Scott Turner
@scottturner.bsky.social
Psychoanalyst, FIPA. Retired attorney. MA, Biblical Studies.
“Biblical interpretation is never an innocent or neutral activity. It is always implicated in structures of domination or in struggles against them.”
1/2
1/2
December 4, 2025 at 1:38 PM
“Biblical interpretation is never an innocent or neutral activity. It is always implicated in structures of domination or in struggles against them.”
1/2
1/2
Free article linked in comments below.
December 2, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Free article linked in comments below.
"The greater a man’s ignorance, the more implicit his obedience, the more absolute his confidence in his leader."
1/2
1/2
December 2, 2025 at 2:20 PM
"The greater a man’s ignorance, the more implicit his obedience, the more absolute his confidence in his leader."
1/2
1/2
"We are never free from two conflicting tendencies: one to emerge from the womb, from the animal form of existence into a more human existence, from bondage to freedom; another, to return to the womb, to nature, to certainty and security. In the history of the individual,
1/
1/
November 30, 2025 at 3:03 PM
"We are never free from two conflicting tendencies: one to emerge from the womb, from the animal form of existence into a more human existence, from bondage to freedom; another, to return to the womb, to nature, to certainty and security. In the history of the individual,
1/
1/
"The reason for emphasizing non-violent resistance is this: he who resists force with force in order to seize power may become contaminated by the evil which he is resisting and, when he gains power, may be just as ruthless and unjust a tyrant as the one he has dethroned.
1/
1/
November 30, 2025 at 2:28 PM
"The reason for emphasizing non-violent resistance is this: he who resists force with force in order to seize power may become contaminated by the evil which he is resisting and, when he gains power, may be just as ruthless and unjust a tyrant as the one he has dethroned.
1/
1/
"National liberation, national reawakening, restoration of the nation to the people or commonwealth, whatever the name used, whatever the latest expression, decolonization is always a violent event."
1/2
1/2
November 29, 2025 at 3:06 PM
"National liberation, national reawakening, restoration of the nation to the people or commonwealth, whatever the name used, whatever the latest expression, decolonization is always a violent event."
1/2
1/2
"In sowing your seed, in sowing your charity, your good deed in whatever form it takes, you give away part of your person and receive into yourself part of another’s; you mutually commune in each other..."
1/
1/
November 28, 2025 at 1:36 PM
"In sowing your seed, in sowing your charity, your good deed in whatever form it takes, you give away part of your person and receive into yourself part of another’s; you mutually commune in each other..."
1/
1/
"Whenever you hear the phrase zero tolerance, remember, someone is bullshitting you."
Carlin, G. (2004). When will Jesus bring the pork chops? (Kindle edition). Comedy Concepts.
Little David Records. (1975). George Carlin publicity photo.
Carlin, G. (2004). When will Jesus bring the pork chops? (Kindle edition). Comedy Concepts.
Little David Records. (1975). George Carlin publicity photo.
November 27, 2025 at 2:00 PM
"Whenever you hear the phrase zero tolerance, remember, someone is bullshitting you."
Carlin, G. (2004). When will Jesus bring the pork chops? (Kindle edition). Comedy Concepts.
Little David Records. (1975). George Carlin publicity photo.
Carlin, G. (2004). When will Jesus bring the pork chops? (Kindle edition). Comedy Concepts.
Little David Records. (1975). George Carlin publicity photo.
"The paradigm for the Christian is the conscience of Christ. And that conscience was for others. Everything He taught or did was for others - the way of God that He taught, the healings, His building of community, His resistance to the Jewish and Roman satraps - all for others."
1/
1/
November 23, 2025 at 1:28 PM
"The paradigm for the Christian is the conscience of Christ. And that conscience was for others. Everything He taught or did was for others - the way of God that He taught, the healings, His building of community, His resistance to the Jewish and Roman satraps - all for others."
1/
1/
Alyosha: “I think that if the devil doesn’t exist and is therefore man’s creation, man has made him in his own image."
Ivan: “Just as he has created God, in that case.”
1/
Ivan: “Just as he has created God, in that case.”
1/
November 23, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Alyosha: “I think that if the devil doesn’t exist and is therefore man’s creation, man has made him in his own image."
Ivan: “Just as he has created God, in that case.”
1/
Ivan: “Just as he has created God, in that case.”
1/
"Williams’ observations and his grounding in common law, which he well knew linked the law itself to property, pushed him toward an inevitable conclusion: the Indians used the land and therefore they owned the land."
1/
1/
November 22, 2025 at 1:33 PM
"Williams’ observations and his grounding in common law, which he well knew linked the law itself to property, pushed him toward an inevitable conclusion: the Indians used the land and therefore they owned the land."
1/
1/
"He would walk, begging for work, until he was exhausted...
There is one kind of prison where the man is behind bars, and everything that he desires is outside; and there is another kind where the things are behind the bars, and the man is outside."
1/
There is one kind of prison where the man is behind bars, and everything that he desires is outside; and there is another kind where the things are behind the bars, and the man is outside."
1/
November 21, 2025 at 1:54 PM
"He would walk, begging for work, until he was exhausted...
There is one kind of prison where the man is behind bars, and everything that he desires is outside; and there is another kind where the things are behind the bars, and the man is outside."
1/
There is one kind of prison where the man is behind bars, and everything that he desires is outside; and there is another kind where the things are behind the bars, and the man is outside."
1/
the soul of the world
November 19, 2025 at 2:17 PM
the soul of the world
De Chergé was the abbot of a Catholic monastery (Trappist) in Tibhirine, Algeria. He and six monks were kidnapped and murdered by Muslim radicals in May 1996. He left this love letter for his killers that was opened after his death:
1/
1/
November 16, 2025 at 2:26 PM
De Chergé was the abbot of a Catholic monastery (Trappist) in Tibhirine, Algeria. He and six monks were kidnapped and murdered by Muslim radicals in May 1996. He left this love letter for his killers that was opened after his death:
1/
1/
"I fail to see how a society can be thrown into revolution except through massive civil disobedience, which in the case of America means that domestic and foreign business is rendered unprofitable, and hence inoperable.
1/4
1/4
November 15, 2025 at 1:16 PM
"I fail to see how a society can be thrown into revolution except through massive civil disobedience, which in the case of America means that domestic and foreign business is rendered unprofitable, and hence inoperable.
1/4
1/4
“...character is not cut in marble - it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.”
Eliot, G. (1874). Middlemarch (Kindle edition). Amazon.
Turner S. (2022). Turning autumn [Photo]. Hayward, California.
Eliot, G. (1874). Middlemarch (Kindle edition). Amazon.
Turner S. (2022). Turning autumn [Photo]. Hayward, California.
November 13, 2025 at 1:57 PM
“...character is not cut in marble - it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.”
Eliot, G. (1874). Middlemarch (Kindle edition). Amazon.
Turner S. (2022). Turning autumn [Photo]. Hayward, California.
Eliot, G. (1874). Middlemarch (Kindle edition). Amazon.
Turner S. (2022). Turning autumn [Photo]. Hayward, California.
"The inequality of power and consumption that empires achieve abroad is ultimately enforced at home."
1/
1/
November 11, 2025 at 1:41 PM
"The inequality of power and consumption that empires achieve abroad is ultimately enforced at home."
1/
1/
