Kyle McCallum

@SatoshiCryptic I feel you. I have 3 kids and it's exhausting and hard to keep relationships going. I find it's hard at first to push myself and go out 2 spend quality time w/friends but afterwards I'm glad I did it. Life goes fast and this is a better way to build memories.

@realKyleMcC It's definitely gotten worse as I've aged. Kids and family consume most all of my non work time and as an introvert being with friends tends to exhaus vs recharge me so I've basically cut it out of my life.

I'm really bad at keeping friends. Great at making them, terrible at keeping them. The worst part is, I 100% know it's me because I suck at putting in the work, lol. Am I the only weirdo who would rather just go to bed early Friday night than hang out? Is something wrong with me?

I grew up in progressive Christianity, so the exchange in the photo is well known. Progressive denominations love to talk about how Jesus would agree with their political beliefs. Zero critical thought is required because the Jesus they choose to worship has already blessed them. Lost is the idea that Jesus never talked about tax policy or healthcare, but DID focus on religious hypocrisy and false shepherds who led people away from God. Leftist denominations deserve all of the criticism they receive, for theirs is a false Christ; an idol of themselves to worship. But it’s not only leftists who commit this sin. The prosperity gospel Jesus is a den of robbers compared with the gospel, and no less of an idol. The Jesus that tells all women to submit to all men, and not merely their husbands, is not the savior of this world. The nationalist Jesus that wants a nation for only one faithful race and no none else doesn’t accept a Jesus that desires every nation and tribe. And the Jesus who demanded fealty to an institution, no matter what, is not the Jesus who challenged corrupt leaders of the religious order. We can and should point out heretics and incorrect beliefs in others, yet we must always be aware that we worship the Jesus who is, not the one we create in our own image. Jesus told us He didn’t come to unite us, but to divide. ““Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. And a person’s enemies will be those of his own household.” Matthew 10:34-36 ESV

@SpencerKlavan Do you want me to summarize this for you? No, I want to ride many leagues to the archives of Gondor and pore over ancient scrolls by the light of a slowly melting candle to uncover the sins of our ancestors

X is getting overtaken by obviously written AI posts. There is a flow these posts have that give them away immediately, and they are almost always too wordy. It's getting tiring.

Considering that Denis is directing this, I expect it to be the best 007 of all time.

@JonnyBoy_2 @cavs @cavsdan @spidadmitchell C'mon Cavs hook my boy up

Hello @cavs @cavsdan @spidadmitchell! My name is Jon and I’m a Cleveland Clinic cancer nurse and I’ll be at the game tonight again in M117. I’d love to be picked to shoot the half court shot tonight…any chance we can make that happen?

Merry Christmas from our family to yours. There is a God who is real, who loves you, and who sent his Son to earth to live a perfect life and die for our sins so that we might be forever reconciled to Him. Thank you, God!! Isaiah 9:6 — “For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.”

For the love of cinema, please do not watch the new Avatar movie in theaters. It has to flop. We must free James Cameron from his Avatar chains so he can make good movies again.

“I’m writing a story where the villain is actually a misunderstood good guy”

No you do not need to make more than $200k to live comfortably.

The emerging Christian Nationalism treats political power as the primary tool for advancing God’s kingdom. It views the state as a kind of savior. The problem isn’t their desire for righteousness in public life, which is certainly good. The problem is the philosophy and more specifically, their Postmillennial theology behind it. Christian Nationalists assume that if we just gain enough political authority, enforce the right laws, and restructure society from the top down, we can essentially build the kingdom of God through the state. But that is not what Jesus taught. Theirs is simply a baptized version of utopianism. The kingdom of God will not come by coercion, state control, or cultural domination. The Kingdom of God will come when Jesus splits the sky in blazing fire, leading an army of holy ones, and crushes His enemies like grapes, establishing justice and righteousness on the earth. This is the essence of biblical hope. The problem is that most Christians don't really believe this. They may check the box that affirms they believe this doctrine, but deep down, they do not really believe it will ever happen. And so they feel as though they must take it upon themselves to do what only He can do: Establish true righteousness in the earth. Well then, how should we live in the meantime? First, it must be said: We must make the proclamation and demonstration of the Gospel our top priority. More than anything else, that will change the world. One soul at a time. One family at a time. Through the Gospel, through repentance, discipled households and faithful churches really do change society. Okay, but what about politics? Again, we are all called to be faithful, to speak truth, to promote justice, to resist evil, to defend liberty, and to love our neighbors. But by all means, fight! Become an influence in the public square. Be salt and light. Be a positive influence in every sphere of this world. No matter where you are. Fight against the creeping chaos of Marxism, Globalism, and radical Leftism. But never confuse the State with the Savior. The younger generation right now, is rightfully furious. They feel as though we have stolen their future, stolen their hope for a good life. And they are kind of right. We must fight for a good future for our children. Yes, this will require some radical actions. It's going to be an uphill battle. So let's build strong, godly families, strengthen local churches, form moral communities, practice righteousness, and engage politics as good stewards, but not would-be theocrats. Christ will bring His kingdom. Our task is to be faithful until He does. Maranatha.

