@japan_nobunaga "Your smallest soldier never sleeps, America. The least you can do is stand him back up." Sounds very much like security guards, of which I am one. Your words do us justice. I salute you, sir. ๐ซกโค๏ธ
@japan_nobunaga Sadly, California is the first to come to mind. I visited in the 90's and it was better then. Those who can afford to leave are doing so in droves. As someone else said, there's a sickness that has permeated everything.
@japan_nobunaga Mushrooms and Canadian bacon (ham) with spinach on traditional hand-tossed crust, or BBQ chicken and bacon on thin crust with either BBQ sauce or Ranch sauce, or Chicago deep dish with Canadian bacon, mushrooms, extra cheese, with marinara dipping sauce. ๐๐
@japan_nobunaga I wish I was able to take lots of language courses in college. I love learning not just words, but familiar phrases and where they come from. Like the German word, Besserwisser, literally better-wiser, or, in English, a Know-it-all, lol.
@japan_nobunaga Never be ashamed of your country. You can be ashamed of some of those that run it, but the country itself? No, never. Cherish it. Improve it if possible. It's yours, so take care of it as best you can. ๐ซกโค๏ธ๐ฏ๐ต๐ค๐บ๐ฒ
@ZeekArkham I understand. I'm Christian, too. (WELS Lutheran) and forgiveness doesn't mean you condone, accept, or tolerate the person's behavior, actions, beliefs, etc. You can pray for them, wish them well, but you Do Not have to let them be a part of your everyday life.
My wife showed me her bookshelf last week.
Top shelf, her Bible. Study notes in the
margins. Pages warped from coffee and tears.
Bottom shelf, three romance novels her
friend gave her. She'd never opened them.
"I almost did," she said. "Then I read the
back cover and felt sick."
Christie threw them away. Then she sat down
and wrote a piece called "Pretty Covers,
Polluted Pages", about how romance novels
function as pornography for women. Words
that reach into the imagination and train
the heart to crave fantasy over covenant.
The same week, Hollywood released Wuthering
Heights. $80 million. Margot Robbie. Sex
montages. Adultery as the love story.
Emily Brontรซ wrote that book at 29. Dead
by 30. One shot. She used it to write the
most devastating warning about desire
without God in the English language.
Heathcliff isn't a romance hero. He's a
cautionary tale. Obsession without covenant.
He destroys Catherine. Destroys himself.
Destroys the next generation.
For 180 years every English teacher taught
it that way.
Then BookTok called him "morally gray",
which is how this generation baptizes sin
as aesthetic.
At least the serpent had the decency to use
fruit. These people skip the metaphor.
Robert Duvall died yesterday. The man who
spent $5 million of his own money to make
The Apostle, a movie about a preacher who
wrestled with God. No studio would touch it.
But Hollywood will spend $80 million turning
Brontรซ's warning into a date night.
Duvall showed you a man who wrestled with
God. Fennell showed you a woman who wrestled
with a married man's belt buckle.
"Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out
of it are the issues of life."
โ Proverbs 4:23
My wife threw the books away. Hollywood
made them into a movie.
Choose wisely.
@RinoTheBouncer Garrett from Thief, Sebastian Castellanos from The Evil Within, Joel Miller from The Last of Us, and last, but not least, Nathan Drake.