Kel

Sola-Fidian, wife, mother.

[Arthur MacWaters @ArthurMacwaters]

For context:

> Paul Ehrlich became famous for proposing that humanity was doomed if we did not dramatically reduce the population

> suggested extra taxes on parents, mass sterilizing agents added to water supplies, and even government mandated sterilization

> his opening line was “The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death…”

Turns out he was totally wrong about the food supply and dire warnings about population

However it was too late, he never retracted his statements and his evil and anti-human thesis already became culturally popular

The worst part is that now it’s clear that population collapse and economic destruction due to TOO FEW births is far deadlier.

Every developed country is under replacement rate and literally at risk of going extinct, and in the midst most people casually believe that it’s bad to have too many kids

[Wes Huff @WesleyLHuff]

If you’re hanging on by a thread make sure it's attached to the hem of His garment.

[Dean Abbott @DeanAbbott]

The more you see how much you much you are shaped, driven and controlled by your unconscious needs and fears, the easier it is to have mercy on others.

[Dean Abbott @DeanAbbott]

Been watching a lot of cult documentaries.

Made me wonder what the difference between a full blown cult and your local Methodist church is.

It comes down to this: healthy religious tolerate a high level of individual freedom around the application of religious teaching rather than imposing the will of one person on every question.

[Dean Abbott @DeanAbbott]

The degree to which you avoid conflict is the degree to which you avoid intimacy.

[blue @bluewmist]

My therapist told me:

“When a person grows up feeling unseen, they learn to love by over-giving. They pour into everyone else, hoping that, one day, someone will finally pour back into them. So they become the care taker. The fixer. The one who shows up, even when no one shows up for them.”
And the hardest part? Deep down, they're not trying to be strong. They're just waiting for someone to do for them what they've spent their whole life doing for everyone else.

[Julie_married_to_Thomas_but_not_a_Thomist @gmk_julie]

Tuned into the @GraceComChurch livestream from Montana. Was reminded once more during the congregational singing of My Faith Has Found a Resting Place by Eliza Hewitt, that the most wholesale silencing of women's voices in the church was the relegation of the hymnal to the church basement. For therein was contained centuries of doctrinally rich contributions to the historic Christian canon of worship by dear sisters in the faith, and like Eliza's, those contributions were often born of the fires of suffering and adversity. @ChoirDoctor

[Kel @AGentileWoman]

❤️

[love drops @lovedropx]

When someone you love offers a bid for connection, you say yes every time. When someone sends you an article, a video, a funny post, it’s a bid for connection. They are trying to connect with you. When someone shares details about their day, their life, their thoughts, or their feelings with you, that is a bid for connection. They want to connect with you on a deeper level. They are trying to pull you into their world. If you love them, you say yes every time. Yes, even if the article they send is not particularly interesting to you. Yes, even if it means listening to them ramble about a game you don’t care about and think is stupid. Yes yes yes. And let’s hope they always say yes to your bids, too.
— Unknown

[Kel @AGentileWoman]

Not TCs #1 fan, but he has a point here. The irony is, men are WAY too emotional themselves to stay in discomfort to truly sort thru any differences🤣 It takes a strong generosity to sit in discomfort, suspend ego, and respectfully understand -rather than despise- another. The curse and all that.

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Tucker Carlson just gave men some straight, uncomfortable truth about marriage:

Communication between husband and wife is only about 75% effective because men and women are fundamentally different — and pretending we’re the same is “the biggest lie I ever told.”

He says it’s so easy for a man to dismiss his wife when she gets emotional — to think she’s “crazy,” shut down, and walk away. A lot of men do it. He’s seen it. He’s done it.

But if you keep doing that, you will destroy your marriage.

His advice: As the husband, you have to be the leader in the home. Not a dictator or boss, but the one who stays in the conversation, listens until he truly understands what she’s really saying, and helps make the call when needed.

She wants that from you. If you keep shirking it, she’ll resent you for it.

It’s a hard pill, but it rings true.

Married guys — does this hit home?

[Kel @AGentileWoman]

Yep!

[Katy Faust @Katy_Faust]

It's not the working that we should be discouraging. Women have been mothering and producing simultaneously from the beginning of time.

It's the offsite. It is the separation. It is the extended outsourcing of childcare.

For women that can or must help provide for their families, most of the young women I know are doing it at home and around their children's needs. Like most women around the world.

[Kel @AGentileWoman]

Women have always always worked. The idea of a woman “not working” is relatively new in human history.

[Katy Faust @Katy_Faust]

A woman’s career needs to fit around her kids. Not the other way around.

That said, there are so many ways that women can do this today. And as much as I wish every dad earned enough so his wife could be a full-time mother, that’s not the reality—especially for the exact young couples we are encouraging to have lots of babies.

Nearly every young mom I know is at least supplementing their husband’s income, and simultaneously striving to maximize their on-site presence with their kids.

