J. 🇷🇺

Jesus knows me by name.

[Government Stock Tracker @GovStockTracker]

Let's just say that the only trades from this representative I have are all buys, and are pretty successful...

https://t.co/yKJ54GVfPX

[Leading Report @LeadingReport]

Former President Biden’s illegal immigration surge led to a 30% rise in home prices and a 20% rise in rents, per NYP.

[Smash Baals @smashbaals]

“America was never a Christian nation!”

Reality: Of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence 29 had Seminary degrees.

[J. 🇷🇺 @goawaysanta]

@ClownWorld You leave poverty by generating wealth. You don't generate anything by just being handed money. Handed food for a week doesn't feed me for the month.

[Templarpilled @Templarpilled]

Women are never beating the Batman shopping allegations

[J. 🇷🇺 @goawaysanta]

@InspiringPhilos I don't believe Mo waited three years, either.

[MartynSpeck @SpeckMartyn]

@UgoCannon @AgainstAtheismX Are you asserting that all truth must be physically testable?

[J. 🇷🇺 @goawaysanta]

@Rothmus I see it plainly as an attack on Christianity, the foundation of Western values and societal structure. It all stems from this.

[J. 🇷🇺 @goawaysanta]

@xlblackopslx @ClownWorld @NYCMayor I wonder how many will just let NYC buy them out to escape the market.

[J. 🇷🇺 @goawaysanta]

@GarbageHuman24 So comfortable they stopped being able to conceive of evil and that their comfort requires constant defense.

[J. 🇷🇺 @goawaysanta]

@DelusionPosting Chip chip chip. We all have a limit when we have to say no.

[J. 🇷🇺 @goawaysanta]

@AbolitionistFAA @JessicaValenti And "Don't murder babies" is a pretty good argument, too.

[J. 🇷🇺 @goawaysanta]

@IMPERATORAUS Had to quit the AT. Told a couple I was sad but God has His plans for me. Said I was only sad I never got to see a bear. Half-mile before my exit trail I got to see a bear cub. God answers even small little requests because He loves us.

[J. 🇷🇺 @goawaysanta]

@reddit_lies So they're only ovaries if someone tells you they are?

[Athenaeum Book Club @athenaeumbc]

Crime and Punishment isn't about a single murder, but the idea that can justify murdering millions.

Raskolnikov famously kills a predatory pawnbroker, reasoning that she won't be missed, and he can use her money for the greater good.

Strangely, however, he never uses her money. He instead buries it under a rock and forgets it.

What was his true motivation then?

Later on, you discover he's motivated by a much darker ideology, which he shares in an article titled "On Crime."

He argues there are only 2 types of people:

1. Ordinary people: who live by the status quo and obey the law
2. Extraordinary people: who have the strength to break the law

He concludes that extraordinary people SHOULD break the law to serve the greater good of humanity…

The problem of this ideology is it doesn't justify just one murder, but two, or three, or three thousand, etc. Raskolnikov proves this himself: after murdering the pawnbroker, he then murders her innocent sister, solely for self-preservation.

Ultimately, Dostoevsky warns that when man rejects objective morality, not only is murder justified, but moral relativism — taken at scale — can justify mass murder itself.

What is brilliant about Crime and Punishment is that the greatest damage to Raskolnikov is not the legal or social consequences that eventually catch up to him.

Instead, Raskolnikov's actions destroy him bit-by-bit from the inside. Where Raskolnikov thought that his own superiority would allow him to commit crimes with impunity, he finds that it is the personal cost that actually damages him.

Thus Dostoevsky makes a poignant argument that morality is objective. And if we live according to our own will, and to our own ambition, disaster is lurking...

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Athenaeum Podcast Ep. 15:

Dostoevsky's Warning to the Modern World
w/ @pensandpoison

[Carlos That Notices Things @QuetzalPhoenix]

Reminds me of Jordan Peterson describing the animus of left wing revolutionary thought as "revenge against God for the crime of Being"

The spirit of the age truly is "If I have a creator, then he has to justify Himself to ME, not the other way around"

[J. 🇷🇺 @goawaysanta]

@EndWokeness Go back enough and pretty well everyone has slave ancestors.

[J. 🇷🇺 @goawaysanta]

@AgainstAtheismX Nihilism is the excuse of idiots

[J. 🇷🇺 @goawaysanta]

@libsoftiktok When you hire someone named Sparkle, you get what you get.

[J. 🇷🇺 @goawaysanta]

@SaltyGoat17 Autopen itself needs to be challenged. Who hit the button and did Biden even know?