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@PageauJonathan Im glad youre enjoying this film, I thought it was pretty bad.

Nolan’s The Odyssey Full Breakdown: The Post World War 2 Consensus Movie We Need (link below) I offer a full symbolic breakdown of Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, going through the entire film sequence by sequence., explaining why it's the movie we need right now.

@fami_maga2 Will know that map my whole life

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@BretWeinstein According to what you’ve taught me about complex systems, Chat GPT and Claude should be avoided in favor of Grok because of the top-down woke interventions given to Chat and Claude. Yet those are the two AI you always mention using. What am I missing here?

AI allows you to multitask. It can code for you, while you do research, for example. It also allows you to pull things off the back burner--objectives that were shelved for years or decades for lack of bandwidth--and complete them at a furious pace. These are superpowers.

@BretWeinstein According to what you’ve taught me about complex systems, Chat GPT and Claude should be avoided in favor of Grok because of the top-down woke interventions given to Chat and Claude. Yet those are the two AI you always mention using. What am I missing here?

Today we're going to discuss how to think carefully about difficult issues like the assassination of Charlie Kirk. x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

@Inspirenaire MI6: Fallout, when I streamed it theyd censored the bathroom fight scene to take out the ending gun shot. I think this happens all the time without announcement

This clip shows how original versions of TV shows have been shortened via syndication and streaming. But the bigger takeaway is that most people don’t realize it. In an era where books are being banned and original materials are becoming harder to find. This is just a small/fun example of that concept. If we don’t hold on to original copies of books, newspapers, magazines, vinyl, commercial VHS tapes, television recorded VHS tapes, cassette tapes, DVDs, original news broadcasts etc, we will watch history be edited with holes in it where things are missing and presented as though it is the complete picture. Here’s a light example of that concept.

@BretWeinstein @jeremiahcampana @Pathfinder4545 Try to learn what traditional Christianity teaches?

My contention is: If there is a God, he did create a universe in which surprising things would evolve. That reconciles the actual evidence with what we can't know. I also believe it is logically compelling. Why wouldn't God want a surprising creation? If I was all powerful, that's certainly what I would do. And by the way, it would also account for the existence of Evil.

If there is a creator God, he clearly used natural selection to make the creatures. I’d bet he’s as surprised and confounded by them as we are. Just as he is apparently surprised and confounded by the people in our sacred texts. That’s my take.

@SamaHoole Why couldn’t you include receipts in such a great post?

1866: Cotton seeds are agricultural waste. After extracting cotton fiber, farmers are left with millions of tons of seeds containing oil that's toxic to humans. Gossypol, a natural pesticide in cotton, makes the oil inedible. The seeds are fed to cattle in small amounts or simply discarded. 1900: Procter & Gamble is making candles and soap. They need cheap fats. Animal fats work but they're expensive. Cotton seed oil is abundant and nearly worthless. If they could somehow make it edible, they'd have unlimited cheap raw material. The process they develop is brutal. Extract the oil using chemical solvents. Heat to extreme temperatures to neutralise gossypol. Hydrogenate with pressurised hydrogen gas to make it solid at room temperature. Deodorise chemically to remove the rancid smell. Bleach to remove the grey color. The result: Crisco. Crystallised cottonseed oil. Industrial textile waste transformed through chemical processing into something white and solid that looks like lard. They patent it in 1907, launch commercially in 1911. Now they have a problem. Nobody wants to eat industrial waste that's been chemically treated. Your grandmother cooks with lard and butter like humans have for thousands of years. Crisco needs to convince her that her traditional fats are deadly and this hydrogenated cotton-seed paste is better. The marketing campaign is genius. They distribute free cookbooks with recipes specifically designed for Crisco. They sponsor cooking demonstrations. They target Jewish communities advertising Crisco as kosher: neither meat nor dairy. They run magazine adverts suggesting that modern, scientific families use Crisco while backwards rural people use lard. But the real coup happens in 1948. The American Heart Association has $1,700 in their budget. They're a tiny organisation. Procter & Gamble donates $1.7 million. Suddenly the AHA has funding, influence, and a major corporate sponsor who manufactures vegetable oil. 1961: The AHA issues their first dietary guidelines. Avoid saturated fat from animals. Replace it with vegetable oils. Recommended oils: Crisco, Wesson, and other seed oils. The conflict is blatant. The organization issuing health advice is funded by the company that profits when people follow that advice. Nobody seems troubled by this. Newspapers report the guidelines as objective science. Doctors repeat them to patients. Government agencies adopt them into policy. Industrial cotton-seed oil, chemically extracted and hydrogenated, becomes "heart-healthy" while butter becomes "artery-clogging poison." 1980s: Researchers discover that trans fats, created by hydrogenation, directly cause heart disease. They raise LDL, lower HDL, promote inflammation, and increase heart attack risk more than any other dietary fat. Crisco, as originally formulated, is catastrophically unhealthy. This takes 70 years to officially acknowledge. Procter & Gamble's response: Quietly reformulate without admission of error. Remove hydrogenation, keep selling seed oils, never acknowledge that their "heart-healthy" product spent seven decades actively causing the disease it claimed to prevent. Modern seed oils remain. Soybean, canola, corn, safflower oils everywhere. Same chemical extraction process. Same high-temperature refining. Same oxidation problems. Just without hydrogenation so trans fats stay below regulatory thresholds. These oils oxidise rapidly when heated. They integrate into cell membranes where they create inflammatory signalling for months or years. They're rich in omega-6 fatty acids that promote inflammation. They've never existed in human diets at current consumption levels. But they're cheap. Profitable. And the food industry has spent a century convincing everyone they're healthy. The alternative, admitting that industrial textile waste shouldn't have been turned into food, would require acknowledging the last 110 years of dietary advice was fundamentally corrupted from the start. Your great-grandmother cooked with lard because that's what humans used for millennia. Then Procter & Gamble needed to sell soap alternatives and accidentally created the largest dietary change in human history. We traded animal fats that built civilisations for factory waste that causes disease. The soap company won. Your health lost.

