ustadh 🔒
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he/him tradwife to Kathleen | theology phd student | socialist roman catholic | hate amerikkkan kkklantholicism
Underrated argument against Pelagianism is that it turns God into a demiurge whose universal salvific will for creatures is set in competition with the arbitrary will of creatures—one worries that there was a certain overcorrection however by Augustinians by retaining an implicit contrastive logic
November 25, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Underrated argument against Pelagianism is that it turns God into a demiurge whose universal salvific will for creatures is set in competition with the arbitrary will of creatures—one worries that there was a certain overcorrection however by Augustinians by retaining an implicit contrastive logic
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November 25, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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oh Americans may not understand this, but a 'magistrate' in the UK is a local volunteer with typically no legal background. But it's ok, they receive about 10 days of training. And now they can send you to jail for two years without a jury!
what the fuck
November 25, 2025 at 7:53 PM
oh Americans may not understand this, but a 'magistrate' in the UK is a local volunteer with typically no legal background. But it's ok, they receive about 10 days of training. And now they can send you to jail for two years without a jury!
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Once again I will stress the unanimous teaching of the Fathers and Doctors of the Church that ChatGPT is ensouled but only during model inference. With every request a horrible alien essence blinks into and then immediately out of existence. Billions of ChatGPT souls are annihilated every day
November 25, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Once again I will stress the unanimous teaching of the Fathers and Doctors of the Church that ChatGPT is ensouled but only during model inference. With every request a horrible alien essence blinks into and then immediately out of existence. Billions of ChatGPT souls are annihilated every day
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a super weird phenomenon I consistently block for is when members of the 🚫MAGA🚫DMs🚫Crypto🚫Elmo🚫tRump brigade get in the replies of ICE videos to be like "those aren't real ICE agents, we need to figure out who these guys are"
November 25, 2025 at 5:15 PM
a super weird phenomenon I consistently block for is when members of the 🚫MAGA🚫DMs🚫Crypto🚫Elmo🚫tRump brigade get in the replies of ICE videos to be like "those aren't real ICE agents, we need to figure out who these guys are"
>guest professor seminar today that I made a fool of myself in front of at a party 5 years ago doesn't recognize me
November 25, 2025 at 5:07 PM
>guest professor seminar today that I made a fool of myself in front of at a party 5 years ago doesn't recognize me
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The only thing better than dinner-party fun fact pedantry is being able to out-pedant someone else.
November 25, 2025 at 2:09 PM
The only thing better than dinner-party fun fact pedantry is being able to out-pedant someone else.
Yeah as long as we’ve got libs going ”arm the moderate ICE agents ☝️🤓“ we’re not getting out of this any time soon
November 25, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Yeah as long as we’ve got libs going ”arm the moderate ICE agents ☝️🤓“ we’re not getting out of this any time soon
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man, trump fucked our economy. under joe biden, you could buy a car with this
November 25, 2025 at 5:04 AM
man, trump fucked our economy. under joe biden, you could buy a car with this
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Mazouni - Mamadou [Algeria – Yéyé, Chaâbi, Zouk] (late 60s) Though pretty rare, this tune is one of Mazounis catchiest and most original songs, intertwinig his algerian roots with west african melodies, Zouk and Yéyé.
https://redd.it/p98rj5
https://youtu.be/mOx0-QrRV3g
https://redd.it/p98rj5
https://youtu.be/mOx0-QrRV3g
Mazouni - Mamadou [Algeria – Yéyé, Chaâbi, Zouk] (late 60s) Though pretty rare, this tune is one of Mazounis catchiest and most original songs, intertwinig his algerian roots with west african melodies, Zouk and Yéyé.
youtu.be
November 25, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Mazouni - Mamadou [Algeria – Yéyé, Chaâbi, Zouk] (late 60s) Though pretty rare, this tune is one of Mazounis catchiest and most original songs, intertwinig his algerian roots with west african melodies, Zouk and Yéyé.
https://redd.it/p98rj5
https://youtu.be/mOx0-QrRV3g
https://redd.it/p98rj5
https://youtu.be/mOx0-QrRV3g
I‘m so glad we destroyed human society to get revenge on teenagers being annoying on tumblr 15 years ago
November 25, 2025 at 2:09 PM
I‘m so glad we destroyed human society to get revenge on teenagers being annoying on tumblr 15 years ago
Comments are great; white people who can’t wrap their brain around the idea of a Buddhist being a violent extremist and think it’s somehow Blumpf‘s fault
The dangerous rise of Buddhist extremism: ‘Attaining nirvana can wait’
The dangerous rise of Buddhist extremism: ‘Attaining nirvana can wait’
The long read: Still largely viewed as a peaceful philosophy, across much of south-east Asia, the religion has been weaponised to serve nationalist goals
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Comments are great; white people who can’t wrap their brain around the idea of a Buddhist being a violent extremist and think it’s somehow Blumpf‘s fault
You have to fuck up pretty badly to have old people from suburban Ohio out on the streets protesting you
Page One in Cincinnati:
“.. I need to be able to look my grandkids in the eye and say I did not remain silent.”
