Chemistry, Philosophy, Theology. Body, Mind, Soul. I am a student of all three.
Joined August 2023
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Jan 4
Nope, but you are in the place of “sliding not deciding.” You know what your kids want and need before they ask you, but you are not being proactive, you are being passive and that passivity leads to selfloathing. Think, plan, act.
Jan 3
Am I just a monster? It's been 4 years since I became a father and I'm beginning to fear for my soul. The truth is I just don't like being around kids for very long. Historically, this is not uncommon among fathers, but today it feels almost illegal. It's causing me a lot of confusion and anguish.
The ideal amount of time I would like to spend playing with my kids is probably about 70-140 minutes a week—roughly ten minutes each day, maybe 2x/day, taking breaks from work. My feelings of love toward them are perfectly strong, but if I have to watch them or entertain them for more than about 10 minutes my blood starts to boil. I just want to be working, or accomplishing something. I try to be grateful, but it doesn't work.
It's 9 AM this morning, Saturday, January 3. It's a sunny, warm day here in Austin, and my four-year-old son is begging me to play catch in the street. I was drinking coffee, still waking up, so I didn’t really feel like it, but at this age his desire to play is insatiable. He begged and begged, so I conceded, and with a smile. I have no problem being a kind and loving father, the problem is only that I do not enjoy it. It's not that I'm trying to maximize my personal pleasure; it just seems wrong that I experience so little delight when my dad friends all claim to experience so much.
It was beautiful. We live on a picturesque, tree-lined block. I am even relatively relaxed from the holiday rest. Playing catch with your son is supposed to be an iconic, peak experience. Yet for every single minute, on the inside, I just don't want to be there. I want to be drinking my coffee in peace. Then I feel guilty and absurdly ungrateful, and ashamed, when we're done. I know that when he is a teenager, I'll long to have these days back. I have all of this perspective rationally, and I've been very patient and steadfast trying to digest it, but nothing fixes me emotionally.
Am I a terrible person? Or is my feeling within a certain range of historically normal and it's modern parenting norms that are off? Whether it's my fault or not, I don't even care, I just want to figure this out. Something is wrong and I no longer have the excuse of being new to this.
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29 Dec 2025
Next year! 4 sure
29 Dec 2025
Revd Charlie Skrine of All Souls Church Langham Place flies around as Superman, passing out candy and gifts to congregants during their Christmas service.
Notably, this is the same church that John Stott used to lead.
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29 Nov 2025
Drugs. Pot kills motivation. Alcohol sends money down the drain. Cocaine leads to foolishness. Fentanyl takes away the will to live. Meth destroys the brain. The only one worth keeping is nicotine because it keeps a man focused.
29 Nov 2025
What do you think is the most common cause of poverty in the U.S.?
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29 Nov 2025
If I had 30 seconds with Musk, I would say, Make an AI that makes humans smarter rather than one that replaces us or encourages the worst aspects of our nature. What is the point of accomplishing something if we become too stupid along the way to realize it?
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28 Nov 2025
A marriage counselor once told my wife the problem was “communication.”
$200 an hour.
12 sessions.
She learned to “use I statements.”
I learned to “validate her feelings.”
We were still miserable.
You know what fixed my marriage?
I stopped talking.
Started doing.
Woke up before her.
Made the coffee.
Didn’t announce it.
Handled the dishes.
Didn’t ask for credit.
Took the kids so she could rest.
Didn’t call it “babysitting.”
Three weeks.
No conversations about our problems.
No processing.
No therapy homework.
Just a man who finally acted like he gave a damn.
She didn’t say anything at first.
Then one morning she looked at me like she hadn’t looked at me in years.
Not with love.
With surprise.
She’d forgotten I could show up.
The counselor told us to talk more.
What we needed was for me to shut up and move.
Most marriages don’t die from lack of words.
They die from lack of action.
Your wife doesn’t need another conversation.
She needs to see you in the kitchen at 5 AM.
Not because she asked.
Because you finally woke up.
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28 Nov 2025
Take away the ladder and blame the boys for not climbing up.
28 Nov 2025
Most of those guys in their 30s living with their parents and playing video games are working jobs Steve. Their jobs just don't pay enough for them to be out on their own and they got to deal with people like you who stole their future demanding they work even harder for less.
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25 Nov 2025
One should repent the day before one’s death. Since you don’t know the date of your death, you should repent daily.
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21 Nov 2025
Rather than complaining about the plight of young men, if you are a man with authority, then promote a younger man up the ladder. Put in a good word for a younger man. Start rebuilding the male social networks that lead to success.
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21 Nov 2025
How does that work? Really? You close one week earlier? That means your initial Covid positive population is a bit less, but is non-zero. You flatten the curve, but you don’t change the area under the curve.
20 Nov 2025
Covid Inquiry: 23,000 deaths could have been prevented if the March 2020 lockdown had been imposed just one week earlier.
No mistake by any prime minister in living memory has caused so many deaths in the UK.
The catastrophic price of @BorisJohnson's incompetence & negligence.
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20 Nov 2025
I think the moral of the story is that if you aren’t in the Epstein files, then you likely are not as important as you think you are.
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18 Nov 2025
Then you should make AI that increases overall human intelligence rather than undermining it or simply mining it. What is the point of populating the stars if we can’t understand what we’ve done?
Become multiplanetary or die
That is the choice we face
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14 Nov 2025
In general, most people are Pippen.
14 Nov 2025
AI is like the Palantir.
Dangerous to use if you lack self-mastery.
Everyone thinks he’s Aragorn, but in fact most people are Pippin.
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14 Nov 2025
7 Sacraments? Pseudo-Dionysius (6th cent) had 6. Hugo St. Victor had 30. We don’t get 7 until Peter Lombard 1439. Not too long before the number was reduced to 2 by the Reformation.
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13 Nov 2025
Question: the electrical signals in the human brain fire according to the mathematical laws of physics. This gives rise to "thinking" and paradoxically also mathematical mistakes. Why? If the math is right on one level, why does it err at the next?
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12 Nov 2025
When Christian theology dominates the imaginary, the Church deals with the hateful motivations of the heart, leaving the law to deal with the relatively easier matter of external criminal behaviour. Gut the first and the state must deal with both.
12 Nov 2025
The @JCCFCanada continues to fight the good fight against the growing body of blasphemy law in Canada.
It's good work, even if I'm skeptical of it's prospects for ultimate success.
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12 Nov 2025
While I don’t like the trend toward hate speech laws, I don’t think it is right to classify hate as merely an emotion. Hate rather tends to be a motivation. Hate rarely remains in confined to the heart. Even so, law enforcement is more likely to inflame hate than mitigate it
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12 Nov 2025
The problem with conservativism is that it only conserves the progressive moves of a few years ago.
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11 Nov 2025
We are on the verge of “first world problems” becoming obsolete as we decline into “third world” conditions
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6 Nov 2025
Me, being pleasantly surprised that the Canons of Dort make more sense to me now then when I first studied them.
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4 Nov 2025
Sometimes a spiritual wave of temptation and disorientation will wash over me. It does pass, but it certainly isn’t fun.
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