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Be like Jesus. Jesus didn't wear socks. @HoustonBaptistU @HBUHonors @e_quips #Shakespeare #Bluebell #Paddling #FountainPens #Sarcasm #DysfunctionalHashtagsOnly

[Micah+ @Patered]

Sarcasm, because that's how *eye-roll*.

[Micah+ @Patered]

@JonathanADiaz Dunno, is ‘polymetis’ translated “think outside the box-maxxing”?

POLYTROPOS is an anagram for LOOPY SPORT

[Micah+ @Patered]

@mattleeanderson Greatest comedy, sure. Fourth-greatest play. But it’s a tolerable position to hold for pub bants.

[Aelfred The Great @aelfred_D]

Aristotle’s schema employs things like formal cause and final cause, which modern science eschewed. Fair enough, insofar as it has allowed us to *do* more. But our understanding is far less. When physics is ultimately math, as at present, we don’t actually understand anything
2/3

[Micah+ @Patered]

@dcsandbrook @bookclubpodhq Lee is the Shakespearean fool of this epic. Who predictably gets overlooked—including by your assessment, alas.

[Micah+ @Patered]

Merriam, Webster, and comma just sounds dumb.

[The Oxford Comma @RealOxfordComma]

@MerriamWebster “Merriam-Webster comma” just doesn’t have the same ring to it.

[Zena Hitz @zenahitz]

Here is why I made this outrageous claim:
1. Big state schools are vulnerable to the worst trends in GenEd, such as asynchronous online courses.
2. State university systems have been slashing languages, philosophy, literature etc along with theoretical math, chem, physics .. 1/x

[🇻🇦 Fr Victor Feltes @StuffForSisters]

I've spent years working to disprove the so-called "sunk-cost fallacy" and I'm not going to stop now.

[Micah+ @Patered]

I’m super-chuffed to know the Editor-in-Chief of The Dumb Ox, and see her work proliferating.

[Eduard Habsburg @EduardHabsburg]

My recent visit to Thomas Aquinas College in Massachusetts seems to have have left some traces in the unofficial student newspaper THE DUMB OX. Enjoy!
(Ps extra points if you know who the dumb ox is)

[Micah+ @Patered]

Comma, comma, comma, comma, comma, “chameleon”.

[The Chicago Manual of Style @ChicagoManual]

Until about a century ago, most publishers did “this.” But many publishers now do ‘this’, or “this”. Find out what happened, and why, in this newly updated post at CMOS Shop Talk. https://t.co/jagxcF5h8C

[Micah+ @Patered]

“It is so easy to think of oneself as Socrates … until the hemlock is served.”

[Robert P. George @McCormickProf]

I’d like to share some advice I give to my students–especially those of my students who aspire to academic careers.

Although it's natural and, in itself, good to desire and even seek affirmation, do not fall in love with applause. It is a drug. When you get some of it, you crave more. It can easily deflect you from your mission and vocation. In the end, what matters is not winning approval or gaining celebrity. Your mission and vocation is to seek the truth and to speak the truth as God gives you to grasp the truth.

There is a particular danger for those who dissent, as I do, and as many of my graduate students and top undergraduate students do, from the reigning orthodoxies of the prevailing intellectual culture. You may be tempted to suppose that your willingness to defy the career-making (and potential career-breaking) mandarins of elite opinion immunizes you from addiction to affirmation and applause and guarantees your personal authenticity and intellectual integrity.

It doesn’t.

We are all vulnerable to the drug. The vulnerability never completely disappears. And the drug is toxic to the activity of thinking (and thus to the cause of truth-seeking).

To me, the reality of this temptation, no less than any other temptation, should keep one mindful of the need constantly to tend the garden of one’s interior life. If anything can immunize us against the temptation to love applause above truth, it's prayer. We all need that immune system strengthener. Even those of us who think we are strong, who flatter ourselves with the thought that we are invulnerable to the lure of approval, are weak. In fact, in our self-flattery we are, perhaps, among the most vulnerable.

It is so easy to think of oneself as Socrates … until the hemlock is served.

[Micah+ @Patered]

It was when?

[Paul J. Gutacker @pgutacker]

Brazos Fellows is pleased to be part of an exciting project being launched by @TASeminary and funded by a new $10 million grant from the Lilly Endowment. Read more about what this means here: https://t.co/epToczubhP

[Micah+ @Patered]

Mine was 50 cents because the library used book sale thought it worth no more…

[Alex Priou @alexpriou]

The physical book is also of excellent quality, and not that pricey on Amazon. Discounted to less than $60 for the hardcover, and it’s 1200 pages!

https://t.co/0jzcdmAYfg

[Georgy Kantor @GeorgyKantor]

Published a piece on universities and AI (particularly in application to Oxford) in last week's Oxford Magazine.

[Alex Priou @alexpriou]

"Of most things there are comic equivalents."

– Leo Strauss

[Micah+ @Patered]

@HootenWilson

[Micah+ @Patered]

@zenahitz My institution ran out of money way before Harvard did. Who’s cutting edge now?

[Micah+ @Patered]

@jennfrey That’s also how I feel every time I have to fly through Newark.

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@joynessthebrave It’s Puddleglum, not Puddleglam.