TheForgottenFlame

Athiest turned follower of Jesus.
The truth is written in the sky with flaming letters.

[Fr. Cassidy Stinson @TheHappyPriest]

Look, I'm still not the kind of priest to say things like "they're putting demons in the robots," but the chainsaw-wielding black drones with eyeball horns are making it harder to argue my case

[1/4 Black Garrett @QTRBlackGarrett]

Bro I’m ready for this. It looks cheesy, corny and rad at the same time.

[ripx4nutmeg @ripx4nutmeg]

Bodycam footage has just been released of police visiting an American campus last year following the report of a car theft.

Unfortunately for them, the first person they meet is a cross-dressing student, who throws repeated and aggressive tantrums over his gender identity.

[Defiant Ghost @TheDefiantGhost]

Chase Hughes just taught Joe Rogan one of the CIA’s most dangerous elicitation techniques — how to pull classified secrets out of people without ever asking a single question.

HUGHES: “This is a CIA method called elicitation… the more sensitive the information you need, the fewer questions you should ask.”

“You get more information out of people with statements than questions.”

“The Russians did this… A KGB guy would go up to a 19-year-old American sailor at a bar and say, ‘Our submarines are faster because our propellers are 19 ft wide.’ And the sailor would immediately correct him: ‘Yeah, ours are 21.’”

“If you work in the nuclear field and you have a top secret clearance, you have to go through anti-elicitation training before you leave the country.”

“The first thing they say in the counterintelligence school is, ‘If you’re a four and she’s a ten and she’s interested in you… she’s a spy.’”

[Bishop Robert Barron @BishopBarron]

In a recent interview, Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, former grand chancellor of the John Paul II Institute on Marriage and Family Life, confirmed the worst suspicions that many of us had.

He admitted that the changes he made at the Institute during the Pope Francis years were designed to initiate a "very profound" reform of the idea of the natural law.

Instead of absolute moral norms grounded in a keen understanding of the basic goods, he and his colleagues were proposing a moral theory rooted in historical discernment of subjective and cultural experience--not an "armchair theology" but one operating "within history and within people's lives."

This, of course, is the language of trendy postmodernism, and it is dangerous indeed.

Allow me to illustrate the principle with one example. Is slavery wrong?

Intrinsically wrong? Wrong no matter what public opinion polls say about it, no matter what the current consensus on it might be? I imagine any decent person would say yes.

But that yes is predicated upon precisely what the tradition calls the natural law and the basic goods. There are some values so fundamental that acts repugnant to them are by their very nature wicked.

If you want a highly articulate presentation of this idea, go to St. John Paul II's Veritatis Splendor.

If we say that this is just "armchair theologizing" and that morality is a function of ever-shifting cultural and experiential data, then why couldn't slavery be justified?

One of the very smartest persons that ever lived, the philosopher Aristotle, thought it was; extremely bright and morally upright persons in our country, well into the 19th century, thought it was permissible.

Who is to say whether the consensus might shift back again? Who is to say that "lived experience" might come to justify it?

What any truly coherent moral program requires is the very thing that Archbishop Paglia and his colleagues were endeavoring to eliminate, namely, absolute moral norms.

Ridding ourselves of these in the name of freedom or pastoral sensitivity actually renders moral discourse dysfunctional, just as relativizing the basic principle of logic would render any rational conversation impossible.

The Archbishop's interview, frankly, reminded me of the discussions I had at the Synod on Synodality with some of my German colleagues. Under the rubric of the development of doctrine, they were eager to relativize or radically change the principles undergirding classical morality. If this was and is truly the game, we have ventured onto perilous seas.

Link to the article below.

