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[Christian Shield @CShielddad]

It occurs to me that the following 3 quotes are foundational to being a man, and might serve as the basis for raising one.

[Christian Shield @CShielddad]

@BritniDWrites Are you actually unaware that states have their own laws?

[Christian Shield @CShielddad]

@Gentleman_Ways A, C and D

[Christian Shield @CShielddad]

@Hombrelmparable Overtaking car is always responsible for the pass.
Porsche lost it on the curbing.... but okay.

[Tyler O'Neil @Tyler2ONeil]

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[Christian Shield @CShielddad]

@Gentleman_Ways B, D, C (covered by lots of great accounts), A (class, you have it or not, but some might be able to learn some things, if it wasn't taught at home)

[Christian Shield @CShielddad]

@GovernorVA Let's zoom that camera out...

[Christian Shield @CShielddad]

@PolitlcsUK Where was this "laws should be upheld" morality for the past decade???
Utter clown, hypocrite.

[Christian Shield @CShielddad]

Part of the big tent, lots of opinions.

Focus on the common goals, don't fixate about where people differ.

I would neither entirely agree or disagree, depends on the issue. Capitulating on higher taxes, economic illiteracy, hard no. Supporting body dysmorphia in an attempt to be "nice" rather than kind, hard no. Soft on crime, hard no.

Social issues, meh, go do your thing mostly.

[Christian Shield @CShielddad]

@TheModerateVA Absolutely

[Christian Shield @CShielddad]

@Keir_Starmer Suck a pathetic loser

[Christian Shield @CShielddad]

@TheModerateVA @VaChangeAgent Then, you are blind to your own wishes.

[Christian Shield @CShielddad]

@GovernorVA Thanks Youngkin!
You forgot that part. Oops, I guess?

[Christian Shield @CShielddad]

@BasilTheGreat Model 1911? I'll allow it.

[Christian Shield @CShielddad]

@TanDhesi Try to keep up-
People are tired of socialists and communists and racists, even the "good" kind of racists.

[Christian Shield @CShielddad]

@AndrewHWestern Nowak..... on the outside chance you care.

[The Culturist @the_culturist_]

Why did C.S. Lewis say that Hell is locked from the inside?

He explores this idea in his book The Great Divorce.

In it, souls of the damned are allowed to visit heaven on a bus ride, but they are not pleased with what they see — and they leave of their own accord.

The fact is, the damned cannot touch Heaven. They can't so much as disturb the dew drops on the grass. Nor can they even gaze upon the garden properly.

Why? Because they are blinded by their own sins:

– The philosopher would rather philosophize about God than meet him
– The painter would rather make beautiful art than gaze upon the source of all Beauty
– The clingy mother would rather fret over her son than give her full love to God

Lewis' point is that God cannot force man into salvation. Damnation is not God's rejection of man, but God tragically accepting man's rejection of him.

Hell itself is the ultimate monument to human freedom; for a human with true free will is even free to divorce himself with paradise.

What Lewis suggests is that you don't fully understand human nature until you understand that some humans really do not want paradise.

Conversely then, true freedom does not mean using your free will however you want. True freedom means surrendering your free will by forming your soul to the Good.

By sacrificing your free will in this manner, you gain glory, virtue, and happiness — for man was made to know and love virtue above all.

[Christian Shield @CShielddad]

@timkaine

[Christian Shield @CShielddad]

@PolitlcsUK Sure, "felt sick."

[Christian Shield @CShielddad]

@GovernorVA NYC Mayor, Mamdani wants his playbook back...