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Shalhebetyah πŸŒ±β€οΈβ€πŸ”₯
@shalhebetyah.bsky.social
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And I, shall I not have pity for Nineveh the great city, in which there are many more than one hundred twenty thousand human beings who do not know between their right hand and their left, and many beasts?
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Shalhebetyah πŸŒ±β€οΈβ€πŸ”₯ @shalhebetyah.bsky.social Β· Apr 23
I have a bunch of religious special interests, so if I followed you, that's probably why : )
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Shalhebetyah πŸŒ±β€οΈβ€πŸ”₯ @shalhebetyah.bsky.social Β· 5h
But I am also insane and definitely heretical in that I think one can be loving toward one's desires, or thoughts, or dreams, or forgetfulness, or lapses in control, and yes even one's sins, through various means depending on circumstance (e.g. abstinence, indulgence, confession, contemplation).
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Shalhebetyah πŸŒ±β€οΈβ€πŸ”₯ @shalhebetyah.bsky.social Β· 5h
I always feel awkward praying ancient bedtime liturgies which include prayers against naughty sexy dreams. Even granted that sin can be expressed mentally rather than verbally or actively, I think such fretting amounts to mistaking virtue for total despotic control over thoughts, words, and actions.
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Shalhebetyah πŸŒ±β€οΈβ€πŸ”₯ @shalhebetyah.bsky.social Β· 6h
But I didn't reply with this because I haven't spent enough time with her to assume that what I think she's saying *is* what she's saying. The only reason to retort would be if I could charitably bring about some new thing by doing so, and that requires a sufficient level of prior attention.
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Shalhebetyah πŸŒ±β€οΈβ€πŸ”₯ @shalhebetyah.bsky.social Β· 6h
I think if you love a creature (whether it exists, or doesn't, or both exists and doesn't, or neither, etc.) you have to constantly be willing to do a new thing for it. I think God has a treasury of wonders and compassions stored up for all creaturesβ€”surely not just a single overriding dictate.
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Shalhebetyah πŸŒ±β€οΈβ€πŸ”₯ @shalhebetyah.bsky.social Β· 6h
While I was sitting in church a young woman explained to me, "You know, God has a plan for everything and we just need to follow that plan or we degrade more and more," and I had to hold myself back from saying, "Well, that is not very nice of God is it..."
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Shalhebetyah πŸŒ±β€οΈβ€πŸ”₯ @shalhebetyah.bsky.social Β· 9h
World's smallest horse πŸ₯Ή
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Shalhebetyah πŸŒ±β€οΈβ€πŸ”₯ @shalhebetyah.bsky.social Β· 14h
Expressing love for my screwed-up desires (by refusing to either sate them or repress them, therefore causing them to just linger for however long they like, and spending that time with them.)
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Alec Shea @alecshea.bsky.social Β· 2d
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Shalhebetyah πŸŒ±β€οΈβ€πŸ”₯ @shalhebetyah.bsky.social Β· 2d
Stealing a graph from @christianityon.bsky.social:
A Cartesian plane where the X axis goes from "reasonable" rightward to "unhinged" and the Y axis goes from "sincerity" downward to "irony." In the sincerity + unhinged quadrant there is a red circle labeled "the autism zone."
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Shalhebetyah πŸŒ±β€οΈβ€πŸ”₯ @shalhebetyah.bsky.social Β· 2d
I love it when someone gets both the traditionalist Catholic autism and the Episcopalian autism and so they end up as a Latin Mass attender who is also a gay-affirming universalist.
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Shalhebetyah πŸŒ±β€οΈβ€πŸ”₯ @shalhebetyah.bsky.social Β· 3d
It does not help that I keep highly variable, irregular, and erratic hours.
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Shalhebetyah πŸŒ±β€οΈβ€πŸ”₯ @shalhebetyah.bsky.social Β· 3d
I am a big fan of the hours, I just... am bad at mustering the executive function by myself to do them in a way that makes consistent sense. I will do very strange combinations of different hours and different versions of the hours according to my abilities.
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Shalhebetyah πŸŒ±β€οΈβ€πŸ”₯ @shalhebetyah.bsky.social Β· 3d
This is what my circle is discussing. Sometimes to my considerable distress.

I am not consistent at all in the hours.
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Shalhebetyah πŸŒ±β€οΈβ€πŸ”₯ @shalhebetyah.bsky.social Β· 3d
Christian who insists that not only is Siddhartha Gautama a valid saint (because of the canonization of Josephat) but so is AvalokiteΕ›vara (because of the canonization of the Virgin Mary).
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Shalhebetyah πŸŒ±β€οΈβ€πŸ”₯ @shalhebetyah.bsky.social Β· 3d
"Your face, so sweet, not bones, not meat, just gradings on the shore." "The light, the light, the light, the light that finds me." "The changing of the light is torture." "And I made the air move in arrows but I don't know how to love you." "Love is not love." Swirling in my head for years...
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Shalhebetyah πŸŒ±β€οΈβ€πŸ”₯ @shalhebetyah.bsky.social Β· 3d
The degree to which my religious life has been shaped by sketchily comprehended lines from Cate le Bon songs my mom shows me is quite bizarre.
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Shalhebetyah πŸŒ±β€οΈβ€πŸ”₯ @shalhebetyah.bsky.social Β· 3d
Happy birthday! Congratulations!!
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Shalhebetyah πŸŒ±β€οΈβ€πŸ”₯ @shalhebetyah.bsky.social Β· 4d
The only thing cooler to me than an account with a one-digit follower count is an account with literally zero followers that for whatever reason posts anyway.
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Shalhebetyah πŸŒ±β€οΈβ€πŸ”₯ @shalhebetyah.bsky.social Β· 4d
I love praying the canonical hours.ΒΉ

ΒΉ All this user prayed today was vespers, twice, from two radically different traditions.
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Shalhebetyah πŸŒ±β€οΈβ€πŸ”₯ @shalhebetyah.bsky.social Β· 4d
The reason was that the Spinozist analysis of how cognition works is not compatible with physicalism and neuroscience.
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Shalhebetyah πŸŒ±β€οΈβ€πŸ”₯ @shalhebetyah.bsky.social Β· 4d
Spinoza also gives you a weird diagrammatic organism in Part II of the Ethics when he's explaining memory. I have seen him called pseudoscience as well of course.
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Shalhebetyah πŸŒ±β€οΈβ€πŸ”₯ @shalhebetyah.bsky.social Β· 4d
I like it when, in Beyond the Pleasure Principle, he whips out his weird diagrammatic organism (undifferentiated vesicle). I'm always asking writers to show me their weird diagrammatic organisms.
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Shalhebetyah πŸŒ±β€οΈβ€πŸ”₯ @shalhebetyah.bsky.social Β· 4d
Giving me bronze statues of bodhisattvas that I can play with like dolls in order to accrue divine favour for yourself... is pseudoscience...
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Shalhebetyah πŸŒ±β€οΈβ€πŸ”₯ @shalhebetyah.bsky.social Β· 4d
I finally got my tofu sandwich. I fried the tofu in sesame oil, and unfortunately immediately after finishing eating, I was still hungry and now desired to eat more sesame oil. Ideally in the form of a substance in which a tofu sandwich is fried. It never ends.
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I made myself a tofu sandwich today, which led a loved one of mine to want a tofu sandwich, so I made her one hours later, and her tofu sandwich made ME want a tofu sandwich. Which I fear I might act on at any point.
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Shalhebetyah πŸŒ±β€οΈβ€πŸ”₯ @shalhebetyah.bsky.social Β· 4d
I feel like that should be in the contains section 🫀
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