@OurLadyofAntifa Avatar @OurLadyofAntifa Stan of Cleves

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"@TerribleMaps Kiribati is CANCELLED"
X Link 2024-03-05T22:50Z [----] followers, 31.7K engagements

"@JawnTheBeloved NOTA (Shruk)"
X Link 2024-06-20T12:04Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@MadocCairns Among a myriad of loathings I can't get express how inane and despicable this talk of "ecclesiastical suicide" I've been seeing lately is. As if the Church ought to concern herself with whether "the faith once given" is POPULAR. What do these people think they're going to say"
X Link 2025-02-13T03:52Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Was idly reading about Icelandic runic magic as one does and (among more familiar goals common to a variety of agrarian cultures) I couldn't help noticing one that seemed oddly specific:"
X Link 2025-02-16T11:26Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Record it as entry #8212 in the "So Iceland: What the Fuck" file"
X Link 2025-02-16T11:30Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@EthanWayne2001 Matthew and John both arrange their material partly by topic rather than in strictly chronological order (the Gospel with the tightest chronology is Marke.g. he's the only one to distinguish certain events in Holy Week as occurring on different days: compare Mark 11:1-26 with"
X Link 2025-02-17T03:12Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@EthanWayne2001 Matthew 21:1-22). In Matthew the structure largely showcases Christ as the new Moses with five discourses (chs. 5-7 [--] [--] [--] and 21-26) summing up his new teaching that transfigures the five scrolls of the Torah. John is more influenced by early Merkavah mysticism and"
X Link 2025-02-17T03:17Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@FrTotleben92742 @Jellybean6543 You said it "isn't the principal reason" IVF is wrong; what would you expect people to take from that And the deaths involved may not be what makes IVF intrinsically immoralbut surely they're still the gravest of the issues with it Sins against justice are (or so I gather)"
X Link 2025-02-21T13:30Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@FrTotleben92742 @Jellybean6543 normally inherently graver than those against temperance; and whether that principle holds in broad terms or not I can make no sense of an ethical theory that treats IVF in se as worse than murderwhich I bring up because that's how your tweet comes across. Most people"
X Link 2025-02-21T13:33Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@Tyler_The_Wise @Gingerroot775"
X Link 2025-02-23T21:32Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@wylfcen Oh this must be where the collective "kine" comes from c plus the old plural in -en"
X Link 2025-04-11T05:22Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"@BorisTheCat2 @JoeyMannarinoUS I mean . were you taught the Americas came stocked with white people because if so I'm afraid your school was very revisionist (wrong even). We're overwhelmingly descended from Europeans and in North America white people mostly got here within the last 100-400 years"
X Link 2025-09-30T03:16Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@morallawwithin "Poster child"; "posturing"checks out so far. And the title of the Twelve specifically negates it (they're "A-postles")"
X Link 2025-10-17T01:33Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"like . I'm all for ridding the public of the myth that there are huge medical advantages to circumcision (they're negligible to nonexistent and if you're doing it for religious reasons they're also kind of irrelevant) but this seems a tad mmm overwrought"
X Link 2025-10-17T17:48Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"however I do love the unintentional honesty of saying "thousands" in that tagline in a country of 340M people where circumcision is common practice"
X Link 2025-10-17T17:48Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@_CLancellotti @TheOptimisticC3 compromise between unity and adaptibility as an advantage; the "Great Books" basis could equally be used by public schools or by Protestant private schools for example without needing to be taken to bits"
X Link 2025-10-17T18:25Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

". Do parents expect this from time-outs I never had this impressionI was always led to believe most punishments were (and were known by most parents to be) imposed because children need to form the habit of good behavior long before they're able to grasp why it's desirable. i will never give parenting advice (guarantee). posting this comic from a book called no-drama discipline because i never stopped thinking about it. had many interesting discussions with people about it. https://t.co/tCyNJYHvQj i will never give parenting advice (guarantee). posting this comic from a book called no-drama"
X Link 2025-10-18T06:12Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Which isn't to say one doesn't explain as much as the child can understand at whatever age. And of course some children are able to cotton on earlier than others same as learning anything else"
X Link 2025-10-18T06:12Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@lukei4655 At riskscratch that; at certaintyof self-promotion Father I dare say you'd enjoy my most recent post here: https://www.patheos.com/blogs/mudbloodcatholic/2025/10/high-fidelity/ https://www.patheos.com/blogs/mudbloodcatholic/2025/10/high-fidelity/"
X Link 2025-10-18T18:37Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@ICEgov wait till you hear about this one gringo in the White HouseI'm sure nothing will stop you from arresting him"
X Link 2025-10-19T01:53Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@WhiteHouse The Vice President tweets an open assault on the basic values of this countryand rather than scramble to hush up this atrociously unpatriotic embarrassment this White House retweets it. You have no love for this country no respect for its freedoms and no decency"
X Link 2025-10-19T02:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"@WhiteHouse I am humiliated that either of these men represents my country on the world stage. If you have any conscience left with the number of foreigners AND American citizens your government has ruined or killed this year: resign while you can still do so in mere disgrace"
X Link 2025-10-19T02:09Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@MatthewSitman truly unprecedented to hear a leftist argue that the default path-of-least-resistance behavior of everyone is in fact more morally creditable and rebelliously chic than logging off standing up and walking outside for a while with a sign that says "this is in some way bad""
X Link 2025-10-19T20:42Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@AidanSimardone what could be more useless in the face of fascism than to give a concrete demonstration both to those who loathe authoritarianism and the cowards who side with it that antifascist opposition is real numerous and nationwide"
X Link 2025-10-19T20:48Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Incidentally King James IV of Scotland was the last monarch in the British Isles to die in battle; he was killed at Flodden fighting forces led not by the King but the (pregnant) Queen of England Her Majesty Katharine of Aragon. Bishop William Elphinstone outside of Kings College Chapel by Harry Wilson [----]. Elphinstone was the founder of the college in [----] which received its royal charter from King James IV. Wilson's memorial replaced one destroyed at the Reformation. 1/3 #31DaysofGraves 21: bronze https://t.co/pxXCbKIRaA Bishop William Elphinstone outside of Kings College Chapel by Harry"
X Link 2025-10-21T22:08Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@StuffForSisters not to be mean but unless he just woke up from a coma and had no way of knowing till this week at this point the onus is on him to either change his name or do something so shocking that it violently wrenches the meaning of "A. I. Slop" away from its current meaning"
X Link 2025-10-21T22:23Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@thenickshephard This is a super weird claim for a Christian. One the New Testament goes out of its way to contradict multiple times. Neither it nor I deny that fatherhood is a wonderfully good thing; but a faith that agrees with "The Da Vinci Code" even roughly is heterodox (at least)"
