@AaronLCannon "I owe you an honest explanation. I *was* at the meeting, but not in the way you might expect. When you said 'the 5pm meeting yesterday', I took that as an invitation to imagine what the meeting were like had I been there. And that's the mistake."
Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. #MagnificaHumanitas
Last night, I made a simple request on X. I asked if anybody visiting Arlington National Cemetery for Memorial Day would stop by Alan’s grave and leave a photo for our family.
What happened next honestly caught me off guard.
By this afternoon, dozens of Americans from all walks of life had made the walk to Section 60 to visit SSG Alan W. Shaw. Veterans. Families. Complete strangers. People who had never met Alan, but chose to honor him anyway.
For one day on social media, people put aside the constant noise and negativity and came together for something bigger than themselves. My notifications filled with photos, kind messages, prayers, and stories from people honoring not just Alan, but so many of our fallen heroes.
I don’t think people fully understand what moments like this mean to Gold Star families. The fear is never just losing them. It’s losing them slowly over time as the world moves on and fewer people remember their name.
But today showed me that Alan will never be forgotten.
After years of watching social media reward some of the worst parts of humanity, today gave me a reminder that the good is still out there too.
Thank you to every single person who stopped by to visit Alan today, said his name, shared his story, or took a moment to honor the fallen.
This right here is the America Alan knew and loved enough to fight and die for.
And today, y’all showed us all that it’s still here and it’s still worth fighting for. 🇺🇸
@emzanotti@BladeDoc I r thought of getting six hens because I have two little girls. We live near the Vanderbilt.) I’ve figured eggs would cost me about $15/dozen the first year, $6 or $7 the following years. Does that sound about right?
@Thankful4Usa@GatorRob777@PetriOP@AbbyJohnson Catholics who actually understand what this sacrament is about understand they’re not really confessing to a priest, they’re
confessing to Jesus - literally. The priest is there *In persona Christi*. I’d suggest you try to understand that. It might help you stop being an ass.
@BeSaintly I honestly don’t understand iconoclasm. People obviously have a tendency to start “worshipping” all kinds of things (money, career success, technology, social media validation, relationships, political ideologies), but worshiping statues is hard for me to wrap my head around.
@DaleMCoulter I’ve spent several hours today reading about how and why reformed Christians think that a desire - even if it only lasts for a trillionth of a second, is not entertained, consented to, or acted upon - is itself sin. I think this is a big reason why I’m Catholic.