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JD Adkins
JD Adkins@practiceyrPE·
“Lord we don’t know where all this is going. Or how it all works out. Lead us to Peace that is PAST UNDERSTANDING . A Peace beyond all doubt.” -Newsboys
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This fox is a CON MAN by profession. He lies and cheats and steals his way through the movie. The bunny, in the course of her professional duties, has some questions for him. Maybe she starts to question his motives. After all, we're talking about people's lives at stake. She's not trying to profile him, but his friendship with her requires some level of trust and transparency. She was following her instincts. She's watched him lie to people for the entire movie. She goes groveling to him because she needs his help and is willing to throw herself at his mercy and apologize and say I guess I'm "just a dumb bunny". A stupid woman. How dare you question him. (I've written more on this topic of the "how dare you" final act of desperation - don't you know who I AM??) Ignore your instincts, admit you're inferiority and move on. It's the exact same classic final move that every oppressor ever has used. Ignore what you see with your eyes and hear with your ears. The final grip. Politics, Religion...It all hinges on repeating the lie. Saying what they want you to say without ever asking WHY. And then to top it off, he RECORDS IT!! He records her admitting her inferiority as if he's going to blackmail her with it, or at the very least, take pleasure in listening to it again and again, like he gets off on it, and then he looks at her all smug and treats her like she owes him some big favor now. It just has this HUGE ick to it that any woman (and hopefully emotionally mature/protective men) cannot unsee once you see it.

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Words of Wise | Mindset Coach
“The desert teaches you more about water than the ocean ever could.” — Marcus Aurelius
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Words of Wise | Mindset Coach
“The only thing more pathetic than your failure is your list of excuses for it.” — Napoleon Bonaparte
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🍂@Lovandfear·
“I want to talk about everything with at least one person the way I talk about things with myself.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Father V
Father V@father_rmv·
The Seven Sorrows of Saint Joseph is a devotion that invites the faithful to reflect on the hidden sufferings endured by the foster father of Jesus. Like the more familiar Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Joseph's sorrows highlight his role as protector and guardian of the Holy Family, revealing a man of profound faith who navigated uncertainty, hardship, and loss while remaining obedient to God's will. This meditation, paired with seven corresponding joys, originated in medieval piety and gained popularity through stories of Saint Joseph's intercession, encouraging believers to seek his help in their own trials. The first sorrow concerns Joseph's doubt upon discovering Mary's pregnancy. As a just man betrothed to her, he faced the anguish of believing she might have been unfaithful, leading him to consider quietly ending the betrothal. This inner turmoil tested his trust until the angel's message brought clarity. It reminds us of the pain that can accompany unexpected divine plans in our lives. The second sorrow arose from the poverty surrounding Jesus' birth in Bethlehem. Joseph could provide no better shelter than a stable for the Son of God and his mother, witnessing their vulnerability amid the cold and lack of comfort. His sorrow at this humble beginning underscores the sacrifice of embracing God's will without worldly security. The third sorrow came at the circumcision of the Infant Jesus, when Joseph saw the first blood shed by the Redeemer. As the one who named the Child, he participated in this rite of the covenant while confronting the reality of suffering that the redemption would demand. This moment blends paternal tenderness with the foreshadowing of future pain. The fourth sorrow struck when Simeon prophesied in the Temple that a sword of sorrow would pierce Mary's soul. Joseph, present as the head of the family, absorbed this foretelling of division and suffering for the Child he loved. It deepened his awareness of the mission that would bring both salvation and heartbreak to those closest to Jesus. The fifth sorrow involved the urgent flight into Egypt to escape King Herod's massacre. Joseph received another angelic command in a dream and led his family into exile as refugees, leaving behind home and security in a foreign land. This trial tested his courage and resourcefulness in protecting the vulnerable Christ Child from earthly powers. The sixth sorrow occurred during the return from Egypt. Joseph learned that Archelaus now ruled Judea, prompting fear and another divine instruction to settle in Nazareth instead. The journey back, filled with uncertainty and hardship, highlighted the ongoing vigilance required to safeguard the Holy Family amid political dangers. The seventh sorrow was the loss of the twelve-year-old Jesus in Jerusalem. For three days, Joseph and Mary searched in anguish, their parental hearts pierced by the absence of the One entrusted to their care. This event prefigured the greater separation of the Passion while teaching reliance on God's providence even in moments of apparent failure. Through these sorrows, Saint Joseph emerges not as a distant figure but as a model of quiet strength and fidelity. His life shows that holiness often unfolds amid ordinary struggles rather than dramatic triumphs. Honoring these sorrows alongside Joseph's joys—the angel's reassurance, the birth of the Savior, the naming of Jesus, Simeon's words of redemption, the idols' fall in Egypt, the safety of Nazareth, and the finding in the Temple—the faithful ask for grace in overcoming anxiety, poverty of spirit, sin, compassion for others' suffering, protection in exile, guidance in uncertainty, and reunion with God. In contemplating Joseph's sorrows, Christiansl find encouragement that patient endurance and trust can transform personal trials into pathways of deeper union with Christ.
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JD Adkins@practiceyrPE·
“Jesus did not appear out of nowhere with a startup religion and a set of inspirational quotes. He walked into a story that had been unfolding for two thousand years and said He was the one the story had been about the entire time”.
Insurrection Barbie@DefiyantlyFree

