“Indeed, people speak sometimes about the ‘animal cruelty’ of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to animals, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, artistically cruel.” — Ivan Karamazov
Tom Brady “bemoaned recent rule changes designed to protect people from injury.” TOM BRADY. Complaining about rules designed to protect players. TOM BRADY.
It’s Super Bowl Eve! Tonight, don’t forget to leave a glass of milk and a plate of fragile men out for Taylor to consume on her journey from Japan to Las Vegas!
If your reading of Scripture itself, or any teaching based on it, leads to bitterness, anger, and fighting, and does not build up the love of God and love of neighbor, then, to borrow from Augustine, you have not yet understood the Scriptures.
At one point Origen suggests that the reason why any beings ever fell away from contemplating God in the first place was not that they were led astray or evil, but because they just got tired and lazy, and tbh that’s the most relatable perspective I’ve heard
An idea spawned by a typo: a restaurant that serves dishes akin to what would’ve been served among people groups in the Eastern Mediterranean region during the Iron and Bronze Ages. Call it “Ancient Near Eats.”