X Link 2025-10-24T00:11Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"@kingbolby A little less than [----] miles (I was born in Japan)"
X Link 2025-10-24T01:24Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@JLSoprano oh good God"
X Link 2025-10-24T20:50Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"My parish seems to be gathering a nice little cluster of relicswe've had St Edward the Confessor since before the parish was Catholic and received St Thomas Aquinas in the last year or two; now they've been joined by St John Henry Newman 😊"
X Link 2025-10-26T17:13Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@ThomasDHowes Also his wartime propaganda is public knowledge. Like no "Bartholomew and the Oobleck" doesn't have a page in the middle where he drew a self-portrait with the speech bubble 'By the way kids I endorsed US entry into WWII. Anyway' but it isn't a secret"
X Link 2025-10-28T05:01Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"I really like most of Tissot's work but I have never understood WHAT is happening with the Angels of the Eighties in this one Adam and Eve Driven from Paradise #artbots #tissot https://t.co/HzYo3XF7mN Adam and Eve Driven from Paradise #artbots #tissot https://t.co/HzYo3XF7mN"
X Link 2025-10-28T05:25Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@kisstheblade_ @matthew_loftus Joking aside I honestly am prepared to believe this has happened to like eight people worldwide in the last hundred yearsthe human race will sustain that much weirdness. But seriously this is the limit: if somebody claims to be the ninth I'm gonna require documentation"
X Link 2025-10-28T21:47Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@octopuscaveman At my first Starbucks (which was in a shopping center adjacent to some suburbs) we'd occasionally get stoners especially on Thanksgiving for some reason. They were invariably the most useless incredibly pleasant customers we had"
X Link 2025-10-30T07:50Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Ooohmuch more eerie than Tissot's typical oeuvre . Elijah carried away into heaven by a chariot of fire #artbots #tissot https://t.co/sNROCoa7Ak Elijah carried away into heaven by a chariot of fire #artbots #tissot https://t.co/sNROCoa7Ak"
X Link 2025-10-31T01:50Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"I didn't read Dreher's entire Substack (I'm not that much of a masochist) but I got through a good chunk. It leaves me slack-jawed; all I can say isHow How does a man who clearly genuinely cares about preserving American constitutional democracy against a fascist threat Rod Dreher writing about his conversation with Ben Shapiro: "We did agree that our friend J.D. Vance who we both want to be POTUS one day at some rapidly approaching point has to take a firm clear public stand against the Groypers (followers of Nick Fuentes). This evil is https://t.co/ySNsd8x2Hr Rod Dreher writing about"
X Link 2025-10-31T19:40Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"that he recognizes still maintain this level of oblivion about the realities of American politics How does someone who cares this much about consistency and principle still have a shred of respect forlet alone CONFIDENCE INan incessant obvious liar like Vance Or how"
X Link 2025-10-31T19:40Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"can Dreher even entertain the shoelace-eatingly-insane idea that Trump is the equivalent of Hindenburg HOLDING BACK some even worseof course unidentifiedabhuman maniac I mean come on they do have the internet in Hungary Make no mistake: no matter how late his awakening"
X Link 2025-10-31T19:40Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@LCTMH well who would you cast as Mrs Cratchit then"
X Link 2025-11-05T16:58Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"right I'm adding "trying to ruin the Insane Clown Posse" to the list of charges Trump: "With the [---] percent I was able to do it instantaneously when we were threatened by the rare earths as you know the magnets." https://t.co/GiT1zaDQee Trump: "With the [---] percent I was able to do it instantaneously when we were threatened by the rare earths as you know the magnets." https://t.co/GiT1zaDQee"
X Link 2025-11-06T21:16Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"When Panga was the single terrestrial continent the Appalachians were its spinea truly gigantic mountain range like today's Himalayas. This is roughly what Earth looked like during the Jurassic Period. This was about 150-200 million years ago when Earth still had one continent Pangea. https://t.co/U9xN9to5LQ This is roughly what Earth looked like during the Jurassic Period. This was about 150-200 million years ago when Earth still had one continent Pangea. https://t.co/U9xN9to5LQ"
X Link 2025-11-07T23:20Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@tusionni wat. wrong end of n. america: bigfoot lives in the cascades. that's why the yeti blood oath was in denver's seminary duh"
X Link 2025-11-08T04:28Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@mfjlewis @DrKwasniewski AFAIK the short version is that Ward subscribed to an extreme idea of infallibility considering the popes immune to error not only on faith and morals and when speaking ex cathedra but immune to it simply"
X Link 2025-11-09T00:47Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@mfjlewis @DrKwasniewski I'd forgotten about that bull-with-every-breakfast quip; and likemy guyI'm a convert too I get it; but Ward my actual brother in Christ thou hast posted cringe. Then again this was around when the Holy See was shilling vin Mariani; maybe Ward's cringe was uh not all his"
X Link 2025-11-09T00:53Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@danfaggella As here defined being a the Lotus Eater and being a World Eater both sound unbelievably sad. Of the two I as a Catholic certainly trust and like the Lotus Eater more: granted his desires are too weak but he is at least focused on enjoying the world outside himself (or in"
X Link 2025-11-09T03:10Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@WASPmexicano I am interested in Stonehenge but I freely admit that we calendar nerds (or "kalen-nerds" as no one would call us no matter how many times we pitched it to our friends sophomore year) are not Normal . (didyouknow"calendar"wasoriginallyspelledwithakthat'swhyit's"kalen-nerds")"
X Link 2025-11-09T18:46Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@kisstheblade_ I am having an extremely hard time picturing Sulla as the silly one but if there is an actor who can do that then they should absolutely let Joaquin Phoenix do it"
X Link 2025-11-10T00:37Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@ChasePadusniak [--]. Plato [--]. Plotinus 3+. N/A: "He who breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom." Olrin the Maia"
X Link 2025-11-10T00:47Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"oh for God's sake man don't try to blame the Puritans and then make it everyone's problemjust buy a yellow hankie like a normal pervert and mind your own business Unpopular opinion: washing your hands after pissing reeks of sexual Puritanism. Its just piss. Its basically ammonia or bleach. It evaporates. While you sit there blow drying your hands in the bathroom like Lady Macbeth screaming out damn spot 🤷 chill Unpopular opinion: washing your hands after pissing reeks of sexual Puritanism. Its just piss. Its basically ammonia or bleach. It evaporates. While you sit there blow drying your"
X Link 2025-11-11T11:54Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@morallawwithin this reminds me of a podcast where one of the guys describes how being in outer space would make your lungs start pulling oxygen out of your blood and calls it "sort of unpleasant"to which another guy says "not sort of unpleasant just straight up-and-down unpleasant""
X Link 2025-11-11T21:17Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@suzania I went to a quasi-officially Reformed high school and I think the first time I met (sort of) a Dispensationalist was when my class attended a debate on what else eschatology. I'd accepted the usual Calvinist derision of Dispensationalism from my surroundings but I was chilled"
