Nick Freiling

Dad*5. Incurable generalist. "Too serious." Founder: @StampFansX. Director: @BtstrpRpblc. Love alone is credible ~HUvB ❤️‍🔥

[Nick Freiling @NickFreiling]

"I am quite certain that neither love nor grief can ever be excessive; each is its own absolute measure, and knows its own proper proportions. And, as a rule, we generally fail to love or grieve nearly as much as we ought to do."

~David Bentley Hart

[Nick Freiling @NickFreiling]

@pwhhjr Thanks for sharing. I like Jenson and will take this to heart. But it's from Jesus we learn to call God "Father" – Jesus for whom God and (wo)man together formed his ontological parentage. That just seems significant, to me.

[Nick Freiling @NickFreiling]

This argument comes up all the time, of course. But what's most interesting about it, to me, is something (almost) always missed: that "Father" implies "Mother."

The Old Testament calls God "Father" only ~10 times. It was Jesus who started doing this regularly and he, of course, called Mary his Mother.

There is not "Father" in a vacuum without Mother. Non-sensical. If we want to talk about God's "gender" by virtue of God's "father-ness," we have to talk about Mary, who Jesus called Mother. You can't have or talk about one without the other.

[Phil Vischer @philvischer]

I'm amazed at the # of Christians who believe, since God took on the human form of a biological male, we can conclude that God the Father is eternally male.

Also amazed at the anger generated by pointing out this is not historic Christian teaching.

[Nick Freiling @NickFreiling]

My friend Gret Glyer was murdered in June 2022. It took until February 2026 (3.7 years) until his killer's fate was decided.

These trials shouldn't take so long to happen. I don't know how to fix this, but it creates incredible cynicism about the juice system. It makes everyone's life worse.

[Erika Kirk @MrsErikaKirk]

STATEMENT FROM THE KIRK FAMILY:

Today's decision to delay the trial of the man accused of murdering our beloved Charlie until at least June 2028, is deeply disappointing. While nothing will restore the time we have lost with Charlie, every additional day without justice prolongs our family's pain and forces us to wait even longer for accountability.

As we continue down this difficult road, we remain deeply grateful for the love, prayers, and support that have sustained our family through these painful months.

[Nick Freiling @NickFreiling]

It's hard to consistently maintain that gambling is problematic in our modern economy.

A good chunk of what everybody's doing at work these days is basically gambling, and this only becomes truer because of AI. Especially on the margin of time – the average person has probably never gambled as much of his/her time as he/she does now.

[Nick Freiling @NickFreiling]

@natebostian Yes! This is probably exactly what I would have said if I had kept going 😆

[Nick Freiling @NickFreiling]

@agostino_harry Hmm. Any thoughts on what I might read about this?

[Nick Freiling @NickFreiling]

@BrianKillian Yes, exactly. I don't pay for bookkeeping software anymore, either.

[Nick Freiling @NickFreiling]

Lots of big SaaS managed to squeak by this year, but they won't make it through next year.

I just got an email from a SaaS I quit paying for last summer because Claude replaced it at ~1% the cost. Their whole app is basically a Claude wrapper now, and their pricing is more than Claude Ultra 😆

[Nick Freiling @NickFreiling]

How quickly do you think you could spend $3,000 on your favorite hobby?

[Nick Freiling @NickFreiling]

There's always been an irony about Trump's appeal to his religious supporters: what they like most about him are often the ways in which he's not like them.

He shares neither the public commitment nor the personal history that most other Christian figures share, and so he's (allegedly) able to get more done.

Here, one of his supporters finds "admirable" the fact that Trump is honest about hating people without relent. I agree that most people are overconfident about their holiness, but it's not "admirable" to be confident about your hatred. But in the light of partisan politics, somehow this is spun into a virtue.

(And nevermind, I guess, the many ways Trump has been consistently dishonest about so many other things.)

[John Carney @carney]

90 percent of people who say they would forgive their worst enemies are overconfident in their own holiness or simply lack real enemies. They have petty rivalries.

Trump's refusal to submit to demands for public apologies, even when framed as Ross framed it, is one of his most admirable qualities.

[Nick Freiling @NickFreiling]

@0xAlaric Same reasoning behind belief in sudden "rapture," which no Christian believed until very recently. It induces the same kind of dissociation and irony into life.

[Nick Freiling @NickFreiling]

Damn.

[Leah Libresco Sargeant @LeahLibresco]

If you just want to see the moment when Ross Douthat earnestly tried to save Trump’s soul, here you go.

https://t.co/3ZQbJ6LOgJ

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

When being just and honest comes at a price, pay it. When forgiving seems like a defeat, forgive. When everyone tells you to think of yourselves first, do not be afraid to put yourselves in the last place. Be willing to give up time, money, comfort and plans to serve others. May those who see you find themselves asking: “Why do they live in this way? Where do they get this freedom? Why do they love one another so much?” #ApostolicJourney #Uruguay

[Nick Freiling @NickFreiling]

@covie_93 $1B and closed within a year!

[Nick Freiling @NickFreiling]

What did I say? 👇

Dana may not take the job (he shouldn't), but Trump is being mostly serious about this.

[Nick Freiling @NickFreiling]

Wild! In all seriousness, though, I think Trump wants Dana White to succeed him in 2028 and this is about getting people used to seeing him in the White House.

Mark my words. Dana is the wealthiest and most influential person to have stood with Trump since day one.

[Nick Freiling @NickFreiling]

Actually it happened once in Ireland after "chaos ensued." Not kidding!

https://t.co/OoyZxHZdO7

[Nathan White @NPWhite717]

I’ve never met anyone who protested the building of a Krispy Kreme near their house.

[Nick Freiling @NickFreiling]

@guypbenson Literal kayfabe now 🤪

[Nick Freiling @NickFreiling]

@lennycurry @travisakers will he do it??

[Nick Freiling @NickFreiling]

"Put this in the bank." Will @lennycurry bet me $1K that Duggan wins? I'll even give him 2:1. Not joking.

[Lenny Curry @lennycurry]

Duggan will be the next Mayor of Jacksonville. Put this in the bank. Smart guy that is comfortable in his own skin. He has been in competitive races. Unlike the last guy that got destroyed and is now gone to the other side.

[Nick Freiling @NickFreiling]

@Zheschool Believe it or not, it was (as of a few months ago) run by a guy named Shri Thakur.