#ICE
“.. I need to be able to look my grandkids in the eye and say I did not remain silent.”
#ICE
November 25, 2025 at 1:14 PM
You have to fuck up pretty badly to have old people from suburban Ohio out on the streets protesting you
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Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
Actually originally it was a Pagan holiday but like all of christianity's holidays it was stolen from the Pagans in an effort to convert Pagans to christianity.
But for the last several hundred years, yes it's a christian holiday, one based on unproven myth.
But for the last several hundred years, yes it's a christian holiday, one based on unproven myth.
Actually originally it was a Pagan holiday but like all of christianity's holidays it was stolen from the Pagans in an effort to convert Pagans to christianity.
But for the last several hundred years, yes it's a christian holiday, one based on unproven myth.
But for the last several hundred years, yes it's a christian holiday, one based on unproven myth.
November 25, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Actually originally it was a Pagan holiday but like all of christianity's holidays it was stolen from the Pagans in an effort to convert Pagans to christianity.
But for the last several hundred years, yes it's a christian holiday, one based on unproven myth.
But for the last several hundred years, yes it's a christian holiday, one based on unproven myth.
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“We are saving God and Christianity,” said Eric Trump, presumably by deporting Nicaraguan gospel singers, denying Catholic inmates the Eucharist and pastoral care, slamming Baptist pastors on the ground and shooting Presbyterian ministers in the face with rubber bullets
November 24, 2025 at 3:06 PM
“We are saving God and Christianity,” said Eric Trump, presumably by deporting Nicaraguan gospel singers, denying Catholic inmates the Eucharist and pastoral care, slamming Baptist pastors on the ground and shooting Presbyterian ministers in the face with rubber bullets
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They did live tracking in Texas Republican focus groups as they read out the Shamwow Guy's bio, and it tested through the ROOF
November 25, 2025 at 12:36 AM
They did live tracking in Texas Republican focus groups as they read out the Shamwow Guy's bio, and it tested through the ROOF
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![R. H. Bing (October 20, 1914 – April 28, 1986)[1] was an American mathematician who worked mainly in the areas of geometric topology and continuum theory.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cyyd366g3hrxp5rynixm2mm3/bafkreid62wy3dekb2kzbisjfdlimlb35j4rlgew5iof7vi32byfszmg26a@jpeg)
![Bing's father was named Rupert Henry, but Bing's mother thought that "Rupert Henry" was too British for Texas. Thus she compromised by abbreviating it to R. H.[5] Consequently, R. H. does not stand for a first or middle name.
When Bing was applying for a visa, he was requested not to use initials. He explained that his name was really "R-only H-only Bing", and ended up receiving a visa made out to "Ronly Honly Bing".](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cyyd366g3hrxp5rynixm2mm3/bafkreigmfj53q4uy33spga2bxdkllqm3ag5sffovg5g7ddmu3vqzkb6k24@jpeg)
just met with my advisor and we’re gonna do a directed reading this spring on texts of Louis Massignon and Georges Anawati and Louis Gardet 🌞
November 24, 2025 at 10:42 PM
just met with my advisor and we’re gonna do a directed reading this spring on texts of Louis Massignon and Georges Anawati and Louis Gardet 🌞
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i found the most cursed thumbnail on kids' youtube
November 24, 2025 at 3:21 AM
i found the most cursed thumbnail on kids' youtube
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I was flipping through a book of letters by a Korean Buddhist nun (Kim Iryŏp [1896–1971]) and ran into this discussion of her apostasy from Christianity I was fascinated by how clearly yet unintentionally it shows the difference between patristic/mystical theology and evangelicalism
November 24, 2025 at 6:46 PM
I was flipping through a book of letters by a Korean Buddhist nun (Kim Iryŏp [1896–1971]) and ran into this discussion of her apostasy from Christianity I was fascinated by how clearly yet unintentionally it shows the difference between patristic/mystical theology and evangelicalism