@ryanvisconti I have definitely encountered this before. A term I've used is emotional bullying.

Leadership Case Study for young pastors: What Beth Moore is doing here is initiating a “struggle session” - a hallmark of woke/woke adjacent culture. It’s when someone decides to be “concerned” or “offended” and reaches out with an invitation to join them for their “struggle session.” (They’ll often start by affirming their love and respect: this is to build relational equity so that you’ll work hard to *keep* their love and respect - which can only happen if you give them what they want…usually backing down from the true thing you said). When Beth does it *publicly* here, the goal is to stir up controversy or “problematize” something Josh said so that her woke/woke adjacent followers will see it and join in on being offended. In a struggle session, Josh is expected to attend meekly with his tail tucked between his legs (especially as a straight white Christian man) ready to *listen* about any negative *feelings* his words may have caused. Struggle sessions are rarely about facts…because facts are harder to manipulate and dispute. But if strugglers are “hurt, concerned, & offended,” then it’s harder for the mark to tell them they shouldn’t feel that way, because in woke culture “nobody can question how something makes you feel.” You better just empathize *or else.* *Note: it’s possible to have REAL feelings based on wrong thinking. The way to fix those undesirable feelings is to fix your wrong thinking.* The tactical mistake Beth made was picking such an innocent and harmless post to problematize. It’s possible she’s in a group chat with other progressive characters who decided mutually that someone needs to “check Josh.” He’s been saying too many biblically orthodox conservative true things that undermine woke 3rd-wayism and progressive “He gets us” Christianity (and worse, people are agreeing with him). The struggle session’s desired outcome is to get Josh to apologize for all the possible ways his words could have been hurtful to anyone. Their greater goal is to get OTHER pastors to see all the grief they caused Josh so that other pastors will think twice and back away from saying anything that could be “controversial,” because who has time for that drama!? “If you dont want what Josh got, you better keep your mouth shut.” What Josh did is a good example of how you might handle a struggle session. Either 1) decline the invitation to their pain party by ignoring them, 2) tell them to “get over it.” Or 3) just explain calmly why they’re objectively wrong. Note: when you refuse to party, the hosts will not take it well. They’ll often accuse you of being “arrogant” or “insensitive,” and they’ll insist you’re just “not listening!” When you respond properly to a struggle session invite, it signals to other would be strugglers that they need not throw struggle sessions in your honor. They’ll redirect their efforts towards more gullible targets, and other good pastors will be encouraged to stand for truth.

"that creepy guy from the Babylon Bee"

I couldn't disagree more strongly. Charlie's voice was amplified a thousand times over. Churches filled to capacity. Bibles flew off the shelves. Jesus' name was trending. The message to the left was clear: Try to silence our voices and you'll only make them louder. Resort to violence and you'll only motivate us to speak the truth more boldly. There have, of course, been efforts to muddy this message. They've come in the form of outrageous conspiracies targeting Charlie's friends and family, and the rise of hate-filled white nationalists who saw a crack in the door — a door that Tucker and friends chose to fling open, instead of slamming it shut in their faces. If the goal is to preserve the health of the movement, we'd all be unified in rejecting the hostile takeover. Instead, you're scapegoating those of us with the courage to speak out — setting us up to take the blame for future leftist violence. This is what I'd expect you to do if — instead of seeking to defend our movement — you hope to see it subverted to the point of self-destruction. I can't for the life of me understand it. The greatest gift we could give the left would be to let bad actors and bad ideas gain more influence unopposed. They will trounce us if we let that happen. That's the danger you're putting us in by not joining the fight against the right's self-destruction.

No to the groypers. No to cowards like Tucker Carlson, who normalize their trash. No to those who champion them.  No to demoralization. No to bigotry and anti-meritocratic horseshit. No to anti-Americanism. No.

