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@Asmongold @kabrutusdeid “Chuds are the indigenous people of the gaming community” Pure poetry

@McJuggerNuggets

@Pirat_Nation That last sentence is profound in that it needs to be said.

@MuayShoo @samuel_costner One day we will, and that'll be a good day indeed

@WilliamWolfe Which instrument are you leaning towards?

Scientists mapped a piece of brain the size of half a grain of rice. One-millionth the size of the human brain. It took them a year and over 1.4 million gigabytes to scan it. They found over 57,000 cells, 150 million synapses, and even some new structures they didn't know existed. Mapping the entire human brain in this level of detail would require all the data storage generated on Earth in a year + a 140-acre data center. But the human brain itself can hold up to ~2.5 million gigabytes of information - enough for ~3 million hours of HD video or 342 years of continuous viewing. It can process roughly 10 quadrillion calculations per second - enough processing power to run over 4,000 high-end gaming PCs all operating at peak ability. And it only runs on the amount of power needed for a single dim light bulb. No technology even comes close to doing what the brain can do. The more we learn about biology, the more complex it becomes. This is God's Glory on display.

@TheNicholasWolf Maybe I'm a normie, but I just watched the Mando all the way through and will catch the movie because I didn't think it was trash.

@loganb @RandyTreibel @JillFilipovic No, it is not. We are putting the vast majority of our children into madhouses that no longer have anything to do with how society works or what they will experience in said society. Arguments to continue doing so because we already do so are tautological.

@smashbaals

Twelve years ago, Detective Walter Sweeney was driving home to his one-year-old daughter when a call came over the radio: a child had fallen into a backyard pool. He detoured to the address, jumped the fence, ignored the barking dogs, and dove in. The boy, Matthew, was already lifeless and blue. Walter performed CPR and brought him back. Today, Lieutenant Walter Sweeney was being promoted when 12-year-old Matthew and his family arrived to celebrate. They had come to thank the man who saved his life—and to offer a heartfelt gift. A true act of service and humanity.

The pseudepigraphal literature, including 1st Enoch (typically what we refer to as “the Book of Enoch” — there are 3 but the 1st on is the famous one), operated within a fundamentally different literary framework than modern historical narrative. 1st Enoch is a pseudepigraphal, apocalyptic collection of narratives and visions ascribed to Enoch. This was a genre that deliberately attributed writings to ancient figures to claim authority rather than to deceive readers about authorship. Understanding the genre’s intention requires recognizing its theological purpose. As a collection, 1 Enoch offers a glimpse of what was likely a common worldview during the later 2nd Temple period (1st Enoch almost certainly doesn’t predate this time), which identified the world as an evil and unjust place in which the Jewish people awaited the redemption of God in their eschatological world. The primary message was the soon-coming divine retribution of enemies and the judgment and eradication of evil that permeated the cosmos, with the author’s truth and authority relying on his heavenly journeys during which God gave him divine revelation of the coming redemption of the righteous. Rather than presenting factual history, pseudepigraphal works employed symbolic and visionary language to convey theological truths about divine judgment and redemption. Topics like angels, demons, the spiritual realm, and the coming Messiah are all being fleshed out by this type of work. 1st Enoch offers an embellished textual tradition of Gen.6, and the pseudepigraphal accounts parallel the Septuagintal tradition, reflecting the interpretative biases of the period. This interpretative expansion, albeit not literal reporting, was the genre’s defining characteristic. The New Testament’s engagement with 1 Enoch further illustrates this point: Jude draws from the pseudepigraphal book of 1 Enoch, with Jude 14-16 detailing a “prophecy” made by Enoch regarding judgment on sinners and the ungodly, drawing on 1 Enoch 9:1, Jude cites Enoch not as historical documentation but as authoritative theological witness to eschatological judgment. The pseudepigraphal genre was never intended as literal history; it was visionary theology dressed in ancient authority. The question remains, if we take Enoch seriously as actual history then why not the myriads of other pieces of ancient Jewish a Pseudopigrapha, a vast literary catalogue: the Apocalypse of Abraham, Apocalypse of Adam, Apocalypse of Daniel, Apocalypse of Elijah, Apocalypse of Zephaniah, and multiple versions of Baruch (2, 3, and 4 Baruch) and Ezra texts (including the Greek Apocalypse of Ezra, Questions of Ezra, Revelation of Ezra, and Vision of Ezra)? The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs represent a major collection, along with individual testaments attributed to Moses, Job, Solomon, Adam, and the Three Patriarchs (Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob), why not toss them in as well? All the same genre and vein that Enoch finds itself in. The collection extends to works attributed to David (More Psalms of David), Jeremiah, Isaiah (including the Vision of Isaiah), Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Zechariah, and multiple works attributed to Solomon, including the Psalms of Solomon and Testament of Solomon. The Sibylline Oracles, Eldad and Modad, and the Book of Jubilees also claim ancient authorship. Some of these documents in their earliest iterations are as early as the 3rd century BC (through others the 4th or 5th centuries AD). Sure, read 1st Enoch. But don’t confuse it for something it isn’t.

Anna Paulina Luna @realannapaulina

2 months ago

Read the book of Enoch.

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"Bloody ratmen... why bells? Shouldn't rats worship, erm, cheese, or sumfin'?" - Kruber

@TheNicholasWolf I feel that. What was it?

@PerfInjust Brutal.

I had to Google "kakistocracy."

Douglas Wilson @douglaswils

3 months ago

When I got to the office, I opened the mail, which contained this gem. 5/7

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Mike Winger is a case study in ministry. He’s a nice guy with a gracious delivery and is above reproach. Yet when you read the comment sections of the men he has exposed, they call him a snake, an accuser of the brethren, a messenger of Satan. The truth is, even when Mike got his delivery perfect, it still didn’t matter. And that’s the point of the study: ultimately, it doesn’t matter how you say it, the “sin” is that you would say it at all. Saying it the wrong way just gives the unrepentant an easy out to dismiss the truth. "He’s belligerent, he’s X, Y, Z"—but is what he said true? The wicked hate the light no matter how it’s presented, but a dim light is easier to dismiss than a bright one. “And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed.”

@bro64279129 @davidicke I refuse to hate him back.