Affect&Tingles

@octarinsig @pureMetatron So, Octarin ... the answer is more war? Total war? never ever stop war because there was once a war?

@pureMetatron Yeah, he kinda forgot that it was his namesake who greenlit the original crusades, you can't get more hypocritical than the Vatican.

The pope is a hypocrite and a liar. He is NOT the vicar of Christ and does NOT speak for Him. He is a traitor. A wolf in sheep's clothing. A false prophet. You can be a devout Catholic and oppose him. And you should! He is an impostor and does not have the authority through Peter. He has surrendered to left wing propaganda. He represents the world. He is a messenger for the Devil. He must be deposed and swapped for a real pope who defends Christendom, condemns Islam, and fights for the traditional values Christianity and specifically Catholicism are meant to represent. This pope will be judged by our Lord for what he has done and for the lies he has said. He will be judged for not taking a stand of courage against the world, against evil, against Islam and against the corruption of the left.

@pureMetatron You are making a lot of claims .... but you provide no foundation

@Bigmoranx I like that I can run M+ 10s without the need for addons to communicate encounters to me. I just look at the boss (where are they facing?) and I look at the floor (should I move?) and I play the game

So let me get this straight. Blizzard "removes" WeakAuras to make boss mechanics less trivial. Months later RWF guilds have WeakAuras v2 with 95% the same functionality... ...and are now CLEARING bosses faster than before? Is this right?

@AzerothPulse I travelled the world honouring my elders ... isn't that family values enough for you? I did the love is in the air events .... isn't that heteronormativity enough for you?

You know a Warcraft event we aren't getting soon? One celebrating family or christian values. No one is offended or cares if people are gay - It's 2026. Everyone is fine with it. But people care when you are trying to create political and ideological division in video games.

@WarcraftMeme I think we can assume that, given what happened in the pre-patch (Twilight Highlands) - that such incursions are happening all over Azeroth, and we are part of an elite contingent sent to address the potential origins of that threat.

Is there any reason why they are not helping us in midnight? Isn't the whole point of Dragonflight was to get their power back so they could become Azeroth's protector? #warcraft

@newstart_2024 I think it's incorrect to generalise from this to the general population as menial jobs in our society don't involve the rigours of living on an army base - thus the counterproductive behaviours can be kept for out-of-work hours.

Jordan Peterson shared one of the most sobering statistics I’ve heard in a long time. The U.S. Armed Forces — after over a century of careful psychometric research driven by life-and-death necessity — will not induct anyone with an IQ below 83. They concluded that there is simply nothing in the military (at any level) that such a person can be trained to do without being counterproductive. Peterson noted that this threshold captures roughly one in ten people. And if the military’s complexity is even roughly comparable to broader society, that means about 10% of the population has no viable place in our cognitively demanding world. He emphasized that this isn’t about lack of money or short-term training. The data shows it’s extremely difficult to turn low cognitive ability into the kind of adaptive, creative problem-solving that modern society requires. It’s a raw, uncomfortable truth about human variation that most people prefer not to discuss openly. What do you think — is this statistic something society needs to confront honestly, or is there a better way to think about it?

@mattwridley Engineers still have to consider issues like ethics and safety, aesthetics, funding (public/private), waste and corruption, unions, job security, fair pay, contracts and compliance.

That's a great line. I've been saying for years " the thing about engineers is that either the bridge falls down or it doesn't" but this is much pithier.

@DanielPlager @MattWalshBlog When Trump campaigned on no new wars did you ever post about how wrong he was?

Sorry Matt. It's not blind allegiance or unthinking trust in our elected leaders. It's being sick and tired of playing the patsy for all the nations of the world. We don't wish others ill, we wish to be left alone to continue to extend our lead in economic power, innovation, freedom, and the opportunity for our citizens to live unencumbered by cultures and religions that require extermination of their foes, that contain no ability to peacefully coexist with other nations and peoples. Regimes like the Mullahs have terrorized and victimized peaceful people for too long. We're done with it, not for today and tomorrow, but for the hopeful years and decades to come. Perhaps you're fine with Western Europeans fecklessly careening into irrelevance while resisting us whenever they can, with terrorist regimes in places like Venezuela, Cuba, and Iran running roughshod with their death cultures. We're not. We're saying "when". Sure, maybe things won't work out, but this is a battle that has been long in the works, and many of us are happy our President says no more kicking this can down the road, no more playing the patsy. Let's defeat the forces of evil, rather than wring our hands about the road being bumpy. You mention faith in God? Perhaps pray to him that his will be done as it is written. It's in the book. @VDHanson

Some of us expressed great concern about the Iran War when it was first launched. We were shouted down and condemned as “panicans” and “blackpillers” and even Islamist sympathizers. But it’s pretty clear from how things have gone that our concerns were absolutely reasonable and legitimate. Maybe Trump will get us out of this thing soon and it still won’t spiral into a long and drawn out war. But even if that happens — and I’m not convinced it will — no thoughtful person can deny at this point that the spiral and long war scenario is very much a possibility. No reasonable person, at this stage, can say that our concerns were irrational. What looks irrational now — and always did — is the demand for blind allegiance and unthinking “trust” in our elected leaders, as though we are called to have faith in politicians like we have faith in God.

