«No tengas miedo. No os conforméis con la mediocridad. Remad mar adentro y echad vuestras redes para pescar.
Te lo ruego: nunca, nunca renuncies a la esperanza, nunca dudes, nunca te canses y nunca te desanimes. No tengáis miedo».
- San Juan Pablo II
@thiagoflima@douglasgramos@pedromcp E a família (que não reservou assento) esperar o próximo vôo com assento disponível do jeito q a família quer não é uma opção?
@GFairchildE@DividonBX@sola_chad Your erroneous interpretation is based on a lack of knowledge regarding the original text and is refuted by a single question: Why change Simon's name to "Rock" before referring To Himself as "Rock"?
@GFairchildE@DividonBX@sola_chad In Aramaic there are not two different words for "Peter" and "stone." The word is the same:
Kepha (Kêfâ) = rock, stone
Therefore, the sentence would literally be:
"You are Kepha, and upon this Kepha I will build my Church"
This eliminate greek distinction between Petros and Petra
@GFairchildE@DividonBX@sola_chad Your erroneous interpretation is based on a lack of knowledge regarding the original text and is refuted by a single question: Why change Simon's name to "Rock" before referring To Himself as "Rock"?
@GFairchildE@DividonBX@sola_chad In Aramaic there are not two different words for "Peter" and "stone." The word is the same:
Kepha (Kêfâ) = rock, stone
Therefore, the sentence would literally be:
"You are Kepha, and upon this Kepha I will build my Church"
This eliminate greek distinction between Petros and Petra
@jerr_rrej "Therefore I say to you, You are Peter, and on this Stone I will build My Church, and the gates of hell will not prevail against it." Self interpretation = not inspired by God. I prefer to believe the words of Christ.
I have always ended up in a far better strategic position because of my conscious decision to accept issues and roadblocks and transgressions as part of the quest thus shifting my focus to always play the long game, I have an infallible will backed by deeply cunning grit and reverence for myself, a man who can truly choose to play the long game is always a fierce adversary because the timeline of the game never ends for him; by the time you forgot the board existed, he has been there for many nights memorising openings and all of a sudden you are trapped?
That is the beauty of persistence; you can continue playing your own games for as long as you like, which is the key to integrity and character, how deeply can you commit to what you want and what price are you willing to pay? I cannot regard a man as anywhere near my equal unless he has this concrete capacity of mind and soul, I like a man who cannot admit defeat or subservience for any reason, I will always win, not because of hope, but because I have a relentless engine of consciously weaponised hate enabling inhuman endurance and focus; never ending cauldron of force at all times which will never die meaning I can outlast any circumstance or difficulty; water cuts through rock not by force, but by constantly being direct in its will
You always have to tell yourself its your fault even when its not why didnt you see that circumstance coming? how did you not anticipate the signals? Always need to think 3 or 4 moves ahead for every area of your world; You can be resistant to the fact you always need to make the right decision but its redundant; You always need to be on time; Always need to communicate well you can accept the responsibility of becoming a conquering master and demand the universe complies to your desire to pass through the levels to find me at the top, the choice is yours my friend
The higher the standards you set for yourself across all layers of reality the greater you will be. Accept the gauntlet. Step into the arena of having accountabilibility as a binary. Im not a man who is interested in just "playing the game" I study the psychology of playing the game like a man possessed to continually grind an edge out and take the soul of anything in front of me; I havent met something I cannot defeat yet. I've had challenges that demand immutable focus, decimated. Challenges interpersonally, decimated. Challenges financially, decimated. Challenges forcing adaptation, decimated
God knows I am not a quitter in the darkest nights
Engage with war
Müslümanlar İspanya'yı fethettiklerinde güney bölgelerinden gelen mülteciler ve yapılan savaşlardan geriye kalan kılıç artıkları Emevi hükümdarlığından kaçmak için kuzeye göçtüler. Araplar ilk etapta resimdeki sarı noktada başlayan ayaklanmayı pek ciddiye almazlar. Haçlı komutanı Pelayu, kurduğu krallığı Müslüman saldırılarına karşı müstahkem bir mevki haline getirir. Emevi valilerinden Anbasa ibn Suhaym al-Kalbi daha sonra isyanı bastırmak için harekete geçsede az sayıdaki bir haçlı birliği tarafından dar bir alanda pusuya düşürülerek yenilgiye uğratılır.
Haritadaki bu küçüçük sarı nokta daha sonra İspanya ve Portekiz'in kurulmasına,Müslümanların İspanya'dan tamamen kovulmasına ve yeni kıtaların keşfine neden olacak 700 yıllık bir sürecin başlangıcını oluşturur.
When you play a video game, especially an old one, you assume that every artifact you encounter and every scene you occupy are intentionally made and thus contain nothing but signal. You must live your life with this same assumption. Failure to do so results in the mundanification and engrayment of what otherwise could be enchanting and educational.
