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Three types of hedonism: the hedonism of Person, Place and Things
American hedonism = hedonism of the Person. The pleasures of taking my body to the gym & my soul to the therapist
European hedonism = hedonism of Place. The pleasures of a perfect summer vacation, drenched in local food, wine, and sunshine
Australian hedonism = a hedonism of Things. New car, bigger TV, perusing shopping centre catalogues
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One of the disturbing things in the Pennsylvania report is the way it depicts a culture of deception. In Dante’s Inferno, liars are in one of the deepest regions of hell.
One of the reasons (not the only one of course) why sexual abuse is incompatible with the gospel is that it has a special power to generate deception
This is why I’m unconvinced by the Vatican’s repeated claim that there is no link between priestly celibacy and sexual abuse. The link is that priestly celibacy has fostered a widespread culture of secrecy and deception
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But Truth is such a flyaway, such a slyboots, so untransportable and unbarrelable a commodity, that it is as bad to catch as light. Shut the shutters never so quick to keep all the light in, it is all in vain. And so it happens with our philosophy. -Emerson
There are so many great words in that passage. I was already overjoyed by “slyboots”, and then I got to “unbarrelable”
“Unbarrelable” is such a clever image: trying to contain truth in a philosophical system is like trying to capture light by bottling it up (for sale) in barrels
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As a child I had a terrible fear that I might grow up to become the Antichrist. And a second thing worried me: if I’m predestined to be the Antichrist, what line of work should I go into? Should I be a German Chancellor, or a Catholic priest, or the drummer in a rock band?
Career paths for a Christian kid growing up in the 80s: faith healer, prophet to the nations, tent revivalist, missionary-martyr, the One Who Sets Up the Abomination of Desolation
The worst thing though was the big conspiracy between the Catholic Church, the European Union, barcodes, and yoga. So much evil, so little time left to combat it
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Since I was a kid I wanted to watch "Close Encounters Of The Third Kind" by Steven Spielberg. Start the movie and first thing that comes up?

imdb.com/title/tt007586…

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#three #thirtythree #elevens #cabala #freemasonry #magic
Note the black on white/white on black for the numbers - inversion and opposites. 3 propellers.
When the little boy's record player starts playing. Lyrics begin "... of the shape of a square if you really want..." SQUARING THE CIRCLE
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1/ Been thinking about what could be referred to as "3rd Wave VC"...
2/ With the continued evolution of the early stage market, what is the most effective way to categorize all of the different types of investors and what does that mean for founders raising from them, LPs backing them, and other investors competing (or collaborating) with them?
3/ Lots of great writing and insight has been shared throughout the year on the state of the market by people like @hunterwalk, who I believe coined the idea of "Seed Phase"

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So, I've waded through the Evangelical Alliance's new pastoral "guidelines" for interacting with trans people (ughh, the things I do to expose #transphobic #ciswits to the world), and let's just say it's time to tear this particular sh*t-bag a new hole.

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So, straight off the bat, first page of text, the use of #language is . . . well, yeah, see for yourself:

"It is important to remember that transgender is not simply an issue to be debated;" - p5, #Transformed

*sigh*

When such language gets reinforced by insisting...

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#American friends, if I lived in your great country, near an outstanding public official like @SecretaryCarson, I'd respond to this #LeftistHarassment by standing silently outside with 🇺🇸 & a #MAGA sign.

"Protesting" can't undo the election. It helps with #WalkAway though.😄
Exhibits A, B, C, and D.

Stay classy, Leftists. #WalkAway
The fed officials the Left is targeting are protected by one or more of the:
>US Secret Service
>Federal Protective Service (DHS)
>The US Marshals (part of the DOJ)
>US Capitol Police
>Other agencies at fed, state & local level
>Private security.

This won't happen>
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This was not addressed directly to you, but as you have included yourself in the assessment I made I will also introduce myself.
My Mother attempted suicide in the 1st 6 months of my life and she spent my formative years in Holloway Women's Prison. I was fostered by a variety of kind & psychotic minders until my father also abandoned me and emigrated to Australia. I did not see him again until my daughter
was born. For 2 hours. My step-father was a brutal & cowardly RN Sailor who spent his leave beating my mother and calling me a bastard. From the age of 5/6 I was the sole responsible person in my house, taking care of my (still) suicidal & diabetic Mother, making regular life or
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