Lucy never holds the ball.
The ballot never delivers the change they promise.
Principled non-voting is refusing to keep running at it.

They don't care which name is on the ballot. They care that you keep consenting to be ruled.

Principled non-voting is a stated refusal.

Jesus never taught the Just War theory. It's just a war theory. He said, "Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you," and to the Pharisees, "You have a fine way of rejecting the commandment of God in order to establish your tradition!" (Mark 7:9)

After the failure of most remakes, Hollywood has resorted to straight up rereleasing the same films. That ought to save on development costs, for certain.

Bitchat users, where are you? I've run it for nearly a year, told everyone at work, and never once seen another user on the mesh or in my location channel. If you're on it, reply with your region and let's find each other. Permissionless chat only works if people actually show up. #bitchat #nostr

Someone told me, "The irresistible grace revealed in Scripture was simply the divine enablement bestowed upon chosen servants... The recipient could not resist the impartation of the gift. The gifts and the calling are irrevocable (Rom 11:29)."

Here's what the Scripture says.

God promised Eli, "I promised that your house and the house of your father should go in and out before me forever," but now, "Far be it from me, for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me shall be lightly esteemed" (1 Samuel 2:30). The promise was real, and God withdrew it from Eli's house because they despised Him.

In the very chapter cited, branches were "broken off because of their unbelief" (Romans 11:20), standing branches are warned "otherwise you too will be cut off" (11:22), and the broken ones are grafted in again "if they do not continue in their unbelief" (11:23). Romans 11:29 is about Israel as a people (11:28), not a guarantee that no one can fall away.

God's gift is real. So is our freedom to despise it.

School shooters are almost never outsiders. They're current or recent students of the exact school they attack.

They know the layout. They have grudges against specific peers or teachers. They leave the evidence of their social failure, isolation, and resentment right there in the building.

So the one institution they all share, the modern public school, is treated as the neutral backdrop instead of a possible contributing environment.

What if the system that warehouses adolescents for six or seven hours a day, sorts them by age and status, weakens family authority, and replaces older moral frameworks with therapeutic and identity-based ones is doing more than just "failing to prevent" these events?

Most kids don't shoot up schools. But the ones who do are almost always products of that same institutional environment. That pattern is hard to ignore once you stop treating the school as irrelevant to the outcome.

I don't use bots. I use minions. 🍌

Every one of them has a job. One cleans my inbox, one watches my money, one tracks my packages, one haggles my bills down, one tends my garden plans, and one in a crown, my Chief of Staff, keeps the rest of them in line.

They report to me, they talk to each other, and they never ask for a raise. All running on Grok Bot. How fun is this?

How did you customize your bots?

Most Christians have never noticed themselves doing this.

Editing Scripture while you read is eisegesis. It's not just twisting words. It's questioning God's motives so you feel licensed to override them. "Did God really say?" becomes "God couldn't have meant that." Watch for it when a verse says God regretted, relented, or didn't know something, and your instinct is to translate it into something safer. Same when "all" or "every" gets quietly narrowed until it means some. The test is simple: does your reading make the text say less than it says? If yes, you're not interpreting. You're protecting something.

Found this little fellow outside work a couple weeks back. I believe it's a red fringed emerald moth (Nemoria bistriaria). Pale green wings trimmed in reddish brown, sitting right out in the open on gray concrete. God's attention to detail never gets old.