Kyle Wright

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Kyle Wright

Kyle Wright

@kylethewright

tOSU and USA wrestling fan

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Kyle Wright
Kyle Wright@kylethewright·
日本の新幹線で、私は完璧な静寂の中に座っていた。 車内は清潔で、乗客は自分の世界に没頭している。 誰かの携帯が鳴ることもない。誰かが大声で会話することもない。 時速300キロで走っているのに、コーヒーの表面にはほとんど波紋が立たない。 アメリカなら、これはありえない。 あちらでは、電車は移動手段というよりも、移動するリビングルームだ。誰かが電話で仕事の話をし、誰かがポテトチップスを食べ、誰かがイヤホンを忘れて音楽を流している。 ここでは、周囲の人間は皆、互いの空間を尊重する「目に見えない合意」の中にいた。 隣の席の男性が、お弁当を取り出した。 彼は、プラスチックの蓋を音を立てずに開け、箸を手に取った。 その所作は、まるで儀式のようだった。 彼は一口食べるたびに箸を置き、感謝するように一度だけ頭を下げた。 彼にとっては、ただの昼食ではなく、その瞬間の体験そのものだった。 私は窓の外を見た。 富士山が、雲の合間から一瞬だけ顔を出した。 車内の誰もそれを指さしたり、騒いだりはしない。 ただ、全員が静かに、畏敬の念を持ってそれを見つめている。 私はふと、自分の携帯電話に手を伸ばそうとした。メールを確認しようと。 しかし、やめた。 この完璧な沈黙を破りたくなかった。 アメリカでは、私たちは常に「接続」を求めている。Wi-Fiを探し、SNSをチェックし、どこか別の場所にいる誰かと繋がろうとする。 ここでは、私は自分自身と繋がっていた。 電車が駅に近づくと、車掌が丁寧なアナウンスをした。 目的地に着く。 でも、私はまだ降りたくなかった。 この沈黙の中に、もっといたかった。 日本の電車は、目的地に運んでくれるだけではない。 自分自身という場所に、運んでくれる。 ただ、座っている。 ただ、呼吸している。 そう、ただそれだけのこと。 On the Shinkansen, I sat in perfect silence. The cabin was spotless, and the passengers were lost in their own worlds. No one’s phone rang. No one spoke in a loud voice. Even though we were traveling at 300 kilometers per hour, there was barely a ripple on the surface of my coffee. In America, this would be impossible. There, a train is more of a moving living room than a mode of transport. Someone is talking about work on the phone, someone is eating potato chips, and someone has forgotten their headphones and is playing music. Here, everyone around me was inside an "invisible agreement" to respect each other's space. The man in the seat next to me took out his bento. He opened the plastic lid without making a sound and picked up his chopsticks. The way he did it was like a ritual. With every bite, he set his chopsticks down and bowed his head just once, as if in gratitude. For him, it wasn’t just lunch; it was the experience of the moment itself. I looked out the window. Mount Fuji appeared for just an instant between the clouds. No one in the cabin pointed at it or made a fuss. Everyone was just quietly watching it with a sense of awe. I suddenly reached for my mobile phone, thinking I should check my email. But I stopped. I didn't want to break this perfect silence. In America, we are always searching for "connection." We look for Wi-Fi, check social media, and try to connect with someone somewhere else. Here, I was connected to myself. As the train approached the station, the conductor made a polite announcement. Arriving at the destination. But I didn't want to get off yet. I wanted to stay in this silence a little longer. Japanese trains don't just take you to your destination. They take you to the place called "yourself." Just sitting. Just breathing. Yes, that is all it is.
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Kyle Wright@kylethewright·
Top 5 Historical Facts (July 16) 1945: The United States successfully detonated the world's first nuclear weapon, the Trinity Test, in the New Mexico desert. 1969: The Apollo 11 mission launched from Cape Kennedy, beginning the historic journey for the first human landing on the moon. 1918: Tsar Nicholas II and the Romanov family were executed by Bolshevik revolutionaries in Yekaterinburg (carried out overnight between July 16 and 17), officially ending the Russian imperial dynasty. 1790: George Washington signed the Residence Act into law, permanently establishing the capital of the United States at Washington, D.C. along the Potomac River. 1951: J.D. Salinger published his highly influential coming-of-age novel, The Catcher in the Rye.
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Kyle Wright@kylethewright·
@learning_yohei 組織力は世界レベルだけど、相手に対策された時にピッチ上で打開する柔軟性が課題かも🤔 あとはブルーロックじゃないけど、たった1人でディフェンスをぶち破る異次元のアタッカーが見たい!野球界の大谷選手みたいなスターがサッカー界にも現れれば、ベスト16の壁は絶対超えられる!⚽️🔥
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Yohei from Japan🇯🇵
Yohei from Japan🇯🇵@learning_yohei·
Japan always seems to get knocked out in the Round of 16. What do we need to do to become stronger? Please tell me⚽️🥺🇯🇵
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Kyle Wright@kylethewright·
Yeah, I have read the Bible in various flavors and languages dozens of times throughout my lifetime. For some passages, hundreds if not thousands of times. I don't view the Bible in any flavor you prefer as the end all of things pertaining to God. All truth, wherever it may be, can help with understanding God. Science, for example, helps me understand God the most actually.
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Arthur McBride
Arthur McBride@1arthurmcbride·
@kylethewright @CuriosityonX Thank you for that explanation – very enlightening! I invite you to study the Bible, especially the New Testament, and the gospel of John in particular. You will see that it has very little in common with Mormonism.
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Justin Basch
Justin Basch@JustinJBasch·
Snyder pins Sadulaev to retain the RAF belt! This is Snyder's first win over Sadulaev since 2017.
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Kyle Wright@kylethewright·