Halloween when it’s child centred is always wholesome and fun and cute. Only when it’s 21yo hoe centred does Halloween become satanic. Halloween is for children to dress up in fun and cute costumes to mock monsters because they’ve been defeated, to frolick around and get to know their neighbours, and to eat sweets. Real high trust society stuff.

This is such a fantastic point. Secularism and Islam should be at odds, but what unifies them is a rejection of Christianity.

Everyone screams Israel stole the land, but here’s the truth: Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, and Israel all formed around the same time, carved from the Ottoman Empire’s ruins. After World War One, Britain gave us Jordan in 1946. France split Lebanon in 1943, Syria 1946. Egypt broke British chains in 1922. Israel? 1948. No ancient kingdoms—just colonial borders. All these states, same origin story. But only Israel, tied to 3,000 years of Jewish history—temples, coins, scrolls—gets branded colonizer. Why? It’s not history’s fault. It’s the Islamic rejection of any Jewish sovereignty, rooted in ideologies that erase Jewish presence, even as end-time narratives justify wiping them out. If everyone’s a colonial kid, why’s only Israel illegitimate? Think about that.

For a long time, I was deep into conspiracy theories, not just the typical ones, but the kind that led me to believe that the Nazis and Hitler were somehow the good guys, and that the Jews were an evil race trying to subvert humanity. It started with 9/11 truth videos like Loose Change and Zeitgeist when I was 15, but as I grew older, it spiraled into something darker. I even at one point owned two copies of Mein Kampf. Looking back, I see how it wasn’t just about “researching truth”, it was about how my heart was being shaped. The more I studied human wisdom instead of God’s Word, the more hardened I became. When I finally started studying Scripture seriously, I realized how deceived I had been. What I thought was “waking up” was actually falling deeper into pride and rebellion. Now I can see that the very path I was on, that hatred, that false sense of worldly enlightenment, is the same spirit that’s rising in the world today. The same deception that will unite the nations against God in the last days. Hitler and the Nazis were a prototype of the Beast, just like Nero Caesar or Antiochus Epiphanes before them. They were all foreshadowings of that final rebellion. And yet, even through that evil, God was still sovereign. Out of WW2 came what i believe to be the beginning of Ezekiel 37, the dry bones prophecy. Israel gathered back to the land, still in unbelief, waiting for the Spirit of God to breathe life into them again. And I believe that’s exactly what’s coming. Through the fire of Jacob’s Trouble, through the persecution and refining to come, God will pour His Spirit out, and Israel will finally cry out to Him in truth. “And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication. They will look on me, the one they have pierced, and they will mourn for him as one mourns for an only child, and grieve bitterly for him as one grieves for a firstborn son.” (Zechariah 12:10) I’ve come to believe that the “red pill” is really just a modern fruit of the tree of knowledge. When you take it, you start uncovering “hidden wisdom,” “secret truths,” and “how the world really works.” But it’s not the wisdom of God, it’s the counterfeit. It promises enlightenment, but it’s designed to harden hearts. Instead of seeing darkness as something God allows, to test, refine, and strengthen those who love Him, the red pill frames darkness as something we must eradicate ourselves. It puts man in the role of judge and savior. See, the world doesn’t define good and evil the way God does. To the world, the greatest evil is having your sovereignty taken away. Humanity worships freedom as the highest moral good. But to God, the very idea of being “sovereign” apart from Him is the root of all evil. That’s what the fall was, man deciding to define good and evil for himself, becoming his own god in his heart. Aleister Crowley’s entire worldview as summed up by “Do as though wilt.” Only those filled with the Holy Spirit can truly see this. Because the red pill, unlike the Spirit, is accessible to everyone, regardless of faith. It’s human revelation, not divine. And the deeper you go, the more you see how evil the world is… but the question then becomes: what do we do about it? That’s where the real false light deception begins. Because the red pill doesn’t lead people to repentance or humility. It leads them to war. It offers a counterfeit kingdom, not through the fruits of the Spirit, but through vengeance, domination, and taking “our rightful seat” at the table of the kingdoms of the world. But that was never our calling. Jesus didn’t tell His followers to conquer the world. He told them to overcome it, by the Spirit, not by the sword. Our mission was never to sit at the table of power. It was to be salt and light in a world obsessed with darkness and control. To walk in the spirit, not the flesh. By endurance, patience, etc. And that’s what the red pill will never teach you.