Actually, it really doesn’t even do this. Mine gave me so much experience in designing experiments that it helps me evaluate the approach to experimentation - the rigor - to experiments in just about any field. In the end experimentation is about good logic.A doctorate makes you an authority in your particular specialty. It does not make you an expert on everything.
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How did you establish that neither childbirth nor breastfeeding is that painful?Mine gave me so much experience in designing experiments that it helps me evaluate the approach to experimentation - the rigor - to experiments in just about any field. In the end experimentation is about good logic.
30 seconds for what?I said waiting 30 seconds isn’t that big a deal,
It doesn’t actually make sense to take that approach. The Bible is not a document produced by especially stoic people–our Hebrew relatives are not famous for their stiff upper lip. David complained a lot (see the Psalms). Jeremiah complained A LOT (see Jeremiah and Lamentations). Job complained. St. Paul complained. And they all got into the Bible. Plus, there’s a lot of stuff in the Bible about childbirth–it’s a requiring biblical metaphor for suffering for a good purpose. (See St. Paul in Galatians 4:19, where he’s talking about himself suffering the pains of childbirth for his readers until Christ is fully formed in them.) So it’s weird to be as dismissive as you have been, because it’s not even biblical–childbirth is the biblical writer’s go-to image for severe pain.I never said it can’t be painful. But lots and lots of things in life are painful. Being in an IED blast is painful, humping a 120 pound pack in the desert for 25 miles at force march pace is painful, watching your son undergo biopsy is painful.
But we don’t need to make a big deal of these things…we don’t need to turn everything into a point of “identity politics”, “only the breast feeders know!!!”, etc. It’s below a hardy Christian to make such a stinking fuss over such naturally occurring events. It’s trying to seek “internet commenter” power. And it’s embarrassing…or it should be so embarrassing that it causes one to temper their tendencies.
St. Paul is joyful–and he also complains a fair bit. Both of those things are true.You should read St Paul to get a better sense for the life of the early Christians, how joyful they were, how striving they were.
The question at hand is "Who should bear the pain or inconvenience, if you will, in a particular situation? Should the man bear the inconvenience or awkwardness he may feel when a mother needs to feed her child by having to avert his eyes or should it be the woman who is already pained by engorgement/letdown and the baby by hunger pangs, who should also bear responsibility for the man’s comfort by finding a place to hide herself because he might have an impure thought by her doing something that is not in the least sinful?But we don’t need to make a big deal of these things…we don’t need to turn everything into a point of “identity politics”, “only the breast feeders know!!!”, etc. It’s below a hardy Christian to make such a stinking fuss over such naturally occurring events
Yes. We hear a lot about how much Catholic men and fathers want to do for women–how they want to guard us and protect us, how much they cherish the unborn and little children, how eager they are to fight for us, how their hearts thrill with chivalry and desire to sacrifice for us, etc., etc.The question at hand is "Who should bear the pain or inconvenience, if you will, in a particular situation? Should the man bear the inconvenience or awkwardness he may feel when a mother needs to feed her child by having to avert his eyes or should it be the woman who is already pained by engorgement/letdown and the baby by hunger pangs, who should also bear responsibility for the man’s comfort by finding a place to hide herself because he might have an impure thought by her doing something that is not in the least sinful?
That was the question of discussion on the thread on which you were commenting. People who do say women should hide or go off to find a private place.I never said women should hide. Here we go again with the stuffing of words down someone else’s throat.
Of course. But within the context of the question at hand in that discussion your #2 statement should be directed to the men who want women to leave to prevent them from having impure thoughts.I said that every act of ours should be done with the maximum of love and virtue, for the greatest good of all.
We weren’t talking about a disruptive child. We were talking about a child who needs to eat, who if fed at the first signs of discomfort don’t really reach fever-pitch in terms the amount of noise they are making. (especially if mom can feed him/her right there on the spot.In some circumstances where a small child may disrupt an event…that may mean that the mother needs to “optimize” her actions…and leave in order to solve the problem for the child and for the greater enjoyment of others.
Maybe you can move this to the appropriate thread. It’s not part of this topic.That was the question of discussion on the thread on which you were commenting. People who do say women should hide or go off to find a private place.
Maybe you shouldn’t have discussed it here in the first place yourself…funny how you’re ready to talk about it when pontificating to others about taking up their cross.Maybe you can move this to the appropriate thread. It’s not part of this topic.
How can we love God by doing his will when we don’t even know that our fellow Christians are in need because we’ve told them not to tell us?We need more “what’s that?” in our dialog, shrugging off the normal ordinary difficulties of life.
Not all pain harms us.
Not every offense needs to be commented on, much less elevated to the city hall, or to a lawsuit.
Not every inconvenience needs to be solved and removed from our lives.
Not ever “type of person” needs to be classified and named, and supported by an identity politics activist lobby.
We are here to do one thing. Love God by doing His will. And that might be effortful. So what. “What’s that?”
Complaint is normally an early sign of either pride or love of comfort, especially interior complaint.
That’s physical impossible for a finite human mind to figure out–especially if we’ve told others to zip it and not tell us that they are suffering.I said that every act of ours should be done with the maximum of love and virtue, for the greatest good of all.
You’re making the assumption that women go everywhere accompanied by their husbands, which we don’t.It may also mean the loving husband may have already scouted out a private place for the mother and child, has already carried and secured what the mother and child needs…perhaps getting a cold drink for his dear bride…found a chair for her…etc.
That was probably my fault–but I did want to point out to Edward_H that he has a lot of views on women and children that aren’t based on rigorous research.Maybe you shouldn’t have discussed it here in the first place yourself…funny how you’re ready to talk about it when pontificating to others about taking up their cross.
It should be noted: one between the husband and wife. No priest is necessary for a valid marriage.That is why marriage is a sacrament.