Ben Marsh

Bingo!

The thing that was this considered a marker of the out group is now a requirement of the in-group.

I wish I had a better word for it

And by " elevates" I don't just mean, " practices or makes it a part" but actually redefines the very genre to now include something that was otherwise totally against.

It is now sacred to have immoral politicians

It is now sacred for the transhumanists to be the most basic inhuman animals.

Sanction, perhaps, in the old sense. But it goes beyond that, to a form of worship. Post-humanism is supposed to transcend the animal side but instead elevates it. The church is supposed to seek the glory of God and moral righteousness, but instead elevates immorality

I believe what they're doing is the same thing the church at large is doing with respect to the morality of their chosen politicians

I haven't come up with the right word, "blessing" doesn't quite give it the right pathos.

It's essentially a sacred showing of approval. Shifting definitions

Goodness gracious, there's so much deep psychological analysis that needs to go into the fact that the most post-human technocratic futurists are also the ones most satisfied by the basis of human animalistic desires.

Elon Musk having all these kids by different women does nothing transcendent.

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Why evangelicals couldn't care less about Trump's Epstein scandal They have a long history of falling for narcissists posing as Saviors.

I worked with Rob in DC as part of the machine

This is truth.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I still wish I could get an audiobook of Jennifer coolidge reading the psalms

The toast is French or it's what the French do to toast or frenching is a way of treating toast or the toast just likes cigarettes and coffee for breakfast

One thing about being a tragedy mom is that no one wants to tell you the good things in their life, so for a long time you only hear about the bad things happening to people, or people stop talking to you at all. Always keep talking to sad moms! Screw up, say the wrong thing, fumble, and keep going

Yeah, it's kind of a weirdo hypercalvinism that you don't even really find in Calvin.

Kind of a outgrowth of John Piper I think

Looks like an outside dining area at The Villages. All that’s missing is a guy in the corner playing greatest hits from the rock n roll era.

The title and picture don't say it, but he was pulled over by ice and regrets his vote in 2024. That's the shame guilt and anger.

"I feel shame, guilt, and anger at the same time"

Problem is the only resolution to these emotions here is repentance, which cannot be forced from the outside.

Finally watched the fassbender Macbeth

It's just soooo breathy. Someone talk at a level higher than murder show podcaster please.

didnt realize John Piper played bass for Nickel Creek way back in the day

My denomination's tri-annual meeting just discussed a proposal on Track 2 Medical Assistance in Dying, during which the author confessed that he knew very little about the topic, few were familiar with it, and words like "disability" and "disabled" were never used, erasing us from the discussion.

*pastors / leaders, not churches.

I mis wrote - the number should be of pastors, not churches, and that was a very fluid number from Shirer apparently!

Throwing a celsius on my instacart pickup order and winking at the suggestion that I use it to power my workout. Brother, I am using this to see God from my computer chair.

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Sounds right! I don't have another direct source atm

Game of thrones but in a cyberpunk world and instead of dragons it's giant felines called lasercats.

It's just a generality I've seen repeated a few times. I highly doubt there's any sort of fully accurate numbers out there on that

No, just generalizing. Some of them were, a lot of them were not until it was far too late. I'd imagine the number was a lot smaller than that, even in 1933

Most horrors in the world are enabled by people who don't want to rock the boat.