The best lack all conviction*, while the worst are full of passionate intensity**.

*That there is a metaphysical basis for condemning pedophilia.

**For doing pedophilia.

The Tucker Nazis are the Core GOP

He’s 88, but just came out with a new book in October

Thomas Pynchon, for the moment

Old Navy!

Stay calm. He’s probably just looking for triangle finger sandwiches. He’s more afraid of you than you are of him.

Infinite Jest is the best sci fi I’ve ever read for having predicted the actual shape of our future. It’s honestly pretty eerie.

Tbc because I’m getting a lot of replies saying “enjoy it!”. I am not saying “She goes to bed on her own, but before morning she gets in to our bed.”

She is not taking any naps and her bedtime is our bedtime because she won’t sleep at all without us. It is not tenable and we are all miserable.

She was taking one nap a dah before this started. Currently she takes zero naps a day lol

“They are keeping the shutdown going indefinitely to avoid swearing in Rep-Elect Grijalva so House Dems can’t force the release of the Epstein files” gets more credible by the day

I have night terrors so all good on that front lol

I don’t believe violent video games cause people to do mass shootings in a direct sense, but I do believe they cause them to become Republicans. Which, same thing.

My experience is also that this is a universal high school poem

I need to believe it’s possible they will so I’m going to

Feser is pretty good as a writer of introductory stuff, despite my dislike of him more broadly. His short book “Aquinas” has some good stuff on philosophy of mind.

“Mortal Imitations of Divine Life” by Eli Diamond is very good on the Aristotle stuff

Being simply reducible to the body. Science really has no answer whatsoever for why any physical process should involve or produce a subjective conscious experience, and any such experience involved elements that appear irreducible to the physical.

Two things I’d say. Firstly, yes. On the hylomorphic view, only a pretty narrow range of mental activity transcends physicality totally. It had to do with our intellect’s ability to grasp universal form. Secondly, other mental activities may involve the body, but this is different from

I don’t really think a thoroughgoing materialism can avoid nihilism