Status Updates From Sikodiwa: Revisiting Filipi...

just entered a spiritual crisis.

“is it possible that God is not just in the mansions and champagne dinners and award shows? maybe God is also in the least of our siblings: the hungry and thirsty, the naked, the sick and disabled, those deprived of liberty. maybe we forget that we are not just passive receivers and consumers in the world; maybe our care for them is God in action. What if all of it is God?”

“mastery in a field makes you necessary, and if you are needed somewhere, then you will be given many things just to stay there — until you have been fully exploited — when everyone knows how to do the skill you’ve excelled at, or when new technology renders your skill set obsolete.”

“decolonization could be a critical approach to challenging prevailing systems that are oppressive (or, at the very least, incredibly inconvenient) in the present, not merely in some romanticized archetypal past.”

“—there is a deeply fulfilling kind of pleasure that can be gained from knowing more, from seeing ordinary things in a new light, or even deconstructing and destroying intellectual idols and false gods.”

Wahhh this last chapter gets a star. Will be revisiting

this book legit felt like home 🥹