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@theliturgylady @ConorMcDonough4 @McCrimmons I see it more like a rosary style meditation. Like, you’re scribing, so many things to scribe, easy to fall to boredom and wanting to rush, but when you get to the name of the big lad you’re not allowed to rush, you gotta sit there a minute.
@NoamChompers No comment on the “existence of judgment” claim, which seems silly in the “obviously have until proven otherwise” way, but Merleau-ponty makes such good use of this manoeuvre to eviscerate behaviourism.
@jonathanbfine She’ll be the belle of the ball when she drops it. Kind of justifies the airfares, just that 12 second moment. Then back to the airport. Her work is done.
Babylonian cuneiform: “the greed of investment bankers and their illusory financial instruments will be the death of us”
Christian in the 1920s “scripture has nothing relevant to say about families”
More often than not, if some idea feels ancient and immutable, it emerged in like the 1890s or 1950s, and if an idea feels very expressive of only the contemporary moment, you’ll find people bitching about it on Babylonian cuneiform tablets.
My professor is talking about the time he flatlined for like 20 seconds before being revived and the only thing he remembers about temporarily dying is that he very clearly saw Gollum
I was enjoying alien romulus but then one of the characters quoted James Cameron’s “Aliens” (1986) which implied that in the alien universe, people have watched the alien movies. That made most of their surprise reacts in the first half of the film seem unjustified.