David 🇺🇸🇮🇱🇬🇧

Husband of The One, Father of 8. Optical Systems Research and Engineering. PhD Thermodynamics.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

In Texas they told me to stop at Buc-ee's for gas.

I have been to shrines. I have stood in temples that took two hundred years to build.

I was not prepared for the gas station.

There were one hundred and twenty fuel pumps.

I counted them because I did not believe them.

A man beside me was filling a truck the size of my first apartment, and he was not filling it because it was empty.

He was filling it because he was here, and here is where a man fills things.

Inside was a hall so vast I lost the horizon.

A wall of jerky. A wall of fudge I did not know the country produced.

A brisket sandwich handed to me by a man in a beaver costume.

And I want to be clear, the beaver is not a mascot.

The beaver is a saint.

The people speak of him the way my grandmother spoke of the mountain behind her house.

And the bathrooms.

I had been warned about the bathrooms and I had dismissed the warning as the pride of a loud people.

I was wrong to dismiss it.

The bathrooms are famous across the whole state and they have earned it.

I have slept in worse hotels. I nearly bowed upon entering.

A janitor was polishing the floor with the devotion of a man tending a garden he loved, and when I thanked him he said "welcome in," which I have since learned is what Texas says instead of hello, and also instead of I am glad you exist.

I went in for gas. I was inside for ninety minutes.

I came out with fudge, a shirt printed with a joke I do not fully understand, forty dollars of jerky, and a feeling I can only describe as having been to church.

I did not need any of it.

I needed all of it.

I have walked through the great cathedrals of the old world. I lit no candle there.

I lit no candle at Buc-ee's either.

But I did fill the truck.

And I understand now that in Texas, this is the same thing.

[David 🇺🇸🇮🇱🇬🇧 @Stretch70x]

@TomCottonAR convert to updating master clocks by 20 seconds every day. keep sunrise at the same time throughout the entire year

[David 🇺🇸🇮🇱🇬🇧 @Stretch70x]

well written. i would also add “falsifiability” beside testability: there is no experimental formulation by which, if the results were positive, would disprove the theory.

(btw, the whole “can’t dig up a rabbit in the pre-Cambrian” is a null result, not a negative result establishing falsifiability)

[David 🇺🇸🇮🇱🇬🇧 @Stretch70x]

@JoshuaBarzon neither - the digital master clocks that we have now already make yearly corrections of a fraction of a second. we can just as easily update by 20 seconds every day. keeping ‘daylight savings’ by making it virtually unnoticeable

[David 🇺🇸🇮🇱🇬🇧 @Stretch70x]

@itmarkh @libsoftiktok i compromise a bit by putting my MAGA hat on AFTER i get my food…

[David 🇺🇸🇮🇱🇬🇧 @Stretch70x]

one of the more troubling verses:

“For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to pits of darkness, reserved for judgment;”
2 Peter 2:4

Where were these angels when they sinned? in heaven, ostensibly.
Some will claim, despite the finished work of Jesus Christ, that they are still “sinners.”
How do they know that they are sinners unless they are still under the Law? Are they only finally free from the nature of sin by their own deaths?

[Ken Ham @aigkenham]

I love this quote on creation from the famous reformer Martin Luther.

“The ‘Days’ of Creation Were Ordinary Days in Length. We must understand that these days were actual days (veros dies), contrary to the opinion of the holy fathers. Whenever we observe that the opinions of the fathers disagree with Scripture, we reverently bear with them and acknowledge them to be our elders. Nevertheless, we do not depart from the authority of Scripture for their sake” (What Martin Luther Says—A Practical In-home Anthology for the Active Christian, 1523).

Yes, we always hold to biblical authority!

[David 🇺🇸🇮🇱🇬🇧 @Stretch70x]

@RealDanielWolfe @ChaosTV the conditions are specific to the crime of “menacing.” based on the video alone, i would vote to convict

[David 🇺🇸🇮🇱🇬🇧 @Stretch70x]

@UniverseIce the barrel is mounted about 6-8 inches off-center of the post. same thing would happen with any large caliber automatic

[David 🇺🇸🇮🇱🇬🇧 @Stretch70x]

@RealDanielWolfe @ChaosTV stepping up on someone repeatedly, and in an aggressive manner, most certainly is

[Chris Martz @ChrisMartzWX]

Think about this for a moment.

The U.S. Navy has operated nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and submarines for over 60 years.

There are 11 big deck nuclear-powered carriers and 71 submarines currently in service that, mind you, are largely operated by 18–30-year-old men.

Yet, for some reason, the vast majority of “green” energy pundits I encounter online think nuclear fission is too dangerous to power society.

