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Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social · 1m

The sky would only wait
Till all my breath was gone
And then reiterate
As if I wasn't there
That singular command
I do not understand,
Bless what there is for being,
Which has to be obeyed, for
What else am I made for,
Agreeing or disagreeing?

- #WHAuden

Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social · 1m

THE THEODICY OF BEING
By #WHAuden

I could (which you cannot)
Find reasons fast enough
To face the sky and roar
In anger and despair
At what is going on,
Demanding that it name
Whoever is to blame:

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Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social · 32m

Thus it is written and decreed:
The gods above and the gods below are to be honored in equal measure. May no rite be forgotten, no offering left undone.

- 𝙇𝒊𝙗𝒆𝙧 𝙇𝒊𝙣𝒕𝙚𝒖𝙨 𝙕𝒂𝙜𝒓𝙖𝒃𝙞𝒆𝙣𝒔𝙞𝒔 (“Linen Book of Zagreb”)

Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social · 1h

I wonder if there is something to the idea that fascists see food only as fuel and having no sensual and aesthetic dimension...?

onion person @junlper.beer · 8h

everything rightwingers eat somehow looks like poop

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onion person @junlper.beer · 8h

everything rightwingers eat somehow looks like poop

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Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social · 1h

AI slop is the new Protocols of the Elders of Zion

AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 4h

In an AI-generated, dystopian vision of the British capital, a video shows Big Ben smouldering above piles of rubbish and London crowds dressed in traditional Islamic garb.

Far-right leaders are seizing on such AI clips of European cities changed by migration to promote racist views
u.afp.com/Smz4

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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 4h

these are not "AI clips of European cities changed by migration", these are constructed videos designed to propagate a certain worldview - designed by the people this subhead describes as "seizing on" them

AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 4h

In an AI-generated, dystopian vision of the British capital, a video shows Big Ben smouldering above piles of rubbish and London crowds dressed in traditional Islamic garb.

Far-right leaders are seizing on such AI clips of European cities changed by migration to promote racist views
u.afp.com/Smz4

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Orange Dick Tater Hater @realbiscuitspaw.bsky.social · 1h

Meanwhile, in war torn Portland...

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Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social · 1h

#Silence as a state of expectancy, a species of #attention, is a key back into the garden of innocence."

- #GeorgeProchnik, 'In Pursuit of Silence: Listening for Meaning in a World of Noise'

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Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social · 1h

What’s unknown, then, is the world around us; what’s missing is our awareness that we do not know.

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Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social · 1h

#GEORGEPROCHNIK ON #SILENCE

"If I were to hazard a definition of silence I would describe it as the particular equilibrium sound and quiet that catalyzes our powers of perception.

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Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social · 2h

I am one with the source insofar as I too act as a source by making everything I have received flow again.

- #RaimonPannikar

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Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social · 2h

What a spiritual practice actually looks like:

I am one with the source insofar as I too act as a source by making everything I have received flow again.

- Raimon Pannikar

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Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social · 2h

In the press and encyclopedias, in schools and universities, everywhere error holds sway, feeling happy and comfortable in the knowledge of having the majority on its side."

- #Goethe

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Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social · 2h

Truth has to be repeated constantly, because Error also is being preached all the time, and not just by a few, but by the multitude.

- #Goethe

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Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social · 2h

Translation by #EdwardSnow

Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social · 2h

To me it is as if I were at once
infant, boy, man and more.
I feel that only as it circles
is abundance found.

I thank you, deep power
that works me ever more lightly
in ways I can't make out.

The day's labor grows simple now,
and like a holy face
held in my dark hands.

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Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social · 2h

ONLY AS A CHILD AM I AWAKE
By #Rilke

Only as a child am I awake
and able to trust
that in every fear and every night
I will behold you again.

However often I get lost,
however far my thinking strays,
I know you will be here, right here,
untouched by time.

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Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social · 3h

The vulnerable of the world are being squeezed and squeezed ...

AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 4h

Gaza Strip: Israeli army has withdrawn to the 'yellow line'

AFP Infographic with map of the Gaza Strip showing the 'yellow line' where the Israeli army has withdrawn its forces as of October 10, according to US envoy Steve Witkoff

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 4h

Gaza Strip: Israeli army has withdrawn to the 'yellow line'

AFP Infographic with map of the Gaza Strip showing the 'yellow line' where the Israeli army has withdrawn its forces as of October 10, according to US envoy Steve Witkoff

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Peter Beaumont @petersbeaumont1.bsky.social · 3h

If you've never been to Gaza, you won't appreciate what the yellow line means. Basically Israel now holds most of Gaza's small but important agricultural land. Continued Israeli occupation, which I judge the likely outcome, makes Gaza even more unliveable and more dependent on outside goods.

AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 4h

Gaza Strip: Israeli army has withdrawn to the 'yellow line'

AFP Infographic with map of the Gaza Strip showing the 'yellow line' where the Israeli army has withdrawn its forces as of October 10, according to US envoy Steve Witkoff

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H e t e r o t o p ia @artsofexistence.bsky.social · 16h

#Sculpture Constantin Brancusi (1909), Le Baiser (The Kiss).

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Jacques-Yves Cousteau @runflysmile.bsky.social · 15h

Sunset 😊
Baltic Sea
Latvia 🇱🇻

#Sunset #BalticSea #Latvia #Sun

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 1d

‘Two Friends on the Shore of Long Island.’ #Painting by Devin Leonardi (1981-2014) #art

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New School of Psychotherapy and Counselling (NSPC) @nspcinfo.bsky.social · 3h

Thinking ahead to 2026? 🌿

Our MA & PGCert in Existential and Humanist Pastoral Care are open for Sept 2026 entry.

Designed for those in chaplaincy, theology, or spiritual care in secular settings — helping you offer thoughtful, compassionate support.

🔗 nspc.org.uk/course-directory

#NSPC

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