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@CrimeaArchivist @ScarletAstrorum x.com/i/status/14323…

@ScarletAstrorum Inclusive Language™ is only ever checked in one direction and does not seem to concern itself with how alien and othering it appears to the majority When encountered, it feels like a slur

a real problem with inclusive language is that many of us outside of those identity groups really don’t like the language chosen and would never refer to ourselves with that language and while it’s somewhat understandable to use it for large and nebulous groups when you can’t know how people want to be spoken to, there never seems to be a change in language back to the previous defaults even when you are in small settings like this one. I don’t really see anyone engaging with this problem seriously, everyone just wants to make fun of the inclusive terms or make the argument in favor of using the inclusive terms again.

@fwmarqix Psyduck has the strong confusion.

Me: trying to return package at Japanese post office. Employee: Do you have the form? Me: ...possibly. I hand her three unrelated receipts, a train ticket, and what might've been a noodle coupon. Employee studies documents with incredible professionalism. Employee: This is from convenience store. Me: Right. Employee: And this is train station. Me: Also correct. Employee: And this... long pause. Employee: ...coupon for karaoke. Me: I was going through a lot emotionally. woman trying SO HARD not to laugh. finally she gives me correct form. entire thing in Japanese. Me staring at paper like ancient curse tablet. Employee: It's okay. I help. for next ten minutes this woman basically carried me academically through the Japanese postal system. at the end I bow respectfully and say: Thank you for your patience. Employee: No problem. You had strong confusion. Honestly one of the most accurate descriptions of my life.

The Catholic position that Jesus not entrusting Mary to biological brothers being a scandal means nothing. You know what else would've been a scandal? -A prophet being told to marry a prostitute -A prophet cooking food with dung -A prophet being fed by ravens And so much more

@Sideways_Circle I’m honestly not sure. MERRY CHRISTMAS!!! 🤬🤬🤬

I get the weirdest hate mail. This one is from Daniel and it’s entitled, “All Hats, No Cattle.”

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If Massie’s pinecone texts made him “more relatable” to you Mario, that’s … probably not something you should admit in public. Or in writing.

It’s amazing how certain politicians and high profile individuals will text or video incredibly embarrassing and incriminating things, and somehow they don’t think it’s ever going to get leaked. How stupid can you get?

@SocraticViper @TheMuppetPastor @pureMetatron x.com/i/status/16472…

@TheMuppetPastor @pureMetatron A beautiful contrast is he took the bread of a willing and faithful child and it was enough to feed adults. I don’t think the lesson is coerce/tax adults to do unaccountable“good” things for everyone

So let me get this straight. Christians are apparently overwhelmingly far-right but at the same time Jesus was basically a communist. Did I get this right?

How much of the liberal worldview is subsidized by false narratives and/or government interference?

@BradCLemley What's funny is people like to talk about out how much cheaper college was comparatively for prior generations and demand it be free, but they don't account for all the easily-accessible information prior generations didn't have. If you want to learn something, there are videos.

Here is a huge positive to modern life that gets no press. I have an old 2009 Toyota, and the AUX port crapped out about a year ago. Went to YouTube. Young, enthusiastic guy explains how to fix it. It is not obvious - involves taking the dashboard apart in a counter-intuitive way, but once you see it, it's a 15 minute fix. There are actually dozens of videos showing how to do this, and they collectively have well over 200k views. Had this happened in 1995, I would have just lived with it. But the combo of the replacement AUX jack available from Amazon and the video of the simple (but not obvious) fix, I fixed it. I HAVE DONE THIS DOZENS OF TIMES. Replaced the control panel of my dishwasher. Replaced the ice maker in the fridge. Fixed a wonky sanding head on my drill press. Mastered a bandsaw technique that I use for my sculpture. On and on and on... I think it is likely no exaggeration to say billions of fixes and skill upgrades have been performed worldwide that would not have been performed if it were not for the instruction freely given peer-to-peer on YouTube. Take a moment to be happy about this. The busted item keeps performing, rather than going to the landfill. The person learning and doing the fix gains a sense of mastery and saves money. It's an unmixed blessing. Stop doomscrolling. Think of what is busted in your house, find the YouTube video on how to fix it, and fix it.

