The Fifth Column

Orthodox Catholic commentary on current events.

Thursday, March 16, 2023

We are ALL Math Teachers Now

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AI has demonstrated, by the way it operations, that all words can be reduced to numbers. All sentences, paragraphs, essays, arguably even bo...
Wednesday, March 15, 2023

A Measured Response

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  Ken Schmaltz   [said]  Steve Kellmeyer   heteronormative dominant culture and capitalism have proven themselves to be a bust. It's tim...
Sunday, March 05, 2023

What Makes Us Human?

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This guy is exactly right. The current "AI" frightens people because we like to think that our ability to communicate is character...
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Sunday, February 26, 2023

Are Catholics Being Persecuted?

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Everyone says persecution has gotten worse. Has it really?  Nigeria is a country of 200 million people, with 53.5% identifying as Muslim , 3...
Tuesday, February 21, 2023

Why Can't Blacks Act Black?

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Thomas Sowell , Walter E. Williams , Ben Carson ... the black community has a lot of examples of absolutely BRILLIANT citizens. Why can...
Friday, February 03, 2023

Do AI Essays Violate Copyright?

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 I'm not a lawyer, I do not play a lawyer on television, however, there is reason to believe that any essay generated by an AI is not su...
Thursday, January 26, 2023

Problems with AI

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ChatGPT and a handful of other social AIs are making a big splash. They are unreasonably good at many tasks and are already used to generate...
Monday, January 16, 2023

Why Universities Chose Wokeness, and Why it Won't Work

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It has been predicted that half of all American colleges and universities will close in the next ten years , thus fulfilling the ancient pro...
Wednesday, January 11, 2023

America: Land of Human Smuggling

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21st century Americans complain about "coyotes" smuggling people into the United States. Americans are absolutely indignant that s...
Friday, January 06, 2023

What's Wrong With Human Composting?

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Human composting has become a subject of popular discussion, and I see a lot of religiously-minded people acting upset about it. For the li...
Friday, December 16, 2022

The Origins of Hannukah

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Ironically, Hanukkah is found in Christian Scripture in 1st and 2nd Maccabees, but is not found in Jewish Scripture at all. Why? Well, these...
Saturday, December 10, 2022

Why Colleges Are Dying

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Many people complain that college standards are dropping. They don't seem to understand that colleges really don't have a choice . ...
Wednesday, November 23, 2022

Dealing with the Frozen Embryonic Child

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 So, the Catholic Church says it is immoral to allow these embryos to grow in the womb of a woman who is not their mother. After thirty yea...

The Economics of Children

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 "Family life is no longer a core aspiration of every person but becomes a “luxury". .." That is most assuredly not what is h...
Saturday, November 19, 2022

Computer-generated Art Does Not Exist

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When a computer "does" anything, it is "doing" that action in the same way that a shovel is "shovelling" dirt ...
Tuesday, July 19, 2022

Fascism: A Leftist Fantasy

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Sir Oswald Mosley, A Story : After the War, he sought to return to political life, but found little support, including when he stood for Par...
Monday, June 06, 2022

What OT Prophecies Did Jesus NOT Fulfill?

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Catholics always talk about the OT prophecies that Jesus fulfilled, but Jews tend to emphasize the prophecies Jesus did not fulfill. From th...
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