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Haley Baumeister
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"Specialization especially seems to understand reality as disintegrated and manipulable, just as the specialist of fertility and pornography understand sexuality. Rejecting the delight of the whole of goodness, all reality is open to our exploitation, equivalent to boredom."
— Jan 16, 2026 06:54PM
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Haley Baumeister
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"For Adam to say no to Eve is to say no to God and to his own nature, even if it would remain a kind of self-mastery 'which exalts the isolated individual in an absolute way, and gives no place to solidarity, to openness to others and service of them.'" [Evangelium Vitae]
— Jan 08, 2026 06:21PM
Haley Baumeister
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"And since the world is devoid of thickness, everything becomes a plaything, something to tame, toy with, lead about on a leash, and discard when we have drained its temporary pleasure."
— Jan 04, 2026 07:57PM
Haley Baumeister
is on page 17 of 144
the intro discussing Blood Meridian was
*almost* enough to make me want to try suffering through that book again.
— Sep 21, 2023 06:43PM
*almost* enough to make me want to try suffering through that book again.
