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The Beatitudes promise blessing. Rulers often do the same.
But when biblical language is bent to earthly ends you end up with a very different gospel:
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Marlin Klingensmith
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Marlin Klingensmith
@EidolonOracle
Christian Imperialist Anti-Materialist Reformed Ex-Libertarian. Political and Cultural Criticism. Bearing True Witness to God, Neighbor and AI.
Pennsylvania, USA Katılım Nisan 2022
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@PresbyXian @JoshuaBarzon Based and sola-scriptura-pilled
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@HarrisonHSmith 25,000 converted to the cause of Christ is more important than 5 no matter how rich.
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Imagine you have a magic wand that can convert people, to where they are 100% dedicated to your cause from that moment on.
Would you rather convert:
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Dune is absolutely worth reading whenever you can find the time and can only increase your enjoyment of the movies. Many background details and world-building beats in the movies become intelligible and really cool when you have context too explain what they are like the Mentats, Guild Navigators and CHOAM highliners.
Messiah is more debatable and everything after is frequently naysayed and in your constrained reading environment I would probably concur with only recommending book one despite usually arguing for the full Frank Herbert canon due to the ingenuity and depth/weirdness he goes with the theme of human attempts to overcome entropy and persist with no God but man.
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@EidolonOracle @RedHedgedragon @DavidRoomeAuth @MichaelFKane @TheMiddleborne That’s a good summary. 👍
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Alright, my sci-fi friends (looking at you, @RedHedgedragon, @DavidRoomeAuth, @MichaelFKane, @TheMiddleborne), I have enjoyed the first two Dune movies as such, and I’ll be there for the third. However, I honestly don’t see myself getting to the books any time soon. The reading and writing stack is just too high at the moment.
So, tell me (without too many spoilers), what are the major differences I’m missing out on? Also, I’ve heard rumors that Herbert wrote Messiah to counter the interpretation many fans were coming up with for the first book, so would love to hear more about that. And, lastly, seeing as how most of my sci-fi knowledge extends to Star Wars, what influences and overlaps do you see there?
Go.
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Imagine my guy as the worm. Taking the Golden Path
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@MichaelFKane Twitter design philosophy currently appears to be
"have idea"
"smash rock in face to counteract idea"
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Encourages people to write articles.
Encourages people not to read articles.
Nikita.
Bro.
Nikita Bier@nikitabier
We’re rolling out summaries for Articles now. Just tap the Summarize button if you want to know if it’s worth your time to read it (or if your attention span is 12 seconds).
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@QuixoteSword Probably wouldn't get as many guests.
But doubtless a huge audience.
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What if I became a journalist who gave hostile interviews to everyone
The anti-Tucker Carlson, as it were (no shade to his style)
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@presbycast Good advice, sir. I'd paraphrase "post with your own hands" for the clearer parallel.
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Aspire to post quietly, and to mind your own timeline, and don't go overboard with AI, as we instructed you.
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me to my X followers when people offer me deals to promote their fart coins
Alexander's Cartographer@cartographer_s
Alexander the Great Refuses Water in the Desert - Tom Lovell, 1968
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@presbycast Observe the book of Judges and how "burned over" Israel was after the Theocratic establishment in Joshua and get back to us on how this is relevant to New England.
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It's not too much to say that the "establishment" US states are a sort of "burned over" district.
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Your periodic reminder that the author of the most scholarly book on Christian Nationalism envisions "measured and theocratic Caesarism" for an upgraded, Christian America. He also idealizes early New England as a CN model more than any other region, including the South.
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@presbycast Puritans are a worthy model. (No shade on Dixie)
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@MiddleearthMixr This is all true without God.
Struggling with the world and men, heroes and villains, and human eternal existence without God produces exactly what Herbert does.
Paul and Leto II are the absolute best messiahs Secular Humanism can create: and they ARE monsters.
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Here’s the problem with what Herbert was trying to do
“Paul is a cautionary tale. But also, Paul didn’t go far enough. Leto II in his technocratic wisdom was able to be the Dark Knight humanity needed but also, he was bad too.”
Hateful Muad'Dib@HatefulMuadDib
@MiddleearthMixr "heroes are bad. now here's a story where all of humanity will die unless a single remarkable figure makes an unfathomable personal sacrifice" cool thanks Frank
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@NeilShenvi Our perception of beauty has been warped by the fall and WE are not objective in our observation.
But yes, there is light and high beauty for ever beyond [evils] reach.
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Christians should recognize that beauty is objective because, at a minimum, the proposition "God is beatiful" expresses an absolute, objective truth, not a mere subjective opinion.
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@ConceptualJames Translation: "I am in this picture and I don't like it"
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It is plainly visible why I called this moron "Wolfe the Lesser" even though Stephen is also a complete dipshit too.
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@jared_555 Indeed. Thanks for the thought to consider.
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While I don't think we should recite the creeds in church, Christians should know the Apostles', Nicene, and Athanasian Creeds and the Definition of Chalcedon. And have at least the Apostles' Creed memorized
Rev. Peter Deberny@PastorDeberny
Because in many churches the Creed is not recited weekly
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@jared_555 For good or ill it’s a more recent and not entirely regular practice. Might warrant a conversation.
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@EidolonOracle But it could be that your session inherited the practice and haven't put much thought into the "why" of it in relation to the RPW
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@jared_555 Laudable consistency.
I hadn’t considered it a problem and neither apparently does my session.
Will have to consider.
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@ConorLambPA $43.50 is 6 hours at minimum wage.
This is barely even a burden.
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It costs $43.50 for an ID in Pennsylvania. You used to care about how stuff like this impacted the poor.
U.S. Senator John Fetterman@SenFettermanPA
83% of Americans agree on voter ID. 71% of Democrats agree on voter ID. Keep it basic: PHOTO ID to vote. Stop turning this into a Christmas list and attacking vote-by-mail. If GOP wants real reform over a show vote––put out a clean, standalone bill and I’m AYE.
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@PresbyXian @michaeljknowles Based and exorcism-pilled.
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Seriously though, extraterrestrials aren’t real, and the very concept of “aliens” is diabolical.
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