this actually exists in nyc but the opposite. theres a nice old church facade but if you walk behind it theres just university buildings. dont read into it.
cant pull up pics rn because im unpacking stuff but, not sure when else this would be relevant, theres also a church - i think its on 5th avenue around 20th street, that was converted into a fashion store. so you walk in and youre in the shell of a church but its a fashion store.
its kind of like a low church looking building (not an architecture guy) maybe it was anglican or something, its really nice though. so this shell of brick and church windows is filled out with modern sleek shelves and racks of expensive clothes, its pretty weird. [...]
my friend used to call it “the desecrated church” because he heard from someone else that no one ever “de-sacred”-ized the space officially, so technically it was still a “real” church that was just not being used for its intended purpose.
when i was in that area i would go sit in there a lot and write or draw on the second floor. i was usually wearing a tie and nice clothes so i guess no one took note of it. sometimes i would smoke outside and then just hangout in there. was just a weird place i felt called to.
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every website and all of its functions have gotten more difficult to use over the last 1-5 years and its getting impossible to pretend that this isnt the case
few years ago i downloaded an archive of my tweets. boom. some type of excel file. opened it perfectly. thanks. now i just requested the same archive. its a huge file with everything that ever happened to me here, and it opens as an html that links to an archive that doesnt work
so i have to google, cant open twitter archive. but they changed the function so much over the last few years i cant tell if theres a difference between an archive of my twitter data and an archive of my tweets. so i have to go read random reddit posts to figure it out
moving today (and in general, been busy, thank u for sticking with owen broadcasting corporation during this time). as i pack and unpack books might swiftly post some that i see, without explanation, that people may want to check out depending on ur interests or general situation
i think that just for one second we can put our spiritual differences aside and admit that the christian scientists really killed it on their logo
with the slogan. really good. if you dont know anything about this and see it, you want to be a part of this
kind of proto new age “you only get sick because of your mind and thoughts so dont go to the doctor ever”, its objectively not very christian or scientific, ironically. started by a woman named mary baker eddy who i think claimed to be psychic or something. not sure. its weird.
just cut to the chase + ask someone what their null hypothesis is. what would they accept, in theory. any story about individuals is just an anecdote. any generalization is “just” a generalization so it cant be applied to individuals. make them admit theres nothing theyd accept.
so many discussions can be accelerated 1000% by just taking this route. its the hidden snake eating its tail of modern social programming. cant make claims based on individual instances. also cant make claims based on generalizations. its a double bind, no assessment is possible.
whenever i happen to post about a vice (rare, now, i think, used to do it more), i get people obviously coping in replies. “thats just ur experience”. sometimes out of curiosity ill play it out with them. okay, heres some data. “thats a generalization, not everyone is like that”.