@aufgehenderRest To capitalize 'law' here is irresponsible given the context that the actual Law was pronounced within; johannes de silentio said we cannot separate Abraham's faith from his context
@aufgehenderRest Any assertion of context without this loses Torah. The first 'I am' is in the context of another relationship with Abraham, Isaac, and Israel
@aufgehenderRest How does God define Godself before God says 'I am that I am'? God says 'I will be with you, and to express the former outside the latter is not true to the text and is ignorant of the hebraic tradition.
In the UK, we have de-automated smoke detectors.
Buildings across Britain now have roving 24/7 'fire patrols' conducted by full-time 'waking watches' due to post-Grenfell regulations. Their job is to just wander around buildings aimlessly with an air horn to 'detect' fires.
@mystery_manners@stewartdantec Seems to be from the 1987 'To crush a serpent' essay found in the posthumous collection 'the cross of redemption: uncollected writings'
For the new followers: I post Baudrillard excerpts with brief commentary, the tweets containing the titles of the respective books, such that you can easily search for them. Of course, if you don't care about that at all, I occasionally post...other things:
"As historian Joanna Radin encouraged me to discuss in my undergraduate course on the History of Drugs, the question is not only, What is the right drug for me?, but also: What would the world have to look like for me not to need drugs at all?"
@nvpkp Lewis has his problems throughout but as a teen I enjoyed how his caritas goes beyond the other loves, with him including parental love as another natural kind
@CXGonzalez most criticisms of mbti are terrible and don't understand jungian functions. mbti isnt the best predictive thing out there, like big5 is better, but if u had to pick either mbti or astrology i would pick mbti hands down no questions