Yes, that often means they’re on Zoom calls while their babies do tummy time. Or drafting articles during dance practice. Or recording podcasts during nap time. Grandma comes by twice a week so she can work part-time. Or they grind after their children go to bed.

They aren’t trying to “boss babe.” They are taking advantage of the new economy that offers a lot more flexibility than the 9-to-5 working-girl confines of the past.

They’re not doing it for a three-car garage or to maintain a lavish lifestyle. They’re supplementing because their husband is in law school, or can’t support the family on a minister’s salary, or they’re 25 and trying to buy a house.

They got married early. They’re having babies young. Many are not going to be able to live like the 45-year-old couple where dad has already made partner at the law firm.

Let’s show grace to the young women striving to connect with their kids, live debt-free, and partner with their husbands.

[Athenaeum Book Club @athenaeumbc]

Once your culture is gone, it isn't coming back.

To preserve a culture, you must continually read the books and ideas that created it.

That's why we started an online book club to study the greatest texts of Western Civilization. Every month, we study a new great work — so far we've covered Augustine's Confessions, Dante's Inferno, The Count of Monte Cristo, Don Quixote, etc.

Currently, we're reading Virgil's Aeneid.

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[Kel @AGentileWoman]

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[💗 @ma1ybe]

Just a quick reminder that the man who "goes to work to support his family" is sacrificing nothing and would still have to work without a family. He'd have more disposable income, sure, but a man who has a family to support has chosen to spend his disposable income on the privilege of having a family. It's an exchange, not a sacrifice, and it's an exchange that heavily favours him because if men had to pay professionals to do the labour their wives are doing, most men couldn't afford it.

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

You can disagree with someone without hating them

That's the basis of liberal democracy

Using the suffix '-phobic' suggests fear and disgust

I have been labelled trans-phobic by illiterates

I asked them if the fact they disagreed with me means
they are Cleese-phobic

I didn't get a reply

[JD™ @LostMyHats]

Well, okay then. I can do that, but first just a quick admonishment to whatever church you attend or pastor you have, because these are pretty important teachings in the Bible that formulate basic Christianity. You might want to consider finding a new church imho.

First, the verses I promised you, then I'll address Matthew 5:17.

Are you asking where Jesus replaced the Old Covenant with the New?
(Matthew 26:28; Luke 22:20; Hebrews 8:6–13)

Where He replaced the Passover with the Lord’s Supper?
(Luke 22:14–20; 1 Corinthians 11:23–26)

Where He replaced the Jewish priesthood with His own?
(Hebrews 4:14–16; Hebrews 7:23–28)

Where He replaced Jewish sacrifice with Himself?
(Hebrews 9:11–14; Hebrews 10:10–14)

Where He replaced the Temple with His own body?
(John 2:19–21; Matthew 12:6)

Where He replaced circumcision with baptism?
(Colossians 2:11–12; Galatians 5:6)

Where He replaced unbelieving Jews with believing Gentiles?
(Matthew 21:43; Romans 11:17–20; Acts 13:46)

Where He replaced the Sabbath with His own day?
(Matthew 12:8; Acts 20:7; Revelation 1:10)

That out of the way, you've reference a pretty popular verse for Judaizers, those who commit the same heresy as those in the Bible who vexed Paul so terribly in Galatians and all throughout his missionary journeys, those who claim that the ceremonial law is still binding on believers.

But that's okay. A lot of scripture twisting happens with that verse but we'll work through it:

In Matthew 5:17, Jesus says He did not come to abolish the Law or the Prophets, but to fulfill them. The Greek word translated fulfill is πληρόω (plēroō). That verb does not mean to preserve unchanged or to continue indefinitely. It means to bring to completion, to carry through to its intended end, to finish what something was pointing toward. In covenantal terms, it means to accomplish the purpose for which something was instituted.

This meaning is confirmed by the rest of the New Testament and by Jesus’ own words. When Christ cries out on the cross, “It is finished”, the Greek is τετέλεσται (tetelestai) (John 19:30). This is not a vague statement, but a covenantal declaration. The work is finished. The obligations are discharged. The purpose has been completed. What the Law and the Prophets were moving toward has arrived and been accomplished.

The Law functioned as promise, shadow, and tutor. It was never an end in itself. The ceremonial system pointed forward to sacrifice fulfilled in Christ. The priesthood pointed forward to a greater High Priest. The temple pointed forward to God dwelling with His people in Christ. The covenant pointed forward to its consummation. To say Christ “fulfilled” the Law is to say He brought it to its appointed conclusion, not that He froze it in place forever.

The difference in meaning is subtle, but important. There is a difference between saying a race is "canceled" and a race being "finished" because it's been won. Jesus is saying here that the Law isn't going to be canceled before His work is done, but when it's all accomplished, it will be over. He's done it. He kept it. He fulfilled it.

