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Have you seen a baby this month? In 2100 they will be 80. What will they remember about how humans of today prepared for a better future? The NEW BILL OF RIGHTS is a Blueprint. Use it. #forever #freespeech #protest

@riecker @schmitt4545 Be still and know that I am God.

There was one house in Hiroshima the atomic bomb couldn't destroy. And what the scientists found inside has never been explained. August 6th, 1945. The first nuclear weapon in history detonates over the city. Within seconds, tens of thousands of people are dead. Everything for miles is gone — flattened, vaporized, reduced to a smoking wasteland as far as the eye can see. Almost nothing is left standing. Except for one rectory, near the very center of the blast. When the dust cleared, eight Jesuit missionaries walked out of it alive. Their church, Our Lady of the Assumption, lost its stained glass — but it didn't fall. It was one of the only buildings left in the entire zone. Now here's where it gets impossible to explain. These men were close enough to the hypocenter that they should have been killed instantly, like everyone around them. Instead, their only injuries were a few shards of glass in the back of the neck. Not one of them even suffered hearing loss. Not one. The doctors who examined them were certain of what came next. Radiation poisoning. Lesions. Illness. Death within weeks. It never came. Over the years that followed, these eight priests were examined more than 200 times. Father Hubert Schiffer alone was interviewed 200 times by scientists and physicians trying to understand it. Every exam came back the same: no radiation. No lasting effects. Nothing. Father Schiffer was 30 years old that morning. He had just dug his spoon into a grapefruit when the sky turned white. He lived another 37 years. Here's how he described the moment it hit: "An invisible force lifted me from the chair, hurled me through the air, shook me, battered me, whirled me round and round like a leaf in a gust of autumn wind." When he opened his eyes, there was nothing left in any direction. The railroad station, the buildings, the city — leveled. And he stood up with glass in his neck and walked away. So when the priests were finally asked how they survived, everyone leaned in. Their answer was two sentences long: "We believe that we survived because we were living the message of Fatima. We lived and prayed the Rosary daily in that home." That's it. That's the whole secret. And here's something most people don't know — at Nagasaki, the same thing happened. St. Maximilian Kolbe had founded a Franciscan friary there. The brothers prayed the daily Rosary. Their friary stood. They walked away unharmed too. Two cities. Two communities. Same weapon in their hands. This is what Our Lady has been trying to tell us all along. The Rosary is more powerful than every nuclear arsenal on earth combined. All the armies of hell are useless against the soul who prays it faithfully. "I will fight for you. You need only to be still." — Exodus 14:14 Here's the part that stings, though. Most of us already know this. And we still spend our days white-knuckling every battle alone, forcing our own way through, exhausting ourselves — when the most powerful weapon ever given to man has been sitting in our pocket the whole time. The men who survived Hiroshima didn't survive because they were strong. They survived because they were faithful. Daily. Together. As a brotherhood. That's exactly what we're building at TOD Academy — over 100 Catholic men who've stopped fighting alone and started living the message that protected those priests. Daily prayer, real formation, and brothers who hold the line with you. If you're tired of doing it on your own, come build the kind of faith that doesn't break under pressure. todacademy.com/interest-form Pick up the Rosary. Pray it daily. Make your First Five Saturdays. The children of Mary are invincible. Read the full story here: open.substack.com/pub/cameronrie…

@LeeKurtiss @Heavenly_Race_ Also a man-woman issue. Even if the woman uses empathy and understanding to connect, it can turn into a very slippery slope that slides into people pleasing.

@Heavenly_Race_ This sounds like a man problem, because I don't know any intelligent women who can't communicate, at a minimum through empathy for others

Once you hit about a 20-point IQ gap, communication starts to completely break down. It's not that the lower IQ person is "stupid" (although that can often be the case) or the higher one is arrogant, it's that you're literally operating on different systems. A 20 point difference (roughly 1.3 standard deviations) means: Vocabulary and abstraction levels diverge sharply. What feels like crystal clear logic to one side sounds like vague, pretentious word salad to the other. Jokes land flat. Metaphors get taken literally. Complex cause and effect chains get simplified into "this good, that bad." Different time horizons and pattern recognition. One person thinks in months or years and sees systems, the other is locked into days or immediate rewards. Trying to explain second order effects feels like speaking another language. Also, processing speed and working memory gaps. The higher IQ person is already three steps ahead, getting impatient. The lower IQ person feels talked down to or overwhelmed. Both walk away frustrated. Both have wasted each others time.

@Heavenly_Race_ Be nice provides a space for limited temporary interaction. High IQ VS High IQ interaction also creates communication issues because each high IQ is often focused on different systems, timelines, and patterns, and these deep rabbit holes often can’t intersect with each other.

