and, like, if these infrastructures were saturated by one demographic to the exclusion of others, we could come up with processes for diversifying it and unlearning the patterns that got us there. oh my ‐ someone write this down

oh and we could build an infrastructure that enabled them to do the work full time without subservience to market or state. then they could dig in to their discourses and even get together for accountable dialogue. heck, they could even train up the next gen. just lovin this idea

I'll say this about unemployment: it's revived my appreciation for sweatpants

The sanitization and sanctification of Michael Jackson is one of those subjects I can't seem to talk about with calmness or rationality; I just stare at these money-machine enterprises and feel revulsion. I think I'll skip the discourse on this upcoming movie.

Well yeah, it feels static but more it just seems to rule out too much. I'd prefer "extra-temporal" because it is less of a negation. We got into trouble with omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent if they were taken in a way that excluded incarnation, so I like to not rule out more than intended

meh I still don't mind it, but yeah, divine simplicity is important. instead of extra-temporal why not say timeless?

that's rather dismissive but whatever. does a logical before exclude the possibility of a kind of time? if so it has to then distinguish whether it meant to exclude that possibility. I just said I don't mind the inference is all. pre-temporal language is a bit of a puzzle in itself, leaving it open

Seems like there's a presumption at work either way. "Before the foundation of the world" there's a God electing to be Jesus Christ, which suggests some notion of material-temporality even if it is or acts in a kind of simultaneity.

I don't mind the inference that there's another kind of time before this one

so many personal newsletters to subscribe to. i kinda wish they'd pool together and print out the best ones for a reasonable rate. peers could review and decide what to print. libraries could let us drop in and have a peak. it would be cool

Don't give Rohr any ideas

Just became a habs fan

Yeah it really does seem like later historians will call this the hermeneutical split that divided christianity – whether we ever discuss it as such or not

And Trump took out an ad calling for their death but was somehow given a cameo in Home Alone – and later a reality show and a new ballroom (among other things)

21. Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures ... have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful. 22. We must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism. We, in America and more broadly the West, have for the past half century resisted defining national cultures in the name of inclusivity. But inclusion into what?

⚠️ Palantir released what it describes as a vision for “The Technological Republic” in which it argues AGAINST democratic and cultural pluralism and FOR militaristic supremacy enforced by a technocratic elite who produce AI weaponry.

These points stand out:

I don’t think we talk nearly enough about the fact that corporations like Amazon, don’t pay a single cent to maintain the roads they use, the transportation system they use, the courts they use, they pay nothing for the infrastructure that is absolutely critical to their business.

WE Pay for

You knew we were going to give up a goal down the right side. Slot can't help himself with these starting line ups.

Palantir thread reads like 1930s Nazism

A self-censored swear! The highest of (evangelical) celebrations

Welp, today I reached the point in my book where I will begin to celebrate the excising of words rather than the writing of them.

What could this book possibly be abou— (reads subtitle) —oh cool!

Punting!

is that from Ezekiel somewhere?

There is a reason that we do not have MLAs decide on electoral boundaries. Tossing out the Electoral Boundaries Commission and replacing it with a UCP-dominated committee is not just a bad idea. It is really bad for democracy. Ask the US, ask Hungary. This is not normal!

Facebook sucked me in to comment on a "Christians and Atheists" group and, while the ensuing flood to my newsfeed showed me some earnest friendliness, it reminded of two convos to avoid: with ardent apologists who try to prove Christianity, and flippant atheists who dismiss the whole thing as stupid

same goes for "words of knowledge" and public education

I think my main thing about healing is that the gospel accounts and modern appearance of it are all fine and celebratable but they are SIGNS of what to WORK ON together, and thus are not the alternative to social health care systems but the gateway to them

When multi-millionaires are scared you must be doing something right

I just quote tweeted a question to this effect and, while I'm not sure, I think I recall a portion of Wesley where he made entire sanctification relative to available options at the time - but I admit I could be dreaming this

This is my instinctive response to the notion of "entire sanctification" and I feel like a nuanced defense of it is going to either be individualistic or punctiliar, but I'd be curious of others