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Decorative Gourdian Knot

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Decorative Gourdian Knot @buckrawheat.bsky.social · May 21

Curious Georg, who lives with the Man with the Yellow Hat & investigates over 10,000 new things each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted.

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Decorative Gourdian Knot @buckrawheat.bsky.social · 54m

Remember when Christ tells an agent of the secret police to kiss his ass in Revelation

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 3h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

Decorative Gourdian Knot @buckrawheat.bsky.social · 10h

I'm sorry what

Decorative Gourdian Knot @buckrawheat.bsky.social · 10h

As someone whose brain already gets to partying big time on under 50mg, I think I would just lay down and die

Decorative Gourdian Knot @buckrawheat.bsky.social · 10h

This is well known

Shang [shirtless] from Mulan handing Mulan (in disguise as Ping) a flag. This is from the scene where he's actually taking a stick away from her but that's unimportant.

Text reads:

LGBT actually stands for

Let's
Get down to
Business
To defeat the Huns

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Decorative Gourdian Knot @buckrawheat.bsky.social · 10h

I think a lot about how I want to beat Joe Bastianich to within an inch of his life, pretty much just off the strength of the occasional Master Chef short video that gets served to me.

Gordon Ramsay you have the power to save Joe's life if you would just make your social media team stop.

Decorative Gourdian Knot @buckrawheat.bsky.social · 11h

He really is such a monkey's paw wish version of the conservative desire for an American Pope.

All the irritation and antipathy of the global church for the American bishops really hit critical mass in selecting him.

Decorative Gourdian Knot @buckrawheat.bsky.social · 11h

A terrifying beast

Upside down dog with her teeth showing as if I didn't just push her mouth kinda open

Decorative Gourdian Knot @buckrawheat.bsky.social · 11h

These are some truly horrifying picks for favorite Halloween candy. I'd take candy corn over some of this stuff

Decorative Gourdian Knot @buckrawheat.bsky.social · 11h

Is this your way of reporting a peanut allergy

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Decorative Gourdian Knot @buckrawheat.bsky.social · 11h

Complete fucking gibberish that is exactly the right vibe for what just happened

Decorative Gourdian Knot @buckrawheat.bsky.social · 12h

Wario is probably still in some photos with the guy but it truly is just a rich guys running in the same circles thing

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Decorative Gourdian Knot @buckrawheat.bsky.social · 14h

Hot damn

Decorative Gourdian Knot @buckrawheat.bsky.social · 14h

If you can survive .337 you probably need a good amount of that just to not die

Decorative Gourdian Knot @buckrawheat.bsky.social · 15h

Man I had peach rings and salami in the house and didn't even think about combining them and now I'm out of peach rings. Your child is on another level.

Decorative Gourdian Knot @buckrawheat.bsky.social · 15h

It's one of the best things about colder weather

Decorative Gourdian Knot @buckrawheat.bsky.social · 15h

It's funny how the vast majority of John Brown pfp accounts are solidly milquetoast in their actual willingness to confront evil.

And by funny I mean dammit why aren't they out doing a terrorism in the name of freedom.