I have a tab open with Wordsworth’s “The World is Too Much With Us” and I’ve read it several times over the last few days. I think I have @tinyroofnail to thank for this.
As I drove by the Landmark Baptist church near our house, I decided to refresh my memory on Landmarkism. I had a copy of Trail of Blood as a teenager and toyed with the idea of using some of its arguments to make a similar genealogy of the fundamentalist Pentecostal group I was in.
Fresh from Henry County, Kentucky
I completed a spirit house today. Inspired by (but not intended to be exactly like) Thai spirit houses, this will be our shrine to the spirits of place.
The confidence with which people tell others what to do, think, etc., just astonishes me. I had that sort of reckless confidence up until my mid-twenties. What happened (or maybe didn’t happen) to these other folks?
Webinar speaker: “All I can say is stablecoins are here to stay.” Ah, the argument from inevitability, the last refuge of all technologists. But we know that all this is the result of the choices of those with power. If they cared about something more than money, all of this could end tomorrow.
You and I are not voting on what will happen by having an opinion. The world has never worked like that, and it definitely doesn’t work like that in the Trumpocene.
Gonna give Kagi News a try for a while. I like that it’s updated only once a day, and you can choose which categories of news you get. Comes from a variety of sources. The format is also cool: you can just read the story summary, or you can read further with all of the sources and background.
One of the highlights of the late season here in the garden is the woods purple. It’s also one of the originals from when we first started in 2020. It almost glows in the sunshine.
Nietzsche argued that Christianity is a slave morality—an argument best exemplified by Chik-Fil-A. 😄