/christian/ - Christian Discussion and Fellowship

Sounds comfy.

Come on guise :O

I'm really puttin' some effort into this to make your experience on the discord as comfy as possible, but you also need to help me out - at least with wishes regarding what you'd like to see included :7

Have a nice day and God bless !

maybe this is better served by using other existing bots than rolling it into your own, but having the ability to play music over the voice channels is always a nice touch. Usually this is done via youtube-dl and some other server-side shenanigans, and is a bit resource heavy.

Maybe some links to introductions to Christianity and apologetics would be nice, as would an auto response function to atheistic meme phrases.

Thanks a lot! I don't know the Discord API (yet) but if you have a public repository I'd love to at least look through it (and maybe help if it isn't over my head in due time).

>>529593

uh, this is a discord bot, usable in any discord 'server' It has nothing to do with a particular group of mods.

>>529601

Exactly. Anyone can use it and it will not be restricted to catholic-only features. Which is why I am asking people here - especially non-catholics (as stated in OP).

This is supposed to become a /christian/ bot, not a #catholicMafia bot. :s

Some people man ….

>>528189

Where do I find it?

>>528189

Maybe you could put a command that pastes the five ways by St. Aquinas?

Why not add a feature for the Raccolta, which is a massive list of approved and indulgenced prayers for Catholics?

Here is a link for you:

http://www.liturgialatina.org/raccolta/contents.htm

>>529572

I could add that feature - playing music/YT links - but as you said, it's resource-heavy. Furthermore this is something that could particularly lead to abuse - therefore I'd have to make it being used only by mods, which in turn wouldn't really make sense as it'd prolly be a dead feature.

Regarding the apologetics: Absolutely. I'm just looking for reasonable things, that can be hard coded so to speak - as in: not sending just links all the time. Like for example Lewis' "Mere Christianity" is awesome, but you can't just condense it to, say, 3-4 lines or short text. That's what I mean. One anon below posted the sugggestions of Aquinas' 5 ways and I really want to get it in there - just in shortened form [see link below and have a look + tell me if that's reasonable, too]

>>529739

Nowhere, because I'm making it from scratch :P

>>529742

Tell me if this conclusion (http://web.mnstate.edu/gracyk/courses/web%20publishing/aquinasFiveWays_ArgumentAnalysis.htm) is accurate - as I am pretty much not versed in philosophical or theological things - because I cannot implement the whole article.

>>529748

Question: Does that make sense ? The most trivial reason is that every single entry is so long, that I couldn't get anything out but the link to the page - or if we would want to be punks, save the whole page as txt or odt(converting to pdf) and sending it.

The next thing is that it's not only a list of prayers but a huge database of "devotion practices" - including "what Pope X advised in year Y", like

>

Pope Pius VI., in order to sanction the devout exercise begun in France with the approbation and under the auspices of Monsignor Beaumont, Archbishop of Paris, of happy memory, granted, by a decree of the S. Congr. of Indulgences, dated May 15, 1784….

And I'm pretty sure that this is already something very (too) specific - and not very suited to be posted by a bot.

I'll keep thinking about it though.

Overall, we need some general things. Up to now most if very catholic-specific [beside that I have the Nicene Creed for orthobros added, too]. So the suggestion with general apologetics is pretty valuable - but I mean there are apparently more than catholics and orthobros - and I really have no clue what's really specific to, say, baptists - like what they would want to read about or have a discussion etc.

>>529778

To add to this:

The suggestion with the Raccolta is great, but it's just not very practical, if you know what I mean. Especially if you consider that it's not like the BibleBot, that searches just particular verses or my Catechism-feature that also just searches for entries - which are all very specific. But what would you want to search for in the Raccolta, particularly ? If you're looking for "pages", you have easily 10 pages of text on one. And looking for particular entries is pretty futile, because I'm sure few know that it exists and even fewer could tell you "where to look for something very specific like for example "68. FATHER BORGO'S NOVENA.". If you know what I mean. :/

>>529783

>>529778

Yeah no problem. It just seemed like the kind of reference material that might be helpful, but I understand what you're saying about indexing and formatting.

Thanks anyway.

what about a Bible trivia game mode with scoring?

you say something like

>"popebot triviagame start" in chat

it begins the game, it asks a question:

>[Question] what was the name of abraham's father?

if no one guesses it correctly, after 15 seconds it says

>popebot: [Hint 1] T****

giving the first letter of the answer, along with asterisks for the rest of it, after 10 more seconds it gives another letter

>popebot: [Hint 2] Te***

someone guesses it:

<user123: Terah

>popebot: user123 gave the correct answer, and now has 1 pt(s)

if no one guessed it after 30 seconds, it goes to the next question, after 10 questions, the game is over and whoever had the most points is announced as the winner

>>529789

Working on it. Someone gib me a catalouge with good questions - that are suitable for several denominations

Daily bonk for (hopefully) new input

Daily bump for more input.

Maybe it's better to bump during burger times.

Submit to the Papal timezone now !

bonk

Never gonna give you up,

Never gonna let you down

swiggety swooty, I'm comin' for your inpooty

bump

bumpedy boo

You should rename it a catholic botnet if it's not quoting the Bible. Otherwise a christian botnet.

>>533505

And I forgot to update you what's in it:

!commands [all commands]

!CCC "number" [entry from CCC]

!CCCbatch "number1"-"number2" [several entries, 1 < 2]

!CCCsearch "keyword(s)" [search entries for keywords]

!CCClink "number(s)" [print out link to entry]

!apostles [Apostle's Creed]

!nicene [Nicene Creed]

!pontiff [latest tweet of Pope Francis]

!whois "@name" [user info]

!prayers "?" or "which" [which prayers are available]

!prayers "name" "lat/eng" [prayers of the Rosary]

!rosary [introduction to the Rosary]

!happyface [random happy image]

!setdenom "denom" [set your own denomination]

!denom [empty] (own denom) or !denom "@name"

!?denoms [see all available denominations]

!game [simple Bible trivia guessing game]

!points with or without "@name" [show current points]

!aquinas [Aquinas arguments for the existence of God]

>>533507

It ain't a botnet. It's a bot. And why would you complain about it being catholic when literally no one but catholics submit their wishes ? I mean this is why I'm here, begging people for suggestions day after day.

And it's not supposed to quote the Bible, as there already is a BibleBot that does the job pretty much better than I could implement it with my limited time.

Anyway, God bless !

bonk

>>533915

burger times!

>>533511

> !aquinas [Aquinas arguments for the existence of God]

How about quote from Aquinas' Summa Theologica?

>>534013

In principle not a bad idea. But what ? It's all very elaborated and lengthy.

I actually tried to find condensed arguments - the picture I got is really the best I have

bompity bimp

Bamp

bonko

bingo bongo

note: the trivia game is out, because it turned out pretty impractical and "against the general idea". Bot shall be "informative", not "entertaining" if you know what I mean

>>528189

any idea when the Bot will be able to be invited to servers?

>>536523

It's not up to myself here. We'll have to see, I guess.

>>533511

>Kept reading those as !demon

Wew.

bomp

bimb