This post blew up, and the replies perfectly illustrate the exact point I was making. The most common pushback is some version of: “Nuh-uh, intelligent people can still communicate with lower-IQ individuals just fine.” I shouldn’t have to spell this out, but here we go. Nobody is claiming you can’t have a basic transactional conversation with a grocery store clerk, order food, or make small talk with your neighbor. Surface level communication works across moderate gaps. You point, you smile, you use simple sentences, it gets the job done. The real breakdown happens when you move beyond scripts and start exchanging actual ideas. That’s where the 20-point gap becomes a chasm: - One person is thinking in systems, incentives, second and third order consequences. - The other is stuck at first order, immediate, concrete terms. What feels like a crystal clear, logical argument to the higher IQ person sounds like confusing, overly complicated nonsense to the other. You’re not speaking the same conceptual language anymore. This is why high IQ people often feel chronically alienated in normal social or professional environments, and why average people can find very bright individuals exhausting, “weird,” or arrogant. It’s also why throwing together teams, friendships, marriages, or institutions with massive cognitive mismatches creates persistent friction that “just be nice” rhetoric can’t magically dissolve. Basic communication? Usually possible. Deep, accurate exchange of complex ideas? Often not.

Yes. They simply speak different languages. The higher IQ person is able to mutate sometimes, by simplifying their cognitive language to basics to communicate. Sometimes but rarely.. there’s a benefit: this results in lower IQ imparting, practical wisdom of common sense to the higher IQ who can get lost in a labyrinth of systems and timelines. High IQ can jump into 1776 then jump back into 2026 like it’s a heartbeat. Low IQ declares “I stay in the now.’ If they decide to listen, they definitely don’t know how to reply to the High IQ. High IQ feels like they’re talking to a wall.

Field observations: The godless do strive To perform immoral drives, Green moss clings to wood. #Earthnotes #Poetry #Haiku

@DavidJHarrisJr @sojourner7771 Melinda Gates needs a middleman to connect with God? Connect directly to God. Let the Holy Spirit discern. See clearly.

🚨Melinda Gates: "A Priest confirmed I can be Catholic and pro-abortion." Thoughts?

@Ikennect @WLT45zor How HORRIFIC. Hanoi Hilton. HHHHHHHH

Barbara Walters writes: Unfortunately, many have forgotten and still countless others have never known how Ms. Fonda betrayed not only the idea of our country, but specific men who served and sacrificed during the Vietnam War. The first part of this is from an F-4E pilot. The pilot's name is Jerry Driscoll, a River Rat. In 1968, the former Commandant of the USAF Survival School was a POW in Ho LoPrison, the "Hanoi Hilton." Dragged from a stinking cesspit of a cell, cleaned, fed, and dressed in clean PJ's, he was ordered to describe for a visiting American "peace activist" the "lenient and humane treatment" he'd received. He spat at Ms. Fonda, was clubbed, and was dragged away. During the subsequent beating, he fell forward onto the camp commandant 's feet, which sent that officer berserk. In 1978, the Air Force Colonel still suffered from double vision (which permanently ended his flying career) from the Commandant's frenzied application of a wooden baton. From 1963-65, Col. Larry Carrigan was in the 47FW/DO (F-4E's). He spent 6 years in the "Hanoi Hilton". . . The first three of which his family only knew he was "missing in action." His wife lived on faith that he was still alive. His group, too, got the cleaned-up, fed and clothed routine in preparation for a "peace delegation" visit. They, however, had time and devised a plan to get word to the world that they were alive and still survived. Each man secreted a tiny piece of paper, with his Social Security Number on it, in the palm of his hand. When paraded before Ms. Fonda and a cameraman, she walked the line, shaking each man's hand and asking little encouraging snippets like: "Aren't you sorry you bombed babies?" and "Are you grateful for the humane treatment from your benevolent captors?" Believing this HAD to be an act, they each palmed her their sliver of paper. She took them all without missing a beat. . . At the end of the line and once the camera stopped rolling, to the shocked disbelief of the POWs, she turned to the officer in charge and handed him all the little pieces of paper... Three men died from the subsequent beatings. Colonel Carrigan was almost number four but he survived, which is the only reason we know of her actions that day. I was a civilian economic development adviser in Vietnam, and was captured by the North Vietnamese communists in South Vietnam in 1968, and held prisoner for over 5 years. I spent 27 months in solitary confinement; one year in a cage in Cambodia; and one year in a 'black box' in Hanoi. My North Vietnamese captors deliberately poisoned and murdered a female missionary, a nurse in a leprosarium in Banme Thuot, South Vietnam, whom I buried in the jungle near the Cambodian border. At one time, I weighed only about 90 lbs. (My normal weight is 170 lbs.) We were Jane Fonda's "war criminals." When Jane Fonda was in Hanoi, I was asked by the camp communist political officer if I would be willing to meet with her. I said yes, for I wanted to tell her about the real treatment we POWs received. . . and how different it was from the treatment purported by the North Vietnamese, and parroted by her as "humane and lenient." Because of this, I spent three days on a rocky floor on my knees, with my arms outstretched with a large steel weight placed on my hands, and beaten with a bamboo cane. I had the opportunity to meet with Jane Fonda soon after I was released. I asked her if she would be willing to debate me on TV. She never did answer me. These first-hand experiences do not exemplify someone who should be honored as part of "100 Years of Great Women." Lest we forget. . . "100 Years of Great Women" should never include a traitor whose hands are covered with the blood of so many patriots. There are few things I have strong visceral reactions to, but Hanoi Jane's participation in blatant treason, is one of them. Please take the time to forward to as many people as you possibly can. It will eventually end up on her computer, and she needs to know that we will never forget. See less

