Jim Thompson

Single Father to a Teenager, IT Professional, ISU fan.

[Witch_Lady @Celestine_witch]

In every age, seekers rise when the noise of the world grows too loud.
And today is no different.

What most people call “wisdom” is usually just borrowed opinions, recycled ideas, or comforting beliefs. But the old teachings remind us that real wisdom doesn’t come from books, teachers, or traditions—it comes from cracking open the walls of your own awareness.

Every ancient sage agreed on one simple truth:
A person becomes powerful the moment they stop chasing answers and start questioning themselves.

Why?
Because the moment you turn inward, you stop reacting to life and begin directing it. You stop being pushed by circumstances and start shaping them. You stop living on the surface and begin seeing what’s moving underneath everything.

And that’s where the real transformation happens.

Here’s the heart of it:

• Wisdom begins when you stop lying to yourself.
Not about who you are… but about who you’ve been pretending to be.

• Growth begins when you recognize the patterns you keep repeating.
Life will keep bringing the same lessons until you’re finally ready to face them consciously.

• Power begins when you learn to sit with yourself without distraction.
Silence reveals answers noise will never allow you to hear.

• Freedom begins when you stop needing approval.
A sage walks their path because it’s theirs, not because anyone agrees with it.

Every day, each of us is offered a choice:
Stay asleep inside familiar habits… or step into the unknown where your true strength is waiting.

The wise don’t have more information than the rest.
They just have more honesty, more awareness, and more courage.

So today, for anyone walking this ancient road with us:
Be ruthless with your self-reflection.
Be patient with your growth.
And be relentless with your awakening.

Your life is not random.
Your path is not accidental.
You’re here because something within you is tired of living small.

Walk like someone who finally remembers.

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Ancient Order of Hermetics

[Jim Thompson @clones2009]

@DefiantLs I love how they are all about being super inclusive, unless you don't share their radical beliefs. She said he put the Trump flag back up around Pride Month, which was sUpEr iCkY.

[Jesse Kelly @JesseKellyDC]

lol! Classic

[Sports Patriot @SportsPatriotUS]

I’m going to say this as calmly as possible:

Watching Caitlin Clark in the WNBA has become genuinely hard to stomach.

Not because she struggles sometimes. Not because she makes mistakes. Not because she gets criticized. That comes with being great.

It’s hard to stomach because it has become obvious that the league, the officials, the media, the players, and even her own organization have all decided that the most important thing is not letting Caitlin Clark become too big.

And that is insane.

This league was handed the most marketable, electric, revenue-generating player women’s basketball has ever seen, and instead of building around the moment, too many people seem obsessed with humbling her.

She gets fouled. Held. Hit. Cheap-shotted. Mocked. Targeted. Then when she reacts like a normal competitor, suddenly everyone wants to analyze her attitude.

No.

Her attitude is not the story.

The story is that a generational player is being treated like a problem by the very league she helped drag into mainstream relevance.

This reminds me of the worst kind of youth coach... the one who sees a special player, feels threatened by her talent, and slowly drains the joy out of her in the name of “teaching humility.”

That is what this looks like.

The freedom she played with at Iowa is disappearing. The fire is still there, but the joy looks damaged. The confidence looks weighed down. She looks like someone constantly fighting the refs, opponents, narratives, coaching decisions, jealousy, and a league culture that should be protecting its golden opportunity instead of resenting it.

And let’s be honest: Stephanie White has not helped.

Benching Caitlin Clark randomly when she is controlling the game tempo, or having your best shooter off the floor in critical game ending minutes when a victory is within reach is basketball malpractice. Limiting her rhythm, downplaying her greatness, benching momentum, and treating her like just another piece instead of the engine is absurd.

You do not take a player who changed the economics of your sport and manage her like you’re afraid her greatness might offend the room.

Nike deserves criticism too. Other players get signature shoes rolled out with urgency, while the biggest draw in women’s basketball is somehow still waiting on that signature shoe. That is not confusing. That is revealing.

Fans are not stupid.

They see the fouls.
They see the double standards.
They see the jealousy.
They see the media resentment.
They see the league benefiting from her popularity while refusing to fully embrace her.
And here is the part the WNBA better understand quickly:
People are not tuning in to watch Caitlin Clark be humbled.
They are tuning in to watch Caitlin Clark be great.
If she walked away tomorrow, the fans would follow her. The sponsors would follow her. The energy would follow her. The high salaries and the charter jets would follow her. And the league would be forced to confront the uncomfortable truth it keeps trying to avoid:

Caitlin Clark did not need the WNBA nearly as much as the WNBA needed Caitlin Clark.