TOP 5 HISTORICAL FACTS (JULY 10) 🌍 History happened today. From deep space breakthroughs to extreme global records, July 10 has been a massive day for world events. Here are 5 incredible things that took place on this exact day in history: 1️⃣ 1962: Telstar 1 Launch 🛰️ The world's first active communications satellite was launched into orbit, successfully enabling the very first live transatlantic television signal. 2️⃣ 1940: The Battle of Britain Begins 🛩️ The German Luftwaffe launched its first major wave of attacks on British shipping convoys in the English Channel, officially marking the start of the historic aerial conflict. 3️⃣ 1460: Wars of the Roses (Battle of Northampton)⚔️ A major, pivotal battle for the English throne took place, resulting in a decisive Yorkist victory and the dramatic capture of King Henry VI. 4️⃣ 1913: Earth's Hottest Temperature Recorded ☀️ Death Valley, California hit a blistering 134°F (56.7°C) at Furnace Creek, setting the official world record for the highest ambient air temperature ever recorded on Earth. 5️⃣ 1985: The Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior 🚢 The Greenpeace flagship vessel was bombed and sunk by French foreign intelligence agents while docked in Auckland, New Zealand, sparking a massive international scandal.
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Kyle Wright@kylethewright·
Debunk of the day (July 10) The science behind this is 100% solid While most of space is a vacuum, the centers of massive galaxy clusters (like the Perseus Cluster) are filled with a vast, dense blanket of hot, ionized gas known as the intracluster medium. This gas acts as a perfect conductor for sound waves. The supermassive black hole at the center of the Perseus cluster releases immense ripples of energy. These ripples compress and expand the surrounding gas, creating literal, physical pressure waves—which is the exact scientific definition of sound. When NASA astronomers measured these acoustic waves in 2003, they calculated the exact frequency. The ripples correspond to a single, continuous musical note: a B-flat. Specifically, it is a pitch 57 octaves below middle C (far lower than humans can hear, but physically a B-flat).
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Justin Basch
Justin Basch@JustinJBasch·
USA goes 10-for-10 with Golds today at U20 Pan Ams! 🇺🇸 🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇
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Merriam-Webster
Merriam-Webster@MerriamWebster·
What is the most overused word in your line of work? Let it out.
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Brigham's Burner
Brigham's Burner@FiredUpCoug·
I'm currently working on 5 new card games that will launch my new brand. Would anyone be interested in play testing them?
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Kyle Wright
Kyle Wright@kylethewright·
First, a quick logical correction on your intro: Stating that God hasn’t revealed all things is simply an acknowledgment of human limitation. There is a massive logical gap between saying "humanity doesn't possess infinite knowledge" and saying "my position doesn't make sense to me." Accepting inherent mystery within a framework is entirely coherent; it isn't a confession of a flawed argument. Moving back to the mechanics of the scenario, the core contradictions remain: Knowledge vs. Compliance: You argue they weren't naive because they "knew the rules." But memorizing a command is not the same as understanding the moral weight of breaking it. If they literally lacked the "knowledge of good and evil" until they ate the fruit, they were structurally innocent. They had no conceptual framework for a lie, deception, or malice. Holding them morally accountable for being manipulated by a celestial predator—when they explicitly lacked the cognitive tools to understand what a lie even was—fundamentally undermines the fairness of the test. Certainty vs. Possibility: You suggest foreknowledge just means knowing "all scenarios" and what could happen. But absolute, omniscient foreknowledge means knowing with 100% mathematical certainty exactly which path will be taken. If the Creator designs the environment, introduces the hazard, permits the predator, and knows with absolute certainty before the universe is even formed exactly when and how the subjects will fail, no other outcome was ever genuinely possible. You cannot decouple the absolute certainty of the failure from the intentional architecture of the setup. Information vs. Overprotection: You claim that exposing Satan's lie would "remove their true agency" and shelter them. This confuses informing someone with coercing them. Providing an innocent subject with the facts of an immediate danger doesn't destroy free will—it enables an informed choice. If a parent tells a child not to drink a bottle of poison, and a stranger walks up and tells the child it's sweet juice, the parent doesn't strip the child's agency by stepping in to say, "That person is lying to you." Withholding that vital context doesn't protect free will; it just ensures they are operating out of blind ignorance. No matter how you slice it, the outcome is exactly what God planned on and wanted. Otherwise, there’s absolutely no need for the setup in the first place. Outside of the LDS paradigm, there is zero logical reason for God not to just create men and women perfectly happy and content from the get-go, in a secure environment with no fallen angels around to mess things up. After all, isn't that exactly what heaven is supposed to be like? If God truly loved the whole world, He would have just started with that perfect reality. Or are you suggesting that in heaven, people will still run the risk of screwing things up? You really can't argue that heaven will be a completely secure, perfect environment where no one will ever mess up, and then turn around and claim that the Garden had to be a dangerous trap just to preserve "free choice."
