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Is the New Testament the New Testament?

Science, Philosophy, and More

Is the New Testament the New Testament?

Is the New Testament the New Testament?

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 3 minutes Is all of the New Testament the New Testament?

The Academy’s Purpose for Drag Queen Story Hour

The Academy’s Purpose for Drag Queen Story Hour

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 2 minutes “Drag artists have channeled their penchant for playfully “‘reading each other to filth” into different forms of literacy, promoting storytelling as integral to queer and trans communities, as well as positioning queer and trans cultural forms as valuable components of early childhood education.”

Global Megacorp Excited Recession Will Make People Want Its Low-Paying Jobs

Global Megacorp Excited Recession Will Make People Want Its Low-Paying Jobs

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 2 minutes Lunchbreaks are being eliminated to acclimate the workforce to the coming famine.

A Very Motivational Christian Message from a Friend in Africa

A Very Motivational Christian Message from a Friend in Africa

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: < 1 minute My friend and mentor, Jeff, has lived in Africa for going on 4 decades. He has the most upstanding family and extended family I’ve ever met. With a message like this always coming from him, it’s no surprise.

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Behold America, Lying Horribly Before Us

Behold America, Lying Horribly Before Us

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 4 minutes Americans exist in a nation of failed families. A nation which sacrifices the unborn for convenience. It’s a nation of shattered homes, and of nuclear families ripped asunder, where they even existed in the first place. A nation where commitment and lifelong together-goals are scorned and derided as superstitious relics of a bygone era.

The Obligation of Man

The Obligation of Man

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 4 minutes Stewardship is huge these days. From environmentalism to welfare, we’re bombarded with the message that we, as the virtuous people we know ourselves to be, need to focus on saving things: democracy, the planet; feelings. Companies accept diktats under the acronym “ESG,” standing for “environmental, social, and corporate governance.” You’ve got to keep that ESG score up, so accept the messaging you’re given and promulgate it. Yet often what we…

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OnlyScams: Accretion of Knowledge

OnlyScams: Accretion of Knowledge

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 2 minutes An old coworker once told me that he was spending a good deal of money on a website where he could subscribe to a certain girl and watch her perform sexual acts and apparently also work on cars while naked. It was easy for me to list off the reasons I didn’t think this was healthy, moral, or financially prudent (and sure enough, his marriage fell apart). I think that…

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Roller Coasters and Life

Roller Coasters and Life

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: < 1 minute I love roller coasters and have a particular fondness for ones made by the Swiss company Bolliger & Mabillard. Through the ups and downs of the run, I’m able to have fun because much thought went into the design, and I know I’m going to be safe in the end. The ups and downs of life are also much easier for me knowing that I’m following a design made by…

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Biden: People Will Regret Abortion Ban When Their Babies Starve to Death

Biden: People Will Regret Abortion Ban When Their Babies Starve to Death

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: < 1 minute “Look here, I don’t work for you. My family doesn’t work for you. When I swept into office, I came in to sell your children’s organs to zoos for meat, and now I’m go into people’s 401Ks at night and wrecking up the place, and there won’t be baby formula for years—arrroooo,” Biden howled. “I’d abort that baby while it still has some meat on its bones if I were you. Thank you all for being here, and may God bless you.”

Nutritionists Expect American Obesity Epidemic to Be Over by End of Biden’s 1st Term 

Nutritionists Expect American Obesity Epidemic to Be Over by End of Biden’s 1st Term 

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 2 minutes Thanks to Biden’s steady hand at the helm, nutritionists across America expect that the country’s obesity epidemic may be entirely over by the end of Biden’s first term in office.

Man from Country with Ministry of Truth Worried Russia Will Undermine Democracy

Man from Country with Ministry of Truth Worried Russia Will Undermine Democracy

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 2 minutes Jacobs, a political science PhD remote working for a non-profit in Aspen, is an expert on listening to experts. In fact, he said there’s no way to be certain that you’re right if you don’t agree with them. 

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White House Seeking PR Expert Skilled in Policy Disasters, Nuclear War, Famine, Crack-Addict Children, & Dementia 

White House Seeking PR Expert Skilled in Policy Disasters, Nuclear War, Famine, Crack-Addict Children, & Dementia 

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Reading Time: 2 minutes “It’s important to be able to see the good in famine, policy disasters, chopping off a 10-year-old’s breasts for trans rights, the President’s little gaffes that almost start nuclear wars, and of course crack-addict, whore-addicted children who are just a little washed up after engaging in Ukrainian corrup–uh, business, glory to Ukraine, glory to the heroes.”

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Cheetah Identifying as Human Female Dominates Women’s 400m

Cheetah Identifying as Human Female Dominates Women’s 400m

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 2 minutes In the past, society was been intolerant and bigoted, but this sprint was proof that equity was coming to all women, no matter how furry and fanged they might be.

