This is the type of side quest our greatest artists are on because no one will commission them to paint naked statues of great warriors with tiny penises anymore.
I just want everyone to understand that America has not been trying. We bully our smart kids. We spend 1000 times more on special education than gifted and talented programs. We eliminated honors classes in the name of equality. We even came up with a replacement for phonics so stupid that half our kids can’t read. Then we take the smartest kids that survive this system, and we racially and sexually discriminate against them for entry into college. Then we do that again when they apply for their first job. And again for every job after that. Then we undercut them in favor of foreign labor that’ll do worse work for cheaper. Most kids see this and just say “fuck it” and focus on sports, or trying to be an influencer, or just give up on trying altogether. Meanwhile in places like China every kid spends 16 hours a day studying trig tables or gets the belt. Yet America is still number one. In everything. There is so much latent potential in the American people. We have tried before. We crossed a continent and carved this country out of clay. We recrossed the oceans and conquered the world by accident as a favor to our friends. One day (hopefully soon), we are going to start trying again. America will wake up. Don’t be on the wrong side when it does.
This incoherent argument resurfaces every few years since 2016-17. It’s a stupid Uniate/ecumenist argument that ignores 2 ways of naming God that St Maximos mentions in the first several pages of 200 Chapters. Naming God in contrast to creation can include Pure Act or First Cause.
Naming God by His essence or in the Intra-Trinitarian life as “pure act” or “first cause” is heterodox obviously. RCism does not make this distinction (think filioque!) in naming Orthodox do.
Furthermore, the latinizing attempt to make Palamas a Thomist is condemned in the 4th Palamite Synod here: https://t.co/OjhflhKRMk
https://t.co/AyS9u0OOVT
A friend of mine just sent me this note:
"And just like that, millions of Protestants and Evangelicals understand the veneration of the martyred saints."
>Eliminate property taxes
>No one’s ever forced to sell
>Supply of homes goes down
>New buyers can afford bigger mortgage
>Demand for homes goes up
>Homes cost more than ever
>No funding for schools or police
@catholicrob “Those who cannot conceive Friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of Eros betray the fact that they have never had a Friend.”
- CS Lewis