Tried Black Buffalo--that's a negative, ghostrider. #snus #nicotine

something something cold dead hands

I am this moment struggling to find the motivatian for spreadsheets. #monday

'Festival' is Latin for 'goodbye to joy'' 'Carnival' is Latin for 'goodbye to meat' neither is a good time

hands on keyboard mind in library heart on the trails #sehnsucht

This one hit home, regarding the suddenly-OK-to-question 9/11, "truther" movement:

The Corbett Report

Buckle Up, Folks! You're About to See the Mother of All Gaslighting Operations | The Corbett Report

As a series of remarkable "breakthroughs" in the public conversation on 9/11 demonstrate, it's official: you can now question what happened on...

Would rather read Hoppe, Mises, and Van Til today, but...fiat mine beckons. Table needs food. Time to punch in...

Says Hoppe, "Causality is a prerequisite of acting, as Mises put it." And of course, they're both correct. But what then is the basis or ground for this persistent cause-effect relationship which is 'taken for granted' in our plans-of-action? If _chance_ is ultimate, then we cannot assume the continuity of the cause-effect relationship. > 1. God, from all eternity, did, by the most wise and holy counsel of his own will, freely, and unchangeably ordain whatsoever comes to pass: yet so, as thereby neither is God the author of sin, nor is violence offered to the will of the creatures; _nor is the liberty or contingency of second causes taken away, but rather established_. [WCF III.1](https://opc.org/wcf.html) Even Mises' axiom of human action--helpful and true as it is--lives on 'borrowed capital'.

> Men cannot look at any fact whether within or about them but they must see in it the presence of God. Even when men have fallen into sin they cannot eradicate their sense of the presence of God. Sin is what it is precisely because _it is a negative ethical reaction to God’s inescapable presence_. Van Til, _Christian Theory of Knowledge_ (p. 247). One such 'fact' is human reason. We can have our synthetic a priori axioms and deduce from them but back behind them is the revelatory fact of reason itself.

GM ``` Q. 3. What do the Scriptures principally teach? A. The Scriptures principally teach what man is to believe concerning God, and what duty God requires of man. Q. 4. What is God? A. God is a spirit, infinite, eternal, and unchangeable, in his being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness and truth. Q. 5. Are there more Gods than one? A. There is but one only, the living and true God. ``` [WSC](https://opc.org/sc.html) #CarpeDiem #CoramDeo #ContraMundum

GN 🤙 to all

Not all catholics are Romanists. Romanism is just one denomination among many--EO, Presbyterian, Baptist, Anglican, etc. Protestants are also catholic--we profess the ancient ecumenical creeds (e.g., the Apostles' Creed). Protestants _protest_ against Rome's deviations from the Augustinian tradition, and against their extra- or non-scriptural innovations. I realize most people don't care about the proper use of the word 'catholic' but we should: "sloppy languaga makes sloppy thought possible." Rome's centuries-old attempts to lay exclusive claim to the label 'catholic' are propaganda, plain and simple.

testing @adam - pretty cool

This debate came up in Adult Sunday School today:

Subtle Yet Significant Differences Between Molinism And Theological Determinism. Does It Really Matter To The Reformed Tradition? – Philosophical Theology

Far from being 'speculative nonsense,' getting this doctrine right (or wrong) can have significant impact on our heart-stance before the Lord in the face of deep suffering and loss.

In tomorrow's Adult Sunday School, we'll finish up WLC 18 and cover [WLC](https://opc.org/lc.html) 19: ``` Q. 19. What is God’s providence towards the angels? A. God by his providence permitted some of the angels, willfully and irrecoverably, to fall into sin and damnation, limiting and ordering that, and all their sins, to his own glory; and established the rest in holiness and happiness; employing them all, at his pleasure, in the administrations of his power, mercy, and justice. ``` (Deo Volente)

maybe I should go fix my #zapper, yeah? some of these youts need a good zappin'