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Recent Notes

HODL · 16w
For most of my life I was the smartest person in every room I was in. This is not a brag about my intelligence and more an admission that I was perpetually in the wrong room. I was in the wrong roo...
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“Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. Let those of us who are mature think this way, and if in anything you think otherwise, God will reveal that also to you.” - Philippians 3:12-15
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Laser · 15w
I pray every day that it is God who has redeemed me, drawing me into a life of Christ, and not my own delusion. If my salvation were up to me, then I am lost.
freemymind 🇨🇭 · 22w
Ok. Can you tell, where you did experience this? I mean I live in Switzerland and therefore I only have little touching points on what is happening in the US. Is there some reporting on that? Or did y...
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I mean, yeah, living in Switzerland is gonna be a big reason for the difference. I have seen heard from dozens of people who have said that this week was a significant wake up call for them, whether for the first time or that this was something that showed them they needed to be more more bold about taking about publicly.
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freemymind 🇨🇭 · 22w
Ok. I assume you refer to the murder of #charliekirk. Did you read about the motives of the murder? As I have heared, his girlfriend saied she gets offended by Kirks attacks on the freedom of choic to freely decide what sexuality to follow. I think it is sad that it happened. But based the motives...
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Building on this beautiful observation, one of the lies of our modern technological age is that the great telos of our lives is individual self-actualization. This drives us to long to escape any constraints which would keep us from experiencing our desires coming to pass or challenge our autonomy (self-rule).

Threats to this autonomous world order are treated as hostile, even though all of us would acknowledge if asked that we are ignorant of many subjects and frequently want things that we later come to discover would have been disastrous for us and/or those closest to us.

Despite how reflexively right these desires seem, they completely conflict with every significant aspect of our existence: we didn’t choose to be born, to whom to be born, or when to be born. We don’t volitionally keep our hearts beating, our brains working, our kidneys working, our lungs pumping, gall bladder gall bladdering, or maintain any of a host of other bodily functions.

We are born helpless. Unlike most mammals who are able to move around and live somewhat independently shortly after birth, we are completely reliant on the kindness of parents or others for everything for years.

All of this is meant to communicate to us that life and existence are not open-ended investments in our own vanity startups. They are an inheritance designed to be received and stewarded for the glory and purposes of the Giver of every good and perfect gift, including the gifts of working organs, bodies, minds, and lives. Stewardship and ownership are very different, and ought to produce different attitudes.

But this isn’t designed to be the relationship between a slave and a cruel master. How do we know? What kind of master is this God? He’s a father so kind that his only begotten son was willing to leave His side to justify His Father’s name and reputation by dying for his enemies and raising from the dead, adopting them into His family as fellow heirs, sharing His life so that they might see and know His goodness in the same way that he, the only righteous Son, knows him.

“Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, [20] for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.” - 1 Corinthians 6:19-20
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freemymind 🇨🇭 · 22w
Ok. Can you tell, where you did experience this? I mean I live in Switzerland and therefore I only have little touching points on what is happening in the US. Is there some reporting on that? Or did you have personal experience, that would strongly differ from experiences before the assassination?
freemymind 🇨🇭 · 22w
I feel like many right influencers try to sell this narrative. I wonder if this is really happening or just a wet dream of them...
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“Have I then become your enemy by telling you the truth?” - Galatians 4:16
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theplatinumbear · 22w
Glad to see you back.
Contra · 22w
Human response is predictable. Fallen human nature tends to see correction as opposition