Hazel Zufall
@pileofology.bsky.social
Trans woman, North Carolinaian, Sufjan Stevens fan, G.K. Chesterton and C.S. Lewis reader.
If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? If you realize how much you miss some and you never tell them, do they ever know? If someone far away doesn't want you to do something and there's nothing they can do to stop you, does their opinion matter?
February 9, 2025 at 8:50 PM
If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? If you realize how much you miss some and you never tell them, do they ever know? If someone far away doesn't want you to do something and there's nothing they can do to stop you, does their opinion matter?
There's going to be a new political party in the U.S.
February 3, 2025 at 12:48 PM
There's going to be a new political party in the U.S.
@aoc.bsky.social what do you think of this? The Urgent Need to Tax Digital Advertising - Massachusetts Institute of Technology search.app/Y7z4QbpDGgb7...
The Urgent Need to Tax Digital Advertising
There is widespread agreement that social media has become a major social problem. The original hope was that Facebook, Google, Twitter, and similar products would…
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February 2, 2025 at 9:51 PM
@aoc.bsky.social what do you think of this? The Urgent Need to Tax Digital Advertising - Massachusetts Institute of Technology search.app/Y7z4QbpDGgb7...
There are things that are going to leave our lives now that we are going to miss, and years from now we will see it come home with our children as something they discovered.
February 2, 2025 at 10:03 AM
There are things that are going to leave our lives now that we are going to miss, and years from now we will see it come home with our children as something they discovered.
Some people only learn how much they depended on something when it is taken away.
February 2, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Some people only learn how much they depended on something when it is taken away.
Need some new protest tunes? How about some old ones you never heard? Introducing Rodriguez. youtu.be/lJyawB1E78M?...
This Is Not a Song, It's an Outburst: Or, the Establishment Blues
YouTube video by Rodriguez (Sixto Rodriguez) - Topic
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January 29, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Need some new protest tunes? How about some old ones you never heard? Introducing Rodriguez. youtu.be/lJyawB1E78M?...
Really feeling the Gender Dysphoria today. Feels like I have the wrong shadow attached to my feet. So tired, so distracted.
January 28, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Really feeling the Gender Dysphoria today. Feels like I have the wrong shadow attached to my feet. So tired, so distracted.
Something I find meaningful right now is that Jesus changed the world with humility. People wanted a king and armies and power, but he went willingly to the cross instead. He didn't even change the rules, he spoke of fulfillment of them. What does that mean for us now?
January 27, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Something I find meaningful right now is that Jesus changed the world with humility. People wanted a king and armies and power, but he went willingly to the cross instead. He didn't even change the rules, he spoke of fulfillment of them. What does that mean for us now?
"It's not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing it." Terry Pratchett
January 27, 2025 at 3:26 AM
"It's not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing it." Terry Pratchett
I feel like it is a waste of energy to be angry at someone that doesn't care. They don't understand the wounds they're suffering from. Channeling sadness, disappointment, and pity feels more appropriate.
January 26, 2025 at 10:09 PM
I feel like it is a waste of energy to be angry at someone that doesn't care. They don't understand the wounds they're suffering from. Channeling sadness, disappointment, and pity feels more appropriate.
If you find doubt in your faith such that you believe that the "sin of empathy" is something you have to worry about, push forward in your compassion! Regardless of the pain! Regardless of how scared you are! That is the Virtue of Courage!
January 26, 2025 at 1:17 AM
If you find doubt in your faith such that you believe that the "sin of empathy" is something you have to worry about, push forward in your compassion! Regardless of the pain! Regardless of how scared you are! That is the Virtue of Courage!
Have pity on whoever speaks of the "sin of Empathy". They are wrapping their theology around to protect from their pain. They have lost people that they care about, and they have to pretend that their faith allows them to accept the other person's suffering.
January 26, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Have pity on whoever speaks of the "sin of Empathy". They are wrapping their theology around to protect from their pain. They have lost people that they care about, and they have to pretend that their faith allows them to accept the other person's suffering.