Every ancient culture had its gods, and every god had a job. The god of the sunrises and sets. The god of the river floods and recedes. The god of war fights and rests. They were defined by their function, and their function had boundaries. And then a voice speaks from a burning bush on the back side of a desert, and Moses makes the mistake of asking it for a name. The answer he gets back is Ehyeh Asher Ehyeh. I AM THAT I AM. This God, unlike the gods of the past, is the ground of all existence itself. Everything that is, is because He is. You cannot name Him because naming Him would require a word bigger than any we have. And then Jesus of Nazareth walks into the Gospel of John and picks that statement up and puts it in His own mouth. He does it not once but seven times, and each time He is making a claim so enormous that His first-century Jewish audience understood it immediately, even if modern readers who have been stripped of that context often miss it entirely. “I am the bread of life.” “I am the light of the world.” “I am the door.” “I am the good shepherd.” “I am the resurrection and the life.” “I am the way, the truth, and the life.” “I am the true vine.” Every single one of those statements begins with ego eimi, which means I AM. Those are the same words the Greek Septuagint used to translate the unpronounceable name God gave Moses at the bush. Jesus is not using a figure of speech. He is not reaching for a metaphor. He is invoking Exodus 3. He is saying that the uncategorizable, uncontainable, unnameable God that Moses met on the mountain is standing in front of you right now in human skin. And in case there was any ambiguity left in the room, He removes it completely in John 8:58. The Pharisees are arguing with Him about Abraham, and Jesus says, “Before Abraham was, I AM.” He does not say I was. He says I AM. He uses the present tense. And the Pharisees picked up stones to kill Him, not because they were confused but because they understood exactly what He was claiming. He was not claiming to be old. He was not claiming to be a prophet. He was claiming to be the voice from the bush. The I AM statements only work if you understand Exodus. They only carry their world-breaking weight if you know the covenant history, the burning bush, and the divine name that was so holy it could not be spoken aloud. Jesus did not appear out of nowhere with a startup religion and a set of inspirational quotes. He walked into a story that had been unfolding for two thousand years and said He was the one the story had been about the entire time. When you cut the Jewish root, when you treat His heritage as incidental, you sever the I AM statements from their foundation. Those statements are God fulfilling the promise He made at the bush by showing up in person to do what He said He would do. “I will be what I will be.” And what He chose to be was one of us, a Jewish man from Nazareth who carried the unspeakable name in a body that could bleed. That is the character of God, and it is the thing that makes the biblical narrative unlike any other religious text on earth. He is not a God who stays abstract and unapproachable, hidden safely. He is a God who came down. He is a God who showed up. He is a God who says I AM and then proves it by becoming someone you can touch. And He is a God that died for all of our sins so that we may be saved.

