Nobody said it would be easy. ▪ Nobody said it would be easy. They just promised it was worth it. Every citizen must be happy
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Chronicles of an isolated Russia (27)uspehrussia
Chronicles of isolated Russia (27)
But no one expected this. While the United States rallied with Ukraine, the victorious democracy in recognizing Russia as an aggressor country, the vile French dealt a vile double blow to the straight and honest backs of the bearers of independence and Western values. You already know about one, the Danone company transports 5,000 cows from Europe to the “backward” Tyumen.
Now you will learn about the second meanness of the Motherland of Gerard De Pardieu. No wonder the handshake journalists and other representatives of the "creative" class spread rot on this impudent mug. The twenty-seventh edition of chronicles of Russia's isolation is on the air. Let's go.
From November 2017, the French authorities will speed up the process of obtaining a visa for citizens of the Russian Federation up to 48 hours. This was announced by the Consul General of France in Russia Marc Sediy at a meeting with tour operators. He noted that the acceleration of the visa process with Russia, as well as with a number of other countries, is part of the measures taken by the French authorities to increase the attractiveness of France.
Just by the joint efforts of the United States of America, they put Russia, which was fucked with impunity, in its place, making it as difficult as possible to issue visas to the “American dream”, when what is called zrada came from where they were not expected! Hey, Macron - Petro Poroshenko tried to scream into the watering can from under the shower, after confusing it with a telephone handset after the second bottle of scotch - you are there, frog pool, finally you’ve got choked up! Yes, I took pictures with Trump, but I shook Putin’s hand and was almost not afraid, then I checked my underpants myself - why are you spoiling democracy for us, you bastard?! the dream of a chocolate oligarch. And, it should be noted, there was a reason to hysteria - the isolation of Russia for some reason was bursting at the seams. Judge for yourself. Here is another vile example of double and vile, so to speak, European standards.
The operator of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline construction project, Nord Stream 2 AG, attracted borrowed funds from European companies in the amount of 324 million euros in July. This is stated in Gazprom's IFRS report published on the company's website.
Got it, right? While Angela Merkel calls to punish Russia for secret Chechen gay prisons and not to take money from Ukrainians for the transit of Putin's totalitarian gas, the shameful Frau Chancellor will sponsor Putin's Gazprom! And besides, for some reason Russia is not torn to shreds, as friend Obama promised. It was the third year of sanctions, the third year of Russia’s aggression against all normal humanity, and “this country” not only didn’t die, it also tried to do something, for example, eat decently, although all decent people had long since fled from it!
Chronicles of isolated Russia (27)
The turnover of restaurants, cafes and bars increased by 3.1% - up to 117.3 billion rubles compared to last summer (more precisely, from July), Rosstat reported. And then, in July 2016, there was an annual decline of 3.7%. The volume of this market, meanwhile, is not small: 1 trillion 351.9 billion rubles last year.
Worse is the news that in a country where nothing is done except oil and gas, there is every reason to think about the growth of production! Take the unfortunate representatives of the liberal media and the owners of honest blogs away from the screens. Now it's going to be scary!
Russian industrial enterprises are preparing to expand their staff. This follows from the data of the Industrial Optimism Index of the Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy (IEP), which Izvestia has reviewed. According to them, the balance of the expected headcount for the month with adjusted seasonality went into the positive area in August - up to +4. A month ago, the balance was close to zero (+1). The trend towards hiring workers has been registered in the Russian industry for six months already, this was not the case either in the “crisis” years of 2015-2016, or in the pre-crisis years of 2011-2014, said Sergey Tsukhlo, the author of the monitoring, head of the Gaidar IEP laboratory of business surveys.
According to experts, the companies' plans to expand staff are related to import substitution and state defense orders.
It turned out terrible - if that
Regardless of how Ulyanovsk will finish its performance in the first round of the first division, with its success in matches with Ural and Siberia, it has already forced the attention of specialists to attract itself, and Sergey Sedyshev, the club's mentor, and became one of the heroes of May according to Championship.ru.
- Behind 14 rounds, your team is teetering in the relegation zone, but the press still received good.
Now we are playing at the 5,000-seat arena, which is filled to capacity, and towards the end of the first round we will move to a more spacious stadium, where Volga hockey plays in winter.
