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Kanye West said this in 2022 on @lexfridman: Lex: "What do you hope your legacy is?" Ye: "To be forgotten. There's ego in memory. Who designed the sidewalk? Who designed the water fountain? Who designed the stop sign? Who designed the stop light? These things are so ubiquitous that the person that designed them is forgotten. If it's a good idea, it's a God idea."

If you catch yourself lying about something small, do not correct it. do not apologize. do not explain. sit with the lie inside you like a stone in your mouth. the small lies wear the groove for everything else. most men lose their souls in increments so small they never feel it happening. a lie about what they ate, a lie about how they spent their afternoon. feel how heavy that small stone is. feel how your chest actually changed shape the second the words left your mouth. God is watching whether you can still notice the small lies. if you have gone numb to them, you are already further gone than you know. the repair is to sit tomorrow and notice the next one in real time. feel the stone again. do not spit it out just yet. first let it teach you its weight. that weight is conscience waking up after a long sleep. most men will never feel their own tongue again, this way you still can

“As long as there are slaughterhouses, there will be battlefields” — Leo Tolstoy

The choice between life and death starts with what you put on your plate.

+ health care = child sacrifice

dionysus was given a 'mirror' to distract him while the titans were preparing to cook and consume him out of their extreme jealousy and envy of his divinity i am given and iphone and a computer screen and twitter account and ai subscripts where american big tech ceos distract me with their stupid algorithms and tricks while they consume my data and slowly try to eat my intellect and spirit coincidence? i think not except this is the story where I WIN i'm looking at the mirror and looking them straight in the eyes and telling them i think they are pathetic disgusting excuses of beings and they will never be gods no matter how much money and tech they have you're either born with it or you aren't that's why transhumanism is the dream of the weak and the pathetic a wish born out of impotence that they could escape their flesh and become something other than what they are when you understand the psychology behind it you realize how pathetic and sad transhumanism is a sad dream for sad people it's suicidal delusions of grandeur the desire of suicide mixed in with narcissistic visions of greatness - they cannot imagine themselves as winners and rulers in their current flesh they are too ugly, too stuttery, too homosexual, too fat, too whatever it is - i.e. too pathetic thus a new form must be dreamt up where they can finally be winners and rulers transhumanism is the dream of impotence transhumanism is a stain to the concept of human philosophy the opposite of vitality the opposite of Nietzsche's dream of an übermensch a degradation and failure of the vision entirely they don't have the vision or the capacity of gnostic-philosophical sight and that's why they will never win or be who they want to be despite how much money or tech they acquire destined to forever crawl in spirit and never to fly because if they could fly, they would've by now but they don't because they can't that's why they stutter, are littered with anxiety, are ugly with no sense of taste whatsoever, they can hardly invent anything themselves and must purchase their way into anything - they are failed beings, the spawns and minions of satan willing to kill humanity out of their incessant insecure desperate need of validation and self-inflation

Esoteric nervous system regulation hack: Go to the beach, sit near the water, and sync your breath with the rising and falling of the tide.

“Temporal goods help us on our way, but our desire must be for those eternal realities which are our goal.” — St. Gregory the Great

People talk about their fears of a dystopia all the time, but we are clearly already living in one

When I was growing up, I thought Christianity was the 'easy' religion because it doesn't mandate fasting, have explicit dietary requirements, require a certain amount of prayers per day, etc. Over time, I've learned that consistently walking with Christ is difficult. The bar is much higher than modern norms and cultural standards.

I'm sorry, gay couples should not be allowed to adopt babies. You opted out of God's natural plan. You don't get to confuse a child and mess their life up because you are confused and your life is messed up.