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Roger Ecoff
Roger Ecoff@rogerecoff·
Mormon Gospel: Jesus died so that you can ascend to Godhood and have your future people serve you in your Kingdom forever Christian Gospel: Jesus died so that you can serve him in his Kingdom forever
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Kyle Wright@kylethewright·
Just to clear up a quick misunderstanding from your first point: I’ve never said or admitted that the LDS paradigm "doesn't make sense." IMO, the LDS paradigm actually makes the most sense of any religious framework out there. Nonetheless, putting LDS paradigms aside, looking at the logic of the traditional view, there are still a few major contradictions here: Memory vs. Discernment: Reciting a rule to the serpent proves memory, not discernment. A toddler can memorize the rule "don't touch the stove." But if a trusted adult walks into the room and tells them, "It's okay, your parents changed their mind, touching it will make you a big kid," a toddler simply lacks the cognitive architecture to detect that deception. Adam and Eve were structurally blind to the concepts of malice and lies. The Foreknowledge Paradox: You mentioned God gives a rule "knowing we are capable of following it." But with absolute, immutable foreknowledge, God didn't just know they could follow it—He knew with 100% certainty before the Garden was even created that they would not. It's difficult to decouple the Creator's absolute foreknowledge from the mathematical certainty of the outcome. The Environment Setup: You argue that if God exposed Satan's intentions, it would take away their choice. But look at what that implies: for "free choice" to exist, completely naive, morally blind subjects must be left exposed to a hyper-intelligent celestial predator without knowing its malicious intent. Instead of a fair test of free will, that setup naturally looks much more like an engineered environment designed for a single, guaranteed outcome. (Reminder: Since you don't have a blue checkmark, you don't have to break your thoughts up into six separate replies. Simply type your response out in Google Docs, take a screenshot, and post it as a single image to keep the thread a bit cleaner.)
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Bee W@BeeW1736886·
@kylethewright @rogerecoff 6) God being all knowing, that would mean God has a knowledge of all scenarios and human decisions. So he knows what will happen with the decisions we make and the decisions we dont make. And if he makes a rule for us, then he makes it knowing we are capable of following it.
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Kyle Wright@kylethewright·
Saying they "knew not to touch the plant" only proves they were given a rule; it completely evades the core logic of the scenario. Let's put aside any LDS paradigms for a moment and look at this strictly from the viewpoint of an omniscient, omnipotent Creator. The mechanics of the narrative demonstrate that God not only planned on this outcome, but actively enabled it: The Setup (The "Trap"): God placed a hazardous tree in an otherwise perfect environment where it had no logical reason to exist. If the Garden provided everything they ever needed, introducing a lethal restriction—and explicitly calling attention to it—serves no purpose other than to create a point of failure. Furthermore, an omnipotent God actively permitted a malicious, fallen entity to exist and granted it open access to these vulnerable subjects. Inherent Defenselessness: Adam and Eve lacked the knowledge of good and evil. Structurally, they were incapable of recognizing a lie, detecting malice, or understanding the moral weight of deception. They were created with zero defensive framework against a master deceiver. No Natural Temptation: With an effectively infinite abundance of choices in the Garden, they had zero natural or internal reason to care about that one restricted tree. The fall could not happen internally; it strictly required an outside deceiver to manipulate them. Absolute Predictability: An omniscient God knew with 100% certainty—before the universe was even spoken into existence—exactly how that defenselessness would interact with the environment and the deceiver. When a Creator designs the entire environment, introduces the hazard, permits the predator, leaves the subjects entirely defenseless against that specific threat, and foreknows the exact mathematical certainty of the failure before doing any of it—the resulting outcome isn't a tragic surprise. It is precisely what was planned.
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Bee W
Bee W@BeeW1736886·
@kylethewright @rogerecoff Now that is a presupposition based on nothing to say they had zero reason. Especially when God gave them a reason. They certainly knew not to touch the plant. And yes a deceiver lied to them telling them theyll be like God. Thats the deception the lds belive though still.
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