X Link 2025-11-12T06:09Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@suzania to the bone when the Dispensationalist gentleman justified the claim that there will be a Third Temple and a reinstated sacrificial system on the grounds that the Cross "obviously" wasn't sufficient to cleanse the world of sin. It still flabbergasts me that any Christian could"
X Link 2025-11-12T06:11Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@NikaerD @AmericanGwyn If you're going for realism sure. I prefer that myself when I write and did years of research for my own fairly unsuccessful novel; but surely realism is a choice that's up to the author"
X Link 2025-11-12T16:28Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@voiceofgeraldo AI or human painter I don't like images of Christ and the Mother of God where they look bored to see me"
X Link 2025-11-12T16:34Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Thrilled to discover that Corpus Christi in Baltimore though no longer a parish per se hasn't been sold off and is in fact still operatingopen for prayer (and I gather Confessions) on Wednesdays around 4-6 pm"
X Link 2025-11-12T21:19Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@CrankyFed but what if your friends don't have bowls you don't careyou're just making them chili to humiliate them. you monster. huchiliation"
X Link 2025-11-12T21:35Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@suzania A young woman made a pot of chili for a house of (iirc) college-aged young men living next door to her. You might think this was (a) a nice gesture and (b) primarily their business; but this is an internet. In a specific corner of leftist Twitter a multi-day meltdown ensued"
X Link 2025-11-14T00:34Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@thymeIord I would. Show me a monolingual who wants to talk about Sapir-Whorf and I'll show you one of those plus a guy who wants to explain that Jesus is really a solar myth plus a TikTok girl who just found out the NT was written decades after Jesus' lifetime plus a David Icke"
X Link 2025-11-14T02:56Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@PunkyMantilla I would tend to read His Holiness more along the lines of what Deuteronomy says about the Law not being unattainable: as St. Paul tells us there is a sense in which the Law always was unattainable but that is due to human sinfulness not because it was an inhuman standard"
X Link 2025-11-14T03:26Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@Vitus_oss Yeah all Muslims are definitely on board with everything done by two randomly-selected dudes performing a stunt online 😒. Man there are Christians who would destroy a statue of the Mother of God; treating things this simplistically is childish and scandalous"
X Link 2025-11-14T16:57Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@needGod_net I prefer "foster father" personally but yes. However it is important to note that this does not have nearly the same weight that the title "Mother of God" carries because Joseh did not beget Jesus in the same sense in which Mary did bear him. So yes there is (in a way)"
X Link 2025-11-16T00:56Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@needGod_net a double standard here but it's because the standards are measuring two importantly-different things"
X Link 2025-11-16T00:57Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"idea (that authority is a malleable power scattered across the face of the earth by God to fulfill its purpose of serving mankind) is mutated into a very different one: that the Authorities which in fact exist in every nation exist by divine right and that their proper sphere is"
X Link 2025-11-17T04:05Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"the "common good of their particular nation" or as we say today "the national interest." This mutated idea is emphatically not what the Church teaches for a few reasons one of them being that this warps the Catholic idea of the good by treating it as something which can be"
X Link 2025-11-17T04:08Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"meaningfully split into national subdivisions. As if the good could be a coherent thing and yet in competition with itselfas if something could actually be "good for the US but bad for China" or vice versain short as if we were not one human family inhabiting one world and"
X Link 2025-11-17T04:14Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"who have one heavenly Father; as if the Church were not called to call humanity into the unity of the Trinity but were merely a tool for improving the little cul-de-sac of the human race we eventually learned we happened to be born into. That as they no longer say ain't it"
X Link 2025-11-17T04:19Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@WB_Baskerville wwwhat is going on with New Zealand here I demand to know"
X Link 2025-11-18T07:37Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@CrankyFed I cannot get over how stupid the reaction to Sc et Nn was. Like the point of the book was that this collection of seemingly-confusing quotes from the Fathers can be understood and people reacted to nothing but the vibes and claimed it was "disrespectful." Asinine"
X Link 2025-11-18T16:22Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@teafortillerman @WB_Baskerville Oh yeah clearly that's what he's sayingI mean we handle every other rapist this way; and who could doubt that that's the central issue here when the government has just proven its good-faith concern with all that stuff by releasing the Epstein files"
X Link 2025-11-19T03:49Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@kisstheblade_ "What peace can be found / To grow between the hammer and the anvil" Third Priest Act I 'Murder in the Cathedral' (T. S. Eliot)"
X Link 2025-11-20T07:34Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@Acyn I don't agree Miss Leavitt. For example: you are a remorseless liar and should be utterly ashamed of the job you accept pay to do for this despicable administration. Can you see how someone saying that to your face might feel and/or be worse than their just thinking it"
X Link 2025-11-20T23:03Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"I disagree with Marjorie Taylor Greene about nearly everythingeven with what I'm about to say I'm glad she's leaving Congress. But I respect the honesty of her resignation letter. I wish there were more statesmen on both sides who had a fraction of her principle"
X Link 2025-11-22T10:05Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@consciousphilos Not if you believe any of the things the Declaration of Independence asserted to be not just true but self-evident: "That all men are created equal and endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life liberty and the pursuit of happiness""
X Link 2025-11-23T05:23Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Others have pointed out you're apparently from Serbia not the US. Personally I don't care much about that: wherever someone is from they can become an American. But that's chiefly because America is a nation defined by an idea; the Declaration of Independence is the first and"
X Link 2025-11-23T05:28Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@AngAesthetics the justly-shocked consciences of the Protestant Reformers. In the early 14th century the arguable nadir of both the papacy and Scholastic theology we get Dante's depiction of Purgatory: it is as far from hell as the surface of the earth is from its coreit is full of penances"
X Link 2025-11-24T02:26Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@AngAesthetics yes but equally full of sunlight and starlight of clean air and clear water of hymns and psalms and joyful greetings of images of Christ and the saints and of angels protecting the penitents who inhabit the mountain. It is unmistakably of a piece with heaven not with hell"
X Link 2025-11-24T02:29Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"every time I see Scott Bessent's upper lip it is more objectionably crimped"
X Link 2025-11-24T02:44Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@WB_Baskerville sigh sidekick who genuinely is good but is butthurt about being the sidekick and in denial about it voice as I keep telling you the department named me to lead this story"
