Billy from Seattle

navigating the strange moment we are in

[Billy from Seattle @northbilly]

@Peace_Theology When can I purchase a copy?

[Billy from Seattle @northbilly]

@AndrewYang @CNBC @SquawkCNBC @BeckyQuick @JoeSquawk So what should we do?? How should we prepare for this? Should we all get good at AI?

[Billy from Seattle @northbilly]

@Slate @mjs_DC MJS, Why does it appear that “official”acts might be immune? Why is there this assumed delineation between official acts and private? Couldn’t a president use the office in its “official” capacity to commit a “crime”? Wouldn’t that be even worse? Did Dreeben miss this?

[Billy from Seattle @northbilly]

@TheWeekendMSNBC @AliciaMenendez @SarahLongwell25 So glad you have this weekend show. I watch it because you are on it. How do I tell MSNBC to give you your show back or give you your own show again?!!!

[Billy from Seattle @northbilly]

@bethesdaadk @anneapplebaum Republicans starting with Reagan want to make America great again. What they really mean is they want to go back to the new deal, the G.I. Bill and labor unions with Jim Crow.

[Billy from Seattle @northbilly]

@ethan_iverson @thenation Finally someone speaking the truth! Musicians in history, like most artists never made money. They were supported by benefactors, the wealthy or the church. We had a short little window in the 20th century where we overcompensated a few. It’s just back to how it’s always been.

[Billy from Seattle @northbilly]

@shadihamid I just finished reading your article in the Atlantic. A very profound articulation of the differences between the ideas of liberalism and democracy and how they can be in conflict with one another. Really helps explain our current American cultural political moment.

[Billy from Seattle @northbilly]

@Jeffrey_Howard_ @bodhidave3 Alan Watts once said that all of theology is just symbols pointing to Union with God. So then we ask what does the term God mean? And now we’re back to poems… :)

[Billy from Seattle @northbilly]

@bodhidave3 Super interesting! Trust it seems is a relational word/term. Maybe it’s a good word that can describe a non-attached relationship with the present moment. Also interesting that it’s synonyms include hope and faith.

[Billy from Seattle @northbilly]

@bodhidave3 Would you say that present moment experience of meditation is “not” too late? Is it interpretation that is late?

[Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock @SenatorWarnock]

Students & hardworking people should not finish school with a mortgage before they actually *get* a mortgage.

I’m going to show up in the halls of Congress & show up at the White House to push the President to use his power & provide *strong* student debt relief for Georgians.

[Billy from Seattle @northbilly]

These GOP politicians aren’t pro-life. They’re pro-forced birth. https://t.co/Bw8LTn9sWz

[Billy from Seattle @northbilly]

“If we get bored enough, we just might wake up to the truth of our experience – which is that there is no solid sense of self, that there is nothing to hold onto.” - Bruce Tift #alreadyfree #meditation #presentmoment #mindfulness #awareness #consciousness #unitive

[Billy from Seattle @northbilly]

President Biden, it’s time to cancel student debt https://t.co/9yaZffkpJr

[Billy from Seattle @northbilly]

“The practice of mindfulness is to rest into the joy of being” - Rolf Gates @RolfGates #mindfulness #presence #awareness #presentmoment #meditation #yoga #silence

[Billy from Seattle @northbilly]

@eugenepkim2 PSA is a “late” evolved theory of the atonement. Anselm in the ninth century put forth is satisfaction theory. This evolved further with 16th century reformation expanding it to a “legal” theory becoming dominant within the protestant church.

[Billy from Seattle @northbilly]

“I see a mountain as a mountain and not as a commentary on myself.” - Rolf Gates @RolfGates #presentmoment #meditation #awareness #yoga #mindfulness #presence

[Billy from Seattle @northbilly]

“So I won’t ask you to look down to where your bottom might be if you keep drinking. I want you to look around at what you still have.” - Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox #sobriety

[Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox]

The latest #soberquestioning — out on my sobriety date! — might be my favorite one yet. The question really got into my head; I hope my thoughts are useful to someone. https://t.co/JS4YDLgS9R