Day Bidet #47

You can’t add one thing to what’s been done for you:

1. “They were no longer human. They became depressed, suicidal, and alienated from themselves, their loved ones, and the world. The scientific gaze had caused mental illness.”
2. “[S]tatues and street names … are a proxy for the far more important issue of diversity and demography; perhaps people worry about statues of dead Englishmen disappearing from city centres because they worry about Englishmen disappearing from those cities.” (Related. Related. Related.)
3. “[E]ye-witness testimony more often than not overturns forensic evidence. … [T]he testimony of even one eye-witness can count as extraordinary evidence that is sufficient to justify belief in an extraordinary claim.”
4. “Look how fit high school students were in 1962. It’s probably not a coincidence that the deterioration of our bodies was accompanied by a political movement based on feelings of fragility and helplessness.” (Related: Carnivore success story. Carnivore success story. Carnivore success story. Carnivore success story. Carnivore success story. Keto success story. Also related: Is veganism class warfare?)
5. “This scribe is a discipling disciple: the treasure he has gained he passes out to others.”
6. Ruh roh (language warning). (Related: “[T]he group who is most likely to purposefully choose to #not #vaccinate are #highly #educated. In speaking with them, these are people who have read the primary literature themselves, & they’re correctly interpreting it, so it’s not a misunderstanding.”)
7. Chesterton: “When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility. Thus, for instance, when a man is in love with a woman he takes special pleasure in the fact that a woman is unreasonable. Thus, again, the very pious poet, celebrating his Creator, takes pleasure in saying that God moves in a mysterious way.”

More:

“In 1870, there were a total of 160 high schools in the entire country. In 1882, that number had grown to eight hundred high schools. By 1900, there were six thousand.”

“Four Tips for Reading the Book of Revelation”

Expanding voting rights is “anti-democratic”—when the wrong side does it.

“The Spirit as a divine person”