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“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” Ephesians 6:12

@miltonappl3 Do the mathematicians know something

The River Eden splits into four Rivers in Genesis 2:10-14. Two real [sic]: Tigris and Euphrates, two symbolic [sic]: Pishon & Gihon. They run opposite normal: 4 rivers converging into one.

@miltonappl3 Let me in sensei

Let’s start a Merchant of Venice group chat. I read it so long ago I basically remember nothing of it. Reply to this tweet if you want in. Here is the overview: One act per week starting in a few days. Try to spend at least an hour reading each act. These are not two hour plays. They were revised in retirement, converting them to text documents. Rule 1: Christ is King. If you are not a Christian, you are welcome if you theatrically act as one for the five week program. For the philosophy (not religion) of why, search my tweet “Basketball is a network.” Rule 2: No secondary sources. Only what you know using your Holy Spirit, background knowledge, and "it was revealed to me in a dream". Anyone who wants to stick around for a bit after Act V can look through secondary stuff then: To what extent do we align with them or not? &Tc. Imo the secondary stuff is usually pretty ratchet. Rule 3: If you are under 25, you’ll be a surgeon’s mate. Find the opinions of others that you like or find intriguing and support them. Contrarianism in surgeon’s mates is strictly forbidden. Violators will be subjected to the .jpg of the Asian man taking off his glasses.

Some people learn about psychotherapy until the whole world seems like a series of psychological knots and traumas that can be unbound. Some people learn about architecture until everything looks like weights and distributions and stress cracks. But if your learn about the way the ancients viewed the world, they only noticed things that were commensurate with Earth, Water, Air, & Fire, and these people had by far and wide the biggest inner worlds. Jesus and the gospel writers used this system, as did the Old Testament, and I'm finding out the Quran. It's scary in its bigness because you can see how far we've fallen. Learn these ways and you'll have pillars and archons to hold up the firmament

@miltonappl3 Maybe this is why there is a mystique and draw towards affirmations in popular culture

Science-as-apotheosis is the Zeno paradox. It asks to go ever slower and slower without ever crossing the threshold of certainty. All you have to do to beat science is to Yes.jpg once.

It seems impossible to describe to someone that if they read the Bible they can see further than even the great names in philosophy who don't read the Bible because the Bible is the tallest mountain. It just is. And you can't know until you try it then you'll know as truly as you know ice is cold. I can't even pinpoint what it is in the Bible that does it. Honestly a lot of it is weird. Best I can do using my human reason is to say it's the biggest world and that's essential for judging new ideas: you have to be able to step outside of an idea to look at it correctly and the Bible is always something conceptually bigger than any idea you come across. It makes you what the ancients thought Saturn was, the biggest and widest sphere. Read the Bible on faith until you see it with your own eyes.

@miltonappl3 !!! But what does it look like outside of an epistemological collapse? Would you be inculcated into an encompassing myth, using it entirely to order reality? Without, as we are now, being thrown to the sea in total mythological competition?

Thought leaders in an epistemological collapse provide information to the people that competes with other myths--as another myth. This is precisely what tweeter appears to be if you find yourself with anything approximating authority.

Vanity masking as naivety x.com/i/status/19396…

It's actually incredible, the naivety. I have fallen and continue to fall victim to it myself.

It all comes down to power, and the American right has been absolutely mogged in this respect, forever

I look around and all I see is immaturity. I look within and all I see is immaturity. Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.

Part of my account is to rebalance a democratic bias in our Bible interpretation. The Bible is bigger than democracy or any given state system. Christ collected the people who were dying being pressed against the back wall of the Truman show. He even at times hints that the people still believing the Truman show should be left alone until a time when they begin to question. He collected the people too large to contain in a world system, the Shakespeare archetype, and he converted them to good shepherds. To think of Christianity as exclusively for the weak and downtrodden is hearing about Christianity fourth -hand. The "blessed are the poor and meek" was a message called the sermon on the MOUNT. It was a command to the elite to go back down the mountain. Watch the Truman show. Peter weir is Rushmore.

I really cannot comprehend how otherwise intelligent people fail to understand Clav’s significance. An unapologetic right wing chud invading all the lib spaces with functionally no resistance simply because he is good looking and conversationally tactful. He is single handedly demonstrating the utter retardation of the right’s multi decade strategy of trying to win the culture war through politics. Politics is downstream from culture. And culture is down stream from status. You will never win at politics if your ideas are cringe and low status. The degree to which the right has FINALLY after decades started to do anything but take L after L against the left is a DIRECT PRODUCT of the degree to which the cool and interesting people have started adopting right wing positions. Now, Clav is the first major figure to add attractive people to that list. And appears to be the final demarcation point at which reactionary ideas finally bridge the chasm out of innovator/early adopter into the main stream.

Two thousand years spent rejecting Jesus Christ, the Way, the Truth, and the Life, will lead to bad fruit. “If you look around today, from Marxism to the atom bomb to pornography to transgenderism, they seem to be at the forefront of all those things.”

There is no substitute for victory. The left MUST be defeated. “If Alex Pretti and Renée Good had it their way, this country would burn to the ground, and they'd be laughing.”

This map is infinitely better than 1492. Or 1607. And we ended up ok. Get used to the concept of "multi-generational struggle." Settle in. Ascend.

The hubris it takes for atheists to dismiss the religious and spiritual convictions of nearly all of human history as insanity and idiocy is truly remarkable

@lichthauch The ashes reveal what is real

Religion ended. It ended. I felt it end. Now there is only money wearing God's clothes. The men in power say the words but the words are dead in their mouths, dead before they leave their lips, and they know it and we know it and still we sit and listen. Politics. Economy. This is the only church now. The only scripture. And when they hold the book it means nothing, it means less than nothing, it is a prop, a tool, a trick, and no one will say this out loud because to say it is to admit we are already living in the ruins. And we are. We are the ruins. The temple fell and we are the dust

So much cope in the comments. Aim higher.

@wolftivy @Joe966060026828 This may be the unfortunate truth... But I don't like the idea of abandoning it entirely. Removing historical continuity irks me...

Western civilization died with honor in a glorious last stand some time in the first half of the 20th century. Mourn it but stop trying to save it. Start thinking about building something new.

If God actually chooses you he ruins you for normal life, marks you so obviously that other people can smell it on you and they will hate you for it, not consciously but in their bones, because your existence proves that settling was optional and they chose it anyway. The blessed man sleeps alone because everyone around him is engaged in a silent conspiracy to worship their own limitations and he refuses to join, and that refusal is an act of violence against the social contract. They will forgive you for being evil before they forgive you for being called