Pattern-seeker, ignorant, lover of Dostoevsky, forlorn, contemplator of life, Tribe-less but for the human race, I Tread Alone, I/Thou over I/It, Weep for me…
Dehumanization always precedes raw primal hate. And it is disgust that precedes dehumanization. We seem to be—as a society—at the disgust stage. The only way to exit is to ground ourselves in our
#humanity
by tethering ourselves to human connection. Connection to self and to
@IvanasStairCam
Clue 1.) My parents—who I still visit weekly—were forced into early retirement at 52
Clue 2.) In 1998 they had about $1.7M to finish out the rest of their life. They are 80 now
Clue 3.). Their entire well-being was wrapped up economically in the stock market
Clue 4.) They
@sheilagregoire
The lucidity...to say I admire you would be a gross understatement. Your words pierce the veil--for earnest seekers. The cacophony of downplay and misdirection does nothing but add cerumen (e.g. 'empathetic woke scolds') to ears attuned to the reverberations of culture wars
@CrucibleOfThght
Brandon, I almost ignored your thread based on your original /1 but I am glad to have continued hearing your story. You will be labeled an apostate, etc. but be your own person! Kierkegaard was onto something! I have a strong inclination this book / read you will find
@Liz_Cheney
Is there any criticism if Israel you think is warranted? (Genuine question here). Is there any situation that would lead you to retract or alter your position on this?
Thank you if you decide to reply. Big fan of yours by the way. Thanks for all you are doing to stay true to
@JennMGreenberg
Ironically, Reformation based Sola Scriptura, Sola Fide, Sola Gratia has become the new corrupt religious establishment. At the rate we are going Schism and splintering will eventually hit the atomic level: each individual is their own denomination. Deconstruction is just the
@ChristaBrown777
Cringey. Especially the ‘glad repentance’ interjection followed by laughter. The illusion of self-examination dressed in the clothing of ‘Holy Spirit’ convictions repackaged as a gas station hot dog for all to consume
@sheilagregoire
Thank you for this. I dont know this guy from Adam. My initial reading of the transcript i privately spent about 5 seconds wondering ‘is it possible this thread is an overreaction? He says the same thing to both’ As I continued, you illuminated
#distortedthinking
quite well
@mcuban
So glad you followed the internal ‘tugging’ to really immerse yourself in this problem Mark. Impossible to deny the impact it is having on those making the shift. In today’s economic climate, that matters. Thank you for having the determination to pursue this
@JoashPThomas
I have no other word to describe my experience of watching that clip other than nausea.
“If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don't bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you
@laurchas22
There is an amazing song called A Poets Tears of Porcelain from a band that writes music about spiritual abuse. Few people that listen ‘decode’ this line but something tells me you are utterly attuned to understand it:
Lyrics
As tears again bedew my cheek
To your knees I cling
@Eric_Conn
@AngelaEWeiler
@aurorabrshealis
While my effort is but a moth to the flame of Angela's poetic beauty and aptitude...she inspired me.
A Godly Man
On Twitter I roam, seeking to devour
Cultural heresy, its downfall my power.
A man I am, shameless and strong
My secrets hidden, numbness prolong
They judge
@LChas22
I share the same gratefulness of the present moment you do, however the sadness of ‘years wasted’…tends to linger—i missed out on having kids because of it. The father hunger inside me—i cannot slake it
@micahcjames
You seem to be an incredibly sweet soul. It is *possible* you are constraining your options of suitable partners through the narrative you are telling yourself. You could find a man that speaks the same spiritual language as you do but is deeply flawed in ways that lead to an
@DKingstrom
@siminom8s
No idea why you would say this Danielle. I have followed you for a while and I usually value your insights and penchant for gifting people with self-interrogating questions. This, however, just seems cold to me and I don't know why you would respond this way.
