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Sep 13, 2021 • 9 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
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odd book patrol is active once again
found a whole box of books from the 70s that someone apparently really into faith healing or something must have collected (theres a bunch more) may or may not obtain
as usual the 70s / early 80s american christian book cover aesthetic is just unstoppable

(also as usual weird place / weird lighting)
its just so aesthetic. honestly love that this is real
yeah tbh i started hitting the 1800s - 1900s christian stuff pretty hard at the start of the year. hit a few pockets and kind of got stuck but im kind of working my way to the pentecostal stuff... eventually. will probably pick up all these to prep the library (each a dollar)
speaking of the above quest also just found this. had a lot going on but have been meaning to look into a strange detail i heard - that the met museum gave the plate / fragment involved here to the LDS church later on, which seems odd from a museum general practices standpoint
i havent checked that out yet tho. if anyone in that world looks into it lmk.

also this looks cool
i read some of them. tbh im only slightly in control of the directions my studies go along with the art im making, it kind of goes in small jumps from related topic to related topic, so at this point i just have / accumulate kind of a library. that makes it way easier.
so ill take a “step over” into a related topic and get down like a few books or a ton of info about it and then float around and hit something else. things id recommend... yeah let me think about it. im away from The Shelves (tm) rn.

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Jul 28
[hyper low american church aesthetics]

the strip mall church. often presented online as the ultimate symbol of american christians dropping the ball somewhere along the historical timeline. plastic signs and conference room vibes. post it next to a cathedral. just do it.

... Image
it writes itself. look at this, then look at this medieval basilica. you can draw whatever conclusion you want. these people don't care about aesthetics, relationship of beauty to the divine, maybe they mean well but their tradition has failed them. its a great box to stand on. Image
but is that really why it looks this way, and why this exists?

maybe. but perhaps there are other factors. complex historical social material aesthetic conditions that led us here, to the eternal life church next to an HR block with linoleum floors.

lets go, to... the amish. Image
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Jul 24
recently i was stuck somewhere and read through over 20 years straight of a single newspaper comic. newspaper comics are an interesting medium because theres simultaneously zero continuity (its 9000 isolated incidents) while also being one single line: one massive narrative

...
this particular comic started in the 90s. this means you're about... 80% of the way in, the world and characters are established, and then tech world kicks in - suddenly they have phones, social media exists, it just opens up into their world. just like it did in real life.
this is an interesting case study for the interplay of tales, people, tech, social media - all that. you can feel the flattening effect. it feels somewhat cheap, but its also unavoidable. you cant just freeze time and pretend it doesnt exist, but it still flattens the characters
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Jul 17
i didnt read all this or watch the video. you can just look at the first paragraph.

the next big front, one of the next big things - at least online as a hot topic, will be the nexus of medicine, therapy, parenthood, and the state.

here is why its an extremely difficult topic:
my prediction is that most people will engage with this upon typical culture war lines, as you see above. perhaps this is correct or incorrect, its irrelevant to what i have to say - because, maybe uniquely, this confluence of issues really defies that sort of analysis, at all.
for example, look at the above first paragraph. twitter has recommended me like 1000 big posts about this. california passes a law that says schools dont have to tell parents if a kid says or does XYZ. in this case, identifies as trans. this guy says, that should not be the case
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Jun 5
heres some genuine esoteric psychology advice (for entertainment purposes only):

you have a job. we say “have” so, you think its “just there”. its something you got, and now you possess it. thats wrong. if you “have” something like a job, you are creating that job.

…
things dont just exist eternally in a static state in this sphere: so, every day, you are creating that job. you don’t realize it, but you are. if you weren’t, it would just decay or go away or be destroyed. so, youre creating your job every day without realizing it.

next:
now, you get to a point where you dont like your job anymore. so, you think: now, i have to fix this. i have to create a solution. i have to create something to counter this problem in my job.

but, thats wrong: because youre still creating the job, every day. so, what happens?
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May 22
van dusen (psychologist who worked with schizophrenics and read swedenborg) eventually adopted an energy vampire model of the voices his patients were hearing, he claimed explaining this to the patients consistently resulted in the voices telling patients to physically attack him
he basically claimed that he could sit (at least a significant percent of his) patients down in a room and go through a script, like “i am going to start explaining something to you - here’s what the voices are going to tell you to do”: first they would tell patients to leave.
(might mix up the order here) - then, they would tell patients to not listen to him, then finally when none of that was possible, and he was explaining what was happening as a phenomenon, they would tell patients to attack him. like a predictable pattern, one, two, three.
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Apr 21
tech interfaces used to be much more actively customizable. you could just poke in and make everything green, pink, anything. this is much less of a thing today. this probably stems from a kind of allergy to sincerity - someone might see your interface and see how much you cared
jordan peterson really got his whole thing locked into a single meme: "clean up your room". whats lesser known is what the second step was: make it beautiful. the idea was that by trying to make something look nice, you would then be forced to be open to harsh personal criticism
regardless of what you think about him or his work, this is true. if you hang a painting up in your room, people are going to come over, and they might say, "...thats the painting you chose?" - and you have nowhere to go. you can only say, well, yeah. you're total unguarded.
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