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Sina Iravanian
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Two thousand years ago, a wise man named Xenophanes wrote that if oxen, lions, and horses had hands with which to carve images, they would fashion God after their own shapes and give him bodies like their own. I believe that if triangles could think they would create a God with the appearance and attributes of a triangle, or circles would create circular..."
— Mar 24, 2025 03:58AM
Two thousand years ago, a wise man named Xenophanes wrote that if oxen, lions, and horses had hands with which to carve images, they would fashion God after their own shapes and give him bodies like their own. I believe that if triangles could think they would create a God with the appearance and attributes of a triangle, or circles would create circular..."
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Sina Iravanian
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So perhaps it is the mind of the man that needs to be edified. Perhaps men should wear mule-blinders instead of demanding that women wear veils!"
— Apr 12, 2025 04:44AM
So perhaps it is the mind of the man that needs to be edified. Perhaps men should wear mule-blinders instead of demanding that women wear veils!"
Sina Iravanian
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[Speaking of a crowd gathering to watch public punishment of a well-known person] Yet it is the fall from grace of the most highly placed that has always most excited crowds: the dark side of admiration is envy combined with disgruntlement at one’s own ordinariness."
— Apr 02, 2025 07:06AM
[Speaking of a crowd gathering to watch public punishment of a well-known person] Yet it is the fall from grace of the most highly placed that has always most excited crowds: the dark side of admiration is envy combined with disgruntlement at one’s own ordinariness."
Sina Iravanian
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The writer’s job is to communicate. Alas, many of your sentences are unaware of that simple dictum and instead attempt to obfuscate or to convey that the author knows far more than he chooses to say. To the guillotine with every one of those sentences."
— Mar 31, 2025 06:57PM
The writer’s job is to communicate. Alas, many of your sentences are unaware of that simple dictum and instead attempt to obfuscate or to convey that the author knows far more than he chooses to say. To the guillotine with every one of those sentences."
Sina Iravanian
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I’ll start by reminding you of the millions of precisely right moments when miracles do not occur, when the most pious and righteous of individuals are greatly imperiled, cry out for help, and are answered only with silence. Franco, you spoke of that at our very first meeting, when you asked where were the miracles when your father was burned to death. Right?”
— Mar 29, 2025 06:43AM
I’ll start by reminding you of the millions of precisely right moments when miracles do not occur, when the most pious and righteous of individuals are greatly imperiled, cry out for help, and are answered only with silence. Franco, you spoke of that at our very first meeting, when you asked where were the miracles when your father was burned to death. Right?”
Sina Iravanian
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I wonder if you can ever be at home anywhere, because home is not a place—it’s a state of mind. Really being at home is feeling at home in your own skin. And, [...] I don’t think you feel at home in your skin. Perhaps you never have. Perhaps you have been searching for home in the wrong place all your life.”
— Mar 26, 2025 03:05AM
I wonder if you can ever be at home anywhere, because home is not a place—it’s a state of mind. Really being at home is feeling at home in your own skin. And, [...] I don’t think you feel at home in your skin. Perhaps you never have. Perhaps you have been searching for home in the wrong place all your life.”
