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i got quite obsessed with this for some time, simply as it is a meeting point of many of my interests. that doesnt mean i “know” about it though. tbh you can look at the docs and stuff yourself. you can read vatican 1 in like an hour or two. the vatican 2 docs are longer [...]

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much longer. i actually printed them all out + put them in a binder. its like a small book. it depends on ur style. i am someone who likes to hit the extremes and then look into it myself, so i hit the maximum mega-anti and “this isnt a big deal” ends of the spectrum for a while

i cant direct this particular question, as some people would find it a spiritual obstacle to consume all of this information + arguing, whereas other people would say it is essential to figuring things out spiritually. i cant say. its very interesting but thats my only real take.

as its relevant to other peoples path, maybe, i go back and forth on the “debate” vs historical learning aspect of general christian history. at times i will go really hard into the conflict between two angles of seeing something and listen to debates and be in that realm. [...]

and then at a certain point i start to feel like im feeding my own ego + aggrandizing myself and then i swing back the other way into purely historical investigation, and i alternate between these two poles. i know this is not the case for everyone but that has been my experience