Hans-Peter Mertens

[The Conservative Alternative @OldeWorldOrder]

ST. AUGUSTINE: "Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever.

Take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow."

[Hans-Peter Mertens @Hanspeter240728]

Kann ich alles aus eigener Erfahrung bestätigen. Preiset den Herrn, denn er ist groß! Amen. 🙏

[Carissa @njoyzgrl81]

For anyone taking care of their elderly mom:

Remember, she never counted the times she woke up to soothe your cries, banish the monsters under your bed, and comforted you back to sleep.
Don’t count the times she needs you now.

Remember to hold her hand as she can only take small steps now, just like she held yours when you needed to be steadied.

Don’t get frustrated when she repeats herself, she spent all her life listening to your trials and tribulations and always knew how to comfort and celebrate you.

When her memory begins to fade, remember, she knew you first and has loved you the longest.

Remember, as her world gets smaller, don’t let her feel alone. For her entire life, you have always filled her world.
Don’t abandon her now.

It’s hard watching the one who gave you life, or the one who chose you, to slowly lose theirs.
It’s even harder for them to know their earthly journey is coming to an end.

[Felicitas @_Felicitas12]

Gebetsbitte: Für Prof. Dr. Georg May. Die Seite mit seinen Predigten ist wunderbar hilfreich, enthält praktisch zu jeder wichtigen Glaubensfrage was, und anscheinend geht es ihm gerade nicht gut; er muss schon sehr alt sein.

https://t.co/GQw9F90Z3z

[miguel ángel quintana paz @quintanapaz]

«Pronto tendremos sacerdotes reducidos al papel de trabajadores sociales y el mensaje de fe reducido a una visión política».

Joseph Ratzinger (luego Benedicto XVI), «Fe y futuro», 1969.

[Hans-Peter Mertens @Hanspeter240728]

@apollo_news_de Die Sorgen von Drosten könnten sich anhören wie ein Handschellenkonzert. Gibts denn keinen modernen Komponisten, der sich dem einmal widmen könnte?

[Hans-Peter Mertens @Hanspeter240728]

Interessante Beobachtung zum Thema Transhumanismus.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Your brain thinks on about 20 watts. An artificial system doing the same work would need roughly 25 million times more energy, enough, on paper, to supply a quarter of a million homes.

Matching the complexity of a human cortex has been a long standing goal in computing, but the power cost is enormous. Researchers have estimated that a human scale model of about 20 billion neurons, run on an exascale machine, would draw around 0.5 gigawatts, or 500 million watts. That is the same order of demand as running hundreds of thousands of average households at once. It is a hard limit on any plan to copy the brain by throwing more conventional silicon at the problem.

Biology makes the contrast sharper. The living brain does its work on the power of a dim bulb. An exascale simulator would need the budget of a small city. That gap is why labs have turned to neuromorphic chips, hardware that copies the sparse, event driven style of real neurons instead of burning watts on dense matrix math. Until those architectures are mature, a full, faithful simulation of human cognition stays behind a power bill that no ordinary data center can pay.

[Thakur, C. S., et al. (2018). Large-Scale Neuromorphic Spiking Array Processors: A Quest to Mimic the Brain. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 12, 891]

[Hans-Peter Mertens @Hanspeter240728]

Merz ist eben ein Visionär. Was grundsätzlich nichts Schlechtes ist. Allerdings fehlt ihm jedes Charisma und jede Glaubwürdigkeit, um den Völkern auf deutschem Staatsgebiet, mit und ohne Migrationshintergrund, auch nur den Hauch einer Hoffnung vermitteln zu können, dass seine Vision Hand und Fuß haben könnte. Merz ist in dieser Hinsicht völlig schmerzfrei.

[Hans-Peter Mertens @Hanspeter240728]

@kuni_nadler Kommt drauf an, von wievielen NGOs es genährt wird.

[Hans-Peter Mertens @Hanspeter240728]

@keypousttchi Jetzt ist Zeit für Rambo-Zambo! Aber schon bald hat es sich ausgemerzt! Man reiche mir Cola und Popkorn!

[Hans-Peter Mertens @Hanspeter240728]

@jcw_karlsruhe Einheits- oder Einheizpartei?

[Hans-Peter Mertens @Hanspeter240728]

@DrKissler Ach deswegen sieht Merz so gegrillt aus!

