I have significantly restructured and simplified my site. Discrete Ideas has been live for ~3 months and over that time my vision for what I want it to be has shifted and grown. I am hoping that now it will be easier to navigate for first time visitors as I have removed the bloated number of sub-pages.

I am excited to see what the future holds for your site! How has your vision changed recently? Is it in connection to your recent entry in your chronicles?

Hi duvarki, it's more that I am focusing on the Chronicles posts as a way to write essays. When I started I expected I would write whole essays in one go - but its really not very realistic given the time requirements

I see, that does make sense. Mine took a year and a bit to write, so a more short-form way of sharing thoughts makes sense and I find it quite tempting myself. I just don't have many opinions or thoughts that I feel can be sufficiently justified with just a few words. But your approach does sound appealing, to share ideas as they come in order to compile them into a coherent essay if need be.

I have kind of the same feelings as you, that not only am I unqualified, but I'm a catechumen myself. I often feel like its not appropriate for me to be a teacher and I have to carefully navigate that. I look at the content on my site as anecdotes about my experiences and how I got to this point, so that maybe other other people can find their way, but ultimately we have to point people to real teachers.

I think that’s a great way to think about it. And yeah I think it’s natural that people like you and I would want to share our thoughts and perspectives but my hope is that, ultimately, people go to an actual Church. Btw I quite liked your posts about the practicalities of actually going to Church from the perspective of a former Atheist - it can be daunting

A theological telling of Star Wars. Cliché I am aware although the theological implications may be a tad controversial.

I had fun reading it! I haven't seen the Star Wars movies, but I think there is some truth to the monomyth idea

You haven't seen the Star Wars movies?!

I can only vaguely remember seeing The Force Awakens, it kinda turned me off from watching the rest I think

That's your problem - I can't blame you for not getting into it if the Force Awakens was your introduction. When I wrote "by this I mean the six proper films" I excluded the force awakens.

Haha I see. If I were to start watching the series, where should I start? I heard someone recommend Rogue One before

Rogue one is quite good considering its a new film. But I would say two paths are best: Story order (Episode 1, 2, 3 (the prequels), rouge 1, episodes 4 , 5, 6 (original trilogy) Or release order to get the authentic experience (4, 5, 6, 1, 2, 3)

Two chronicles posts today as I wrote a short post on my notes app on sunday but didn't have the chance to convert to HTML

an HTML formatter is a useful tool. I had AI write one up for me so I can dump in my blog posts and get a full page HTML file without much of any effort.

I did see that and think it was a neat idea. Although my posts are just paragraphs in tags for the most part. Mainly I don’t post on my site when I’m not at my computer, which try to avoid on weekends

I in no way am intending to be pedantic, but I just wanted to let you know that your update says "That one rouge". I don't care, but I figured you might, since it seems you (rightly) care about what you work on.

Thanks! I am terrible at spelling and usually type in a word processor before copying over to VS code. But I didn’t for this as it was a quick update