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nevertheless I live; yet not I...

[John Dickson @johnpauldickson]

Christians were reading Homer's The Odyssey from the beginning, and sometimes they recast the story as a call to Christ. Here is Clement of Alexandria (AD 200) turning Odysseus' escape from the Sirens into a picture of finding Christ:
"Let us then avoid mere pagan custom as we would a dangerous headland, or the threatening Charybdis, or the mythic sirens ... A heavenly spirit comes to your help: pass by Pleasure, she beguiles ... Sail past the song; it works death. Bound to the wood of the Cross, you shall be freed from destruction. The Word of God will be your pilot, and the Holy Spirit will bring you to anchor in the haven of heaven." (Clement, Exhortation to the Greeks, §12)
Clement has transformed Homer's story. The dreaded Charybdis becomes pagan custom. The Sirens become the temptations of the world. The mast which saved Odysseus becomes the Cross. Christ is the captain. The Holy Spirit is the guide into the harbour of heaven.
Christopher Nolan is hardly the first to sing Homer in a Christian key.

[John Dickson @johnpauldickson]

Join me for the inaugural Edwin Judge Lecture at my alma mater @Macquarie_Uni in honour of one of Australia's leading academic figures. I'll be speaking on “Rome, Athens, and Jerusalem: How the Fourth Century Made Our World” at 7 pm on Monday, 10 August: https://t.co/9WAsVrf62I

[Anime Tweets @AnimexTwts]

29 YEARS OF PEAK FICTION

[G. K. Chesterton @GKCdaily]

A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.

[Egriselda López @EgriseldaL]

One week to go.

On 6–7 July, governments, the private sector, academia, the technical community, and civil society will come together for the first-ever Global Dialogue on AI Governance.

This is the start of a new chapter: bringing together diverse voices to exchange ideas, forge partnerships, and help shape AI governance for the benefit of all.

See you in Geneva.

#AIDialogue #AIGovernance

[VL Luffy 👑 @LuffyVL_56]

One piece Elbaph arc takes over Time Square

[Morning Brew ☕️ @MorningBrew]

. "We're hitting them hard"
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"A deal is close" 🔁 "A deal is close"
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"We're hitting them hard"

[John Dickson @johnpauldickson]

The towering intellect of third-century Christianity, Origen of Alexandria (185–253), opened his celebrated rebuttal of Greek arguments against Christianity with a striking claim: the best defence of Jesus Christ is not a series of counter-arguments from an educated elite like himself, but simply "Christ's own life and actions" and “the lives of His genuine disciples.”
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"Our Saviour and Lord Jesus Christ was silent when false witnesses spoke against him, and answered nothing when he was accused; he was convinced that all his life and actions among the Jews were better than any speech in refutation of the false witness and superior to any words that he might say in reply to the accusations ... He is still silent in face of this and does not answer with his voice; but he makes his defence in the lives of his genuine disciples, for their lives cry out the real facts and defeat all false charges, refuting and overthrowing the slanders and accusations." (Origen, Contra Celsum, Preface 1-3)

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

Size doesn’t matter!
All cats on Earth run on identical internal software. 😂

[𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐝𝐞 ☠️ @oshoma33]

I have priorities

[EH @neibor]

@johnpauldickson Reposting cause I want to come back to this. John Dickson and Miroslav Volf, I admire both of them deeply and have learnt tons from them, so excited!!!!

[EH @neibor]

@MorningBrew Taco Tuesday + 5 de mayo

[G. K. Chesterton @GKCdaily]

My own political philosophy is very plain and humble; I can trust the uneducated, but not the badly educated.

[G. K. Chesterton @GKCdaily]

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

[Angela Duckworth @angeladuckw]

Ten years ago, I published Grit. In those pages, I wrote down everything I’d discovered about world-class achievers and how passion and perseverance set them apart.

Since then I’ve been studying the situations that make world-class achievement possible.

My research shows that the situation shapes you—but you have the power to shape it first. How?

1. Set up your personal space.

2. Pick your peers.

3. Attract mentors.

4. Choose your culture.

Getting situated means finding the people and places that bring out your best.

Grit is great, but to realize your potential, you also need to get situated.

Pre-order Situated. Out September 1st.

https://t.co/dOaoXp8zE6

[G. K. Chesterton @GKCdaily]

In every century, in this century, in the next century, the Passion is what it was in the first century, when it occurred; a thing stared at by a crowd. It remains a tragedy of the people; a crime of the people; a consolation of the people; but never merely a thing of the period.

[Holy Bible @Holy__Bible1]

A Lot Can Happen in a Week.
#palmsunday