[Lukas Steinwandter @LSteinwandter]

Geschätzte Damen und Herren,

die größte nicht-staatliche Hilfsorganisation für Schwangere in Not Europas hat gleich 5 offene Stellen in Deutschland und 2 in Österreich!
💚 💚 💚 💚 💚

Es sind hehre Aufgaben. Sie sind gefragt. Infos im Kommentar. 👇

[Hans-Peter Mertens @Hanspeter240728]

@fw_bayern @HubertAiwanger Achso! Wer regiert denn eigentlich in Bayern und hat dieses Bürokratiemonster geschaffen?

[David Berger @DrDavidBerger]

Die Kreuzzüge waren notwendige Verteidigungskriege, ein „Akt der Liebe“ - so auch der aktuelle Stand der Geschichtsschreibung. Zugleich ein aktuelles Anliegen im Hinblick auf den Migrations-Dschihad? https://t.co/gsKJ0oRDsq

[Hans-Peter Mertens @Hanspeter240728]

Wow! Stark!

Ich merke, dass mein Gebetsleben mächtig Luft nach oben hat!

Heilige Gemma, bitte für uns! ❤️🙏

[Jan 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @RosaryMum]

“Every evening as soon as school was out I would go home and shut myself up in my room and recite the entire rosary on my knees”

St. Gemma Galgani

[Hans-Peter Mertens @Hanspeter240728]

@SusanneBaessler Lars Nimmersatt Klingbeil. Passt irgendwie. Auch so ein Missmuttherapeut.

[Memento Mori @TempusFugit4016]

Fourteenth Sunday After Pentecost

"Be not solicitous for your life."

Say often with Job: The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away: as it pleased the Lord, so it is done: blessed be the name of the Lord. Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither.

[Memento Mori @TempusFugit4016]

"Know that the greatest service that man can offer to God is to help convert souls." - St. Rose of Lima

[Andrés Cuevas @ancuevasm]

Hay algo que Andrea Bocelli no necesita para creer: ver.

El reconocido tenor italiano nació ciego, pero su historia de fe está profundamente marcada por una convicción: Dios no se percibe únicamente con los ojos.

En 2023, Bocelli y su esposa peregrinaron al Santuario de Fátima. Allí fueron fotografiados recorriendo de rodillas el camino penitencial y rezando.

La imagen resulta especialmente poderosa por una razón.

Fátima es un lugar donde millones de personas acuden precisamente para mirar hacia Dios con los ojos de la fe.

Bocelli ha hablado públicamente en numerosas ocasiones de su fe católica y de la importancia que tiene Dios en su vida. Su testimonio recuerda algo que el Evangelio expresa con enorme profundidad:

«Bienaventurados los que no han visto y han creído» (Jn 20,29).

La fe cristiana no consiste en cerrar los ojos ante la realidad.

Consiste en reconocer que la realidad es mucho más grande que aquello que nuestros ojos pueden alcanzar.

Y quizá por eso esta imagen de Bocelli en Fátima dice tanto sin necesidad de palabras:

Puede que no haya visto el mundo con sus ojos.

Pero ha aprendido a buscar a Dios con algo mucho más profundo: los ojos del alma.

🙏✝️

[Dana Rachel 🇻🇦 @thyflameoflove]

"Pain without Christ is suffering; pain with Christ is sacrifice."
— Fulton J. Sheen

No one gets through life without pain.

Heartbreak. Sickness. Betrayal. Loss. Disappointment. Prayers that seem to go unanswered.

We cannot always choose the crosses that come into our lives, but we can choose what we do with them.

Fulton Sheen reminds us that suffering united to Christ can become something more than pain. Jesus did not stay far away from suffering. He entered into it. He carried the Cross. And through that Cross, He brought redemption.

That means your suffering does not have to be wasted either.

When you bring your pain to Jesus and offer it to Him, even the hardest parts of your life can become an offering of love, prayer, and sacrifice.

St. Paul wrote, “Present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship” (Romans 12:1).

The saints understood this. They did not go looking for suffering. But when suffering came, they placed it in the hands of Christ and asked Him to use it for His glory and for the good of souls.

Maybe you do not understand your cross right now. Maybe you are still asking God why.

But suffering placed in the hands of Jesus is never meaningless.

💬 Have you ever looked back on something painful and realized God brought something good from it?

Share this with someone who needs to remember that their tears are seen, their suffering matters, and they do not carry their cross alone.