My theory is that this is because nuclear guarantees an economically prosperous future. Most climate activists, who are on the left, want economic activities to cease to “save the planet” (or in reality, redistribute wealthy. They know deep down that modern industrial economies like the U.S. and China cannot run on solar and wind power alone. That’s why China isn’t decommissioning coal despite massive solar additions in recent years.

Government-mandated solar and wind guarantees that the left achieve the economic policies they want. If they make it difficult for industries to thrive, they drive them out of business.

[Ken Ham @aigkenham]

The first man, the head of the human race, rebelled against God bringing sin and death into the world.

But God loved man so much, He provided a way of salvation for man so his sin could be forgiven and be able to spend eternity with the eternal God.

“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life” (John 3:16).

[David 🇺🇸🇮🇱🇬🇧 @Stretch70x]

@FmrRepMTG you’re kidding, right? The “trust fund” is vapor-ware, alway has been. or do you think the fed that prints cash at will just store it all in a big vault like scrooge McDuck?

Boomers paid their taxes…great. A hand-out now from other taxpayers should be means-tested.

[David 🇺🇸🇮🇱🇬🇧 @Stretch70x]

@Seraphinaf5 71

[David 🇺🇸🇮🇱🇬🇧 @Stretch70x]

@ProudSocialist Grok gets its information from bad actors.
Nazis were “alt left” - or does anyone really believe they were all about personal liberty and limited government?

[David 🇺🇸🇮🇱🇬🇧 @Stretch70x]

@wordsofthislife Note: both the “least” and the “greatest” are in the “kingdom of heaven” - saved by grace through faith

[David 🇺🇸🇮🇱🇬🇧 @Stretch70x]

Jesus said (on tithing) “these things you should have done”
Matt23:23

“Whoever then annuls one of the least of these commandments, and teaches others to do the same, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever keeps and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.”
Matthew 5:19

[Insurrection Barbie @DefiyantlyFree]

Jezebel was a Phoenician princess who married Ahab, king of Israel, and brought the worship of Baal with her.

She led God’s people into idolatry (1 Kings 16:31–33). She killed the Lord’s prophets and hunted Elijah (1 Kings 18–19). She used deception and abuse of power to destroy an innocent man, forging letters in the king’s name and arranging false witnesses to have Naboth executed for his vineyard (1 Kings 21). And she dominated a weak king who stood by and let her do it.

Elijah prophesied that dogs would devour her (1 Kings 21:23). And in 2 Kings 9 it happens. She is thrown from a window, trampled, and eaten by dogs.

But her name makes it into the New Testament, when Jesus rebukes the church in Thyatira for tolerating “that woman Jezebel” who calls herself a prophetess and leads believers into immorality and idolatry (Revelation 2:20).

Why? Because the story of Jezebel is about a pattern. An era. False authority that infiltrates from within, seduces God’s people away from truth, silences genuine voices (the prophets), manufactures lies (the sealed letters, the false witnesses, the legal proceeding), and thrives wherever those who can stop her are passive.

What Jezebel represents is so important that we are warned about it by Christ in Revelation. And the warning isn’t aimed at the Jezebel or the deceiver. It’s aimed at those who tolerate the deceptions.

We live in a time when influential voices build massive followings by mixing truth with fabrication, by destroying innocent people’s reputations with nothing more than vibes. They get rich from it. And audiences and institutions tolerate it because confrontation is costly.
By the time of Revelation, Jezebel had been dead for roughly 900 years. Jesus wasn’t confused about the timeline. He took a dead queen’s name and applied it to a living deception, because Jezebel had become a spirit that recurs. An era.
And the Jezebel era is easy to spot if you read Kings.

Truth is inverted. Baal was enthroned where Yahweh belonged. Isaiah 5:20 describes this: calling evil good and good evil, darkness light and light darkness.

The truth-tellers are attacked relentlessly. The prophets were killed or driven into caves, and even Elijah ends up under the broom tree wanting to die, convinced he is the only one left. A Jezebel era doesn’t just spread lies. It demoralizes the truth-tellers until they become silent.

Those in power are too passive. Ahab knew, and did nothing to stop her. The era isn’t sustained by the deceiver alone but by everyone with authority who finds it easier to look away, or by anyone who has the power to push back and doesn’t.

But God always keeps a remnant.

Seven thousand who did not bow the knee to Baal (1 Kings 19:18).

Because Jezebel eras don’t get reformed. They get overthrown. And as we learn in Revelation, the time to repent is given, and then it runs out.

Well we are in the Jezebel era. And the only way out is through. That’s why people have to fight for truth, judge those they listen to by the fruits those people produce, pray for and exercise discernment, and be the remnant.

Not Ahab.

[David 🇺🇸🇮🇱🇬🇧 @Stretch70x]

@r0ck3t23 any chance of writing in actual paragraphs instead of blurbs?