Donster🦬#VDMA

Lutheran, unapologetic flag waver.

[Donster🦬#VDMA @DocDivinity]

@HansFiene The knife is a tool. You can kill someone with a baseball bat. It's not the bats fault!

[BabelColour @StuartHumphryes]

I have cleaned-up this fascinating Autochrome portrait of the author Mark Twain (1835-1910). He is shown in bed with his book and pipe at the age of 73, and the shot was taken in colour 118 years ago at his home in Redding, Connecticut, by American photographer Alvin Langdon Coburn.
Twain (real name Samuel Langhorne Clemens) is famous for such literary works as 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), 'The Prince and the Pauper' (1881), 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' (1884), and 'A Conneticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court' (1889).
The photo was taken in 1908 using an early colour glass-plate process and isn't colourised.

[Mary Katharine Ham @mkhammer]

Damn straight. It turns out the Bible doesn’t call for the personality disordered, friend-zoned ex-friends of the deceased to run 10-month campaigns of slander against their wives in the name of the Lord.

[Donster🦬#VDMA @DocDivinity]

Hahahahahahahahaha.....

[Today Years Old @todayyearsold]

Hollywood has spent nearly $600 million trying to bring Matt Damon home.

Have they considered maybe he just doesn’t want to come back?

[Donster🦬#VDMA @DocDivinity]

@HansFiene Hahahahahahahahaha......

[Donster🦬#VDMA @DocDivinity]

@HansFiene Whoa..... Is that the trans argument? They are really not Christian.

[Donster🦬#VDMA @DocDivinity]

Hahahahahahahahaha.....

[Hans Fiene 🦬 @HansFiene]

Can anyone tell me why the silverfish was left off the list of fish?

[Donster🦬#VDMA @DocDivinity]

@HansFiene These same people would wish they had been in the Garden. Then things would be different.

[Hans Fiene 🦬 @HansFiene]

Overwhelmingly, people view children as accessories to add to their lives when they desire rather than as gifts from God and indeed, the very purpose of the sexual union. Even among conservative Christians, this mindset is rampant.

We talk about kids like they're home improvement projects? "Are you guys ready for that, or are you going to keep waiting awhile?"

We talk about them as though they're Pokemon cards that you quit collecting one you have a complete set. "So now that you have a boy and a girl, are you done?"

We often look at large families with the same kind of disdain we have for hoarders. "That's so weird. Why do you need so many of those?"

Likewise, push away all the lamentations about wanting to save your unborn child from a lifetime of suffering and hardship through abortion, and you'll find the true mindset, where we respond to our children having disabilities the way we'd respond to a restaurant giving us the wrong food, something we simply refuse to eat.

"Waiter, I ordered a healthy baby. But you gave me this gross little deformed thing. Throw that away and give me what I actually ordered."

Not everyone will follow this mindset concerning children to such an evil degree. But if we wish to protect ourselves from it, we need to fundamentally change the way we think about children. Which is to say, we need to view parenthood vocationally rather than through a consumeristic lens.

Children are not trinkets. They are human beings, as human as you, and just as worthy of love and honor as you. Likewise, parenthood is not a lifestyle, a hobby, or an era. It's a vocation.

If a child is growing in your womb, God has already given you the vocation of mother. And a mother's vocation is always to protect and love her child, never to kill her child. If your child is growing in a woman's womb, God has already given you the vocation of father. And a father's vocation is always to protect his child, never to kill his child.

If God gives you that vocation when you're poor, fulfill it faithfully and trust that He will give you your daily bread. If God gives you that vocation when you don't feel ready for it, get over yourself and fulfill it faithfully. If God gives you that vocation by giving you a child who seems too difficult to care for, trust that He will also give you the strength to endure the task, and fulfill it faithfully.

May God save our souls and purify our hearts by changing our minds.

[Donster🦬#VDMA @DocDivinity]

@fakehistoryhunt This image shows a still from the 1985 French film Mystère Alexina, depicting the intersex figure Herculine Barbin.

Barbin was a 19th-century French intersex person who was assigned female at birth.

Later in life, a medical examination forced a legal change of sex and nam

[Mary Katharine Ham @mkhammer]

Yes, the idea is that killing your children because they might have disabilities should not be normative and to see it announced like a job search decision is jarring and underscores that.

[Donster🦬#VDMA @DocDivinity]

@LutheranAnswers I could be wrong here, but wasn't Mary "blessed" among women? Not most deserving because of her holiness?

[Donster🦬#VDMA @DocDivinity]

Absolutely beautiful!

[BabelColour @StuartHumphryes]

Let me take you back 100 years to the summer of 1926 - and what could be more ordinary than a young girl riding a Hereford Bull whilst holding a red bouquet? This striking image was taken in colour by Charles Martin at Pleasanton, California, and isn't colourised.

[Donster🦬#VDMA @DocDivinity]

@LutheranAnswers What is EE. UU.?

[Donster🦬#VDMA @DocDivinity]

@HansFiene That's modalism Patrick!

[Donster🦬#VDMA @DocDivinity]

This has to be a joke.

[Mary @Mary1417796]

She Told Me Not To Park There... Then I Found Out Why 😳😳

[Donster🦬#VDMA @DocDivinity]

Hahahahahahahahaha......

[BabelColour @StuartHumphryes]

A window into the past can sometimes look just like a window into the present - this photo being a prime example of the centuries compressing before our eyes. I have cleaned-up this Autochrome plate by Auguste Léon, taken in the English county of Cornwall 113 years ago. The country cottage with tarmac road and telephone pole behind the house give it every appearance of being taken today, rather than pre-World War I. It's what I love about doing this work - it brings such immediacy to the world of our forebears .
It was taken using an early colour glass-plate process and isn't colourised.

[Donster🦬#VDMA @DocDivinity]

@LutheranAnswers As usual......

[Donster🦬#VDMA @DocDivinity]

@HansFiene I would rather eat Little Caesars than Papa John's. PJ's is trash and tastes horrible.