Origin of Logos

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One Greek word that has never been translated well into English—in my limited understanding—is eudaimonia.

It is typically translated as happiness but that word has connotations that don’t fully capture the original Greek.

Eudaimonia means to be in possession of a good daimon, to house a good spirit, to live well. And in the Anglophone world, happiness is such a fleeting experience or state.

It’s one of the many reasons it’s difficult to measure happiness because of how the complexities of the modern world infect and influence one’s state of being. People are lucky to feel happy or fulfilled a few times a day during the hurly burly of this technological and attention diverting dystopia. Having to pay bills, not having the money to cover said bills or being so detracted by news that does not immediately affect us unavoidably dampens our moods. And moods, which happiness happens to be one of, are sporadic and transient.

We often forget that we are living beings who are lucky to be breathing in the first place. And I would argue that eudaimonia has to be embodied and nourished by the human spirit. It cannot be so easily blunted by the so called “advancement” of humanity.

Just a thought.

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Especially after that insane conniption he threw at Destiny even though Destiny has been dealing with the most unhinged amount of harassment from snarkers and gaslighting from people who claim to be his friends?!

And let’s not forget how Conor just accepted everything Kuihman and Jstlk told him at face value beforehand.

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Aiden, who was initially playing stupid by saying he never interacted with or knew who Dooby was, is now chowing down on ALL of Dooby’s dishonest reframing of his batshit insane posts.

Hope you enjoy the few minutes of Dooby’s money, little brownnose!

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@flea333 What, not The Crossing?

When Billy cries knowing his shunning of the poor dog partially led to the detonation of the atomic bomb?

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Literal representation of Aiden right now!

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@PhilipDBunn This is America, after all!

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@BarneysRubble0 I couldnt agree more because Protestants are quite lame lol

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@PhilipDBunn Dont call it objectionable.

It’s representative of the time.

I’m confident people 50 years from now—if we’re still here—will read the claptrap written today and think “wow, these people were degenerate and insensitive!”

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@Kulambq Predictable. Throw some curveballs in there!

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@cwik_greg https://t.co/1GZjedOwfu

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@cwik_greg As much as I love Carpenter, In the Mouth of Madness is definitely overrated.

Nothing happens in it.

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All of Franzen: Unctuous midwestern families struggling to fulfill their lives with politics and sex.

In other words, a derivative of Updike but surprisingly more self-centered.

[Vincenzo Barney @BarneysRubble0]

All of Franzen: boring.

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@ultrakillblast

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Cormac McCarthy
William Faulkner
Nathanael West
Flannery O’Connor
Stephen King

Decided to throw in a curve ball!

[Bradley J. Birzer @bradleybirzer]

Five favorite American authors

Willa Cather
Ray Bradbury
H.P. Lovecraft
Nathaniel Hawthorne
James Fenimore Cooper

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It’s just odd this person picked this moment from the interview.

Wallace defines what he means by “Lynchian” here: the grotesque mixed with the banal. I dont agree with that definition of Lynchian because “banal” is the wrong connotation.

I would say Lynchian is when the dreamlike commingles with the ordinary. Not all things in Lynch’s films are “banal,” meaning something so trivial it’s inconsequential. The ordinary is everything we do or use that is either inescapable or essential. But Lynch’s sense of the ordinary—50s Americana and love of coffee and simple pleasures just to name a few—is locked in with the oneiric and the unconscious.

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What are you talking about? I LOVE THIS SEAT! I’m on my own and dont have others’s arms rubbing against me and dont have people putting their feet on top of my seat and no one’s head can block my vision!

[Robin Nelson @XycronVA]

Just found the worst movie theater seat of all time

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@XycronVA What are you talking about? I LOVE THIS SEAT! I’m on my own and dont have others’s arms rubbing against me!

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@Kulambq Thank goodness someone is finally giving Weinstein some credit!

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@tafphorisms Cormac McCarthy’s The Crossing is a masterful inversion of Campbell’s monomyth!

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It’s nice to know that Mr. Girl and Lav havent changed a bit since 2023, except Max now looks like a homeless lunatic you’d encounter on the city streets at 2am