Ofc nothing is free but superficial transactions, ones that cost paper currency but not the currency of life are transactions that have no intrinsic value.
Nature’s cost—while sometimes your life—is a fair deal given what it offers on a daily basis. If you take more than it gives there is a toll…
My thoughts :)
If ppl had this level of awareness—that nature is pantheistic, omnipresent, & everywhere around us, they’d treat it w/ the sacred respect & care it not only deserves, but demands from us.
It can demand this bc it has given itself fully & freely, the only cost being life itself.
3/
“…The solid earth! the actual world! the common sense! Contact! Contact! Who are we? where are we?…”
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“I fear not spirits, ghosts, of which I am one,—that my body might,—but I fear bodies, I tremble to meet them. What is this Titan that has possession of me? Talk of mysteries!—Think of our life in nature,—daily to be shown matter, to come in contact with it,— rocks, trees, wind on our cheeks!..”
Passage from The Maine Woods
-Thoreau
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“What is it to be admitted to a museum, to see a myriad of particular things, compared with being shown some star's surface, some hard matter in its home! I stand in awe of my body, this matter to which I am bound has become so strange to me.”
Late millennial Loomer takes on Maher the Boomer and gets her ass handed to her.
Sometimes life experience counts a lot
A federal judge tossed out prominent Trump ally Laura Loomer’s defamation lawsuit against Bill Maher and HBO, ruling that the “Real Time” host’s joke about her constituted protected speech and not defamation.
Good reasons
No kids thankfully lol
I’m 50 and I’m mostly raised on self help books 😂
And if you consciously choose not to for other reasons that’s ok.
I just hate that we’ve inverted the equation. Those who shouldn’t do, & those who should don’t 😂
Yeah
I don’t think it’s sad to NOT have kids. If everyone did, we’d probably be in big trouble 😂.
But it’s sad that ppl who have them don’t deserve them, that others who might have won’t bc of the way of world, and still others opt out bc they weren’t equipped by their own parents .
Awful vicious cycle
Just sad 😢
Sociopaths having kids is an extreme example.
But there are ppl on the sociopath spectrum or those have major personality disorders having kids.
This is not society we should have to live in
It’s not just them.
Many parents are like this, trying to meet their unmet needs through their kids.
They may not have the influence or societal power, but they do the same damage
Being a good parent means you must choose to devote your life to your 🧒 , knowing it’s no longer abt you. It’s all abt raising capable, loving adults, hopefully, change agents who will leave a 👍 legacy.
Sadly Trump & Elon had kids for their own selfish ends. Their 🧒s will likely repeat the mistake
This sounds scarily familiar
“In a show of defiance, 🇮🇷 showcased some of its ballistic weapons at a parade in Tehran on Tuesday evening, with images on state TV showing large crowds waving Iranian flags and a banner in the background with a fist choking off the strait.” apple.news/A2-eSaeAgS7K...
Those Belgian monks brewing the devil spirits 😂 .
But damn I’d they don’t make some good ales
Joan of Arc was executed for heresy and Galileo was imprisoned for
Ponticus was spared, probably leading the way for heterodox monks like Merton.
Was it the brew? 😂
Raise your glass to the iconoclast? 😂
Anyway I quite enjoyed edgelord Catholicism
We actually talked about some crazy shit 💩 there, stuff that would’ve been heresy in less progressive dioceses, like does God evolve with us and is he/it fallible.
Catechism with Hops 😂
Yeah I remember taking about this in a Theology on Tap discourse in my Catholic days, many lifetimes ago
Here is the actual basis for Just War Doctrine from the authors themselves.
First image: Augustine, Contra Faustos, Book XXII Chapter 21
Second image: Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, Book II Chapter II Question 40-41.
Copies from my bookshelf 📚
Maybe Boebert will open another Shooters 😂, and she can work there
Glad you thought of that
Was trying to think of something to rhyme 😂