@Dostoevskyquot
He’d either be gambling or serving hard labor a second time for calling out Putin’s gross misunderstanding of ‘Mother Russia’ which he was ardently motivated by expressing his vision of Russia as a beacon of light for the world
@ZackFord
I am genuinely interested and very open to learning if you can help elucidate how/why these questions are inherently transphobic. Is genuine inquiry no longer permissible?
@coachanthonyd
You are an absolute WARRIOR! A modern day Ubermensch, John Rambo’s spiritual successor, a man of impenetrable integrity, grit, and absolute unabashed Male identity.
I on the other hand, am weak, prone to idiocy, saturated in Grief, uncertain, tossed about by the raging Sea of
My earnest hope is for this to make its way to any people who need it. It is IMPERATIVE you read to the end to capture the magic and Wonder and unpack the blessing contained within. Look in the ‘mirror’ of its beauty and encounter creative magic
@Frostinthepines
Love that! For many years of my life, I naively regarded truth as something like a set of facts, which one can simply observe. I don’t think that’s right anymore. I think truth is more like an action than a fact, it’s more like a story - not just something to be known or
@Eric_Conn
@emilykmay
Eric, is the ‘disgust’ you posses, have befriended, and welcomed into the chambers of your private garden…is that disgust rationalized as a kind of ‘godly’ fruit indicative of the ‘godly man’ you aspire to be, packaged as a kind of righteous ‘disgust for sin’? If so, you will
@rickpidcock
I was surprised when i read your article as my mind tricked me into thinking anything from ‘baptistnews’ would downplay or redirect using some sort of misguided hermeneutic—I was potently wrong and am better off for having read your piece
@LChas22
You and
@johnnarae
are two of favorite receipt collectors! I love your penchant for calling out Hucksters and Objectifiers masquerading as ‘men of God’. And then the cowardly NDA movement…don’t get me started.
#Bears
@kevinmyoung
By severing piety from the pursuit of justice, there is this misguided notion that reduces “doing justice” to works of charity and service, ignores the biblical mandate to create a just society, and shields the faithful from their complicity in maintaining unjust economic
@Ancient_Masc
And If it weren't for toxic masculinity, every man could know the sacredness and privilege of coming home to one of the most beautiful mind, body, and soul alive today...
@BethMooreLPM
I haven’t experienced this yet, however, i have seen it play out here and often wondered about how the ‘object of scorn’ internalizes the experience of crows gnawing at them. Yes, some ‘bring it upon themselves’ but lack the faculties to process such an overwhelming experience
@Billieiswriting
I have never observed spite in you. That said it did seem apparent that you were activated in a way i hadn’t seen before, but you explained your reasons why. I was most concerned about the revealing of the name, but more than that just sad….the use of vile in the response cut
If somebody were to ask me ‘who do you say that Jesus is?’
The only language I can use to authentically answer would be to say:
‘A jilted and betrayed former lover of mine whose essence i long for deeply, but whose Body has become virtually unrecognizable through generations
@GodlessLiz
My dearest friend—a professor of philosophy—is far more ‘behaviorally Christlike’ in his lived humanity, undergirded by private atheism, than almost anybody else I have encountered
@kevinmyoung
I admire your fortitude in putting ‘yourself out there’ in the manner you do. My neuroticism torments me virtually every time i reply to a thread. No way i could endure the constant scrutiny and labels, even from digital strangers it would hurt at some level
Woo hoo! Finally hit a milestone and didn't even realize it! 100 hard earned Followers! (all bots get removed) I came to the same conclusion
@Edokwin
so eloquently articulated on last nights space: Engage engage engage!
The only other caveat I would add is: speak *to*
@sheilagregoire
@_jaystringer
I don’t know how any earnest pastor would or should be threatened by this advice. And the snippet at the end actually defends pastors in so far as you express ‘and congregations shouldn’t expect that from Pastors’. Everybody should hear not just the content of your words but
@noedenelsewhere
“If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don't bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you will get better results if you just watch him laugh.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky
@sheilagregoire
💯💯i love the way you gift people with self-interrogating questions. Jesus did the same thing if you really think about it. Your penchant for these honest questions—worthy of serious consideration—and absent of spite…keep going Sheila! Words cant express the respect and
.
