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It Is Possible to Commit No Mistakes and Still Lose

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It Is Possible to Commit No Mistakes and Still Lose

It Is Possible to Commit No Mistakes and Still Lose

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: < 1 minute“I will come again and conquer you, because as a mountain you can’t grow, but as a human, I can.”

Dems Commit to Court Packing by Making Literally EVERY Citizen a Justice

Dems Commit to Court Packing by Making Literally EVERY Citizen a Justice

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 2 minutesDemocrats have announced plans to combat Trump’s heinous acts by expanding the court. In fact, they’re going to add 320,000,000 justices.

Trump Commits to Peaceful Transfer of Power to Himself as Forever-Ruler

Trump Commits to Peaceful Transfer of Power to Himself as Forever-Ruler

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 2 minutes“Good evening vassals, and I see that the failing New York Times is here, so good evening traitors and peasants, too,” President Trump said.

Biden Promises Free College in Exchange for 2 Years Public Service in Peace Corps, Antifa

Biden Promises Free College in Exchange for 2 Years Public Service in Peace Corps, Antifa

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 2 minutesAcknowledging that involvement increases investment, Joe Biden, running on the Harris-Biden ticket, has announced a plan to provide free college to all Americans—but there’s a catch.

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I Wish It Need Not Have Happened in My Time, Yet I Spoke

I Wish It Need Not Have Happened in My Time, Yet I Spoke

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 3 minutesHumans have an amazing ability to adapt to bad situations. Our minds can take terrible circumstances and slowly normalize them, leading us to cope and even find happiness when things are rough. But there is a flipside: this same ability allows us to become desensitized to evil. Vile acts simply become a new normal over time.

A Sufficiency of Friends

A Sufficiency of Friends

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 2 minutesLook at that picture. It’s funny, and for me, it’s almost entirely true. I like having maybe one close friend/girlfriend and then one other friend besides that. It makes my life simple. As a rule, I am an introvert and not that adept at understanding my own feelings and navigating relationships…

Ginsburg’s Will Reveals She Bequeathed Seat to Granddaughter

Ginsburg’s Will Reveals She Bequeathed Seat to Granddaughter

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 2 minutes“These are lifetime appoints and even heirlooms, good morning, good Sunday,” Nancy Pelosi told CNN’s Don Lemon during a mid-day interview. “They’re passed down from generation to generation, and only rarely to people outside of the family, and even then it’s at the discretion of the Justice. It was meant to be that way with the Presidency, too—Hillary won, you know. Hey, where did the wine in this bottle go? Who stole it?”

Dem Scientists Look for Way to Detonate Yellowstone to “Just End It Already”

Dem Scientists Look for Way to Detonate Yellowstone to “Just End It Already”

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: < 1 minuteFollowing the announcement that President Trump will replace late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, progressive scientists across America are furiously researching ways to “just end it already.”

Millions of Trump Voters Suddenly Support Obama

Millions of Trump Voters Suddenly Support Obama

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 2 minutesFormer VP Biden is currently claiming that he doesn’t even remember someone named Arack Osblama and that anyone who claims they’ve been seen together is a lying, dog-faced pony soldier for saying, you know, the thing.

The Madness of Crowds: Give Us Barabbas

The Madness of Crowds: Give Us Barabbas

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 2 minutesIn a prayer with me last night, a little kid requested, “God, please make bad people into good people so that they can be our friends.”

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Religiosity Among Scientists Over 100 Years

Religiosity Among Scientists Over 100 Years

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 2 minutesThe percentage of scientists who abandoned belief in a spiritual realm over the course of 100 years is remarkable.

Go Set a Watchman: Speaking Up in the Face of Evil

Go Set a Watchman: Speaking Up in the Face of Evil

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 2 minutesYou must never upset anyone. You must avoid confrontation at all costs. You must be quiet in the face of an intolerant minority, that they not be offended. Instead of acting like men and being strong, you most nobly ponder, “What is a man? Is there a difference even between men and women? It seems messy and hard to tell.”

dōTERRA Oil’s New “Essential Opioid” Line a Smash Hit with Newly-Homeschooling Moms

dōTERRA Oil’s New “Essential Opioid” Line a Smash Hit with Newly-Homeschooling Moms

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 2 minutesAs 2020 rolled around, dōTERRA scientists realized that things needed to be kicked up a notch, because Essential Lavender just wasn’t cutting it for stressed-out Americans.

