So bid farewell to hearth and hall,
farewell to kith and kin,
and set aside all fear and doubt.
Let nerve be strong and heart be stout—
whatever clamour lies without,
keep harmony within.
~ @malcolmguite
Galahad & the Grail
Let not your heart be troubled…
~ Jesus
This is astonishing. Butlerian Jihad stuff. Listen to the boos and jeers.
I'm a millennial. My dad was in IT. I grew up through all the major milestones of the digital era. I've never seen a new technology pushed with this kind of arrogance, or inspire this kind of backlash.
“There are no unsacred places;
there are only sacred places
and desecrated places.”
Wendell Berry
“How to Be a Poet”
St Luke’s Episcopal Church
Old Cahawba, Dallas County, Alabama
“This book is just lovely. The poems run the gamut from Emily Dickinson to Carl Sandburg to Philip Larkin. The artwork beautifully illustrates the poems, giving you a whole new level of joy.” —Angelia Sukala
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Many people do not seem to want data centres built near them, despite the fact that they don't cause that much traffic and often generate a lot of local tax revenue. I suspect it's partly because they're ugly! My proposal:
Folks, this is real simple. Sasse rightly says that having a child is “placing a bet on the future.” Perfect. Here’s another key driver, then, of sex & birth rate declines: hopelessness. In the industrialized world, young people are suffering from chronic hopelessness.
A FB dude pointed this out, and it's very much true. If your reaction to these two images was substantially different in either direction...time to do some soul-searching/principles inventory.
I subconsciously bought into this anti-natalist propaganda when I was younger and decided two kids was enough. Now I’m wishing we had at least four or five.
My advice is don’t worry about the costs, God always provides. Be fruitful and multiply.