the woes of buying academic books

I didn't even know that A.V. Miller translated the Science of Logic back in 1969, I can actually afford this one instead of the recent Cambridge volume

did you know you can just read The Curse of Capistrano & learn all about Zorro for free without even breaking laws? copyright expiration is so cool! this used to be a thing that happened just 28 years after a work was published until that was extneded to 75 years in 1976 and over a century in 1992

You were okay when it was happening to the Global South but now that it's happening to you suddenly it's a problem

It's so bizarre to see Sam Harris acting like he's some sort of biblicist concerned with respecting the Old Testament, because he's in full alliance with Christian Zionism What a timeline folks

these fuckers are not only still spreading Hasbara talking points, but also make sure to mention that Corbyn was an antisemitic monster lmfao incredible Ls stacking up from the UK

centrists be like: I read a liberal article, now I'm gonna read a conservative article

i already have a library of unplayed games that could last me a lifetime. i have no problem skipping literally every game tainted by genAI forever.

Liberals will say shit like "I'd vote for a Nazi over Trump any day" and believe they are morally superior to communists

DENIMS DEFEATED ETHAN KLEIN in a massive victory for free speech!

Kant: You can't move from an abstract concept into actual existence - there's no reason to assume there's a concept whose nature implies its existence. Hegel: good point, but what if I write a whole book demonstrating the passing of the Concept into Existence

"A little learning is a dangerous thing ; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring : There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again."

a Famicom RPG that was localized and I've never heard of it? Count me in. www.mobygames.com/game/13541/g...

[mega man iv boss health charging noise that is extra slow and sharp for no good reason]

You can notice this same logic with a lot of quack history theories - people expect extensive sources on events from pre-modernity, because they matter to us moderns. And when they don't see those sources, they jump into extreme skepticism. But there's a lot of reasons why those sources don't remain

In general, my impression is that a lot of Jesus Mythicism has this tone of "well, since Christianity is the biggest religion in the world, it's weird that there isn't a LOT MORE historical accounts of its founding figure." But this is a totally wrong assumption to have for 1st century Palestine.

Another claim that keeps coming up and really puzzles me is "Paul says absolutely nothing about a historical Jesus, and this is suspicious" Like, this is plainly incorrect and easily falsified by just reading the Epistles, I have no idea how you can reach this conclusion.

Out of curiosity I found myself reading some Jesus Myth literature, and oh boy these "scholars" are actually even worse than I imagined, they're wacky as hell One name you keep hearing is Richard Carrier, who is extremely arrogant and condescending towards people doing actual historical research

typical Reddit thread

Imagine having the surname Funkenstein, that's so much cooler than mine

you really have to micromanage to make it through this, but it's pretty darn cool

I forgot Ian McKellen is gay when making a comment about him to my partner, and I'm truly shook by this level of disrespect from myself

we should consider a "best of dying bluesky" profile

The liberal belief that *everyone else* has ideologies but what they believe is just an objective logical conclusion really explains a lot about why they behave the way they do.

"Now Swinburne, he's a bona fide scholar, he's a philosopher at Oxford University. I think that argument is flat out crazy." lmao

L'occasion idéale de ressortir ce banger auquel je pense spontanément parfois, et qui ne me fera jamais pas rire.

honestly, though I have significant disagreements with Lewis over the content of "Mere Christianity" and how he argues for it, you can't deny the man knew how to write a good passage I often think about this evocative image from the Preface:

I need to read Gary Dorrien

One of the reviews: "My Greek father made me watch this after I mentioned that I share some beliefs with communitsts. Incredible story and I will be reading the book." I am strangely reassured to know that fathers making you watch emotionally manipulative anti-communist films is a shared experience

both, Hegel has unusual and fascinating views about historicity

Movie idea: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen except it’s about Evangelical apologists and instead of Moriarty the villain is Bart Ehrman

art was quite cool, even in this 1992 prototype short

The Whoopass Girls

The grafx are turbo, but what if they were super?

might as well have this as our slogan

Incredible energy from Slovenia 😍

Riders of the Mark!

"You cannot, of course, do without Hegel. He’s another chap whom it will take you time to digest." mronline.org/2019/06/05/e...

when Croatia declared independence in 1991 there was a referendum about it and 93% of people voted yes, despite this leading to a bloody war afterwards that's about as clear-cut as you can get, even for socialists like me who praise many things about Yugoslavia, it has to be recognized as a fact

like is there any other national independence movement on the planet whose supporters would argue "well we have like a third of the population that's fully onboard, the rest are opposed or yet undecided on the matter, I guess we're doing LIBERATION now" I feel like I'm going crazy

Yeah I'm done talking about this stuff, it's like pulling teeth. Incredibly frustrating when you're trying to make a simple point and they're pulling out fifteen articles about something that's not relevant to it whatsoever. His own polls confirm my position!

no, it's that I've already looked at these studies and I know that actual (not hypothetical) support for Taiwanese independence is basically around 50% that was my entire point all along as to why I'm not convinced to throw my support behind something that remains controversial internally

see, I know you're bullshitting me because I've looked at these before this is not what a "clear majority" means

tl;dr I haven't been convinced why I should strongly oppose the PRC on this matter, and I feel like I have given those viewpoints a fair bit of charity that hasn't really been reciprocated by pro-Taiwan posters

the text is from this article, which I've found to be a decent example of a liberal argument that remains contentious usali.org/publications...

the fact is, smart people who advocate for Taiwanese independence are fully aware that ROC's historical claims over mainland China are a continuing issue for that advocacy, and they attempt to argue that there has been a major shift in the country's politics that separates it from that past

Israel: established by dictate of imperialist powers, protected by terrorist violence from day one, became ethnic theocracy to be defended at all costs Taiwan: established by fascist dictator, protected by white terrors from day one, became capitalist client state to be defended at all costs

A lot of the same people who think Palestine is not and has never been a real place and anything Israel does to the Palestinian people is Israel's business also think that Taiwan is and has always been a separate country from China and anything China does about it should be met with military force

you'll read the most amazing shit here lmfao