05/
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/pope-asks-liberation-myanmars-detained-ex-leader-suu-kyi-2024-09-24/
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/vatican-unveil-restored-st-peters-centrepiece-oct-27-2024-10-08/
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/politics/2024/10/13/democrat-gretchen-whitmer-governor-apologises-dorito/
https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/29/europe/catholic-church-abuse-pope-francis-commission-intl/index.html
https://www.timesofisrael.com/pope-francis-inaugurates-nativity-scene-in-vatican-showing-baby-jesus-on-keffiyeh/
https://www.politico.eu/article/pope-francis-reveals-he-was-almost-assassinated-in-iraq-in-2021/
https://www.npr.org/2024/12/21/nx-s1-5228210/opinion-the-pope-wants-priests-to-lighten-up
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/12/24/7490578/
https://www.npr.org/2025/01/11/nx-s1-5256937/biden-pope-francis-medal-of-freedom
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/02/16/pope-francis-misses-vatican-sunday-prayers-remain-hospital/
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/pope-francis-spent-quiet-night-hospital-ansa-says-2025-02-17/
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/02/19/pope-francis-alert-and-joking-says-meloni-hospital-visit/
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/pope-francis-rested-well-overnight-vatican-says-2025-03-03/
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2025/04/7/7506452/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/pope-makes-easter-appearance-deplores-rising-world-antisemitism-and-deaths-in-gaza/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/herzog-mourns-death-of-pope-francis-who-saw-great-importance-in-fostering-strong-ties-with-the-jewish-world/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/mass-for-pope-to-be-held-wednesday-in-jerusalems-church-of-holy-sepulchre/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/european-jewish-congress-sends-condolences-upon-death-of-pope-francis/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/european-rabbinical-group-expresses-sorrow-over-death-of-pope-francis/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/abbas-mourns-pope-francis-as-a-faithful-friend-of-the-palestinian-people/
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/royalty-presidents-join-multitude-mourners-pope-francis-funeral-2025-04-26/

I had a very, very small subfolder below this one for disagreement on very specific issues that won't be posted. It's possible some mixed in here, especially early and towards the top of the list before I made a subfolder since I didn't recheck the articles, but I think Pope Francis was overall a great Pope.

Ah, the following is from the disorderliness of my own youth! Yet the Pope Francis did most of these things. I will miss him, even despite the very very small subfolder for disagreement.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franciscan

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_of_Jesus <-Jesuit

This pope's choice of names could definitely be worse.

Read of his namesake here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_of_Assisi

Judging from his name alone, this pope may be different. I am nearly entirely lacking in an education in these things; what I know will have come from wikipedia as I have no books on Catholic history. However, judging from the name and what admitably little I know of his order, this is a promising sign from the Catholic church and one that I can support, I think, as long as it is not words and instead actions to give relief to the desperately poor of any creed; my preference being without requiring anything more other than listening to a simple suggestion to do good for others in a person's own way, not and perhaps especially not necessarily Catholic ways even (as to ask them to become Catholic or even Christian is asking something for something in the eyes of many), should they have the opportunity to do so in the future. This I think would be the path I would set the church on were I in his shoes and in return I think non-Catholics would be appreciative. That appreciation, varying from person to person, as of late seem to be somewhat uncommon and, in my opinion, through no fault but the church's; the most publicized reason of which, if you would hear my advice, should be handled in much stricter and secular fashion than previous instances.

That stuff about Argentina is worrying, however, and I hope the issue is entirely out in the open, though if it is not I would rather know the truth of the matter. Certainly it will be difficult to argue against the word of the pope and his institution, though possibly for different reasons than the good RedKing listed.