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ddines.bsky.social
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Are you Aramchek?

I absolutely love this.

Freud’s “Beyond the Pleasure Principle” is quite the read. I was not expecting to be led to the speculation that is an echo of “from dust to dust,” that my life is just a circuitous route my body follows toward a primitively instinctive desire of my matter to return to being inanimate.

THE BEST OF NANCY BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER January 22,1974

The politics of ‘imaging,’ as described by Stuart Hall in 1987. “Politics does not reflect majorities, it constructs them.” I feel like many of the nouns can be replaced in this article by contemporary US ones and the argument would remain the same.

I really didn’t need to find out about Jeffy via one of my students brining a doll of him to school. I refuse to believe that I’m just an old man yelling at clouds being disturbed by what I found out after searching it up.

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Do not sleep on voicing your opinion of the disenfranchising SAVE Act to your members of Congress. Those who are sponsoring and promoting this bill are looking to make voting more difficult.

Must read from one of our incredible @bostonschools.boston.gov educators ⬇️ Thank you @jenniferdines.bsky.social for your courage, care & determination to fight for all of our families 🙏

Random question: had anyone put much effort into comparing the structures CW Leadbeater proposes in The Science of the Sacraments with other sacred spaces, like the tabernacle, for example?

Not sure quoting statements about need for proper handling of secure information by the dipshits who improperly handled secure information will do anything. They don’t seem beholden to any level of shame or, more importantly, accountability. Yes, it’s hypocritical. No, they won’t leave on their own.

@kevinmkruse.bsky.social, started your “One Nation Under God” this morning and I’m fully gripped by it. It’s hard not to see the supposed “sacred” cause of protecting “individual industry” against the “false idol” of the regulatory and welfare state as the vital core of what we are seeing today.

“…the destruction of thrift, initiative, industriousness and resourcefulness…”

“Build ‘Heaven on Earth’” suggests a Postmillennialism at work here, but couldn’t find any glaring. Regardless, Trae Stephens is a name to start researching, particularly the Evangelical push he appears to be making.