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A thread on our great Republic: I spent yesterday @TJMonticello the author of the #DeclarationOfIndependence our 3rd president #ThomasJefferson and standing in his study, his bedroom, reading his words, touching his papers, I found myself reflecting on the state of our nation. 1/ 
Jefferson was no doubt a complicated, conflicted man. He wrote "all men are created equal" and yet, he owned African slaves. He fathered 4 living children with his 15 year old slave #SallyHemings and kept her as his concubine until his death. A period of over 35 years. 2/
The Jefferson I admire, Is the one who believes passionately in #ReligiousFreedom and who wrote it into Virginia's fabric as a commonwealth. He understood that every generation must renew its founding ideals & documents. He believed it should happen every 19 years. 3/
🧵 Tonight's SFI Community Lecture by 2x Miller Scholar @Andrea_Wulf begins in just a few minutes!
Follow this thread for the streaming link and highlights from the talk. (Sorry, but this recording will not be available to view afterward...)
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Talk starts now with an intro by SFI Prof @C4_Computation:
Q - Flack: "Some of you might wonder how a talk on Humboldt connects to #ComplexityScience."
A - Humboldt: "Knowledge of the chain of connection....the perception of these relations."
Q - Flack: "Some of you might wonder how a talk on Humboldt connects to #ComplexityScience."
A - Humboldt: "Knowledge of the chain of connection....the perception of these relations."
Who was #AlexanderVonHumboldt?
"A man who was so restless he said he was chased by 10,000 pigs... He spent his entire inheritance on a five-year voyage of South America. They called him 'The Shakespeare of the Sciences.'"
- @andrea_wulf
"A man who was so restless he said he was chased by 10,000 pigs... He spent his entire inheritance on a five-year voyage of South America. They called him 'The Shakespeare of the Sciences.'"
- @andrea_wulf
1. Unfortunately, the statue of #ThomasJefferson that celebrates him for the #DeclarationOfIndependence & religious liberty will be removed from #NewYork #CityHall.
Here's why it should stay (or at least be displayed prominently elsewhere)
nytimes.com/2021/10/18/nyr…
Here's why it should stay (or at least be displayed prominently elsewhere)
nytimes.com/2021/10/18/nyr…
2. Historical context matters. This is not like Confederate statues put up to celebrate the Lost Cause, racism, or slavery.
It is to commemorate the equality of the Declaration of Independence.
While not perfect equality, it was a tremendous step forward in world history.
It is to commemorate the equality of the Declaration of Independence.
While not perfect equality, it was a tremendous step forward in world history.
A thread about US Presidents...
George Washington remains the ONLY President not to live in the Legendary WHITE HOUSE... #pioneer #America #WhiteHouse #Washington #POTUS
John Adams was the First Vice-President and the First President of the Inited States to occupy the White House... He was privileged to see his son (John Quincy Adams) become President as well. #johnadams #UShistory #Whitehouse #POTUS #POTUS2 #July4 #Federalist #USNavy
A free press is an indispensable part of our Constitutional system of checks & balances. It disinfects government by shining a light into the back rooms & dark places where power corrupts. The only thing a free press is enemy to is authoritarianism.
“Republics…derive their strength and vigor from a popular examination into the action of the magistrates.”
#BenFranklin
#BenFranklin
“[T]hat man may be governed by reason and truth. Our first object should therefore be, to leave open to him all the avenues to truth. The most effectual hitherto found, is the freedom of the press.”
#DeclarationOfIndependence Draft 1: The King has "waged cruel War against human Nature itself, violating its most sacred Rights of Life & Liberty in the Persons of a distant People" by kidnapping & enslaving them.
Spoiler: #Slavery got cut in round 2. /thread #HappyFourthOfJuly
Spoiler: #Slavery got cut in round 2. /thread #HappyFourthOfJuly
I'm not making this up. Here's more on the passage about #slavery that #ThomasJefferson put in the 1st draft of the #Declaration & took out of later drafts. #BlackLivesMatter blackpast.org/african-americ…
More on why #ThomasJefferson removed his fiery indictment of #slavery from later drafts of the Declaration. Fact that he was enslaving people as he wrote it was NOT the reason! #1619 #1776 history.com/news/declarati…
1) #Charlottesville Virginia, an area of less than 236k citizens (inc 7 surrounding counties) with WAY too many issues, too many connections to the top echelon of the Cabal that seemingly sets the tone for the rest of our country. There ARE no coincidences! Let's take a peek.
