JimII
@jamesbarton2.bsky.social
Amateur theologian and Great Books connoisseur; professional Social Justice Warrior; reluctant old guy.
This description from Enoch of the beginning of his heavenly vision fascinates me especially because its writer never experienced flight. #BibleCrit
February 5, 2026 at 1:01 PM
This description from Enoch of the beginning of his heavenly vision fascinates me especially because its writer never experienced flight. #BibleCrit
Ok, after reading lots of front matter -- Chs 1-5 of 1 Enoch is pretty interesting. The idea up top is obey since it is natural (teleologically?) to do so--sort of opposite if Jesus and the fig tree where he demands unnatural response. #CriticalBible Is it natural to be good?
January 26, 2026 at 2:42 AM
Ok, after reading lots of front matter -- Chs 1-5 of 1 Enoch is pretty interesting. The idea up top is obey since it is natural (teleologically?) to do so--sort of opposite if Jesus and the fig tree where he demands unnatural response. #CriticalBible Is it natural to be good?
Important to keep in mind when your in the customer (client) service business.
Praise does not make you holy; blame does not make you worthless.
Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ
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Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ
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January 8, 2026 at 1:00 PM
Important to keep in mind when your in the customer (client) service business.
From Tolstoy: “The Russian is self-confident just because he knows nothing and does not want to know anything, believing that nothing can be known fully.” Maybe despite 23 and me, I'm a little Russian. #booksky
January 8, 2026 at 3:05 AM
From Tolstoy: “The Russian is self-confident just because he knows nothing and does not want to know anything, believing that nothing can be known fully.” Maybe despite 23 and me, I'm a little Russian. #booksky
Listening to Tolstoy's descriptions of Napoleon, especial in the book of Part II of War and Peace keeps reminding me of Trump. #projection #booksky
January 6, 2026 at 1:44 PM
Listening to Tolstoy's descriptions of Napoleon, especial in the book of Part II of War and Peace keeps reminding me of Trump. #projection #booksky
Question: This is the next book in my theist meets an atheist in college and they read holy books series. Can I add my own marginalia to a book like this? That's how I usually show 💛 for a text. Pero, ¡está muy caro! 🏷️💵 #criticalbible #booksky
January 3, 2026 at 4:08 PM
Question: This is the next book in my theist meets an atheist in college and they read holy books series. Can I add my own marginalia to a book like this? That's how I usually show 💛 for a text. Pero, ¡está muy caro! 🏷️💵 #criticalbible #booksky
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December 31, 2025 at 12:22 PM
I’m really proud to have helped set up a tiny, non-profit micro-press for activist books — and to publish Suicide by Roger Hallam. Written from prison, with a foreword by Chris Hedges. Every penny goes into making more books like this.
rev21.earth/product/suic...
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Well #booksky year five of the Great Books reading list is complete. I listened to a good portion of this year's list, but that worked well enough with the fiction and lecture style readings and provided time to dig into some of the more complex philosophical stuff. Yay 2025.
December 30, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Well #booksky year five of the Great Books reading list is complete. I listened to a good portion of this year's list, but that worked well enough with the fiction and lecture style readings and provided time to dig into some of the more complex philosophical stuff. Yay 2025.
@aineyoremd.bsky.social this feels like some conversations weay have had once or a hundred time thirty years ago!
December 27, 2025 at 1:29 AM
@aineyoremd.bsky.social this feels like some conversations weay have had once or a hundred time thirty years ago!
Just finished reading Kant's discussion of the Transcendental Analytic. #booksky. It took a lot of work and I found a course on CoPR and that was nice. Importantly, in the last two days, I have had two nice conversations with the family triggered by the reading.
December 25, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Just finished reading Kant's discussion of the Transcendental Analytic. #booksky. It took a lot of work and I found a course on CoPR and that was nice. Importantly, in the last two days, I have had two nice conversations with the family triggered by the reading.
Kant would have done well to talk to some preschool teachers. Just sayin'
December 21, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Kant would have done well to talk to some preschool teachers. Just sayin'
It is awesome that Kant uses the intersection of two parallel lines as an "impossibility" that can only be known through synthetic apriori reasoning. When in fact parallel line can (and do) intersect. He didn't know. #booksky
December 21, 2025 at 1:18 AM
It is awesome that Kant uses the intersection of two parallel lines as an "impossibility" that can only be known through synthetic apriori reasoning. When in fact parallel line can (and do) intersect. He didn't know. #booksky
So, Kant says all experience is mediates through the human construct of time. That seems right and 35 years ago i really should have stayed awake in that class 'cuz it would've been pretty relevant to my honors thesis. Oh well.