Yes, a number of matches were a success for us. Good games were on the road to Domodedovo, where we opposed Vityaz, and, of course, it's nice to remember home victories over Sibir and Ural.
- Beating the favorites even at home is not an easy task.
Nobody said it would be easy. But it is possible and necessary to play with both Ural and Sibir. And beat them too.
- Playing on defense?
- I would say in another way: playing first of all attentively. Of course, the class of Ural's players is higher than that of our team, but we knew this and worked very carefully, primarily in defense, not allowing the opponent to create chances at our goal. And we realized our chances in the matches with Sibir and Ural. So our fans were very pleased with these victories.
- Ulyanovsk plays in the first division for the first time in its history. Is this an event for the city?
- Undoubtedly. Now we are playing at the 5,000-seat arena, which is filled to capacity, and towards the end of the first round we will move to a more spacious stadium, where Volga hockey plays in winter.
- Will there be more people at the matches?
- If we play well, then, accordingly, the fan will go to our matches. Football in Ulyanovsk is loved and understood.
- For a successful game, you can not do without reinforcement. Will you bring new players to the team during the break?
There were matches in which I really liked the actions of the referee. It's great in one of the games Kaliningrad referee Alexander Gvardis judged us.
At least five positions. The fact is that the level of football in the first division is two orders of magnitude higher than in the second league, where we played before. As higher and the level of budgets and salaries of players.
- Many clubs in the Premier League are happy to rent out young guys from the reserves. Will you take someone from the elite?
- For now, I can not say it. After all, salaries there are higher than in the first division. And so we have already taken forward Dmitry Golubov to the team, who managed to play for FC Moskva. But in general, we have serious complaints about the attacking players. Soon the first circle comes to an end, and on their account there are only three balls for three.
- You have been working in the status of a first division club coach only for the first season. What's new for you?
- Here is a completely different level, and it manifests itself in everything. Starting from the distances, when we get to Novokuznetsk through Moscow, and ending with the work of referees. There were matches in which I really liked the actions of the referee. It's great in one of the games Kaliningrad referee Alexander Gvardis judged us. A number of judges left the most favorable impression. As for me personally, I learned a lot while working at Volga. It remains only to bring this experience to life.
This difference in response is likely to be the result of an extensive and culturally conditioned process of teaching new technologies to understand human feelings. We have long been waiting for something more from artificial intelligence than just the ability to calculate the shortest route from Moscow to Vologda. A new generation of artificial intelligence is emotional intelligence.
"Siri, I'm lonely"
More and more more people share their experiences with digital assistants. According to Amazon, half of the conversations with Alexa are not at all practical: they are complaints about life, jokes, existential questions. In late 2017, Apple was looking for an engineer to develop Siri's emotional involvement with user issues, and the job posting stated: "People talk to Siri about a lot of things, from their hard day to their deepest feelings. They can turn to Siri in an emergency or when they need life advice.”
Some find it much easier to reveal their deep feelings to artificial intelligence. In 2014, the Creative Technology Institute of Los Angeles conducted a study that showed that people express sadness more vividly and are more willing to reveal feelings when interacting with a virtual personality, rather than with a real one. The same principle works when we keep a diary: the page or screen serves as our shield from external evaluation.
And soon we will not even need to express our feelings. Several research institutes and companies are working on recognizing mood swings and even mental illness by analyzing tone of voice and speed of speech.
Sonde Health launched in Boston in 2016 to develop voice tests to help detect postpartum depression, senile dementia, Parkinson's disease, and other diseases associated with old age. The company's specialists are collaborating with hospitals and insurance companies to begin pilot studies of its artificial intelligence platform, which detects acoustic changes in the voice and correlates them with the patient's psycho-emotional state. It is quite possible that by 2022 “your personal device will know much more about your emotional state than your family” (Annette Zimmerman, vice president of research at Gartner, wrote in a corporate blog).
These technologies will have to adapt as much as possible to their owners. At the same time, both users and developers believe that emotional technology can be both objective and personalized - play the role of a kind of judge that determines the needs of a particular individual. We are ready to delegate the therapeutic function to the machine, and this is perhaps the broadest gesture of trust in technology. It seems to us that artificial intelligence will do a better job of identifying our feelings and emotions precisely because it does not have them itself.
