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Cynthia L. Haven
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Cynthia L. Haven
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@NEHgov Public Scholar; Author: Czesław Miłosz: A California Life; Evolution of Desire: A Life of René Girard. @nytimesbooks @theTLS @thenation @vqr @WSJBooks
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Stop Christian Genocide ongoing in Congo
Stop Christian Genocide ongoing in Congo
Stop Christian Genocide ongoing in Congo
Stop Christian Genocide ongoing in Congo
Stop Christian Genocide ongoing in Congo
Stop Christian Genocide ongoing in Congo
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PRAY 🙏 🙏 🙏 Islamic Fulani militias have invaded yet another Christian district in Nigeria, attacking and murdering peaceful civilians, including young children, slashing some with machetes and shooting others with guns. Truth Nigeria's Lawrence Zongo spoke to CBN News about this dire and urgent breaking news from Nigeria's Middle Belt.
WATCH: youtube.com/watch?v=ZXxSQZ…
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Did the UN ever say his name?
Did the Red Cross ever say his name?
Did any world leader ever say his name?
Did any mainstream media ever say his name?
Did any human rights organizations ever say his name?
This baby's name is Kfir Bibas. Don't let him be forgotten.
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I read the names of freedom fighters killed by the regime in Iran on every international media, because regime wants to erase them, their faces, their voices, their names.
We should not let them kill protesters twice: first by execution, then by silence.
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🚨Islamic Regime Hanged a 32-Year-Old Civil Engineer This Morning
Ehsan Afarashteh was only 32.
He had a Master’s in civil engineering and worked as an IT and cybersecurity specialist from Isfahan.
He was living safely in Turkey, but the barbaric regime tricked his father: “Tell your son to come home, he’s safe.”
His father believed them and called Ehsan.
Ehsan trusted his dad and returned.
Then they arrested him at the airport.
Tortured him in solitary for months.
Forced a fake confession.
When his father heard they sentenced his son to death, his heart stopped beating and he passed away.
This morning, the Islamic Regime hanged Ehsan anyway.
A good young man who just wanted to come home.
They destroyed his whole family and killed him in silence.
We’re losing our brightest young people, one by one, every single day.
While the world looks away.
This is Iran under the Islamic Republic.
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Never forget these beautiful souls along with Ariel.
Strangled to death by Gazans, their bodies mutilated afterward.
May their memory be a blessing
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The massacre of Christians continues in the Congo.
An ISIS-linked group massacred 60 Christians with machetes and axes, and dismembered their bodies.
The attack is part of a new wave of Islamic massacres against Christians in the country, while the entire world remains silent.
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In questo giorno della Festa della Mamma, ricordiamo Shiri Bibas. Questa orribile immagine di lei con i suoi figli mi perseguiterà per sempre. La paura nei suoi occhi, la disperazione. Sono stati rapiti vivi e brutalmente assassinati. Non perdonerò mai né dimenticherò. Possa la loro memoria essere una benedizione per sempre.
Vivid.🇮🇱@VividProwess
On this Mother's Day, we remember Shiri Bibas. This horrifying picture of her with her kids will haunt me forever. The fear in her eyes, the hopelessness. They were kidnapped alive and brutally murdered. I will never forgive or forget. May their memory be a blessing forever.
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Her name was Shiri Bibas.
Three generations of her family — including her 9 month old infant — were killed by Palestinians during the 10/7 terror attack on Israel.
We will never forget her🧡
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Augustine had a word for the vice of the internet age: curiositas. It doesn't mean "curiosity", but rather a disordered desire for knowing stuff regardless of its real value. It is the intellectual twin of bodily lust—the following of ephemeral passions without regard for consequences or what they're leading to. It's the act of knowing stuff as a form of possession; as if knowing everything that the latest Dwarkesh podcast guest had to say has any real value in itself.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb@nntaleb
A reminder. As with food, we spent most of our history deprived of information and craving it; now we have way too much of it to function and manage its entropy and toxicity.
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Islamists are mass slaughtering civilians in the Congo.
Where is the outrage?
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Why does Mary look younger than Jesus in Michelangelo's Pietà?
The answer is one of the most beautiful in art history...
Mary is holding the body of her 33 year old son, but she looks 20. Critics noticed it the moment the sculpture was unveiled in 1499. The mother of a man who has just been crucified would have been in her late forties or early fifties. Michelangelo had carved her as a girl.
