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On a Feminist Reading of the Gospel

the new testament *also* says “women should remain silent in church” and “i do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man; she must be quiet”, and rather conspicuous in their absence are revelations abrogating … Continue reading

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A Fee for Sunlight

astrology i am still coming to a conclusion about, but i am still pretty sure that people who charge you for consultations are amulet sellers what is so offensive to me about the brown scapular is the pure priestcraft of … Continue reading

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Catholic Bimbofication

because the roman catholic umbrella can be described best as “maximalist” this means there is some subset that will attract someone – some particular holy person with vatican stink rubbed all over them, either for reasons of simple chronology, geography … Continue reading

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The Ten Day Week

unfortunately, for group theoretic reasons i don’t want to work out, if you add uranus, neptune and pluto to the classical lineup to make ten planets for a ten day week and do the same cyclic planetary hours thing over … Continue reading

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Parapolitics of Esther

book of esther is both better and worse than ezra-nehemiah. better because it works better as a fun drinking story with a melodrama but worse because it is so evidently the pattern of every pogrom fuelled by fantasy and paranoia … Continue reading

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They Don’t Want You To Know Linguistics: Bare Literacy

I talked to someone this morning who gave me something to thing about with the They Don’t Want You To Know Linguistics issue. They grew up in the country, in a place where it was still not a given that … Continue reading

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On Being Asked Why Preserving Life Is Only Beneficial from a Human Perspective

“a forest you can hunt deer or gather a particular herb in” in is worth preserving but “the life of an arbitrary deer or a particular plant” is not. the preservation of the former, which you could science up into … Continue reading

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Esoteric Molinism: On Contradiction

contradictions are meaningful, and so are non-contractions. God has the sovereign power of actualising contradictions but because ex contradictionem quodlibet, he had a choice of actualising either zero or infinite contradictions. God wanted creation to contain some non-contradictions and so … Continue reading

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Paperclips A Parable

i think stories about paperclip maximisers are about startups, the bay area and the people who get attracted to rationalist cults – a neurodiverse kind of focus, an entitlement to the world and its resources because of sociopathy, or coming … Continue reading

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Why Traditionalists Are Not Protestants

it’s a pleasing and tidy thought but i don’t think it’s true. like “protestant” is not a generic name for “offshoots of the Latin church”. “protestant” refers to a very specific ecclesiastical current grounded in issues from 500 years ago … Continue reading

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