Just think they could've been hugging their friends every week or even every day if they wanted

"Mary" and "merry" always sound the same when I talk but I will say "marry" with a more open "a" if I'm being emphatic; sometimes nevertheless it still comes out as "merry"

I still like Giorgio La Pira...

tory anarch... mais où sont les neiges d'antan?

"and... it doesn't make us more safe."
It's not about making us safe. We all know that's a false flag. It's at the very base level s. miller's racist fever dream, stemming from a childhood resentment living in Cali. From the tidbits we can pickup from ICE agents - they're in it for the cruelty, hate

alas no, this was just musing over some articles we read in class

I'm happy to believe that 10% of the human population is deeply morally compromised and must be dealt with in the name of the remaining 90%

That’s crazy because I’ve been reliably informed he’s the court philosopher of Doug Wilsonism

Of course my own critique of that book is if he really believed thoroughly the substance of what he was saying he would’ve been a communist and not an aloof First Things columnist

(say what you will about Girard’s theory of myth but for him scapegoat is a murder victim not guilty of whatever he is accused of and his murder cannot drive out social ills and religion is bad inasmuch as it is sacrificial even if ritual and symbolic mediation of murder prevents actual murder)

Vance’s “conversion story” is ”Peter Thiel explained to me that René Girard taught the scapegoat is guilty of his crime but you should pull yourself up by your bootstraps and Jesus revealed that religion is a useful mechanism for doing this”

It’s so over