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Few writers captured the darkness of the human soul like Shakespeare. Among his villains, Lady Macbeth stands out as uniquely terrifying. Worse than a mere murderer seeking the throne, she's a villain who wills the very marrow of her soul into corruption. This is made most explicit by her prayer, right before goading Macbeth to murder King Duncan: "Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full Of direst cruelty! Make thick my blood; Stop up the access and passage to remorse... Come to my woman's breasts, And take my milk for gall" Notice she doesn't just pray for strength, nor success, but asks to be "unsexed." She's praying that dark spirits destroy her femininity and her maternal instinct. In classical terms, she's attempting to invert the very structure of her soul: to abolish her conscience, escape the moral order, and thereby justify murder itself. As such, she becomes an embodiment of the witches' creed: "Fair is foul and foul is fair" Of course, Lady Macbeth's attempt to transcend the moral order does not go well. She succeeds in abolishing her humanity, and is driven mad. Her arc becomes a warning that human nature is fundamentally tied to morality. The attempt to redefine morality is an attempt to redefine human nature. And to abolish one's nature is to abolish one's soul.

@TomSteyer Safe and welcome needs to include separate bathrooms and sports teams. No girl can compete with a boy. I agree that all children are precious in the eyes of God. But we need to call mental health issues what they are, and actually HELP these kids.

Trans kids are constantly under attack from the Trump Administration. As governor, I’ll do everything in my power to make sure every child feels safe and welcome.

@RaffiKalem54397 @EricLDaugh @jim_paisano Lol, good one!

@EricLDaugh @jim_paisano

🚨 HOLY SMOKES. LA mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt just CAUGHT Karen Bass RED-HANDED violating election law and filed a formal complaint Pratt has accused Bass of "illegal ELECTIONEERING," and Bass recorded herself doing it! "Electioneering within 100 feet of a ballot box is AGAINST THE LAW. Soliciting votes at a ballot box is AGAINST THE LAW." "These clear violations show a reckless disregard for the rule of law and our democratic process. Someone in a position of power should be especially respectful of our democratic laws, but this is just emblematic of Karen's mafia-like regime. It's 'rules for thee, but not for me.'" He's so good. FAFO! She needs to be held accountable. Nobody is above the law.

I honestly had no idea I might live to see the day we have a base on the Moon. I was reading fiction about this in elementary school.

Always pray for the poor souls in Purgatory, especially the ones who have no one left praying for them.

“Grant us, O Lord, a quiet mind and a peaceful heart.” St. Dymphna 🕊️☘️

@Savage16May Kevin and Sam Sorbo, Kirk Cameron

The only few actors I can think that aren't woke & didn't sell their soul to Hollyweird are : Clint Eastwood John Voight Scott Bio Mel Gibson I can't think of any women can you think of anybody to add to the list?

@soleilose Interstellar was too sad for me.

watched interstellar and spent the entire movie wishing i was watching project hail mary instead 💔

THE CHURCH FATHER WHO WROTE THIS IN 107 AD AND IT SILENCES EVERY PROTESTANT ARGUMENT St. Ignatius of Antioch was a student of the Apostle John. He was arrested and sent to Rome to be eaten by lions. On the way, he wrote seven letters. In 107 AD, within living memory of the Apostles, he wrote: “Where the bishop is, there let the multitude of believers be; even as where Jesus is, there is the Catholic Church.” (Letter to the Smyrnaeans, 8:2) This is the first recorded use of the term “Catholic Church” and it comes from a man who personally knew the Apostle who leaned on Jesus’ chest at the Last Supper. He also wrote: “Take note of those who hold heterodox opinions… They abstain from the Eucharist and from prayer, because they do not confess that the Eucharist is the flesh of our Savior Jesus Christ.” Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist. The Catholic Church by name. Obedience to bishops in apostolic succession. 107 AD. Not the Council of Trent. Not the Middle Ages. The next time someone tells you the Catholic Church invented these doctrines centuries later, show them Ignatius. He wrote this on the way to die for it. Who will share this?

@benonwine The skin

Does anyone actually know what the LARGEST organ on the human body is? 🤔 No cheating. No Googling. 👇

@judeokeyvlogs The St. Michael Prayer

What's your favourite Catholic prayer, but you're not allowed to mention the Mass or Rosary 🇻🇦🤷‍♂️

@james_xond 24

Trying to prove a point. How old were you when you became a homeowner for the first time?

@SDDonovan It suggests artificial control over someone, or perhaps insincere is a better word. Undue influence. Never a good thing.

I have a confession to make. The word influencer really annoys me and I don't know why. 😭

This is how to do a fun interview! youtu.be/H-1ZKXb_CTw?si…

People are going to be jolted when they realize there’s no such thing as a peace deal with a Muslim country. Islamic countries, especially the Islamic Republic of Iran, don’t believe in peace, because Islam is inherently violent and focuses on conquering and killing all non Muslims. No peace deal with any Muslim country will ever be fruitful long term because Islam is inherently violent. Anyone who says otherwise has no concept of Islam. This is simply a fact.