At some point, her family, her agent, and her team need to ask a hard question:

How much longer do you let a league profit from her while allowing the culture around her to beat the spirit out of her?

Because from the outside looking in, this does not look like normal adversity anymore. It looks like abuse.

It looks like a league trying to break the very player who made millions of people care.

https://t.co/AAxFrO46Z4

[Retard Translator ™ @RetardDecoder]

It’s wild how you can have 38k followers and often only 1 single person likes a post you made after hours.

(Because X made it to where hardly any of your followers see you)

And that’s with me only posting about 5 or 6 times a day.

I’ve been sick for a couple years now after having covid & I’m not even well enough to leave the house most days—

So all I’ve got is reading, tv, and X.

And for obvious reasons, X is the best one to occupy your time and your mind..

But when some libtard algorithm completely silences your account, it becomes almost pointless.

I’d love for someone from X to explain why accounts like mine are so suppressed.

I’ve received no recent violations or been flagged for any reason. The censorship is ridiculous.

I don’t expect to go viral, I just want to not be completely invisible. Is that too much to ask?

[C-Reason🇺🇸 @CreasonJana]

This falls under the category:

Fool me once, Shame on you!

Fool me twice, Shame on me!

Fortunately, I didn’t fall for it the first time and I’ll guarantee that I won’t fall for it this time either!

[❥❥❥ᗰoᒪᒪie❥❥❥ @mollie_don]

Imagine this: Every time you fill up your tank, you earn “Trump Gas Stamps.”

This federal program would apply to all gas stations nationwide, so no matter where you are in the country, every fill-up earns you a stamp. Once you collect enough, you start getting real money off per gallon at the pump.

Buy gas → Earn stamps → Save money on your next fill-ups. ⛽️

[Farm Girl Carrie 👩‍🌾 @FarmGirlCarrie]

Would you be in favor of our government buying Spirit Airlines, and renaming it ‘Deport Airlines’ and using it to fly all of the illegal immigrants back to their home countries? 🙋‍♀️

[Jim Thompson @clones2009]

@AmesBlondie At least it’s interesting sometimes 🤷‍♂️

[Erin Elizabeth Health Nut News🥜 @unhealthytruth]

I wrote this post six months ago to the southern poverty Law Center who was just indicted for their crimes.

Thanks for all the comments that the post aged well —because it really did. ❤️🙏🏻😭��

[The Real Mike Rowe @mikeroweworks]

This is not a political ad, even though I congratulate the Governor of Montana for doing something good. Nor is it a commercial for a big national bank, even though I congratulate @WellsFargo for doing something good. This is actually an ad for mikeroweWORKS, even though I don’t mention my foundation by name until the last few seconds, or congratulate myself for doing anything at all. And yet, every time this ad airs, hundreds of people run to https://t.co/ju76O0XWgC to apply for a work ethic scholarship or donate to the cause.

For that reason, I’d be grateful if you shared this. As you may have heard, we’ve got $10 million set aside for this next round of scholarships, and I’m doing what I can to make this our biggest year so far. I’m also curious about any theories you might have, as to why an ad that was filmed on my iPhone and cost exactly zero dollars to produce is outperforming all the others.

[Lee Smith @LeeSmithDC]

The point is this: if Turkish FM and former top spy believes this assessment, he's a fool who can't be trusted. If he doesn't believe it, he's messaging against NATO partner US and can't be trusted. Either way, it's a problem.

[Jim Thompson @clones2009]

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[Mark Dubowitz @mdubowitz]

Next time, let’s wait until Iran has nuclear-armed ICBMs, 10,000 ballistic missiles, a Chinese- and Russian-built military, a million attack drones, a fully operational terror network, and hundreds of billions to harden its economy. Then we’ll fight to reopen Hormuz.

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

@Scott_Wiener Why are you so desperate for men to use the women’s bathroom??

[Ames High Athletics @AmesAthletics]

Ames High Boys and Girls Track win the IAC Indoor Championship. The boys bring home their first IAC Championship in program history.

[AAGHarmeetDhillon @AAGDhillon]

She literally said “I will follow the law” at least six times during the briefing. Why lie?

[Hannah Cox @HannahDCox]

Being checked out may make you more sane but it’s no virtue.

It’s because the middle has checked out that we’re being run by the extremes on both sides.

[Harmeet K. Dhillon @HarmeetKDhillon]

I don’t care what you say, health nuts — @McDonalds makes the best fast food breakfast. (I only eat it about twice a year, @SecKennedy I swear!)

[Department of Government Efficiency @DOGE]

Confirmed.