Dixon

restless heart | you are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes | all is vanity |

[Adrian Vermeule @Vermeullarmine]

It’s funny in a slightly grim way to see people rediscovering that the traditional precepts of the natural law are not at all arbitrary moral commands imposed from without, but rational and wise precepts for the conduct of human life, whose violation usually produces disaster in some form.

[Joshua Charles🇻🇦 @JoshuaTCharles]

“To eliminate suffering entirely would mean, in the end, extinguishing love and desire as well. Those who love and desire cannot avoid passing through trial and suffering; and over the years, we carry within us lessons that leave their mark like scars, the memories of a journey shaped by freedom and failure, dreams and disappointments.

It is only thanks to the interplay of these elements that the wonders of the soul occur within us, allowing us to sense the richness of our humanity.

To renounce this adventure, both tragic and splendid, in the name of a presumed transcendence of all limits, could mean many things, but it would no longer be human.”

Pope Leo XIV, Magnifica Humanitas (par. 120) (May 15, 2026)

[Jennifer A. Frey @jennfrey]

"when human dignity is threatened by new forms of dehumanization, ours is the pressing duty to remain profoundly human. We must lovingly safeguard the grandeur of humanity bestowed upon us and revealed in its fullness in Christ, the splendor of which no machine can ever replace"

[Matt Bateman @mbateman]

> You’re born alone and you die alone

You’re born into the arms of people who love you with the intensity of a thousand suns and you die enmeshed in a lifetime’s worth of intimacy and connection of your own design

[Jules 🪐 @schumisnoopy]

i combined my love for peanuts and david lynch to make this drawing in his honor. i'm so grateful for his work and i will never forget him. he's with the moon now 🌕🤍

[David Lynch @DAVID_LYNCH]

I made friends with another bird, which I don't know the name of. But one who likes to hop & fly into the air and catch flying bugs.

[Bill McCormick, SJ @bmccsj]

Thinking about Pope Benedict w/r/t the UK "assisted dying" bill:

"The true measure of humanity is essentially determined in relationship to suffering and to the sufferer. This holds true both for the individual and for society...

[Lois McLatchie Miller @LoisMcLatch]

'Assisted dying' poster in the tube station

Covered over by a su!cide prevention hotline

A picture worth a thousand words

[Dixon @crackofdoom_]

@Samantharhill Percy Shelley’s Ode to the West Wind

[Going Godward @goinggodward]

Cannot stop thinking about the lines from W.H. Auden:

We would rather be ruined than changed
We would rather die in our dread
Than climb the cross of the moment
And let our illusions die.

Ever since I read them a few days ago, I’ve had this ceaseless prayer of, “Lord, give me the courage to change rather than be ruined; don’t let me die in my dread.”

[Dixon @crackofdoom_]

Atheists: the universe is a cold, dead place

Me: basking in the love of the divine mind that spoke the cosmos into existence and knitted me together in my mother’s womb

[Edmund @Kulambq]

King Charles III reciting Gerard Manley Hopkins' poem 'God's Grandeur.'

The world is charged with the grandeur of God.

[✨Hope✨ @TheLittleFlour_]

Sign me up.

[Dixon @crackofdoom_]

@jmrphy @Aella_Girl Like Dawkins, @Aella_Girl’s atheism is a Protestant atheism.

[Dixon @crackofdoom_]

St. Augustine: My coconut is restless until it rests in the tree.

[Zohar Atkins @ZoharAtkins]

You think you just fell out of a coconut tree?

Plato: Nah. Coconut trees fell out of the idea of the Coconut tree.

Aristotle: Yes, but only because there was a prime mover.

Ecclesiastes: A coconut tree comes and a coconut tree goes, there is nothing new under the sun.

Burke: Save the coconut trees from deforestation.

Hegel: I am the coconut tree, not the coconut tree, and the resolution of this contradiction.

Kierkegaard: I jumped out of the coconut tree.

Marx: The ruling class took away my coconuts.

Ranke: It was a plum tree, and some say, a lemon tree.

Freud: The coconut tree is the sex drive; falling from it is the death drive.

Heidegger: We have forgotten not just the Being of the coconut tree, but our forgetting of it.

Rawls: Choose the world into which you'd be willing to fall from a coconut tree,

Williams: No ideas but in coconut trees.

Stevens: Not ideas about the coconut tree, but the coconut tree itself.

[in the pocket of Big Tenant @AllezLesBoulez]

this happened to my friend ishmael

[Dixon @crackofdoom_]

@ZoharAtkins Mao: Political power grows out of the coconut on the tree.

[Dixon @crackofdoom_]

@kalezelden Genesis
Brothers K
Moby Dick
Frankenstein
Republic

[Jennifer A. Frey @jennfrey]

Our legacy media is beyond shameful. It boggles the mind.