@vishnu’s silly little “esoteric analogy time” jingle is stuck on loop in my brain as a very invasive earworm. Thanks a lot, Vishnu! 😜
@RobertFrancis @Pondering @Jeff Sure. I am a person, not an hermetically sealed logic machine.
Good morning to everyone except Jeff Bezos.
Here's a thread on Judaism and workers’ rights: https://twitter.com/TheRaDR/status/1117781120022716421
Narrative theology # 1
And I said to him:
Are there answers to all of this?
And he said:
The answer is in a story
and the story is being told.
And I said:
But there is so much pain
And she answered, plainly:
Pain will happen.
Then I said:
Will I ever find meaning?
And they said:
You will find meaning
where you give meaning.
The answer is in a story
and the story isn’t finished.
-Padraig O Tuama
So I was watching the Netflix doc on flat earthers (great doc btw). And it occurred to me that I used to think that the fact that the Christian religion started so fast was evidence of the resurrection. Like as if thousands of people wouldn’t have bought in at that time if it wasn’t real. But that’s not proof of shit. By that logic any religious supernatural claim has merit. Why not Islam? Why not Mormonism? Why not Scientology? Why not flat earth theory?
Why did I never see that before?
I'm feeling really down about the upcoming Israeli elections (just a week away) so it's good to be reminded that there are folks here in Israel/Palestine who actually have a worthwhile vision for our political future: http://www.alandforall.org/english-program.
I believe that one day this solution will be seen by everyone as both inevitable and just, however that day never seemed further off than it does right now in the current political climate.
@Pondering @peterbinks I can't read the word epistemology without hearing the (in @mike 's robot voice) "epistemological break down" jingle.