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""...there is an indigenous population being colonized, but we should let this unpleasantness run its course so we can arrive at true justice in the form of land acknowledgements at every Tel Aviv poetry reading."
when I tell you I am HOWLING 🔥" — 22 minutes ago
""...there is an indigenous population being colonized, but we should let this unpleasantness run its course so we can arrive at true justice in the form of land acknowledgements at every Tel Aviv poetry reading."
when I tell you I am HOWLING 🔥" — 22 minutes ago
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"Cool band name: 'Wayne Grudem and the Neo-Deletionists'" — Nov 22, 2025 12:53PM
"Cool band name: 'Wayne Grudem and the Neo-Deletionists'" — Nov 22, 2025 12:53PM
What continued to dominate the rhetoric of the 1988 campaign, however, was not this awareness of a new and different world but nostalgia for an old one, and coded assurance that any evidence of ambiguity or change, of what George Bush
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“Oh, monsters are scared," said Lettie. "That's why they're monsters.”
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
“I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”
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“She sat back on her heels and nodded. The thought experiment she proposed was certainly odd, but her point was simple. Everything in the universe was constantly changing, and nothing stays the same, and we must understand how quickly time flows by if we are to wake up and truly live our lives.
That’s what it means to be a time being, old Jiko told me, and then she snapped her crooked fingers again.
And just like that, you die.”
― A Tale for the Time Being
That’s what it means to be a time being, old Jiko told me, and then she snapped her crooked fingers again.
And just like that, you die.”
― A Tale for the Time Being
“I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.”
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“If our value system doesn't allow us to enjoy anything without putting a price on it, we miss a great part of the beauty of life. When we bring this value system into the domain of prayer, we can never enjoy God. As soon as we start enjoying Him, we have to reflect, "Oh boy, I'm enjoying God!" And as soon as we do that, we are taking a photograph of the experience. Every reflection is like a photograph of reality. It isn't our original experience; it is a commentary on it.”
― Open Mind, Open Heart: The Contemplative Dimension of the Gospel
― Open Mind, Open Heart: The Contemplative Dimension of the Gospel
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