To know the Bible is to cease to be a Roman Catholic. Church History means nothing if it cannot be backed with the scriptures, it’s just more error Paul would have corrected. We can see in Paul’s letters which are also church history he was correcting the church for their errors and they were not even removed from apostolic presence. The bereans searched the scriptures they had available to be sure what they were being told by Paul was true, and they were called noble for it. Sola scriptura.

To know history is to cease to be protestant. This was my experience. ♥️ This is such a great video. youtu.be/6tjo1Q4UWsk?is=FsgQ…

These rules would shut down Christian Twitter, but I’m in.

Hey friends. I'm back online but I'm probably going to stop posting on Twitter except for answering DMs and occasional updates which will be posted by my team (Mrs. Zoomer). Twitter hasn't been good for my sanctification. While I was gone, my pastor and I worked on an "Apologist's Creed" to improve online Christian discourse, which is attached here, which includes guidelines for Christian behavior in apologetics. DM me if you are a major apologist and want your name attached to it. P.S. We have a Redeemed Junior on the way! docs.google.com/document/d/1…

I finally saw this movie for the first time last night. I know now why this bumper sticker exists. Charming, earnest, a little corny, but always sincere homage to adventure serials and monster pics. It's a shame the people working in Hollywood think they're too smart and too socially aware for this. "The Mummy" (1999)

No, Ukraine is not an ally, but Russia is an adversary, and in a world of geopolitical proxy wars, our support of Ukraine has absolutely damaged Russia and made it rethink its short term foreign military and expansionist policies. They are also down some 2 million conscripts since the engagement’s beginning, counting battlefield deaths, wounded casualties, and desertions. The equipment and assistance we have supplied to Ukraine thus far is about 0.2-0.3% of our cumulative federal spending over the period since the conflict. It also has not been more than 1% of our federal annual budget if you break it down yearly. I was once petty against our involvement, financial or otherwise, with the conflict, but I have revisited it and evolved my thought process. From a strategic level warfare perspective, it absolutely makes sense. No US troop involvement. We learn valuable information from Ukrainian military and intelligence services about Russian TTPs. We get to test our own drone and counter drone capabilities in one of the most drone heavy battlefields on earth. And Russia is caught in a stalemate war of attrition that is costing them dearly in both assets and lives. Lots of wins and it doesn’t actually cost us very much. About 20 times as much is going to unemployed Americans that eat and live for free each year.

You can see this same problem in the Malfoid discourse where Hary’s main rival Draco Malfoy is replaced by a female rival who eventually becomes Harry’s final romantic interest (Dracia Malfoy). The reason why “Malfoid” works so well is that it patches a major flaw Rowling built into her plot with Draco and House Slytherin. Ultimately, Rowling could never decide what to “do” with the Slytherin. This group is the designated rivals of Harry, and Rowling knows that she doesn’t like them and what they represent which makes their competitions with Harry “mean” something. However, Rowling doesn’t know what to do with this group after the giant battle between good and evil. Are the Slytherin evil doers? Or are they misguided rivals? The author isn’t comfortable with either option. It would feel cruel for Malfoy just to be “evil” and have Harry kill him. Still, Rowling disapproves of Malfoy’s ideas so strongly she can’t give the character a redemption so that he becomes a full ally and friend. Instead Rowling just has Malfoy slither away, and then return later as an obviously defeated and castrated version of himself with no pride or fire. Of course this is terribly unsatisfying. Malfoy and the Slytherin have no clear remaining purpose, they are robbed of their core vitality. Their new role in the post Voldemort world is to be default losers so that the other “good” houses can feel better about themselves, which again is just more effeminate humiliation. There is no way, in the new world, that Slytherin could win and not totally subvert the reigning political order. But this breaks their purpose because, to work, Slytherin and Malfoy need to be honorable rivals, but the author doesn’t know how to write that because she doesn’t understand honorable male rivalry. This is why replacing Draco Malfoy with Dracia Malfoid fixes almost everything. The marriage of Harry to the Scion of Slytherin resolves conflict through the magic of sex, where the secondary party submits to the primary winner but in the process becomes an equal stakeholder in the future. There is no shame now in being Slytherin as their virtues of loyalty and purity are brought to the political table just as “Malfoid” brings them to the wedding bed. They maintain their fiery pride in defeat just as Malfoid maintains her spirit as a wife. Yes, in this generation Gryfindor is leading the dance. But nothing is stopping the next turn from going in Slytherins direction, they are equals in their opposition just as Harry’s children would equally share their mother’s heritage. Again the irony here is that Rowling, like most women, can only understand honorable submission and defeat in the context of sex (this is why women read male rivalry as an extension of homosexuality eg “Heated Rivalry”) so she can’t write male Malfoy with a satisfying ending. Fixing male Malfoy would require a totally character re-write whereas replacing him with a woman just requires some tweaks to make the story perfect.

She's gone! House of Representatives Constitutional Requirements Article I, Section 2: ✅ At least 25 years old ✅ A U.S. citizen for at least 7 years 👈 ✅ An inhabitant of the state when elected She should have never served to begin with, and therefore must be removed from the body tout suite.

Singing some Johnny Western tonight.

A novelist should be a philosopher, not a newspaper reporter. The great novelists tried to explain the human condition. Contemporary novelists seem content merely to describe it.

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