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Nullius in verba

[Maine Mainer 🫎🦞🌲 @Mainer_63]

@EricLDaugh #ThomasSowell

[BODEGA PEPTIDES @bigsnugga]

please stop what you’re doing and watch this shit

[Crow's Nest @CrowsNest2023]

As I survey the accumulating evidence that a fine-tuner is responsible for the existence of intelligent physical life, an impression of purpose comes into sharper focus. In the last few years of researching the scientific literature for evidence that points to a creator, it has become increasingly apparent to me that every component of and event in the universe, Earth, and Earth's life plays some role in a grand plan to allow billions of human beings to not only exist but also recognize and respond to a gracious offer of redemption from all that causes devastation and death.

Nontheists may attempt to argue that the evidence of fine-tuning has no philosophical or theological significance. And yet they cannot help but admit that everything 'appears' designed at some level. Even scientists who flatly reject the notion of a designer continue to write books and articles about this apparent design. With time, its source becomes increasingly difficult to ignore or explain from a naturalistic perspective.

The mystery of nature's exquisite fine-tuning draws us ever more deeply into researching its details. New instruments allow us to probe with ever-increasing precision the complexities we had previously missed. And, at every step along the way, the impression of purposeful design grows stronger, not weaker, giving us more reasons to believe our existence is no accident. We humans are creatures of destiny.

#HughRoss

The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith
📙 ©2021

#IntelligentDesign
#Science
#Faith

[Crow's Nest @CrowsNest2023]

Close to three-quarters of today's federal spending can be described as Congress taking the earnings of one American to give to another through thousands of handout programs, such as farm subsidies, business bailouts, and welfare.

#WalterEWilliams

American Contempt for Liberty
📗 ©2015

#TermLimits
#Congress
#Money

[Crow's Nest @CrowsNest2023]

In the history of the last two hundred years we can discern two distinctive ideological trends. There was first the trend toward freedom, the rights of man, and self-determination. This individualism resulted in the fall of autocratic government, the establishment of democracy, the evolution of capitalism, technical improvements, and an unprecedented rise in standards of living. It substituted enlightenment for old superstitions, scientific methods of research for inveterate prejudices. It was an epic of great artistic and literary achievements, the age of immortal musicians, painters, writers, and philosophers. And it brushed away slavery, serfdom, torture, inquisition, in other remnants of the dark ages.

In the second part of this period individualism gave way to another trend, the trend toward state omnipotence. Men now seem eager to vest all powers in government, i.e., in the apparatus of social compulsion and coercion. They aim at totalitarianism, that is, conditions in which all human affairs are managed by governments. They hail every step toward more government interference as progress toward a more perfect world; they are confident that the governments will transform the earth into a paradise. Characteristically, nowadays in the country's furthest advanced toward totalitarianism even the use of the individual citizens leisure time is considered as a task of government.

#LudwigvonMises
@mises

Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War
📗 ©1944

#Totalitarianism
#Freedom
#Socialism

[The Wonder of Tolkien @TolkienWonder]

Tolkien was asked WHY he wrote the stories of Middle-earth. This was his answer...

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

The Danxia mountain trail

What’s your comfort level

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Cats

[NellyIvan @JS6SACP8OsC56]

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[Restoring Your Faith in Humanity @HumanityChad]

Here’s to compassion that knows no boundaries, to grace extended to all living things, especially the vulnerable and those in need. Here’s to those who go out of their way, who see suffering and refuse to look away, who see a creature in distress and choose to act.

[Maine Mainer 🫎🦞🌲 @Mainer_63]

#ThomasSowell

[Commentary - Sowell Economics @sowelleconomics]

Thomas Sowell: The 2008 crisis wasn’t a market failure, politicians forced banks to make risky mortgages in the name of “affordable housing,” then blamed the markets when it predictably collapsed.

[Maine Mainer 🫎🦞🌲 @Mainer_63]

#JesusIsLord
https://t.co/NwwhlhkChm

[Yourfavtallboyy @fermsyishere]

A 58-year-old Atheist Adam Curry who set out to debunk God as a conspiracy theory tells Joe Rogan why he now believes.

Adam: I've looked at every conspiracy theory: the moon landing, 9/11, JFK. The one I'd never looked at was God. I'm 58, and I've never been a religious guy. I started reading and asking questions of a couple of Christians I work with. They answered, and nobody pushed anything on me. There's a huge amount written about Jesus, including contemporary books like Evidence That Demands a Verdict.

Adam: I'll tell you, Joe, it changed my outlook on life. It may sound weird coming from me, but I'm all in. Prayer is powerful. It makes me a very happy person.

Joe Rogan: Writing about a thing doesn't mean it happened. Lots of people review and write about The Shining, but that doesn't make it real. How would you know a guy who lived 2,000 years ago was the Son of God?

Adam: I'm not saying I can prove it. I read for three weeks, and the evidence kept coming. Everyone's flawed, and you're forgiven as long as you try to be better. For me it's about love.

Joe: Do you think it's like psychological software you can run? Is that why it's effective, because you don't freak out when things aren't smooth?

