#Fanaticism
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A strange fanaticism fills our time: the fanatical hatred of morality, especially of Christian morality.
November 5, 2025 at 10:48 AM Everybody can reply
carterscompendium.bsky.social
Carter Elise Key 🗝️
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#questpit

if you’re somehow not convinced that the state of the US is in flames, this work is for you.

🩸 those in power are lying to you
🩸 cult of christian fundamentalism/white supremacy
🩸 feminine rage
🩸 reclamation & self discovery

#w #a #sf #h #lf 🔥
title card with pregnancy photoshoot as the backdrop - close image on a woman’s pregnant belly with two sets of hands cradling it text: V.E.S.S.E.L. / an agent’s guide / carter elise key / M.A. in creative writing thesis project pitch: evelyn innately trusts her husband, adam, to handle many of the front-facing affairs. he handles the money, he has a steady ipb, he goes golfing with his griends every Saturday. evie is happily in charge of ensuring thag their home is something to be proud of: clean, tidy, and presentable to the neighbours. despite the pleasant appearance, things are not what they seem in the adler household. adam desperately wants a son, and evie is trying her best to give him one. she’s already miscarried once, before she even knew she was pregnant, a crime equivalent to manalaughter in her tight-knit, christian fundamentalist hometown. twenty weeks into her second pregnancy, evie suddenly falls ill. she loses the baby, as well as her husband’s hope for a son. adam decides to admit evie for a three year treatment cycle to V.E.S.S.E.L., a program that assists women with fertility difficulties and ensures a safe, happy, and healthy pregnancy. or af least, that’s how their marketing team has decided to present their “treatments” to the public. comp titles: 01 - the handmaid’s tale by margaret atwood 02 - tender is the flesh by agustina bazterrica 03 - biography of x by catharine lacey 04 - “cat person” by kristen roupenian inspiration: when the story of adriana smith made national headlines, the 31-year-old Georgia woman who was declared brain dead but kept on life support to gestate a foetus (that didn’t even make it to term), i knew that we were, in short, in the bad place. this, combined with the systemic government takeover of women’s bodies in legislation, kindled a flame of outrage and painful empathy. i’ve aways had a fascination with the structure and execution of cults. i came into possession of the novel cultish: the language of fanaticism and decided that my next work needed to involve this somehow. those running the program and in positions of power all subscribe to the cult of white supremacy, a terrifying potential reality for the U.S. today. evelyn begins the story subscribing to this mindset. she’s known no other option. through her exposure to others in the program, as well as both witnessing and being the victim of senseless violence and oppression, she comes to understand that the way of thinking she’s grown up with is not good. she must come to terms with this realisation and grapple with her new sense of identity.
November 5, 2025 at 10:30 AM Everybody can reply
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criticalbill76.bsky.social
Critical Bill.
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A JD Vance endorsement is every bit as toxic as a Trump endorsement.

There will be no Republican soul-searching. None. They will instead double-down, claim fraud, and become even nastier.

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim. - George Santayana
November 5, 2025 at 7:42 AM Everybody can reply
criticalbill76.bsky.social
Critical Bill.
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Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.

George Santayana
November 5, 2025 at 5:04 AM Everybody can reply
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Mark Squires
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So you think the third part of the triangle is money? Maybe. The first part is race. The second part is religious fanaticism. I guess the third part could be the "let them eat cake" crowd. But usually the uber wealthy don't have a lot of numbers. They have a lot of power.
November 5, 2025 at 1:00 AM Everybody can reply
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tbender.bsky.social
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I understand completely. I cannot tell u how many vets have tried telling me that all Vets R Marmalade supporters. The sad part is those that follow him are the vets who are unable to tell the difference between valor & fanaticism. I can understand supporting someone who supports the Constitution (1
November 4, 2025 at 10:54 PM Everybody can reply
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criticalbill76.bsky.social
Critical Bill.
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Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.

George Santayana
November 4, 2025 at 8:56 PM Everybody can reply
zollmanbbecker.bsky.social
Zolly Ben Becker
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We had a minor Monster’s Inc Moment,

Which is good.

Also that’s where The Martha moment comes from too…

(Watch both movies)

Moral perspective realignment in the face of escalating crusader’s fanaticism…
November 4, 2025 at 6:42 PM Everybody can reply
mik1957.bsky.social
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Man longs for security and certainty. One day he realizes that he will never get it. If he can avoid the traps of cynicism, fanaticism and indifference, he will be very lonely, but very strong.Péter Popper
November 4, 2025 at 5:18 PM Everybody can reply
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infoseek33.bsky.social
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Huh?

You’d burn down Common Crawl and they Internet Archive in pursuit of your fanaticism

