Jimmy Forney 🍺🎚️Wahoowa @ForneyInfin8

Osgiliath by Abe Papakhian

Some of the most civilized and highly organized cultures, like Carthage at its wealthiest, had human sacrifice at its worst. Culture, like science, is no protection against demons.

The intellectual case against Marxism was won more than a century ago. The most rigorous and devastating blows came from the Austrian School of economics – but the strange part is that hardly anyone is taught the winning arguments. Carl Menger’s subjective theory of value, developed in the 1870s, undermined the labour theory of value on which Marx built his entire system. Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk then delivered a systematic demolition of Marx’s economics, exposing the contradictions in the theory of surplus value and the so-called transformation problem. Ludwig von Mises went further still, demonstrating that rational economic calculation is impossible under socialism because without private property and market prices there is no way to allocate resources efficiently. Friedrich Hayek later extended this into the knowledge problem: the information required to run a complex economy is dispersed and cannot be centralised. And Murray Rothbard showed how Marx misunderstood the nature of capitalism by replacing voluntary exchange and entrepreneurial creation with a false theory of exploitation based on labour value and class conflict. These were not minor objections. They struck at the theoretical foundations of Marxism and, in the case of Mises and Hayek, correctly predicted the chronic waste, shortages, and eventual collapse of socialist economies. History confirmed their arguments on a civilisational scale. Yet in universities, media and political debate, these critiques remain marginal. Marx is still widely taught as a serious economist and social theorist. His errors are softened, historicised, or treated as interesting starting points. The Austrian responses are rarely given equal weight. Students can pass through entire programmes in the social sciences without encountering Böhm-Bawerk’s critique or Mises’s calculation argument in any depth. This neglect is not accidental. It reflects a deeper intellectual preference for theories that pathologise markets and legitimise expanded state power. The result is a public discourse that continues to recycle Marxist categories long after their economic foundations were shown to be unsound. The cost of that selective memory is still being paid.

@WesleyLHuff Prost!

@aHeartSoFull James River Railway Bridge - Richmond, Va

If by Rudyard Kipling If you can keep your head when all about you        Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,    If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,     But make allowance for their doubting too;    If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,     Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies, Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,     And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise: If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;        If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;    If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster     And treat those two impostors just the same;    If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken     Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,     And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools: If you can make one heap of all your winnings     And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings     And never breathe a word about your loss; If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew     To serve your turn long after they are gone,    And so hold on when there is nothing in you     Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’ If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,        Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,     If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute     With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,    Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,        And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!

A pastor friend ends each day by asking his children, "Have I sinned against you in any way? Is there anything that I need to ask your forgiveness for?" Imagine how healthy churches could be if all members treated each other like that. Lord, teach us humility, charity, and love.

“Today it is almost heresy to suggest that scientific knowledge is not the sum of all knowledge.” — Friedrich Hayek

“A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.” — J.R.R. Tolkien

If you're going to exist as a family of unity, peace and love, you need to be a family rooted in patience. Here are four basic principles to remember: 1. God has been patient with us. 2. Only God can change your family. 3. Our attempts to change others result in damage. 4. Patience requires waiting.

Sapientia — “Wisdom” Intelligentia — “Understanding” Timor Domini — “Fear of the Lord” Pietas — “Piety” Scientia — “Knowledge” Fortitudo — “Fortitude” Consilium — “Counsel”

Ancient book frontispiece (1496) with five Latin proverbs you should remember: 1) Homines et arbores a fructibus cognoscuntur — “Men and trees are known by their fruits.” 2) Per Deum omnia facta sunt, et sine Ipso nihil factum — “Through God, all things were made, and without Him, nothing was made.” 3) Res cognoscuntur per terminos — “Things are known by their limits.” 4) Vis amari, ama — “If you want to be loved, love.” 5) Porige porigenti — “Give to the one who gives.”

Vigilate, quia nescitis diem nec horam — “Keep watch, for you do not know the day nor the hour.”

A Deō lūx nostra — “Our light comes from God.”

Revīvīscō — “I come back to life.”

Those who understand Original Sin know that there is a hieroglyph of doom written upon the forehead of pride, and that insolent systems begin to die from within as soon as they are born.

@Katy_Faust Prost!

The special mark of the modern world is not that it is skeptical, but that it is dogmatic without knowing it.

Great wisdom here!

Michael Foster @thisisfoster

3 months ago

Here’s a simple way to get unstuck when you’re worried, overwhelmed, or overthinking a decision. Ask yourself one question: What kind of thing am I dealing with? Most issues fall into one of three categories. 1. Settled Things These are things that have already been decided.

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Chuck Missler’s greatest emphasis was on taking the Bible seriously. He believed that too many Christians approached Scripture casually or selectively. He challenged each person to study the text deeply, to “rightly divide the Word of Truth,” and to let the Bible speak for itself without imposing external theological systems.