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@anxietymsgs Forgive her.

You meet your 18 year old self, you’re allowed 3 words. What do you say?

@CyberPunkCortes America never recovered from Sept 11th.

America never really recovered from the massive dislocations caused by the 2007 global financial crisis. The Obama-Trump-Biden years have simply been an unbroken slide into demoralization and staving off poverty with debt.

@fandompulse It’s a great movie! The first 15 minutes you’re like, “this guy is doing Martian 2”… and then he takes it in an amazing direction. I am entertained!!

Project Hail Mary writer Andy Weir on social commentary in books: "I dislike social commentary. Like… I really hate it. When I’m reading a book, I just want to be entertained, not preached at by the author. Plus, it ruins the wonder of the story if I know the author has a political or social axe to grind. I no longer speculate about all possible outcomes of the story because I know for a fact that the universe of that book will conspire to ensure that the author’s political agenda is validated. I hate that." "I put no politics or social commentary into my stories at all. Anyone who thinks they see something like that is reading it in on their own. I have no point to make, and I’m not trying to affect the reader’s opinion on anything. My sole job is to entertain, and I stick to that." "To that end, I also don’t talk about my personal political opinions publicly. I don’t want readers to even know, honestly. I don’t want that in the back of their minds as they read my stuff." Is this why he has the #1 sci-fi movie in decades?

@jtalexander Reasonable doubt relies on reasonable people. Hence our predicament.

I prosecuted in a very heavily White area. Jury trials aren't only failing because of ethnic tribalism. They're failing in large part because a jury's expectation of evidence is cartoonishly high, completely divorced from reality. They expect *everything* to be on video nowadays. They're also failing because juries are more prone to nullification than ever before. Not for any principled reason, such as believe the crime was just, but that they simply don't trust the state to charge and punish people properly and/or they don't care. E.g., I've had DUI cases where someone who was OBVIOUSLY guilty was acquitted. Multiple. In one of them I spoke to the jury afterward and they flat out told me "All the evidence was there." They just felt bad for the defendant and wanted to go home. They're also failing because judges and statutes are more pro-criminal than ever before. Judge Example: In a prosecution for DV Assault, I was prohibited from introducing evidence the Defendant having assaulted the victim previously, despite the fact the law in our jurisdiction explicitly allows for this, because the judge felt it was "too prejudicial." (Btw, this Defendant testified and confessed to every single element on the stand and the jury still returned a verdict of Not Guilty.) Statute Example: I prosecuted a woman for stealing $400,000. By law, I could not even ask for jail time because it was her first offense. The Judge had no power to grant a sentence of jail time. If you try to break the collapse of the justice system down to being only an ethnic/tribal thing, you're going to fail, because that's not anywhere near the only issue.

@drcateshanahan We should burn obese bodies to power data centers.

This is gross, so naturally I have to share. My accountant just explained crematoriums have adapted to the obesity epidemic to prevent massive...grease...fires. Here's what they do: Turn down the heat from 2800 to 1500 Bake the entire day, instead of minutes And put...

@TheProjectUnity I’ve been there. The statue “spoke” to me in my mind, saying “if you sacrifice to me, I will give you anything you ask.” I didn’t. But a few days later I had a dream of Hathor, and it was incredible…

There's an ancient energetic statue locked up in Karnak Temple in Egypt. I don't say that lightly, I have seen it myself and i'm really not the type to be like "oooh I feel the energy" I FELT THE ENERGY. The Vatican has a bunch of these statues. Something is going on here.

@WilliamShatner His work very late in his life on the tv show Fringe was boss. A giant.

Remembering Leonard on what would have been his 95th Birthday 🎂

@TheMonologist I loved this movie.

@archeohistories Don’t forget the human meat in the markets. This from Diaz:

