Conclave sweat threat: Who will be the next pope?

Conclave sweat threat: Who will be the next pope?

Pope Francis has left the table. The first Latin‑American pontiff played every street of his twelve‑year run

21 April 2025 at 10:37 AM
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by ecriture d'adulte

Neither did I. Many people have thought like you before and it's rare to put in the work to outgrow it.

My thinking is nested in the growth process.

What is the growth step I must take which I haven’t yet in your mind?


by craig1120

My thinking is nested in the growth process.

What is the growth step I must take which I haven’t yet in your mind?

Just as the gosling is nested in the long grass, so too is reality nested in the growth process. And only the fool sees the nest as a place of comfort. The nest may be lined with moss which is soft and cool to the touch. But the moss thrives only because it blocks the sunlight from the tender shoots of grass hidden in the dirt. And if the grass does not grow, the gosling is exposed to the hungry fox. Even then, what appears as the end of the growth process is really just the beginning, because the fox has kits of her own, hungry and waiting.


by Morphismus

Maybe y'all should cool a bit down a bit with a Sede vacante Sudoku! 😀

Solved in 30:24


nice, I had 35:47


May 7th, mark your calendars and start looking for white smoke as that is the date **** gets real.


by Rococo

Just as the gosling is nested in the long grass, so too is reality nested in the growth process. And only the fool sees the nest as a place of comfort. The nest may be lined with moss which is soft and cool to the touch. But the moss thrives only because it blocks the sunlight from the tender shoots of grass hidden in the dirt. And if the grass does not grow, the gosling is

This has to be from some kind of AI philosophical BS generator, right?


by chillrob

This has to be from some kind of AI philosophical BS generator, right?

How dare you? Ain't nothing artificial about our Roc, he's a natural BS generator.


You and I are lifeforms of the galaxy.
Wellbeing is the truth of power, and of us. To engage with the quest is to become one with it.

Only an entity of the cosmos may foster this revolution of sharing.
Imagine an awakening of what could be. Eons from now, we adventurers will self-actualize like never before as we are aligned by the dreamtime. Parvati will become our stepping-stone to karmic empathy.

It is time to take serenity to the next level. We must learn how to lead angelic lives in the face of yearning. It is in summoning that we are recreated.

Consciousness consists of superpositions of possibilities of quantum energy. “Quantum” means an unfolding of the sublime. We live, we self-actualize, we are reborn. Passion is the driver of learning.

Have you found your journey?
How should you navigate this divine galaxy? The dreamscape is calling to you via expanding wave functions. Can you hear it? Child, look within and develop yourself.


You are a bit late my brother, I posted that link in the mod/chat thread. Twice, in fact, first time being months ago.


by d2_e4

You are a bit late my brother, I posted that link in the mod thread. Twice, in fact, first time being months ago.

Must have been when I was taking some time off.

This has to be where Rococo is getting his material, right? Or from a very similar page.


by chillrob

Must have been when I was taking some time off.

This has to be where Rococo is getting his material, right? Or from a very similar page.

No, he's making it up himself. Seriously. Good lawyers tend to have the gift of the gab, didntcha know.


by chillrob

This has to be from some kind of AI philosophical BS generator, right?

I promise that I am not using any sort of AI tool. I would tell you if I was. Parodying craig really isn't that hard.


by d2_e4

No, he's making it up himself. Seriously. Good lawyers tend to have the gift of the gab, didntcha know.

Do you remember the old TV ads with the tag line of "is it live or is it Memorex?" That would be a fun game to play. I post a quote, and people guess whether it is some **** that I made up, or an actual quote from one of craig's posts in RGT.


by Rococo

I promise that I am not using any sort of AI tool. I would tell you if I was. Parodying craig really isn't that hard.

Then maybe you should make your own tool! I think your BS is even better than what I got from that site.


by Rococo

Do you remember the old TV ads with the tag line of "is it live or is it Memorex?" That would be a fun game to play. I post a quote, and people guess whether it is some **** that I made up, or an actual quote from one of craig's posts in RGT.

I'm down for that. Almost like a Turing test, except you're trying to fool the panel into thinking you're a religious nutjob.


by Willd

Solved in 30:24

Found another Vatican-themed Sudoku! 😀 https://sudokupad.app/0na0tbyw22

Time to beat: 23:05


OK. One of these is a craig special, and one is mine.

The Gospel of John refers to Jesus as the Lamb of God, which is feminine. But Jesus also returns as the lion, which is masculine. The masculine and the feminine are separate in the social reality but are part of a unified reality for people like me who understand and are prepared for where we are going.

If you are fixated on the social reality, then there isn't anything that I can do to help you. To access the truth in the way I have, you have to be open to changing your thinking and getting away from what I call reductive skepticism.

The self is associated with the world and the soul is associated with heaven. There is an unbreakable bond between the self and the soul like a marriage between a bride and a groom, which is why Jesus calls himself the bridegroom when he is with his disciples who represent the self. The self is also associated with sheep and the soul with the shepherd.

Now, the self is divided between what I call the pure and holy (PH) sheep, the lost and scattered sheep, and the sheep caught in between the two. The PH sheep have a fragile faith and are associated with the child / feminine. They will never get their hands dirty and never leave the comfort zone unless the path has been completely cleared and the destination has been illuminated.


I say post 1!


Unless this is a pro level, first is craig and second is you.


by Morphismus

I say post 1!

Post 1 is me or Post 1 is craig?


by Morphismus

Found another Vatican-themed Sudoku! 😀 https://sudokupad.app/0na0tbyw22

Time to beat: 23:05

I've not watched much CtC sudoku recently so haven't been solving a lot but apparently still remember how to do it quite well - 14:49 for that one 😀


by d2_e4

Unless this is a pro level, first is craig and second is you.

I'm also in this camp.

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I don't recall ever seeing craig use a simile as straighforward as "There is an unbreakable bond between the self and the soul like a marriage between a bride and a groom"


by Willd

I'm also in this camp.

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I don't recall ever seeing craig use a simile as straighforward as "There is an unbreakable bond between the self and the soul like a marriage between a bride and a groom"

Also, I don't know that Rococo would be quoting the Gospel, nor do I recall ever seeing craig use parentheses. The second one just generally reads like it was written by someone who is compos mentis; it's actually quite hard to feign crazy.


by d2_e4

Also, I don't know that Rococo would be quoting the Gospel, nor do I recall ever seeing craig use parentheses. The second one just generally reads like it was written by someone who is lucid and compos mentis. It's actually quite hard to feign crazy.

I would argue that neither one seems like it was written by someone who was lucid.


by Rococo

I would argue that neither one seems like it was written by someone who was lucid.

Yet we know a priori that one of them is, which has to factor into our calculus.

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