Sam Whittaker
@SamuelWhittaker
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Husband and dad, Teaching Pastor, PhD student at MBTS focused on imaginative apologetics and the meaning crisis. I also tweet about trail running (sorry).
Gilroy, CA
Joined September 2009
You are asking a man who once couldn't make it through the drive home from a party without eating the cupcake he intended to bring home for his wife.
If you had the One Ring, be honest… would you keep it or destroy it?
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Correct. The ennoblement of the hobbits is the “treasure” with which the heroes return.
Can’t be overstated how important the Scouring of the Shire is to the story
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Yes, I too believe our blasphemies must mean God will have to come in judgment
We are moving closer to God’s presence through technology
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I found a gummy bear on the kitchen floor, and while lesser dads might have trifled about with questions as to its history I am proud to say that I did the right thing immediately.
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The talk of aliens, “non-human intelligences,” & UAPs is going to get pretty wild over the next few months. Here’s your necessary field guild.
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Saying you like GOT over LOTR is basically a self report that you would rather mock heroic virtue, self sacrifice, loyalty and bravery than dare to aspire to them, because you know you could never reach them. It's nothing but envy, bitterness and bleak nihilism cloaked in smug
Saying you like The Lord of the Rings over Game of Thrones or any other morally gray universe is basically a self report that you see the world in simple black-and-white terms rather than trying to grasp its complexity. It’s more about intellect than it is about taste.
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I know it is a common experience, but I will never understand *not* finding hope and beauty in the eucatostrophic overload that is the conclusion of The Last Battle.
I'm still mad at Narnia after finishing The Last Battle recently. But that's only temporary. It will forever be my first and greatest fantasy fandom. Happy Anniversary, Narnia!
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we will regret chatgpt, gemini, and grok. they will make us dumber, sadder, crueler, and poorer. don't use 'em.
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It is now, and ever shall be, AD.
What’s your opinion about dating that will get you in this position?
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Thomas's imaginatio, like Aristotle's phantasia, seems to be like a storage space for previously-experienced concrete particulars. We can then work with those via vis cogititiva to do the kinds of things we *now* would call "imagination."
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*the dad's eyes glaze over as a thousand examples of his 6 y/o misusing good things unto his own harm flash before his eyes*
Theology talks with my 6 y/o “If God didn’t want Adam and Eve to eat from that tree why did He create it in the first place?”
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🐓THE BIG ALTA 100k🐓 We’re excited to announce, The Big Alta extends to a three-day event with the addition of a 100k race! With a point-to-point course that features a highlight reel of Marin County trails, The Big Alta 100k is primed to be an instant classic. Starting under
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Average pace 4:41. Can you even imagine?
Conner Mantz's 2:04:43 American record at today's Chicago Marathon has been uploaded to Strava. 📊 Toss the man some kudos! https://t.co/7LrrioUt0A
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Knowing that The Big Alta 🐓 is going to add a 100k in 2026 has me thinking all kinds of thoughts. But I need @dylanbo to convince me that an early-morning runner like me can sufficiently train for a trail 100k through the dead of winter 😂
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I'm going to make, "A child of God just like yourself perhaps" the new, "but by the grace of God, there go I."
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It's easy to spot BS in education if you imagine it coming from an athletic trainer: "Let's go to the gym, do a single pushup, write about how we felt / what muscles we used / how we controlled them, and then call it a great workout." "Okay, hockey team, we're only gonna use a
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Trail running fans, don't sleep on the latest @runfreetrail with @walmsleyruns. Come for the killer race recaps, stay for the spicy and wise takes on everything from ITRA/UTMB indexes to trail running in the Olympics. What an episode.
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We had a whole summer where popsicles were "pocksables."
My daughter said “callowpitta” (caterpillar). That is all.
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There’s not a single problem in the modern world that can’t be traced back to Martin Luther.
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Nations: Rage, plot, seethe/cope/etc. God: sits, laughs
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