His own biographer, Ascanio Condivi, was the one who finally asked him why. The answer Michelangelo gave is preserved in Condivi's Life of Michelangelo and has been repeated for centuries: "Do you not know that chaste women stay fresh much more than those who are not chaste? How much more in the case of the Virgin, who had never experienced the least lascivious desire that might change her body?"
Most modern critics treat this answer as a half-serious deflection. Michelangelo was famous for his sharp tongue and refused to explain himself to people he considered beneath his intellect.
The deeper answer is older, and it lies inside one of the greatest poems ever written. In the final canto of Dante's Paradiso, Saint Bernard of Clairvaux begins his prayer to the Virgin with one of the most extraordinary lines in Italian literature:
"Vergine madre, figlia del tuo figlio."
"Virgin mother, daughter of your own son."
Michelangelo, who knew Dante by heart, was carving that line into stone. Mary is younger than Jesus because Jesus is older than the universe... because she gave birth to her own creator.
But there is another reading, simpler than either of those, and it is the one I find myself thinking of today. Every mother who has held her child has held them at every age at once. The infant is still inside the toddler. The toddler is still inside the teenager. The young man on her lap, even dead, is also the boy she nursed and the baby she first carried home.
And maybe that's why Michelangelo did not carve Mary as the years had aged her. He carved her as love had kept her: outside of time, outside of grief, holding her son the way she had always held him...
Happy Mother's Day.
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Nigerian Christians are being mass slaughtered by is|amists. Tens of thousands of our Christian brothers and sisters are being massacred by one group of violent, rabid, monsters.
Eric Hovind@erichovind
I just finished an interview with Brad from Across Nigeria… and honestly, I’m sitting here stunned. Today, he buried 14 Christians in a mass grave. Two were infants. One was a 4-year-old child. And this isn’t some recycled internet story or political talking point. Brad was literally there today helping bury them. While on the way to investigate one attack, another Christian community was attacked. He said the violence is happening so fast they can barely keep up anymore. What shocked me even more is this: Brad shared that 72% of all Christians killed worldwide last year were killed in this region of Nigeria. 72%. And hardly anybody is talking about it. The mainstream media should be all over this. Instead, most people scrolling social media today have no idea our brothers and sisters in Christ are being slaughtered while churches are being forced underground. Guys… this matters. Please watch this interview. Please pray for these families. And PLEASE share this everywhere you can. At this point, WE are the media. WE are how people find out. WE are the distribution network. If enough ordinary people start sharing the truth, eventually the world will have to pay attention. Watch the full conversation and help us get this story out.
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🚨 THIS IS GENOCIDE.
Today in Nigeria, 14 Christians, including TWO INFANTS and a 4-year-old child, were slaughtered for their faith and buried in a mass grave.
72% of ALL Christians killed worldwide last year happened in this one region.
Churches forced underground. Families wiped out. Radical Islamists hunting believers while the mainstream media says nothing.
Our brothers and sisters in Christ are being massacred and the world looks away.
This evil stops when WE stop ignoring it.
🙏 Pray without ceasing.
🔥 Share this everywhere.
🇺🇸 Demand real action from our leaders.
We are the voice for the voiceless now.
RT if you stand with the persecuted Church. ✝️
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Cynthia L. Haven retweetledi
I just finished an interview with Brad from Across Nigeria… and honestly, I’m sitting here stunned.
Today, he buried 14 Christians in a mass grave.
Two were infants.
One was a 4-year-old child.
And this isn’t some recycled internet story or political talking point. Brad was literally there today helping bury them. While on the way to investigate one attack, another Christian community was attacked. He said the violence is happening so fast they can barely keep up anymore.
What shocked me even more is this:
Brad shared that 72% of all Christians killed worldwide last year were killed in this region of Nigeria.
72%.
And hardly anybody is talking about it.
The mainstream media should be all over this. Instead, most people scrolling social media today have no idea our brothers and sisters in Christ are being slaughtered while churches are being forced underground.
Guys… this matters.
Please watch this interview.
Please pray for these families.
And PLEASE share this everywhere you can.
At this point, WE are the media.
WE are how people find out.
WE are the distribution network.
If enough ordinary people start sharing the truth, eventually the world will have to pay attention.
Watch the full conversation and help us get this story out.
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URGENT: Erfan Shakurzadeh, a university student, is hours away from execution.
He was a student at Iran University of Science and Technology. He had a future. He had dreams. Now he has been transferred to Qezelhesar Prison to be hanged.
Erfan is not alone in that death row. Every single day, the Islamic Republic sends young people, students, protesters, workers, to the gallows.
Tomorrow, they will try to erase him, just like they erased the dozens before him.
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