Evil to Good

As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good in order to bring about this present result, to keep many people alive. Genesis 50:20

@MTClassical Only thing he missed was men wearing dresses while destroying society! Haha

@EvilTo50934 Good point

What are the American novels most deeply embedded in our culture, such that their ideas have some influence even on those who haven't read them? What would you add to The Scarlet Letter, Moby-Dick, and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn? The Great Gatsby? Old Man and the Sea?

Saint Dumitru Stăniloae on Nationalism.

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On suicide

@itsmorganariel @davidtetzlaff20 youtu.be/6xXm1PfcQUw?si…

Christianity was perverted at the time of the schism. Catholicism led to Protestantism. If the church never split there wouldn’t be hundreds of different denominations in Christianity today.

@Michaeldudufudu Every man, as we have seen, lives by faith; likewise every man... is a metaphysician But with the acknowledgement, logically unavoidable, of such a principle, the theory of the "relativity of truth" collapses, it itself being revealed as a self-contradictory absolute.

those who know

@JamieLHanshaw @JayDyer @_dpharry If you could ask Mr Dyer and Mr Harry and others in your orbit to give me a follow, I'd appreciate it. I enjoy doing research and would like to pass info to you guys. Thank you.

@EvilTo50934 @JayDyer @_dpharry Added to the list thanks!

@JayDyer @JamieLHanshaw @_dpharry You guys might enjoy this book.

Saint Velimirović, The Prologue of Ohrid "It is difficult to argue with an atheist; it is difficult to talk with an unreasonable man; it is difficult to convince an embittered man. It is difficult to convince the atheist, the unreasonable man and the embittered man with words. You will convince them easier by deeds. One deed of compassion will bring the unreasonable man to his senses and will pacify the embittered man quicker than many hours of conversation. If atheism, unreasonableness and bitterness stem from ignorance, that ignorance is as a fury, which can quickly be restrained by good works. If you argue with an atheist in his own rabid manner, you strengthen the fury of atheism. If you converse with the unreasonable by derision, the darkness of unreasonableness is increased. If you think you will overcome the embittered man with anger, you will stir up a greater fire of bitterness. A meek and good deed is like water over a fire"

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@AGDugin She says Calvinism is the closest theology to transhumanist thought.

The main source of the decisive decline of the West is the Calvinism. The Anglican and Lutheran Churches as well as mystical tendency from Bohme to Quakers and anabaptists were somehow in the realm of Christianity (more or less). The real horror starts with Calvin.

What advice would you give an 18 year old today?

@Michaeldudufudu Blending of Opposites leads to chaos and disorder.

Autogynephilia

@Michaeldudufudu Its the idealogy. youtu.be/PJsf5QY12rg?si…

redditors are groomers

We understand that it is a male duty to be the ones that go to war, we do not send our daughters and mothers, but somehow we pretend not to understand the female duty we have towards our homes and children.

When you condemn a fallen man, you condemn God Himself. If you see a robber, a prostitute, or a drunkard lying in the street, do not judge them, for the Lord has allowed their passions. Perhaps this is how they must find their way to God, so they may humble themselves, see their own weakness, know God, and repent. Are you virtuous? That is only because God is restraining your passions. If He were to loosen His hold on you, you might fall into even greater sins and perish. ~ St. Gabriel (Urgebadze) of Georgia

What's your #1 tip for young men who in their 20s?

If any man be devout and love God, let him enjoy this fair and radiant triumphal feast. If any man be a wise servant, let him rejoicing enter into the joy of his Lord. If any have labored long in fasting, let him now receive his recompense.

A new study from Wharton researchers found that many people now "surrender" their thinking to AI. When given wrong answers from AI, users followed them about 80% of the time. Their accuracy got worse than if they had worked alone. Yet they felt more confident anyway. The study calls this "cognitive surrender." AI acts like a third way of thinking that can replace our own effort.