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On Infinity War
There’s a lot you could say about this movie. Here’s my sort of spoiler review. It was an amazing experience, the biggest cinematic experience I’ve ever had, certainly the most emotional. It’s the ultimate comic book movie and a great end to the MCU. If I were to pick out my only tiny nitpicks, the…
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Love
Love is forgetful. Love doesn’t remember it that way. Doesn’t remember how you vomited on the Floor. How you broke that, how stupid you looked, how cruel, how shallow. Love doesn’t want To remember. Love forgets each new day and Only remembers that best day. That Sunshine in your eyes. Love is viscious. Love knows…
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On reciprocal racism
Before I begin, I want to clarify that what I have to say here is primarily intended for white people arguing internally about the subject of racism. If I were talking to other races about racism, that would be another context and need another discussion. This is aimed toward the internal discussion whiteness in America…
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On frustration with partisanship
I’ve been thinking about this subject a lot lately, but had decided not to post about it for fear of all the potential anger and stone throwing it might illicit. I’ve made a certain criticism many times that people see the world in too simplistic of terms. They can’t seem to separate in their minds…
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On belief in God
https://youtu.be/TUD3pE3ZsQI A few comments. It’s a long video, but interesting. I don’t agree with everything in it, of course, but it’s interesting. This position sort of comes down to recognizing that, regardless of whether the Judeo-Christian religion is empirically true in all its details, it is at least philosophically, psychologically, and archetypically true, and maybe…
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Me too?
I never realized until today how much I hate the “stop hitting yourself” game. Apparently so much that I forbid my children from playing it. My daughter must have learned it at school. And it brought up a surprising amount of resentment and hatred in me. Generally speaking, I don’t find fun in any type…
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On concepts and their limits
The limiting problem with concepts, when we focus too tightly on them, is that they obscure and remove the inherent mysteriousness of actual facts and objects. Concepts can only be themselves, consistent within themselves and in opposition to or complementation to other concepts. But actual things tend to be far more messy. The concepts of…
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On race and being American
It always did seem so weird to me when you would read certain older books and realize Italians weren’t considered white. And I still genuinely don’t get how anyone, including white supremacists, can not consider Jewish people white. They’re, like, the heroes of white people. Educated, industrious, wealthy, funny, fashionable, well established and influential in…
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Why the best teachers don’t give answers
You cannot easily give definitive answers to the deepest problems of life. If you could, they would not be so contentious as they are and provoke so many responses. A good teacher can’t give you all the answers. What a truly good teacher does is to make the questions clearer. The moment of embracing an…
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On atonement
It’s hard to say what my own position on atonement theory is, and I prefer not to share many specific details of what I think. But I’m going to take a stab at articulating it. I suppose I would be classified as a Christian evangelical. But I’m probably overly influenced by people like C.S. Lewis…
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