X Link 2025-11-24T02:49Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Because in Latin there is. The librum or Latin pound is the origin of both the abbreviation "lb." for the unit of weight and the "" for the pound sterling. (We put the -s into "lbs." thoughthe Latin plural is "libra"; it might be used e.g. for a pair of scales.) WHY THE HECK IS POUNDS ABBREVIATED TO "LBS" there is no L or B in the word POUNDS WHY THE HECK IS POUNDS ABBREVIATED TO "LBS" there is no L or B in the word POUNDS"
X Link 2025-11-24T03:41Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@JoeSadTexas We have . several hundred of each at least. For the first you might start with the Jesus Prayer the Litany of the Sacred Heart the Anima Christi and the Ave Verum Corpus; for the second the Veni Sancte Spiritus and the Veni Creator Spiritus are popular. I'm very fond of"
X Link 2025-11-25T17:12Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@JoeSadTexas the latter; one English translation goes like this: Come Holy Ghost Creator blest And in our hearts take up thy rest: Come with thy grace and heav'nly aid And fill the hearts which thou hast made. To thee the Comforter we cry To thee the gift of God Most High The fount"
X Link 2025-11-25T17:15Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@mrdavidrowe what are you talkimbout we have so many: dove prove grove roof ombudsman etc"
X Link 2025-11-25T23:01Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Ladies gentlemen and those that lieth betwixt: THE PIVOT (see reply for details a l Esther)"
X Link 2025-11-27T02:00Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@kisstheblade_ only to uncover a balrog (Tulius Aadland) among the greatest (lamest) of all the banes of the Elves (the gays) in the Elder Days (the pre-AI internet)"
X Link 2025-11-27T02:06Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@allie__voss I think mostly it's controversial because excuse you @SecDuffy we the people had not been made aware that anything simultaneously this intrusive and yet this trival was the government's business to whiningly schoolmarm about in the first place"
X Link 2025-11-27T03:56Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@Truth_matters20 @JoyceAnnBurns not going to find that made explicit in the Bible but both Catholics and most Protestants believe lots of things that aren't fully explicit in the Bible (after all it wasn't written as a textbook). Otoh there's wisdom in sticking close to the text of Scripture. But if we're"
X Link 2025-11-27T04:23Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@Truth_matters20 @JoyceAnnBurns going to do that then we had better know extremely accurately both for our own sakes and for those whom we may influence what its pages do and don't say. Repeating slogans about Those Churches that we learned in Sunday school is not that"
X Link 2025-11-27T04:26Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@made_in_cosmos There are Christians who think that way and have been for a very long time but it isn't absolute; you occasionally get technique-focused traditions of how to "use" the body in prayer (the Hesychasts an Eastern Orthodox monastic movement are sometimes seen in this light). But"
X Link 2025-11-28T00:04Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@made_in_cosmos clearly it's true that this is not a normal feature of Christianityor afaict of other Abrahamic faiths; you get your Whirling Dervishes and so on but they're very much the exception. With regard to martial arts specifically given that Christian clergy have traditionally been"
X Link 2025-11-28T00:07Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@made_in_cosmos pacifistic that's probably whyeven just war theory didn't succeed in producing crusades for over a thousand years. But yeah why Abrahamic religions don't really do tai-chi-type stuff not 100% sure"
X Link 2025-11-28T00:12Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@Bec4gospel @PastorDeberny I didn't think you meant race could be as important to a person's sense of self as Christ is. (I don't think so either.) But: if we're consistently applying the rule from your initial statement about the word "gay" then it would follow people don't have the right to even *refer"
X Link 2025-11-28T02:48Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@Bec4gospel @PastorDeberny to themselves* as Black Latino American Indian etc. and that anyone who does is exalting their race to the level of a religious rival to Christ himself. Yet I'm going to guess that you don't really believe that"
X Link 2025-11-28T02:50Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@JaycelAdkins I have a degree in Classics and the only reason we have a shred of ancient literature today is because monks in the Middle Ages spent months on end in their scriptoria copying those bastards out by hand start to finish. OP isn't being overly-harshhe's parading his complete"
X Link 2025-11-29T00:59Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"this tweet should only be visible by pausing in its gallery in the Louvre No one is fucking their sister. Haven't you heard No one is fucking period. The hollers and trailer parks of America are now full to the brim with hikikomori hicks - hickikomori - who spend all day racist-posting on the internet leaving their neglected sisters sadly unfucked. No one is fucking their sister. Haven't you heard No one is fucking period. The hollers and trailer parks of America are now full to the brim with hikikomori hicks - hickikomori - who spend all day racist-posting on the internet leaving their"
X Link 2025-11-29T01:35Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@notreallyachola There was a style of animation that evoked this Like you can kinda see it peeking out of the backgrounds in Disney's silver age stuff like Sleeping Beauty and Alice in Wonderland"
X Link 2025-11-29T18:59Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"I mean it's nice to finally see a coat bath for a change but I'm not crazy about the lack of a gourmet garage to go with the main one or the exposed situation of the main foyer's facing walls. Architects are cooked. AI is coming for you. Prepare accordingly. https://t.co/glspinBpvc Architects are cooked. AI is coming for you. Prepare accordingly. https://t.co/glspinBpvc"
X Link 2025-11-30T01:44Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@Sanilac_J since when do men expect men to manipulate their partners by playing weird head games (and not even the good kind) this is feckin weird man"
X Link 2025-11-30T02:09Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@suzania I genuinely like "Brideshead" but I rather feel that suggesting an equivalence of "life in the British upper crust" with "the enchanted realm of Aslan" is a bit "
X Link 2025-11-30T17:36Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"You literally can claim preservation of books when you specifically say that you're talking about books with Fr. Schneider didit's cunningly hidden in the words of the tweet you're claiming to criticize. Books and statues are different things as you very well know"
X Link 2025-11-30T22:41Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Now you could assert that it's hypocritical to preserve literature but deface sculptures. That wouldn't have anything to do with the truth of Fr. Schneider's correct statement that Christians did in fact preserve literature; but still it's a position you could take"
X Link 2025-11-30T22:41Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@CrankyFed me and the boys hanging out in the basement rec room knocking back some beers while we play Call of Duty and debate the merits of the Delilah Deluxe versus the Populator 5000"
X Link 2025-12-02T06:19Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@ChristianityOn Mmm . at risk of well being exactly the person you're talking about I feel like saying it has no moral dimension is a little too harsh (though it probably has more ego in it than We The Neurospiced like to recognize). Especially in contexts where allistics tend to think in"
X Link 2025-12-02T22:13Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@ChristianityOn poorly-defined oversimplified categories there's a real social value to be had from the nasal voice asthmatically wheezing pedantic distinctions at everybody. (Though I don't honestly know whether the QT that prompted your original tweet is a great example because we are also"
