@St_Rev @sarahdoingthing true but also true that race, class and gender factor in who gets the bedsores & whose get attended to effectively
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@St_Rev@ElamBend@sarahdoingthing yep. Orpheus is the operative parable here: don't look back! -
@St_Rev@ElamBend@sarahdoingthing ppl want whatever they're doing to be underwritten by sth metaphysically "bigger" than > -
@St_Rev@ElamBend@sarahdoingthing < the "mere" fact that they're doing it & it seems to be working so far. but there's no such thing really -
@schakalsynthetc One of Islam's special tricks is incorporating the "you could get hit by a bus tomorrow" spellbreaker *into* the illusion. -
@schakalsynthetc "You could die in a completely pointless, absurd way tomorrow, and that's the will of Allah too" -
@St_Rev then a kind of principle of explosion applies: if everything is the will of Allah then it's equally true that nothing is -
@schakalsynthetc Nope, it inverts fatalism into a kind of manic hypermonism: everything is ultrameaningful.
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. Banned in Sweden. SubGenius, Zhuangist, white-hat troll. Defrocked mathematician. Brain problems.