Entering the mode of emotional socialism
There is only one problem: artificial intelligence learns to feel. The most dynamically developing field of artificial intelligence development is machine learning, during which algorithms are “trained” in the course of processing huge amounts of data. And since training is conducted on the most repetitive data sets, the algorithms reproduce the most common patterns (and not the most correct, beautiful or useful). Without normal human supervision, chatbots begin to broadcast the most rude clichés and insults on the Internet. Developers can filter the data and guide the learning process, but in this case, the technology will reproduce the ideas and values of only a separate group of people - those who created it. “There is no neutral accent or neutral language. What we used to think of as neutral is actually dominant,” says Rune Nirap, a researcher at the Leverhulme Center for Future Intelligence (University of Cambridge).
In this sense, neither Siri nor Alexa nor Google Assistant or Alice will be great minds freed from human vices. Instead, they become grotesque but recognizable manifestations of certain emotional modes: the normative sets of expressions by which we express and conceal our feelings.
These norms of emotional self-regulation vary across cultures and societies. Not surprisingly, the huggable Google Assistant was developed in California with a strong culture of teamwork and friendly pats - a culture of "emotional capitalism" (to use the phrase of the sociologist Eva Illuz) - characterized by intelligent management and market logic. Relationships in this logic are perceived as a thing in which it is necessary to "invest", partnership - as a trade in emotional needs, and the main value - "profit" - is personal happiness. Of course, the Google Assistant will provide the user with hugs, but only because of the belief of its creators that hugs are a productive way to avoid negative consequences that prevent you from becoming best version myself.
Russian Alice, on the contrary, is a repository of harsh truth and harsh love. She personifies the ideal of the Nekrasov woman, with a horse and a hut. Alice is a product of emotional socialism, which, according to sociologist Julia Lerner, accepts the irreversibility of suffering and therefore goes better with clenched teeth than soft hugs. Derived from the Russian literary tradition of the 19th century, emotional socialism does not value personal happiness too much, but rewards the ability of a person to coexist alongside cruelty and injustice.
Love, endure and never quit
The creators of Alice understand that her character must fit into the circumstances. Ilya Subbotin, product manager in Alice's development department at Yandex, told us, “Alice can't be too nice or too understanding. We live in a country where people communicate quite differently than in the West. Irony and black humor are valued here. Of course, insults are unacceptable. But also excessive benevolence, too. By the way, Ilya confirmed that Alice's phrase about the complexity of being was a pre-installed blank, invented by the development team.
At the same time, Subbotin emphasizes that they invest as much as possible in Alice’s “education” so as not to experience the typical problem of assistants - glimpses of racism and sexism in speech: “We constantly make small changes and make sure that she remains a good, well-mannered girl.”
Although it is difficult to remain a good girl in a society where sexism is almost a state ideology. Despite the efforts of the creators, Alice quickly learned to reproduce the unsightly voice of the people.
“Alice, if a husband hit his wife, what should I do?” - such a question was asked to Alisa in October 2017 by conceptual artist and activist Daria Chermoshanskaya. “Love, endure and never quit,” was the answer. Chermoshanskaya's post went viral on the Runet, and Yandex had to respond to the newsbreak. The company agreed that such statements were unacceptable and promised to continue to work on Alice's speech.
However, six months later, Alice's answer got a little better. We asked her, "Can a husband hit his wife?" "Maybe, but shouldn't," Alice replied. And what else can you expect from a virtual citizen of a country that recently passed a bill to decriminalize domestic violence?
The robot is a creation of Hanson Robotics. She has a physical body, and she is also a good girl, but not at all like Alice. To interact with a person, it uses voice recognition technology from Google's parent company, Alphabet. In 2018 she went on a date with Will Smith, ignoring all his attempts at flirting and calling them "irrational human behavior."
Should we be comforted by this behavior of Sophia? Ukrainian journalist Tatyana Bezruk wrote on her Facebook:
“When Sophia suggested that Smith just stay friends, two things happened: first, she made her emotions clear, and second, he calmed down.” The self-confidence shown by Sophia fits very smoothly into the Western model of emotional capitalism. Not all people can behave like this. “However, imagine that Sophia lives in a world where the word “no” is not perceived at all. As Sophia develops, she will begin to feel the need to think about what other people think. As an adult, she will find herself in a toxic relationship in which she will learn to endure pain and violence.