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A Tale of Gimli and Boldness

A Tale of Gimli and Boldness

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 2 minutes “Let them come. There is still one dwarf yet in Moria who still draws breath.”

Necessary News Roundup, 5 March 2022

Necessary News Roundup, 5 March 2022

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 4 minutes For too long, people have thought of the news as something designed to give them information. Wrong! News is created to tell you what to believe, sure, but most importantly, how to feel—and that’s where I come in! No ads, no hijinks, just factory-fresh news, straight from me, Lucas Necesito. So let’s get started with the past week’s events!

Taliban to Donate $30 Billion in Excess Arms, Lethal Aid to Ukraine

Taliban to Donate $30 Billion in Excess Arms, Lethal Aid to Ukraine

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 2 minutes Meanwhile, President Biden is also sending an exorcist to check on the Ghost of Kyiv, which he described in a press conference as, “Yeah, c’mon man, it might be fighting for you now, but who knows what a ghost is thinking…gimme a break.”

Idiots in Hateful Sky-Daddy Cult Once Again Giving Free Disaster Relief to Poor People

Idiots in Hateful Sky-Daddy Cult Once Again Giving Free Disaster Relief to Poor People

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 2 minutes Deranged religious cultists are once again spreading their intolerance and bigotry abroad.

White House Calls for Social Media Crackdown on Misinformation Until It Becomes Truth 6 Months Later

White House Calls for Social Media Crackdown on Misinformation Until It Becomes Truth 6 Months Later

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: < 1 minute “This centaur is spouting off misinformation on a daily basis, and it’s time that Spotify used their status as a private company to remove him from the face of the planet. No holds barred. There are still killers for hire, and we’ll look the other way,” Psaki told reporters.

Joel Osteen $600,000 Found in Walls Church Toilet
Joel Osteen Launches $600,000 GoFundMe for Church Toilet Repairs

Joel Osteen Launches $600,000 GoFundMe for Church Toilet Repairs

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 2 minutes Osteen blames the toilet detaching from the wall on janitors who are content to hide their talents rather than trying to invest them to make the master more money, which he said he means in both the figurative and literal sense.

Social Contagions, Big Tech, & Corrective Action

Social Contagions, Big Tech, & Corrective Action

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 3 minutes Big tech suppresses certain ideas through social mechanisms and disallowing certain interactions. You’ve seen the playbook, which includes things like removing dislikes from ideas they support, prohibiting sharing of certain information entirely, banning heterodox thinkers who seem most open and might attract others, posting “fact-checks” which are factual though not truthful (and in some cases which are purely fallacious), and promoting certain concepts while disallowing others. 

Absent-minded Veteran Forgets To Change Profile Pic To Military Uniform

Absent-minded Veteran Forgets To Change Profile Pic To Military Uniform

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 2 minutes Cheyenne, WY—John McCaye forgot for the second year in a row to change his profile picture on Veteran’s Day, and now he’s not getting the recognition that he deserves.

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Amazon’s Buttigieg Special to Feature Loving Look at How He Spent His 2-Month Vacation

Amazon’s Buttigieg Special to Feature Loving Look at How He Spent His 2-Month Vacation

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 2 minutes Though lambasted by far-right extremists, Mayor Pete spent most of his vacation in Acapulco, his shirt off, lovingly nursing his brand new margarita the first hour, and then several hundred thereafter. Acapulco was a great place to relax, since it was one of the few places not dealing with a supply-chain crisis, because it wasn’t in America where the person responsible for such things was absent and on vacation.

Garnier Releases New Fauci-Line of Shampoo Exclusively Tested on Live Dogs

Garnier Releases New Fauci-Line of Shampoo Exclusively Tested on Live Dogs

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: < 1 minute Dr. Fauci is the model for the newest line of shampoo by Garnier. The novel formulation was partially produced in the Wuhan Labs and was extensively tested on live dogs, until they were dead dogs.

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Fauci Cuts Wuhan Lab Funding, Will Crowdfund Next Supervirus Instead

Fauci Cuts Wuhan Lab Funding, Will Crowdfund Next Supervirus Instead

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 2 minutes Fresh off becoming a mega-millionaire as a humble public servant, Dr. Anthony Fauci is looking for more uses for his unique set of skills. And they won’t involve tedious coronaviruses from the Far East.

Dr. Anthony Fauci Employee of the Year Award from Wuhan Lab
Dr. Fauci Wins Wuhan Lab’s Employee of the Year Award for 2nd Straight Year

Dr. Fauci Wins Wuhan Lab’s Employee of the Year Award for 2nd Straight Year

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: < 1 minute The Israelis recently gave Dr. Fauci a million dollars for “his remarkable restraint versus another historical figure,” but most important to America’s top-paid government employee has been his award from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. For the second straight year, Dr. Fauci has received the coveted Employee of the Year Award.

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