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After matching 3 couples who got married this year alone, there’s something I’ve noticed about the women who get married.
They tend to have 5 things in common.
And after 10 years of working with marriage-minded singles, I don’t think it’s a coincidence.
Number 5 might shock the skeptics.
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In Greta Gerwig’s Narnia, Jadis uses magic to shatter the Eagle & Child. This is the real Oxford pub where Lewis, Tolkien, and the Inklings actually met and where the Narnia books were shaped. There is no narrative reason for it to appear. Its inclusion isn’t an accident, but a deliberate choice.
In an adaptation already altering the source’s theology and metaphysics, the destruction of the physical site where those ideas were forged functions as a symbolic act: the origin point of the story is targeted and erased by the very antagonist the books exist to defeat. That is the definition of desecration, not homage.
After a lifetime I've decided to start reading The Bible. I realized I've let others tell me what it contains. It's a book that had a part in the foundation of Western civilization. It's time I learned about it.
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Victor Frankenstein's flaw is NOT that he's not as smart as he thinks.
His flaw is that he is EXACTLY as smart as he thinks, in one specific area (biology). He expects this to translate into every other aspect of life, and is taken by surprise each time he's utterly wrong.
This rings so true because it's a common human weakness. That's why Noah Chomsky thinks he knows anything about climate change, and why actors think they know about economics. Chomsky (and the actors) are smart in one area, and are probably adulated by those around him, so they assume their brainpower applies to everywhere else. Heck, you can see it in Trump or any president really.
I am a skilled designer. I think I'm really smart about design. So naturally in my heart I think I'm smart everywhere but I'm doubtless not. Heck this post may be an example of me being wrong. At least I know to allow for it.
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Finally, someone nailed the aesthetics to convey the civilizational stake of our present age.
Standing before the acropolis as the sun bathed its marble in warm tones, Rubio makes the case for the grandeur and virtues of Western civilization in all its splendor. Empires have risen and vanished beneath that ridge, and the stones remain, indifferent to the fashion of the hour.
Rare to hear a Western leader use vocabulary that modern education has largely purged - sacrifice, duty, inheritance, the debt owed to those who built before us.
The men who raised those columns did not do so under the illusion of permanent safety. They understood what separates glory and ruin, and that the only lasting answer to ruin is the deliberate transmission of daring and courage.
It's a glorious speech, truly one for the ages.
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How people with depression spend their time:
•Going to bed late
•Drinking alcohol
•Sleeping in
•Watching TV or videos
•Scrolling social media
•Procrastinating
•Eating junk food
•Lying in bed
Behaviors of people who recover from depression:
•Exercising
•Socializing
•Planning events
•Working
•Hobbies
•Starting new projects
•Cooking or eating healthy food
•Getting out of the house
Source: The 12 Levers by @SpencrGreenberg and Jeremy Stevenson
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Women’s value doesn’t depend on belittling men. You could have praised their contributions without portraying men as lazy braggarts or dismissing essential work because it’s paid.
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🇯🇵Just the facts of JAPAN
One of the lowest homicide rates in the OECD.
A literacy rate of nearly 100%.
Safe tap water—something fewer than fifteen nations on Earth can claim.
No riots when catastrophe strikes.
Train delays measured in seconds, not hours.
A lost wallet that almost always finds its way back to your hands.
Politicians didn't build this.
It was built by mothers waking up at 5:00 AM to pack lunchboxes.
By fathers who endured decades of quiet sacrifice at a single company until retirement.
It was built by millions of ordinary, nameless people who silently carried this weight on their shoulders day after day.
I'm not just proud of this country.
I am proud of the everyday people who made it this way.
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University debate, "Were humans built to eat meat?", same two chairs, same clock.
Vegan: "Anatomically we're closer to the gorilla than the lion. Flat molars, long gut. A gentle plant-eater with delusions."
Paleoanthropologist: "Then explain the acid."
Vegan: "Which acid?"
Paleoanthropologist: "Your stomach runs at a pH of about 1.5. A lion's sits nearer 3.6. Yours is stronger than the animal you've just been contrasted with, by a factor of about a hundred."
Vegan: "Stomach acid digests food."
Paleoanthropologist: "A cow's rumen sits at about 6.5. That's a compost heap with a pulse. Yours strips the zinc off a coin. Why would a gentle plant-eater carry that?"
Vegan: "Protection."
Paleoanthropologist: "From what? Lettuce doesn't fight back."
Vegan: "Bacteria."
Paleoanthropologist: "Which bacteria live in a leaf at a level that needs a pH of 1.5? Name the salad."
Vegan: "..."
Paleoanthropologist: "The animals that run acid as low as ours are the scavengers. Vultures. Things that arrive at a carcass on the second day and need to kill what's already living in it. We're not built like the lion. We're built like the bird that waits for the lion to finish."
Vegan: "Flattering."
Paleoanthropologist: "It's a picture of a species with a rock, a sharp flake and no claws. You don't get the fresh kill. You get the femur nobody could open, forty hours late, and you'd better have the acid for it."
Vegan: "Acid that strong is dangerous. Look how many people are on tablets for it."
Paleoanthropologist: "The only animal on earth that pays to switch its stomach off. You've spent sixty years pouring cereal onto a carcass digester and now you're medicating the digester for doing its job."
Vegan: "So your argument is that we're vultures."
Paleoanthropologist: "My argument is a number. Yours is a feeling about gorillas. The gorilla eats for most of the day and its gut is a fermentation tank. Yours is done in a few hours and runs on acid. One of you is designed for leaves."
Moderator: "Thirty seconds."
Paleoanthropologist: "She can keep them. I'm still waiting on the salad."
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Movies that should have been trilogies
1. The Rocketeer
2. John Carter
3. Doc Savage
4. The Phantom
5. The Shadow
6. Sky Captain And The World OF Tomorrow
7. Flash Gordon
A salve from the current state in male and female relationships on the internet.
Today, my wife and I are celebrating our fifth wedding anniversary, which coincides with us being together seven years.
If I were to describe my wife, I would label her as one of the best people in the world. She has this quality that makes everyone who meets her fall in love with her.
When I think back to the beginning of our relationship, I saw this about her at a function we went to at a friend’s art studio.
My friend had this smart piece of artwork she drew of a cat that Michele commented on, saying how much she liked it.
I made up an excuse to step away and plotted with my friend to buy the artwork from her, but not to say anything to Michele as a surprise.
Mind you, at this function, she didn’t know anyone there yet. When I peeked across the room to check on her (and to make sure she didn’t see me buying the artwork), I could see her beautiful smile as she laughed in the company of strangers.
It’s one of those cliché movie moments where it feels like everyone is moving in slow motion. It was a moment I realized that I could take her anywhere and she would find a way to have a good time.
It was the first time in my life I ever thought about how my partner represents me and how I represent her. These weren’t concepts I consciously thought about until her.
Without even asking, people would come up to me and tell me how much they love her. She radiated something unique that literally every single person who meets her is attracted to.
I’ve been writing for years and even I struggle to put the proper words to it. The only way I can describe it is that she has an excitement for life and a genuine curiosity about the world that makes other people feel comfortable.
I joke with her and say she likes everything, but it’s more like she’s open to what and who God places in her pathway.
I’ve lost count of how many of my friends have said they like me but they love Michele. It’s a statement that I completely understand and I take as no insult.
That day was the first day I saw her as my potential wife. Honestly, every day after that was me assessing her for marriage and making sure that I was being logical in my relationship decisions and not just caught up in my emotions.
We became official in September 2019, and before the end of the year, I knew I was going to ask her to marry me. I’d been in many relationships prior, but she was the first woman I foresaw that my life would be tremendously worse without her in it.
She’s my best friend and I trust her with my life. Every year we travel for our anniversary to reconnect and brace ourselves for new experiences.
There have been so many circumstances where we had to step up for each other in a difficult situation, even in medical situations, and we always came through because we have each other’s backs.
Nothing brings me more pleasure than seeing her smile just like that day in 2019. She is truly loved by many internationally.
I know she’ll read this: Happy Anniversary, Michele. You are the blessing I never thought I deserved.
Side Note: We still have the art work
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The truth is spreading. Make it go viral. Lay low the defilers of the founders and their era that made D&D and RPGs possible! Hasbro and WotC did not create this industry but they are sure burning it and its history to the ground!
hyperborea.news/traditional-…
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Four families. Four lives lost. And a five-year-old girl severely injured.
All of them hit by illegal immigrants who never should have had a CDL — let alone an 80,000-pound truck.
THE ILLEGAL HIGHWAYS — September 29, only on Rumble. Directed by Adam B. Coleman
@WrongSpeakFilms
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Islam appeals to porn-soaked playboys, rage-driven killers, and psychopaths all at once.
Islam takes people wrecked by shame, violence, or lust and tells them their vices aren’t vices at all, they’re proof of strength.
To the porn addict it says: Paradise is waiting with eternal virgins. Your lust is holy.
To the thug it says: Your rage is righteous. Kill in God’s name and it counts as worship.
Islam doesn’t sanctify men, it sanctifies their sins.
It doesn’t discipline lust, it glorifies it.
It doesn’t restrain violence, it blesses it.
It doesn’t heal guilt, it redirects it outward in rage.
That’s why Islam draws in the playboy and the predator, the rebel and the radical.
It gives them cover. It tells them their darkest impulses don’t need forgiveness or mastery, they just need submission.
That’s why so many of the broken and the bitter run to Islam.
Not because it cures them, but because it tells them they were never sick in the first place
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Before Boghossian, Lindsay, and Pluckrose, there was Sokal.
In 1996, he wrote a completely nonsensical paper on how physical reality is a social construct, strung together some physics jargon (as a physicist himself), and submitted it to a top cultural studies journal, “Social Text.”
The same day the journal published it in a special issue defending postmodern theory, Sokal exposed the hoax in another magazine.
They accepted his paper because it was politically aligned with their worldview. Not a single physicist reviewed it, nobody checked if it made any sense.
They proved his point that sloppy jargon had replaced academic rigor.
Because a Chad is what a Chad does.
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it's funny because i just read the entire article again..and for the life of me i can't remember the names of the slanderers..
nor will anyone else..because they've created nothing..and never have..they will be forgotten by all..
but..i do remember Gygax..Arneson..and you my friend..as my children and grandchildren will also remember y'all..
you and your tribe built something that didn't exist..and it literally took over the world..the DnD phenomenon is unmatched to this day..and has birthed every rpg in existence..period..
the cultural battle will continue on..for as long as it takes..in this spirit i..along with some friends..have been building an rpg to honor the DnD founders and builders..it is hopefully a bit unique but will still have a few major sprinkles of old school DnD in it's mechanics..mainly for throwback value..
hope to share it with you someday and see what you think..
thanks for what y'all built..we're forever grateful..
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The term is only rejected because it offends people who hate Jews. But all it actually does is highlight a profoundly influential shared moral framework drawn from the Bible. It's an accurate and useful descriptor that refers to something real, so complaining about it is stupid.
The term "Judeo-Christian" has sparked a lot of debate on the right lately.
When people talk about America's "Judeo-Christian values," they're not claiming the Founding Fathers were Jewish. They're referring to the shared biblical worldview that has shaped the West: that we're made in the image of God, that our rights come from our Creator—not the government—and that every human being has inherent dignity.
And the truth is, Jesus was a Jew, and His Jewish identity is a key part in the history of Christianity.