This is my independent, self-owned social media presence. President, Knowledge Standards Foundation. Ex-founder, Wikipedia. Philosopher, fiddler. Long gone from WP. I blog at LarrySanger.org and make videos on BitChute.org.
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What if I were to tell you that many successful people in this world spend most of their time, most days, pretending to be things they definitely are not, not at home or at least not in their heart of hearts—and they carry on such deception quite deliberately, for reasons they would never publicly admit, and some of them achieve great honor and power as a result—and that this deception brings them no end of pleasure, and they have very few compunctions about it? For them, life is a serious role-playing game, and the satisfaction of winning is all that matters. But about the realities underlying this game, they mostly have profoundly dark, cynical contempt. This can be seen in the sort of films and other cultural work they prefer to consume.
Not a few such people have infiltrated our churches. And government (all major parties). And academe. And the corporate, financial, and nonprofit worlds. Etc. (cont’d)
X.com is down for me, and many others are reporting that it is.
Well…welcome, everyone who thought to come visit me here!
Golly, now X is showing a CloudFlare error! (I’m surprised they use CloudFlare at all.)
It disappoints me that nobody has yet commented substantively on this essay:
Turns out, Skype is shutting down.
As Skype shuts down, its legacy is end-to-end encryption for the masses
In case you’re wondering why I haven’t posted here in a few days, it is because I am determining whether my X.com account is capable of pre-2022 virality. Someone, maybe X.com staff, gifted me a Premium Plus account on X.com. That was at the same time that a tweet that I made to Elon Musk went absolutely viral. Following that, a tweet I made to President Trump was retweeted by Musk himself. This suggests that I am on the X.com radar, which in turn suggests that my account might have been unthrottled. So I am now just trying to see if that is the case. I suspect not. I have certainly got a bump because my follower numbers ballooned from 48,000 to 66,000 in the space of a month, most of that being in the space of a couple of days. But I just don’t know whether the effects will last.
To make a proper test I actually need try rather hard to see whether a well-written, timely, and otherwise excellent tweet will actually prove popular. The jury is out on that.
I’m gonna have to disagree with Greg regarding U.S. support of Ukraine. We plowed billions of dollars into a deeply corrupt regime, one at the center of global corruption in which the Biden family itself had their fingers. It always did smell to high heaven.
And we did not have the money; we went into more debt, which constituted a tax on all U.S. citizens. At the same time we were sending more billions to Ukraine, we let the people of the flood-ravaged South suffer without help. And it made no difference to the outcome.
Meanwhile, we must properly count the human cost of war, which is horrific and easy to lose sight of if your country is not the one in the war.
Russia has taken back what was, not that long ago, Russian territory (i.e., from before the Soviet Union), and the majority of which is Russian-speaking. As long as they don’t continue on their march, and are willing to accept a cease-fire, this is by far the best expectable outcome.
Philippians 2:9-11
Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. (ESV)
And then this happened…and just like that, somebody gave me a blue check (not sure who) and I am back on X.com!
Source: x.com/elonmusk/status/1…
Soo…this happened
Source: x.com/lsanger/status/18…
I…was not expecting this.
John Calvin on the effect of knowledge of God:
“The effect of our knowledge rather ought to be, first, to teach us reverence and fear; and, secondly, to induce us, under its guidance and teaching, to ask every good thing from him, and, when it is received, ascribe it to him. For how can the idea of God enter your mind without instantly giving rise to the thought, that since you are his workmanship, you are bound, by the very law of creation, to submit to his authority?—that your life is due to him?—that whatever you do ought to have reference to him?”
Institues of the Christian Religion I, ii, 2
I found this rather disturbing, not just for Chaya and LoTT, who I followed since the time she had about as many followers as I have; not just because it reconfirms (what should certainly be) illegal involvement in media by intelligence goons; but because these people are just so obviously stupid and ideological. How did these idiots get into power? They should be working at McDonald’s tomorrow.
Source: x.com/ChayaRaichik10/st…
Don’t mind a good argument – but those looking to own or destroy someone need to get a life.
I was on the “Orthodoxy” channel. (No, not Eastern Orthodoxy.)
