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‘Your body is not a machine, you are not a ghost trapped in a piece of meat-clay’ is the most radical message one can preach right now.
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Tara Ann Thieke
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Tara Ann Thieke
@TaraAnnThieke
Pray for those with no one to pray for them.
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RARE GOOD NEWS in 2026: Monarch butterfly numbers have surged in Mexico by 64% this year, with the area they cover in Mexican forests growing significantly!
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America has the best rivers and I dont think we treat them with the importance we should.
Vintage Maps@vintagemapstore
The Mississippi river and its tributaries.
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Christ asked us to pray for those who see themselves as our enemies. When we do this our love springs up anew, both for others and for the Truth. It is a good request.
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I read All the Pretty Horses (fine) in high school and The Road a decade later. The latter didn't read as despair-titillation. I was still upset from it when I started talking about it with a stranger, who pointed out to me how unlike people it actually was. No doubt he had artistic talent, and I still may read BM one day, but that stranger freed me from that kind of grueling misanthropy and it was a tremendous blessing.
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I read the first hundred pages of The Road last year, and read the first hundred pages of Blood Meridian this year, and in both instances, gave up, because the books never clicked. Lyrical writing, but the characters are reduced to way down Maslow's hierarchy, and the tone is so relentlessly bleak, with almost no humanity breaking through, it was difficult to feel anything besides the flint clicking against the cold steel in the overwhelming darkness. I know many of you love it, but to me, it's overwrought, overstylized, and overhyped.
Kristen Rudd@kristenrudd
About to start Blood Meridian for the first time. Give me all your best advice.
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@JStein_WaPo How about $200 billion returned to the taxpayers to cover their skyrocketing bills?
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SCOOP: The Pentagon asked the White House today for more than *$200 billion* for the Iran war supplemental, sources say
Some White House aides think Congress won't support b/c it's so big
Will tee up giant battle in Congress
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@JosephNaig50298 The Gun & the Olive Branch is one I remember finishing, it had a memorable title. I think I read about 7-8 of the dozen, but their titles are difficult to remember. They may still be purchase history, but I'd have to go back to 2007-2009
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When I was in my 20s I wished to deepen my understanding of the Israel-Palestine situation. So I purchased at least a dozen books - mostly semi-obscure, academic, many by dissenting Israeli historians.
A day came when I closed a book halfway through, resolved to read no further, even to try to forget all I had learned, and then I donated all the books. It was clear, painfully and miserably clear, that I would be wasting my life trying to understand it more when it was nothing more than this.
conspiracybot@conspiracyb0t
On Israeli national television: “Everyone in Gaza must die. They should all be left to starve to death, even children. I don’t care”
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@check1309 @Peoples_Pundit They'll stay with the Democrats for the foreseeable future. Since 2016 they've been better at keeping their factions in line.
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@Peoples_Pundit Where do the globalists/corporatists end up if the Democrats go anti-interventionist?
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Yep, already happening.
MAGA shrinkage went right into independents who say they "share little in common with either party".
Some will go to the emergent antiwar populist left, and God help Republicans if a self-funding Perot-like figure emerges.
They are going back into the pre-Trump Wilderness where the Bushes left them.
Fools.
Tim Pool@Timcast
There is a realignment happening Democrats will be replaced by anti-intervention instead of woke and the Republicans will be Neo Con Watch this for 2028
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My daughter just told me a bunch of Egypt facts and then said "many secrets still lie beneath the sands of Egypt" lol
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@GrouchoG I like to believe there's hope for a greater harmony between the particular and the universal, that are instincts are not always there to harm us. But in order to not become rationalizations for our worse traits we have to be self-critical, and that's uncomfortable.
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@TaraAnnThieke Humans are tribal creatures, and this kind of tribalism taken to an extreme ("only my tribe matters, all the rest should die, god is on our side") has been found throughout history. I don't know if humans will ever get rid of it.
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@CodyElijah1 @ZubyMusic I can refresh the page on "For You" or "Following" and the same 8 tweets will still be at the top.
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@ZubyMusic They're consolidating the internet and social media into interactive tv channels with content coordination between nodes. Its getting really obvious just scroll through X then jump on IG they share data and feed the same slop.
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Yes. The books broke down the popular narratives around treaty processes and negotiations with "and here is what actually happened," and it became just so tedious because every time someone would bring these facts up the original claim would just be restated. It was a *foundational principle* to ignore & suppress disagreements and facts. You read that about every weekly incident & acre of land and eventually realize the whole thing is pointed the wrong way on purpose.
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@Morgayze @TaraAnnThieke @LexiAIexander I think she’s saying she no longer needed those books because of how compellingly they spoke against Zionism. I’ve experienced it too. After a while, you get frustrated by reading about the situation because of how apparent the injustice is. But now others can read those books.
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@SJessicaJohnson The reality is certainly starker. One loses friends, reputations, people lose jobs, even lives following truth. But the truth is the truth. We may be relatively powerless, but at least we're not alone.
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@TaraAnnThieke I had the exact same experience. I was raised as an evangelical Zionist, taught never to question Israel. But my desire to have a “nuanced” position of the issue led me to the starker reality: there is simply no way to defend Israel’s actions, particularly as a follower of Jesus.
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@SA_Greatness I was inclined to be critical during part of my reading, but some of his thoughts were so poetically wide-ranging, showed such brilliant love and grief in terms of being able to imagine The Other, that I cannot condemn the man in entirety. What it became after him, alas.
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@TaraAnnThieke Having read up on Herzl, I agree on your assessment of the man. I'd go so far as to say he was a true idealist, it's uncomfortable to see him being associated with the current zionist movement.
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@TaeKayBishes Someone else said that too. Wow, it's a bit of a relief to hear others have gone through this, but grieving because of the outcome.
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This spring we will, unfortunately, have an interesting opportunity to observe the changes of the past 20 years based upon what sort of anti-war movement we see. I'd immediately put a "Peace is Patriotic" sign back up, but so far everything is social media.
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@ThomKCaldwell Sorry to hear that. It's a bummer to go through the work and end with an awareness of total powerlessness.
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@Seeking_Alpaca There was a strong dissident movement in Israel. Where is it now?
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@TaraAnnThieke The fact that this guy is platformed on national television tells you everything you need to know, even if most don't have his extreme views
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The world is a hard place. Christ calls us to a new understanding of this world. That call is to each of us, regardless of where we come from, speaking to the Imago Dei in each & every single person. This world is not heaven, but our souls are still called to Its laws.
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Theodor Herzel was an interesting man. I came to the situation believing the Palestinians had been treated unjustly while having pursued Holocaust studies as my central interest in college. But whatever Zionism was in the interesting mind of its founder, it almost immediately was imprinted by something else, and that something else is not something I as a Christian can ever support.
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