Thou, Lord, hast holpen me, and comforted me:
- “Exodus 34.6-7 appears over and over in the Bible.” (Related.)
- “[T]here are no more experts.” So: “You either trust formal institutional processes and credentials, or you trust autists with pattern-recognition abilities, wellness mommies operating off of intuition, and bodybuilders using broscience.” (Related.)
- “The fact that young people are so focused on the issues they’re most focused on is itself a strong line of evidence that they’ve been misled and should be questioning the sources who have taken them so far astray.”
- “Psychological health benefits included improvements in mood and cognition, including a reduction in anxiety, depression, and tiredness; increased happiness and joy, confidence, self-esteem, mental clarity, memory function, sleep quality, and productivity at work.” (Related: “[Carnivory’s] impact on the evolution of human socio-reproductive behaviors, physiology and anatomy is undeniable.” Related.)
- “[S]even layers of meaning in Genesis 1.”
- “Both envy … and self-interest … had significant effects on support for coercive redistribution…. [C]ompassion was unrelated to coercive redistribution.”
- “Attention is the economy of love.” (Related: “There is enough light for those who desire only to see, and enough darkness for those of a contrary disposition.”)
More:
Anonymous: “Have you guys been to rural Japan? Or rural Italy by that token. It’s miserable. You have no idea how dark and sad a country’s culture becomes when you have more old geezers than toddlers. … [T]he effects on the culture at large and the national psychology are there for everyone to see. Despair, detachment, sadness and ennui.” (Related.)
“Baptism is an act of citizenship.”
Clown World. Clown World. Clown World. Clown World. Clown World. Clown World. Clown World. Clown Demon World. Demon World. Demon World. (But, as always, a beautiful, amusing, and, uh, ineffable world nevertheless.)
Eleonore Stump: “[Job] had demanded goodness. What he gets is something of what caused the sons of God not just to find God good but to rejoice in him and in his relations to his creatures. But what exactly is this? … The question is a request that what is presented as a second‐person account be translated into a third‐person account, and … this could not be done without losing what is most important about the second‐person account.”
Brave Ole World 