Heeby Jeebus

There's nothing wrong with being wrong, only in refusing to admit it - tweets on Philosophy & Politics & Beer (or nothing, when the depression has run amok)

[Heeby Jeebus @CluesDeAzul]

@ExilePolitics I don't have enough information about anybody else's internal motivations, humans aren't particularly good judges of character, and the stakes are extremely high. I will choose myself as the only person I am 100% sure will enter the encounter with good intention.

[Heeby Jeebus @CluesDeAzul]

@EpicTillich This clarification feels braggy lol

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@knight173au @coltrxnex Growing up in a tiny hometown I can confirm that is indeed correct.

[Heeby Jeebus @CluesDeAzul]

@EpicTillich @TheLitCritGuy So, so many. Can we narrow it down at all?

[Heeby Jeebus @CluesDeAzul]

@ExilePolitics Which, to be clear, I'm 100% in favor of. It just doesn't strike me as politically tenable within the current system or cultural trends

[Heeby Jeebus @CluesDeAzul]

@ExilePolitics To sprinkle on a little extra melancholy, my understanding of the research of economics research into the racial wealth gap in particular is that, even ignoring ongoing discrimination it it's impossible to overcome without policies of direct reparational redistribution.

[Heeby Jeebus @CluesDeAzul]

@EpicTillich Bat out of hell is a shoo-in for top five most underrated rock albums of all time. At least re: ppl under 40

[Heeby Jeebus @CluesDeAzul]

@AndrewLSeidel @StephenAtHome @rickygervais Dionysus

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@EpicTillich Berkeley, Spinoza, uh...

[Heeby Jeebus @CluesDeAzul]

Podcasting is basically a wing of the mattress industry

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@jelliottlein @kimberlypalumbo Or perhaps the prof was referring to a specific type of love a la Sternberg's triangular theory of love, and OP is quote mining to make the lesson fit Her ideology

[Heeby Jeebus @CluesDeAzul]

#PromoteMandatoryDivorce!

[Peter J. Hasson @peterjhasson]

Priest at mass today cited an interesting stat: when the mom in a family is the only parent raising kids in the faith, the kids retain their faith in adulthood about 20% of the time. When both mom and dad are practicing Catholics, it shoots up to 85%

[uopuɐɹq @BraandoCommando]

[walking down a dark alley]

Stranger: excuse me, do you have an ‘L’ I can have?

Myself: as a matter of fact I do *gives the stranger my ‘L’

Strangler: *strangles me

Mysef: ᵂʰʸ ᵈᶦᵈ ᴵ ᵍᶦᵛᵉ ʸᵒᵘ ᵐʸ ᴸˀ

[Hunter @hbeezley]

“Without concrete signs of divine presence in the lives of the poor the gospel becomes simply an opiate; rather than liberating the powerless from humiliation and suffering, the gospel becomes a drug that helps them adjust to this world by looking for pie in the sky”

—James Cone

[Heeby Jeebus @CluesDeAzul]

I'd bet we can get Brett Kavanaugh on the side of EPA regulations with this
https://t.co/X2E30nZ9yZ

[Heeby Jeebus @CluesDeAzul]

Old news but still Really important

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

Employees at Sinclair Broadcast Group, the largest owner of television stations in the U.S., say that the company orders them to air biased political segments, and that it feeds interviewers questions intended to favor Republicans: https://t.co/ip6wnoZ6FA

[Existential Comics (find me on bluesky) @existentialcoms]

A Dialogue on Freedom -
https://t.co/LaiRdqKI6Q