Simple analog dials, controls, and gauges that will last eternally

Overcomplicated digital equivalents that will malfunction in a few years

Every car, air conditioner, tool, vending machine and SCUBA manufacturer for the last 20 yrs: *ElmoSugarFaceplant.gif*

This is such a keen observation: 'I’m sure we’ve all seen accounts like this on TikTok that went viral years ago for a joke and have been making the same joke ever since.'

Say no to the content machine. It's evil.
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Satire from Christianity Today in 1972:

christianitytoday.com/ct/1972/april-…

Found this old post from a deleted Freddie DeBoer piece. He basically argued 'social cons are wrong on the issue but their slippery slope arguments are usually right.'

I love this.

Fellow Protestants: Would God, conceptually, answer Tom Holland's prayer to the Virgin Mary to heal his cancer? Is that a thing we can say?

A big reason why Christians won: they cherished women, children, and family.

Beauty, tradition, authority & certainty—these are some of the reasons evangelicals join the Catholic Church. But are they making an informed decision? I welcome Chris Castaldo, co-author of 'Why Do Protestants Convert?' to offer some surprising answers. colsoncenter.org/upstream/why-d…

One of the underrated benefits of marriage is that it compels you to live in such a way that your story & identity are integrated across time. You can't just get bored & reinvent yourself every few yrs, or at least not easily. Marriage makes you do business w/yourself as a unity.

Part of why this is the case is that male libido is ordered toward new life and raising up new households and cities and people to fill them. It is a dominion drive. To frustrate or abandon that project is to shrink back from pursuing sex and its ends with one's whole strength.

I suspect these kinds of articles function mainly as a way for affluent liberals to congratulate themselves on their inclusivity and non-judgmental attitudes now that most other taboos have worn out, rather than actual lifestyle options they're promoting.
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I do think that the intense desire for political “progress” that young adults have is a sublimated desire to move on to the next stage of their own lives.

All but one of the millennial divorces I've been personally privy to has been the fault of the woman. Boomers and Gen X, definitely about equal. But in the younger group, something appears to have gone terribly wrong w the women. At least anecdotally.

“There is a mounting body of empirical evidence suggesting people who are active in their faith tend to be the recipients of a number of important physical and mental-health benefits.” ~ Byron Johnson Baylor ISR The Wall Street Journal wsj.com/health/wellnes…

The irony in the fact that Joshua Harris told us to kiss dating goodbye and we said no so he kissed his beliefs goodbye but now everybody has kissed dating goodbye, anyway...it's too much.
forbes.com/sites/brucelee…

In what universe is one-party monopoly on a publicly-funded media outlet okay? Ours, apparently.

No matter how wild you think Mark Driscoll is, American Christianity is wilder.