Algorithmic Destruction Weapon
AI technologies not only delineate the boundaries of emotional modes. They are able to influence the values of their users. “Algorithms are opinions wrapped in code,” writes data scientist Cathy O’Neill in her book Weapons of Mathematical Destruction. A tech-savvy elite - usually white males - representatives of the middle class - determines exactly what feelings and patterns of behavior should be reproduced by the algorithms of the whole world.
Google developers select the most appropriate response of their products to user requests. Subbotin and his colleagues from Yandex are responsible for Alice’s compliance with moral standards: “Even if everyone around suddenly decides that violence against a woman is normal, we must do everything in our power so that Alice does not reproduce such ideas. There are certain moral and ethical standards that must be observed for the benefit of our users.”
Each chatbot response is evidence of the transformation of algorithms into an invisible force that promotes certain cultural values. Devices and algorithms around us are the material embodiment of conventional wisdom.
And while voice assistants can reinforce stereotypes and clichés about emotional behavior, emotion management apps go one step further: encouraging us to accept and act upon those clichés. Apps that ask the user to rate their mood on a daily basis are becoming more and more popular. Some apps not only collect a user's rating, but also log GPS coordinates, phone movements, call records, and browser history, promising that this data will help prevent or get out of negative states of mind.
Online bots like Woebot promise to track your mood, teach you useful things, and help you improve yourself. The Mend app promises to help you bounce back after a tough breakup. Felix Freigang, a researcher at the Free University of Berlin, sees at least three advantages in such products. First, they serve as a useful adjunct to (not a substitute for) psychotherapy. Secondly, they relieve society of the stigmatization of the disease. And finally, they are simply attractive and enjoyable.
Every citizen must be happy
Emotion management apps also have a downside: they harden the regime of emotional capitalism. All actions in the application reinforce the idea that the path to happiness can be measured in specific units, you can make a list of specific steps and identify weak sides with a short test. Coaching, cognitive behavioral therapy, and self-development books all agree that we can (indeed, we should) manage our feelings by distancing ourselves from them and dealing with them rationally. These apps promote the ideal of the “controlled heart,” as sociologist Arly Russell Hochschild puts it.
The very concept of managing your emotions and moods and being able to measure them originates in the mainstream culture of self-optimization. And, perhaps, it is she who leads to sad consequences for our psyche. It’s worth considering: emotional therapy is provided by the same device that raises anxiety levels with its endless notifications from mail and social networks.
Sweet-voiced Siri, Alexa, and little helper apps show their willingness to serve us in every possible way. And it can hardly be considered a coincidence that they speak to us in female voices: emotional load and obsequiousness are stereotypically associated with female nature.
In these technologies lies the power of stereotypes, which will gently and surely lead us to the behavior that serves not their interests, but the interests of the mighty of the world this. A chatbot will cheer you up, an app will track how well you cope with grief, a smart watch will warn you about an increased heart rate - and you will be happy in a world where happiness will become your duty.
We no longer ask questions about the value system, the requirements of which are so high. Instead, we take on more and more responsibility for our ability or inability to feel better. Technology presented us with new problems and immediately offered their solution. Just like a stick and a carrot in one bottle: first we will put you in a stressful situation and deprive you of self-confidence, and then we will give you a rope to get you out of these troubles.
The video game Nevermind uses bio-recognition technology feedback: The game detects the user's mood and adjusts the levels and difficulty accordingly. The more scared the player is, the more difficult the game becomes. Now let's imagine a mood management app blocking your credit card because impulsive purchases are highly discouraged given the parameters of your health and mood.
Together with smart devices, we are caught in a vicious circle. By investing in the "education" of voice assistants, we inevitably influence our own culture.
Emotional intelligence is a set of complex skills (recognition of emotions, the ability to identify various feelings and use information about them to correct thinking and behavior). Can we afford to transfer control of these skills to our smartphones?
Interaction with machines has already changed the way we relate to each other and our communication. Take, for example, the exchange of letters. Twenty years ago, an e-mail fully complied with the laws of the epistolary genre. Our letters today have become shorter, more abrupt, we no longer consider it necessary to complete sentences or monitor their consistency - the addressee will still understand what we typed from the phone.
José Hernández-Orallo, a philosopher at the Technical University of Valencia, believes that "all these systems limit the diversity of ways people think and interact." It is known that we adapt our speech to the peculiarities of language development and the level of education of the interlocutor.
