@digijordan I absolutely love that description. Beautiful and so true. Painfully true. .. I’d like to hear more of your thoughts on initiation .. I think I’m there. Mystical marriage. It’s wild man. You nailed it.
.@ezraklein: “What is, to you, the ‘rage economy’?”
@JamesTalarico: “The billionaires own the algorithms and the news networks. They have created for-profit platforms that divide us on an hourly basis — by party, by race, by gender, by religion. They elevate the most extreme voices very strategically to provoke our outrage, because that leads to more clicks, which leads to more money for them.
They are selling us conflict right into our bloodstream, and they’re calling it connection.
And I think it’s left people starving for actual community.”
@digijordan@TOEwithCurt It goes back way farther than Greece. I AM that I AM. Moses. Buddha. Then Jesus, all having the same message. I AM the way, the truth and the life. Not about one individual man historically, but the I AM that is within you. God constitutes man’s individual consciousness.
Notice how it’s somehow the government’s job to legislate a few Bible verses on human sexuality over our entire country, but it’s suddenly “not the government’s job” when it comes to the +2,500 Bible verses calling for a generous use of wealth that prioritizes the poor.
But you’re equating intellectual agreement with reflecting the virtues of Jesus Christ, which is the opposite of what we see in conservatism. .. Also, the letter ‘law’ kills, but the spirit gives life. You’ve reduced law to a mere humanistic design which is more concerned with protecting your race than upholding the virtues found in the Sermon on the Mount. @howertonjosh