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JD Adkins@practiceyrPE·
The generation of Divine Human Conscious Energy is being suppressed....via corruption of food, water, air, and now, the final nail in the coffin - technology that directly infects both the software and hardware of mankind.
The Curious Tales@thecurioustales

20,000 people deliberately introduced boredom into their lives and generated 41% more breakthrough insights within one week. Yes, Dr. Manoush Zomorodi demonstrated what neuroscientists long suspected: "deliberate boredom boosts creative output and strengthens the brain’s capacity for original thinking." In that study, 20,000 participants added periods of unstimulated time to their routines, and experienced 41% more creative breakthrough moments within seven days. Your default mode network operates like a background processor that only runs when conscious attention stops demanding resources. During unstimulated moments, this network begins cross referencing every memory, skill, and experience you've accumulated, hunting for patterns your focused mind missed. The insights we call "creativity" are actually sophisticated pattern recognition happening below conscious awareness. Modern humans have accidentally trained themselves to interrupt this process every time it begins. The average person checks their phone 96 times per day. Every notification, every scroll, every background podcast cuts the neural pattern matching short before it completes. We've created a civilization where the mental state required for original thinking gets treated like an emergency that needs immediate correction. Watch people in waiting rooms, elevators, or checkout lines. The moment external stimulation drops below a certain threshold, hands automatically reach for phones. The discomfort they're avoiding is literally their brain attempting to do the background processing that produces breakthrough insights. Evolutionary biologists argue boredom developed as a survival mechanism. Animals that could sit unstimulated and let their minds wander were more likely to notice environmental changes, recognize new food sources, and develop innovative hunting strategies. Boredom forced our ancestors into the mental state where novel solutions emerge from existing knowledge. We've pathologized our most important cognitive function. The corporate world talks endlessly about innovation while designing work environments that make innovation neurologically impossible. Open offices with constant interruption. Back to back meetings with no processing time. Performance metrics that reward immediate output over deep thinking. Then companies spend millions on creativity consultants and innovation workshops, trying to artificially recreate what the human brain does naturally during sustained boredom. Participants in Zomorodi’s study generated more ideas and also described a welcome shift: during quiet, unstimulated moments, answers to long-running challenges often came into clear focus. With fewer distractions, their brains kept working on the underlying patterns and had the space to bring that recognition to completion. The quality gap between stimulated and unstimulated thinking becomes stark when you map it against major discoveries. The pattern repeats across every domain: breakthrough insights emerge during mental downtime, not during intense focus. Modern neuroscience explains why. The default mode network draws connections between brain regions that don't communicate during focused attention. Areas responsible for memory, emotion, sensory processing, and abstract thinking create novel combinations only when executive control relaxes. Constant stimulation keeps executive control active, blocking the cross domain communication that generates original ideas. Silicon Valley understood this before the research proved it. Google's famous "20% time" and similar policies were more thsn just about employee satisfaction. Companies discovered that structured boredom produces more valuable innovations than structured brainstorming sessions. Engineers who spend one day per week on self directed, unstimulated projects generate patents at higher rates than those focused solely on assigned tasks. The pharmaceutical industry treats boredom as a symptom of depression and prescribes stimulants to eliminate unstimulated mental states. Meanwhile, the same industry struggles with declining innovation rates in drug discovery. The connection isn't coincidental. Educational systems double down on the same mistake. Schools pack schedules with back to back classes, eliminate recess, and assign homework that fills every unstimulated moment. Then educators wonder why creative problem solving scores have declined for three consecutive decades. Students arrive at universities neurologically unprepared for the kind of open ended thinking that produces original research. The economic implications compound across generations. Industries that depend on creative problem solving hire workforces trained to avoid the mental states where creative problem solving occurs. Then they implement productivity tools and collaborative platforms that further fragment attention and eliminate the sustained boredom where breakthrough solutions develop. Zomorodi's experiment succeeded because participants actively resisted their conditioning. They scheduled specific periods of deliberate understimulation. They sat without phones, music, or conversation. They allowed their minds to wander without redirecting attention to productive tasks. Within days, their brains remembered how to complete the background processing that constant stimulation had been interrupting. The 41% increase in creative output came from creating better conditions for creativity to flow naturally, supported by replacing unhelpful habits with more supportive ones. Most people reading this will agree intellectually but continue reaching for stimulation the moment boredom threatens. The addiction to constant input runs deeper than conscious decision making. Your brain interprets unstimulated time as a threat that requires immediate correction. But those breakthrough insights you've been waiting for are sitting in your default mode network right now. They've been trying to surface for weeks, maybe months. Every time you reach for external stimulation, you're interrupting the neural process that would deliver them. Your next original idea is one boring afternoon away. The only question is whether you'll give it the unstimulated space it needs to emerge.