In 1519 a Spanish soldier named Bernal Diaz walked into the palace of Moctezuma II in Tenochtitlan and watched the most powerful man in the Americas eat dinner. He wrote down everything he saw in extraordinary detail and what he described was unlike anything he had ever encountered in his life. Over 300 dishes were prepared for Moctezuma every single day. His cooks placed small pottery braziers filled with fire beneath each dish to keep them warm. Turkeys, pheasants, partridges, quails, venison, wild boar, pigeons, hares, and rabbits were among the meats prepared, along with dishes whose ingredients Diaz admitted he could not even identify. Moctezuma would sometimes walk through the kitchen before dining, accompanied by his chefs and stewards, and point at the dishes he wanted, asking what each one was made from before deciding whether to eat it. He was consulted about his own dinner the way a modern head of state is consulted about a policy decision. Over a thousand additional dishes were prepared simultaneously for the guards and attendants waiting outside. But here is the detail that stayed with Bernal Diaz more than anything else. Moctezuma ate alone, behind a wooden screen, so that no one could watch him. Four women brought his food, presented it on ceramics from Cholula, the finest pottery in the Aztec world. Musicians played. Jesters performed. Acrobats worked in the background. And when the meal was finished, Bernal Diaz wrote in his own words: "from time to time they served him, in cups of pure gold, a certain drink made from cacao." It was said that it gave one power over women, but this I never saw. I did see them bring in more than fifty large pitchers of cacao with froth in it, and he drank some of it, the women serving with great reverence. The golden cup was used once and then reportedly thrown into the lake alongside the palace. Moctezuma did not drink from the same cup twice. That chocolate was nothing like what you know today. No sugar, no milk, no sweetness. Pure cacao ground and mixed with chili, vanilla, and water, beaten until it frothed, served cold or at room temperature, and reserved almost entirely for the ruler, the nobility, and warriors being rewarded for battlefield valor. A source from the period describes the restriction in terms that left no ambiguity: if one of the common people drank it without sanction, it would cost their life. Cacao beans were currency, ranked alongside gold and gems in records of solemn offerings to the dead, and the idea that a commoner might casually consume a cup of it was treated the same way a medieval peasant drinking from the king's personal chalice would have been treated. While Moctezuma finished his fifty pitchers of frothy gold cup chocolate, the farmers and laborers who grew the cacao he was drinking ate two meals a day. Maize porridge with chili in the morning. Tortillas, beans, and squash in the afternoon. On a good day there were grasshoppers roasted with salt and lime, or dried lake algae pressed into a cake that the Spanish described as tasting faintly like cheese. The distance between those two tables, in the same city, on same evening, was one of the widest gaps between imperial and commoner food in the entire ancient world. Tenochtitlan was built on an island in middle of a lake with almost no natural farmland surrounding it, and feeding a city of 200,000 people required a food supply system of extraordinary sophistication. The floating garden fields called chinampas, anchored in the shallow lake bed, produced up to seven harvests a year and fed the city through a network of canals that brought produce directly from the fields into the market at Tlatelolco. Bernal Diaz walked through that market as well and wrote that he had never seen anything like it in his life, that it was larger than any market in Rome or Constantinople, and that he could not find the words in Spanish to describe quantity and variety of what was for sale. #archaeohistories

@SketchesbyBoze When I got to college, the White Album (Beatles) and Phish could be heard blasting from the windows. When I left, it was the “Thong Song.”

The fading of the UK from American culture in the past decade has been a terrible loss. We need to raise kids on the Beatles and Tolkien and Doctor Who so they can grow to be adults who love Beowulf and Belle & Sebastian and Kenneth Branagh and Bleak House.

@HammerandVajra Blue Faun has a good vid on Mithraism, at least it’s Roman form. I have this book, for those interested it’s a must-have…youtu.be/ndwqQvCPZ9U?si…

A quote from a very solid book regarding Mithraism from East to West as well as pre-Islamic Persian myths.

@StephenKokx @MarkTezak Imagine being a Bishop and not knowing the language you celebrate Mass in! Many priests only had a passing knowledge of Latin at the time. There was a need to change to the vernacular, full stop.

@MarkTezak One bishop left after the first session because he couldn’t understand Latin. Besides that, the texts were purposefully long and ambiguously worded. Their translations into French, etc were worse.

