Dimitri Karamazov

When I was a kid, I loved breaking apart boxes; this one can't contain me.

[Dimitri Karamazov @ThePalamite]

@vistarave @Rainmaker1973 Do you mean _replicate_?

[Fascinating @fasc1nate]

David Bowie had gone to a private showing of his 1987 movie Labyrinth. Afterward, he’d have a meet-and-greet with a group of children. He met them and had a ball, but one boy was shy and withdrawn.

So Bowie asked the organizers of the event if he could talk to the boy by himself, seeing as though he was “so shy."

The kid wasn’t actually shy — he was autistic. Bowie told the kid he was also scared, too, of everything. He was, in fact, only able to face other people because of a “magic mask” he would always wear. It just so happened the mask was ‘invisible.’

He gave it to the boy. He then acted rather distressed himself and had to make another magic mask, after which he became calm, too. Bowie and the kid just hung out for thirty minutes, and it was a magical experience.

The boy later said he actually felt more confident after meeting David Bowie and receiving his “magic mask."

Bowie reminded the boy of how ‘everyone is shy and scared sometimes, and we all wear masks’. Not every celebrity as famous as Bowie would take so much time and go through such effort to put an uncomfortable kid at ease at an event.

[Dimitri Karamazov @ThePalamite]

Welcome to Plato's Republic https://t.co/1H0nRejTXa

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@PsychToday https://t.co/cwOQku25GB tenants, or tenets? Loved the article; there are many people who'd happily serve as proof readers for you, though

[Dimitri Karamazov @ThePalamite]

@eagle_karate20 @TheCountofMon20 @freganmitts @BrowerSchille There is no "default", because there is no "nature", only history.

[Dimitri Karamazov @ThePalamite]

@TheCountofMon20 @freganmitts @BrowerSchille Atheism is not the absence of a belief, though — it is simply a possibility of the lack of ultimate (or proximate) meaning within the modern world. It is about more than belief, involves more, even if it culminates in a negative assertion.

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@ThomasTrebilco @freganmitts @kvallier How many ppl on this thread have read Heidegger? He seems to be suggesting that, within any historical epoch, beings simply appear to us as inherently meaningful based on the horizon (I understand that he abandons this word in his later writings) of an epoch, how being appears.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Affirmative action was never a complete answer in the drive towards a more just society. But for generations of students who had been systematically excluded from most of America’s key institutions—it gave us the chance to show we more than deserved a seat at the table.

In the wake of the Supreme Court’s recent decision, it’s time to redouble our efforts.

[Dimitri Karamazov @ThePalamite]

@davidpapineau Gah — paywalled. 😞

[Dimitri Karamazov @ThePalamite]

@father_rmv And you wonder why Orthodox think you're not really believers in the 7th council and generally don't want communion with you because your services feel way too different, unlike the Copts and so on...

[Dimitri Karamazov @ThePalamite]

@EllenFlem Wicked pissah

[1899 🜃 @1899Netflix]

And sign this petition! #Save1899 https://t.co/eXz9VeKCeP

[Dimitri Karamazov @ThePalamite]

@lexfridman Everything on this list is worth reading — except _Sapiens_. I wish I could recommend a replacement off the top of my head — Walter Benjamin's _On the Concept of History_, Hegel's _Phenomenology_ (new transl. by Inwood, with notes), and Heidegger's _Being & Time_ as replacements?

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@MaceAhWindu They released it in the middle of HotD & RoP...Andor was the best SW TV I've seen so far, on par with the Mandalorian.

[Khai @ThamKhaiMeng]

This is genius. Italian singer Adriano Celentano released a song in the 70s with nonsensical lyrics meant to sound like American English—to prove that Italians would just love any American song. And it was a hit.

[Dimitri Karamazov @ThePalamite]

@sliw_trev I hope he is never canonized — he says some genuinely crazy things, underwrites some of the most sectarian ideations.

[A. M. Gentile 🟡🔴 @GentileNJ]

I’ve found a a gem

[Dimitri Karamazov @ThePalamite]

@IGN

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@joshnhasler Dreher is not worth anyone's time.

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@joshnhasler He assumes much, & justifies, IIRC, none of the vague assumptions shared by this demographic. Head shaking does not an argument make. Lots of catastrophizing, & much of it around anti-gay. Actual Xian spirituality (Eucharist, fasting, alms, forgiveness) is much more interesting.