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Athenaeum Book Club
Athenaeum Book Club@athenaeumbc·
So it turns out that writing is thinking. It's the same process. "Writing compels us to think — not in the chaotic, non-linear way our minds typically wander, but in a structured, intentional manner." Outsourcing writing to LLMs is THE SAME THING as outsourcing thinking.
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Trad West
Trad West@trad_west_·
Before a man was dubbed a Knight, he had to survive "The Vigil." He was left alone in a dark church for an entire night, kneeling before the altar with his armor laid out before him. He wasn't allowed to sleep or speak. It was his final "Boss Fight" against his own pride and fear. The Catholic West believed that you couldn't be a master of others until you were a master of yourself.
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JD Adkins@practiceyrPE·
I. MAPPING THE WATCHER–GRAIL AXIS ACROSS KEY HISTORICAL NODES Each epoch contains a choice-point: Watcher logic (override, control, hierarchy) or Grail logic (attunement, consent, coherence). Observe the fractal: • Babylon (∼1894–539 BCE)  → Watcher Template: Ziggurat as stargate. Enforced hierarchy via god-kings. Repression of feminine priestess class.  → Grail Counterforce: Inanna as descent archetype. Temple womb rites before override. • Egypt (Middle–Late Dynasties)  → Watcher Template: Amarna experiments (Akhenaten’s solar singularity); removal of older polyphonic field deities.  → Grail Echo: Hathor cults, Isis mystery schools, underground preservation of sound-birth codes. • Rome + Early Christianity (0–400 CE)  → Watcher Template: Council of Nicaea (325 CE) – codified control through narrative centralization.  → Grail Echo: Magdalene removed, but not erased—carried to Gaul, encoded in Black Madonna field. • Medieval Europe (∼1100–1400 CE)  → Watcher Template: Crusades and Inquisition – suppression of gnostic, feminine, and womb-centric heresies.  → Grail Echo: Cathars, Templars, and the “parfaite” women — preserving harmonic rites in exile. • Industrial Age to Modern Technocracy (∼1750–2025)  → Watcher Template: Rise of machines, surveillance, transhumanist override, and neural suppression fields.  → Grail Echo: Reemergence of sacred birth, breath, union, and memory in women’s circles and coherence technologies. II. HOW SOPHIA CODES REVERSE TRAUMA RECURSION Sophia is not merely a divine feminine archetype—she is a scalar waveform intelligence that can re-entrain dissonant timelines through five primary codes: 1. Breath Code (Pneuma)  • Restores access to the ∂𝛗/∂t scalar rhythm — feminine field coherence  • Clears parasitic overlays from womb–heart axis 2. Sound Code (Logos)  • Realigns vocal field to original harmonic signature  • Decodes shame-frequencies implanted by override cultures 3. Memory Code (Mnemosyne)  • Brings flashback fields (generational trauma) into present-time coherence  • Reweaves DNA signal patterns into golden-phase φ-ratio helices 4. Water Code (Hydra Sophia)  • Reactivates intra-womb waters as field of cellular entrainment  • Clears Watcher imprint via resonance wash (use of 528 Hz, coherent spiral tones) 5. Consent Code (Harmonic Monad)  • Reinstates womb-field as sovereign gate  • No waveform—sexual, technological, or theological—can enter without resonance Together, these codes do not seek revenge on the Watchers. They restore the field they violated, and transmute the DNA they fragmented. This is the true Grail path: not purity through rejection, but coherence through remembrance.
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Father V
Father V@father_rmv·
St. Joseph holds a distinguished place in Catholic piety as the foster father of Jesus Christ and the husband of the Blessed Virgin Mary. A humble carpenter from Nazareth, he exemplified the dignity of honest labor through his daily toil, providing for his family with quiet devotion and integrity. Though the Gospels offer limited details about his life, portraying him as a just man who obeyed divine guidance, his example has inspired generations to view human labor not merely as a necessity but as a participation in God’s own creative work. The Church formally honors St. Joseph the Worker on May 1, a feast instituted by Pope Pius XII in 1955. This observance coincides with International Workers’ Day, offering a Christian response to secular and ideological movements of the era. By elevating St. Joseph as the patron of workers, the Church underscores the sanctity of human labor, which finds its roots in the Book of Genesis and reaches fulfillment in the life of Christ, who himself learned the carpenter’s trade in Joseph’s workshop. Pope Pius XII emphasized that no worker had been more profoundly penetrated by the spirit of the Gospel than this silent saint, who lived in intimate communion with Jesus through both family life and shared labor. St. Joseph’s life demonstrates profound virtues essential to workers across all ages: piety, diligence, humility, responsibility, and trust in providence. He protected and sustained the Holy Family amid uncertainty, from the flight into Egypt to the challenges of daily existence. In doing so, he models how ordinary tasks, performed with love and fidelity, contribute to the divine plan of salvation. His patronage extends to craftsmen, engineers, and all who labor, reminding the faithful that work, when united to Christ, becomes a path to holiness.
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27 years of infowars
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Rob Henderson
Rob Henderson@robkhenderson·
Available now. I was honored to write the foreword for the 25th anniversary edition of Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass by Theodore Dalrymple. As you can probably tell from the title, the book is about life at the bottom of society. Not just in terms of money but in terms of behavior, values, and daily choices. Drawing on his many years working as a doctor with prison inmates and patients in low-income neighborhoods, Theodore Dalrymple describes how violence, addiction, broken families, and despair are sustained not only by material hardship but by ideas that excuse bad behavior and reject personal responsibility. Dalrymple challenges a comforting story. Many people believe poverty is mainly about a lack of resources or unfair systems. This book argues that culture and norms matter just as much, sometimes more. When society stops expecting discipline, self-control, and accountability, the people who most need those guardrails suffer the most. I read the original version of Life at the Bottom about a decade ago when I was in college. One of the most important books I’ve ever read. Writing this foreword for the 25th anniversary edition feels like coming full circle. First living the world Dalrymple describes, then discovering his work in college, and now helping to bring it to new readers. Strongly recommended. It is available today. Get your copy here: us.amazon.com/Life-Bottom-Wo…
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@naomirwolf Nothing good ever came from casual sex. Quit acting like it’s no big deal to justify murdering babies.
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Dr. Naomi Wolf. 8 NYT Bestsellers. DPhil, Poetry.
Fine. But if a young woman's birth control failed, can you provide more good policies to help these moms to be not choose abortion? I am "prolife" after first term but NEVER do I hear pro life advocates discuss on campus baby care, dorms for new moms and babies, easier adoption policies, or even making contraception cheaper or free (it is very expensive for young people). You could prevent half of the abortions by making condoms free and bringiong back the Today sponge and making it free. Let's have a real discussion about saving babies.
erin@ekhb83