Treating every moment as though it were a lesson and every encounter as though it were a message primes your psyche to enter into a near permanent state of annealing. It channels into an ancient present-tense attitude that signals to your entire system that you are *here* and *now* and ready for whatever encounters may bolster your ability to engage in self-becoming. If every moment is not some signal towards self-actualization, and this must include boring moments and moments of rest too, then you are giving up precious momentum with you could otherwise snowball into a great story of becoming. Everything starts with now. Pay attention!
People joke that hell will be ‘lit’ because all the famous people will be there. It is one of the most theologically illiterate things a human being can say, and almost nobody stops to explain why.
The joke assumes enjoyment exists independently of God. That pleasure is something humans discovered and God merely watches from a distance. That we are having fun he is not privy to. But that is completely backwards. God did not observe sex and decide to permit it. He invented it.
He did not stumble upon music. He is the source from which music flows. No human musician in their current state walks into heaven’s choir without being exposed. The least of them will put our greatest to shame. Every good thing we have ever experienced is derivative. A trickle from a reservoir we have never seen.
This is why the incarnation is such a devastating argument. God puts on flesh. He enters the world with full access to everything we spend our lives chasing. Wealth. Fame. Sex. Power. And he is conspicuously unimpressed.
Not because he came to perform suffering, he went to weddings, he ate, he wept, he loved people fiercely. But none of it could compete with what he already knew was real. A man who has eaten the actual meal is not tormented by the photograph of it.
Then he meets a rich man, a man who had maximized human enjoyment by every available metric, and he says: sell everything and come. Nobody says that unless they know exactly what is on the other side. That is not the language of sacrifice. That is the language of an outrageously favorable trade.
As for hell, the joke gets it completely wrong. Hell is not a party for rebels. Hell is what happens when a being built to find its fullness in God is permanently severed from the source of every good thing they ever enjoyed.
The music does not continue without him. The laughter does not continue without him. The connection does not continue without him. Because all of those were on loan from the one they are now cut off from. It is not pleasure without God. It is the final and total collapse of everything that ever made pleasure possible.
You are not enjoying something God is missing out on. You are enjoying God already, dimly, through everything he made. Heaven is not a different category of experience. It is the same thing with the glass finally removed.
San Agustín venció las tentaciones cuando dejó de fiarse solo de su propia fuerza y se abandonó a la gracia de Dios. Durante años conocía la verdad, pero seguía encadenado a sus pasiones; hasta que comprendió que la conversión exige cortar con el pecado, abrir la Escritura y pedir a Dios aquello que uno no puede darse a sí mismo.
Por eso su oración sigue siendo tan actual: «Da lo que mandas y manda lo que quieras». La castidad, la fortaleza y la conversión nacen de un alma humilde que se deja sanar por Dios.
San Agustín no venció por ser impecable, sino por dejar de huir de la gracia.
Sancte Augustine, ora pro conversione nostra.
Fuentes: San Agustín, Confesiones, VIII, 12, 29; X, 29, 40.
Neuroscience explains why most people cannot execute a long-term strategy. The prefrontal cortex can only process future rewards very abstractly and diffusely. The limbic system processes present discomfort severely. So when the current cost is perceived as very real, but the payoff is only theoretical, the brain overweights the pain. And that's not a character flaw. It's how the system is engineered to work by default. The people who succeed managed to make their future feel more present. Your nervous system is the enemy, not your character.
A gravidade não é apenas física. É também uma realidade metafísica.
A personalidade mais forte se impõe. Ela não precisa pedir espaço. Dobra as mais fracas à sua vontade e as faz gravitar em sua órbita.
Você vê isso nas artes, na sociedade, nos relacionamentos e dentro de casa. É uma verdade ontológica, inscrita na própria estrutura do ser.
Mas o que forma uma personalidade forte? A liberdade e a independência, não no sentido secular e rebelde, mas no sentido ordinário e divino: o domínio de si.
Mesmo o maior pecador, se aprende a dizer não aos prazeres efêmeros e vence suas pequenas batalhas cotidianas, adquire densidade. E tudo o que não é vazio, atrai.
Somente Deus pode dizer: “Eu Sou O que Sou.” Mas todo homem que se dobra à Sua lei participa, por analogia, dessa singularidade.
Eu sempre digo para minha esposa que não podemos deixar as circunstâncias externas, causadas por pessoas ruins como as que temos no poder, retirem o brilho dos momentos maravilhosos que temos como casal e família. E de fato, apesar de termos escolhido abrir os olhos para a dura realidade, a verdade é que cada ano que passa tem sido melhor em todos os sentidos. É por isso que eu também sempre digo aqui: não deixem a política destruir suas vidas. Não dêem a eles esse gostinho. Essas pessoas já roubam o seu esforço e o seu dinheiro, não permitam que levem também sua saúde e sua felicidade.