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@FamedCelebrity Thanks for posting the print version -- so much quicker than video.

@FamedCelebrity This helped me clarify Hume v. Aquinas. I'd always thought you couldn't get ought from nature till I read Aquinas (Feser's books). Don't know how I grew up surrounded by Christianity and never heard Hume's view contested, except in a Romans verse nobody examined.

Hume’s Guillotine, Euclid’s Catapult: Induction, Axioms, and Objective (not based on desire) Ethics Hume did not prove ethics is impossible; if he did, then so is math. youtu.be/LB4Lwhg6wGc

@Anthony_Bonato Godel's theorem.

What one thing in mathematics blew your mind when you first learned it?

@teachthemx3 So say what should happen instead. Otherwise it's not really an opinion, but a half-pinion.

If a student has already mastered a concept, they shouldn’t be sent to another room with a packet while the teacher works with struggling students.

@zachmarsch @WSJ @WSJopinion This will work fine if you don't really need the degree to do the work. But I wouldn't hire someone with a 3-year degree if I needed 4-year degree performance.

Why 3 Year College Degrees Can Work “Undergraduates can complete bachelor’s degrees in three years if colleges become leaner and more mission-focused. The goal isn’t less education, it’s less waste.” Check out my piece in @WSJ @WSJopinion wsj.com/opinion/less-i…

@miles_commodore Same reason "undead" doesn't mean "alive" and "highways" are on the ground?

My son asked me why "cheesecake" is a cake when it's more like a pie. Help me out, I got nothing.

@minordissent However, a 70- IQ gives a much lower chance.

Everyone talks about how “IQ is the single biggest predictor of success” but just FYI having a 130+ IQ only gives you about a 50/50 chance of breaking $100K salary ever in your life.

@TheProjectUnity If you're a dog owner, you already do.

What happens when we can understand the animals? Because I think that's coming...

@tanpukunokami English surnames include Smith, Fields, Cook, Johnson (John's son) and others ending in son, Farmer, Yeomans. Irish include O'Brien (of Brian; Brian's son). &c.

Japanese surnames actually have meanings, and you can read them like a puzzle. Tanaka 田中: 田 is rice field, 中 is middle. “Middle of the rice field.” Yamamoto 山本: 山 is mountain, 本 is base. “Foot of the mountain.” Kobayashi 小林: 小 is small, 林 is woods. “Small forest.” Ishikawa 石川: 石 is stone, 川 is river. “Stony river.” Most of them describe where the family once lived. Do surnames in your country have meanings like this?

@politicalawake @Maiku167 The Pope opposes the Emperor? I'll want some documentation of that.

@Maiku167 It's activism that is also supported by the Catholic Pope, are you going to claim the Vatican is secular too?

National Christian Council of Japan (NCC) who is pushing for the abolition of the Emperor has an entire network in Japan financing NGOs that are supporting Third World Migrants 👇

@miles_commodore Inflation had to be crushed, so Carter bumped the interest rate way high (and Reagan apparently left it for a while). It worked!

DID YOU KNOW??? In October of 1981 the conventional 30-year fixed mortgage interest rate was 18.6%. The highest in American history.

@Biblicalman My church must be doing something right, then!

Attendance report from the average church. Potluck. Packed. Christmas program. Standing room only. Building fund meeting. Full house. Prayer meeting. Six folding chairs. Street preaching. Nobody came. Soul-winning. Nobody signed up. Discipleship. Nobody asked. The kitchen is full. The altar is empty.

@timothyjphelan Which is Japan's bigger stumbling block: kami, or secularism? Can either be used as a starting point for explaining the Gospel, like the unknown god at Mars Hill?

If you’re a Christian, pray for Japan. Shinto’s countless kami are tied to particular places and things. Christianity’s Triune God is present and listening wherever you are. The God of the Bible will find you. The kami of Shinto wait for you to pay them a visit.

@Hitchslap1 Change "never" to "always" and I'm on board. The handicapped persons in my life matter, and are so worth the extra effort.

Never try to reason with someone more than 30 IQ points below you. They’re working with a completely different toolkit. Think about it.

@gonefishin1948 Methinks you're right!

Never start a sentence with the word "Me".

@DK_Able You haven't been in my district, then.

@JoshuaBarzon Recommend a crowd friendly, cross denomination intro.

Christians need to know church history.

@BigBicNick Like air safety? Turns out air safety has been slowly improving and continues to. Debt? Worsening, like before. This generalization only works till you ask for specifics.

Has anyone noticed that ever since Make America Great Again took over every facet of our government, that everything just keeps getting worse?

@Rothmus Our civilization has decided to die.

US national debt just hit $39.4 trillion. Nearly 75% of it has been accumulated since the 2008 financial crisis. We’re now paying over $1 trillion a year just to service the debt, more than we spend on national defense. Deficits are still running at $1.8–2 trillion annually, so both the principal and the interest tab keep exploding. And CBO projects interest costs will roughly double this decade. We’re going to be paying for it with higher taxes on working families and their kids, printing money that drives up the cost of living, or eventually slashing future benefits. And neither party wants to stop it.

@needGod_net If self described Christians ditch #2, well, that's what Matthew 7:21 warns us about. I'm keeping them both.

Christians: "Trust in Jesus in what he has DONE for you." Catholics: "Trust in Jesus in what he tells YOU to do." Which one is relying on themselves to save them?