Legendarily bad take by Howard there.

I think it’s more about the social aspect of “social” media. Some people prefer one on one conversations others like huge crowds.

There are no significant differences between cultures, only different emphasis.

As someone who got into Buddhism because they hated how white washed it was and wanted to find the dirty laundry…

i think it’s implying that he wants to not only be the very best but excel far beyond that such no one could have ever compared (including the past bests).

When the amount of people who merit the position is higher than the amount of open positions, meritocracy doesn’t really factor in.

It’s funny because communitarianism is diametrically opposed to individualism.

Given how the Chinese people I met talk about Taiwan… 委内瑞拉自古属于美国。

So much of current popular online history discourse is really just an aesthetic exercise urging us to reconsider modernity, by people who think homeschooling their kids in Latin would magically unlock the ability to interpret both cuneiform and the Almagest

“Bishop Barron” my sibling in Christ you can stop right there, I can guess the rest about three syllables in.

What are you talking about?

They failed to understand the Japanese concept of "Measuring Piss" as translated by Lafcadio Hearn.

It’s weird, I’ve considered converting for the former and not the latter reason.

If you can’t present your reasoning on social media why make this post in the first place then obfuscate when people ask for your reasoning. It seems counter productive to posting on social media.

Mormon dogma against the trinity is still dogma. You keep this dogma.

It’s really hard to take a look at the text on a subject I know very little about when the person who is making a claim is being an asshole about it.

Like, I’m trying to parse why you think it’s bothersome to follow that line of reasoning outside of a dogmatic “no it can’t be the Roman Empire because it makes me feel icky.”

It’s called an “inference to the best explanation” unless we have some unknown noteworthy empire in the west, 大秦 refers to a known empire — Roman Empire. It seems your complaint doesn’t make much sense and I’m giving you the benefit of the doubt here, but it doesn’t seem to work out in your favor.