@BradCLemley And you save some money. Had an issue with a car years ago. I forget how much Firestone wanted to charge to fix it. I went home and looked it up. Turned out to be something so minor and easily fixable. Just cost me the price of the diagnosis.

@TheMuppetPastor Typo: "Does she want me to avoid..."

Ok, I asked the question. Here’s my take: Rick Warren exposed the fact that most evangelicals have a deep hunger for something beyond the Bible. For all we say about scripture alone, many people want and need something more. Now it’s easy to dismiss all of this and say “If you want more than the Bible, you’re wrong!” Some people really ARE wrong. Some have tickling ears. But others have a deep hunger for obedience to God in a gray world and are looking for more direct information. For example: yes, we know gay marriage is wrong thanks to scripture. But what does that mean to me? Does Jesus want me to make it illegal? Does she want me only to avoid gay weddings? Should I merely not officiate gay weddings? Should I never consider one valid? The Bible doesn’t tell us this. It only tells us the moral reason why such a practice is wrong. And this doesn’t help a Christian who isn’t sure how to respond. What should I do? A custom tailored Bible study is more helpful to average Joe. When EO have these questions, they read the lives of the saints and early tradition. When Catholics feel the same, they get statements from the magisterium. When Protestants do, we’re told “read the Bible more”. That isn’t going to help anyone struggling with what they need to do personally. Some will read Romans 1 and say we must vote against gay marriage. Others say we only need to avoid participation in it. We all interpret things differently because we agree on the morals but not on our response. Rick Warren gave a lot of hungry souls a purpose, if you’ll pardon the intentional pun. He made evangelicals feel that there was action to take, that we could bring in the lost, be seeker sensitive, and thrive! My mom had to leave her collapsed home church that tried all of these things and fell apart, rudderless, without theology or strong faith. I strongly feel that this hunger exists in many evangelicals to this day, and that’s why we fall for each book fad. Yes, the Bible should be enough, but it’s not wrong to want true direction in what stands we should take in life, also. People need an answer to “So what now?” and far too many pastors happily hide behind “read the Bible” as an excuse not to teach what they need to do in real life. “I know gay marriage is wrong, but so what now? What must I do about it, Pastor? Reading the Bible only told me gay sex is wrong. Great, I knew that. But what do I DO about it?” Rick Warren meant well and was ultimately wrong, but he gave PURPOSE to people lacking it. Evangelicals must understand that this very purpose is what their congregations are starving for. They will run to the first person who will give it to them. We can laugh at the Joel Webbons of the world, and we should, but we must not miss that he gives purpose to an audience that finds it lacking in church. Yes, they’re wrong to follow Webbon. But they are NOT wrong about noticing a lack of meaning or purpose in their churches.

The greater question is: why did evangelicals fall for so many of these books at all?

@memeticsisyphus What's funny is Seinfeld is sold as a show about nothing, but it's really no different than other sitcom.

I call this the 9 year old baseball problem. When I was a kid my favorite baseball player was Jim Edmunds. I figured since he was my favorite player, he must also like all of my favorite things. If you had asked me I would have said of course he loves Pokémon and his favorite Pokémon is Scyther!

@pantsbobsponge @UpdatingOnRome @bbcworldservice But that ruins the joke.

@Sideways_Circle @UpdatingOnRome @bbcworldservice Everyone knows they came from Jupiter's other moon, Europa. This is basic knowledge, bro

The Sami are the only indigenous people in the EU and some of their languages are on the brink of extinction. Sara Wesslin is one of only two journalists in the world broadcasting in Skolt Sami

@Ligier_ @JennMGreenberg I don't even know if it's just Marxism. They live in the Hollywood bubble and are out of touch with non-celebrities. They're fools who were given too much power and influence, instead of just mockery and laughs.

@JennMGreenberg I agree. I watched Letterman starting in the early 80’s through the late 90’s. He was exactly like you described. Marxism has taken over his entire industry. He’s only a reflection of who he’s surround by 24/7. They were dedicated to comedy and it showed. Not anymore

It’s actually weird how political many comedians have gotten. I watched an old Letterman episode, and he was legit funny. No cynicism. No angle. No manipulation. Just funny jokes, dogs doing weird tricks, kids doing talent shows … wholesome simple stuff. Why did it change?

