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Posted by /u/LurkingTamilian

Have there examples in history of a society forgetting how a particular technology is created but only know about maintaining it?

It is a common trope is Sci-fi for an ancient advanced civilization to collapse leaving behind artifacts that newer people can use and maintain but not develop themselves. Do we have documented cases of this in real-life? I am not counting cases like the pyramids which might hav…

Posted by /u/ThatOneBLUScout

How did certain foods come to be seen as "Breakfast Foods" even though nothing is stopping you from eating them whenever you want?

Eggs, Pancakes, Omelets, Cereal, Toast, Hash-browns, Ect. All of those are considered staples for breakfast, but it's considered a bit odd to eat them later in the day. I was wondering how that started.

Posted by /u/GreenBrilliant3761

[Historical Accuracy] In the 2002 movie Ted Bundy, the execution scene depicts prison staff plugging the inmate’s rectum with cotton during the physical preparation for the electric chair. Was this an actual historical protocol in early Am…

I recently watched the 2002 film Ted Bundy (starring Michael Reilly Burke), which features a highly detailed, clinical, and graphic preparation sequence before Bundy is electrocuted. A specific detail shown is the insertion of cotton/gauze into the rectum to prevent post-mortem…

Posted by /u/Radiant-Rose7102

I love being a Catholic girl

I’m 16f and these are just some thoughts I wanted to talk about and give my viewpoint about. I see people call the Catholic Church misogynistic and sexist a lot. I think there’s definitely some Catholics who contribute to the perception of this especially online where people try…

Posted by /u/Sweaty-Koala-80

Married, 32Fbattling endstage kidney failure & mental breakdownMy life is falling apart and I'm terrifiedPlease pray for a miracle for me

am a 32year-old married woman, and I feel like my entire life is falling apart Disease has completely ravaged my body am fighting advanced kidney failure, and my condition has reached a dangerously severe stage. Everything is getting worse by the day. This illness hasn't just de…

Posted by /u/Chinoyboii

To what extent might modern Palestinians descend from Jewish, Samaritan, and other local Levantine populations who converted to Christianity or Islam, and what historical evidence exists for or against this possibility?

From what I understand, current scholarship on Palestinian ancestry generally indicates that a substantial portion of their ancestry derives from Levantine populations that continued to live in the region despite successive conquests, migrations, expulsions, conversions, and per…

Posted by /u/OnlyInSilence

Is there any actual historical evidence anywhere of the Allies in WW2 letting allied civilians or servicemen die in order to protect the fact they had cracked enigma?

A trope that pops up in fiction occasionally is the notion that the allies let the Germans blow up certain Atlantic convoys/cities in ww2, lest the Third Reich get suspicious about how the their attacks were always being predicted. Off the top of my head, an episode of the TV sh…

Posted by /u/CommonlySensical

Why don't we talk more about a husband's grave spiritual accountability to his family's souls?

I've seen a lot of posts recently about marrying non-Catholic Christians, and even atheists. Never once have I seen someone mention the fact that by doing so, the husband puts his own soul in jeopardy. A husband and father is called to be the priest and head of his domestic chur…

Posted by /u/Sungodatemychildren

Isaac Newton famously was a great physicist and mathematician, but less famously he was also into alchemy. Was he a good alchemist?

Posted by /u/hypermiler2205

Saying “Jesus loves you” to nonbelievers does more harm than good

It’s best to not say it at all to them To them it means nothing and it makes you look like a religious lunatic in their eyes I’m just saying it doesn’t have the effect you think it does, instead of making someone feel what you feel towards god it just annoys them and lowers the…

Posted by /u/IHad360K_KarmaDammit

After abolitionist Watson Brown was killed during the raid on Harper's Ferry in 1859, his body was mutilated, mummified and publicly displayed with a sign saying "thus always with abolitionists". Was it common to treat the bodies of partic…

His Wikipedia page describes the display of his body: Anatomy professor Hugh Holmes McGuire stained the arteries, drained of blood, with red dye, treated the muscles so they resembled wood, and preserved the nerves with varnish. The skin, half of the skull, and the brain were re…

Posted by /u/fuzzwatch-original88

Are there any prayers to St Francis for pets who have died?

My son and I were in the room when we had to put our 12 year old black lab to sleep yesterday and we're both taking it pretty hard. He asked me about if pets go to heaven, and I told him I think so because they're part of God's creation and they make us happy on Earth so I think…

Posted by /u/tenhou

When the organist goes beast mode after mass

I have been to two parishes where after mass and after the recessional hymn, the organist just flexes, goes beast mode, goes crazy, goes super saiyan, goes ham, goes hard on the organ. It's kinda cool, and I'm imagining the organist is just showing off to everyone how good he/sh…