@tx_pilgrim
and I are reading The Violence of God from OT professor and scholar Dan Hawk. I reached out to Dan and he is willing to do a zoom call to discuss the themes of some of the most difficult aspects of OT. He also is one of the foremost scholars in the world on the
@BaxterWilliams_
@MikeWingerii
In college I ended up at a Rodney Howard Browne revival during the whole ‘holy laughter’ fiasco. I was on the front row and Rodney came up to me and tried to administer his “slain in the spirit” / outpouring. He looked me straight in the eyes: we had a good thirty second stare
@MajToure999
Thanks for sharing your perspective.. I found your reasoning quite appealing not to mention your exemplary display of maturity in resisting the polarizing ways this will be misused and construed.
@DilbeckPhd
@CrucibleOfThght
Fair enough. He thought he was nutty! I think you have him mixed up with Nietchze. Soren has much to say that is relevant for our modern day Christianity but sadly his thinking is too easily misunderstood and dismissed by modern day evangelicalism
@LyingWrongAgain
@darwintojesus
I am 100% certain I am wrong about this topic. But I dont necessarily trust the propositional / binary ground rules my quantum computer brain lusts for. The curse of neuroticism runs deep in my veins. I need one of you to deliver me and I will declare you my savior!
@masonmennenga
I had my Coram Deo / Tabletalk Magazine / RC Sproul phase too but that was in my 20s and early 30s. Nothing wasted my life as much as that period. Hell, playing Video Games would have been better use of my time than fruitless obsession over TULIP
@PrudyRay
@drumsticksoup
It seems to me men have just as much to ‘unlearn’ on this topic of cultural conditioning which leads to seeing others merely as objects
@Andy35o
Martin Scorsese's "Silence" I felt brilliantly depicted how 'Faith' can act as a stumbling block when that Faith acts as the Object. Independent of your vocation, I enjoyed the introspection wrought by the movie.
@CarissasNewLife
Fear, Powerlessness, and Anger are all emotions i have had to live with in marriage. Excruciatingly hard to not suffer and moments of abject misery can be common (for me at least) when a spouse refuses to do the work and dismisses my expression of pain and loneliness
@sheilagregoire
“If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don't bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you will get better results if you just watch him laugh.” ― Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Authentic transformation always changes how we see more than what we see. Most important, it involves a profound change in how we see our selves, others, and the world. Transformation begins at the boundary of what I think of as me and what I think of as not-me. Transformational
@CatherineMcNiel
I much prefer to identify as
#IAMWrongAboutJesus
than to identify as
#IAMRightAboutJesus
. The latter seems to me more as a kind of false certitude masquerading as ‘faith’. Truth seems for more relational than propositional. It needs to be acted out somehow and someway
@JohnnaCrider1
I watched it and it challenged my thinking and i am better off for it. Surprisingly my answer to his question ‘what is a woman?’ - my answer was ‘a participant and giver of life’
@Kierkegaarddd
If a post a reply, i will regret it. If i don’t post a reply, i will regret it too. Reply or don’t reply, you will regret it either way.
@LyingWrongAgain
Two minutes in heaven seems interesting to me in the interest of building / maturing the community (which will strengthen the dialogue down the road in my view).
Phone a friend is also interesting assuming you have to rotate to somebody different (A to B; B cannot go back to A.
@transvangelical
Not good enough—I want you on Dancing with the Stars, though I would also be content to have you deliver the Liberty University commencement speech
@DennyBurk
Has anybody—yourself or others—aggrieved by this actually read it? Just curious. I have not read it. And no, I am not asking for airtight, bot-like, scriptural justifications for why the author must be wrong.
