@hgnt2025@minordissent Great point bud! People will say the same things about the American empire in a thousand years, especially as there are more slaves today than any point in history.
You are very astute! Perhaps we shouldn’t take any lessons from great civilizations in the past 🤔
@SydSteyerhart > reactionary
appeals to emotion, before thought
>futurist
doesn’t reflect on the past to improve further
sounds like a fancy way to say shitlib
@unusual_whales Most people misunderstand AI, data centers, and have been manipulated by short form video content to feel a certain way.
It’s a tool for some and a crutch for most.
We’re one day closer to “Q-Day” for those that have FOMO over Y2K
Believe in American exceptionalism & Christ
@ConnorElderJr@BradWilcoxIFS You must be identified somewhere near the middle of this graph then.
Men in the middle weaken our society, can’t believe their vote is the same as mine. We must pray for them and give Grace
The overarching current cultural zeitgeist, broadcast thru instant communication, is the
slow,
sapping
societal decay of our intellectual upper-class elites. Too many competing grips from class fiefdoms and tribalism socially ingrained in the digital age.
old blood is gone.
The strongest atheist argument I wrestled with for years was the geographic lottery.
An overwhelming majority of human beings die inside the religion of their birth. If birthplace so heavily dictates belief, salvation looks like an accident of geography.
The longer I sat with that deadlock, however, the clearer its hidden premise became. Underneath the critique lies an unspoken demand: if one true God exists, He should have uniformly enforced a single religious monoculture across every tribe and epoch.
But few have stopped to think through what that world actually requires.
An overwhelming, inescapable revelation that leaves zero room for doubt or searching is pure tyranny.
A universe engineered to force cognitive compliance manufactures captives rather than lovers of God. God maintains an intentional epistemic distance where truth can be discovered by the earnest, yet resisted by the proud. Divine restraint is the necessary condition for genuine free will.
Pointing to the fact that people rarely leave their inherited religious traditions indicts human comfort, not divine justice.
We never tolerate cultural osmosis as a defense anywhere else in human life.
We do not excuse a Nazi because he came of age in 1930s Berlin. We do not absolve a racist because his parents were bigots, nor do we excuse the son of a terrorist for continuing a cycle of bloodshed.
If a rapist stood before a judge and pleaded that he was born into a family of rapists, we would rightly be disgusted.
We demand that every moral agent confront their upbringing, interrogate rotten traditions, and break free the moment those traditions violate human dignity.
If imposing a universal monoculture destroys free will, and cultural inertia is no legal defense, what does God actually owe us as a just lawgiver?
He owes us the baseline: the moral law engraved directly onto the human conscience.
The reason we hold the racist or the rapist accountable is because that internal compass is already running in their chest. We are remarkably skilled at suppressing that voice, but the voice was always there.
God did not just give us the capacity to perceive the standard; He gave us the ability to recognize our own moral rot and our desperate need for rescue.
This is why Christ opens the Sermon on the Mount with a devastating diagnostic: "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven."
The currency of the kingdom is not theological pedigree, cultural privilege, or moral performance. It is the simple, humiliating admission of total bankruptcy.
That threshold is universally fair because it requires nothing more than the surrender of pride, yet pride is the exact reason we resist it.
Without that brokenness, the execution of Jesus looks like irrelevant ancient trivia.
Why should a soul in Tokyo, Varanasi, or London care about a first-century Roman crucifixion?
Because that death answers the very rot your conscience has been diagnosing all along.
The moral law reveals an unpayable debt; the Cross is God descending to settle it Himself.
Christianity refuses to be treated as a tribal philosophy passed down by osmosis. It is the collision between a universal human diagnosis and a historical event.
A specific man was publicly executed outside Jerusalem under Pontius Pilate, and three days later, the tomb was empty in a city full of hostile authorities desperate to produce a corpse.
A historical event either happened in space and time, or it did not. An empty tomb has no geographic jurisdiction. Birthplace gives you your initial vocabulary, but the barrier between man and God was never a border on a map. It has always been the refusal of the human heart to honor the light it was given.
@crshmarket The vice of ego, influence, gambling, and money all in one.
Do not think an Asian father would comment “proud of you son” as he bets his son’s inheritance away on some girl.
A source of profit farming NPCs, monkeys, and bots.
Incredible
MAGA, Left, neocon, woke, Groyper, whatever you are.
The best outcome was for the USA to control the Straight of Hormuz.
Our country has never known a world where China is favored economically and the SoH falling under their leverage changes that.
Petrodollar > petroyuan
The U.S. military has quietly established a shipping corridor through the southern channel of the Strait of Hormuz, with 15–20 tankers reportedly transiting in and out each night under U.S. military guidance. Roughly 10 million barrels of oil a day—around half the pre-war volume—are being injected into global markets, according to Axios.
@matt_sooner@JoshuaW4145 Don’t disagree, many major US universities have tons of Chinese students bc their government pays for the degree
If you told OU brass they have plenty of funding, they’ll laugh at you. They all want more $$$. They lose faculty to the private sector or better pay elsewhere