Becoming Black: Reflections on the “W” Word, Supersessionism, and the Theological Origins of White Supremacy “The choice, as James Cone insists, is that God must be Black; without that commitment, the universal story is not possible, because Whiteness fails to express solidarity with all – and God’s…

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Ozempic marketing guy: Picture it. It’s a version of The Olympics, sponsored by Ozempic, featuring only athletes who get in shape using our drug. And we call it “The Ozempics.”

The Judgement and Salvation of the Lone Star Tick: Mammals, Meat, and Non-Human Prophets “The central theme in the prophecy of Joel, one of the 12 minor prophets (dōdekaprophēton), is that the Day of the Lord (yōm ădȏnay) is at hand (chs. 2–3). […] Joel utilizes the concept conte…

I wrote some thoughts down about mammals (one of them being RFK jr.), meat, non-human prophets and the judgement *and* salvation offered to us by the Lone Star Tick. Enjoy! 😊✌️

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The Pluribus Problem: Reflections on Freedom, Face Scans, Anti-Circumvention Laws, and Persuasive Love vs. Imposed Morality “This creates the series of questions Pluribus forces us to confront in every episode: Is our freedom—our autonomy—really too high a price to pay in exchange for global happiness and organized, res…

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The Trembling Gift It has become a habit of mine over the years to make gifts for friends and family for Christmas, and this year my spouse, Erin, and I wrote, designed, illustrated, and produced home made Christmas …

Merry Christmas! Your *true* gift is yet to come 😊🎁🎄

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The Ordinary Texture of Existence: Reflections on ASMR and The Consummatory Satisfaction of Felt Quality “Whisper whisper whisper.” –Anonymous ASMRtist old pond– frog jumps in. Plop! –Matsuo Bashô “In Whitehead’s analysis of an occasion of experience, the “category of transmutation” …

Hope you get the tingles 😁✌️

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Erosion of Process Directly Erodes Comprehension: Reflections on AI, Skeuomorphism, and the Creative Process “Be “dialectical” just for one minute: imagine a world where there is no point in teaching people things, the process of education is replaced by The Answer (no shade to Allen Iverson). You just… a…

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Each Occasion is Concerned With The Universe: Virtuous Oscilation, Whitehead, and Quaker Concernedness “Consciousness flickers; and even at its brightest, there is a small focal region of clear illumination, and a large penumbral region which tells of intense experience in dim apprehension.” –Whiteh…

I’ve written down some autumnal reflections on the penumbral shadow, tragic beauty, virtuous oscilation, and Quaker concernedness that I hope you will enjoy ☺️✌️

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The Man Who Wasn’t Funny: Bergson and the “Just Joking” Defense “As a general rule, and speaking roughly, laughter doubtless exercises a useful function. Indeed, the whole of our analysis points to this fact. But it does not therefore follow that laughter alway…

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You can’t fix autism because autistic people are not broken.

Dominion Over the Earth: Invasive Species, Linguistic Imperialism, and Indigenous Knowledge “…branding animals ‘invasive’ is not only unethical, but it is also based on a confused understanding of species migrations over time. The reason that the rhetoric of invasive species has bec…

Since the spotted lanternfly has made it's way to my neck of the woods it seems like a good time to reconsider the term 'invasive species.'

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On The Manliest of All Rituals: Critical and Creative Nonviolent Reflections on Hunting “The adoption of fixed settlements also created problems with regard to the status of women. When a hunter-gatherer people took up fixed settlement, in actual practice it pursued its livelihood thr…

My latest piece about hunting and killing and how we might separate the two, keeping one of our oldest rituals somewhat intact and maybe even better. Link below and in bio.

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The Kitchen Bunker: Paul Virilio and the War Logic of Fine Dining “All of us are already civilian soldiers, without knowing it… The great stroke of luck for the military class’s terrorism is that no one recognizes it. People don’t recognize the militarized …

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"It Should Not Be So Among You": Reflections on Hierarchy, Power, and Spiritual Warfare Last week's reflections about Bob Sutton's book  The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't reminded m...

Power breeds nastiness.

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For any financial planners out there when your clients ask about stable coin:

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The Theo-Aesthetic World of William Morris: Introduction This is the introduction to a paper on William Morris I am writing for a MFA class, the rough draft of which I recently submitted.  Introduction As generative AI floods our screens with astonishing…

I’ve been obsessing over William Morris for a MFA paper and was just thrilled to a) get Meister Eckhart involved, and b) learn about Julia Watson’s wonderful work.

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Donald Trump is building a strange, new religious movement The old “religious right” is gone. The new one is weirder — and harder to fight.

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Why the right wants to ban this innovation before you get to try it When animal cruelty trumps capitalism.

The basic human moral intuition that the mass torture of animals is wrong runs quite contrary to the apparent Conservative and profit-driven insistence that it must remain necessary. Good lord.

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I Hate COPS Because I Love COPS “As an occupation, policing necessarily involves people in a violent institution, demands they forfeit their freedom to a hierarchical chain of command and constraints imposed by their oath of offi…

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