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Sep 12

In 2004, Navy Cmdr. David Fravor chased a white “Tic Tac” that dropped 50,000 feet in seconds, hovered, and darted off faster than a missile.

Radar and infrared confirmed it.

Physics can't explain it.

What if this sighting and others like it connect to visions in scripture? 🧵

Ezekiel, 6th century BC.

He described “wheels within wheels” of fire, full of eyes, rising and darting across the sky.

Scholars call it prophecy.

Yet the imagery—rotating forms, luminous movement—matches reports from pilots millennia later.

Were they both seeing the same reality?

Fatima, 1917.

Seventy thousand people in a Portuguese field claimed the sun spun, plunged, and threw rainbow colors across the sky.

Eyewitnesses included skeptics and reporters.

Miracle? Mass hallucination?

Or the same luminous disc phenomenon tracked today by pilots and radar?

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Sep 11

9/11 didn’t just collapse towers, it collapsed belief.

In Institutions and In purpose.

24 years later, what’s rising in its place isn’t chaos.

It’s something more seductive and far more dangerous. 👇

Historians William Strauss and Neil Howe called it The Saeculum — a four-phase cycle of human history:

• The High
• The Awakening
• The Unraveling
• The Crisis

We are now deep inside the last one. The Crisis.

Every few generations, society hits a Fourth Turning, a total crisis that tears through its myths and rebuilds from the ashes.

• Revolution
• Civil war
• Depression
• Global war

Each cycle ends the same way: something must be reborn.

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Sep 7

What if the greatest British export isn’t the language or the empire…

…but a sense of timeless beauty etched in stone and paint?

Most people don’t realize how bold British art and architecture really is.

Let me show you the masterpieces they never taught you about: 🧵👇

Most cities hide their secrets underground.

London built its greatest secret above ground.

The Royal Naval College in Greenwich looks like something out of ancient Rome yet it was designed by Christopher Wren to be “the Versailles of the sea.”

Its twin domes once trained the world's most powerful navy.

How do you immortalize love, sorrow, and empire… with one sculpture?

Answer: the Albert Memorial.

Critics mocked it when it was built. Now they quietly admit it’s one of the most emotionally overwhelming monuments in Europe.

Gothic, golden, and unapologetically romantic.

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Sep 5

Poland just became a $1 trillion economy without open borders, without giving up religion, and without tearing down its traditions.

What did Poland do that the West won’t? (a thread) 🧵👇

Back in 1990, Poland was broke and gray.
Fresh out of Soviet control, it had crumbling factories, dull housing blocks, and a weak economy.

No one expected it to become the EU’s quiet success story.

Image: Warsaw (Then and Now)

Today, Poland has become a vibrant society.

Old towns have been rebuilt with care.
Churches restored.

Soviet scars replaced with colorful facades and cobbled streets.

Poland proved something no one talks about:
You can build prosperity without destroying beauty.

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Sep 3

Civilizations don’t begin with kings or armies — they begin with stories.

The Epic of Gilgamesh, Homer’s Iliad, Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings — separated by thousands of years, they’re all asking the same question:

How do you turn chaos into meaning? 🧵

The oldest epic we know is about Gilgamesh, king of Uruk, who lost his closest friend and went searching for immortality, only to learn that no man escapes death.

He learned that meaning lies in what we build and leave behind.

Across time, stories help us face death and make sense of a broken world.

That was 4,000 years ago. But the pattern never changed.

Every epic since has wrestled with the same truth: chaos comes for all of us.

And every culture turned to stories to tame it.

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Aug 30

You think Rome’s churches are beautiful?

They weren’t built just to impress you.

They were built to outlast you.

To show that gold fades, empires fall—but faith carves itself into stone.

Read this, and you’ll never forget them. 🧵👇

This isn’t a sightseeing list.

It’s a journey through collapse, wonder, survival—and glory.

And some of these churches? You’ve probably never even heard their names.

Start at San Marcello al Corso.

It survived fire, plague, collapse.

The blackened crucifix wasn’t replaced, it was kept.

Why?
Because faith that never suffered is faith that never lived.

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