This thread demonstrates why knowing what the development of doctrine is so important. It’s also making a way too strong case.
Read Isaiah 40-48 on idols. 2 Maccabees 7:28 on creation ex nihilo.
The distinction you are using between "uncreated" and "created" did not exist when John was composed, even among Christians.
Divinity was as "natural" as a rock, Stars were considered *divine* living things, the "resurrection body" for Paul are to those "celestial bodies".
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“Affordability” is the call word of the DSA Left. This is quite revealing.
First off, they are ideological “NIMBYs” and thus oppose new housing. They want affordability through price freezes, not creation.
Secondly, and more importantly, there is something deeply consumerist about “affordability.” It is not about production but cheaper goods to consume. The DSA, in its way, wants to make capitalism affordable, smoothing out rough edges. Whether they will succeed at this is an open question—I think their policies are obvious duds. The point is they don’t have a revolutionary or transformative consciousness. It’s “affordable groceries!” … “let’s bankrupt your landlord!” … or “get to your job cheap on the bus!” It’s the equivalent of MAGA’s “no tax on tips!”
Marx laughs at these petty bourgeois reactionaries!
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Checking in on James Lindsay…
Part of the huge disconnect about the deal, which is a recurring problem with Trump and normal people, is that Trump doesn't see the deal the way we see the deal. It's provisional and contingent to him. You can see this reflected in almost everything he says about it.
The reason for this is that Trump is extremely high-agency, and extremely high-agency people don't worry about making mistakes or whatever else and just do things that seem plausibly good and savvy, which Trump is also very good at.
They do this because they know if things go wrong, they'll just do something else because they're extremely high-agency and extremely confident in their abilities.
A good fighter doesn't get in the ring concerned about if the guy is going to fight in a way he doesn't really expect. He gets in the ring confident in his ability to fight and to adapt to the conditions he's faced with. He "goes according to the situation."
Trump is a good fighter. He goes according to the situation. He doesn't really care much about what's on paper beyond how he can use it in the current play to get advantage and the next play to gain another advantage, even if that means dropping the deal (and bombs).
It's extremely hard to understand this when you prefer guidelines, contracts, certainty. It's even harder to abide it when you feel like you, yourself, are stuck in a dangerous low-agency position with what appears to be a mad king making fatal errors that impact you and yours.
I said something like this yesterday to someone, and the reply was, "you're giving Trump a lot of credit." Well, yeah. Trump's earned a lot of credit, frankly, and in many cases it was by being extremely high-agency Trump while the world bit its nails and melted down ("Rocket Man, everything is gonna be alright... Rocket Man...").
I think it's a good time to breathe and let the man's agency work a bit. If it goes as badly as people fear, there's plenty of time later to hang it around JD's neck and seize a different victory from the jaws of defeat.
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If it's the very first commandment, it's probably not one of the more important ones.
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The spiritual leftism oozes out of this statement.
The prestige of the highest office of state is to be deconstructed and relativised.
Egalitarianism dictates that the president needs no more decorum than a street bum.
I suppose hierarchy is woke now.
Everyone so “Horrified”at President TRUMP and his language. GIVE ME A BREAK. This is the way people TALK. Get Over it. It’s barely lunch Time and I’ve heard the F word on the streets of NYC a dozen times. TRUMP is Keeping it Real—-WE ARE GOING TO WIN!
Community note
Greg Kelly in 2022:
“I frown upon offensive vulgarity! I favor a ban (voluntary) on THE F WORD. Should ONLY be uttered in Private, in "certain" situations. Never in public !!!!”
x.com/gregkellyusa/s…
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Of course he has. The pope has elsewhere explicitly praised the military profession. He just knows an unjust war when he sees one, as does anyone not blinded by partisanship, ideology, or self-righteous bloodlust.
Has this Pope not heard of "Just War Theory"? I think St. Augustine who came up with it may even have been Catholic. Go figure.
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Plato: “A tyrant must always be provoking war… But all this lays him open to unpopularity… So won’t some of the bolder characters among those who helped him to power, and now hold positions of influence, begin to speak freely to him and to each other, and blame him for what is happening?...Then, if he is to retain power, he must root them out, all of them, till there’s not a man of any consequence left, whether friend or foe…So he must keep a sharp eye out for men of courage or vision or intelligence or wealth; for, whether he likes it or not, it is his happy fate to be their constant enemy and to intrigue until he has purged them from the state… Then… people will find out soon enough what sort of a beast they’ve bred and groomed for greatness. He’ll be too strong for them to turn out” (Republic, Book VIII, 567a – 569a)
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Maybe question your support for Donald Trump, who ended investigations in Polymarket, whose son is an advisor both there and Kalshi, who scrapped plans to regulate prediction markets...
Question Vance, whose in bed with Thiel, Andreessen, and 1789 that invest in these companies.
Wait, did @AOC actually say something...completely sensible?
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Please post this video whenever any “dissident right” or “reactionary” retard calls upon the name of Call Schmitt to justify his retarded position.
Chrome Barracuda 🇺🇦🇪🇺🎄
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NEW: US Catholic Bishops conference says of administration's plan to double immigration detention centers:
"The thought of holding thousands of families in massive warehouses should challenge the conscience of every American"
usccb.org/news/2026/thought-…
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Trump: “I have nothing to do with Jeffrey Epstein…And, frankly, the DOJ, I think should just say, ‘We have other things to do.’”
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It’s crazy how conservatives literally had to make themselves a safe space from hearing Spanish being sung at the superbowl
Nick Fuentes says the right's response to Bad Bunny's halftime show will drive normies to the left
"It's literally fake outrage, self-ghettoizing, being overly-political, pretending to like the things—we have become the far left."
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Reminder that by late last year, even @AnnCoulter judged that “this is the most corrupt presidency in U.S. history…It is so blatant, it’s right in front of our eyes,” and @Cernovich noted: “During recent visit in DC, the talk of everyone was how overt the corruption was. It's at levels you read about in history books. In nearly every department.”
fwiw Andy McCarthy — conservative lawyer, Fox News legal analyst, National Review contributor, professional hater of Biden, Obama, and Democrats — is diving into Trump's corruption and acknowledged the UAE-crypto scandal alone is far worse than anything alleged about Biden
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Wokism was always more of a guilt/anxiety management strategy for upper class whites than anything. Billie Eilish can get on stage and mouth off platitudes and absolve herself of the guilt of being a decamillionaire without actually changing the status quo.
Billie Eilish at the Grammys: "Nobody is illegal on stolen land. We need to keep fighting and speaking up. Our voices do matter... f*ck ICE."
Follow: @AFpost
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RT @davetroy: 2/Every single Russia aligned propagandist is still beating the "Mossad" drum even there is 100x more evidence tying Epstein…
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Yes, you actually can research and discuss controversial topics at modern universities. The problem is, the Right is terrified of ideas and too stupid or guileless to play the game. What you get from them instead are "campus controversies" and "anti-woke universities."
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