Ryan Thompson

-The Message (Revised 2026)

If you haven't seen it, Flow is really great. My 10yo also loves older stuff like Goonies and ET

One of the most blatant forms of hypocrisy in our time is Christians holding all ordinary people accountable to the most rigid moral standards while simultaneously holding their preferred politicians and celebrities accountable to no standards at all.

Diagnostic criteria broadened just over 10 years ago, and we're also better at identifying milder cases than we used to be.

This could be about either curling or metal bands

Yes, but in the winter Olympics, many of those normies would die. Luge? Skeleton?!

Five classes I took in college:

1. Christian Killers: The Christian Ethics of War and Capital Punishment
2. Biblical Women (a feminist theology course)
3. Experiential Leadership (where I trained as a ropes course facilitator)
4. Rock Climbing
5. Religion and Film

Certainly. This is just self-perception theory. A person's own prior behaviors shape their attitudes and values.

A few years ago I was asked to lead a panel for college students about "healthy masculinity" and my basic position was that you can't really differentiate it from being a decent human.

Akin to being unable to fight one's way out of a wet paper bag.

I think about this a lot

It's why I stopped giving extra credit when I taught undergrad. I was spending too much time grading things for students who didn't need it.

That's awful. I'm sorry you have to deal with that!

Omg. We had this book. Had to get rid of it for this reason.

*competent, not component

Should also be noted that there are healthy reasons to seek power, such as when a highly component and emotionally mature individual rightfully believes they can make a difference. The problem is that a lot of people incorrectly believe they are highly competent and emotionally mature

It depends on several factors, but a big one is personality traits. E.g., neurotic people seek power because controlling things means they understand the rules which feels safe. Antisocial people seek power because they feel fulfilled and excited by ruling over others.

So much low-hanging fruit just abandoned.

I'm so sorry, man. I don't mean to be insensitive by asking this but... is she doing hand motions to Big House?

Man, that's hard to believe

Cannon Beach, OR

Technically it doesn't. But our system only works if at least two of the three branches want the country to be functional.

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An ungovernable faith By refusing to swear oaths, 16th-century Anabaptists took away the state’s primary tool for...

"We are, by baptism, a people who do not obey in advance. In baptism, we have already given our fealty, and we cannot give it again." @melissaf-b.bsky.social www.christiancentury.org/article/ungo...

Yes, and there are many others like "Oregon" that are probably indigenous words, but we don't know enough about them. You know, because we intentionally erased people's histories.

I'll have to invite the fam

Will readily believe in anything they think will hurt people they don't like.

The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.

— Howard Zinn

It's important to separate the art from the artist. I don't condone the rampant hooliganism of the Riverbottom Nightmare Band, but can't deny how much I dig their Blue Öyster Cult-meets-Beefheart styled songcraft.

After all the years of claims that our government is persecuting Christians, now they're actually going to.