@RealBenLuigi Just let a girl try to repent bro

It is a fact that Christianity, both in Scripture and in history, has had a pattern of prior whores convert and become faithful followers of Christ. However, there is a crucial condition that is often overlooked. Absolutely none of them became teachers of any sort. Instead, they became made pure by martyrdom, or by decades of silent repentance. An example of the former being St. Photini (the woman at the well), and of the latter being St. Mary of Egypt. In fact, St. Mary literally spent 47 years in the desert repenting of her harlotry. Needless to say, the inevitable podcast and Christian clothing line from Ms. Philips here is far from reflective of the historical understanding of Christian repentance.

@gew984757 @FrLillie Problem solved

@FrLillie hear me out....

Like other parishes, I have men inquiring and joining my parish. Many are doing so when their wives are uninterested. I am blessed to have some couples and families join but never single women. How do we reach this demographic. I have my idea why Orthodoxy is not appealing to them and it’s all modernist propaganda. Nevertheless, we need to reach them. How?

@Rothmus It’s like the sandwalk from Dune!

@orthodox_33ad Is OP a bot?

Orthodoxy or Secularization? The Issue of Dancing in the Church Dear brothers and sisters, today we are witnessing a troubling practice in Africa. Dancing inside Orthodox churches under the oversight of Metropolitan of Kenya Makarios. Let us be clear, cultural tradition is not an excuse to introduce worldly expressions into the holy space of the Church. If that were the case, then Greeks would be justified in dancing 'kalamatianos' or 'zeibekiko' before the Holy Altar. But would that ever be acceptable? Of course not. It would be a distortion of our liturgical order and the sacred stillness that defines Orthodox worship. Before anyone rushes to say we are “judging,” let us clarify, we are not condemning individuals. We are simply pointing out a practice which we have seen becoming a 'norm' and risks diluting our Orthodox identity with foreign innovations, making our Churches look protestant. If we do not safeguard the faith from such innovations, then what will we leave for the next generation? "Let all things be done decently and in order." — 1 Corinthians 14:40 "Do not celebrate your son’s wedding with flutes, lyres, and dances. For it is most improper that such a bridegroom be dishonored with such entertainments." — St. John Chrysostomos "You who dance, it is the devil who makes you dance. Be ashamed and cease this idolatrous and godless frenzy. Dancing is not a mark of Christians." — St. Ephraim the Syrian

@AngloVarangian Over-generalizations like this are more fit for a bot than a Christian

The Greek Archdiocese is the source of all disunity among the Orthodox Church in the United States.

@AngloVarangian What’s he have to apologize for? Also, he clearly said other hierarchs are not foreign agents. It’s honestly more than I was expecting and I’m glad

Archbishop Elpidophoros statement never references the archon statement directly nor does it offer any apology. Only limited clarifications. It's decent but an apology would be better. orthodoxobserver.org/abp-elpidophor…

@TheUhlan @Orthodixie Dang i didn’t even know i was doing that

With all the recent "Orthodoxy in the News" - here's a piece from a few years ago, snapped from "The Word" magazine. Since then catechumens have trippled in size, our parish went to 2 services on Sunday & birthed a Mission. It gets crazier every week. Many such stories. GTG.

@UOJ_America The news article you link to makes no mention of the EP praising Vatican II. Are you a click bait factory, or journalists of integrity?

LOURDES — Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew told France’s Catholic bishops that authentic tradition is “not conservative but creative.” He then praised Vatican II and its architects, including French theologians Henri de Lubac and Yves Congar.

@elonmusk This is very cringe.

AI is obviously gonna one-shot the human limbic system. That said, I predict – counter-intuitively – that it will *increase* the birth rate! Mark my words. Also, we’re gonna program it that way.

@thaddeusthought People forget he’s probably 60% of the reason young men are converting to Christianity. Look at the fruits.

@michelletandler What sources are being used here?

Approximately 90% of Therapists are Liberal. 76% are women. 86% are White. What is going on here? I have never heard of a profession that is less diverse or more ideologically skewed.