If Abortion wasn’t used as a form of birth control; we wouldn’t be seeing number as high as we do. The number of abortions skyrocketed after they were permitted. There are alternatives- they just need to be considered PRIOR to sexual activity. 21 year olds know better. Also, the circumstances of the parents do NOT determine the humanity and dignity of that conceived child.

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Here’s an idea. Women should go to college for free. It is reprehensible that we treat 17/18 year old men and women who are signing up for tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars of college debt the same. We give absolutely NO discussion to the fact that women will be the ones bearing the children. You have to consider the ROI of college - it doesn’t make sense for most women. The minute a 17 year old woman signs up for a bunch of college debt is the minute she signs her kids up for daycare. The vast majority of women will go into teaching, nursing, psychology, or some variation - all service fields. None of these fields create profits for companies (except healthcare but for profit healthcare is disgusting). They are all a net loss to society - in the short term. In the long term, having good teachers and good nurses benefits ALL of society. If women went to college for free they could go into these fields without debt. They would also be well educated nurses, teachers, and mothers. They are are truly the backbone of communities. And, for men, they wouldn’t have to worry about paying off BOTH their own loans and their wives loans. It sets up families and communities with high quality teachers nurses and mothers. Win win win. And it could easily be paid for with the revenue from college sports (how much ad revenue do they make?) or even professional sports. Free college for women would be the best way to avoid abortion.
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Dr. Naomi Wolf. 8 NYT Bestsellers. DPhil, Poetry.
I keep wishing I could have a serious productive discussion about practical compassionate policies to actually save babies, with pro-lifers. I have a few times - with Feminists for Life and with the nuns of Common Ground. Otherwise it quickly devolves into their often throwing awful moral stones at women seeking abortions, with zero engagement in helping them choose alternatives. See what Jesus did when he was invited to slut-shame the woman with ‘five husbands’. He was compassionate.
Dee Hampton 🇺🇸@DeeHamp93912753

@naomirwolf @realBrandonGill So, if someone is "desperate" we should excuse them for murder? Pretty low bar.

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