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In a journey to discover the heart that unites the self and the world.

[JLT @JLTors]

@annielcrawford @PhilipThomas6w Can you suggest any book or resource that explores further the idea that myths are anticipations or prefigurements of the Christian story? Thanks!

[JLT @JLTors]

@johnmilbank3 @diogo76 @BretVDB @MinooFramroze Would you recommend any of Rudolf Steiner's works?

[Bret van den Brink @BretVDB]

“In the light of Christianity’s absolute law of charity, we came to see what formerly we could not: the autistic or Down syndrome or otherwise disabled child, for instance, for whom the world can remain a perpetual perplexity, which can too often cause pain but perhaps only vaguely and fleetingly charm or delight; the derelict or wretched or broken man or woman who has wasted his or her life away; the homeless, the utterly impoverished, the diseased, the mentally ill, the physically disabled; exiles, refugees, fugitives; even criminals and reprobates. To reject, turn away from, or kill any or all of them would be, in a very real sense, the most purely practical of impulses. To be able, however, to see in them not only something of worth but indeed something potentially godlike, to be cherished and adored, is the rarest and most ennoblingly unrealistic capacity ever bred within human souls. … We deceive ourselves … if we doubt how very fragile this vision of things truly is: how elusive this truth that only charity can know, how easily forgotten this mystery that only charity can penetrate.”

—David Bentley Hart, Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and its Fashionable Enemies

[JLT @JLTors]

@annielcrawford Beautiful! What work of Pieper is this quote from?

[JLT @JLTors]

@annielcrawford Roland in Moonlight by DBH is magnificent though, and better at every reread.

[Edmund @Kulambq]

'Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed. Having once experienced the mystery, plenitude, contradiction, and composure of a work of art, we afterward have a built-in resistance to the slogans and propaganda of oversimplification that have often contributed to the destruction of human life. Poetry is a verbal means to a nonverbal source. It is a motion to no-motion, to the still point of contemplation and deep realization.'

AR Ammons

[JLT @JLTors]

@travladd @grok 🙏

[JLT @JLTors]

@BecomingCam I'm interested to join!

[Aaron Regunberg @AaronRegunberg]

Single best description of AI I’ve ever read, from the great Ted Chiang.

[JLT @JLTors]

@AaronIrber DBH's Roland in Moonlight and Kenogaia are also good!

[JLT @JLTors]

@Andrewnsnyder What do you think of the philosophy of Owen Barfield, CS Lewis' fellow Inkling?

[JLT @JLTors]

@AaronIrber Owen Barfield
George Macdonald
Marilynne Robinson
David Bentley Hart

[JLT @JLTors]

@AaronIrber Hope you can interview Angelina Stanford in your podcast I Might Believe in Faeries! That will be a blast!

[Omak🇵🇸 @itsOmak_]

Spider-Man by different artists - a thread 🧵

[Florin Hilbay @fthilbay]

“free speech is for speech that you hate, not for speech that you like.” it applies to Mideo Cruz, Pura Luka Vega, and @jk_rowling

if you want the govt to penalize speakers you don’t agree with, you’re not interested in freedom or constitutionalism.

https://t.co/nR0GdQKupP

[JLT @JLTors]

@GrailCountry @emily_rajeh @LeyfMax please make this happen! Would love to see you and Nate discuss Christianity, Steiner and Barfield in Grail Country :)

[JLT @JLTors]

@GrailCountry @emily_rajeh I hope you also interview Anthroposophists like MaxLeyf in GrailCountry with regards to the future of Christianity as a worldview, I believe they have a lot to contribute to this discussion.

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

Do you agree?

[Tony Weaver Jr. @TonyWeaverJr]

Akira Toriyama got into manga hoping to make a quick buck in a competition. But when his first published story was voted the worst in a reader survey, he took that personally, and said he wouldn't stop until he wrote a hit. Over 10 stories later we got Dragon Ball. NEVER QUIT

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

have you ever seen a butterfly playing with a puppy before? well now you have🦋