Something I started noticing is that while stable institutions build on top of those things that last, the very top level of those ideals are often things which seem fleeting but point beyond themselves.A civilization does not stand on flowers, but crowns itself in them. https://t.co/HdooOEMs6X— Sᴜɴʀɪsᴇ Oᴀᴛʜ 十 Tʜᴇ Sʏʟʟᴀʙᴜꜱ (ORI) - CC0 (@sunriseoath) November 8, 2025
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Putting aside cultural elements, societies are best defined by resilience of civilizational aims, which itself is reflected by time preference and ability to pivot on priorities. https://t.co/dcHt3d3qx1— Sᴜɴʀɪsᴇ Oᴀᴛʜ 十 Tʜᴇ Sʏʟʟᴀʙᴜꜱ (ORI) - CC0 (@sunriseoath) October 12, 2026
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Westerners like talking about Chinese underground churches, but from what I can tell their overall catechism is at least as bad for laity here and is combined with a broader culture that at the end of the day does not care for even the semblance of logical debate.— Sᴜɴʀɪsᴇ Oᴀᴛʜ 十 Tʜᴇ Sʏʟʟᴀʙᴜꜱ (ORI) - CC0 (@sunriseoath) October 12, 2026
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The perfect society would be one that has extremely low time preference (caring about temporalities mostly for practical risk of ruin reasons), a strong sense of realism tempered by true epistemic humility, a clear eye toward victory, and a loose hold on categories.— Sᴜɴʀɪsᴇ Oᴀᴛʜ 十 Tʜᴇ Sʏʟʟᴀʙᴜꜱ (ORI) - CC0 (@sunriseoath) October 12, 2026
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Putting it another way, Chinese people are all very gungho about getting into an overcrowded idol's temple, while Westerners are lazy getting up for church service.— Sᴜɴʀɪsᴇ Oᴀᴛʜ 十 Tʜᴇ Sʏʟʟᴀʙᴜꜱ (ORI) - CC0 (@sunriseoath) October 12, 2026
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Many dilemmas in discussions regarding divine simplicity seem to come from mistaking the Logos with classical logic and Euclidean geometry.— Sᴜɴʀɪsᴇ Oᴀᴛʜ 十 Tʜᴇ Sʏʟʟᴀʙᴜꜱ (ORI) - CC0 (@sunriseoath) September 15, 2026
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I think it is interesting that Chinese and Western culture both have weird relationships with categories. For China, it is due to words being highly relational and contextual; for the West, it is due to the notion that words mean exactly what we individually think they mean.— Sᴜɴʀɪsᴇ Oᴀᴛʜ 十 Tʜᴇ Sʏʟʟᴀʙᴜꜱ (ORI) - CC0 (@sunriseoath) October 12, 2026
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The history of "arbitrary" is also the history of losing sight of the importance of discernment at every level of society. pic.twitter.com/joMRxrr0pb— Sᴜɴʀɪsᴇ Oᴀᴛʜ 十 Tʜᴇ Sʏʟʟᴀʙᴜꜱ (ORI) - CC0 (@sunriseoath) August 12, 2026
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To be clear, this does not give a free pass to those who complain about scholasticism in the context of classical Trinitarian theology, or those who believe that true faith is marked by anti-intellectualism or uncreativity.— Sᴜɴʀɪsᴇ Oᴀᴛʜ 十 Tʜᴇ Sʏʟʟᴀʙᴜꜱ (ORI) - CC0 (@sunriseoath) September 15, 2026
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The two languages leading in AI research and geopolitics, English and Chinese, have forgotten to touch some historical and traditional grass. The Tower of Babel is a vehicle and consequence of industry. The big difference is that the anglosphere glances at the one true God.— Sᴜɴʀɪsᴇ Oᴀᴛʜ 十 Tʜᴇ Sʏʟʟᴀʙᴜꜱ (ORI) - CC0 (@sunriseoath) October 12, 2026
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We cannot choose only signs (apophaticism) or only significance (Charismatic). We need proper signs for the proper significance.— Sᴜɴʀɪsᴇ Oᴀᴛʜ 十 Tʜᴇ Sʏʟʟᴀʙᴜꜱ (ORI) - CC0 (@sunriseoath) February 19, 2025
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Libertarianism as a worldview rather than as a tool *always* leads to Satanism. It chooses and worships Caesar, and honestly a really dumb one.— Sᴜɴʀɪsᴇ Oᴀᴛʜ 十 Tʜᴇ Sʏʟʟᴀʙᴜꜱ (ORI) - CC0 (@sunriseoath) October 9, 2026
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It is because we are not perfect that we are best off giving the benefit of the doubt and engaging in the usual cultural Christian niceties which give each other some wiggle room. But we should never forget that this is about letting God act, not about moralizing to God.— Sᴜɴʀɪsᴇ Oᴀᴛʜ 十 Tʜᴇ Sʏʟʟᴀʙᴜꜱ (ORI) - CC0 (@sunriseoath) October 13, 2026
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As a twenty-year-old heathen, I was more than happy to speak like a supervillain, but had a very strong sense of what is effectively cosmic justice. I only understood later that anyone above a certain age who finds this charming is deeply dysfunctional.— Sᴜɴʀɪsᴇ Oᴀᴛʜ 十 Tʜᴇ Sʏʟʟᴀʙᴜꜱ (ORI) - CC0 (@sunriseoath) October 9, 2026
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There is a type of cultural Christianity that can be everyone's friend, but that definitely is not the cultural Christianity we have today. It sometimes feels like basic milquetoast tepid American Christianity is everyone's enemy for largely fruitless reasons.— Sᴜɴʀɪsᴇ Oᴀᴛʜ 十 Tʜᴇ Sʏʟʟᴀʙᴜꜱ (ORI) - CC0 (@sunriseoath) September 24, 2026
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It is so important to spirituality to realize that God is speaking, but we are not yet in a place to fully understand and can only get there by his renewal of our senses and his condescension in communication (most of all through the incarnation).— Sᴜɴʀɪsᴇ Oᴀᴛʜ 十 Tʜᴇ Sʏʟʟᴀʙᴜꜱ (ORI) - CC0 (@sunriseoath) October 13, 2026
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Chinese people tend to have high time preference personalities, but live in contexts where even the rattiest person has to grind a fair bit to get anywhere. And so in the broader working class, you have high time preference Chinese outworking low time preference Westerners.— Sᴜɴʀɪsᴇ Oᴀᴛʜ 十 Tʜᴇ Sʏʟʟᴀʙᴜꜱ (ORI) - CC0 (@sunriseoath) October 12, 2026