There's a small window in life when your parents are healthy, your children are little, and everyone is happy and together. It feels like it will last forever, it wonāt. Cherish every moment of it.
When a nation "closes its eyes" to the murder of children, God moves his judgment away from just the murderer and onto *the nation*
It does not matter if there are "extenuating circumstances" or hormonal impulses for child murder, and God knew people's emotions could be manipulated to avoid justice falling.
This is why throughout the Old Testamemt when God commands justice (death penalty) to fall on murderers, He repeatedly says "Your eye shall not pity [her]."
And we have also (+Lindsey Clancy) been doing this for ~50 years in our nation, storing up wrath (Romans 1) for a day that, without repentance, will come.
The fact that sheās even trying to evade punishment is proof enough that she wasnāt āinsaneā when she committed the crime. If a loving parent woke up from a psychotic stupor and found out theyād done something like that, theyād beg the state to execute them. They wouldnāt want to be found not guilty. Theyād want to be punished to the fullest extent possible. They wouldnāt even ask for a lawyer. āIām guilty. Either kill me or throw me in the darkest dungeon you have.ā Thatās all theyād say. And frankly it wouldnāt even get to that point because they would have made sure to commit suicide successfully when they had the chance. Thereās no way any good, loving parent would sit through a trial and actually offer a defense for their own actions after strangling their beautiful children to death. Granted, no loving parent would commit that crime in the first place. But Iām saying that even according to the defenseās version of the case ā that she was a āgood motherā who went insane and had no control ā her actions AFTER the crime donāt add up.
To the Americans:
I've travelled all over the world. I've familiarized myself with many places, and met many people. And I'm a Canadian, although Iām privileged to reside once again in the States.
And here's something I've noticed, and itās a key element of America's continuing greatness:
You bloody Americans value success, and you believe in its existence.
This is something that doesn't really happen anywhere else in the world. Even in other free democraciesāthe United Kingdom; Finland, Sweden, and Norway; Australia, New Zealand and Canada; Germany, France, and the Netherlands (great countries all)āa counterproductive cynicism too often reigns.
Success is equated with exploitation.
Ambition is looked upon with contempt.
This happens sometimes in the United States tooāparticularly among the miserable progressives, who confuse their resentment, ingratitude and unearned skepticism with wisdom.
But in your great country, by and large, striving is admired and success celebrated.
This means that more people strive and succeed in the US than anywhere else. And it's increasingly obvious. You remain stunningly more innovative and productive than any people anywhere else on the planet.
And so I say, as all should who are fortunate enough to live in the western world, let alone America:
Thank God for the United States.
Thank God for the wisdom of its founders.
Thank God for its faith in the free market and in the natural rights of man.
Happy birthday, you damn Yankees and Southerners.
Long may your admirable country dominate the world.
Long may your freedom and hope provide an example to those suffering everywhere at the hands of their malevolent states.
May your two and a half centuries of unparallelled success be just the beginning.
Your country is the light of the world, and the city on the hill.
Thank God for the USA.
Happy 250th.
Dr. Jordan B. Peterson
@elonmusk Gracias Elon. Starlink llegando a cada municipio es un gran paso para PR. Ha hecho mĆ”s por la isla en emergencias que muchos de los nuestros. šµš·
BREAKING: Starlink will help power emergency communications across all 78 Puerto Rico municipalities.
⢠Announced by Puerto Rico Governor Jenniffer GonzÔlez Colón
⢠Puerto Rico will equip emergency management offices with Starlink satellite internet.
⢠Starlink will donate satellite antennas to Puerto Ricoās emergency management bureau
⢠The deployment will cover all 78 municipalities
⢠Designed to keep communications online during hurricanes, disasters, and emergencies
⢠Provides backup internet when cellular and fiber networks fail
⢠Helps emergency responders coordinate rescue and recovery efforts during outages
This is why Starlink matters: internet when everything else goes down.
I have heart surgery coming up next week and now understand why Iāve been so physically exhausted and out-of-sorts these past few months. The docs tell me my condition is called āatrial functional tricuspid regurgitationā and that it is āmainly due to long standing atrial fibrillation⦠The tricuspid valve is leaking severely, causing a back pressure on all the internal organs and a high jugular venous pressure.ā The procedure aims to get this old body back on the road again quickly and efficiently.Ā It is VERY LOW RISK but of course Iām grateful for any good wishes sent my way. Iām in the midst of writing a new book, the best work Iāve ever done, and Iām not going to let this stop me! I said yes to the linked podcast now, rather than after my procedure, for reasons that I explain during the interview:
https://t.co/Bec8caT7a1
Elon for the love of God please make a Mythos class model and pull their compute.
The world needs you. We are being prevented from collective truth-seeking by Dario.
Spent the entire morning hanging 1-1 with my 10 year old daughter.
ā¢Long walk. Left my phone at home.
ā¢Played a bunch of cards. Kept my phone in the other room.
We had so much fun & a couple times laughed until my cheeks hurt.
It was pure bliss & I couldn't love that little angel anymore.
My X has gotten worse, I get fewer impressions, less money etc. since making it a big focus to have many hours a day with ZERO PHONE.
But my kids are only young once & it's going FAST!
I wanna ensure I maximize my time & am super intentional with them all the these opportunities I get.
Because one day, & it'll come sooner than I care to admit, she'll be too busy with her own life & family to JUST HANG WITH DAD ALL MORNING.
Lock in parents. Kids need our PRESENCE over anything. ā¤ļø