Wes

Husband, Father, Investigator, Musician. I love Jesus, music, and memes. Nice to meet you

[Wes @SpiffyChristian]

@FreddyLA7 Get there early enough to see the pregame flight of the eagle

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@BarleyAndBeans Then right into the burn barrel/fire pit

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@JoshPateCFB “It looks like a typo, but it’s not”

Best part of the show

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@DineshDSouza Man with poor theology takes has (checks notes) another poor theology take.

Probably best to stick to politics for now…

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@yashar Milo looking like @Lane_Kiffin in an alternate timeline

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@Not_the_Bee Importing the third world includes wildlife, apparently

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@AverageSc0t Yes

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@keithedwards Well they tried to pass Jordan Peterson off as a Christian, so what do you expect?

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Honestly, it’s not a good enough southern accent to be offensive. I doubt she even tried and this is just folks trying to stir up something.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 LMFAO! Rep. AOC just got busted putting on a FAKE ACCENT for a predominantly black audience

She's seriously going full Kamala for 2028 🤡

The Democrat Party is an utter clown car.

"It's time for the north to roll up to the south!" 😭

[Wes @SpiffyChristian]

It’s wild that people are shocked to learn that Christianity is a continuation of what Abraham believed and Moses handed down.

Even a casual reading of the Old Testament shows that Israel is constantly disobeying God (including crucifying the Messiah in the NT).

[Dale Partridge @dalepartridge]

The Ten Commandments are not Jewish.

The Old Testament is not Jewish.

The entire Bible is Christian.

Genesis to Revelation is all about Christ.

Jesus literally says, “For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me; for he wrote about Me.” - John 5:46

Sure these things came from Hebrew people but Moses was Christian. David was a Christian. Daniel was a Christian.

To emphasize that the Ten Commandments or the Old Testament belongs to Jews who hate Jesus is foolish rhetoric.

[Wes @SpiffyChristian]

Any bird that caws, sings, hoots, squawks, clucks, or otherwise calls out is, for today, an honorary bald eagle.

Except Canadian geese. They can go back home where they belong.

#America250

[Megan Basham @megbasham]

All right Google, I’ll give this one to you. This is pretty great.

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@Soteriology101 A condition and a designed end are opposite ends of the calculation. Also, the original premise is incomplete (but y’all knew that accuracy would undermine the rest)

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Perfect summary of Croatia and Portugal yesterday

[Jim Geraghty @jimgeraghty]

"But a goal will not count if a player is offsides."

"When is a player offsides?"

"Whenever anything exciting happens."

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@JoshPateCFB Can’t believe the U.S. lost to food

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@ThoughtfulSaint Mormonism started after Joseph Smith came to believe that all of the Christian denominations were an abomination, and the authority and sufficiency of the Bible was rejected.

Now his followers want to claim the title of “Christian”? Okay…

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@BaptistPress Clarity and consistency on this have been needed for awhile

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Phenomenal and not at all surprising

[Ihtesham Ali @ihteshamali]

A Norwegian neuroscientist spent 20 years proving that the act of writing by hand changes the human brain in ways typing physically cannot, and almost nobody outside her field has read the paper.

Her name is Audrey van der Meer.

She runs a brain research lab in Trondheim, and the paper that closed the argument was published in 2024 in a journal called Frontiers in Psychology. The finding is brutal enough that it should have changed every classroom on Earth.

The experiment was simple. She recruited 36 university students and put each one in a cap with 256 sensors pressed against their scalp to record brain activity. Words flashed on a screen one at a time.

Sometimes the students wrote the word by hand on a touchscreen using a digital pen, and sometimes they typed the same word on a keyboard. Every neural response was recorded for the full five seconds the word stayed on screen.

Then her team looked at the part of the data most researchers had ignored for years, which is how different parts of the brain were communicating with each other during the task.

When the students wrote by hand, the brain lit up everywhere at once.

The regions responsible for memory, sensory integration, and the encoding of new information were all firing together in a coordinated pattern that spread across the entire cortex. The whole network was awake and connected.

When the same students typed the same word, that pattern collapsed almost completely.

Most of the brain went quiet, and the connections between regions that had been alive seconds earlier were nowhere to be found on the EEG.

Same word, same brain, same person, and two completely different neurological events.

The reason turned out to be something nobody had really paid attention to before her work. Writing by hand is not one motion but a sequence of thousands of tiny micro-movements coordinated with your eyes in real time, where each letter is a different shape that requires the brain to solve a slightly different spatial problem.

Your fingers, wrist, vision, and the parts of your brain that track position in space are all working together to produce one letter, then the next, then the next.

Typing throws all of that away. Every key on a keyboard requires the exact same finger motion regardless of which letter you are pressing, which means the brain has almost nothing to integrate and almost no problem to solve.

Van der Meer said it plainly in her interviews.

Pressing the same key with the same finger over and over does not stimulate the brain in any meaningful way, and she pointed out something that should scare every parent who handed their kid an iPad.

Children who learn to read and write on tablets often cannot tell letters like b and d apart, because they have never physically felt with their bodies what it takes to actually produce those letters on a page.

A decade before her, two researchers at Princeton ran the same fight using a completely different method and ended up at the same answer. Pam Mueller and Daniel Oppenheimer tested 327 students across three experiments, where half took notes on laptops with the internet disabled and half took notes by hand, before testing everyone on what they actually understood from the lectures they had watched.

The handwriting group won by a wide margin on every question that required real understanding rather than surface recall.

The reason was hiding in the transcripts of what the two groups had actually written down.

The laptop students typed almost word for word, capturing more total content but processing almost none of it as they went, while the handwriting students physically could not write fast enough to transcribe a lecture in real time, which forced them to listen carefully, decide what actually mattered, and put it in their own words on the page.

That single act of choosing what to keep was the learning itself, and the keyboard had quietly skipped the choosing and skipped the learning along with it.

Two studies. Two countries. Same answer.

Handwriting makes the brain work. Typing lets it coast.

Every note you have ever typed instead of written went into your brain through a thinner pipe. Every meeting, every book highlight, every idea you captured on your phone instead of on paper was processed at half depth.

You did not forget those things because your memory is bad. You forgot them because typing never woke the part of the brain that would have made them stick.

The fix is the thing your grandmother already knew.

Pick up a pen. Write the thing down. The slower road is the faster one.

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@ATRightMovies Frasier and Golden Girls

[Wes @SpiffyChristian]

Either God couldn’t prevent the Fall or didn’t want to, regardless of soteriology.

If the former, then congratulations. You have a god that is not omniscient, not omnipotent, or both.

If the latter, then welcome to agreement with Calvinists.

[Soteriology101 🩸 @Soteriology101]

Calvinist Confession Part 1: God brings about all moral evil.

Calvinist Confession Part 2: God is not guilty for moral evil.

Provisionist: We disagree with your assertion that God brings about moral evil because that would make him guilty.

Calvinist: BUT OUR CONFESSION DENIES THAT HE IS GUILTY!!!

Provisionist: Can you explain how that’s possible?

Calvinist: Mystery.

Provisionist: If you’re going to appeal to mystery anyway why not do so before boldly claiming God brings about moral evil?