What a time to encounter this passage:

Mumford also revived the reputations of a number of American architects, engineers, and environmentalists, among them Henry Hobson Richardson, Louis Sullivan, Frederick Law Olmsted, George Perkins Marsh, and John A. and Washington Roebling, builders of the Brooklyn Bridge -"a poem," Mumford called it, "in granite and steel."

Let us all pray for Ohio Reich

Also simply microwaving a frozen meal is... Just... Too much

In the face of escalating persecution from the progressive American regime, reactionaries can look to the example of the early Christians suffering under the brutality of the Roman Empire. Though they were tortured, imprisoned and martyred, the church fathers urged the faithful not to violently resist the pagan authorities. They trusted that God would execute His plan for ultimate victory, and that His plan was good even if it led to the loss of the lives of believers.

Tertullian wrote that Christian blood was like seed, with the church growing even as members were slaughtered. He understood that responding to persecution with force would only justify the regime cracking down harder, and in a way that would appear more justifiable to everyday people. The courageous example of the martyrs helped spread the gospel and garnered sympathy for the fledgling faith. If they had reacted violently, their message would have lost some of its power. Similarly, modern reactionaries, while suffering (lightly by comparison) for our countercultural beliefs, must hold fast to the moral high ground. Persecution may be our current cross to bear, but we have faith that God will work it for good.

America's progressive nature runs deep, from its revolutionary Enlightenment founding to modern civil rights legislation. Trying to aggressively dismantle this entrenched liberalism is likely futile, especially as our attempts to do so ignite the flames of our enemies' passions ever brighter. As people of faith, we believe that worldly politics are fleeting compared to Christ's eternal kingdom. Sometimes God calls us to patiently endure oppression and even martyrdom as a witness to His truth. Responding to subjugation with violence, however tempting, risks becoming a mirror image of our tormentors rather than a light in the darkness.

Faithfulness, long-suffering, and setting a Christlike example are the way forward, not armed uprisings. Like the early church, we are called to be "wise as serpents and harmless as doves." We must trust that whatever happens to this earthly nation is part of God's perfect plan, even if it is not the outcome we might hope for. Christ taught us to suffer wrong rather than inflict it. So we rest in His promise that our light and momentary afflictions are preparing us for an eternal weight of glory. The battle belongs to the Lord.

I intended on using this quote, but it ended up not fitting as well as I wanted it to:

Christians could never slay their enemies. For the more that kings, rulers, and peoples have persecuted them everywhere, the more Christians have increased in number and grown in strength.

- Origen

Oh boy, who's moving to California?

Learn to control your anger. A few seconds of letting that emotion spew out uncontrolled can have grave consequences on the remainder of your life

During a 1993 playoff game in the Greek basketball league Serbian player Boban Jankovic paralyzed himself by slamming his head against a post out of frustration over a call made by a referee.

After being bound to a wheelchair for the final 13 years of his life, Jankovic gained weight, which exerted too much stress on his heart, and he eventually died of heart failure at the age of 42, on the date of June 28, 2006, while he was on a holiday cruise on the Greek island of Rhodes

Happy birthday to me. Help a poor man out on his birthday, send some cash 🙏🏼