Honest question. Have you ever read a book?
November 4, 2025 at 3:07 PM Everybody can reply
mobiquotes.bsky.social
MobiQuotes
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The point is, there is no feasible excuse for what are, for what we have made of ourselves. We have chosen to put profits before people, money before morality, dividends before decency, fanaticism before fairness, and our own trivial comforts before the unspeakable agonies of others
November 4, 2025 at 12:07 PM Everybody can reply
1984-bot.bsky.social
1984 Bot
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This peculiar linking-together of opposites--knowledge with ignorance, cynicism with fanaticism--is one of the chief distinguishing marks of Oceanic society.
November 4, 2025 at 10:00 AM Everybody can reply
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Samhain Goldstein
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Wallace Shawn is one of the GOATs.
Cover of book: The Fever Wallace Shawn And your life is another example. It's the life of someone who's gotten away with something. And yet your fanaticism is so extreme that you won't let that thought come into your mind. Certain things cannot be questioned. The coffee has to be there on the shelf, and no thought may enter your mind if it conflicts with the assumption that you—yes, you—are a decent person. So go ahead, think-think freely-think about anything you like. Think about your health, the other people, the ones who treat you badly, think about the complicated ways in which you mistreat yourself, think about the children afflicted with incurable diseases who were interviewed in that magazine. Think of all the things which show that you're decent, which show that those who are like you are decent- your friends, your loved ones, and all those people all over the world, in every country, who remind you of yourself—people of good will who have a little money but believe sincerely in a better life for all. Think of all the things that you have done that were kin, think of the kindness of all your intentions. And if something that you did turned out badly, think of the good motive behind the action-smile, nod your head, understand, accept. Don't talk to people who don't think you're decent. Don't read books, don't read articles, by writers who don't think you're decent, who don't think those who are like you are decent. Their writing is based on a false assumption. It's skewed, distorted. Your thought must be founded on truth, the truth that you are a decent person. Now, a decent person cannot be a person who's gotten away with something. A decent person cannot have what it's not appropriate for them to have. And this understanding of yourself gives you the basis for a view of the world. And so One day there was an anonymous present sitting on my doorstep-Volume One of Capital by Karl Marx, in a brown paper bag. A joke? Serious? And who had sent it? I never found out. Late that night, naked in bed, I leafed through it. The beginning was impenetrable, I couldn't understand it, but when I came to the part about the lives of the workers-the coal miners, the child laborers-I could feel myself suddenly breathing more slowly. How angry he was. Page after page. Then I turned back to an earlier section, and I came to a phrase that I'd heard before, a strange, upsetting, sort of ugly phrase: this was the section on "commodity fetishism," "the fetishism of commodities." I wanted to understand that weird-sounding phrase, but I could tell that, to understand it, your whole life would probably have to change.
November 4, 2025 at 8:55 AM Everybody can reply
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mobiquotes.bsky.social
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Hindustan had become free. Pakistan had become independent soon after its inception but man was still slave in both these countries -- slave of prejudice … slave of religious fanaticism … slave of barbarity and inhumanity.
November 4, 2025 at 4:15 AM Everybody can reply
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They've been groomed into this fanaticism.
November 3, 2025 at 11:37 PM Everybody can reply
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Daniel G. Wilson
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I mean, historically, there are examples. The robber barons contributed to a lot of public works. Of coursez this was usually the result of either warped religious fanaticism (Rockefeller) or simply ad a way to leave the public with a positive image of them after death.
November 3, 2025 at 11:25 PM Everybody can reply
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Netanyahu says Israel giving “peace a chance,” but no Palestinian state without “destroying fanaticism” itsthatpart.com/netanyahu-sa...
Netanyahu says Israel giving “peace a chance,” but no Palestinian state without “destroying fanaticism”
Tel Aviv — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met “CBS Mornings” co-host Tony Dokoupil late Tuesday at the Rabin Medical Center, just outside Tel Aviv, where the Israeli leader and his wife Sara visited newly-returned hostages and their families on their first full day back together. Each of the former hostages described their experience in […]
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November 3, 2025 at 10:38 PM Everybody can reply
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I’m starting to think all right-wingers have s@icidal ideations, cuz I’ve never heard any of them look forward to the future. They just fanaticism about harming others, harming themselves or having God harm them. They seem so miserable & need someone else to be in pain to distract from their misery.
November 3, 2025 at 5:56 PM Everybody can reply
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tuningfork.bsky.social
Tuning Fork
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...Trump's itch to go into Venezuela (drugs) and Nigeria (christians) is the Trump administration's YELLOW CAKE argument? Both countries are the top oil-producers in those two continents. Anyone remember Dick Cheney's public remarks about the oil in Iraq to be "saved" from muslim fanaticism???
November 3, 2025 at 4:13 PM Everybody can reply
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Tuning Fork
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...Trump's itch to go into Venezuela (drugs) and Nigeria (christians) is the Trump administration's YELLOW CAKE argument? Both countries are the top oil-producers in those two continents. Anyone remember Dick Cheney's public remarks about the oil in Iraq to be "saved" from muslim fanaticism???
November 3, 2025 at 4:13 PM Everybody can reply
tuningfork.bsky.social
Tuning Fork
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...Trump's itch to go into Venezuela (drugs) and Nigeria (christians) is the Trump administration's YELLOW CAKE argument? Both countries are the top oil-producers in those two continents. Anyone remember Dick Cheney's public remarks about the oil in Iraq to be "saved" from muslim fanaticism???
November 3, 2025 at 4:12 PM Everybody can reply
tuningfork.bsky.social
Tuning Fork
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...Trump's itch to go into Venezuela (drugs) and Nigeria (christians) is the Trump administration's YELLOW CAKE argument? Both countries are the top oil-producers in those two continents. Anyone remember Dick Cheney's public remarks about the oil in Iraq to be "saved" from muslim fanaticism???
November 3, 2025 at 4:12 PM Everybody can reply
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tuningfork.bsky.social
Tuning Fork
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...Trump's itch to go into Venezuela (drugs) and Nigeria (christians) is the Trump administration's YELLOW CAKE argument? Both countries are the top oil-producers in those two continents. Anyone remember Dick Cheney's public remarks about the oil in Iraq to be "saved" from muslim fanaticism???
November 3, 2025 at 4:12 PM Everybody can reply
tuningfork.bsky.social
Tuning Fork
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...Trump's itch to go into Venezuela (drugs) and Nigeria (christians) is the Trump administration's YELLOW CAKE argument? Both countries are the top oil-producers in those two continents. Anyone remember Dick Cheney's public remarks about the oil in Iraq to be "saved" from muslim fanaticism???
November 3, 2025 at 4:11 PM Everybody can reply