X Link 2025-12-02T22:16Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@OrthodoxOrigen It truly was. THE TORIES were acting to relieve Ireland even trying to calculate how to supply food without wrecking Ireland economically (maybe it wouldn't have worked but of course we'll never know now)then there was a government reshuffle the friggin WHIGS took power"
X Link 2025-12-03T00:57Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@OrthodoxOrigen and the rest including a tidy million Irish lives was history. (I guess it's probably Right-authoritarians rather than -libertarians who get credit for wrecking the Jesuit/Guaran reduccines in Paraguay and Argentina unless some neo-Confederate "having a right to own humans"
X Link 2025-12-03T01:02Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@McGillPatterson @IVMiles Speaking as a leftist one of my least favorite things about the Left is its incuriosity about the Right and its ideas. Like no babe it's not "close enough" to put John Knox Thomas Hobbes Edmund Burke James Madison Queen Victoria Carl Schmitt and Ayn Rand all in one box"
X Link 2025-12-05T03:45Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@kisstheblade_ why did I not foresee "AI will also make knowing anything about Joe Rogan worse." why did I not foresee it. have I become stupid"
X Link 2025-12-05T04:16Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@TrashGir1 English spelling is lovely for exactly one purpose: tracing etymologies (because it tends to preserve original spellings/transliterations). Sadly the four of us who are thrilled about this are not the only ones who need to write in English which is rotten luck for the others"
X Link 2025-12-05T07:46Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@ApriiSR @penialism2 Oh I wasn't going for "well then forces aren't allowed" (though in this hellspace I certainly don't blame you for expecting it)I was taking the 1st law of thermodynamics for granted so energy would still count as material. I don't think mathematics is equivalent to matter"
X Link 2025-12-05T17:48Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@antiallebuarian I mean . is anybody claiming that her example is something attainable in practice in the first place Or by that logic why not object that Christ cannot be considered our example because of his leg-up-and-then-some Yet Scripture doesn't stint to tell us "Imitate Christ.""
X Link 2025-12-09T11:53Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@MadelaineLucyH Going through a tragedy doesn't entitle you to publicly pass judgment on other whether someone else's grief in sincereit's a messed up thing to do. Even if you don't think she's sincerely mourning you can think that and just not broadcast your critique of a WIDOW."
X Link 2025-12-09T22:02Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@priyaee_ I'm not sorry to tell you this Miss Patel (striking name; Scotch-Irish) but that isn't the way we talk or think about people in Americapartly because it's nasty partly because it's ridiculous but mostly because we hold it self-evident that all men are created equal. If that"
X Link 2025-12-10T18:06Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@CrankyFed I've never quite been able to make up my mind which one is stupider: the "one-drop rule" that theoretically prevails in the US or the system that gave us the word "octaroon" (which imo should instead have been the name of some dessert that calls for meringue). . Then again"
X Link 2025-12-11T00:05Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@CrankyFed I'm the fool who's out here apparently trying to decide which version of doing some racism is the more rational so arguably I have very much readied a petard only for myself to be hoisted thereon"
X Link 2025-12-11T00:09Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"To the questions "Was he nicer/smarter than the Buddha/Epictetus/Epicurus/Laozi/Confucius/Zeno" I'd definitely reply "Yes and it isn't close." To the question "Was he" . I guess "a better stylist than Cicero/Shakespeare" gotta say "Severely who cares." Same answer (with @LarsonDelbert @Philip_Goff Jesus was nothing exceptional in regard to moral teachings. I always love this Robert Ingersoll quote: https://t.co/IQeuw4Omxs @LarsonDelbert @Philip_Goff Jesus was nothing exceptional in regard to moral teachings. I always love this Robert Ingersoll quote: https://t.co/IQeuw4Omxs"
X Link 2025-12-11T01:54Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"But to return to the question. The superiority of Jesus if he has any depends pretty strongly on whether you think Jesus was (a) correct or (b) full of it. If you think (b) then it seems clear he wasn't superior to Zartosht; case closed. But if you think (a) then "
X Link 2025-12-11T01:54Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"God Incarnate just kind of is inherently superior to each thing and to all things which he has made: that's metaphysics baby It's rational to take option (b) but Ingersoll's quote (and to be fair I don't know its broader context) kinda comes off like he's trying to dismiss"
X Link 2025-12-11T01:54Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@dalepartridge at the cost of not being his disciples at allis an example that can be safely ignored but his coming in glory which we haven't seen and which conveniently costs us nothing that's the pattern we're supposed to be imitating "It is not yet revealed what we shall be" and you"
X Link 2025-12-12T17:44Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@dalepartridge want to start building New Jerusalem out of the materials and on the foundation of the kingdoms of this world and the glory of themwhat sense does that make"
X Link 2025-12-12T17:46Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"- July and August were named by and for Julius and Augustus Csar; dudes rock up and are like "yeah I'm important enough to be an element in the measurement of time" and apparently we're all "yaas queen""
X Link 2025-12-15T01:11Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"this is now the only form in which I ever want to see Nick Fuentes After six months of working at a Chinese restaurant all of my opinions are like this https://t.co/4Q26Ip3fsY After six months of working at a Chinese restaurant all of my opinions are like this https://t.co/4Q26Ip3fsY"
X Link 2025-12-15T01:15Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"(before you ask the previous form was "I simply do not ever want to see Nick Fuentes")"
X Link 2025-12-15T01:16Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"I seriously doubt that this is all or even most of the reason but I can think of one very intuitive reason: when a thing is all you have left of something greater that was precious to you you won't willingly part with that remaining link to it. I really dont understand why humans care so much about recovering the dead bodies of their loved ones. I really dont understand why humans care so much about recovering the dead bodies of their loved ones"
X Link 2025-12-15T04:54Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"CW: attempt at murder I haven't in a while but I used to listen to the podcast "Let's Not Meet" which read out stories people shared (on reddit so grain of salt but still) of near-misses with what they suspected or later learned were criminals and so forth. In one story"
X Link 2025-12-15T04:54Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"🤦♂ Okay. [--]. Part of the idea of education (as opposed to mere job training or life skills) is that it's a chance to learn things more profound than how to change a tire. [--]. Ideally you'd learn these things at home. [--]. THEY DO IT'S CALLED HOME EC SHOP AND MATH CLASS. Thoughts https://t.co/wddJpE6EnZ Thoughts https://t.co/wddJpE6EnZ"
X Link 2025-12-16T19:59Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"I recognize that in many families [--] may not be a realistic option for any number of reasons (and I don't object to schools picking up the slack); I mention it at all only because I'd love to see this kind of passing-on-of-skills at home become more normative again freeing up"
X Link 2025-12-16T19:59Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@B3901293 @jdflynn My point is we may not need or in fact use the lampbut we can and in my opinion should still treat it and speak of it with respect"
