ProtestantMonk
@Protestant_Monk
Reflexive contrarian, tolerable in public only by the Grace of God. All else is vanity.
Best advice I ever received was "Just find the next Right and Good Thing, however small, that you can do and do it."
Counterpoint: Voldemort quiety takes over as Minister Umbridge campaigns for "common sense wand control"
It's fun to dunk (haha) on these broads, but there's a close parallel to followers of Christ moaning that something in life isn't fair. We are very lucky we don't get what we deserve. So are they.
WNBA all stars wearing a "Pay us what you owe us" shirt in warmups
I’m tired of the Catholic v. Protestant online wars.
Wish I had thought of the “Canceling an unprofitable show is fascism that must be investigated by Congress” strategy when they got rid of FIREFLY.
Most people getting labeled "boomer" are actually the elder Xrs who took all the wrong lessons from their OG hippie parents on avoiding duty and responsibilities.
That explains a lot about Buchanan and Horseshoe-theory libertarians. Way closer to leftoid radicals than even they realize.
Fun fact about Pat Buchanan: Pat’s first date with his future wife was spent in a New Hampshire motel room drinking Wild Turkey with Hunter S. Thompson. Hunter later said of their friendship, “We're still friends. Patrick is a libertarian, or at least in that direction. I…
I cannot overstate the importance of Akallabêth and That Hideous Strength for understanding our time.
Today I learned that no joke is unfunny enough about this to stop it from flooding my feed.
Today I learned that no joke is unfunny enough about this to stop it from flooding my feed.
We are about to find out just how hard Trump can push his "influencers." And no matter what, it's going to be hilarious.
LMAOOOOO the Binder Brigade hardest hit
Hmm. This might not suck.
This is Miyamoto. I am pleased to announce that for the live-action film of The Legend of Zelda, Zelda will be played by Bo Bragason-san, and Link by Benjamin Evan Ainsworth-san. I am very much looking forward to seeing both of them on the big screen. (1/2)
Whats really terrifying is that the SAT has been dumbed down in the past decade, so the actual disparity is worse.
This is horrifying
One of my favorite things about Twitter is saying something like "this obviously goes without saying" and then immediately learning no, it's actually going to need some saying.
The rest of the thread is insightful, but this underscores a paradigm shift few yet appreciate: A complete removal of children's formative experiences from family life. If you want to know why families are falling apart, this is a large part of it.
There is still an instinct to compare the Internet's impact to television. But this drastically understates things. Especially for Millennials, the impact was more like an entire generation was sent to a boarding school that parents didn't know existed.
There is still an instinct to compare the Internet's impact to television. But this drastically understates things. Especially for Millennials, the impact was more like an entire generation was sent to a boarding school that parents didn't know existed.
Late 2000s Tumblr was like a factory designed to create trauma and gender dysphoria. Tilted toward loners, with a heavy anime/fantasy aesthetic, it was a prime plausibility structure for turning someone against their own body, and against anyone else who didn't speak the lingo
My guess: the journalists and acquisitions editors who came to have influential roles circa 2016 were probably very plugged into the same social media ecosystems from 2006-2010. This happens to be a compelling explanation for trans social contagion too x.com/matthew_loftus…
part of the challenge of writing a book about therapy culture is when you're forced to ask "is this a real thing or is this just 2010s tumblr cringe?" and the answer is that 2010s tumblr cringe has broken containment and we just don't quite know how far it has spread
All is now made clear. Side note: This is reason #1,000,042 why Christians really should stop putting Celebrities on pedestals.
Disney-owned network. Of course.
Guy who gets rich partially by parlaying his Christianity into his brand now plays the victim after he has publicly betrayed it. Spirit of the Age incarnate. Tell Rhett and Link we said hello.
Talk, ask qustns, listen.. maybe even learn. Too much to ask of modern American Christian culture. Judge 1st, understand later/never It’s a sad sunday when “non believers” have never been confronted with hate or vitriol until they are introduced to a modern American Christian💔
I’m begging you guys just to make stuff up. Tell everyone that pizzagate is real and Hillary killed Epstein and probably Kennedy and Michelle Obama rejuvenates her skin using the tears of the elderly. They aren’t going to leave you alone until you do.
The conspiracy theories just aren’t true, never have been. It’s an honor to serve the President of the United States @realDonaldTrump — and I’ll continue to do so for as long as he calls on me.
This hits hard. I think about “attention is the beginning of devotion” pretty much weekly. This coupling is the basis for a worldview shift.
Matthew Crawford once said that distractibility might be the cognitive form of obesity. I think about this a lot.