Ur Friendly Brain-Eating Amoeba

Only the vigilant can maintain their liberties. -A.H.

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[Ur Friendly Brain-Eating Amoeba @_davy_b]

@KIRO7Seattle Last year's heroes are this years super-spreaders. Never underestimate the power of the media and politicians to be able to turn people against eachother.

[Catholic Frequency @CatholicFQ]

In 1979, not long before he died, Archbishop Fulton Sheen gave his final interview to Marie Torre of WABC. The 5 most important things he said in the interview were....

1. Modern erotic culture is a failure of purpose, not merely a failure of rules.

2. The family depends on sacrificial love, not mutual self-satisfaction.

3. The human heart wants life, truth, and love in an absolute form; this desire points to God.

4. The Church cannot become credible by copying the world.

5. Children require moral formation, not permissive abandonment disguised as freedom.

When he gave this interview, no one knew it would be his. Let us never forget his wisdom.

[MrCasey @MrCasey62]

“The best time to ask and obtain favors from God is the time of the Elevation of the Host.”

~ St. John Bosco

[Elle Lookbook @EvaLovesDesign]

Houses with names

"Rose Cottage," "Chateau-Sur-Mer," "The Elms" makes a home feel so much more elegant when it has a name.

Why did we stop naming the places we love?

( I remember my mom naming our house Buttonwood)

[Monk Mindset @monkmindsets]

You don’t need motivation. You need a schedule.

It's why monks have lived peaceful and productive lives for 2,000 years.

Here's how to design your own monk schedule 🧵

[MotherMary @Mothermary0012]

“You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him."

- St. Teresa of Avila

[Become A Saint @BeSaintly]

Miracles happen all the time within us

[Way of Gods @SScribe_]

“There is a limit to the time assigned you, and if you don't use it to free yourself it will be gone and never return.”

— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book II

[Atlas Press @realAtlasPress]

Alexander Dumas, how to become a Man

[The Culturist @the_culturist_]

How can you justify reading or creating art when the world is falling apart?

C.S. Lewis asked this question in a sermon called "Learning in Wartime," delivered to university students while Germans were dropping bombs on London.

His first point is crucial:

"The war creates absolutely no new situation; it simply aggravates the permanent situation."

The belief that study belongs only to peacetime is a false illusion born of modern comfort. Our greatest thinkers pursued Beauty in times of war.

Moreover, our literary tradition itself accepts war as an inescapable truth of reality:

The Iliad, Cain and Abel, Romulus and Remus — every founding myth of the Western Tradition wrestles with war, violence, and even fratricide.

Lewis reminds us that civilization was not built by scholars in times of peace; rather, it was built by courageous souls who sought virtue in the face of death. Abandoning study leads to grave consequences for our culture:

"If you don't read good books, you will read bad ones. If you don't go on thinking rationally, you will think irrationally. If you reject aesthetic satisfactions, you will fall into sensual satisfactions."

The fact is, culture is never neutral. If we abandon the pursuit of Truth, Beauty, and Goodness, our civilization ceases to be True, Beautiful, or even Good.

Lewis insists the intellectual life is itself a form of resistance:

"Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered."

Reading then, is not just a leisurely pursuit in peacetime, nor is it an escape from the troubles of the world.

It's the very practice that makes civilization beautiful, and makes your own life meaningful and worth living.

[VitalRenaissance @VitalRenaiss]

Stop limiting yourself.

Reach for heights of greatness.

Reject the comfortable modern life.

Pursue real goals instead of fake dopamine highs from goytech.

Forge your own path.

[Augustus @AugustusDelano]

What if you were one prayer, one attempt, one ask, one knock, one confrontation, one act of kindness, one smile, one handshake, or one day away

Would you needlessly wait? Whose permission do you need other than your own?

Go, move forward

[Augustus @AugustusDelano]

Don't wait til you're 65 to realize you could have done whatever you wanted with your life but chose the easy, conflict-averse path that didn't require you to be brave

[Augustus @AugustusDelano]

Obsesses over the reality that it all works out

[Ur Friendly Brain-Eating Amoeba @_davy_b]

@AugustusDelano "A poet only tries to get his head into heaven. A logician tries to get heaven into his head and it is the mind that splits." -Chesterton

[Prompter @PromptLLM]

you become what you do daily

[Ur Friendly Brain-Eating Amoeba @_davy_b]

@oprydai Talent/Skill Stacking

[Pascal @KnowsPascal]

Be at peace, then, put aside all anxious thoughts and imaginations, and say continually: The Lord is my strength and shield; my heart has trusted in Him and I am helped.

-St. Francis de Sales

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

The Divine Comedy has likely inspired more great art than any other single book save the Bible. A thread:

[♱ @DreamlinerCo]

The Luminous Souls, by Gustave Doré (1885)