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""We, and the objects entangled with us, in us, find life, sentiency, in a telos that leads to a genuine subjectivity. If we see in objects, even in clay jars, the sentience that is really there at the core, then we allow ourselves to rise teleologically to a subjectivity that does not see the world as different from ourselves, as mere object. . . .Their life is, after all, just covered over, hidden."" — Oct 02, 2025 06:15PM
""We, and the objects entangled with us, in us, find life, sentiency, in a telos that leads to a genuine subjectivity. If we see in objects, even in clay jars, the sentience that is really there at the core, then we allow ourselves to rise teleologically to a subjectivity that does not see the world as different from ourselves, as mere object. . . .Their life is, after all, just covered over, hidden."" — Oct 02, 2025 06:15PM
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"I expected cheekiness and irreverence, but most of the humor in this book is just batshit insane." — Mar 21, 2025 05:23PM
"I expected cheekiness and irreverence, but most of the humor in this book is just batshit insane." — Mar 21, 2025 05:23PM
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""Our passions grow fiercer when left idle through lack of contact with other people. Even that shadow of patience and long-suffering which we thought we possessed while we mixed with our brethren is lost in our isolation through not being exercised. Poisonous creatures...in the desert display their fury only when they detect someone approaching; and likewise passion-filled men..."
- John Cassian, Institutes" — Sep 17, 2025 07:46PM
""Our passions grow fiercer when left idle through lack of contact with other people. Even that shadow of patience and long-suffering which we thought we possessed while we mixed with our brethren is lost in our isolation through not being exercised. Poisonous creatures...in the desert display their fury only when they detect someone approaching; and likewise passion-filled men..."
- John Cassian, Institutes" — Sep 17, 2025 07:46PM
“Defenceless under the night
Our world in stupor lies;
Yet, dotted everywhere,
Ironic points of light
Flash out wherever the Just
Exchange their messages:
May I, composed like them
Of Eros and of dust,
Beleaguered by the same
Negation and despair,
Show an affirming flame.”
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Our world in stupor lies;
Yet, dotted everywhere,
Ironic points of light
Flash out wherever the Just
Exchange their messages:
May I, composed like them
Of Eros and of dust,
Beleaguered by the same
Negation and despair,
Show an affirming flame.”
―
“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.”
― Holy Bible: New International Version
― Holy Bible: New International Version
“As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.”
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“When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.”
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“The science of government it is my duty to study, more than all other sciences; the arts of legislation and administration and negotiation ought to take the place of, indeed exclude, in a manner, all other arts. I must study politics and war, that our sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. Our sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history and naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry and porcelain.”
― Letters of John Adams, Addressed to His Wife
― Letters of John Adams, Addressed to His Wife
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