cavitae

Today I saw an anti-ICE protest on the main street of my ultraconservative small Kansas exurb hometown. I’m typically a “nothing ever happens” sort of guy but if the Rs have lost this crowd, it is over.

you watched Facing the Giants yet? was the talk of my whole evangelical church back when it dropped

maybe we can talk about this once it’s the common dem position to affirm the humanity and rights of trans people at least as directly as he has

I’m becoming increasingly sensitive to Scripture as a text of rupture, strata, and incomplete enclosure. The drive to find a totalizing narrative is suspiciously similar to the fascist project.

i’d be curious to know the extent of her influence on the alt-right via Nick Land; she is frequently referenced in CCRU texts

what a cool idea!

we may be so incredibly back

If you do not believe in a gender transition of the physical body, how can you claim to believe in spiritual regeneration? He who took the heart of stone and gave a heart of flesh, can He not do the same for the rest of the body? For it is the Spirit who gives life.

Lots of people who used to say this to me turned out to have pretty suboptimal relationships with their spouse, kids, neighbors of other nationalities, folks with different beliefs, speakers of non-English languages, etc.

Makes you wonder if they ever understood relationships to begin with!

“you shall be called the repairer of the breach, the restorer of streets to live in.” — Isa 58:12b

Third Isaiah is undefeated; this small passage alone is worth years of meditation.

if you can close your eyes and touch your eyelid, contacts are no different

Whenever I mention I wear contacts in a conversation with someone, they ALWAYS say “oh I could never touch my eye”

Do non-contact wearers understand that you don’t touch your eye when inserting and removing contacts?

Equality of man in God’s image. Equality in the new birth. Borders and divisions always only anti-capitulated in Trinity. Absolute regeneration possible everywhere, for the wind blows where it chooses.

“The Spirit told me to go with them and not to make a distinction between them and us.”

“As amongst those who are regenerate there are different degrees of holiness and righteousness, one, it may be, far exceeding another, yet there is between them no difference of state and condition, they are all equally regenerate.”

John Owen on the Holy Spirit, III.1

this style looks great

damn neither of us Spartacus

Need this so bad

which train?

from Faith in Gods and in God: “There is nothing distinctive or peculiar about a Protestant’s interest in the ultimate theological problem” alright bro so are you just a Protestant for the vibes? what are you talking about

H. Richard Niebuhr this is about you

the central question i come back to is: what do you choose to do with a power differential in your favor? Do you deny it exists and thereby relegate it to unconscious bias, do you embrace it to oppress others, or do you put in the work to help people?

relevant texts: Matt 20:20-28, all of Neh

do you feel like this gives them more distinct layers? my plain flour biscuits are basically quickbread lumps

this is one of the most spiritually true things i have ever read

The classic playbook

1) Soothes the father who is the actual sexual threat but cannot admit it
2) Justifies higher control
3) Does not achieve its ostensible purpose in the first place, ensuring both 1 and 2 can escalate.

Fascism is this same violence-generation machine plugged into politics.

1) densely unfolding treatise on the deeply-rooted forces that drive someone into either death or redemption
2) French

Calvin’s Institutes

Anti-oedipus

There’s a theological anti-fascist connection here but I can’t describe it yet

ty for the combo guides 🙏

Disappointed by the 2XKO console launch. Major performance issues and screen tearing during matches. IMO this is not a state fit to show at a major like Frosty.

Game is fun though, just hope they get it fixed before the next big offline tournament.

#2XKO

From Isaiah 1 Stop bringing meaningless offerings! Your incense is detestable to me. New Moons, Sabbaths and convocations— I cannot bear your worthless assemblies. 14 Your New Moon feasts and your appointed festivals I hate with all my being. They have become a burden to me; I am weary of bearing them. 15 When you spread out your hands in prayer, I hide my eyes from you; even when you offer many prayers, I am not listening. Your hands are full of blood! 16 Wash and make yourselves clean. Take your evil deeds out of my sight; stop doing wrong. 17 Learn to do right; seek justice. Defend the oppressed.[a] Take up the cause of the fatherless; plead the case of the widow.

BREAKING: we have a statement from someone alleged to be one of the protesters who interrupted the SBC church service: