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Joseph Merrick retweeted
Pope Leo XIV at Lourdes preaches on sin, repentance, penance and conversion:
“Indeed I promise you that eternal life is a firm and certain promise that the Lord makes to us. He has already won for us the victory in His death and resurrection, through the grace of Baptism He brings this eternal life to fulfilment in each day. It is within our reach but we must firmly welcome it, take hold of it and not stand in its way.
For the obstacles to grace and eternal life, the only obstacle to love is sin, by where we turn in upon ourselves, refusing God and shutting ourselves up in our own darkness. Our personal responsibility therefore comes in to play, and great responsibility it is: God has made us free, since freedom is necessary for love no one can be forced to love, we must therefore use our freedom to say yes to Christ, relying on His grace as Mary did. This is the yes that we renew until our final breath, now and at the hour of our death, as we always say in the Hail Mary.
We hear the same urgent call to conversion in the words which Mary spoke right here: “Penance, penance, penance!” She repeats the three times and she asks Bernadette to perform certain acts of penance. Why? Are we slow to understand, do we too easily think of ourselves without sin? Do we not practice penance enough? The Virgin asks us to do penance not only for ourselves because we do need it, but also for sinners and for a world that is going astray. How can our hearts not be moved by the conflicts that are spreading and destroying so many innocent lives. Yet the evil of our times comes from the human heart. God is not responsible for this. It therefore the human heart that must change.”
Joseph Merrick retweeted
Two modern classics essential for understanding what has become of current U.S. politics, left and right alike. Though to understand the deepest spiritual roots of the crisis, you need to look to Plato on democracy, Augustine on the libido dominandi, and Nietzsche on ressentiment
Joseph Merrick retweeted
“He's now teaching his three kids, including his 16-year-old daughter, how to invest based on what he learned owning SpaceX stock. His daughter is already a stakeholder in Meta and a handful of other companies.
If given the chance to talk to Musk, Hernandez said he'd thank him for helping him realize a dream he didn't know he had.
‘He made it a possibility for somebody like us, you know, the cook or … electrician. He's making all these lives much better and meaningful for their families as well."
Before Juan Hernandez became a welder at SpaceX, he had never heard of the company.
But just over 10 years later, that leap of faith is paying off following the company's $75 billion initial public offering. cbsn.ws/445TrCm
Joseph Merrick retweeted
It is time for the United States Postal Service to ban junk mail.
Unsolicited spam calls are already prohibited by the FCC. Emails are heavily regulated by the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003. Junk mail is the majority of mail, 100 million trees per year. Enough!
Joseph Merrick retweeted
The idea that all billionaires got their money by exploiting peopl doesn't hold up to any scrutiny.
JK Rowling wrote books about cheeky wizards. I invented a better way to make virtual reality headsets and games to play on them. We just made things people wanted.
Joseph Merrick retweeted
Dostoevsky is right, your worst sin is, in fact, destroying and betraying myself for nothing.
Joseph Merrick retweeted
Heard this in AA years before I realized it was wu wei:
“It's easier to act your way into new ways of thinking than it is to think your way into new ways of acting.”
Joseph Merrick retweeted
It is 100% true that great men and women of the past were not sitting around moaning about their feelings. I regret nothing.
Joseph Merrick retweeted
“One of the many life skills that you want to learn at a fairly young age is the skill of being an ultra-thrifty, minimal kind of little wisp that’s traveling through time . . . in the sense of learning how little you actually need to live, not just in a survival mode, but in a contented mode. . . . That gives you the confidence to take a risk, because you say, ‘What’s the worst that can happen? Well, the worst that can happen is that I’d have a backpack and a sleeping bag, and I’d be eating oatmeal. And I’d be fine.’”
— Kevin Kelly
Joseph Merrick retweeted
I cannot wait until the White House changes hands and all of you ghouls switch back from "you're a traitor unless you bootlick so hard your tongue goes numb" to "the government asking any questions about my offshore fentanyl casino is vile tyranny and I will throw myself in the San Francisco Bay in protest", like werewolves at the last ray of the setting moon.
Joseph Merrick retweeted
Thread with excerpts from The Mind of Napoleon: A Selection of His Written and Spoken Words
Joseph Merrick retweeted
As I keep saying, it’s not so much a slippery slope as a sheer drop into an abyss
Distraught family blasts Canada for euthanizing son, 26, who suffered from 'seasonal depression' trib.al/V9wkC88