On Sleeping Babies and The Presence of God 🧵

My baby needs to fall asleep. Instead he’s rolling back and forth, sitting up and looking for his shark toy, waving his hands in front of his face. Anything but “the one thing that is needful.” I’m laying next to him on the bed, [impatiently] waiting for him to fall asleep while I mentally tabulate all the things I’ll accomplish once he’s finally sleeping — a color-coded table complete with prioritization of tasks and approximate times required for each.

These are books the Seattle library has decided are important to have in the *little kids* section. There’s a separate section for teens/YA — these were with the picture books. (“Phoenix” is a real boy whose mommy encourages him to wear dresses to school to “express his gender.”) “be a gender transcender”
This is in the picture books section — on a shelf that a 4 year old can reach.

So video evidence is a false portrayal of events while a narrative built on people’s imaginations is an accurate portrayal. This actually fits perfectly with how post-truth reasoning works in other ways.

https://twitter.com/nbcnews/status/1632936732977971200

For instance, your words can be “violent” even when they are perfectly calm, reasonable, and well-intentioned. What makes them violent is if the person who hears them doesn’t like them.

Right wingers defend their “right” to use gas stoves. Here’s why that’s a racist dog whistle…

🧵1/52 Right wingers love gas stoves because of their historical place in the heteronormative patriarchal binary system that erases Queer identities.

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Gay “marriage” is bad for society and this shouldn’t be controversial.

The state has a vested interest in heterosexual marriage bc *only* these unions produce new citizens *and* provide the environment that gives children the best chance to thrive — w/ a bio father & mother. It’s just sentimentality that wants to call two people of the same sex spending their lives together a “marriage.” The aspects of a marriage that are of interest to the state and society are completely absent there. They are only of interest to the people involved.

We like to think we’re so different from our forebears of hundreds or thousands of years ago, with their rites and superstitions. We are not.

https://twitter.com/onionweigher/status/1591543318512828416

In fact, because most of us are so disconnected from the seasons, from growing things, raising animals and children, birthing, death and everything else to do with the natural world, we’re even MORE superstitious now and our superstitions are stupider, less connected to reality.

Self-control is one of the SEXIEST qualities in a man. Subconsciously and consciously, a woman calculates a lot about the strength and character of a man based on how capable he is of controlling his impulses. What other impulses will a man simply not be able to resist if he can’t wait to have sex until marriage? Yes, I know this is very hard to do. A lot of things in life are much harder to do than this, and require even more resolve and self-denial.

One cozy thing I do in this season where it’s nice to have the oven on during the day is making homemade crackers. It’s very easy, especially if you have sourdough starter you’re needing to discard regularly. Way cozier experience than buying crackers at the store. Recipe below. Weigh 200g starter, 132g flour, 32g olive oil, seasonings to taste (salt, pepper, I’ve also done onion powder, garlic powder, Italian herbs, rosemary, chili flakes, ground sage, nutritional yeast…), and about 10g honey.
Mix well, wrap in wax paper, refrigerate overnight.

Women are less likely to be disagreeable and worse at dealing with disagreeableness and this is one reason why the increased inclusion of women in the higher strata of our institutions (academia, the church, etc) is causing these institutions to suffer. Men are better at getting up from the table after a heated debate, shaking hands, and moving on with their day without taking the disagreement personally. It’s the rare woman who can do this, I think.

A friend gave me an Instant Pot and it’s so nice but I’m terrified of it. Using it tonight for the first time, will let you guys know if I die. It’s making ominous noises, send help I think it knows I’m talking about it behind its back

When sailors sing sea shanties it’s not just for entertainment or even camaraderie — they are increasing their chances of a successful voyage through the divine mysterious power of song.

I have some experience with this. Want to hear a story? Once, we were making a passage through a strait in the Pacific Northwest notorious for rough, volatile conditions. Not only were there large rolling waves coming from multiple directions that day, the fog was thick as soup down to the water so we couldn’t see any landmarks.

This is how I feel about every “culture war” issue. You are foolish to write it off as “political theater” or play it cool because you don’t like to be seen as “judgmental” or too “serious.” It WILL eventually affect you. It WILL affect your children.

https://twitter.com/chooocole/status/1575233991820525574

It’s become hard for me to respect any person who at this point still acts like they are above the culture war. This person is either hopelessly naive, abysmally unintelligent, or a coward.

Nationalism is good because gratitude is good. Nationalism is simply gratitude that overflows from observing the little details that make your home distinct from some other home. It’s gratitude that you belong somewhere, and that somewhere belongs to you. Nationalism is scary to people who want power because they know when people belong to something, they fight for it. If the people who love a place know what they have is precious and unique and can’t be found elsewhere or replaced with anything else, they’ll die to preserve it.

I wonder if there was a panic when calendars switched from BC to AD like there was at Y2K. “It’s been BC for literally thousands of years, what’s going to happen to all our astrolabes and antikythera mechanisms when AD hits??”

If a word suddenly appears in the lexicon — especially if all the “right” people are using it — you can bet that word’s a cancerous malignancy, the work of nihilists who fancy themselves Lords Over Reality. They have a dog in the fight, and it’s a nasty, brutal dog. 🧵 Language is — above all — about fostering common sense. Quite literally, its purpose is for us to make sense together — to have common understanding.

Lol, really? Where? The entire public school -> higher ed system = the indoctrination of Americans in leftist social philosophy. Big tech censorship. The proliferation of gender clinics. The descent of cities into drugs and crime… all gifts of the extreme left.

https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1520108070151536641

Big tech ideological diversity.

On this Remembrance Day, I’m thinking of my grandma’s dear friend who was part of the French Resistance as a teen. Helped many Jews to safety thru the Black Forest since she knew it well from exploring thru-out her childhood. She understood the risks to herself if she got caught. The Nazis imprisoned her in a cell with no heat in the dead of winter, badly malnourished for months, sleeping on a lice-infested mat of moldy hay. She said, “They had my body in prison but in my mind I was running free in the forest.” That’s how she survived Nazi prison.

What comes to mind for me in moments like this when wide-scale panic is simmering (impending food shortages, inflation, nuclear wars?) is a tale about a man who thinks Death is coming, and going to great lengths to avoid it, ends up running into Death:

k-state.edu/english/baker/… What I’m trying to say is panicking never helped anyone. It’s okay to be prepared for hard times, but that’s different from being reactive and frantic.

And if you find yourself feeling that way, maybe it’s a good time to reexamine your foundational beliefs.

Collecting a thread of airlines that are removing the mask mandate effective immediately.

United

https://twitter.com/davidshepardson/status/1516184243646308359

Alaska

https://twitter.com/alaskaairnews/status/1516181391502938119

I’m four lessons into the Reconciled curriculum recently released by @biblical_unity, and I can’t recommend it highly enough. If you’re part of any Christian org (church, school, etc) that has been struggling to address racial issues biblically, please check this out. Was stoked to see podcasts and articles by my Twitter friends @D_B_Harrison, @NeilShenvi and @SlowToWrite as recommended resources for going deeper, among many other great podcasts and book titles. Excellent resources to recommend to your pastor or other leaders in your community

It doesn’t even have to be something as important as sex — *anything* an adult talks about with a child and then tells them not to tell their parents they talked about is a huge red flag that this adult doesn’t have the child’s best interest at heart. The term “groomer” is apt for adults who think it’s their moral duty to come between parents and children on ideological matters. They’re grooming children for their own purposes, without parental knowledge or consent, on topics too complex for a child to discern what’s good.