@jovial_cynic
I like alot of your posts and resonate with much of what you convey here. How do you reconcile the Great Commission which is largely understood as ‘preaching the gospel’ (with words)?
We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of
@SomewhatHarmles
@QuoracTheBard
This may warrant another ad-hoc adjustment to our scores…let the record show, I call for a +2 adjustment in your favor, particularly for the use of bovine
@DrT_Crit_Think
Good gawd, finally, some semblance of judicial justice. the tribalism is going to escalate to DEFCON level 5 however. I have my epistemic body armor on...hope the names of the jurors stay anonymous.
@CharissaGrace15
@Billieiswriting
@5by5nina
@Jubilee4Jesus
Billie i realize i am a mere pleb on here..but It/Thou misses her! Whatever heartfelt goodwill you send her, deposit my contemplative empathy into whatever words you breathe out for her!
Bite aka Ryan
@natgrace79
Dont sweat it Natalie. All Theology tends to do nowadays is merely parse human beings into more discrete objects of razor thin proportions. Trust the internal tug toward human connection and the longings for Truth and Goodness
@darkprofu
A rabbi was asked by one of his students “Why did God create atheists?” After a long pause, the rabbi finally responded with a soft but sincere voice: “God created atheists to teach us the most important lesson of them all – the lesson of true compassion. You see, when an
@haymes_joshua
If America is indeed falling away from God, we Christians have no one to blame but ourselves for not showing Jesus to a watching world. There is every bit as much nastiness, bigotry, and division in the Church as there is in our society. Christians vigorously defend marriage in
@darkprofu
@NewEcclesiastes
@QuoracTheBard
NewEcclesiastes is quite unique...I hope he is welcomed and his voice--whatever it may be--is heard. Sounds like you and your audience have that in mind. I will try to join in and listen.
@ZachWLambert
If Twitter is any indication of the Mind of the Everlasting, there will be one question and one question only: Do you 'think' homosexuality is sin? That's it, that is the question...such Majesty reduced not even to action, but to 'thinking'...we need a modern day Kierkegaard to
@Billieiswriting
Yeah that makes sense for sure. My own personal experience of this: Whatever longing i have to see reconciliation and peacemaking manifest…it seems more rational for me to strangle and suffocate that longing inside me. Even as an outsider…i feel sad and stupid for even
@JasonLehn
All good chief, as you can tell I never forgot the words you used! Dare I say, it blessed me. We never really know who is watching and listening to us, eyeless.
I was reading another thread last night and thinking about the Sacred. This contemplative act emerged into consideration of Faith, Hope, and Love.
Faith, Hope, Love—but the greatest of these is Love. Why is that called out as the greatest of these? Many might say ‘because God
@amyferrell0
@emilykmay
Most men dont realize how harmful patriarchy is to them…feeling as function has all but vanished leaving an entire dimension—arguably the most important dimension—of lived experience completely desiccated.
@stephen_richer
@LyingWrongAgain
Just got home and read it… *facepalm*. I would normally delete my reply but out of a public display of penance I must keep it…
@MajToure999
My
#hypothesis
is most folks aren’t actually watching the video because their minds are hijacking them into thinking they automatically know what your viewpoint is. I
#resisted
that urge and am way better off for it as you masterfully conveyed my
#privatethoughts
keep being you
@autocorrect2_0
@SecularOutpost
"evidence" "real" "belief" and "exists" are all ambiguous terms that shift based on differing epistemologies. generally, most bucketize "evidence" as 1) empirical evidence and 2) logic-based scrutiny of assertions
Furthermore, Christians incorporate an epistemic structure of
@YourmanGodfrey
@PastorTrey05
What is the appropriate interval someone must meet to satisfy your requirement? You covered the quantity of people, presumably at least six people. But you completely leave out the frequency…what is it? Daily, weekly, monthly, yearly? Asking so i can setup a reminder on my