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Anarchy How @anarchy-how.mastodon.green.ap.brid.gy · 1h

The Ghorman massacre in #andor reminds one of the Tlateloco massacre in Mexico.

Tlatelolco massacre
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tlatelolco_massacre>

Ghorman Massacre
<https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Ghorman_Massacre>

Tlatelolco massacre - Wikipedia

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Anarchy How @anarchy-how.mastodon.green.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Social media networks are hyper-objects. Massively distributed relative to you and I.

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Ben Werdmuller @ben.werd.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

"When a health insurer refuses to pay for your treatment, you may have the right to have the denial reviewed — and potentially overturned — by an independent provider. Here are six steps experts suggest to help you through the external appeal process." […]

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Anarchy How @anarchy-how.mastodon.green.ap.brid.gy · 2d

How many people around the world work in bullshit or actively harmful lines of work that they would readily abandon if other (realistic) options presented themselves?

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Anarchy How @anarchy-how.mastodon.green.ap.brid.gy · 2d

And we are embedded within several, each of which is pulling us and others in multiple directions at once.

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Anarchy How @anarchy-how.mastodon.green.ap.brid.gy · 2d

Within hyperobjects, hypocrisy is inevitable.

This changes the question and the response.

Requires self-consciousness and social-consciousness as well.

#purity #politics #philosophy

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Anarchy How @anarchy-how.mastodon.green.ap.brid.gy · 3d

Argued the egalitarian constriction thesis to a bunch of Baptists today.

## Alt Text

A timeline chart showing New Testament books from 10 BCE to 120 CE. Books appear in colored boxes: blue for gospels, light blue for letters, pink for apocalypse, and yellow for notes. Red arrows point to social commentary about equality and household codes written in red text.

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This timeline maps the composition of New Testament texts from 10 BCE to 120 CE, organizing books by genre and authorship tradition. The diagram highlights Paul's authentic letters (shown in dotted outline), the development of different theological schools (Johannine and Petrine), and traces the evolution from early Christian egalitarian principles to later household codes that reinforced social hierarchies. Yellow annotations mark key theological and social turning points in early Christian literature.

Anarchy How @anarchy-how.mastodon.green.ap.brid.gy · 4d

@VCP Just heard about it this weekend. Been wondering if it was worth it.

Anarchy How @anarchy-how.mastodon.green.ap.brid.gy · 6d

This would mean that North Atlantic notions of Freedom are tainted at their core with the legacy of its slaving systems.

Rose shows this goes deeper than the North Atlantic Christianized slaving.

She shows how deeper layers were also conditioned, looking at Augustine.

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Anarchy How @anarchy-how.mastodon.green.ap.brid.gy · 6d

And so, we would then expect the North Atlantic notion of freedom to be a mirror-like inverse of our notions of slaving.

Well, fuck.

There is no pure notion of "freedom", although we like to claim otherwise.

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Anarchy How @anarchy-how.mastodon.green.ap.brid.gy · 6d

We here in America set up a helluva slaving system, full of all manner of adaptive unfreedoms.

See all of post-colonial literature.

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Anarchy How @anarchy-how.mastodon.green.ap.brid.gy · 6d

If notions of freedom arise out of conditions of non-freedom, we would expect any particular notion of freedom to be conditioned by those particular conditions of unfreedom.

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Anarchy How @anarchy-how.mastodon.green.ap.brid.gy · 6d

One of Patterson's key findings is that freedom is a reaction to unfreedom, not a base state of humanity.

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Anarchy How @anarchy-how.mastodon.green.ap.brid.gy · 6d

Working on my criticism and expansion of Markia Rose's critique of North Atlantic Christian notions of "freedom" in Theology for the End of the World.

Finally worked through Patterson's discussion of freedom as a double negation.

Anyway, lots a garble, garble up in the brain. Time to get it […]

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Anarchy How @anarchy-how.mastodon.green.ap.brid.gy · 9d

Still can't get over that we taught the universal machine to bullshit.

Anarchy How @anarchy-how.mastodon.green.ap.brid.gy · 9d

@tkinias longtermist?

Anarchy How @anarchy-how.mastodon.green.ap.brid.gy · 13d

The twin apotheoses of the Scofield Reference Bible (1909): Cross-Reference and Theological Commentary.

Blend anything into a sacred text and it becomes set apart as well.

#rapture #religiousstudies #theology

Alt Text: Open Bible pages showing the Gospel of John with black text on cream paper. Blue numbered circles highlight two innovations: cross-references on the left margin and layered commentary beneath the main biblical text.
Caption: This image demonstrates key innovations in the Scofield Reference Bible that transformed biblical study. The numbered annotations identify the editor's cross-reference system and the strategic placement of theological commentary beneath sacred text. These design elements allowed readers to easily navigate between related passages and access scholarly interpretation without losing their place in the primary scripture, making advanced biblical study more accessible to general audiences.

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Anarchy How @anarchy-how.mastodon.green.ap.brid.gy · 14d

@eeentropyyy Yes I do. It's mummified and kept in a glass jar on a shelf

Anarchy How @anarchy-how.mastodon.green.ap.brid.gy · 14d

Your child's future was the first to go with budget cuts

If you think that hurts, then wait, here comes the uppercut

The school was garbage in the first place, that's on the up and up

"Words I Never Said", Skylar Grey and Lupe Fiasco"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22l1sf5JZD0

Anarchy How @anarchy-how.mastodon.green.ap.brid.gy · 14d

Thing about #workslop is that a lot of those tasks were bullshit anyway.

There's a lot of hustle and bustle do that just isn't needed or helpful.

#antiwork

Anarchy How @anarchy-how.mastodon.green.ap.brid.gy · 15d

"AI is not a triumph of elegant design, but a brute-force workaround."

https://rakhim.exotext.com/ai-is-impressive-because-we-ve-failed-at-semantic-web-and-personal-computing

AI is impressive because we’ve failed at semantic web and personal computing | exotext

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Anarchy How @anarchy-how.mastodon.green.ap.brid.gy · 15d

HOWEVER, they might be onto something with the gay communist space Jesus.

#christianity #rapture #communism

Religious illustration showing biblical scenes with rainbow. Text banners read "The Commandments of God" and "The Faith of Jesus." Multiple figures and biblical imagery visible.

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Anarchy How @anarchy-how.mastodon.green.ap.brid.gy · 15d

I know what caused #tylenol

My eyes hurt and I grew up with this shit.

Chart section showing yellow and green boxes with time calculations. Text reads "2300 symbolic days" and shows various year calculations including "70 weeks" and "1810 years."

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Anarchy How @anarchy-how.mastodon.green.ap.brid.gy · 15d

Check out this wild-ass end-times chart over at "Boston Rare Maps".

The Story of the Ages from Creation to Redemption" with publisher information for J. Elvin Woodward, Chicago, 1912.

From the description:
- "The Diagram is a riot of text, color and imagery" […]

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Large religious chart with colorful timeline sections, biblical illustrations, and text. Yellow center band shows dates and time periods. Multiple small pictures show biblical scenes across the top and bottom rows.

Blue title section reading "The Story of the Ages from Creation to Redemption" with publisher information for J. Elvin Woodward, Chicago, 1912.

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