Bradley Pierce

Christ Follower. Classic film fan. English instructor. Occasional songwriter. Fighting the good fight of faith & OCD.

[Juanita Broaddrick @atensnut]

Saw this on FB: 🔥 🔥

On day 1 of my high school history class, our teacher got up and said:

“You are 15 or 16 years old. 200 years ago, people your age were married, planted crops, had children and built a cabin before winter.

You can do your homework. The bar is set embarrassingly low. You are not dealing with regional famine or plague. You do not have to save your family from marauders or go into battle to destroy your enemies.

You just have to sit down and learn from someone who cares about you in a safe air-conditioned room.

You have no excuses.”

This is the kind of teachers we need.

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@OrevaZSN Try adding kids to the mix

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@EN0CX He could’ve used brown makeup though 😏

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@turnedwife To the atheist: if you die and are simply “nothing” why is that the end? After all, the universe and the entirety of existence itself was once “nothing” right? Look where we are now! Am I right?!?!

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@IfindRetards “and neck” lol

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@Just_ebube Ew

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@BiblicalBeauty Welcome to the Holiness churches

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@JWS2131 @Charlygotyou Then homeschool. Don’t sign up for a school with policies you don’t plan on following, then complain about the policies you signed up for on twitter.

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@jlpoober 15 year teacher, recently started as a mid-level admin at a private school the last two years. We have to try and serve teachers, parents, students, the state, and higher administrators. I can tell you, your front-facing admin is drowning faster than you can imagine.

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@jlpoober Have you ever handled a school budget?

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@jlpoober Sub work can always be utilized as extra credit/participation. Alternately, it could replace a lowest homework grade. A student doesn’t complete it, no rounding up and no dropping a HW grade.

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@HamptonTeach @jlpoober Simple. Did you grade the work you had them do? If not, why would any student care to do them?

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@ShieldsClips Stupid take

[Philip @criticallyme92]

What if science keeps circling the truth
but refuses to say one word?

God.

Every few years, the simulation question resurfaces.
Not because it’s trendy
but because reality keeps behaving like an information system.

Physics tells us the universe has a data limit
That’s the Bekenstein Bound a maximum amount of information per region of space.
A cosmos with a memory cap doesn’t look accidental.
It looks engineered.

Zoom into quantum mechanics.
Particles don’t resolve into reality until they’re observed.
The universe doesn’t calculate details until they’re needed.

That’s not mystical language.
That’s how optimized rendering systems work.

Entanglement?
Instant synchronization across any distance.
Physics calls it non-local.
Engineers call it linked registers.

And spacetime itself?
At the Planck scale, it isn’t smooth
it’s pixelated.
Reality runs on resolution.

So science calls this a simulation hypothesis.

But here’s the part it can’t explain:

Consciousness.

If awareness is just a survival tool,
why are humans the only species burdened with self-reflection, morality, creativity, and existential dread?

Animals survive perfectly without questioning reality.
Humans question everything.

And more strangely
we override survival instincts constantly.
We self-sabotage.
We chase meaning over safety.
We destroy ourselves in the pursuit of truth.

That’s not a survival upgrade.
That’s something else entirely.

Ancient texts noticed this first.

Before Eden’s fall, humans weren’t self-aware.
No shame.
No existential fear.
No moral struggle.

Then something activated.

Eyes opened.
Choice emerged.
Consequences became real.

Consciousness wasn’t evolved.
It was awakened.

And maybe that’s the connection science keeps missing.

What if reality is engineered
not by machines
but by a mind

What if consciousness isn’t an accidental glitch in the system
but the interface

Christians already believe this.

A designed cosmos.
Fine-tuned laws.
A Creator outside time seeing beginning and end at once.

Call it a simulation.
Call it a construct.
Call it a divine framework.

But the truth doesn’t change:

Reality behaves like it was designed
because it was.

And consciousness isn’t here to help us survive
it’s here to help us see.

Science doesn’t reject God because the evidence isn’t there.
It hesitates because accepting Him means something deeper:

Responsibility.
Meaning.
Purpose.

If reality is programmable
then someone wrote the code.

And if consciousness can interact with that code
then maybe faith isn’t ignorance.

Maybe it’s recognition.

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@imelizabethlane I wish there was a warning of how long a tweet was before you decide to click “Show more”

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@HazelAppleyard

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@simplypokers Nah

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@Bubblebathgirl Driving is not an embedded right in the constitution though. I’m for Voter ID but this is a lazy argument.