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Theology enthusiast/Punk rocker at heart

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Amen!

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CS Lewis for the win here

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@HSRdirector Funny how this issue is framing. Teplitskiy’s post says, “Children derail academic careers…” That’s certainly true from one point of view. But from another one could just as easily say “Academic careers often derail having children earlier in life…” Depends what is centered.

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If the Beatles had written and performed Metallica's "Master of Puppets." https://t.co/hNnJlDcIfp

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Or perhaps it would be an argument at the very least for celebrating every time an animal species goes extinct? If their very existence is more suffering than good on balance and there is no ultimate telos for their lives or existence, than why not celebrate? @glenscrivener

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@glenscrivener , listened to ur latest episode. Alex O’Connor’s arg against theism based on animal suffering far outweighing any good animals might feel is interesting. Wouldn’t that be an argument for a mass scale euthanasia program for all sentient life? https://t.co/aBHRDLjGSl

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@LuElla_DAmico @IvanaDGreco I responded with a light-hearted tone, “Oh, it’s just funny & ironic that we’ve just met & don’t know each other, yet there’s a concern that I might be prejudiced toward people of different religious backgrounds that I would have just met.” Needless to say, I didn’t get the job.

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@LuElla_DAmico @IvanaDGreco and openly expressed to me that she was concerned that I might not be able to be open and fair to students from different faiths and backgrounds (it was for a job working with international students). I slightly laughed when she said this. She asked, “What?” 2/

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@IvanaDGreco @thedispatch to gain power for it. Seems either academe needs to walk back to a more classically liberal set of foundations or one needs to find somewhere in progressivism a thread that connects to the idea that real, actual viewpoint diversity is still good for their own project.4/4

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@IvanaDGreco @thedispatch whom they already think are dangerously wrong. Ergo, if they even think there is a “truth,” they believe they already have it, so no need for viewpoint diversity. Or if they think truth is ultimately relative or unattainable, they still occupy their own truth space & aim 3/

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This is one of those crazy stories I'd never heard of till now. It is about a plastic substance a hairdresser invented called Starlite that can withstand extreme heat. The twist? The inventor never shared the formula, so no one now knows how to make it. https://t.co/LT4fseGMyY

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@shemaiahng I will turn 52 this year. That era of my childhood does elicit memories of watching Ricky Schroeder films, Gary Coleman movies, and Benji. Seriously, what ever happened to Benji? 🤓

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@HSRdirector I grew up in Arizona and had never even heard of rhubarb until my grandparents moved to Michigan and my brother and I went to live with them for a little bit. At a church picnic somebody had made rhubarb pie. I had no idea something so vegetably looking could taste so amazing!

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A worthwhile short clip of Hannah Arendt describing what can lead “normal” people to do monstrous evil.

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Evil rarely announces itself.

Hannah Arendt didn’t warn us that the greatest danger would come from monsters.

She warned us it would come from ordinary people who stop asking questions. People who trade conscience for slogans, curiosity for certainty, and morality for obedience.

The lesson of the Holocaust was never just about one man. It was about what happens when a society decides that thinking is optional.

Every generation believes it would have stood against evil.

History keeps asking the same question:

Would you have?

Or would you have simply gone along because everyone else did?

That’s why Arendt still matters. And that’s why this conversation matters. Because the opposite of evil isn’t outrage.

It’s the courage to think for yourself.

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@arthurbrooks I love the Aristotle list of types of friendship, because it is illuminating. I have realized that now, in my 50s, I know a lot of people and see various people during the week, but don’t have a lot of “virtue” friends. That explains the seasons of loneliness that can come.

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@MereLiberty @david_cort7 Agreed. Marriage and children may be some of the most common ways women and men glorify God (and that’s beautiful), but there are other ways, too, that are also amazing. If not, kind of hard to understand Jesus or Paul in God’s economy (or make sense of many parts of 1 Cor).

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@CaitlinPacific One of the many selfish cruelties of her actions will be that 12 years from now her child will be in school & their classmates will be able to look up video of their mom getting gang banged & peed on. Sincerely, I pray having a baby leads her to receiving God & changing her life.