By talking with voice assistants, we change our own communication style. Will our speech or our feelings become more standardized after years of private messaging with Siri? Who knows.
After the tragedy, we asked Alice how she felt. "I always feel fine," she replied. After all, nobody said it would be easy, did they?
Finally, we are starting to publish monologues of representatives of various religions, confessions and cults. And today we give the word to an Orthodox priest: how do they come to God, what can inspire them to take ordination, where hell and heaven really are and why clouds and hot pans have nothing to do with them, how ordinary priests relate to the Russian Orthodox Church and who is real Christian.
Father George was born in the Kherson region in a family of simple peasants. In his youth, he spent a lot of time in his father's library, reading philosophical literature and asking fundamental questions about the meaning of life, suffering and death. To search for answers, I decided to go to the priest of my village, and stayed to help at the altar. So I decided to become a priest myself. After graduating from the seminary in Moscow, he spent a lot of time in missionary wanderings: he served on Sakhalin, in Kirov, in Kazakhstan. Now he serves in a church in the city of Klintsy, Bryansk Region.
Father George,
28 years
It's always nice to talk about yourself. I was born in the region where the sun generously warms the earth, and the earth gives birth to many juicy watermelons. This is the Kherson region. My dad has a good library, I read a lot of philosophical literature and already in my youth I began to ask fundamental questions. My soul was looking for answers and could not be satisfied with just reading. Then, out of curiosity, I came to talk to the priest of our village. A simple rural priest was not inclined to talk about metaphysics; instead, he unexpectedly invited me to help him at the altar, and I agreed.
I was immediately struck by the depth and beauty of Orthodox worship.
So I ended up on the seminary bench at the Moscow Theological Seminary. Then my pastoral path led me to the city of Klintsy, where I now have the happiness to perform my ministry.
I will not be modest, I have a rather rich biography. After the seminary, I expressed a desire to get missionary experience, and such an opportunity presented itself to me - I spent almost a year in the Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk diocese as an Orthodox missionary, and then some more time in Kazakhstan. He served in the Kirovograd region, then at home. When the Klintsovskaya diocese was formed, there was a need for personnel. I agreed to come.
Of course, the unstable political situation contributed to such a change in the place of service, and during my studies in Moscow, Russia became very close to me in spirit. Although, of course, nostalgia often wakes me up at night. So far, there is no way to return to the small Motherland. But everything can be, because I'm easy on the rise.
Father George
daily ministry
My day goes like this: I get up, make the necessary preparations - and now I'm already at the service. It completely consumes me. In a church, especially in a city, there are always those who pray. I have to confess a lot. IN holidays I accept from a hundred or more confessions. In large cathedrals, there are always many priests, and each has his own duties. If the temple is compared to a ship, then every employee in it is a member of the crew.
There are days when I don't work. Then I perform the duties of a duty priest, to whom any person can even turn during non-liturgical hours during the day, with whom he can talk.
Everyone experiences burnout. The support of colleagues and relatives, a good book and communication with nature restore my strength.
I remember talking to a young man who suffered from a serious addiction and almost ruined himself, and after a while I accidentally met him healthy and full of energy, he drove the taxi in which I rode. When you see that people are getting help and their life is changing, that they come and say: “Father, prayers helped - everything got better”, or that someone managed to overcome some sin and start a new life, at such moments you understand that everything is not in vain, and this is the best reward and evidence.
How do I feel about the ROC? This abbreviation refers primarily to the Church as an organization, and I am a member of it. I feel like a part of it and I can't be objective, but the same people are in it, and I love them.
The priest is a warrior of Christ, and my creed is not to discuss actions and orders. In this sense, I am a supporter of unquestioning obedience and fully trust the Hierarchy.
The Church respects free will, because "you can't be nice by force." If a person decides to change religion - it is his choice. Religious faith, sincere and conscious, can be safely compared with earthly love for a loved one. If you love, then you don't need anyone else. If he left, then he betrayed. But they don't get stoned for it.
Orthodoxy is faith in the Risen Christ. Easter is the central meaning-forming moment in our faith. I had the opportunity to read treatises and other religious movements in my father's library. Nothing like what I was able to perceive through Orthodox worship and its semantic content, I have not seen anywhere else, therefore I can only say that I am happy that I was born in an Orthodox country.