The Lord’s Supper: Sunday, or Any Day?

The Lord’s Supper: Sunday, or Any Day?

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 6 minutesThis post seeks to view two different sides of a common debate over whether or not the Lord’s Supper can be taken on Sunday only, or rather at any time. I will probably add to it significantly in the coming months, but for now I present this very spartan framework.

Is Giving on Sunday Commanded of Christians?

Is Giving on Sunday Commanded of Christians?

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 3 minutesMany people have probably grown up hearing, “And that concludes the Lord’s Supper. Now we are give back of ourselves financially, as we are commanded to do upon the first day of the week.”

Is that correct?

A Timeline of Giving in the New Testament

A Timeline of Giving in the New Testament

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 5 minutesThis post features a timeline that assesses how giving looked and progressed in the New Testament church. I hope you found it as helpful as I did.

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NFL Puts Quotes from Virtuous Victims on Helmets

NFL Puts Quotes from Virtuous Victims on Helmets

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThere’s more to a person than just their name, and the NFL wants fans to make more of a connection with victims of police and vigilante brutality. Instead of only having the names of victims on their uniforms and helmets, NFL players will now have lists of quotable quotes and the hobbies and pastimes of the unfairly brutalized. “Smells like you’ve been with other men,” Drew Brees of the St….

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“IT WAS A SETUP!” Pelosi Says After Smashing Truck into Liquor Store, Stealing Wine

“IT WAS A SETUP!” Pelosi Says After Smashing Truck into Liquor Store, Stealing Wine

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 2 minutesNancy Pelosi was set up multiple times in the course of only one day, offering further proof that the alt-right will go to any lengths to undermine righteousness.

USA, Other Lockdown Countries Vie for What Little Remains of Sweden

USA, Other Lockdown Countries Vie for What Little Remains of Sweden

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 2 minutes“It’s a shame that they didn’t listen to me,” said Dr. Fauci in one of his cherished telecons. “Where are they all to mock me now? Dead! In the ground, fertilizing plants. By the way, make sure you practice social distancing with your plants, they can spread coronavirus you know.”

The 7 Stages of All Great Nations: End-Stage Guilt

The 7 Stages of All Great Nations: End-Stage Guilt

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 10 minutesKings and nations share one thing in common: they rise to power, and then they die. In this post I examine the 7 stages of all great nations, the deadliness of decadence and the self-loathing it leads to, as well as what Christians need to do.

Mitt Romney Dies, Reincarnates as Corporation

Mitt Romney Dies, Reincarnates as Corporation

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: < 1 minuteHaving declared, “Corporations are people,” to much scorn and mockery from outraged liberals, Mitt Romney ended up on the right side of history today after dying in an auto accident and being instantly reincarnated as Raytheon.

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The Consistent Ethics of Auschwitz: Creating Purpose for Your Life

The Consistent Ethics of Auschwitz: Creating Purpose for Your Life

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 4 minutesFar from being contemptuous of ethics, the perpetrators acted in strict conformity with an ethic which held that, however difficult and unpleasant the task might have been, mass extermination of the Jews and Gypsies was entirely justified.

In 2020 Blunder, USAF Deploys Nuclear Missile to Investigate Tropical Storm Laura

In 2020 Blunder, USAF Deploys Nuclear Missile to Investigate Tropical Storm Laura

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 2 minutes“We don’t know how the blunder happened, but someone accidentally launched a nuclear missile from Minot, ND, instead of the requisition we had in for TEAL 73, which is a specially-equipped C130 aircraft.”

Resolving Conflicts, a Rough Draft of Good Ideas

Resolving Conflicts, a Rough Draft of Good Ideas

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 8 minutesMany of the following ideas are sourced from “How to Have Impossible Conversations: A Very Practical Guide” as well as the Bible.

Marriage Has to Be About More Than Happiness

Marriage Has to Be About More Than Happiness

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 2 minutesIf marriage is just based on happiness (s/he makes me happy/money is good/what a hottie), it’s easily threatened.

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