@japan_nobunaga @CarolynHol63410 What does this have to do with perspectives on Japan? That’s what your profile says.

June 16, 2024. Texas. A 12-year-old girl is alive in the morning. By the next morning, she is dead in a creek. A woman on her way to work finds her. Under a bridge. Her hands tied. Her feet tied. She had been strangled. She was twelve. Two men had taken her under that bridge. Both were grown men. Both were from another country. And here is the part this country could not forgive. Neither one of them was supposed to be here. One crossed the border illegally. Border Patrol caught him. Released him the same day. The other crossed the border illegally. Border Patrol caught him too. Released him too. Caught. And released. Caught. And released. It gets worse. One of the two men was wearing a government ankle monitor the night she died. A GPS tracker. On his leg. The government could see exactly where he was. And a 12-year-old girl died anyway. After she was killed, the court set their bond. Ten million dollars. Each. Ten. Million. Dollars. That is the number the system reached for after she was already gone. Not before. After. Her mother could have disappeared into her grief. No one on earth would have blamed her. Instead she walked into the United States Congress and sat down in front of lawmakers. A mother. Testifying about her murdered daughter. So that the next little girl might live. They wrote a bill. It would force the government to actually hold people instead of releasing them with a tracker and a court date. It was introduced in 2024. It died. It was introduced again in 2025. It is still sitting in committee. It has not passed. Read that again. It has not passed. She should be starting high school this year. She should be arguing with her mom about her phone. She should be alive. A border that did its job would have saved her. Two men were caught. Two men were released. One of them was wearing a government tracker. And a 12-year-old girl paid for all of it. She was twelve years old. Don't let this country forget what happened to her. And God bless every parent still fighting to make sure it never happens again.

@NewswirePatriot @MikeRob22492309 I thought progressives were feminist for the most part. So their treating rape, as if it’s a speeding ticket makes no sense.

🚨BREAKING: Hennepin County DA Mary Moriarty just let a Somali national walk on probation after he was accused of raping a 15-year-old and multiple women. Reduced serious sexual assault charges to a slap-on-the-wrist 5th degree plea — zero extra prison time. Then the feds had to step in and charge him with kidnapping and raping ANOTHER woman. This is what "progressive" justice looks like under soft-on-crime DAs. American girls aren’t safe while these policies continue.

Field observation: Court system judges With no real sense of fair law: Solid ground collapses, Earth quakes in its bones, Forests begin to blaze. Ocean tides rise up. Time rolls itself back, And God turns his head, And God turns his head. #EarthNotes #Poetry #Expanded #Haiku #America #CourtSystem

@1776General_ And if he had defended himself with a gun, instead of getting murdered, he would be in jail trying to get out with a bail set at $1 million like Chud the Builder. #SpeakInjustice

Two black SAVAGES Tyler and Deshawn Stafford stomped White teen Ethan Liming to death in Ohio. Their bond $25k & $5k The American judicial system promotes violence against Whites.

Field observations: 250 years later: New Declaration of Independence. A golden sun shower. #earthnotes #Poetry #Haiku #PoetryCommunity #America #History #250Anniversary

Field observations: To be expansion, SuperMaxxing the multi-self, One flower, many petals. #EarthNotes #Poetry #Haiku #Humanity #GrowthStrategy

Earth observations: New hunters needed To remove child predators, Cleaning Earth terrains. #EarthNotes #Poetry #Haiku

@TheRealJamieKay However, in this scripture God does NOT mean: “Allow invasion by welcoming foreigners invading your lands and stealing your money thru fraud and welfare and jeopardizing your safety, while attempting to destroy your religious and cultural roots.”

Funny how these ‘patriotic Christians’ never seem to follow this part of the Bible. Leviticus 19:33–34.

This is the new form of invasion. The noise is the new conquering.

Field observations: Anti-God looksmaxxing Radical body obsession, Peacocks on display. #EarthNotes #Poetry #Haiku #clavicular #news #writers

Update: The bot swarm, Now a suspended account. Dead trees in forest. #EarthNotes #Poetry #Haiku

Field observations: A bot data swarm Includes me in the Bs list, Bees swarming the hive. #earthnotes, #Poetry #Haiku #X #Bots #DataFarming

@BrianRoemmele It’s the haircut.

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