Me before posting a thread of controversial tweets:

another case of "idk who this is and i definitely don't want to find out"

A friend of mine teaches a philosophy course in high school. One past student gave a presentation on the problem of evil and said the following: “To me, God is the guy who could have made Pokemon a real thing but, instead, was like, ‘Nah. Malaria!’”

incredible

i searched within myself and all i got was this lousy bundle of impressions and ideas

Imagine not stanning Dharmakīrti.

broke: "can AI be conscious" discourse bespoke: "can AI be sarcastic" discourse

just incredible to me that there are thousands of people defending this

Rare footage of GE Moore confronting an external world skeptic

In the course of arguing that the Vedic religion is false, 6th C Buddhist philosopher Bhaviveka notes its many similarities w the "mleccha" (barbarian) "Maga" religion (as in Magi, as in Zoroastrianism), inadvertently coming close to realizing the two have a common origin

He cites the similar sacrificial rituals, etc. He may have had knowledge of the Zoroastrians who lived in NW S. Asia. He wasn't wrong about the similarities. In fact, the administrators of many of the major solar temples across northern S. Asia were Zoroastrian solar priests who

assimilated into Hindu solar sects, and were able to precisely because of the pre-existing similarities between the two. They became a relatively powerful group, too, being accepted as Brahmin priests and securing many prominent temples & patrons.

a person in the process of reporting an illegal immigrant is an immediate threat to the livelihood of that immigrant—even a threat /to their life itself./ a third party is justified in taking measures necessary to ensure this report does not go through, including lethal force.

This is why I haven't watched Sátántangó yet. I don't support manspreading.

If any mutuals want Bluesky invite codes, lmk. I have three.

Any mutuals want Bluesky invite codes? Let me know. I have five.