Lukas Cohen

Reformed Baptist, theology buff, patriot, business owner, tech enthusiast, novice programmer, crypto bro, and just another guy with opinions on the internet.

[Lukas Cohen @ThatOneLukeGuy]

“The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.”

John 1:5

We live in crazy and uncertain times but I know the one who spoke the universe into existence. There is not a rouge atom in the universe that is out of his control.

Take comfort brethren. We know how the story ends.

[Lance Corporate @lance_corporate]

As a kid, I didn’t sit in awe of my dad’s theological prowess or his understanding of church history. I just saw a strong, competent man with gigantic muscles who benched plates for reps in the basement after work, excelled in every area of his life, fought and arrested bad guys, and also prioritized his faith, family prayer, and taking us to church.

My natural conclusion as a young kid was that if my dad, who was a professional cynic but who also excelled in so many different areas of life, thought Christ was worth following, then obviously there had to be something there. My view of true manhood just naturally included the Christian faith, church membership, all of it, because it’s what I saw my dad doing.

We didn’t debate eschatology during family dinners or listen to long sermons in the car (not hating on those things). He was just a highly successful man, and so I wanted to be like him, including his faith. He was always talking with me about everything I wanted to become in life (husband, dad, Marine), and then encouraging me to go make them a reality (with a little backwards planning) to the glory of God.

But the church at large struggles to "keep its children" because so few devoted churchmen are like this. And when kids have to look outside of the home and/or church for their heroes, it shouldn’t be surprising when they also leave their fathers' faith behind.

The surest way to push them in that direction is to ensure that every time they walk into the church, all they see are scrawny, flabby, or unserious men who are incapable of striving, fighting, and winning in the “real” world, so that the church becomes (in their view) more of a hideout from the real responsibilities, duties, risks, and challenges of life than an outpost/forward operating base where serious men do serious work.

Another way to do this is to dub yourself the perpetual tone police, nitpicking men of action concerning what they’re allowed to think, say, and do, while doing nothing yourself and offering young men no positive vision of the goodness and beauty of the faith other than impotent niceness.

A third way to do this is to pretend that the faith never really makes contact with real life.

“How do I find a wife, earn a great income, buy a house, and start a family? How do I lead family worship? What can I do in the civil realm to ensure my children can live in relative peace and security?”

“Fear not! You are saved by grace, not by works brother. Besides, Jesus was neither republican nor democrat!”

The secular institutions that don’t have this problem are more than willing to embrace the church’s young men with open arms and a seemingly similar “positive” vision of strength and glory that is natural, inspiring, and challenging, but which unfortunately does not include Christ, and brings with it other detrimental moral and spiritual side effects like indulgence and vanity.

Kids are walking BS detectors, and even when they can't articulate it, they feel an intense disdain for anyone who lectures them about the importance of "self-control" while eating a 4,000-calorie fried chicken and sweet tea lunch as their belly sags 18" below their beltline.

If the stats are any indication, vague, platitudinous, lowest common denominator, hall monitor Christianity keeps no one. The way to ensure they stay is to raise the bar, not lower it.

Small dreams (and beer bellies, and loser mentalities, and schoolmarms) have no power to stir the hearts of (young) men.

[Lukas Cohen @ThatOneLukeGuy]

@TheJollyBrawler Cannot stress bloodwork enough. Without it, anything you try and do is a shot in the dark.

Once I had top-to-bottom bloodwork done, I knew exactly what to optimize. It was liberating.

Do the bloodwork. Your family will thank you.

[Lukas Cohen @ThatOneLukeGuy]

I subscribed to @paramountplus so I wouldn’t miss @ufc 328.

Now that I’m subscribed, it looks like I’m still going to miss UFC 328.

Seriously. What with the buffering? I assure you it’s not my connection, it’s your content delivery network.

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@AlexFinn I just set up my Mac Mini today running qwen 3.5… qwen ain’t it. I’ve been fighting the model all day.

I will be paying for Anthropic API by this time tomorrow.

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@CassandraRules I am trying in good faith to understand the point she is trying to make… and I can’t.

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@ksorbs Undoubtedly, she thought she nailed it.

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@theXSSrat Too slow I guess. Thanks for putting this out!

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@ShawnRyan762 My initial thought was that this is a joke.

I think it’s for real guys.

This will be interesting for sure.

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@agamemnus_dev @vxunderground For sure.

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@saf3f0ru @vxunderground Agreed entirley.

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@KimDotcom Say more.

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@vxunderground Sounds like MRUs but with more words.

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@Nero Just did OSINT on the number….

It appears to be his number.

Soooo… do we just text him?

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@JoshuaLisec Never have I felt nostalgia in such a visceral way.

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@I_Am_Jakoby Stoked for you!

[Dusty Deevers @DustyDeevers]

It’s clear. Jesus Christ wants America to be a Christian Nation.

Prove me wrong.

Millions are hearing the gospel from our nations’ leaders.

We must first repent. Lord send a revival and let it begin in me.

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@LucasBotkin Brother, owning a company that does textile goods myself, I know that there is a huge opening for American made products.

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@tarkin2258 @securityweekly @HackingDave Well… have you?!