Jack Oatmon, Jack Of All Trades, Master Of None

Back after Lent.

Tempus fugit, memento mori. Therefore, let people have the freedom to live their lives properly. Be healthy, and do challenging things.

[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

10 June 1940 | French Jewish girl Camille Himmelfarb was born in Paris.

She arrived at #Auschwitz on 18 September 1942 in a transport of 1,003 Jews deported from Drancy. She was murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.

[Paulina Guzik @Guzik_Paulina]

This girl's father tried to kill her mother. A stranger stepped in to shield her, and was killed. The father went to prison, mother turned to drugs. She found Jesus eventually -- through family love and youth retreat -- but struggles to forgive.

"And sometimes I look up to heaven and ask God, 'Where were you when I was a little girl?' Holy Father, how can I forgive my father for almost leaving me without a mother? How can I truly be reconciled with God?"

Pope Leo said the scope of the question should be broadened:

"Should we ask 'where was God'? Or should we ask ourselves about humanity, about how we are sometimes prisoners of evil, resorting to violence against others? How is it that we fail to cultivate love and respect for others’ dignity and freedom? So many crime reports, even today, reflect a toxic climate in family relationships marked by abuse and oppression and, in particular, by violence against women, which unfortunately often leads to femicide."

"We cannot attribute to God what has been entrusted to our responsibility; we cannot imagine that God, from on high, will automatically respond to our needs or miraculously prevent evil from happening."

"He has given us his own Spirit, precisely so that love may be the key to all our human relationships. If violence exists, if selfishness prevails, if even love among family members turns into hatred, we must question the dynamics of our society, the culture of
individualism and the temptation of violence — but not God."

On forgiveness, he said:

"Above all, we must seek forgiveness from the Lord. We must continually ask the Lord — perhaps for our entire lives — to expand the space of love within us,
precisely where we have been wounded, that he can help us reconcile with ourselves and with that
part of our past that has been marked by suffering, so that he may slowly transform resentment into
mercy and compassion."

"This is a long journey," the pope said, "and a process that requires great patience. It is an effort we must make, both on a personal level and through other means of support and inner reconciliation."

"We must not lose heart: we move forward in small steps toward forgiveness. Reconciliation with the past is gradual. Above all, we must not think that forgiveness always and in every case means returning to the previous situation or having a close relationship with those who have hurt us, especially when there was violence. We can maintain a good disposition of heart toward the person, reject all forms of hatred or revenge, strive to repair the relationship as much as possible and perhaps pray for him or her. This helps us to enter more and more into the dynamic of forgiveness and to be reconciled with God and with others."
Video: Vatican Media

[Jack Oatmon, Jack Of All Trades, Master Of None @TomTraversIII]

@lucythegreat123 It's grim. The person who didn't get tenured works a lot from home, and keep their door closed when in. And it gives them time to look for a job, and to find people to take his grad students.

But it's brutal.

[Jack Oatmon, Jack Of All Trades, Master Of None @TomTraversIII]

@aelfred_D You can tell by it not having a hat.

[Jack Oatmon, Jack Of All Trades, Master Of None @TomTraversIII]

@jltho @NiedsG @FreddyLA7 Only three, however, which is more than enough for most of us.

[Jack Oatmon, Jack Of All Trades, Master Of None @TomTraversIII]

@jltho @NiedsG @FreddyLA7 Commanders palace in the Garden District is good. $0.25 martinis at lunch.

[Jack Oatmon, Jack Of All Trades, Master Of None @TomTraversIII]

@RoKhanna @grahamformaine Maybe he opposes wars where he doesn't get to kill people, but he seemed gung ho about the other kind.

[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

9 June 1926 | A Czech Jew, Jindřich Prossnitz, was born in Prague.

He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 27 October 1944. After selection he was murdered in a gas chamber.
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▶ Gas chambers and crematoria of the Auschwitz camp: https://t.co/Tx6rSvPyZL

[Jack Oatmon, Jack Of All Trades, Master Of None @TomTraversIII]

@uscfan981 Door County is beautiful.

Oshkosh (EAA Airventure) should be attended at least once by any who cares anything about planes.

New Glarus beer.

Cheese curds are the modern creation of manna - a food that can be eaten daily for 40 years or more.

Wisconsin old fashioneds.

[Jack Oatmon, Jack Of All Trades, Master Of None @TomTraversIII]

@exjon The technology around myeloma is incredible. From the genetic typing of cells, bi-specifics, CAR-T and general immunotherapy.

So much better than 10 years ago.

[Jack Oatmon, Jack Of All Trades, Master Of None @TomTraversIII]

@exjon Good luck over the next few weeks. It's not easy, but it does good things.

[Jack Oatmon, Jack Of All Trades, Master Of None @TomTraversIII]

@ingelramdecoucy @lyndseyfifield @exjon @willcollier My understanding is that if you go more than three hours they put a pillow over your face.

[Jack Oatmon, Jack Of All Trades, Master Of None @TomTraversIII]

@lyndseyfifield @exjon @willcollier My first thought as well.

But I hope if I have three hours and know it, I won't be on twitter!

[Jack Oatmon, Jack Of All Trades, Master Of None @TomTraversIII]

@n8vtxn37 @n8_blogg @bmarcello @ImmaculateView I'll hold a twitter post giving facts and letting others draw conclusions to a different standard than a published paper with government funding.

And many fields do double blind studies because people have subconscious biases that affect outcomes.

[Jack Oatmon, Jack Of All Trades, Master Of None @TomTraversIII]

@mkhammer I've always read a lot but had a 6th grade teacher (I think) that read to us. I still remember "The Lottery".

It was my favorite time of the day, and we read books we probably wouldn't have otherwise.

[Jack Oatmon, Jack Of All Trades, Master Of None @TomTraversIII]

@TxTechRed @iowahawkblog I'm not, and I don't think iowahawk is.

[Jack Oatmon, Jack Of All Trades, Master Of None @TomTraversIII]

@TxTechRed @iowahawkblog "ultimate sin in sports", a narrow scope - things whose impact is limited to sports. The things you mention are broader crimes against society at large, and obviously worse.

[David Burge @iowahawkblog]

I'm not sure Texas Tech is really getting this. Had they just been that scrappy underdog school on the plains with a wacky oil billionaire alumnus who showered them with millions to out-recruit the "blue bloods," I and everybody else would be high-fiving them with glee.

But this Sorsby thing is straight up taking a ginormous shit in the punchbowl. Nobody resents you winning, or paying your team well, it's that you are making excuses for someone who committed the ultimate sin in sports. And no, other teams aren't threatening to boycott you because they're "afraid of you," it's that by taking your giant shit in the punchbowl, you effectively voted yourself off the island.

[Jack Oatmon, Jack Of All Trades, Master Of None @TomTraversIII]

@n8vtxn37 @n8_blogg @bmarcello @ImmaculateView I have, PhD at UIUC. And I definitely have a bias towards it. As did a former coworker who got his PhD there.