Category Archives: Daily Links and Notes

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/corpse-flower-alameda-bloom-titan-arum-bay-area-16186786.php

It is a miracle…that a man should have risen again in the flesh and ascended into heaven with his flesh; but it is a greater miracle that the whole world should have believed something so unbelievable. – Augustine, sermon 272A … Continue reading →

It is simply incredible to me having read Goldberg, Lasch, Bawer, Rieff, and Gurri how tightly intertwined their central concerns were and are. Loss of structure, performative therapeutics, information tsunami in a technological Eden. Affective despair leading to nihilism. pic.twitter.com/WkjfO8odAQ … Continue reading →

When I was a pastor I NEVER taught that God made a baby or gave someone a baby. Even though the Bible intimates that. Why?Because sex makes a baby.Sperm, egg, PiV. What role does a deity play in that? None … Continue reading →

pic.twitter.com/0Qkuh3g8BA — Mike the Therapist 🌈 (@sacwriter) May 19, 2021

I get the sense that quite a few attractive and famous women are taking gender fluidity/transgenderism as an off-ramp from the exhaustion of being public sex objects. https://t.co/gFFr5a6B3a — Shane Morris (@GShaneMorris) May 19, 2021

https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/19/22433056/transgender-tech-apps-euphoria-clarity-solace-bliss

My patience for atheists sometimes wanes dramatically, listening to Stephen Fry with @jordanbpeterson clamor on his high-horse about how as an empiricist he cannot understand human sacrifice really brings me to the brink. — Jonathan Pageau (@PageauJonathan) May 19, 2021

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/may/17/doom-the-politics-of-catastrophe-niall-ferguson-review

Men are werewolvesAs an escort, I'd have dinner with an intelligent, perceptive man – ceo or something – and I'd think, no way he's a werewolf. When we end up in bed, he'll remain himself, conscious, alert.But no; they transformed … Continue reading →