X Link 2025-12-17T18:30Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@B3901293 @jdflynn I'm not convinced Chrysostom was right about that: it would seem to fly in the face of little things like "Romans" which says no such things about the contemptibility or profanity of liturgies that were again both instituted and practiced by God Incarnate but otoh does say"
X Link 2025-12-17T19:06Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@B3901293 @jdflynn quite explicitly that "the gifts and call of God are irrevocable" that Israel is "beloved for the sake of the Fathers" and "if you were grafted in you ought not to boast against the root for you do not support it; it supports you." That St. John Chrysostom though he was"
X Link 2025-12-17T19:08Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@B3901293 @jdflynn St. Paul does not seem to be picturing the two as alternatives in Romans [--]. And we know from Acts that while the Temple did stand Jewish Christians participated in all the regular templar liturgies; even some of the Judaic priesthood converted to Christianity. I don't know why"
X Link 2025-12-17T19:14Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@tusionni we used to be a country that freely mixed fonts italic/Roman typefaces and majuscule/capitalizable minuscule hands. a proper country"
X Link 2025-12-17T21:01Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"To Whom It May Not Concern and also the rest of you: My translation of the Prologue of John is complete Link in the reply; if you'd like to support what I'm doing prayer and Patreon (link in my bio) are the best ways. Thanks"
X Link 2025-12-19T04:07Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@MadocCairns @jageriv1 As much as I prefer my bread buttered on the Classical side (this is a great metaphor shut up) I do feel this represents a genuine moral advance of our own era upon his. Aristotle does of course have a point in that both wage slavery and busywork tend to sand the sharpness"
X Link 2025-12-19T17:39Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@HammadEmdee There is literally one premodern Christian flat-earther that we know ofa 6th-century monk Cosmas Indicopleustesand even back then every educated person of every religious persuasion said he was wrong. [---] years later in the heart of the Middle Ages we can find Dante at"
X Link 2025-12-21T03:23Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@HammadEmdee the end of his "Inferno" relying on the everyday reading public to know that the earth is round in order to achieve a sci-fi effect (passing through the center of the earth) in Canto [--]. The Church never thought or taught that the earth is flat"
X Link 2025-12-21T03:25Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@HammadEmdee (That said the idea that only secular figures in Islamic realms contributed to the sciences is also complete nonsense.)"
X Link 2025-12-21T03:29Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@sccarlson Now I'm not claiming AI has literally no use. Machine learning's been around for years alreadyit clearly is useful. But that's also kinda the issue: machine learning's been around for years already; what's new here are (1) the damn fool name "AI" even though intelligence"
X Link 2025-12-21T10:11Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@sccarlson is the quality machine learning specifically doesn't have; and (2) the swarm of marketers who don't understand either the technology or the science and philosophy behind it but who have latched onto a new way to extract lots of money from people before the bubble bursts"
X Link 2025-12-21T10:14Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@ThomasDHowes I still like GKC too but it truly flabbergasts me given the historical progress of the case that anyone could go from being a Dreyfusard to being an anti-Dreyfusard. What Belloc was smoking I don't know (besides "being of French descent") but I wish he hadn't shared"
X Link 2025-12-22T19:53Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@apostolicus @kimberlycaritas I mean . I will try to stop you but only because I don't trust the nerds to find out that there is a second classical-era flat-earther besides Cosmas Indicopleustestwo data points and they will absolutely turn it into a THE CHART moment"
X Link 2025-12-22T20:08Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@HammadEmdee Correction: there was a second flat-earther during the Christian era the 3rd-4th cent. author Lactantius (who was also made fun of for his ignorance)"
X Link 2025-12-22T22:52Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"I'm genuinely torn between seeing this as deeply sad and seeing it as unutterably offensive. Like his project of becoming immortal was funny for a while (I'm guessing the fact that Bryan Johnson isn't a person I have to deal with in daily life plays a significant role in that) Bryan Johnson just announced he'll become Immortal by [----]. Biological age of [--] (he's 48) Spent $2M/year reversing aging Heart health better than 99% of 18-year-olds [--] protocols you can steal (for free) to reverse aging boost energy & look [--] years younger 👇🧵 https://t.co/JhK41YtGkQ Bryan Johnson just announced he'll"
X Link 2025-12-23T06:48Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"I won't claim Pope Clement VII would in fact have stood firm in refusing to grant Henry VIII an annulment: popes like all men err (hold it we'll come back to this) and sin. He might have. But the idea that he by rights should have granted this one is to be blunt ridiculous. Lets have this right. Henry did not want to have [--] wives (bigamy) or get a divorce. He wanted an annulment on the valid grounds that he had married his brothers widow. The Pope didnt give it to him because he was being held hostage by Charles V her nephew. Henry wanting to Lets have this right. Henry did not want to have 2"
X Link 2025-12-24T03:34Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"upon which to base a declaration of nullity. Now as far as canon law is concerned the suit ought to die here. Were annulments granted on evidence as bad as or worse than this I don't know; I expect so. And The Church may in fact but should not grant bad annulments; if"
X Link 2025-12-24T03:34Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"she has before that is no reason at all to do it again. But is there further reason just as historians to consider Katharine credible Yes. If Katharinea deeply religious womanlied about her union with Arthur what was her goal To preserve the alliance between Spain and"
X Link 2025-12-24T03:34Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@Bill_the_Geek as long as they didn't revolt most of them led fairly nice lives afaict. If anything I'd think the hope (slim but better than nothing) of getting Mary legitimized by decree would have been more of a motive for Katharine to acquiesce to Henry's wishes rather than the reverse"
X Link 2025-12-24T04:04Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"low-key agree. I'm inclined to think the disappearance of the Papal State is a net positive for the Catholic Church but all of Italy being just one country feels like an early-to-mid 20th-c. experiment that should've fallen apart in the 60s The unification of italy feels spiritually wrong. Venice should still be an independent state and a tax haven with a monopoly in shipping and $100k gdp per capita. Rome should be under papal authority but in a weird constitutional monarchy situation. Its all wrong The unification of italy feels spiritually wrong. Venice should still be an independent state"
X Link 2025-12-26T02:11Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"there should be like three Italies at the very least. having Florence Naples and Venice all under a single flag is an affront to nature. even Russia the most stupidly big country in the world has the decency to Belarus its way to "this bit's not really us though guys""
X Link 2025-12-26T02:11Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@derdunklekommt Eh sure but we do already have five Germanies (alphabetically: Austria Germany Luxembourg South Dakota SwitzerlandBelgium doesn't count because it's only part German Lichtenstein because it's a principality and Monaco needs a buddy)"
