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Would love to see developers build suburbia like this.

My wife was formerly promiscuous. I was a virgin. She was then radically born-again. Committed to church, evangelized constantly, Puritan books in her bedroom, prayer journals, grief over past sexual sin, etc. We got to know each other well for over a year, dated for four months, engaged for two and a half, and didn't sin sexually with one another. Our first kiss with each other was at the altar on our wedding day (reaction pic attached!). We've been married for over five years now, and she's been the most wonderful and godly wife, mother to our three children, and homemaker you could imagine. She's more pure than most virgins, as biblical purity has less to with past sins (though they certainly matter) and more to do with one's current posture of the heart and daily decisions to honor the Lord (Matt. 5:8). We're far too quick to forget the story of the woman labeled as a known "sinner" (likely a prostitute) in Luke 7:36-50 who was washing Jesus' feet with her tears while kissing them too. The Pharisees were shocked that Jesus let a public sinner do this. Jesus responded with a parable about debts being forgiven and ended with this powerful conclusion: "Her many sins have been forgiven; that’s why she loved much. But the one who is forgiven little, loves little" (Luke 7:47). Everyone seems to highlight the benefits of virginity, and it certainly is a blessing. But we forget to highlight the benefits of being forgiven much as well. My wife knows the depths of Jesus' forgiveness more than most people, enabling her to more easily live out a life of passionate love for her Savior. A woman or man's past sexual sin matters. But what matters far more when it comes to deciding who to marry is if the person is truly born again, if their repentance is real, if they truly have a heart for Christ, if they truly follow Jesus and obey his commands. "God has chosen what is foolish in the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen what is weak in the world to shame the strong. God has chosen what is insignificant and despised in the world ​— ​what is viewed as nothing ​— ​to bring to nothing what is viewed as something, so that no one may boast in his presence. It is from him that you are in Christ Jesus, who became wisdom from God for us ​— ​our righteousness, sanctification, and redemption, — in order that, as it is written: 'Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.'" (1 Cor. 1:27-31) "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away, and see, the new has come!" (2 Cor. 5:17)

5 minutes before Trump’s announcement: * $1.5B notional worth of S&P500 (ES) futures are bought in a single clip. * $192M notional of oil futures (CL) sold. More than 4x-6x any other trade size during the market close. Insiders profited from his lies in broad daylight!

Analyzed Leo Strauss's teaching transcripts from the Strauss Center Archives. Top 10 Thinkers: 1. Socrates — 13,800 (50% more than Plato — he teaches about Socrates, not "Platonism") 2. Aristotle — 12,885 3. Plato — 9,181 4. Nietzsche — 5,401 (4th, above Kant and Hegel — not peripheral at all) 5. Kant — 5,228 6. Hegel — 4,686 7. Rousseau — 3,726 8. Hobbes — 3,478 9. Locke — 3,301 10. Thucydides — 2,711 The Silences: • Plotinus: 0. The founder of Neoplatonism doesn't exist in 7.3M words. Strauss's Plato is not a Neoplatonic Plato. • Montaigne: 4. • Schmitt: 13. Given their famous exchange, strikingly absent from the classroom. • Gadamer: 10. Same pattern — intellectual relationships lived in writing, not teaching. • Heidegger: 276. Despite Strauss's deep formation in Heidegger, modest classroom presence. Key vocabulary: • "Nature" dominates everything — 12,174 hits. The master question. • Athens vs Jerusalem: 87:1 ratio (2,694 vs 31). The classroom was overwhelmingly Greek. • "Esoteric" appears 51 times. "Esotericism" 21 times. The man who rediscovered esoteric writing almost never says the word. Consistent with the principle itself. • "Gentleman": 724 — way more than people realize, concentrated in the Gorgias. The big finding for scholarship: Maimonides (87) and Alfarabi (40 combined) are modest compared to their centrality in Strauss's published work. Real divergence between the writing program and the teaching program. Same with Machiavelli.

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Note that since we are all identical (under the skin), and all born with an identical soul from the standard Antechamber of Souls, the same lives would work well for all of us. Yes I am a Liberal and believe in Science

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