Solving problems of today with the wisdom of the past. Run by @NickJamell. Find out more about the #podcast, #YouTube, and more: https://xitter.gq/t.co/Qvpm0RjcPR
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“I ain’t high class and I ain’t white trash. I’m wild and a little crazy too.”
— confederate railroad
For me that means smoking a cigar while I read philosophy in the garage in a beach chair…
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Here’s my Sunday afternoon.
A little reward for spending the last two days in the rain doing yard work and building a new garden bed
Worry is no good.
Concern is a prudent calculation of possible outcomes and contingencies.
Worry is a disruption of peace that is not warranted. It is a sign of a lack of faith
A 1300 year old monastery. Now a graveyard on Lough Neagh
Not the same but still honored in a transformed way
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“Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient, ever new, late have I loved you! You were within me, but I was outside, and it was there that I searched for you.”
– St. Augustine, Confessions (Book 10, Chapter 27)
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"He who learns must suffer."
– Aeschylus, Agamemnon
The wisdom here is twofold, and it may not be as straightforward as it seems.
Here's how to understand it properly through the Christian lens.
Read more 🧵👇
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Do the gods really direct our lives or is that simply an ancient superstition?
While we scoff and turn up our nose at this idea, it has more merit than moderns would like to admit.
Can we understand the fates and acts of godly intervention as instances of Divine Providence? 🧵
Just waiting to find out they let a bunch of that go bad and don’t even sell it.
Then they have to buy it all again once they’re a little stunt is over.
