#MODERN

Fr. J. Wesley Evans, OPA

FrWesleyEvans

Date rape drugs, and in general using chemicals like drugs and alcohol to induce someone into sex is literal witchcraft as defined by the Bible. A thread.NB: “witchcraft” here is

Aspiring Vitruvian

ZephyrAugustus

Honestly every stage of development for rationalism was fine until secularists took over. Nothing wrong with the likes of Kepler, whose research was motivated by a higher spiritual goal to

Fred Sargeant

FredSargeant

When I was in junior high school, I received a book report assignment. I'd never heard of the book and when I learned it was by an English author, I

Umme Sarah

isarah1234

Aishah's age at the time of marriage to the Prophet has become a favorite talking point of Islamophobes, But was her age always problematic? Simply put the modern controversy over

Seth Cotlar

SethCotlar

1. Some thoughts on media, democracy, skepticism, and trust. It’s commonplace for us to teach kids to be skeptical consumers of media. But perhaps we should slightly reframe that advice

foone

Foone

I'm still playing with my replacement OLED display for the Equate pregnancy tester.I was worried I wouldn't have enough bandwidth to do real time updates, but it turns out that

🔥 Kareem Carr 🔥

kareem_carr

Sometimes I hear people say their thought process is Bayesian. They seem to mean that they often rate their beliefs on a scale of [0,1] and they "update" by which

Hua Cheng’s Last Braincell

HuaLast

okay, so i'm new here, but modern fantasy au witch!xl and vampire!hc live rent free in my brain. here's a thread starting with xl backstory: he was the supreme of

Timothy Schatz

IdealSniff

A quick and dirty history of left theory: From pre marx to modern tendacies of anti fascist, l/acc, eco-hyphen, and other leftists See thread attached 1/x Pre-Marxist---In the pre Marxist

SARK

sark_10

Sometimes I wonder what kind of resilient country Pakistan is. I saw the IPP Report by @arsched today & it baffles me that Pakistan has survived a corruption on such

Taosci

taosci

IMO Morsi failed it was b/c a bunch of medieval antiquarians cdn't solve the problems of a modern economy, so Egypt plunged into an existential economic crisis as the wheat

adam

mustangsallins

Rachel Doyle hugging a pillow of my Albums of the Year 2019, a thread Sharon Van Etten - Remind Me Tomorrow Are We There? is a fave but this literally

Sam Hirst

Samuel_J_Hirst

Question (in thread form) about race and Orientalism in the USSR: At the recent #aseees2019 conference, I was struck by the audience's laughter. For example, an art historian pointed out

Christopher J. Scalia

cjscalia

I have a 1/2-baked theory about a Van Halen song. When It’s Love opens with Eddie on synth and Alex tapping drumsticks w/ nearly every note. The combination adds a

ceo of daffodils

SAPPHODlLS

bold take considering the fact that edward and sandra bloom invented love when big fish hit broadway in 2013 https://twitter.com/musicallaneous/status/1252278326481358849 this & the two tweets below it will prove my

Pradheep J. Shanker

Neoavatara

A letter from the New @NYMag editor in chief David Haskell about @sullydish.Read the red outlined box.Alternate take? "Liberals cannot TOLERATE much if any criticism of their base believes, and