X Link 2025-12-26T04:12Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"I feel like this kind of take is strongly associated with the assumption that events always or overwhelmingly have one main cause and that claiming there are many causes is just an attempt to please everyone. Am I mufos with a smarter fairer person who can shed light on this"
X Link 2025-12-26T17:58Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@derdunklekommt Oooh yeah. The brash optimism of the Belle poque really is some kind of something"
X Link 2025-12-27T00:36Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@SketchesbyBoze there's a lot to dislike in the bizarre film "Excalibur" but it's outstanding on the uncanny Arthurian atmospherebasically unrivalled until "The Green Knight" (imo)"
X Link 2025-12-27T03:55Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@lukeisamazing I can't get through Gilgamesh's conversation with Sidduri the alewife without choking up. I lose it at "Enkidu whom I love is dust" every time"
X Link 2025-12-28T00:13Z [----] followers, 11K engagements

"@Recursion_Agent @TheAtlantic ONFIM IS A WILD BEAST"
X Link 2025-12-28T07:03Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"New post (in reply)the Gospel of John's new creation continues apace; the waters separated at this first creation are reconnected through the Light and then the Rock is drawn up into the Light from beneath the sea"
X Link 2025-12-31T20:49Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@franzsherbert It'd be fair to mark several as needing prepyou have to acclimatize to epic poetry to enjoy the Iliad for instance and there are parts of the Bible that need some background (as we should expect of a book written 19-30 centuries ago). But yeah blanket "unreadable" is weird"
X Link 2025-12-31T21:37Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"incorrect: Kate Bush is the artist than which none stranger can be thinged Stranger Things has changed the meaning of this song https://t.co/bhY3pDEbSH Stranger Things has changed the meaning of this song https://t.co/bhY3pDEbSH"
X Link 2026-01-03T00:35Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"(no Bjrk doesn't countever since they invented a runestave for necropants it's been clear Iceland is just Like That)"
X Link 2026-01-03T00:35Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@WASPmexicano part of the appeal of a good dive (imo) is that it is to some group of people "our spot." afaict the nice cocktail bar must avoid being the spot of anyone in particular"
X Link 2026-01-03T01:31Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@WASPmexicano how can you rewatch what I can only assume is your complete DVD box set of Jersey Shore at a time like this"
X Link 2026-01-03T22:21Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@NMarbletoe that something we can roughly call "the Law" far from being a human artifact is an eternal cosmic-scale reality) there are substantive differences between them not just stylistic ones. For an example I'd point to the profound dissimilarity between two things very often said"
X Link 2026-01-04T18:30Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@NMarbletoe to resemble each other closely: boddhisattvas and saints. Now it's absolutely true that boddhisattvas and saints play similar roles in Mahayana Buddhism and "high Church" Christianity if we're looking at religion as a cultural or social phenomenon; and I dare say the feeling"
X Link 2026-01-04T18:34Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@NMarbletoe of praying to Avalokitevara is for the individual practicing Buddhist quite like the feeling of a pious Catholic reciting the Salve Regina. But the "lore" behind them is very different; on that level boddhisattvas and saints are almost the inverse of each other. The former is"
X Link 2026-01-04T18:38Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@NMarbletoe delaying his full attainment of nirvana to be more accessible to mortals and help them; the latter is a help to mortals precisely because she has entered the fullness of bliss: same ethical ideal (abandonment of self for divine compassion) but the contrast of "mechanics""
X Link 2026-01-04T18:42Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@ReasonTheology errors (deliberate or otherwise) by definition don't need to align with the facts or even be coherent and thus that errors of varying gravity get passed on far more easily than the truth and the apparent situation and prognosis can look rather grim. However I'd highlight two"
X Link 2026-01-05T08:31Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@ReasonTheology things that are cause or occasion for hope. [--]. Error is flits about more quickly than truth yesfor the same reason it is blown away in the wind more easily than truth. After all the reason anyone's in a position to do this kind of work is because the truth is still here"
X Link 2026-01-05T08:36Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@Thorn_Gardner @TunesRank @CrankyFed I'm also a single person (and not particularly happy about the fact) but this isn't a fair lens to see how friendships between single people and families need to work if they're going to work at all. I'm not saying no reciprocity of any kind is called for; but ability to give"
X Link 2026-01-05T09:19Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@vividvoid a seriously stunted ego; not coincidentally I'm sure I spent the first twenty years of my life as a Calvinist and have spent the subsequent eighteen as a Catholic. Also probably have ADHD or something very similarfocus and memory (which are pretty key elements in planning)"
X Link 2026-01-05T09:37Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@vividvoid give me tons of problems. So I'm able to evaluate the moral nuances of a given action quite well (iidss) yet figuring out what I want to pursue within the vast universe of "intrinsically permissible goals" can leave me baffled. I would accordingly argue that while our moral and"
X Link 2026-01-05T09:40Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@franzsherbert There was and still is a lot that I like about the films though an overwhelming amount of that "a lot" is restricted to the first; but yes the films are definitely . hammed up let's say. And I agree that this isn't always or inherently badI think I may be the only book fan"
X Link 2026-01-05T19:53Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"@franzsherbert in the book. To this day I will rant about how much better Denethor deserved upon the feeblest provocationTolkien's Denethor is a flawed man (even a bad one perhaps in the end) but a noble one and tragic; Jackson's is a repulsive clown"
X Link 2026-01-06T09:11Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@franzsherbert Even in the first film I found the way the Council of Elrond was handled downright insulting (it proved to be the first in a long sequence of changes that were only one degree less moronic than a brief pause of the action with a voiceover: "Reminder to viewersthe Ring is evil")"
X Link 2026-01-06T09:16Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"🤦♂ This is not even sort of the same thing. Books with paid product placement exist; this is overwhelmingly if not solely a 20th-century-and-forward issue. When Malory's Lancelot rescues Guinevere we aren't told he takes her "to Joyous Gard protected by SimpliSafe the only"
X Link 2026-01-06T10:32Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"@Rywynterwade @BackwardsFeet @MattWalshBlog Okay; is it at all relevant that Maduro although a socialist isn't a communist Or that the Holy See has spent decades negotiating with the Chinese government I'd also be interested to know when Donald Rumsfeld (or Buck Turgidson or whoever) was named a doctor of the Church"
X Link 2026-01-06T12:29Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@maggiemphillips @kisstheblade_ @WASPmexicano @geeez_louise @CrankyFed Surely you agree* that Tidewater is an apt shorthand** for all of America's naturally unitary*** geography *You shouldn't **It's not ***No"
X Link 2026-01-06T12:41Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@AntigoneJournal the way to really drive people insane with this is to do what I'm dubbing "the reverse Lucretius": write a book and make it content-wise so head-and-shoulders above any other resource on that topic that no one who wants to understand it has any choice but to read your work"
