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Poor Yorick
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the difference between the lion king and hamlet is that in the lion king the jester is still alive; avi by @harveykrishna_
Sep 19, 2023 • 22 tweets • 6 min read
Thinking about this with regards to talking to God

In college, I started getting up at 5:30 every morning and praying until 9, because I wanted to hear Gods voice and it seemed crazy to spend less time on that than school work

Started hearing him about 5 months in I structured my whole life around hearing God better for like 3 years; and at the end of that, God and I could talk anytime, and we did. God was like, “chill with the structured thing, go have fun instead”, which was super useful, and a different story.

ended up in ministry
Dec 28, 2021 • 20 tweets • 5 min read
I am going to cheerfully use this comment as a jumping off point for something entirely different that I hope will kind of loop back around to being useful to the question at hand

I am currently trying to figure out how to live a life that is *beautiful* more than *righteous* this isn't a rejection of righteousness but an attempt to return to it later with a better sense of what it would mean

the problem I kind of encountered was that I just no longer cared about things anymore--I mostly had what I wanted and didn't know what more to want
Dec 15, 2020 • 71 tweets • 17 min read
okay, let's do a @threadapalooza thread! This year's theme: kingship, in the archetypal sense

Background: I'm a generally evangelical Christian minister who's thought a lot about this for the past few years

this is gonna be pretty colored by my engagement with the bible 2. What finally pulled a lot of this thought together for me was reading a commentary on the Narnia books, called "Planet Narnia," that pretty persuasively argues that Lewis uses one of each of the 7 classic planets to coordinate the themes of each book
Dec 13, 2020 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
I’m a problem solving creature

I experience waves of excitement as I cycle through interesting problems

Solving one keeps me going for about four days, then I get bored again for a week or two until I find a new one Image When I *have* a problem I feel like a god (if I’m not completely stymied)

I tend to pick problems I think are useful, that almost no one else around me even notices are there but that are hugely important

Eg., sermons
Nov 20, 2020 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
I had the weird experience in high school of going from pretty weird/awkward to charismatic/popular in about 6 months

The problem was I didn’t realize it was happening

I essentially didn’t believe anyone would be into me, and so I mishandled things badly I definitely led a few girls on because I didn’t think I could really, you know, do that

Leading people on was for cool people

Not that I was entirely oblivious to the pleasures of attention, but that I used my self-ID as “uncool” to avoid *noticing* that that was going on
Nov 20, 2020 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
wrong answers only a series of alphanumerical chains rumored to instill uncontrollable psychic powers in the reader
Nov 17, 2020 • 43 tweets • 20 min read
Alexander's 15 Principles as applied to sermons

1. Levels of Scale

Good things are structured at every level, and each level helps the others

in particular, the largest *does not* simply determine the smallest; they are both shaped by one another
I think this means that our sermon shouldn't be shaped at the beginning of our writing process by a simple "hook", an empty image of what the sermon *should* look like that we fill in with verbal concrete

the levels need to shape one another
Nov 17, 2020 • 10 tweets • 5 min read
So I want to find a way to redesign the way I/my church/evangelicalism in general writes sermons

I'm reading Alexander's "The Nature of Order" and it's super helpful for this

I think building beautiful things is a deeper way of thinking, that somewhat translates across domains First let me articulate what I find dissatisfying about current sermon prep

We begin with a "hook", a concise main point summed up as a sentence, and then we have ~3 sub points that support/build on that "hook"

This gives sermons a sort of top-down symmetry ImageImage
Jul 1, 2020 • 11 tweets • 6 min read
okay so I read a book called Planet Narnia this week and have been completely convinced that Lewis wrote each of the Narnia books to reflect the essence/personality of each of the 7 classical planets, with Aslan incarnating that essence (as a lens on Christ)

here's a poem of his ImageImageImageImage LWW: all about Jupiter/Jove. It's all about the ending of winter, coronation, the meaning of royalty, romps and re-establishing of thrones. Aslan is literally jovial, righteous leonine king that brings spring and peace and resurrection, who offers clemency to sinners ImageImage
May 11, 2020 • 77 tweets • 19 min read
I'm gonna try to do the long-list-of-opinions thing but I don't know if I have the follower account to do the one like, one opinion thing

So let's just see what I can rattle off about wisdom 1. Wisdom assumes that the world is ordered. This sounds trivial, but it's not; there's a whole lot of power packed into the belief that the world is ordered and you can perceive that order.
Apr 2, 2020 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
Aesthetics is Kegan 6

How do you ponder the dialectic between ideologies? Aesthetics

What is level 6 subject to? Creation

Level 6 doubles back to level one, which was a simply perceiving existence, and reclaims perception with the strength of wisdom Image Wisdom traditions are *not* about teaching you facts, or even ideologies; they are about teaching you to *see rightly*, which vision is the illegible territory every ideology attempts to map

This is why they sound so confusing; you expect maps and they stare at the territory
Nov 7, 2019 • 16 tweets • 6 min read
So I’ve recently been increasingly conflicted re: cops. I grew up in the sort of family (let’s call it ascendant working-class) that was *very* pro-cop: thin blue line, that kind of thing. Have some ex-cops in the family, who I quite like Plus, families like mine tend to 1) relatively rarely have negative run ins with the police and 2) generally act so respectful to cops that they get pretty positive handling. Not because they fear cops but because they respect them. Also, my small town had pretty good police