I have theories on why they look like this.
(I am a practicing member in good standing and attend temples regularly, I have seen more of the one on lower right than most people, and I just have theories, because the church's official description is just "directs you to God")

https://twitter.com/luusssso/status/1938221642204717104

Take a look at some other temples. They come from very different belief systems but are all built to be, at some symbolic level, a place where a god dwells - and they are built to make that god comfortable.

(that's not the real Parthenon it's in Nashville but bear with me)

A Mr. Isaiah Thomas challenged my credentials (the Rosedale thread, some Sailer articles) by presenting "just one" of the books he had read, "White Flight" by Kevin Kruse, which reading made him more of an expert than me. Well, now I've read it. It doesn't talk about the causes.

https://twitter.com/Tommy8788/status/1931886362619514953

Mr. Thomas did not attempt to correct me on any particular point of fact, simply my orientation toward "Nazis with substacks" over "real historians" like Kruse. Kruse is a real historian, and has a historian's penchant for tunnel vision.

The H1B discourse hits hard because the frustration of "getting a job" is or has been a huge financial drag for many of us, adding up to a national tragedy in aggregate, but has been consistently mocked as a skill issue, and often accepted, internalized, we put our heads down. I believe that the boomer hate meme itself wouldn't have come about if the job market hadn't inexplicably become entirely hostile for labor at all levels, from the difficulty of getting in the door to the impossibility of advancement to the inflation of education requirements

Bastion: Searching for hope in the ruins of your city
Transistor: Escaping your suddenly hostile, ruined city
Pyre: Gathering forces to reclaim your city
Hades: Sneaking past your dad to visit his ex-wife
Hades II: same but black and gay ig? This isn't really fair to Hades, which strips the reclamation narrative of Pyre down to family relationships, the heart of any working city but cities just aren't important at that point because you've reclaimed them and they're still empty - this is the Millennial Journey

The catch is they resell them as gamer girl eggs

https://twitter.com/KylerCora/status/1770217253038157887

3d printed eggs + leaked celebrity genomes = populations of frail, sickly IVF kids who sort of look like a combination of one parent and whoever was famous 10 years ago

Thoughts on the "nukes aren't real" conspiracy theory. Much less challenged than some narratives that affect our lives much less like the moon landing, people get livid when you do, why? How could the governments hide such a big thing and why? I'll explain. Conspiracy theories arise when official narratives have frustrating problems. Why haven't governments used nuclear weapons since they were invented? We're told they're Just Too Terrible and weigh on everyone's conscience, but how naive would you have to be to believe that?

I feel bad for the people who advanced in a field because they were good at school rather than any deep understanding of the field itself and now must support their pride as expert professionals on pure assertion and credential, they were led out on a limb #NotAllWomen in the academy are like this but they are easily identified, they are prim, slightly garish makeup, really just schoolteachers in whatever field, feeling the weight of the greatest responsibility of all schoolmarms (making sure boys aren't having fun)

There is a category of "hostile acts against a population," government action which should be viewed as intentional provocation in the same way as invasion or blockade is between countries:
-Promotion of drugs
-Disarmament
-Flagrant failure to control crime
-The dole Disarmament has worked pretty well in a few countries but there was a state of something like war - rebellion from the top - tyranny? until the disarmament was complete - an invasion's still an invasion if the surrender's immediate

The ending of Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann is deeply ironic when considered in context of the fertility crisis, which was already underway in Japan at that time. Dealing with the "Spiral Nemesis," overpopulation of the universe, is handwaved as "we'll figure it out" but they have. The Anti-Spirals brutally oppress the people of the universe to avoid this "Nemesis," where the mass-energy of the combined wishes and willpower of the universal population resets the Big Bang; Simon only disapproves of their methods.

