38 y/o male. widower. single dad. jesus follower. musician. tweeter. donut eater.
Carrollton, TX
Joined June 2009
- Tweets4K
- Following627
- Followers368
- Likes3.6K
Beware of anybody wearing an expensive suit that they bought with their political or religious affiliations.
50
Kevin Davis retweeted
Sorry for quoting myself here...but I'm never sure who gets to read what around here.
This is the bottom line of this issue...for ALL OF US (whether you support or oppose Trump) you are allowing him to push a vision of a stronger President when the President already has far too much power. And unless we become a single-party state (a problem all its own) the OTHER SIDE will get to inherit these expanded powers (or expanded accepted interpretations of powers) too. So Trump is making sure a future Democratic president will have more power to impact your life. This is completely shortsighted on everyone's part. THREE CO-EQUAL BRANCHES of government.
Add to that the most obvious point of all: any powers Trump expands Executive Authority to include simply makes the office of the President even MORE powerful (and the term the "Imperial Presidency" was coined a half century ago, and it's a much more powerful office now). So, imagine these powers in the hands of your worst nightmare president from the other side of the political spectrum, with weakened protections and checks and balances (because of Trump pushing the envelope now).
"What's good for the goose is good for the (political) gander". (The only way that doesn't happen is if we never get the other party in power again...and that's its own nightmare problem, is it not?).
I'm reading Luther's "The Ninety-Five" Theses (1517). It's incredible to me how softly he toed the line between respect and dissent. He must have so badly wanted to sum them up into "one thesis," e.g. "your 'indulgences' are UTTER BULLSHIT!"
2
1
50
Of course, if he had done that, I wouldn't be reading them some 500 years later. Perhaps this is a lesson to modern dissenters. #martinluther #revolution #politics #dissent
26
A ‘time signature’ (4/4, 6/8) is what we agree it is so we can understand each other. Each is reducible to every other time signature, however counter intuitive, but some context—including the music and also personal preference— helps us decide and then communicate. #musictheory
33
Hell is the medieval calcification of Hebrew prose (still, you don’t want to go there). #Hell #Christianity #religion
32
Georg Hamann's (1730-88) notable definition of angst (anxiety): "impertinent disquiet and holy hypochondria." #conceptofanxiety
58
What makes a person religious?
What makes a belief firm?
What makes an identity valid?
While we are more than words and affectations of mind, yet we kill to belong on certain dirt. #Conceptofanxiety
44
As long as I have a heartbeat, I’ll have anxiety. The very sensibility that a heartbeat has—its fragility, finiteness, soft pulse—is enough to make me want to faint to the floor. But I have alongside anxiety, courage. #conceptofanxiety
52
I will be reading Kierkegaard's "The Concept of Anxiety" and sharing my thoughts along the way with the hashtag #conceptofanxiety
40