Rev. Christopher Gillespie
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Rev. Christopher Gillespie
@dizzysound.bsky.social
Lutheran Pastor (https://sjrl.org), Coffee roaster (https://gillespie.coffee), Media producer (https://gillespie.media), Podcaster (https://1517.org)
The retreat to this platform is a demonstration of the lack of persuasiveness of your argument.
November 24, 2024 at 12:06 PM
Qui tacet consentire videtur, ubi loqui debuit ac potuit (He who is silent, when he ought to have spoken and was able to, is taken to agree)
— Latin proverb
November 21, 2024 at 5:48 PM
“These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.” - GK Chesterton
November 21, 2024 at 5:47 PM
“Indifference is not a beginning, it is an end. And therefore indifference is always a friend to the enemy, for it benefits the aggressor, never his victim.”
--Elie Wiesel
November 21, 2024 at 5:45 PM
Votes are still being counted in Maryland.
Votes are still being counted in Ohio.
Votes are still being counted in California.
November 21, 2024 at 2:49 PM
I am orderly out of spirit of idleness, to save myself the trouble of looking after things.
—Alexander Dumas
November 21, 2024 at 12:15 PM
Pete Buttigieg to the Department of Transportation despite no experience in that area;
Xavier Becerra, a lawyer, to the Department of Health and Human Services;
Jennifer Granholm, Michigan governor with no energy experience, to the Department of Energy;
November 20, 2024 at 3:55 PM
Inflation cannot be measured as an increase in consumer prices (see also the BLS). That’s the effect of inflation. Instead, the only accurate metric is the increase in currency supply. It’s all about the denominator.
November 20, 2024 at 3:44 PM
Always have the cameras or recorders rolling if in a difficult situation.

Do not trust others or institutions to tell the truth or present the facts.
November 20, 2024 at 3:41 PM
The gated institutional narratives of the corporate media are easily broken with a phone camera and non-algorithmic social media.
November 20, 2024 at 3:41 PM
The sixth-century Digest of Justinian (22.3.2) provides, as a general rule of evidence: Ei incumbit probatio qui dicit, non qui negat—"Proof lies on him who asserts, not on him who denies".
November 20, 2024 at 3:39 PM