I recall a theory that St. Joseph's profession was not strictly a carpenter but a builder, a contractor hired to take on the whole task of construction who hired laborers and specialists in turn. In this case, Jesus would have been apprenticed not as an artisan but a leader. This would resonate with the imagery in the Lord's parables, which take place in a coldly commercial world of debt, delegation, negotiation of wages, and desperation over money. The builder is a leader on a budget, who survives by getting max labor at minimum cost.

can't sleep so I'm thinking about unconditional surrender and how much of a waste WW2 was. best argument for it was the "greatest" generation couldn't trust later generations (us) to not go to war so they had to win extra-hard when they had the chance. zero introspection. 1914 Germany went to war, was the aggressive party, 25 years later they're doing it again obviously Germany is the problem, right? if you are completely unwilling to accept guilt and say oh wow we kind of caused this, Germany is the problem.

like the metric system "left" and "right" are innovations from the French Revolution era: sometimes works better than alternatives but doesn't adequately describe reality. There's an implication that an educated citizenry beholds the facts as they stand and chooses a side based on temperament or preference. If this was ever true it hasn't been for at least 100 years in USA. Laying aside what "facts" have become, the sides aren't ideologies

fear of spiders: mental slip-up, a shrink can take care of that
fear of falling: not a big deal just avoid helicopters
fear of women: moral failure, change it immediately there is probably at least a little fear of women in most men because the school system is optimized to implant it - how else will a mostly-female organization keep order? and HR is a continuation of this effort

When I was a missionary we would talk about the Bible to find common ground and people would try to use it as a wedge. I was too optimistic to really notice how rude that was. They just took it for granted that we'd believe the Bible in the same schizo way they did The LDS missionary pitch is an attempt to build up faith from spiritual numbness, to teach people what faith is like and how to exercise it, so we'd assume the faithful of other religions would be kindred spirits that already understood most of it, but then we'd get bashers

Today we honor our finest and bravest, the people who went on the worst campout of their lives then shot themselves. This shouldn't be offensive. Veterans should be offensive. We've given them unconditional honor when they've brought us defeat after defeat and come home and talked their shrink into 100% disability. past time to renegotiate.

The blue sky represents the waters of the Firmament, ready to wash the Earth clean if the Noachic covenant's revoked. The red base represents blood atonement (victims often placed in a grave for execution, baptism imagery). These forces made the mountains white and delightsome.

https://twitter.com/GovCox/status/1590829248146976769

White, of course, for the skin color of the inhabitants, who have buried the "red man." The white and blue are jointed together, suggesting the Church Flag and therefore the connection between state and religion, but merely lie on top of the red.

saw the most gentle land acknowledgement statement and it was still wrong, just something about the State of Utah containing parts of the [list of fashionably illegible tribe names] homelands but it doesn't, it never did, US states and tribal lands aren't in the same place this is a colonialist outrage, the State of Utah was not inevitable, has no real physical presence, it simply defines the area they will choose to enforce a certain set of laws. you walk into a Paiute camp, a real one when they were nomads, you're not in the State of Utah.

We think of the Depths, the Chaos outside the created world, as a place of danger, monsters, Lovecraft spoke of such things, but it is really a boring place without the light of God on it, literally predictable, runs on a few reductive equations like they hope to find for us The Father - some name him Bythos or the Deep - arrived in a place of great potential but little actual, a sort of equilibrium democracy where he made himself an invasive Napoleon. The frightening things in the beyond are possible through Him.

https://twitter.com/shogsskyityeshe/status/1587012016598056960

ok so liberalism is supposed to be this truce, this compromise, agreement to disagree, forged in the Wars of Religion as their only alternative, note frame that history begins in 1600 - which is true enough! the world that could even consider 30ywar let alone ww2 began thenish wars of religion absolutely ravaged Europe for many decades, we are conditioned to see this as a factor of religion (old) that was thankfully tamed by liberalism (new) but the capacity to constantly arm, organize, and move musketeers and hussars over 30 years! is also (new)

indian massacre wikipedia articles are all "The peaceful natives were angered by the fraudulent purchase of their ancestral land and were forced to scalp old women and tomahawk babies"

aching inside for the lighthearted GWOT musicals never made, with bungling comedians in uniform getting in trouble, complex issues introduced with jaunty show tunes, Blackwater operators dancing on tables with hijabis Colbert and Oliver ruined their souls with sycophantic Obama dickriding when instead they could have donned uniforms for the best musical comedy of the decade