David Waltner‐Toews
David Waltner-Toews is a Canadian epidemiologist, essayist, poet, fiction writer, veterinarian, and a specialist in the epidemiology of food and… more
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soul mates, comrades in arms, schemers and humanizers and tricksters in every good way.
If God is in all and is all, as one version of evolutionary genetics implies, then you are, in part, God. So if you change your behaviour, you alter the complex dynamics of Being, and you change God.
I may have found my defining quote.
Pair this with my pinned post and you will see what I mean!
Pair this with my pinned post and you will see what I mean!
@floralashes.bsky.social a friend asked me today if there are any non-male references to God in the Torah or related literature. I figured you might know.
In '71 a girl at a party, hearing Kathy Waltner & me were getting married, sneered no guy would ever change his name. I said, what’s the big deall? Kathy, from a family of 4 girls, actually wanted to keep some part of her family-of-origin name - Waltner. So we became Waltner-Toews. 54 yrs later...
Just seems weird to me that Jimmy Kimmel might be seen as the new Lenny Bruce. Just blows my already weird brain.
Does it seem really weird to anyone that Jimmy Kimmel might be the new Lenny Bruce?
Can’t be some approximation of all three? Even standing next to a thunderous waterfall might evoke a « light « version of such a feeling.
I read “frass” which is bugshit. I think fass is frass misspelled.
What’s the old saying about pants on fire? Seems to be a common problem with ICE agents.
This should not be said of anyone. Not even Charlie Kirk.
Sometimes it's nice to remember that even Marcus Aurelius was like "you don't have to comment on everything bro"
Very important work. May also be relevant to how we “forage” now in sub urban societies.
And now I wonder, why bother writing? So it was prescient. So…what? What is the point of it all?
I think the story was Nightfall. I read it in the 1960s. I thought it was a creepy fantasy.