Lifelong Nebraskan, Lutheran, jaded conservative, long suffering Husker fan.
Joined June 2022
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Luke retweeted
Apr 11
He who understands the power of compound interest earns it, and he who does not understand pays it.
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Thank you @NASAArtemis crew for confirming the earth and moon's beauty from all angles 🌎🌕 #ShotOnNikon
Credit: NASA
ALT A photo of the Moon fully eclipsing the Sun, with distant stars in the background.
ALT A photo of the Earth half covered in shadow, showing swirling white clouds and blue oceans, with the blackness of space in the background.
ALT A photo with a wide-field view of a galaxy of stars.
ALT A photo of the crescent Earth positioned next to the cratered edge of the Moon's surface.
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Luke retweeted
Apr 10
Friends: Just got my phone back, I lost it in all the commotion. Mr. Mason had minor surgery this morning, and will fully recover. You folks are just the best, your prayers and kindness moved both me and my beloved to tears. From my exhausted heart, thank you. God bless you.
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Apr 10
I think this is an underrated aspect of America’s cultural aversion to tax hikes of any kind: utter lack of confidence that it’ll be used well.
In theory I’m a lib and would happily pay higher taxes for more people to have health insurance and for better infrastructure and things like hat.
But there’s no mechanism to ‘effectuate’ those politics in a reasonably effective manner and I know whatever extra I pay in taxes will just be wasted and stolen (by people who hate me and will always want more).
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Luke retweeted
Apr 10
Watching @BenSasse with @DouthatNYT is powerful bc of his courage and nobility in the face of death.
It’s also powerful bc society is intent on eradicating any/all occasions for us to look death in the face. Nursing homes, cremation, etc.
We need more memento mori, not less
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Luke retweeted
Apr 10
I made Trump's takedown of podcasters he doesn't like into the opening credits of Star Wars... because it fit perfectly.
This is pretty incredible. 🤣🤣🤣
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Tweets from 1960:
Apr 10
I am not trying to make my Catholic friends, who I love, angry with this statement. But this entire episode is starting to explain to me why so many Americans were concerned about a Catholic president for so long.
I have no interest in Rome trying to dictate American policy. And if it continues to loudly make its opinions heard on our foreign policy, I believe they’re going to find a lot of American Protestants feeling a lot less ecumenical than we have been in the more recent past.
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Luke retweeted
Apr 10
I've long thought that people need heroes. Sadly, modern society/culture seems to love nothing more than to try and destroy them.
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Luke retweeted
Apr 10
Friends I just got a call from one of Mr. Mason's friends and my Mr. Mason has been taken to the hospital with chest pains Please, PLEASE pray for him, I'm leaving now
please, friends please pray. PLEASE
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Luke retweeted
Apr 9
Ben Sasse: "What’s really happening is these superdevices in our pockets — the largest tools any median individual’s ever had access to in all of human history — allow our consciousness to leave the time and place where we actually live, the places where we break bread, the people who are living next door to us, the people that you can physically touch and hug, the small platoons of real community, and we allow our consciousness to go really far away"
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Luke retweeted
He was light years better at this with a 140 character limit
This is like watching Hemingway start pumping out 1,000 page novels filled with run-on sentences
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Luke retweeted
Apr 9
Brian Jacques explains why he does not have sympathetic villains in his Redwall series:
"When I was a boy, morality was taught in school and in church but I think that is no longer true to the extent that it used to be. I try to create very clear moral signposts of what is right and what is wrong. The children who read my books are generally at an age where they need to have things spelled out in 'black and white,' without ambiguity. I often tell my readers that my baddies are bad and my goodies are good. I won't have sympathetic baddies and schizophrenic goodies in my books."
Should more writers do this?
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Luke retweeted
Apr 9
Kirk Cousins agent
If aliens visit us, who should be in charge of speaking on behalf of humanity?
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Alternate headline: 59% of US Protestants are Baptists.
Apr 8
In 1972, 32% of Protestants were Baptists. It's 29% now.
Methodists have dropped from 22% to 8%.
Non-Denoms have risen from 3% to 30%.
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Luke retweeted
Apr 8
There's basically zero awareness of Western Nebraska and Eastern Wyoming. You have to drive there. It's some of the Most American Geography we have. Unlike anywhere else.
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Apr 7
As stated the argument is silly, but that’s not the argument.
The argument is that the willingness of the disciples to be martyred is strong evidence that they believed Jesus had risen. More modest claim, much harder to dismiss.
This is what I mean when I say that a lot of Christian apologetics are embarrassingly bad. “The resurrection must be true, because the apostles were willing to die for it and nobody dies for a lie” is an argument that’s beneath thinking people.
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Apr 7
The thought I keep coming back to is either the disciples genuinely experienced it, or a few deeply addled men launched a religion that was adopted by billions and profoundly shaped the dominant civilization on earth.
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Luke retweeted
Crazy underperformance for the Dems here.
Dems don't seem to realize how much America *hates* progressive ideology.
Unlike in 2006 & 2018 cycles, the GOP actually leads the Dems on net favorability at this point!
The national environment suggests GOP holding the Senate.
Why? Generic ballot (Dems in a weaker position than 2006 or 2018), Senate map (Dems need pickups in red states) & history.
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Luke retweeted
Apr 6
Crazy idea: Let's split a country in socialist and capitalist halves and check in on them in 75 years.
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