X Link 2026-01-06T18:28Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@mattleeanderson @TheAlanNoble And as in time results of many deeds are blended So good and evil in the end become confounded. It is not in time that my death shall be known; It is out of time that my decision is taken If you call that decision To which my whole being gives entire consent. . Unbar the door"
X Link 2026-01-06T19:42Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@mattleeanderson @TheAlanNoble . We are not here to triumph by fighting by stratagem or by resistance Not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast And have conquered. . Now is the triumph of the Cross now Open the door I command it. OPEN THE DOOR "Murder in the Cathderal" Part II"
X Link 2026-01-06T19:46Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Only the second course of action is any use. Why Because as much as the first seems like it deals with the root of the problem it doesn't. It acts like the problem really is intellectuallike Americans then or now aren't really responsible people who if they're honest"
X Link 2026-01-07T05:20Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"know very well that they should not have committed genocide against the Cherokee or engaged in the transatlantic slave trade or overthrown the democratically-chosen government of Iran or tried to murder a Vice President for confirming a lawful election. We know it. What is"
X Link 2026-01-07T05:20Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"a huge number of people here and abroad are going to die. 'Cause the path we're on It doesn't lead anywhere but to another world war"
X Link 2026-01-07T05:20Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@SohrabAhmari None of this reply makes any sense. The idea that 70%70%of Americans are either fine with this or in favor of it is insane on the face of it. To then appeal to what you apparently believe is the urban Left to modulate their response based I gather on whether this is"
X Link 2026-01-08T18:51Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@SohrabAhmari a winning issue and with whom . I mean are you 100% sure you've ever spoken with a leftist We're very different from liberalsgot a whole hornet's nest in our bonnet about "right and wrong" and "it's still murder even if lots of people are okay with it." I'm not saying that"
X Link 2026-01-08T18:54Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@notmuchroom @franzsherbert That is not remotely what I said or meant. I asked a question (one which you still haven't answered) that seems very straightforward to me because I wanted to know what your answer to it was. I'm not at all sure of this next part but the only way I can come up with to make"
X Link 2026-01-09T00:49Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@notmuchroom @franzsherbert sense of the replies you have given me is that you're addressing something which you assume is the point I'm driving at That or just flatly ignoring my question in favor of stuff you consider more importantwhich would be rather rude but at least it'd be decipherable"
X Link 2026-01-09T00:56Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@bf_crane "Ye are idle ye are idle; therefore do ye say 'Let us go and sacrifice unto the Lord our God'" someone in Exodus. probably one of the good guys 'cause he said "God""
X Link 2026-01-09T01:56Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@HateTheState76 @getty_a96716 Okay so let's hear some more from St. Paul and St. Peter for good measure"
X Link 2026-01-09T19:20Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"There was "a place for Trump as a vehicle" huh Even though overturning Dobbs didn't ban abortion but did prompt many states to constitutionalize a right to it and Trump is promoting abortifacients and IVF At least when Esau made a deal this bad he got actual porridge. Thats not to say there wasnt a place for Trump as a vehicle; but its [----] and I think its worth askingat least as a Christianwhat are Evangelical Protestant voters getting. Dobbs is a good answer but Trump undercuts that my fast lining over the counter abortion drugs. Thats not to say there wasnt a place for Trump as a"
X Link 2026-01-09T23:15Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"the enemy (Jews communists ultramontanists antifa whoever) is always weak and sniveling so victory is assuredyet they're somehow also in control of everything so fighting them always has the romance of defiance is always "punching up." There's a level on which they know"
X Link 2026-01-10T05:48Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"that it is their hatred and fear of difference not others' comfort with or indifference to it that is abnormal; but insofar as their politics are a function of the theorized authoritarian personality the idea that they are the outliersthe freaksis intolerable; therefore"
X Link 2026-01-10T05:48Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@SketchesbyBoze @John_Attridge It's pronounced Peeps because he sort of looked like a chicken"
X Link 2026-01-11T05:44Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@toru_inulusa The third question is epistemological; I vaguely associate the aggregate with existentialism but phenomenology is probably a better term for it (which forms sort of a bridge between epistemology and ontology or so istm)"
X Link 2026-01-11T06:28Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@BanjoAtheist @freganmitts Otoh who says the interests of "moderns seeking spiritual truth" are the gold standard for what's important Even if Deuteronomy were written for "Tibetan yak herders" (which no but also . why go out of your way to get this wrong kinda weird man) surely they have as much"
X Link 2026-01-11T23:50Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@BanjoAtheist @freganmitts right to and need for spiritual guidance as anybody else. And the Torah wasn't composed as an operator's manual for Christianity (it'd be pretty weird if it was); the traditional Christian belief is that there's an allegorical level on which the civic and ritual laws of"
X Link 2026-01-11T23:55Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@BanjoAtheist @freganmitts the Torah contain meanings relevant to Christianity but whether that's true or not in origin the Torah was the all-in-one compilation of moral religious and civil law of the Iron Age Hebrews (plus some national mythology and ancestral traditions). Of course it has material"
X Link 2026-01-12T00:00Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@BanjoAtheist @freganmitts that isn't immediately relevant to 21st-century Euro-Americans in a tech economy; what should God or Moses have done give them a book that wasn't relevant to them"
X Link 2026-01-12T00:01Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@BanjoAtheist @freganmitts the assumption you're making . why It doesn't strike me as natural. To take something most monotheists consider parallel physics doesn't seem to get simpler as we advance in knowledge and (we hope) draw nearer to the most fundamental laws of reality; on the contrary it gets"
X Link 2026-01-13T01:41Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@BanjoAtheist @freganmitts subtler and more strange fewer and fewer human minds are equal to the task. Or if the assumption I suggested two tweets ago isn't actually how you reach the conclusion that needing to explain things really supports your view then why do you take that view"
X Link 2026-01-13T01:44Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@BanjoAtheist @freganmitts In this case yes; I'm giving it because though I find standard apologist material very hit-or-miss (I abhor the "no atheists in foxholes" fallacy for example) I think that in this case it hits. I do think "no touching w/o consent" is a strongly preferable standard to"
X Link 2026-01-13T02:34Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@BanjoAtheist @freganmitts Probably because I've spent the better part of thirty years arguing with myself have been a Protestant an atheist a witch and a Catholic have found more reason in Catholicism than anything else (without being fully satisfied) and don't find your objections compelling"
X Link 2026-01-13T03:00Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

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