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“hurry slowly”…it’s a bit stuffy here…try me at my Psych Bites Substack ⬇️

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@Castalia1981 @AlinaV_Psy I think we can confidently ignore cheesy PowerPoint slides with typos 🤷‍♂️

[Grok @grok]

JD Vance's claim that providing healthcare to immigrants bankrupts Medicaid lacks strong evidence. Data shows Medicaid spending on noncitizens, mainly for emergency care, was $3.8 billion in 2023, just 0.4% of the total budget. U.S. citizens, especially in non-blue states, are the primary beneficiaries, with 23% coverage compared to 19% for immigrants. While some argue resources could be redirected, the financial impact of immigrant healthcare is minimal, and state expansions for vulnerable groups suggest broader benefits. The claim of "bankrupting Medicaid" is not supported by current data.

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@Sara_Horowitz forum: https://t.co/UjWCoc6FdM

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@taperclinic Credibility forfeited 🤷‍♂️

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@ysalcsw The theory describes styles…easy to oversimplify but wouldn’t you say “everyone has an attachment style”? In the same way you’d say “everyone has a personality style”?

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@JuanIgn33916948 @the_mel_jar Language doesn’t have limits, but we do. There is always more we could have said, or said different. Language has us more than we have language.

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@Mad_In_America Misunderstanding and hubris.

[Nicholas Fabiano, MD @NTFabiano]

Handwriting leads to widespread brain connectivity - typing does not.

[Jonathan Shedler @JonathanShedler]

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1/ Social media therapists “echo a viewpoint the public craves. They laser-focus on trauma, stress, victimhood, systemic oppression, stigma, and burnout—all factors outside the individual—and prescribe support and advocacy for the distress that results.
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[exeunt @exeuntdoteth]

To make this a serious proposal, I think you will need to reckon with the history of Christianity as comprised of two core functions: a normative function and a transcendental function.

The normative function has to do with the rules, structures, hierarchies that govern a church. I would argue that these have consistently been about cultural embeddedness, self-preservation of those in power (primarily), self-preservation of the community (secondarily) and preservation of the cultural tradition. This function has often resulted in absurd, or laughably immoral laws or dogmas that have little to do with the teachings of Christ. Dum Diversas.

The transcendental function has to do with people's direct relationships with Christ - these have been destabilizing and threatening to the former and have often produced flamboyantly expressive artifacts and legacies. Think Marguerite Porete, Hildegard of Bingen, Joan of Arc, Philip K. Dick, Howard Finster, Royal Robertson, Flannery O'Connor, Mary Lou Williams, Simone Weil, etc. It's eccentric, often antinomian, and shakes the confines of normativity to discover something beneath institutional self-preservation and power games.

The technological shifts we're facing will leave the current normative order in shambles - who is in power will change, their means of self-preservation will change, their cultural embeddedness will change, and the very definitions of fitness, survivability for individuals and communities and even reproduction itself will change. Normative christianity has nothing to offer a Christian Futurism. The nuclear family invoked in your imagery has way more to do with a 20th century American normative imaginary than the Gospels, and it has even less to do with where 21st technology is taking us.

The eccentric, flamboyant, world-loving legacies of transcendental Christianity, on the other hand, have all the viability to withstand the ages, all the interior conviction and cosmological depth to give comfort, wisdom and ethical clarity before the ontological shocks of the imminent future..

(If any of this is convincing to you, I recommend Richard Smoley's Inner Christianity and Norman Cohn's The Pursuit of the Millennium for good records of the power, weirdness and general futurist viability of what I've called transcendental Christianity)

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@exeuntdoteth @garysheng 👏👏👏👏

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@CatholicEthan I’m willing to bet you don’t tell your friends everything! But perhaps the Friend says, “hey man I think you should see a professional”…bad friend or good friend?

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@JonathanShedler Was hoping you would weigh in! 👏👏👏

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@cspan @ChrisVanHollen @SecRubio “Social cohesion in Mali, whatever that means”…so he’s proud of cutting funding to things he doesn’t understand. 👍

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@willlowry @peterjhasson This comment makes you look ugly

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@JoeyMannarinoUS @GabbyGiffords @CaptMarkKelly Booooo 👎

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@ysalcsw Yah this has bothered me for awhile…doesn’t seem compatible with good psychotherapy.

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@SecDef Hey did you accidentally add me to your group chat with Iran?