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@SenecaSpeaks21 They are ignoring human nature that a prolonged result generates more suspicion. That suspicion is leads to frustration at being robbed of honest elections. Frustration like that incites violence. Civil war would be wrong but predictable.
@SoquelCreek Voting integrity has to be beyond question or you will see anger erupting and civil war. We are used to losing and accept it but being cheated is the deal breaker.
@albertmohler Apples and Oranges argument to link this to LGBT. Paul puts the one on a lists of moral truths. He puts the other, women’s role in leadership, in passing references that create non-uniformity on this issue. Plz accept that Biblical folks are on both sides.
Project Hail Mary writer Andy Weir on social commentary in books:
"I dislike social commentary. Like… I really hate it. When I’m reading a book, I just want to be entertained, not preached at by the author. Plus, it ruins the wonder of the story if I know the author has a political or social axe to grind. I no longer speculate about all possible outcomes of the story because I know for a fact that the universe of that book will conspire to ensure that the author’s political agenda is validated. I hate that."
"I put no politics or social commentary into my stories at all. Anyone who thinks they see something like that is reading it in on their own. I have no point to make, and I’m not trying to affect the reader’s opinion on anything. My sole job is to entertain, and I stick to that."
"To that end, I also don’t talk about my personal political opinions publicly. I don’t want readers to even know, honestly. I don’t want that in the back of their minds as they read my stuff."
Is this why he has the #1 sci-fi movie in decades?
@BaseballQuotes1@susanslusser Saying something nice about an umpire should be a daily goal for us all. They have a job where everyone is angry at them at least half the game. Thanks for posting this.
@rog61 Reminds me that I am rooting for Teng now in HOU. Looked like he had a good Spring Training. Maybe a lesson in patience for players coming from there.
In 1941, an Auschwitz prisoner was sentenced to death by the SS as punishment for an escape attempt. The man begged for mercy, and Polish priest Maximilian Kolbe stepped up to request a switch. Kolbe argued that since he was old and had no family, he should die instead. The Nazis accepted the trade.
Kolbe had already been targeted by the Nazis for sheltering Jewish refugees and broadcasting anti-Nazi messages, was thrown into a starvation bunker with 10 other men. While others succumbed to dehydration and despair, Kolbe spent his final weeks singing hymns and consoling his fellow prisoners. He was the last of the group left alive when the Nazis finally ended his life with a lethal injection.
@datechris@RethinkingHell@jason_lisle I hope you have made your offer in some other way bc his X account you link has only 2019 posts. Guess he left this forum?
Thanks for your work here.
Many are writing me to point out the things Charlie said or did that are worthy of critique (sometimes that I actually did critique in real time). And while I can’t really understand why the first 4 days after someone’s assassination are the days in which people feel the need to “set the record straight,” I get that it is not the case that Charlie was perfect or above reproach.
But the more I think about the stuff that drove me bonkers about Charlie, the more I wonder how much was youthful immaturity that was in the process of being worked through. Just in the last 24 months anyone paying attention to Charlie’s public life saw extraordinary maturity and growth. It is so hard for me as a 51-year old to critique the 26-year old version of Charlie without wondering what the 36-year old or 41-year old might have been like. I certainly understand we can’t know that he would evolved into a patron saint of maturity, but I believe the 31-year old was exponentially more mature than the 26-year old, and I believe that trajectory was continuing.
I also believe if my life had ended at 31, basically every single thing I’m proud of or that is worthy of mention would have NEVER HAPPENED. All of my attempts at growth, sanctification, improvement, productivity have come out in the last 20 years, not the 15 years that preceded age 31. It’s sort of humbling.
You don’t have to deify someone or pretend you agree with everything to recognize that:
A - his murder is a reprehensible tragedy
B - he was a special talent in his work ethic, discipline, and cultural instincts
and,
C - he was a work in progress, and thank God none of us peaked at 31
Before you post about something Charlie said or did at age 27, think about your own life at 27. When I do that, it makes me want to really keep my mouth shut.