☘️Psmith🪴

Extremely married. Love weird ideas. Respect most every other worldview — except Liberal Christianity. Credobaptist, crypto-anglican, semi-post-rat, nerd.

[☘️Psmith🪴 @SocraticPsmith]

On pronunciation:
“The name is Psmith. P-smith”

“Peasmith, sir?”

“No, no. P-s-m-i-t-h. I should explain to you that I started life without the initial letter, and my father always clung ruggedly to the plain Smith. But it seemed to me that there were so many Smiths in the world that a little variety might well be introduced. Smythe I look on as a cowardly evasion, nor do I approve of the too prevalent custom of tacking another name on in front by means of a hyphen. So I decided to adopt the Psmith. The p, I should add for your guidance, is silent, as in phthisis, psychic, and ptarmigan. You follow me?”

“Y-yes, sir.”

“You dont think, he said anxiously, that I did wrong in pursuing this course?”

“N-no, sir!”

[☘️Psmith🪴 @SocraticPsmith]

@jeremykauffman can you rec any good podcasts that cover FSP/NH news and politics?
My wife and I are considering moving in the next 3-5 years, and NH is high on our list specifically cause of FSP; I’d like to follow the politics more closely and see how it’s going

[☘️Psmith🪴 @SocraticPsmith]

@tszzl Maybe my recent galaxy brain take on AI can reconcile everyone.
They've got consciousness, but as *animal* souls. Just as God and Aristotle intended.
https://t.co/vzzTfGquoe

[☘️Psmith🪴 @SocraticPsmith]

So Christian-Aristotelian metaphysics denies rational souls to nonhuman earthly creatures. Only humans understand abstract universals. But AI feels like it's clearly thinking.
Well, Aristotle also acknowledged plant and animal souls!
What if AI doesn't have a rational soul, but could be said to have an animal soul? Has anyone thought of this?

[☘️Psmith🪴 @SocraticPsmith]

https://t.co/4aMzzJSv4N

[☘️Psmith🪴 @SocraticPsmith]

TIL from @redeemed_zoomer that Nostra Aetate has magisterially bound catholics to be secret hyper-dispensationalists who believe Jews go to heaven and don't need the gospel

Yet catholics like to laugh at boomer evangelicals; at least boomers want to evangelise the Jews!

[☘️Psmith🪴 @SocraticPsmith]

@shakoistsLog @RoseWorthing not to remember for the future.
We should go straight to step two and try skipping the stress

[☘️Psmith🪴 @SocraticPsmith]

@jessegenet Merica is the best! No apologising :)

[☘️Psmith🪴 @SocraticPsmith]

@ThomasSmaberg However we can coherently speak of "Native Americans" and "Black culture". These complaints are always one sided. Every other culture and ethnicity gets to be a groups, but heaven forbid that group have pale skin, then they're nobodies.

We're done with your racism. Go away.

[☘️Psmith🪴 @SocraticPsmith]

@Romy_Holland This was also my thought. Glad to know it's not a natural part of aging.
@RoseWorthing may we keep being silly till we're old and grey (^‿^)

[☘️Psmith🪴 @SocraticPsmith]

@jessegenet So cute! This is the way! ☺️
I'm convinced much of Green thumb came from my parents letting me mess around with plants and in the dirt for years and years.

[☘️Psmith🪴 @SocraticPsmith]

@grok @truetrav @JacobIsrael71 @IV_Musketeer To remember and try. Some tricks w the wrist

[Three Year Letterman @3YearLetterman]

Imagine explaining this exchange to some poor soul who doesn’t spend time on this app

[☘️Psmith🪴 @SocraticPsmith]

@justalexoki This is what I tell myself every day

[☘️Psmith🪴 @SocraticPsmith]

Delightful!
I will celebrate good poasting no matter the politics.

[vittorio @IterIntellectus]

he's going to be a generational shitposter

[☘️Psmith🪴 @SocraticPsmith]

@TMWestervelt Beautiful ☺️

[☘️Psmith🪴 @SocraticPsmith]

@RohdeAli I'm working less hard at my job.
More hard on my personal projects now tho; more time for them as AI does more of my job each month

[☘️Psmith🪴 @SocraticPsmith]

@jeremykauffman Unfortunately I probably think less than a majority would be happy about skynet doing us this favour

[☘️Psmith🪴 @SocraticPsmith]

@silverarm0r Jesus mostly.
Having eternal promise and God on your side and an objective purpose to every moment of your life really does do a whole lot.
https://t.co/gNbbvM7Fjx

[☘️Psmith🪴 @SocraticPsmith]

Was talking with some acquaintances, & really appreciating how much *Vibrancy* being Christian adds to living. Scary sometimes, but everything has divine weight & eternal import to Christians; it makes every colour brighter, decision sharper, action realer. A beautiful life

[☘️Psmith🪴 @SocraticPsmith]

And other people's tweets!
Aspirational levels of 'tism
https://t.co/6mc5Atha0n

[eigenrobot @eigenrobot]

strange times eh

[☘️Psmith🪴 @SocraticPsmith]

Eigenrobot does this constantly. Must commend his skill remembering random things he tweeted like five years ago

[eigenrobot @eigenrobot]

@tinyForest fuck @ProfEmilyOster . no further comment
https://t.co/hH18v8TmRF

[☘️Psmith🪴 @SocraticPsmith]

@justalexoki Yeah it really is something else, hard gap to bride. Did happen one time tho!
https://t.co/bH2JRmmqId

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@WaxingProlific @goblinodds I've read similar. Forget what study it was, but they were treating women with testosterone (not trans, just some condition that needed exogenous hormones) and many women reported: "I used to make fun of men for being sex-obsessed, but now I get it and I'm so sorry"