December 14, 2025 at 6:40 AM
So, Kant says all experience is mediates through the human construct of time. That seems right and 35 years ago i really should have stayed awake in that class 'cuz it would've been pretty relevant to my honors thesis. Oh well.
Failure to give constant attention to development of the intellectual content of experiences and to obtain ever-increasing organization of facts and ideas may in the end merely strengthen the tendency towards a reactionary return to intellectual and moral authoritarianism. -- John Dewey #booksky
December 14, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Failure to give constant attention to development of the intellectual content of experiences and to obtain ever-increasing organization of facts and ideas may in the end merely strengthen the tendency towards a reactionary return to intellectual and moral authoritarianism. -- John Dewey #booksky
"I have therefore no knowledge of myself ss I am, but merely as I appear to myself." Critique of Pure Reason, pt 2, Section 21, Kant. Checks out. #booksky
December 13, 2025 at 2:07 PM
"I have therefore no knowledge of myself ss I am, but merely as I appear to myself." Critique of Pure Reason, pt 2, Section 21, Kant. Checks out. #booksky
“What avail is it to win prescribed amounts of information … if in the process the individual loses his own soul: loses … if he loses desire to apply what he has learned and, above all, loses the ability to extract meaning.” Dewey 🔥trad ed #booksky
December 9, 2025 at 2:57 PM
“What avail is it to win prescribed amounts of information … if in the process the individual loses his own soul: loses … if he loses desire to apply what he has learned and, above all, loses the ability to extract meaning.” Dewey 🔥trad ed #booksky
Space and Time as concepts preloaded in the human mind seems right to me. Kant's categories of understanding seem less obvious but he promises to provide a deduction of them. #booksky
December 9, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Space and Time as concepts preloaded in the human mind seems right to me. Kant's categories of understanding seem less obvious but he promises to provide a deduction of them. #booksky
"How shall the young become acquainted with the past in such a wa that the acquaintance is a potent agent in appreciation of the living present." John Dewey, Experience and Education. #booksky
December 8, 2025 at 2:56 PM
"How shall the young become acquainted with the past in such a wa that the acquaintance is a potent agent in appreciation of the living present." John Dewey, Experience and Education. #booksky
Maybe even more important than the Disciples and the UCC being in conversation. ;-)
Pope Leo XIV and Patriarch Bartholomew sign document urging progress on Christian unity www.christiancentury.org/news/pope-le...
Pope Leo XIV and Patriarch Bartholomew sign document urging progress on Christian unity
Pope Leo XIV and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople met at the patriarchal seat in the ancient Phanar quarter on Saturday to sign a joint declaration affirming their commitment to…
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December 7, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Maybe even more important than the Disciples and the UCC being in conversation. ;-)
Berkeley's insistance that reality os composed of ideas imprinted on the senses by God feels real real close the the simulation hypothesis. I assume many a philosophy undergrad has explored this in final papers #booksky
December 7, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Berkeley's insistance that reality os composed of ideas imprinted on the senses by God feels real real close the the simulation hypothesis. I assume many a philosophy undergrad has explored this in final papers #booksky
"I entreat [my reader] to make my words. The occasion of his own thinking and endeavor to attain the same train of thoughts in Reading that I had in writing them." George Berkeley Introduction to the Principles of Human Knowledge #booksky
December 7, 2025 at 12:12 AM
"I entreat [my reader] to make my words. The occasion of his own thinking and endeavor to attain the same train of thoughts in Reading that I had in writing them." George Berkeley Introduction to the Principles of Human Knowledge #booksky
"He must be very weak ... who shall reject a truth that is demonstrated, for no other reason but it is newly known & contrary to prjudices," + "We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see." Berekley's quotable. #booksky
December 6, 2025 at 4:08 PM
"He must be very weak ... who shall reject a truth that is demonstrated, for no other reason but it is newly known & contrary to prjudices," + "We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see." Berekley's quotable. #booksky