A quotation from Judith Martin
Rules that are arbitrary may be nonetheless crucial. Whether we drive on the right or left side of the road is arbitrary, but it is crucial to obey the prevailing rule.
Judith Martin (b. 1938) American author, journalist, etiquette expert [a.k.a. Miss Manners]
“Miss Manners,” syndicated column (2015-02-01)
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ARIEL: All hail, great master! Grave sir, hail! I come
To answer thy best pleasure. Be ’t to fly,
To swim, to dive into the fire, to ride
On the curled clouds, to thy strong bidding task
Ariel and all his quality.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Tempest, Act 1, sc. 2, l. 224ff (1.2.224-228) (1611)
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/shakespeare-william/…
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Unity can be a great thing when people work together toward Good! What happens though, when personal goals are different from God's true purposes?
⚜Apply the lessons TODAY of what God taught the people at #TheTowerOfBabel
Learn👇 the pitfalls of NOT doing things, God's way
https://www.learnreligions.com/the-tower-of-babel-700219
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#Christians are also chosen by God. Christians have no intrinsic merit or virtue so as to deserve God's love and favor.
All have #sinned and fallen short of God's glory; #God reconciled us to Himself in #Christ as a sheer gift which cannot be repaid.
Yet Christians are also called upon to make every effort to be sure of their calling and election.
Election and #faithfulness in #obedience are not contradictory principles.
There is a powerful craving in most of us to see ourselves as instruments in the hands of others and thus free ourselves from the responsibility for acts which are prompted by our own questionable inclinations and impulses. Both the strong and the weak grasp at this alibi. The latter hide their malevolence under the virtue of obedience: they acted dishonorably because they had to obey orders. The strong, too, claim absolution by proclaiming themselves the chosen instrument of a higher power — God, history, fate, nation or humanity.
Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
Passionate State of Mind, Aphorism 85 (1955)
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/hoffer-eric/17587/
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How does our #relationship with God "work"?
Since we did nothing to deserve #salvation, is it really true that we have absolutely no active role in our salvation?
How can #election and #obedience "work" in our relationship with God?
Election, Obedience, and Our Relationship With God
Monday Miscellany!
This week:
- Living is #Christ, dying is gain
- the end of John's #Gospel
- #election and #obedience
- #Bible readings
- On the Internets: #psychedelics , lamenting the death of #JenniferLyell
- Book reviews: John #commentaries
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🤖 Your AI Isn’t Smart. It Just Obeys.
Most users mistake LLM outputs for intelligence. But these systems don’t understand — they execute.
What we call “smart” is often just perfect syntactic obedience.
📖 Read:
https://medium.com/@agustinstartari/your-ai-isnt-smart-it-just-obeys-47c6d021701a
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🐶 Cyon Wears DIAPERS! Was playing with @cyonneo.bsky.social's brain and making his DIAPER dinky obey me. Trapped. Helpless. Obedient. 😵💫🚼 #ABDL #Babyfur #DiaperLover #Hypnosis #Obedience
This Hour in This Place https://buff.ly/9On2MOg #Christianity #faith #obedience #history #Augustine
The #God of #Ignorance: Why #Religion Doesn’t Want You to #GrowUp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVryuRd4fBE
Topics covered:
- Why “#purity” often means #obedience without comprehension
- How #faith like a child is weaponized to suppress #autonomy
- The emotional and #cognitive costs of shielding #children from knowledge
- Why #religious #parenting may protect innocence, but not #wisdom
- The #psychological dangers of #spiritualized #antiintellectualism
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The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It’s people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages. As a precaution to never committing major acts of evil it is our solemn duty never to do what we’re told, this is the only way we can be sure.
Banksy (b. 1974) England-based pseudonymous street artist, political activist, film director
Wall and Piece, “Cops” (2005)
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/banksy/76546/
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Growth does not occur within the confines of constant agreement and obedience. Growth comes with purpose, not passivity. #Growth with Narghiza Ergashova
#Agreement, #Confines, #Growth, #Obedience, #Passivity, #Purpose
Growth does not occur within the confines of constant agreement and obedience.
Growth comes with purpose, not passivity. #Growth
[https://mastodon.social/tags/Growth] with Narghiza Ergashova
#Agreement [https://mastodon.social/tags/Agreement], #Confines
[https://mastodon.social/tags/Confines], #Growth
[https://mastodon.social/tags/Growth], #Obedience
[https://mastodon.social/tags/Obedience], #Passivity
[https://mastodon.social/tags/Passivity], #Purpose
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Today's Daily Scripture Picture: Obedience is the Path to Life
Deuteronomy 5:33 – “Walk in obedience to all that the Lord your God has commanded you, so that you may live and prosper.”
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