Jim

[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.

[Santa Trump.. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 @lovetocook12345]

Holy Crap!

[Arnie Hernandez @Arnie4USA]

Stop normalizing ‘Before Common Era’ (BCE) and ‘Common Era’ (CE).

Our history is under the Gregorian Calendar by these two periods:

🔹 Before Christ (BC) 🗿

🔹 Anno Domini (AD) ✝️

[Jim @JFettinger3]

@DavidLimbaugh Have you read CS Lewis’s space trilogy? Out of the silent planet, Perelandra and That hideous strength. Perelandra deals with this exact topic. The planet has not fallen into sin, until the humans arrive.

[Defender of the Republic 🇺🇸 @realdefender45]

Shout out to this Secret Service agent who positioned himself in front of @POTUS

[The Upstairs Pub @UpstairsPub_IU]

Video goes too hard ... bravo @Raiders social team #iufb

[TheMicahBeckwith @MicahBeckwith]

Now that VA has done it… Indiana should call a special session immediately to redistrict! 🇺🇸💪 Fight Fire with Fire. 🔥

[kevin smith @kevin_smith45]

Its actually funny to me that its breaking news that democrats fund the KKK

They have been for like 150 years

[Matt’s Idea Shop @MattsIdeaShop]

SPLC trying to stop hate crimes

[ThePersistence @ScottPresler]

If you know anyone in Virginia, would you please kindly encourage them to vote 👉NO👈

to the redistricting referendum that would gerrymander the congressional map from 6🟦 - 5🟥 to 10🟦 - 1🟥?

You can literally vote RIGHT NOW — early voting is underway.

[Handre @Handre]

Cash for Clunkers destroyed 690,000 functional vehicles in 2009, creating an artificial scarcity that rippled through used car markets for over a decade. The Obama administration sold this $3 billion program as environmental salvation and economic stimulus, but any free market economist could predict the real outcome: massive wealth destruction disguised as progress.

The program forced dealers to pour sodium silicate into engines, permanently destroying cars that poor families could have afforded. Politicians eliminated the bottom tier of the used car market overnight. Suddenly, a reliable $3,000 Honda Civic became a $7,000 Honda Civic (if you could find one). The supposed beneficiaries — working-class Americans who needed affordable transportation — got priced out entirely.

Government intervention always creates unseen victims, and Cash for Clunkers delivered them by the millions. Single mothers, college students, and minimum-wage workers watched their mobility options vanish as used car prices soared 30% between 2009 and 2014. The environmental gains proved negligible too: most clunkers averaged 15-17 MPG while replacements hit 24-25 MPG. Destroying half a million cars to improve average fuel economy by 8 MPG represents the kind of central planning that would give Soviet bureaucrats a hard-on.

The wealth destruction extended beyond sticker prices. Higher transportation costs forced people into longer payment terms, creating a debt cycle that persists today. Cash for Clunkers normalized 84-month auto loans, turning cars from depreciating assets into multi-year financial anchors.

Bureaucrats congratulated themselves for moving inventory off dealer lots while condemning an entire generation to transportation poverty.

[Humble Flow @HumbleFlow]

What’s the best history book you’ve read?

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

🇺🇸🇺🇸 Welcome home! 🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Jackie Chea ⚖️ @Fair_and_Biased]

I can’t stop laughing.

[The “Doctor” Rblv73 @Rblv73]

The story of the Protestant bible

[Braeden @BraedenSorbo]

Let me explain what just happened, because most people have NO idea how INSANE this is.

> The WHO officially classified combined oral contraceptive pills (birth control) as a Group 1 carcinogen

> Meaning it's cancer-causing in humans, same category as asbestos & tobacco.

> 13-15% of US women aged 15-49 are on the pill right now

> Up to 80% of sexually active women have used it at some point

> Linked to higher breast + cervical cancer risk (while lowering ovarian/endometrial)

> Millions of young women (teens-30s) flooding their bodies with synthetic hormones daily

> Long-term effects still unfolding: mood, libido, fertility crashes people ignore

> Big Pharma pushed it for decades despite red flags

The industry purposely messed with women’s natural hormones to make a profit

[Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman]

🚨 WATCH! 2015 footage of then-Sen. Marco Rubio is RESURFACING, and he CALLED IRAN’S PLAYBOOK PERFECTLY, 11 years ago!

In this resurfaced clip, Rubio warned exactly what would happen if the Obama Iran deal went through:

• Iran uses sanctions relief cash to build missiles, swarm ships, arm terror proxies.

• They become the dominant regional power (outside U.S.), raise costs for our ops.

• Build anti-access weapons to sink carriers, fast boats to swarm our navy.

• Target U.S. troops via proxies, deny involvement.

• Develop long-range missiles that could hit America.

• Eventually go nuclear when they feel untouchable.

• Led by apocalyptic radicals who want global chaos.

He prayed the next president would reverse it, reimpose sanctions, and back it with credible military force, or history would judge us harshly.

[Indy Sports Partizan @sportspartizan]

Darian DeVries currently has 4 commitments from top 80 HS players with 3 of them coming in next season.

Last time IU had even 3 top 80 HS commits at the same time? 13 years ago under Tom Crean.

#iubb