@johnwyte @BiblicalBeauty No, it's not. The 7th day was a specific time corresponding with the rest of the creation week. If we were still in the 7th day, none of the commands associated with time would make sense.

@Sideways_Circle @BiblicalBeauty I mean it’s basic theology 101. Thanks for interacting.

I highly encourage you to listen to this interview between Heidi St. John and Ken Ham. In it, he explains why he believes the church has been so greatly weakened and unsuccessful in raising up younger generations to stand boldly on the truth of God's Word. As expected, he points to the church's failure to uphold the authority of God's Word starting at Genesis 1-11 and to the failure of both Christian parents and churches to disciple young people to know both what they believe as Christians and why they believe it. Link below👇 Heidi St. John: Why does it matter that we believe in a young earth and not in millions of years? Ken Ham: When people ask me that question, one of the ways I answer it is this. Does it matter if we take God at His word? Does that matter? You see, you've got to stand back. And this is something I've been doing for 50 years is to try to get people to understand this is a biblical authority issue. And if you can grasp hold of that, when you undermine the authority of the Word of God, and you unlock a door, you don't need to start with God's Word... Go back to the late 1700s, early 1800s when the idea of millions of years started to be popularized. It came out of atheism, right? From atheists and deists who rejected the Word of God, believed everything is material, and said, How do we explain the fossil record was laid down over millions of years. What did Christian leaders start to do? We'll take the millions of years and put in a gap between the first two verses in Genesis, the Gap Theory. We'll take the millions of years, and we'll reinterpret the days of creation. And then along comes Darwin who builds on the millions of years. Given the millions of years, one kind of animal changes into another, then Christian leaders said, We'll say God used evolution, and then, God used the Big Bang and so on. But you see what's happening progressively is they're saying to the people they impact and to generations, we can take what man says out here, and you reinterpret the days, and you reinterpret this part. And you're unlocking a door. And when you unlock that door that you can start outside of Scripture to reinterpret Scripture, that door gets pushed open further and further and further, generation after generation until you're on that slippery slide of unbelief through the whole of Scripture."

@LeviPaladin @haymes_joshua I don't disagree with that, and there's reason for said consequences. The modern mind looks at that list and tries to downplay at least some of it, but those things have the commonality of being antithetical to human flourishing.

@Sideways_Circle @haymes_joshua Consequence of sin as an action as it affects society is what I'm referring to.

My sons are being raised in an America where we can’t go in public without seeing Sodomites flaunting their perversion, Women dressed like whores, & Crossdressers forcing the public to participate in their degenerate sexual fetish. We used to have laws against all of this degeneracy. By God, we will have laws against this filth once again.

@SandyofCthulhu Hasn't J.K. Rowling apologized for deaths of certain characters in Harry Potter? While it's not exactly the same as that example, it's still apologizing for something in fiction, which is silly.

Once you are making apologies on behalf of fictional characters or races, you've pulled the plug on your brain, and it's off life support. This quote is from WotC about the Hadozee, a species of winged monkey pirates. Someone decided that the Hadozee backstory is "racist" evidently. I don't know much about the Hadozee but I do know imbecility when I see it.

@LeviPaladin @haymes_joshua x.com/i/status/20268…

@haymes_joshua I'm a big fan of God and His foresight to consequence. This came directly to Moses from God in order to rule society--Leviticus 20:

@Kida_Ito77 @musings_blonde Paying bills is mostly done online as well. It's not something you necessarily want to do on a public/shared computer either.

@musings_blonde Imagine trying to plan a major trip with no internet though. I was talking to my mom about that the other day. I can look up restaurants and accommodations for any city and find activities I want to do there. I can use Google Street view and Google translate to help navigate.

I was playing “Would You Rather” with my students. Every single one chose internet over unlimited money. They could literally travel the world on a private jet and see the places people only dream-scroll about… and they still chose TikTok. Are we cooked?