@Martina How can it even be possible that a person becomes a new creation, born again, filled with the spirit ... yet their speech is offensive to God because of their ... genitals?

But I thought the right wing men supported and loved women? Hmm- seems all they want is CONTROL. TOTAL CONTROL.

@MattPolProf It is a long long way from being a popular notion - but the majority of our thoughts, feelings and skills are about social coordination (approximating another person's position very quickly) and are not about being correct or coherent. So ... "You wake up" is a brilliant attempt

When I first saw this I remember thinking "I might as well quit. There's no reason to even criticize the right any longer. Just let them speak and they'll do our job themselves in a couple of minutes.'

@Lucia_uiu It's a mark of narcissism to simply say whatever is, in the moment, the thing you think is going to get you what you want: attention, power, admiration etc. Narcissists have very poor mentalising (thinking about their own thinking) so consistency often is not a priority

Donald Trump has always spoken in a loose, rhetorical way... he often contradicts himself within minutes. That’s not new, and it doesn’t automatically equal dementia. It’s more fair to call it inconsistency or political framing than to diagnose from the outside. If the concern is credibility, focus on the contradictions, that argument stands on its own without turning it into speculation about health. You can disagree with him without jumping straight to medical labels.

@prettylieb @BretWeinstein Imagine being so desperate to align with Trump that you wrote this

@BretWeinstein We’re not at war with Iran. To be at war, the other sides has to be capable of inflicting comparable damage. Iran can not. Trump is ensuring that we will never be at war with Iran by ending their threats. M

That’s fair. I was mistaken that voting for Trump would prevent this war. Obviously. And to be clear, I did more than just vote for him That said, I don’t accept that the alternative was tolerable, or would’ve prevented war. And given the same choice, I’d vote the same way again

@BretWeinstein But we had an entire Biden administration that shows us that YES, a Democrat in the White House did prevent the wars that Trump started

@TMGFlorida @megbasham Is the second amendment pro-murder? Having the choice to use a gun doesn't mean you're endorsing the individual choice to discharge it.

@PosthumanDan @megbasham Pro-choice is consciously pro-murder. Period.

French not only argues that Talarico shines as “decent,” he says Talarico shows what it looks to be “kind” on the campaign trail. Think about that, this man advocates for the murder of the unborn and the most extreme forms of perversion. Yet French finds him a decent and kind public example of Christianity as if all Christ requires is that we say things in a Mr. Rogers cadence and vocabulary. This is why it’s so important to remember what Romans 16:18 tells us about what false teachers looks like. They will fool the naïve through smooth talk and flattery. Such qualities are rarely perceived as abrasive or offensive. Scripture tells you to run from men like this. French tells you to embrace him.

@xin_xvi There's a lot of knock-backs, fears, puddles to avoid etc. in Midnight dungeons, as well as a lot of corridor-narrow-lanes with packs either side .... and I butt-pull now and then

@michaeljknowles Do you give Trump this much religious scrutiny?

Based on Talarico’s statements—e.g., that the Bible prescribes abortion, that God is LGBTQ, that we should follow the gnostic “gospel of Thomas” on transgenderism—does French’s new favorite “Christian” sound more like Christ or the Antichrist?

@wesker_logan @megbasham I'm in favour of women paying nothing for the cost of childbirth - if you are in favour of costly hospitals you are in favour of stressors that decrease the health and wellbeing of both mother and child

@PosthumanDan @megbasham If you are in favor of allowing the "choice" to murder the unborn, you are in favor of murdering the unborn. You can't say "I don't want to do it myself, but I think it's okay if others do" and say you're not approving it.

@megbasham "Fix" and "soon" ... yeah that's not gonna happen Trump is pathological

I’m at a trendy hair salon in Charlotte getting my hair done, and my 26-year-old stylist tells me she voted for the first time in the last election. For Trump. But she says she will probably never vote again. She doesn’t view the Trump administration as doing the things she voted for. She told me? “It’s like you like vote for someone to do these great things they promised during the campaign, but then the men in the black suits come in, and they decide what really happens.” Now, whether that’s true or not, I think this is a wide perception with the new voters Trump drew in the last election. If they don’t fix that problem soon, those voters will withdraw from politics again.

@Sola_Requiem That's the problem - you cannot learn what God is if it includes unknowable qualities such as atemporal agency, immaterial being-ness, ways "higher than our ways", inaccessibility, contrary properties, and impossible elements (hypostasis)

I’d say roughly 9/10 atheists arguments against God fall flat on their face because they don’t take the time or effort to learn what God is before critiquing his existence.