For #phm, let's post things about great teachers and students!

I had never heard of this instrument before. Wow!! Celtic fire, indeed. Now imagine it on a hilltop in West Ireland.

We tried public school for 6 months this year, for 3 older kids. It was an unqualified disaster. (10th and 11th graders got straight A's and were bored. Boredom is not good.) Our 13-year-old was having massive problems with his eyesight, and Common Core math on the Chromebooks is ridiculous. Get rid of the Chromebooks!!!

Homeschooling is fun and cute when your kids are little, however as my kids get older I’m more and more thankful that we’ve chosen to homeschool. At first you just want all that extra time with them and it’s easy and fun and they just get to play a lot. But as my kids get older I see how high of an impact homeschooling has. In every area. How they interact socially with friends, how they integrate into our family, how they process events in life and in media, how they view themselves, and how they take in what they are actually learning in school. The side conversations we have when I’m folding laundry and they wander in with a seemingly random question that actually reveals a much deeper thought. What if they asked their teacher instead of me and she gave a weak or wrong answer? How would that settle into their soul in a way I would never know about? The longer I raise these kids and the more time we spend homeschooling the more I can’t imagine letting them go out into the storm of public school.

Your eternity is on the line. Sending love, prayers, and the hope that you realize you will not turn into the soil. Your spirit will live on, in the manner that you choose: can you accept God's love, or will you be against Him? I believe this will all my heart, and also many saints have given us knowledge of what happens after death. It is your choice. I am sorry you are in such pain.

So I’m on my last lap. I’m dying. We all are but some of us sooner than others. I’ve been living/dealing/coping with cancer for fourteen years. That’s longer than anyone has a right to expect. During that time I’ve seen both my lovely boys marry and, although James cruelly kept me waiting, long enough to be delivered of two gorgeous granddaughters and a wonderful young grandson. Also in that time I created Ichi-Coo and founded ClipFest and, apart from my descendants, those are the most important achievements of my life. I have a history book about the garden, there will be a full length documentary made at ClipFest in an attempt to encourage someone else to carry it on. I have finished writing the memoir I wanted to write for my grandchildren. I’m very tired and my work here is done. The return of my lung cancer is the least of my problems. Any minute now, my leukaemia is going to spiral and it won’t stop until it kills me. There is no other outcome on offer. This one IS terminal. This is the last time I’ll ever tell you, “sorry, I’ve been diagnosed with cancer”. Now it’s true there are “treatments” but these have not even the most wildly optimistic hope of stopping the inevitable. If I’m unlucky enough to be in the 25% of people who don’t respond at all, I die then. If I respond to it and continue taking the punishment till my last breath, I still die. I just spend the limited extra time it buys me, unable to think straight, exhausted by fatigue, swallowing more drugs to fight constipation, diarrhoea, nausea, antibiotics, anti fungals, etc. I spend my life in and out of hospital, some visits routine, many for emergencies. Many die from the treatment itself, even in the first month. Sepsis being the most common cause and pneumonia a close second. This is no way to live. It’s an existence in suffering in a desperate bid to buy more time with no guarantee of anything. It’s not me. The alternative is that I live my remaining time with a clear mind, mostly able to carry on as normal until I can’t. I’ll need palliative and supportive care both from my doctors, from hospice nurses and from my friends and family. There might well be the odd emergency along the way but on a whole different scale. Eventually the fatigue will take me into a coma and I will give up the struggle and fade blissfully asleep - if all goes according to plan. The people closest to me are those who will have to live with the ultimate consequences of my decision. They’ve given me their blessing and pledged their support to give me the courage to see this through. Better 3-6 months of glorious life, spent with all of you, than two years of vomiting, diarrhoea, hospital emergencies, fatigue and vegetable-like stagnation. I love you all and I need you now to show your love me. I’m not committing some act of suicide, I’m letting nature take its course whilst deploying the very best supportive care to make sure I’m as comfortable as possible. As you all know I have absolutely no interest in following any faith of any kind into the contradictions that pass for religions. I know these are a huge comfort to the vast majority of people on earth but not me. I am of this universe, my atoms are part of it. For 72 years they’ve been rearranged into me and shortly they’ll be returned into something else in time, in the stock of atoms in soil and air, ready to be used by anything from a moth to a tree, maybe many things, a bit here, a bit there. I’m not going anywhere. My atoms will return to the earth, in my barrow. My energy will go wherever it goes, it’s part of this one universe because we are all one, manifest in our myriad different forms, rocks and trees, goats, babes and ladybirds. That energy is the wind, the sun, the rain, the music, the laughter, the joy and the pain. It’s in all of you and in every living thing. ClipFest is coming, that’s my Swansong. Help me make it wonderful. 😘😘😘

@TheLizVariant We saved them, lol. My parents saved them, too. Win-win.

There’s a growing trend of parents intentionally raising their kids like it’s the late 90s again. No iPads. No algorithm. Just bikes, VHS tapes, books, outside play, family dinners, and boredom that forces kids to actually use their imagination. Id love to know where they’re getting these VHS tapes?