it’s always interesting to feel like a raging liberal among conservative Christian friends, an insufferable fundamentalist among progressive Christian friends, and an alien life form among non-Christian friends
A wonderful thing about running for President is that every idiotic thing you’ve ever said surfaces on the internet for you to look at. A video is making the rounds of me saying in 2005 that red states have a higher murder rate than blue states, more teen pregnancies, etc. While it may have been technically accurate, that kind of polarizing rhetoric — the red-blue blame game — is the last thing our country needs today. Whoever is to “blame” for gun violence or teen pregnancy, it isn’t the Republicans or the Democrats. It is both and it is neither. Our problems arise from a deeper source than mere party difference, and the solutions must draw on a deeper source as well.
I cringe when I revisit my days as a partisan warrior. Later, and especially through Covid, I came to realize that both Left and Right subscribe to unconscious orthodoxies that freeze our country in a holding pattern, actually a downward spiral. We are addicted to blame. It’s tempting to score political points that way, but we have to move beyond that and see, even in our opponents, a genuine desire to heal this nation so that all can thrive.
Holding strong opinions in the face of weak evidence is a sign that you're not thinking critically.
Conviction should follow the facts, not precede them. What you want to believe shouldn't dictate what you believe.
A key to lifelong learning is valuing curiosity over closure.
When I was really poor, I got so fed up having only T shirts and old sweat pants to wear, that I tried to make a suit out of curtains. Now I can afford to wear anything I want. So I wear T shirts and old sweat pants. Probably some moral to this story. Anyway, here's a cat.
@MisterMeatyMan@prairieales I very much enjoyed your other tweets. The beer is great but I just told a friend how entertaining your feed was. Keep it up and ignore the haters.