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Q. 143. Which is the ninth commandment?
A. The ninth commandment is, Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
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John Reasnor
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John Reasnor
@johnandrewwords
reformed | presbyterian (PCA) | RTS student | data analyst | weight lifter | dmv/moco | okie | not a pastor
Silver Spring, MD Katılım Eylül 2014
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@JoshuaTorrey @presbycast Always quick to prove his point.
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with the enemies @presbycast has who needs friends?
they check up on his tweets like a mother hen.
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“We can live within the Machine’s walls, as we are mostly now required to do, but we don’t have to accept its values. We can keep the human spirit alive, below the radar. Maybe it is the best we can do.” —Paul Kingsnorth
plough.com/en/topics/life…
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“Real men do live for Christ. It is important to make your peace with Christ while the opportunity exists.” - Chuck Norris
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I cant think of a more noble end for the monarchy than it dying because a good king refused his assent to a bill legalizing de-facto infanticide.
Dr. Calum Miller@DrCalumMiller
King Charles has the legitimate power to reject this abortion up to birth bill. If the Royal veto is ever valid (which it is), it is for the protection of innocent human life.
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great to see this as the first point in the new AI policy framework out of the White House
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@reformedtexan I always found it interesting that Knox’s first trumpet became his only trumpet after Elizabeth I became queen.
Not to mention how Calvin regarded the work.
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Essentially true for early moderns; and even Knox’s no exceptions policy was grounded partially on experience and history.
Alastair Roberts@zugzwanged
I find it interesting and revealing as a phenomenon that positions on questions such as women in leadership in the Church so often tend to rest upon biblicist, sacerdotal, or ideologically egalitarian arguments, with natural law considerations largely neglected.
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One of the hardest parts about being a Presbyterian is having all these correct answers you lovingly offer to the world, that people refuse to accept.
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@GShaneMorris I’ve seen far too many co-belligerents against one form of extremism eventually get upset with me for holding the same position we all held six months ago. They just..kept going.
It’s disorienting.
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Yes, you fell into a ditch on one side of the road. Yes, that ditch represented a serious error, and those who promoted it are culpable for the damage. But it does not follow that everything and everyone opposed to that ditch is correct! There is, in fact, another ditch.
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I've encountered quite a few people using the phrase "over-learning a lesson." I quite like this, as it pithily expresses the near-universal and very online tendency toward overcorrection. It is a handy way to shoot down what @Digitalliturgy calls "negative epistemology."
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“Reality respecting” must extend to human work and virtue. Not just biological identity.
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Aspire to post quietly, and to mind your own timeline, and don't go overboard with AI, as we instructed you.
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I resonate deeply with that.
What I’m unsure of is how natural law establishes this humbler approach to itself internally. Is there something given about natural law itself that objects to thinking about it in terms of hard and fast rules? Or are the guardrails biblicist while the law itself is natural?
I need a deep dive on the subject whenever I have the bandwidth.
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@johnandrewwords People want hard-and-fast rules and roles, but natural law acquaints us with the grain of reality and equips us to work with it artfully and well.
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I find it interesting and revealing as a phenomenon that positions on questions such as women in leadership in the Church so often tend to rest upon biblicist, sacerdotal, or ideologically egalitarian arguments, with natural law considerations largely neglected.
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@zugzwanged Short version. There’s absolutely something there. And it also makes me nervous. Looking forward to learning more.
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What you’re saying makes a lot of sense to me. Where I become more cautious is that natural law has been the justification of so much of the absolute worst ideas coming from the more extreme patriarchal circles.
This is also likely due to my, admittedly, poor understanding of natural law (most of my study being very theonomic/biblicist), but over the years I’ve heard so many applications of natural law that I felt like didn’t account for postlapsarian distinctions. Essentially conflating natural law with fallen human nature.
I think you’re certainly onto something and I agree that natural law plays a role. Just not sure how to put up the needed guardrails. I’m sure there’s some kind of hypothetical future book coming on the subject.
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Paul does go into this.
Mullin has a track record of supporting unjustified violence, making light of violence, making violent threats, and having a temper. Much of this is while acting as a senator and while doing senatorial work. There’s no discernible gap between his personal issues regarding violent machismo and how he governs.
Making Okies (such as myself) see him as an embarrassment and think the only silver lining to this appointment is that we may get a grown up to be our next senator.
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@roddreher Paul is being petty; personal offense of this kind has nothing to do with qualifications for this office.
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DAMN! I don't think Rand Paul is going to be a yes vote on this nomination. After Mullin said that, I don't blame Sen. Paul one bit.
Senator Rand Paul@SenRandPaul
"So, today, Markwayne Mullin, I’ll give you a chance. Tell it to my face. Tell the world why you believe I deserved to be assaulted from behind, have six ribs broken, and a damaged lung. Tell me to my face why you think I deserved it."
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@AKofiCup He has a way of letting people tell on themselves. Good stuff.
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Had this on my other screen while I was writing for school today.
As someone who has watched Theroux since he was a kid, he was in rare form.
Eli McGowan@elimcgowan
This was a really incredible documentary (streaming on Netflix). I’ve always enjoyed Theroux’s interview style, and he doesn’t miss here, asking multiple manosphere influencers why they can’t live the morality they sometimes identify with, instead of owning OnlyFans agencies or publishing porn. The emptiness of the Christless redpill is so clearly demonstrated here.
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