2) Nestled in the Blue Ridge Mtns, Cville and specifically the #UniversityofVirginia were once a beacon of hope, and represent #ThomasJefferson 's attempt to help fledgling America counter the black magik and control of the #Cabal, avoid indoctrination, and succeed as a country.
3) Charlottesville was named after Queen Charlotte. It is believed that her interest in claiming the area was due to the dark energy from the Ancient Aztecs and their extremely evil activities. TJ hoped to negate this influence by using occult knowledge to engage the light.
#American #exceptionalism?
It was never my phrase.
It is #brash. #Gauche. #Brinkmanship. #Oneupmanship.
It was never my phrase.
It is #brash. #Gauche. #Brinkmanship. #Oneupmanship.
But for every other country on earth, the #UnitedStates is the absolute worst country on earth.
We cherish #liberty but not enough to hang politicians for their every #encroachment on it.
(Remember, according to #ThomasJefferson (and all the natural rights philosophers who preceded him), the purpose of the government is to #securetheseliberties among men.)
(Remember, according to #ThomasJefferson (and all the natural rights philosophers who preceded him), the purpose of the government is to #securetheseliberties among men.)
So it started with this comment to a post on the #righttokeepandbeararms:
"People, our rights were given us by the #Constitution. Those rights you are talking about were NOT given by #God!"
"People, our rights were given us by the #Constitution. Those rights you are talking about were NOT given by #God!"
There are folks who believe this claim to be true. For example, @ChrisCuomo, who famously declared on his news program, "our rights do not come from God." (He offered no explanation of why #ThomasJefferson was wrong to claim that they do, in the #DeclarationofIndependence.)
But the assertion that our rights come from the Constitution would be #foreign to those that drafted, debated, and ratified the #BillofRights:
It is NOT true that #ThomasJefferson excised ALL of Jesus’ miracles from his so-called “bibles” (abridgements of the Gospels). Even if it was true, it is not entirely clear to me what it says about Jefferson or his goals in abridging the Gospels. #JeffersonBible
“Life and Morals of Jesus,” e.g., one of Jefferson’s “bibles,” includes Luke 14:4 (in French), reporting that Jesus healed a man with dropsy. (NB: the precise contents of "Philosophy of Jesus,” another Jefferson “bible,” is unknown, but its table of texts includes Luke 14:1-6.)
“Jefferson Bible” is a title some have given to one or both of two abridgements of the Gospels created by Thomas Jefferson, circa 1804 and 1820 respectively, by cutting selected passages from printed New Testaments, rearranging them, and then pasting them onto blank pages. #Bible
@EricHolder has asked an important question:
#When was #America #ever #great?
I realize that there is a nearly unavoidable tendency to snort and spew one's coffee when they hear or read his question for the first time. But, honestly, isn't it worth the exercise to answer it?
#When was #America #ever #great?
I realize that there is a nearly unavoidable tendency to snort and spew one's coffee when they hear or read his question for the first time. But, honestly, isn't it worth the exercise to answer it?
So, @EricHolder, I'm going to do just that, and I'm going to ask my ragtag bag of followers and detractors to contribute as well.
I'm going to offer my evidence of moments of American greatness. And I'm going to ask those that read this thread to do the same.
I'm going to offer my evidence of moments of American greatness. And I'm going to ask those that read this thread to do the same.
But wait!
There's more!
I'm going to ask my detractors and antagonists (are you seeing this @fedupaton) to contribute as well, and will welcome from them both moments of greatness and moments of shame.
There's more!
I'm going to ask my detractors and antagonists (are you seeing this @fedupaton) to contribute as well, and will welcome from them both moments of greatness and moments of shame.
