@dstarchman@drewdyck "But beyond this, my son, be warned: the writing of many tweets is endless, and excessive devotion to teh interwebz is wearying to the body." Ecclesiastes 12:12, recontextualized.
@espthememes And then ask what verses they use to show that Israel now means "church." And then patiently respond that, no, Gal 3:29 doesn't mean that the AbCov stops applying to physical Israel, and that Gal 6:16 refers to believing Israel, not the Church.
Theology 101: If Revelation had been written in the 60s and fulfilled in the 70s, that would have been an AMAZING apologetic fact for 2nd-century fathers to grasp onto and use!
Alas, 2nd-century fathers made no such use of Revelation and rather expected its FUTURE fulfillment.
It was then that Diana Moon Glampers, the Handicapper General, came into the studio with a double-barreled ten-gauge shotgun. She fired twice, and the Emperor and the Empress were dead before they hit the floor.
Gifted and Talented, or G&T, programs have long been a perennial subject of debate, particularly in New York City, where it has bedeviled mayors for years. Some parents have already washed their hands of the whole G&T business, refusing to participate in what they view as a corrupt system of segregation. But countless others still place significant stock in the G&T designation and what it offers and are comfortable relying on cognitive testing, should it be required, to determine whether a child qualifies.
“When your intelligence is the foundation of your self-perception, failing to achieve feels like soul death,” writes Katie Arnold-Ratliff. But if the limited amount of information we have about gifted kids long-term is any indication, most lead, at best, ordinary lives of modest accomplishment. A 35-year study of 677 gifted children found that by age 50, only 12.3 percent had reached a level of “eminence,” defined as “full professors … Fortune 500 executives … judges and lawyers, leaders in biomedicine, award-winning journalists and writers.” This means 88 percent never did.
Arnold-Ratliff digs into the myth of the gifted child, and how our notions of intelligence may be inherently flawed: https://t.co/fmZ8IZGyXC