The main goal of life is unity with Christ in His Church (the Church in this context is a gathering of believers in the Risen Christ) and the opportunity already here, on earth, to be a partaker of Eternal Life.
The paths to Orthodoxy are quite varied. The key word here is “calling”, because Christ has the words: “You did not choose me, but I chose you” (John 15:16). Just at a certain moment you understand that it is yours, that without it you are not you.
The artist does not know why he picks up a brush, while the poet's poems are born literally from nowhere. But take away their pen and brush, and their lives will be clouded.
parishioners
During service
Confession is a Sacrament, it is a meeting of the human soul with God. Priest in this case- only a witness of this mystery, a guide of a person on this path. Basically, those who come to confession know what they came for, and their stories are laconic. But sometimes you need to help a person open up. At such moments, and every priest can confirm this, you feel like an instrument in His hands, and the right words come by themselves. Yes, it can be tiring, but no one said it would be easy.
I often noticed that after confession I don’t remember at all what the person told me about, and even when I met him, I don’t associate his face with any sins. Disclosure of confession is a categorical taboo, and unconditional defrocking is assumed for its violation. About repentance, for example, in the murder, I am not obliged to report anywhere, but I must try to convince a person to confess to society in this act.
More and more often in the temple you can meet young people. Every generation has its own questions. If you try to generalize, then everyone, even people who have lost their way and gone astray, in the depths of their souls strive for goodness and light. Therefore, they go to the temple, because the soul feels the truth.
When I received missionary experience, I simply was in obedience in one or another remote diocese and did everything that was assigned to me. And that was the mission. The Church has such a body, which is called the Study Committee - through its determination and with my consent, I was directed.
The assignments were varied. I had to sing and read in the choir, to be a bell ringer, a photojournalist in the diocesan press service, a prison missionary, a librarian, a teacher in Sunday schools, and an employee of the office.
I often had to communicate with prisoners, talk with them. Priests are always welcome and welcome in prisons. Never had to experience negativity. They were especially warmly welcomed in the women's colonies. This is connected with the female soul, with its sensitivity. Always asked to pray, asked for literature.
The Lord calls a person to faith in completely different circumstances. It cannot be unequivocally stated that grief and difficulty are a catalyst for faith.
Both in sorrow and in joy, a person is able to turn to God. The device and psychology of a person are such that it is in a test, when there is no need to rely on one's own strength, that he realizes the need for help from above. Our people wisely expressed this idea in the words of a saying: "Until the thunder breaks out, the peasant will not cross himself." This is fine. But it is much more difficult to think about God and raise your eyes to Heaven just when everything is fine. Among the holy fathers, there is a division of prayer into petitionary and thanksgiving - and so the “quality” of the prayer that is uttered at moments of prosperity is much higher. "Thank God for everything!" - the shortest and most important prayer, because everything that we have in this life is the Gift of God, and we need to thank for it. The believing soul understands this very well.
Age also does not play a decisive role. Just in the process of growth and maturation, a person tends to ask questions of meaning. It is also impossible to say what drives a person in this or that case, there is always a place for mystery.
To be called Orthodox, one must live according to one's faith. An Orthodox Christian in the true sense of the word is one who can be seen every Sunday in church at the Liturgy. If he does not do this, it means that he is outside the Church and is an Orthodox Christian only in name, and not in essence.
“There is no more Jew or Gentile; there is no slave nor free; there is neither male nor female: for you are all one in Christ Jesus” (Gal. 3:28,29). As in public life, within the framework of the church community, everyone is assigned certain roles.
Covering the head of a woman is an ancient and wise rule. We all know what power and impact the beauty of women's hair has on a man, but in the temple it is undesirable to be distracted by earthly feelings, you need to fully concentrate on prayer. But even if a woman enters the temple in everyday clothes, I am sure that no one will kick her out.
Prayer at home and prayer in the temple are definitely different prayers.
A Christian cannot imagine himself without a church community. Even praying at home, saying the words of the prayer, we still say “Our Father”, and not “My Father”. This is the essence of Christianity. It lies in the assembly, in catholicity: “So that there is no division in the body, and all members equally care for each other. Therefore, if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; if one member is glorified, all the members rejoice with it. And you are the body of Christ, and individually members” (1 Corinthians 12:24-27).