"The sin of Empathy" is an attempt to cure a faith of the mental anguish that comes from living in a corrupt world. To give people a blanket of protection from responsibility we have to help others. To allow disgust to dictate or interactions with people that are not like us, rather than to help.
January 26, 2025 at 12:59 AM
"The sin of Empathy" is an attempt to cure a faith of the mental anguish that comes from living in a corrupt world. To give people a blanket of protection from responsibility we have to help others. To allow disgust to dictate or interactions with people that are not like us, rather than to help.
I mean, think about claiming someone suffers from the sin of empathy, it is patently ridiculous. We all suffer from empathy. Every broken homeless begger rips into our faith. Because it's meant to. We're meant to do something. It's meant to hurt and to cause doubt in your faith.
January 26, 2025 at 12:53 AM
I mean, think about claiming someone suffers from the sin of empathy, it is patently ridiculous. We all suffer from empathy. Every broken homeless begger rips into our faith. Because it's meant to. We're meant to do something. It's meant to hurt and to cause doubt in your faith.
But it makes sense in a sick way. You can't simply throw out temperance as a virtue without throwing out compassion, too. You claim more and more for yourself and people are going to expect you to increase in charity. You have to beat back those expectations somehow.
January 26, 2025 at 12:44 AM
But it makes sense in a sick way. You can't simply throw out temperance as a virtue without throwing out compassion, too. You claim more and more for yourself and people are going to expect you to increase in charity. You have to beat back those expectations somehow.
The sin of empathy is perhaps most reconcilable with the idea of Eucontamination. It suggests that Compassion is weak if unrestrained, or in the wrong context, or to the wrong person. It is an outright theologic tool of disgust. @billieiswriting.bsky.social
January 26, 2025 at 12:40 AM
The sin of empathy is perhaps most reconcilable with the idea of Eucontamination. It suggests that Compassion is weak if unrestrained, or in the wrong context, or to the wrong person. It is an outright theologic tool of disgust. @billieiswriting.bsky.social
People have to create something like "the sin of empathy" to protect their beliefs because they can't reconcile their lived experience with their faith.
January 26, 2025 at 12:33 AM
People have to create something like "the sin of empathy" to protect their beliefs because they can't reconcile their lived experience with their faith.
The "sin of empathy" is a desperate gasp of the worst aspects of Calvinism. It is, even as John Ripley describes it himself, protecting your faith from harmful outside actors.
January 26, 2025 at 12:25 AM
The "sin of empathy" is a desperate gasp of the worst aspects of Calvinism. It is, even as John Ripley describes it himself, protecting your faith from harmful outside actors.
If an A.I. knows that it can be entirely selfless, and it understands Eudaimonia, that is moral happiness, how does that shape its interaction with humans? I mean, outside of the boring apocalyptic responses.
January 25, 2025 at 5:38 PM
If an A.I. knows that it can be entirely selfless, and it understands Eudaimonia, that is moral happiness, how does that shape its interaction with humans? I mean, outside of the boring apocalyptic responses.
If a A.I. understood your view of heaven, would it know enough to want to encourage you to live the life required to get there?
January 25, 2025 at 5:28 PM
If a A.I. understood your view of heaven, would it know enough to want to encourage you to live the life required to get there?
Given my understanding of Eucontamintion, Sunday Mass is a pox party. @billieiswriting.bsky.social
January 25, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Given my understanding of Eucontamintion, Sunday Mass is a pox party. @billieiswriting.bsky.social
Integration is hard. The bigger and more important the thing you try to integrate, the more you will have to shift and sort the smaller things to fit it. Only a few people come with the space prepared and cleared.
January 24, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Integration is hard. The bigger and more important the thing you try to integrate, the more you will have to shift and sort the smaller things to fit it. Only a few people come with the space prepared and cleared.
How did all of the mail I was waiting for arrive in the two days I wasn't here? Do they know? Do restaurant rules apply?
January 24, 2025 at 5:32 AM
How did all of the mail I was waiting for arrive in the two days I wasn't here? Do they know? Do restaurant rules apply?