[TheForgottenFlame @TheForgottenFla]

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[Snowy ❄️ Eyes That Steal Hearts 💙 @Mrsnowyycat]

You're not a cat

[Critically Thinking & Drinking 🧐 🥃🧉🍸🍹🤪 @TheCriticalDri1]

Very few times have I EVER heard the Star Spangled Banner sang this impressively. Bravo chads 🥃

[DNI Tulsi Gabbard @DNIGabbard]

Today, I’m releasing never before seen intelligence revealing new evidence of past US government funding for more than 120 biolabs in over 30 countries, including Ukraine.

In support of President Trump‘s Executive Order to end federal funding of dangerous gain of function research around the world, and increase transparency and accountability, ODNI will continue working with partners across the Administration to identify where these labs are, what pathogens they contain, and what “research” is being conducted.

https://t.co/pLMD0krc69

[Play4Index @Play4Index]

Kojima Productions, together with DNSYS Exoskeleton, has unveiled a fully functional exoskeleton model from Death Stranding 2.

This model reduces knee strain by 200%, has a power output of 400 W, a walking range of 15 km, and weighs 2 kg.

Each exoskeleton unit comes with a unique serial number, and the device is priced at $1,998.

[TheForgottenFlame @TheForgottenFla]

@McJuggerNuggets Loss... it wasn't a miscarriage, you literally murdered your kid because they would have been inconvenient. Get out of here with your crocodile tears.

[TheForgottenFlame @TheForgottenFla]

Finally got around to watching this, incredible!
https://t.co/oeguZJ0hR3

[TheForgottenFlame @TheForgottenFla]

@McJuggerNuggets Evil man. Evil.

[TheForgottenFlame @TheForgottenFla]

I went and saw obsession, it's basically a demonic possession movie with a spin. It depicts evil without any opposition and the protagonist was thoroughly unlikable. Not my jam.
I'm curious how Backrooms will compare.

[LBC @LBC]

‘Don’t you see that as a denigration of your baby?!’

Porn star Bonnie Blue’s plans to turn her baby shower into a ‘golden shower’ leaves Shelagh Fogarty feeling uncomfortable.

[TheForgottenFlame @TheForgottenFla]

@KilroyJCNJ @GeorgeFromNY1 Its different from the book. I saw the movie first and I remember when I read the book it was so changed that it really didn't bother me. It's worth watching, especially knowing that the director was trying to satireze it. It's a fun unique film.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

I ordered one pancake in America. The waitress wrote it down and said, "one short stack."

Short. I am a small and humble man. A short stack sounded perfect for me. I waited with a calm heart.

She returned carrying three pancakes, each the size of my face, stacked into a tower, with a block of butter on top sliding down the sides like slow lava.

This was the short one. I did not dare ask what the tall one looked like. Some knowledge a man is not ready for.

I ate for forty minutes. I was not full. I was afraid. The tower did not shrink. I am fairly sure it was growing back faster than I could eat it.

I had to surrender. I left half. In Japan, leaving food is a deep shame. So I leaned in close and apologized to the pancakes directly, in a low voice, one by one.

The waitress asked if I wanted a box. I did not know food could be taken into custody. I declined. I did not want it following me home.
In America, is the short stack truly the small one?
I need time to prepare my spirit before I ever face the tall one.

[Chief Nerd @TheChiefNerd]

🚨 BILL GURLEY: “I would encourage people to read as much as they can about Anthropic … I don't think they think they're writing software. I think they're midwifing a deity.”

JASON: “I know some of these folks … They believe they're so powerful, that they can create God.”

[RŌNIN @ronin21btc]

I LOVE that they forced him to watch the video.

Far too many bleeding heart liberals clueless to the violence these guys are capable of.

[TheForgottenFlame @TheForgottenFla]

@WTHRcom I'm excited for all the actual Americans who will now be able to fill those jobs.

[Zac Pauga @ZacPauga]

I would not believe this story if I wasn’t there, contacted a guy on pcp one time. Guy beats the shit out of 5 cops, throwing them through the air (I was one of them)

Jumps out of window on the 4th floor lands on his feet and runs away calls an ambulance himself 2 hours later, he broke both his legs in the jump