praxis

:lol: I spent a couple of hours cleaning up the garage today and unfortunately it still resembles a contemporary piece of art.

It’s essentially about obedience. Abraham demonstrates unwavering obedience, carrying out God's command without expressing fear or doubt. His commitme...

Not at all. An AI recalls Yuval Noah Harari's argument for me that Homo sapiens' survival and dominance were largely due to their ability to create an...

I'm suggesting that stories give things meaning. For example, if you ask a theologian why God created the Moon, they might say its purpose is to contr...

I didn’t suggest that you were dictating a theology. I simply expressed my view. To be clear, “a cosmic coincidence awaiting a return to dust” also so...

They certainly require faith. They may or may not enhance it, if that’s what you mean. Ideally, for the sake of the religion, they would enhance faith...

Honestly, a planed existence awaiting an eternal reward sounds rather meaningless to me. The story of the existence would be meaningful I’m sure.

Just a little doodle of a feeling I had the other day. The yellow lines are the double yellow lines of a road.

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It's supposed to be the hero's journey, yet our "hero" gets into bar fights, wants to bone his own sister, and in the end commits an act of galactic t...

Replicants are bioengineered and not so androidy like in Star Wars. You must be confusing Harrison Ford with Harrison Ford. Speaking of Star Wars, I j...

Because then we couldn’t watch Harrison Ford get beaten up in a leaky old building.

Wasn’t my favorite either. Too heavy on the magical realism for my taste and seemed like he stretched a short story out much too thin.

Love it. :lol: https://i.postimg.cc/G2d86SH3/IMG-0700.jpg

I once wrote a post similar to that and was about to leave but, coincidently, Mark Twain wrote me a registered letter, saying: Now listen here, Praxis...

Ain’t nothin’ but a pile o’ words, not no holy book or such. I reckon ol’ Twain wouldn’t bat an eye ‘bout swappin’ one word for ‘nother.

Well, reckon folks steer clear o’ usin’ that word in “Huck Finn” nowadays ‘cause it’s mighty hurtful. Back in Twain’s time, it was common talk, but no...

One thing’s fer certain, ain’t no adaptation gonna have that n-word in it, no matter how grown-up it tries to be.

I’m a-readin’ The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by that Mark Twain feller right now, an’ while it’s a mighty fine story, it’s got me jawin’ like a co...

Byeeee.

Science is concerned with right and wrong. Religion is concerned with group unification. If a fictional narrative unites a group then disproving that ...

Was Stevie being molested?

That’s the best Duchamp imitation I could get an AI to do. Not great.

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I enjoyed it, though it was a little hard to follow. I think the descriptions could have been more potent if they were less thick.

Man faces the music, in the twilight zone.

Recently read Verne‘s The Mysterious Island and couldn’t help but continually think of that story while reading this one.

Whacky fun.

I ordered a pizza today because this made me think of yummy triangles. I’m too suggestible.

Enjoyed it, despite not being able to piece it together.

Love triangles tend to end badly.

Religious people are lead to believe all sorts of things. That doesn’t make what they believe true.

Ditto, though I’m satisfied with the impression of it, like a poem I guess.

What do you mean “by definition”? That isn’t the definition of nihilism.

The point I aim to make is that not believing in life after death, or being a materialist, or non-religious, is not nihilism. To believe that it is ni...

What could be more nihilistic than to believe that life is suffering and the only way to escape the endless cycle of life and death is the complete ex...

I’ve only read a few so far but this crop of stories is impressive.

Brilliant, for all the reasons mentioned. If the author is who I think it is they’ve outdone themselves. The imagery was delightful and I liked the wa...

“The edges of each wall are expertly pinched into little crimps that cause the walls to gently puff out, giving the illusion of having been built from...

I don't know if you saw my subsequent post and agreement with Amity's take on the probable cause of Stevie's melancholia. In the end, Stevie tells Old...

I think you’re right. I must have read it too quickly or something and got the girls confused. I thought it was Stevie on her father’s lap, and her re...

Liked the story. :cheer: I also found the descriptions charming. I don’t understand the reason for Stevie’s sadness. Just loneliness? It isn’t clear t...

Well written and interesting, and I want to say it feels complete even though it’s very short. It seems like there’s more to it that I can’t quite gra...

I think I would have expected your favorite to be less dark. I'm listening to the audiobook and the richness of it is made a little richer with Kennet...

The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution by Francis Fukuyama Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad The City and Its U...

I can't speak for other nations but the majority in the U.S. favor access to abortion. Just this month seven states passed legislation supporting wome...

Where in the world is there a place where people won’t kill other people? In the United States the federal death penalty applies in all 50 states and ...

It seems rather contemptuous of religion to reduce it to mere political and social philosophy.

Looking at that giant ideology gap between young men and women in South Korea made me think of the 4B movement that started there around 2017-2018. I ...