Many Catholics rightly ask how the Council Fathers could vote for the documents of Vatican II if they included so many ambiguities, errors, etc. that contradict the faith. Here's why they did... 1) Many Council Fathers were not Latinists, shockingly enough. The final 16 documents totaled over 100,000 words in Latin, some of which were not precise in their meaning. Translations were also ambiguous. Journalist Xavier Rynne noted in his book on the Council's second session that hardly any attendees read the Decree on the Media of Social Communications but it passed with flying colors anyway. So, first point: many voted for documents they didn't fully read or understand in their entirety. 2) In essays published after the Council, Oregon Archbishop Robert Dwyer admitted that the bishops voted for the documents because they were told to by higher ranking clergy. This meant that the American bishops supported the documents the American cardinals did, just as the Europeans supported what the infamous Rhine group told them to support. In other words, higher ranking clergy exerted pressure on ordinary bishops to go along with the larger 'group.' The problem was that the most influential groups were controlled by dissidents and Modernists. This meant that lower-tier clergy ended up supporting documents they might otherwise not have. This is the 'coup' aspect of the Council. 3) Dissident figures like Hans Kung, John Courtney Murray and others were given massive exposure by TIME Magazine and other outlets. Traditionalists like Cardinal Ottaviani, meanwhile, were dragged through the mud. The praise the liberals received and the smear campaign the orthodox clergy were on the receiving end of had the effect of making some Council Fathers re-think their views of their positions. This was a psy-op concocted by the US Deep State and it had the effect of deceiving attendees into thinking the dissidents (and the documents they influenced) weren't so bad after all. 4) There are sentences and phrases that the conservative clergy made sure to include in the documents. These clearly reiterate Traditional teaching. Other phrases in the documents were inserted by the Modernists, and they often had a double meaning or worse clearly contradicted past teaching on ecclesiology, etc. Michael Davies called these 'time bombs.' The conservatives voted for the documents because they felt they did the best they could to include enough traditional language in the documents to salvage them from being used for nefarious purposes later on. Of course, they ended up being wrong on that calculation. 5) After all of the original documents were thrown out (except Sacrosanctum Concilium) the conservatives were on the defensive for the entire rest of the Council. Almost every document the Council eventually approved went through dozens of re-writes over a period of several years. This had the effect of exhausting the conservatives and caused others to simply throw up their hands and look with excitement to the end of the Council so they could go home. Fr. Fenton noted in his diary how defeated Ottaviani was at one point. He simply couldn't continue the fight. 6) Many Council Fathers didn't want to oppose Paul VI, win the ire of their colleagues, or show the world that the Church was divided so they voted in favor of the documents to show unanimity. In reality, they went along with the 'zeitgeist' of the moment and caved to peer pressure and human respect, mistakenly thinking that the Holy Spirit protected the gathering in some way when in reality it was the work of human hands concocted by Modernists whose ideas were already condemned by multiple popes.

@TheProjectUnity @4gottn_History if it is Atlantis, we should be finding ancient objects there that show some type of high civilization. As far as I know, there have been finds, but NOTHING on the level of ancient Egypt or Central/South America. We're missing something.. or haven't dug deep enough..

@4gottn_History Not it doesn't lol. The size difference is insane.

The Richat Structure fits Plato’s description of Atlantis. End of story.

I believe this is the Temple of Quetzalcoatl at Teotihuacan. That site was so ancient to the Aztecs that they didn’t know who built it. Yet, there was a Temple of Quetzalcoatl. Was that cult a late addition? It seems to be in the same style as the rest of the Temples there. A mystery for sure.

Whatever unfolded in this world in the past is beyond our imagination

@fryspati Keep on buying! I have thousands of books, a true library.

Hello I own 300 books and my screen time is 9 hours a day. I haven’t read in a week. And I just bought more books

@MemoryMedieval The Scala Sancta

Friend of mine is going to Rome with his family (3 teenage daughters) for 10 days. Recommend anything in Rome to see/do/eat that isn't the obvious (Pantheon, Trevi Fountain, etc) Thank you!

@AltMumofzephyr @stopvaccinating The DTap vaccine has nothing to do with polio. It is for Diphtheria, Tetanus, and Pertussis, and has poisoned millions..

@stopvaccinating The HPV vaccine has been so successful in Australia that they’ve nearly eliminated cervical cancer in young women. The MMR vaccine had eliminated measles in the US until the anti-vaccine movement gained traction. The DTaP vaccine eliminated polio. The question is …

Which vaccine should be permanently banned first, and why: COVID vaccine HPV vaccine MMR vaccine DTaP vaccine 🤷‍♂️

@XekiHlongwane honestly better vibes than Trump's parade.

Uganda 🇺🇬 is a comedy on its own, Just imagine if they were to fight Israel 🇮🇱 or Iran 🇮🇷 #IranWar #IranWar 🤭🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@JMGreerWriter The Gothic Wars had a lot to do with Rome’s physical destruction. But point taken. it’s also amazing how little of Roman Constantinople remains…

Rome was a city with vast public buildings and apartment blocks seven stories high in 300 AD; by 600 AD the Forum at the center of the city was a goat pasture and the apartment blocks were distant memories. Plenty of other great cities of the past went exactly the same way, for the same reasons: the civilizations that built them kept pouring labor and resources into maintaining them, until they couldn’t.

@IMPERATORAUS "But I say to you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you." Matthew 5:44.

What's the hardest line in the whole Bible?