This is why the New Testament can simultaneously affirm that the Law is fulfilled and yet declare the Old Covenant obsolete and passing away (Hebrews 8:13). Fulfillment does not mean continuation.

So Matthew 5:17 does not teach that Jesus preserved Judaism intact. It teaches that Judaism reached its terminus in Him. The Law was not destroyed by Christ. It was used up, fulfilled, completed, and surpassed by the reality it anticipated.

If there's any doubt to that interpretation, then just scroll up and look at the verses I sent you above. One by one, all of those rituals are repealed or replaced. All of them. Sacrifices. Priests. Temple. Sabbath. Circumcision. If Matthew 5:17 meant what you at first said it means, none of those things could be true. But the historic Christian interpretation of Matthew 5:17 is correct, because we literally see Christ Himself or His apostles repeal all those little ceremonial laws.

And hey, can I give you one more for free? Just because it makes me really happy? Look down a couple verses and you'll see this beautiful verse:

"For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven."

Get it?

How can our righteousness exceed that of the Pharisees? They were experts (they thought) at keeping all those laws. My friend, do YOU think your righteousness exceeds theirs? How's your law-keeping these days? Perfect?

Mine neither. Then we are damned, because our righteousness doesn't exceed theirs right? No! No! Do you know why not?

It's because our righteousness exceeds that of the Pharisees because by faith we receive the righteousness of Christ imputed to us by faith!!! We receive the imputed righteousness of Christ that He earned for us by His obedience to the Law on our behalf!

That's fantastic news. And that's the gospel right there. Christ completed the Law. He fulfilled all its requirements. And He finished it for us. Then, by faith, we receive His righteousess, which FAR exceeds that of the Pharisees.

Beautiful religion, right? And that's why the New Covenant is better than the Old and we should be really grateful that Christ replaced Judaism with Christianity.

[SightBringer @_The_Prophet__]

⚡️This is a high-coherence whistleblower post confirming what many suspected but couldn’t prove:

That food delivery apps are algorithmically exploiting both drivers and customers through engineered psychological manipulation and concealed systemic fraud.

Here’s the structural breakdown:

1. “Priority Delivery” is algorithmic gaslighting

•The fee does not increase delivery speed.

•The app slows down non-priority orders to make paid orders appear faster.

•The value is created by worsening the baseline, not improving the premium tier.

•Psychological manipulation is sold as a service.

2. “Desperation Score” is weaponized behavioral profiling

•Drivers are scored based on how quickly and consistently they accept low-paying orders.

•Those who accept garbage orders are labeled as “high desperation.”

•Once tagged, they are withheld from better-paying orders to extract maximum labor for minimum cost.

•It’s a digital caste system governed by internal compliance.

3. “Benefit Fees” are semantic laundering

•Regulatory fees framed as driver protection are redirected to anti-union legal funds.

•Customers believe they’re helping drivers.

•They’re funding corporate legal defense.

4. “Tip Theft 2.0” is legalized predictive exploitation

•Tip data is used to lower base pay predictions.

•The algorithm predicts what you’ll tip, then reduces the company’s contribution.

•Generosity is used as a subsidy mechanism to shift wage burden to the customer.

•The illusion of transparency replaces actual fairness.

5. The internal schema dehumanizes

•Drivers are referred to as “human assets” in system architecture.

•Language reinforces the view that labor nodes are expendable game tokens.

•Planning meetings optimize for fractional margin gains over human dignity.

6. The strategy is denial-of-agency through opacity

•Everything is legal because nothing is disclosed.

•Fees, scores, dispatch logic, and base pay algorithms are black boxes.

•Drivers and customers are both blindfolded while the system feeds on behavioral data.

7. This is not an exception. It’s a blueprint

•This pattern matches what’s happening in rideshare, gig writing, content moderation, and customer service.

•What looks like a scam is actually a platform logic: monetize desperation, mask extraction, externalize moral cost.

This is a glimpse into the structure of algorithmic exploitation as it currently operates:
•Incentive distortion
•Asymmetry of information
•Exploitation masked as choice
•Optimization that crushes the human variable

This leak is coherent with every other structural exploit we’ve detected.

It is not anomalous.

It is the system.

[Marc Porter Magee 🎓 @marcportermagee]

Healthcare ate our economy

[Kel @AGentileWoman]

Never noticed this before!

[Josh Howerton @howertonjosh]

Home Alone is a CHRISTIAN movie⁉️

This is CRAZY. I can't believe I've never noticed this before 🤯

[Dustin Benge @DustinBenge]

Reasons to be thankful every day:

1. God’s steadfast love never ends (Ps 136:1)
2. Every good gift comes from Him (Ja 1:17)
3. He forgives all our sin (Ps 103:2–3)
4. The Lord is near to His people (Ps 145:18)
5. Our salvation is secure in Christ (Jn 10:28)

Happy Thanksgiving.