Charles Peters

Not inclined to suffer fools gladly, nor to confuse 'snark' with 'smart.' Kruger-Dunning midwits ignored. Amor Fati.

[Charles Peters @twit9963]

When a Data Center's Promise Dries Up (and What It Means for Arizona) https://t.co/iDzUBasZIC

[Farhan @mhdfaran]

🚨 The most powerful man in the world had a secret morning ritual.

Every day before sunrise, Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome, commander of 400,000 soldiers, the most absolute ruler on Earth) sat alone with a wax tablet and reminded himself that he was going to die, that everything he loved would disappear, and that none of it was under his control.

He called it Memento Mori. It was 1 of 10 techniques he used to stay sane through plague, war, and the slow corruption of his only son.

I turned the 10 into Claude prompts.

You describe whatever emotional weather you're facing... and it runs you through the same exercise Marcus did at sunrise in his tent.

Here are all 10:

[Illimitable Man (IM) @SovereignIM]

@BonesawMD “The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you.”

— Werner Heisenberg

[Giorgio @perennialmystic]

“We are not separated from the divine; we are only separated from perceiving it.”

— Plotinus

[Charles Peters @twit9963]

@softrebels @ThrillaRilla369 Amen

[Neyazuddin Ansari @riyazz_ai]

The manifestation practices that work aren't magic.

They're neuroscience that was labeled "woo" because people couldn't explain the mechanism yet.

Now we can.

→ Visualize = rewire the brain
→ Gratitude = change the filter
→ Posture = shift hormones
→ Clean your space = change autopilot behavior
→ Meditate = build a calmer brain
→ Write before sleep = consolidate new patterns

Harvard proved every piece.

Which finding surprised you most? 👇

Save this.

[Charles Peters @twit9963]

@BarrySGraham @JanDubauskas @scottsdaleazgov @MichelleUgenti @AdamKwasman @gblaire @BobLittlefield @MarkMcCurdy @TungetCatherine @azgop_ld4 @JosephChaplik Thanks for your hard/smart work, Councilman Graham. Glad to see asphalt trumping ideology and a laser-focus on maintaining and improving our basic services.

[Faithfulness Okom @AttorneyF_]

I went back to read the resurrection accounts of Matthew and John this morning and noticed something interesting. The first words out of Jesus’ mouth after the resurrection were “go tell my brothers.” And it brought me to tears.

Matthew 28:10. Read it slowly. The stone has just rolled back. Death has just been defeated for the first time in human history. The most consequential moment in the cosmos has just occurred. And the risen King opens his mouth and calls us brothers.
But Matthew alone might not stop you.

So go to John 20:17, where he tells Mary what to tell them:

“I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.”
He does not say “the Father.” He does not say “God.” He says MY Father is now YOUR Father. MY God is now YOUR God.

He rises and the first thing he does is redistribute the inheritance.

This is where most people misread the resurrection. They treat it as a power demonstration. Jesus proved he was God. Jesus showed death who was boss. And those things are true but they are not the point. The point is what he did with the power once he had it.

Because what I have learned in my few years on earth is that when men have power, the immediate instinct is to reclassify.

The people who were their peers become subordinates. The people who called you brother now call you sir. We have seen it in offices, in governments, in churches. Elevation changes vocabulary.

The higher a man rises the lonelier the pronoun “we” becomes.

Jesus rose to the highest position in the universe and his vocabulary did not change. He came back and said brothers. He said your Father. He said our God. He reclassified upward. He used his exaltation not to press us into subjects but to pull us into sons.

This is the actual consequence of the resurrection: ADOPTION. A dead savior cannot make you a son. A dead elder brother cannot bring you into the family. He had to conquer death because brothers share in each other’s life and he could not give us what he had not first secured himself.

Romans 8:29 calls him the firstborn among many brothers. Firstborn means there are others coming. You are not a spectator of his resurrection. You are its intended outcome.

The crowned King looked across the infinite chasm between his holiness and your humanity and the word he chose was not “subject.” It was not “servant.” It was not even “beloved.”
He said brother.

On the other side of death, with all authority in heaven and earth, he said brother.

So celebrate today for everything it is. Celebrate the empty tomb, celebrate the vindication of a man the world tried, condemned, and buried, and whom heaven refused to leave in the ground. Celebrate the sins that are gone and the immeasurable, uncontainable, universe-rearranging power of God on full display.

But do not miss the most beautiful thing.

He did not just cancel your debt. He gave you a name. He did not just acquit you. He adopted you. Forgiveness would have been everything. Sonship is more than everything. And he gave us both.

The risen King called us brothers. That means the Father he returned to is the Father we are returning to. That means the glory he walked into is the glory we are walking toward. That means Easter is not just the day Jesus won.
It is the day you inherited everything he won it for.

Hallelujah! He is risen.

[Charles Peters @twit9963]

@AdamKwasman Sadly, bending a knee to a powerful constituency to ensure political survival is an action common to many if not most politicians. To call it ‘rational’ is true only in the narrowest, most transactional sense of the term.

[Leo @SpartanPsyche]

The hardest skill to build is not confidence or motivation, but patience with yourself during slow progress. Most people abandon paths that would have changed their lives simply because improvement did not arrive fast enough to reassure their ego.

[Charles Peters @twit9963]

@BarrySGraham @Rotary @Scottsdale @drshebesta @JanDubauskas @azgop_ld4 @AZLD8GOP @AdamKwasman Delivery value and resident-friendly service. Keep up the good work, Councilman Graham!

[Charles Peters @twit9963]

@Jbooty88 Buckeye fan/grad here — great analysis, per usual, JB.

[Charles Peters @twit9963]

@ALegalProcess @AmerWomenAction Excellent news!

[Charles Peters @twit9963]

@Pergament_F Congratulations

[Charles Peters @twit9963]

@SurikTorosyan @charlesmurray Excellent point.

[Charles Peters @twit9963]

@elonmusk Will it be available as a standalone app?

[Charles Peters @twit9963]

@ScottsdaleVoter Why does the mayor have such thin skin when it comes to public criticism?

[Charles Peters @twit9963]

@ALegalProcess Very important issue. Young minds are especially vulnerable to this type of ‘infection’ both by virtue of their lack of development and their social media culture.

[Barry Graham @BarrySGraham]

Thank you Scottsdale Independent for sharing a brief Q&A 😊📰🏜️

[Charles Peters @twit9963]

@BarrySGraham @azgop_ld4 @AzNewsmedia @JanDubauskas @AdamKwasman @BobLittlefield @scottsdaleazgov @NSIndependent @AZLD8GOP @realLD3AZGOP @MaricopaGOP Excellent Q&A. Well done.