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“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.”
— Apr 28, 2026 06:07AM
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arabella
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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?”
— Apr 28, 2026 07:12AM
“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?”
arabella
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“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.”
— Apr 28, 2026 05:04AM
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“—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.”
— Apr 27, 2026 03:02AM