I used to think Christians were naive. I thought faith in God was just an emotional crutch for people who could not handle reality. Now I think the opposite. The more seriously I looked at life, history, suffering, conscience, beauty, evil, and the limits of human reason, the less convincing atheism became. Because everyone has faith. Everyone. The only real question is where that faith is placed. In God, or in man. I was taught that intelligence means distance from God. But what is so intelligent about believing that matter somehow produced mind, that chaos somehow produced order, that chemistry somehow produced conscience, and that human beings can ground morality by themselves while constantly contradicting even their own standards? If we are only matter, then human dignity is just a useful story. Love is chemistry. Evil is preference. Sacrifice is irrational. Meaning is self invented. But almost no one actually lives that way. We all live as if truth matters, as if cruelty is really wrong, as if beauty means something, as if love is more than a chemical reaction, and as if justice should exist even when it costs us. That is not nothing. That points beyond survival. The Bible understood this long before modern people started pretending they had outgrown it. Genesis grounds human dignity in the image of God. That means people are not valuable because they are productive, attractive, healthy, or useful. They are valuable because they bear His image. John 1 does not begin with chaos. It begins with the Logos. Reason, order, meaning. Reality is not random noise. It is intelligible because it comes from a mind greater than ours. Ecclesiastes says that pleasure, work, success, and achievement collapse into vanity when cut off from God. Anyone who has chased status, money, sex, or recognition long enough knows how true that is. Romans 1 says creation points beyond itself. And it does. The order of the world, the mathematical beauty of reality, the existence of consciousness, the hunger for meaning, the presence of moral knowledge, these are not small things. And history teaches the same lesson. The bloodiest experiments of the last century did not come from too much faith in God. They came from man trying to replace God with ideology, state, race, class, or power. When God is removed, something else always takes His place. Usually something crueler. Christianity also does not begin with a vague spiritual feeling. It makes a historical claim. That Christ entered history, was crucified, and rose again. You can reject that claim, but it is not the same as saying faith is just blind comfort. Christianity stands or falls on what it says actually happened. So no, I no longer think faith in God is stupid. I think one of the most shallow ideas modern people were ever sold is that disbelief is automatically intelligent. Sometimes disbelief is not depth. Sometimes it is pride. And sometimes faith is not an escape from reality. It is what remains when you look at reality honestly enough and realize that man is not enough, matter is not enough, and this world cannot explain itself. I used to think Christians were foolish. Now I think many of them simply saw earlier what I was too proud to see.

The quest for eternity is the only quest worth pursuing. Everything else is a mini game.

The devil comes through our loved ones. The enemy can come in the disguise of a loved one, it is painful, but the Gospel does not spare us; it speaks the truth. Remember the moment Christ was telling his disciples that he was about to suffer and die. Peter, fiery, devoted, and loving, takes him aside and says, “Be merciful to yourself, Lord; lest this happen to you”~Matt. 16:22. He does this out of love, care, and the most sincere desire to protect him. And how does Christ reply? “Get behind Me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to Me! For you are not setting your mind on God’s purposes, but on human ones”~Matt. 16:23. Peter did not know that the enemy spoke through him. He truly loved Christ, but it was this love, earthly, human, and fearing loss—that became a door. The devil does not only come through evil people; he often comes through good ones, those who love us, show compassion and care for us. The devil comes through regret, through affection, and through the fear of losing a loved one. Job has lost everything: children, property, health. Next to him is his wife, the only close person he has left. And what does she say to him in the darkest moment? “Do you still hold fast to your integrity? Curse God and die!”~Job 2:9. She is not a villain, but a suffering woman. She sees her husband's sorrow and cannot bear it. But it is through her at this moment that the one who wants to defeat Job speaks. He, however, did not break down: “You talk like a foolish woman. Shall we accept good from God and not turn away from evil?”~Job 2:10. He did not get angry at his wife; he did not push her away. He simply did not accept the thought that came through her. That is the lesson. Do not look at people as enemies, but discern which voice is speaking at that particular moment. This is perhaps the hardest thing of all we are talking about now, but without this skill, we are vulnerable where we least expect impact. Why does the Church rarely talk about this in detail? Because careless words on this topic give birth to suspicion of loved ones. People begin to see the enemy in men, women, and children. They begin to close off, separate, and see devilish actions where they are not. This is also a trap, and it is set by the enemy. He enjoys it when people destroy relationships out of fear of him. You should talk about it, but with love and with discernment.

Life really is just a video game God will test you and when you pass you’ll get rewards You’re literally just an RPG character and you can upgrade your stats with spiritual practice

information is free because saturating your cognition & preventing you from taking action is the product

"Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it." Proverbs 4:23

What else is there to do in this life but fight for your own soul?

God will literally sit you down and break you to humble you, then will isolate you to build you. Then God will give you back everything far beyond what you lost to prove to you God is real and that everything is for a reason. Keep your trust in God.

I wish more people understood that free time does not = availability. The collective lack of respect for silence and solitude has gotten out of hand and must be addressed. No one wants to face themselves, and as a result there are no real people anymore; only copy/paste archetypes of who people think they should be. It is imperative that you learn to cherish your time alone, embracing all that it is you've been running from. Stop filling your free time with noise. Even the smallest practice of this understanding will instantly separate you from the mass of clones (presenting as individuals) that currently populate this earth we live on. — Remember: God has given you the gift of a human life, and as such wants you to be a unique expression of His glory. Every day you deny this truth, you miss the mark. It's time to stop living in sin. — “A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.” — Arthur Schopenhauer