christianbaxter_yt

Large Coke, Junior Mints, and buttered popcorn

Bout to sit down to watch Disclosure Day against @PageauJonathan s advice and in favor of @roddreher s - May the Best re-enchanted Ortho win : )

@cryptochamomile Not difficult to understand anymore ; ) but I definitely used to think it was hard to defend from a modern frame… It’s why Peterson/Pagaeu mean so much to me because psychologically and symbolically they made sense of the the experience and gave me a frame work to build on

@chrbaxter_yt Fascinating that you have a deep history with this story of Isaac. It’s one of the most challenging passages in the Bible.

Very nice distillation of 4 hours of Jordan Peterson lectures into 3 minutes

@cryptochamomile @Not_Solidus @dissidentwest

@Not_Solidus @dissidentwest The Red Pill comes from Total Recall. The Matrix steals it

What’s the most based movie of all time? I’m putting a list together for a friend that was recently red pilled and need some help.

@PaulAnleitner Inversely Nolan’s Batman became a massive success

Superman Returns was a cultural mismatch in 2006. In hindsight, it’s easy to see why. Culture had made a postmodern turn—cynical and suspicious of savior symbols. Superman only works when culture longs for sincerity and hope.

@kalezelden This is supposed to continue with a thread : )

The epic hero’s project is one of retrieval. Not retvrn…

This is why we don’t need to tax the rich - we need to untax the middle class. Inflation is a tax - go back and listen to @Breedlove22 old stuff

@DrJordanBCooper @RazorFist 🤝

@RazorFist It's Zelda (and one of the best games in the franchise), which means I'll buy it immediately at release, but I am not sure I love the art direction they chose. I'll wait to see some actual gameplay to make a judgment, though.

The Switch 2 glow-up continues.

@roddreher @kalezelden @sonicdrivein I started taking calories more seriously since entering my 40’s…

@kalezelden @chrbaxter_yt @sonicdrivein A middle-aged fatso gotta save calories when he can, boss.

At some point, my repatriated self is gonna have to stop eating like a Murcan. But today is not that day. Long live @sonicdrivein!

@roddreher @sonicdrivein 🤝

@chrbaxter_yt @sonicdrivein Naw, Route 44 Coke Zero, and a Super Sonic double, no cheese, onions or sauces.

An in-studio conversation with an old friend about exile, shame, grace, music, Catholicism, the Eucharist, sacramental imagination, and the search for the Real. youtu.be/SQmMYSL03Qw?si…

@PageauJonathan @Bear_the_AI_guy Better than an argument 🤝

Once there was a very sick man. This man tried everything he could: diet, exercise and different supplements, and though it helped him feel a bit better, the sickness still persisted and even got worse. Some of his friends told him to see a doctor, but the man was sure he could make himself well. After much suffering, the man finally relented and went to see the doctor. The doctor told him: "There is nothing you can do on your own to heal from this disease. You must take this very bitter pill. The pill will at first feel like you are dying, but you must trust me and the medicine. It will heal you." After much struggle, the man finally accepted and took the very bitter pill. It felt like his entire life was being wasted away, but as the doctor promised, he soon discovered he had new strength in his body, a strength he had not known before. A few weeks later, the man began having symptoms of the disease again. Saddened by this, he called the doctor. The doctor sent him a list of diet, exercises and supplements. The man was shocked and called the doctor again: "You told me there was nothing I could do on my own to heal from this disease!" "You are already healed from the disease, but your body was so affected by it, that you must now persevere in discipline, consulting me and evaluating what your health is. These are not simply rules you must follow, but habits you must develop. If you persevere, you will do better and better and will discover levels of health you could not even imagine. But if you do not persevere, the effects of the disease can still kill you." I have heard different ends to this story. Some say that the man submitted to the discipline and became an athlete. Others insist that he took the rule given by the doctor, applying it to the letter without developing the habits. Others still, say the man only stood by the original statement of the doctor and had "assurance of his health", refusing that his health was dependent on the habits he needed to develop. "Sure, I can maybe follow the rules the doctor gave me" he told himself, "but that is just in gratitude for having healed me." Sadly this man remained sick, though believing he was healed, and never became the athlete he had in fact been born to be.

Theosis and sanctification need a better conversation, as they always have… I also think soteriology isn’t the best starting place for Protestant/Orthodox dialogue because we often begin with different assumptions about salvation itself like you’re saying. Better starting points might be incarnation, participation, sacrament, and the Church as the living body of Christ etc “liturgical life, Sacramental reality” Protestants like Nevin, Schaff, and Torrance tried to recover some of this participatory and incarnational vision without abandoning the Reformation.

Following a bit of the Protestant polemics against Orthodoxy recently, and I realize just how difficult it is to communicate the mind of the Church across these lines. A simple example is seeing people confused about whether someone who is not baptised and participating in Orthodox communion can be "saved". Protestant are noticing that there are different answers in their estimation, and so are confused about them. The confusion comes from the belief that being "saved" or not is about "where you go after you die", when for the Orthodox "saved" means being made whole, being healed, being restored to the original purpose God had for us. For this reason, when Protestants see declarations of how communion in the body of Christ is the only way to salvation, they immediately think this is a declaration that all the non-Orthodox are going to hell after they die. When Protestants then hear the very same person who just told them that salvation is in full participation to the body of Christ go on to intimate we have nothing to say about the eschatological finality of any specific soul, it is like a short circuit that many Protestants cannot compute. This is what I could see when @OrthodoxEthos and @Acts17David were discussing and it is what I have seen in @gavinortlund's videos. In a similar vein, when a Protestant says he has the "assurance of his own personal salvation", this is confusing to the Orthodox. Orthodox also obviously have assurance of salvation, that assurance is Christ. He shows us what it means to be made whole and makes us participate in that wholeness. But how can I say that I am "saved" if I see that I am still a wretch, still prideful and arrogant and sinful? So the Orthodox, knowing they are are still sinning, though also knowing Christ has made them grow in the virtues will say something like: "I know that I am being saved." That is I can see that I am being healed, being made whole, being reformed to the resemblence of God. But again, this completely confuses the Protestant who just wants to know what will happen when you die. What side of the fence will you end up on? I am not sure how to get accross these lines, and I feel that unless we can, we will perpetually be talking past each other.

@PaulAnleitner @AnnaLeptikon Yes, some power is shaped like a cross..

Postmodern stories like The Boys can never have a good ending. Why? Because you can never have the restoration of order. Power will always have more "oppression" to unmask. But this is what makes Tolkien brilliant. Yes, power can corrupt, but not all power is "Ring-shaped."

@PaulVanderKlay Don’t need to watch if you lived it ; )

"Not enough people watched my video" the perpetual cry of the TLC. :)))

@kalezelden You have a perfect name for such a conference : )

In re-telling my Symbolic World Summit talk to my wife last night, I realized I left out the actual symbolic key to the image of the arena in the Knight’s Tale. Bummer. Alas, it was such a great weekend. Wild to see my name in lights.

@kalezelden @SteveSkojec This is a dashboard

@SteveSkojec This is a dashboard

I don’t want my dashboard to be a long iPad.