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[Drew @drewdyck]

Ok good point

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

There’s a scene from the 1960 film version of The Time Machine that has been haunting my dreams of late.

In the film, the Time Traveller (Rod Taylor) has traveled almost a million years into the future, expecting that when he arrived he would find an advanced civilisation marked by the pursuit of learning. Instead, he finds the Eloi, a race of simple creatures in togas who are bred like cattle, and eaten, by the subterranean Morlocks.

In the film’s most harrowing scene, he’s taken by one of the Eloi to a centuries-old library housing the last books in existence, which crumble to dust in his hands.

“What have you done?” the Time Traveller demands, as the dreams of centuries turn to ash. “Thousands of years of building and rebuilding, creating and recreating! A million years, the sensitive men dying for their dreams, for what? So you can swim, and dance, and play.”

In the last couple weeks I see a lot of men on this platform arguing with a straight face that we should let AI generate our writing for us, that it’s the future, that there’s no fighting it. And I need you all to know that THIS is the ultimate end of a world in which everyone has machines write for them. There will be no more thinking, no more creative expression, no more art or literature. It’s what C. S. Lewis called “the abolition of man.” We will be no different from cattle and our libraries will turn to dust.

When ease and entertainment become the highest good, it’s not shocking that people will find clever ways to avoid work and study. But nor should it be surprising when the ultimate fate of the Eloi becomes our own.

[Liza Libes @pensandpoison]

The irony of English majors being among the least religious is that half the Western canon becomes incomprehensible if you don’t know the Bible.

[Drew @drewdyck]

C.S. Lewis on social media. So prescient.

"Picture hell as a state where everyone is perpetually concerned about his own dignity and advancement, where everyone has a grievance, and where everyone lives with the deadly serious passions of envy, self-importance, and resentment."

[Judge Stephen Dillard @JudgeDillard]

Every American should watch every second of this video.

Thank you, @BenSasse.

[TONY™ @TONYxTWO]

Artemis II Astronaut Victor Glover shares words of wisdom to his neighbors as he arrived home to a crowd 🇺🇸🙏🏼

“Let’s be this more. Let’s be neighbors. I don’t know if you heard me say it but God told us to love Him with all that we are and love our neighbors as ourselves.”

[Paul David Tripp @PaulTripp]

Here's the problem with worry - like doubt, it's God-forgetful. Doubt forgets God's goodness, and worry forgets His presence.

[Bible 365 @Bible365_]

Matthew 6:34

[Dr. Derwin L. Gray @DerwinLGray]

1 John 4:20 CSB

If anyone says, “I love God,” and yet hates his brother or sister,  he is a liar.  For the person who does not love his brother or sister  whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.

[Daniel Darling @dandarling]

It’s not weak to forgive. It’s not weak to love your enemies. It’s strength, the kind of supernatural, God-given strength that makes the demons tremble.

[Kimberly Ross @SouthernKeeks]

I am an extremely flawed human being and Christian.

But I know it’s all about Jesus.

Earthly life is temporary. Politics are temporary. Eternity is forever.

[John Podhoretz @jpodhoretz]

Here's the danger of social media. It allows people to publish their internal monologues. Our internal monologues and fantasies are often incredibly ugly. People go to therapists because they feel so guilty about them, and one of the tasks of a therapist is to explain that 1/

[Owen Strachan @ostrachan]

We are up against a terrible foe, friends. Evil is far stronger than we are. The darkness is very dark; Satan takes no days off.

But our hope is not in us. Our hope is in God. And God is much, much, much stronger than Satan. Jesus has won; Jesus is winning; Jesus will win.

[Scotty Smith @ScottyWardSmith]

Friends, the Gospel shuts down a life of hate and hating. Paul said of his pre-Jesus days: “We lived in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another. BUT when the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared, he saved us” … and everything changed. (Titus 3:3-4).

[Erick Erickson @EWErickson]

I'm seeing people on the right, many of them professing Christians, pronounce "you don't hate them enough." It seems to me that's what got us to this point. Many of them do hate us. Some of my rightwing friends on here are not Christians and have, for a long time, insisted we need to embrace the methods of the left. Some of my Christian friends have agreed. But Christianity conquered the world by being the opposite of worldly hate and I don't think now is a good time to give that up.

People on the left often tell us we cannot love the sinner without also loving their sin. Now, some in the church are claiming we need to hate both the sin and the sinner.

Being a light in an increasingly dark world and drawing others to us will be more effective than reciprocating. Just last week, Charlie Kirk gave an interview and said, “You have to try to point them towards ultimate purposes and towards getting back to the church, getting back to faith, getting married, having children...I'm trying to paint a picture of virtue of lifting people up, not just staying angry.”

Beat the left by seeking the welfare of the community in which you live. Get married. Have children. Pray for your community. There, you will find your welfare.  The world says to seek retribution.  Faith says to let Christ take care of retribution. You love God and your neighbor.  This problem we face is bigger than you. It is not bigger than God.  So be wary of those who call you away from our better angels.  It is what this evil wants.

[Daniel Darling @dandarling]

The light shines in the darkness. And the darkness has not overcome it. John 1:5

[Charlie Kirk @charliekirk11]

Tell someone about Jesus this weekend.

[Colin J. Smothers @colinsmo]

You may feel at a loss as to what you can do personally in response to such abject evil. Do this:

-Pray.
-Go to church.
-Get plugged in deep.
-And then build Christian community that emanates far beyond the church doors.

-Let's make this a Turning Point.