Adam: The code is the Bible. I hadn't thought of it that way, but I like it.

Joe: You could prove people believed it. You couldn't prove he was the Son of God.

Adam: Of course not. And if he was, we're all children of God.

Joe: I'm with that.

He set out to debunk it like any other conspiracy theory. He says the evidence went the other way.

[Crow's Nest @CrowsNest2023]

Historically, the longing to be free has played a major role in the human drama. Robert Green Ingersoll wrote: “What light is to the eyes—what air is to the lungs—what love is to the heart—liberty is to the soul of man.”

#JohnLennox

Determined to Believe
📕 ©2017

#Freedom
#Liberty
#Faith

[Crow's Nest @CrowsNest2023]

Self-styled liberals and progressives are honestly convinced that they are true democrats. But their notion of democracy is just the opposite of that of the nineteenth century. They confuse democracy with socialism. They not only do not see that socialism and democracy are incompatible but they believe that socialism alone means real democracy.

#LudwigvonMises

Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War
📗 ©1944

#Socialism
#Democrats
#Marxism

[Maine Mainer 🫎🦞🌲 @Mainer_63]

#Kramer #Seinfeld

[Crow's Nest @CrowsNest2023]

This may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today. The Western world has lost its civil courage, both as a whole and separately, in each country, each government, each political party, and of course in the United Nations.

Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable among the ruling groups and the intellectual elite, causing an impression of loss of courage by the entire society. Of course there are many courageous individuals, but they have no determining influence on public life. Political and intellectual bureaucrats show depression, passivity, and perplexity in their actions and in their statements, and even more so in theoretical reflections to explain how realistic, reasonable, as well as intellectually and even morally warranted it is to base state policies on weakness and cowardice. And decline encourage is ironically emphasized by occasional explosions of anger and inflexibility on the part of the same bureaucrats when dealing with weak governments and weak countries, not supported by anyone, or with currents that cannot offer any resistance. But they get tongue-tied and paralyzed when they deal with powerful governments and threatening forces, with aggressors and International terrorists.

Should one point out that from ancient times decline in courage has been considered the beginning of the end?

#AlexanderSolzhenitsyn

“The Exhausted West”

Harvard Magazine
📃 © July/August 1978

#Courage
#West
#Geopolitics

[Crow's Nest @CrowsNest2023]

It is almost universally recognized that the West shows all the world a way to successful economic development, even though in the past years it has been strongly disturbed by chaotic inflation. However, many people living in the West are dissatisfied with their own society. They despise it or accuse it of not being up to the level of maturity attained by mankind. A number of such critics turn to socialism, which is a false and dangerous current.

I hope that no one present will suspect me of offering my personal criticism of the Western system to present socialism as an alternative. Having experienced applied socialism in a country where the alternative has been realized, I certainly will not speak for it. The well-known Soviet mathematician Shafarevich, a member of the Soviet Academy of Science, has written a brilliant book under the title 'Socialism'; it is a profound analysis showing that socialism of any type and shade leads to a total destruction of the human spirit and to a leveling of mankind unto death. Shafarevich’s book was published in France almost two years ago and so far no one has been found to refute it. It will shortly be published in English in the United States.

#AlexanderSolzhenitsyn

“The Exhausted West”

Harvard Magazine
📃 © July/August 1978

#Socialism
#Marxism
#CRT

[Crow's Nest @CrowsNest2023]

In all nations today the “progressives” are eager to substitute socialism for capitalism.

#LudwigvonMises

Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War
📗 ©1944

#Capitalism
#Socialism
#Leftists

[Crow's Nest @CrowsNest2023]

#Socialism

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

If you see a spider climbing and standing on raised legs with its abdomen pointed upwards, then releasing silk threads into the air, it's because it's on the brink of ballooning.

Using ballooning, spiders can reach altitudes of up to 2.5 miles (4 kilometers) and travel hundreds of miles. They are often the first pioneers to colonize new volcanic islands and have even been found landing on ships in the middle of the ocean.

While scientists historically believed that wind alone lifted the spiders, modern research proves they also harness the Earth’s global atmospheric electrical circuit. The silk threads pick up negative static charges, which are repelled by the negative charge of the ground, lifting the spider into the air even on completely windless days.

[Crow's Nest @CrowsNest2023]

The August 18, 2007 issue of the distinguished British magazine 'The Economist' reveals the economic progress in Brazil, Argentina, and other Latin American nations that has given a better life to millions of their poorest citizens.

Some of the economic policies that have led to these results are discussed in 'The Economist' but it is doubtful that members of the political left will stampede there to find out what those policies were.

They have shown no such interest in how tens of millions of people in China and tens of millions of people in India have risen out of poverty within the past generation.

Despite whatever the left may say, or even believe, about their concern for the poor, their actual behavior shows their interest in the poor to be greatest when the poor can be used as a focus of the left denunciations of society.

When the poor stop being poor, they lose the attention of the left. What actions on the part of the poor, or what changes in the economy, have led to drastic reduction in poverty seldom arouse much curiosity, much less celebration.

#ThomasSowell

Dismantling America
📗 ©2010

#Leftists
#Poverty
#Economics