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People are equal, ideas are not

[Matty Dread @MattyDread]

Holy crap Charles long for Emperor of the world please.

[Rilla Bythe @BytheRilla]

@johnddavidson C.S. Lewis addresses this in a famous letter to a worried mother explaining that her 9-year-old son, Laurence, could not truly love Aslan more than Jesus because any good qualities he loved in Aslan were actually the qualities of Jesus.

[Rilla Bythe @BytheRilla]

@LaurenWitzkeDE Yeah I’m aware, the Ark of the Covenant, made under Moses’ leadership during Israel’s return to the promise land, is most likely in Ethiopia. Noah’s Ark landed on Mt. Ararat after the flood.

[Rilla Bythe @BytheRilla]

@LaurenWitzkeDE Idk I know that prior to WW1 the Czar sent troops out to search for the Ark and found something, but as I’ve thought about it, when Noah & his family came off the Ark, the only building material around was the Ark. I think they dismantled it to build their homes.

[2001 Live @25YearsAgoLive]

Some new content from Tuesday’s attacks that I have just seen, and that I wanted to share with you in a thread:

1. Collapse of the South Tower - a man clearly visible clutching debris on the way down.

[Alex Petkas @costofglory]

The Odyssey is too good to leave to Hollywood.

So I decided to retell it on Cost of Glory.

Part 1 (of 6): Society on the Brink

Let me know what you think.

[Paul Anleitner @PaulAnleitner]

This is worth every minute of your time.

One of the greatest living storytellers @malcolmguite explains the lost Christian origins of King Arthur.

These are the stories children should be reading in school 🔥

[Rilla Bythe @BytheRilla]

@greg_price11 I’m not gonna judge, I just attended a funeral, I sat next to the deceased’s brother he shared with me rib cracking stories about the trouble they’d get into. If a camera panned to me they’d see me cry laughing.

[Barnaby Breaks History 🇺🇸 @BarnabyHistory]

🇺🇸 The Boatlift That Was Bigger Than Dunkirk

At 10:45 a.m. on September 11, 2001, a Coast Guard lieutenant named Mike Day keyed a radio in New York Harbor and said the only sentence that mattered.

“All available boats. This is the United States Coast Guard. Anyone wanting to help with the evacuation of Lower Manhattan, report to Governors Island.”

The boats were already coming.

The bridges were closed. The tunnels were closed. The subways were dead. South of the towers, hundreds of thousands of people had nowhere left to walk. Some jumped into the Hudson. Some stood on seawalls that were never meant to be docks and waited for anything that floated.

Dunkirk took nine days to pull 338,226 Allied soldiers off a beach in 1940.

On 9/11, roughly 800 mariners on about 150 vessels moved as many as 500,000 civilians off Manhattan in about nine hours. Ferries. Tugs. Dinner boats. Pilot boats. Yachts. A retired fireboat. Rubber dinghies that held two people. The largest water evacuation in history.

NY Waterway did not wait for the official call. After the second plane hit, the whole fleet moved. Captain Rick Thornton nosed his ferry against a seawall that was not a slip and started taking people off. Some of them he pulled out of the river. His company alone carried about 158,000 people to Jersey City, Hoboken, Weehawken, Brooklyn, and Queens.

On a normal Tuesday they carried 34,000.

The Staten Island Ferry moved more than 50,000 people and came back the other way with water, bandages, and men who still had work to do in the dust.

The old fireboat John J. Harvey, already retired, tied up near the Museum of Jewish Heritage, took civilians off the seawall, then pumped water when the hydrants downtown died.

Lt. Day later admitted what the day required. “I broke more rules that day than probably I’ve enforced in my whole Coast Guard career.”

In raw numbers it was bigger than Dunkirk. No boat went down. By nightfall the southern tip of Manhattan had been emptied by people who were not on anyone’s list of heroes when the morning started.

They were tug captains. Ferry deckhands. Pilots. A lieutenant with a microphone. Ordinary boats answering one sentence.

All available boats.

[James J. Marlow @James_J_Marlow]

For those who are 26 years old or younger, this clip is NOT Ai.

It’s when Islamists hijacked passenger aircraft, killed crew members and crashed the planes into the twin towers.

You may be supporting Hamas and “the resistance” but September 11, 2001 is when it started.

[Brandon Tatum @TheOfficerTatum]

This may be one of the most shocking firsthand videos from September 11, capturing the South Tower collapsing as terrified people run for cover.

25 years later, the terror of that moment remains unimaginable. 😟

[Rilla Bythe @BytheRilla]

@LessCheerful Munk, Burn Notice, & Psych are in my top 10 comfort shows

[Jonathan Slater @slater57649]

You might need this today

[Rilla Bythe @BytheRilla]

@RobertIrwin 20 years is simultaneously a lifetime & a yesterday ago. May his memories bring warmth & smiles to your family.

[Rilla Bythe @BytheRilla]

This clip of him telling of his daughter’s birth is the most beautiful story. To the Irwin family: May your grief be softer and your memories be sweeter

[ClarksonsFarm @ClarksonsFarm1]

An icon of kindness to an entire generation and a truly exceptional individual.

Steve, the world was a better place with you in it, you’re sorely missed by us all.❤️

[ClarksonsFarm @ClarksonsFarm1]

An icon of kindness to an entire generation and a truly exceptional individual.

Steve, the world was a better place with you in it, you’re sorely missed by us all.❤️

[Rilla Bythe @BytheRilla]

@HazelAppleyard I had an aggressive dog I would carry a spray bottle of apple cider vinegar and spray the approaching animal. Aim for the eyes, stinging like a bitch but they leave you alone.

[The Sting @TheStingisBack]

Gene Kelly didn’t want to sing “Singin’ in the Rain” on The Muppet Show.
Kermit took that as a challenge and made it the plot, coaxing him into it anyway.
It was the last episode they ever filmed, and the last time Gene performed it.
A poignant goodbye to the song and The Muppets

[Rilla Bythe @BytheRilla]

@CNviolations Of all the things, this is so benign. She’s having fun go about your business & leave this alone.

[Rilla Bythe @BytheRilla]

@prinannika He took their emotional support Redfields, ppl should know that Jill & Leon would do anything for their emotional support Redfields.