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Poets have been mysteriously silent on the topic of cheese?

“Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.” ~ G.K. Chesterton

Countless Americans are enduring Trump’s vengeance. Far too few experience Christian kindness. It is a great tragedy of our time that so many Christians see Trump’s malice as an instrument of God’s divine plan. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/o...

Suppose you have a choice between an action (C) that greatly increases your level of courage and an action (L) that mildly increases your level of loyalty to friends. 1/2

“Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.” ~Thomas Aquinas

an interesting phenomenon I've noticed on this app is that when I critique a point on here, the users are in such an echo chamber, that they often misunderstand me as supporting their view because they're not use to critique, just seals clapping. So many liberals like my comments on here😂

Apparently the hot new conspiracy theory on bluesky is that Robinson was MAGA. How does one maintain such an irrational, and counter-to-the-evidence view, whilst still taking yourself seriously? One has to have more respect for themselves as a rational thinker

The virtuous person does not delight in a neighbor’s violent death. This, for Aristotle, is a failure of πραυτης (moderation of anger). To condemn weapons yet rejoice in their use is passion unruled by reason. Such vice corrodes the polis. To feel pleasure, not pain, in vice is to be vicious.

bluesky is shockingly more toxic than x