my main “meditative” practice is spending at least 1hr a day sensorially checking in with the rhythms of local nature this looks like: walking, saying hi to the local crows, touching lots of plants, attuning to the seasonal shifts in the trees & sunlight & smell of the air

I asked ChatGPT how Marshall McLuhan’s famous phrase, “the Digital Retrieves the Medieval” could be understood - from a truly medieval perspective. This is what it said (not bad): “If we take a truly medieval perspective, rather than a modern one looking backward, we must begin

On the eve of Pentecost, let us remember that the unity for which Christians long will not be primarily the fruit of our own efforts. I would therefore invite you to join with me in imploring the Spirit’s gift of unity.

Vivid Void problems that exist entirely in our mind are often solved with our bodies.

vittorio Correct. Insidious and dangerous.

Any dialogue happening between mystical symbolic world Christians and techno-buddhists?

"Real like ... your actions reveals your desires"

I like the idea of huge families more and more. That a mom that wants to be a mom is needed for that seems clear to me. But the idea of becoming an absent father due to the need to provide is what I really don't like. Only solution I see is a local vocation, e.g. a workshop.

The only solution I've got is to spend a lot of time with my kid.

i want a model that gives me less “That’s a great question, and it gets at the heart of…” and more “Yikes the fact that you’re asking *that* means you clearly don’t understand a lot of things, let’s clarify some concepts real quick”

“…if, of three friends (A, B, and C), A should die, then B loses not only A but ‘A’s part in C,’ while C loses not only A but ‘A’s part in B.’ In each of my friends there is something that only some other friend can fully bring out. By myself I am not large enough to call the

I’ll take a swing. Dead center of GenX here, so take it for what you will. Don’t look to boomers for vision or even support. GenX has known that since at least the early 80s - probably earlier. If some flip and turn out to be helpful, that’s pure upside. Here is the frame:

Hey Symbolic World Press wanted to preorder Rapunzel but it says "Your order cannot be shipped to the selected address" - is Switzerland not available to preorder?

Learn to stand so fully in the Presence of God that you are a center of communion.

In my spare time, I'm working on a mapmaking tool

Some of the most traumatizing features of modern Christianity are downstream of mistranslations and conceptual drift from Jesus's time: Sin • Original: Meant "missing the mark," an archery metaphor. Essentially, an error • Today: Moral failing, worthy of guilt Repent •

Wait wth, I'm now finding out that Jesus might have never talked about ppl getting immortality in Heaven or endless torment in Hell Apparently, in Jesus's time, the Greek word for "eternal" meant something like “pertaining to the age,” or “of the age to come” What happens when

Who's the Christian patron saint of epistemic humility?