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jasonisasmith

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Religion. Sports. Religion and Sports. Episcopalian. Zelda enthusiast. UGA nihilist turned believer. Trying to finish a book.

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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 10h

Courtesy of colleagues at Penn

A variation on Benjamin Franklin’s 1754 engraving in the Pennsylvania Gazette, published in Philadelphia, in an effort to foster cooperation among the various colonies against the tyrant king of Britain, with the American colonies replaced by the nine universities selected for special collaboration opportunities

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jasonisasmith @jasonisasmith.bsky.social · 15h

Could I interest you in one Mike Bobo, Penn State?

jasonisasmith @jasonisasmith.bsky.social · 18h

Thiel always sounds like a grad student who has just read Milbank for the first time

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 22h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

jasonisasmith @jasonisasmith.bsky.social · 2d

This Ecuador coach is hilarious. Every shot he is doing the exact same thing.

jasonisasmith @jasonisasmith.bsky.social · 2d

Facing a literal devil but hey man let’s save him for the next round…bro…

jasonisasmith @jasonisasmith.bsky.social · 2d

I picked a great time to start watching baseball

a man in a tie is holding a lighter in his hand

ALT: a man in a tie is holding a lighter in his hand

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jasonisasmith @jasonisasmith.bsky.social · 2d

Had that break and just lead in the boots man

jasonisasmith @jasonisasmith.bsky.social · 2d

God USMNT slow as molasses

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 2d

I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”

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jasonisasmith @jasonisasmith.bsky.social · 2d

Skubal is the name of a random skeletal enemy in Super Mario

jasonisasmith @jasonisasmith.bsky.social · 8d

If Bama can’t win a natty with this QB they should fire everyone and move on.

jasonisasmith @jasonisasmith.bsky.social · 8d

When does the Kpop demon hunter song drop

jasonisasmith @jasonisasmith.bsky.social · 8d

Nobody can come DeBoer’s WR crew when they’re in those stacks. Just cannot be done.

jasonisasmith @jasonisasmith.bsky.social · 8d

Hatin Ass Saturday

jasonisasmith @jasonisasmith.bsky.social · 8d

I think somehow we beat Texas but lose the other two and that takes us to 9-3

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 14d

as a christian, one thing i love about trump is that he explicitly rejects the teachings of jesus

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jasonisasmith @jasonisasmith.bsky.social · 14d

Kirby needs to have the copter in air heading to Fayetteville right now. Bring Sam home, yessir!

jasonisasmith @jasonisasmith.bsky.social · 14d

My main take at this point, apart from an obvious staff refresh, is Kirby needs a GM. He is not a CEO coach. His defenses should never be this bad. Used to be elite and effortless. Now our D just does fancy looking shit before giving up a 40 yard slant. Put Kirby back in the film room.

jasonisasmith @jasonisasmith.bsky.social · 15d

YES thank you

jasonisasmith @jasonisasmith.bsky.social · 15d

I have asked Chapel Bell Curve, if they don’t know then idk

jasonisasmith @jasonisasmith.bsky.social · 15d

What song is it?? I am in hot debate with the group chat

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jasonisasmith @jasonisasmith.bsky.social · 15d

@chapelbellcurve.bsky.social I think y’all will know this, what song is the PA in Sanford playing when the Coats aren’t doing regular stuff on defense? It feels like a movie theme but I cannot place it.

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jasonisasmith @jasonisasmith.bsky.social · 15d

I hate how much I love this play but goddamit it is so amazing to hell with Bama for putting me on the wrong side of this!! I wanted to be rooting for him!!

Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 15d

Holy shit. A 360lb receiver. 😬

jasonisasmith @jasonisasmith.bsky.social · 15d

I just tell her it would be way cooler on a bigger tv

jasonisasmith @jasonisasmith.bsky.social · 15d

Blood Week advisory has been upgraded to a watch for sure