Joel Elliott
@bubbanoze.bsky.social
IT admin & academic adjacent. Fishing, humanities, academic study of religion, cats, technology, tacos, Alabama/SEC football, photography. Takes stuff apart, puts it back together. Proliferates entities beyond necessity.
It's the photograph I want to authenticate. If it's legit, it should be plastered and repeated on the front page of every paper, website, broadcast, etc.
October 4, 2025 at 10:03 PM
It's the photograph I want to authenticate. If it's legit, it should be plastered and repeated on the front page of every paper, website, broadcast, etc.
This is obscene. But can anyone provide additional information on this photograph? I want to authenticate it as best I can before broad circulation.
October 4, 2025 at 9:52 PM
This is obscene. But can anyone provide additional information on this photograph? I want to authenticate it as best I can before broad circulation.
The always imminent expectation continually yearns for temporal specificity. "When will the Rapture occur? We don't know... However... we are in the general time of His coming." H Lindsey, The Late Great Planet Earth (Zondervan, 1970), p. 144.
September 23, 2025 at 11:49 PM
The always imminent expectation continually yearns for temporal specificity. "When will the Rapture occur? We don't know... However... we are in the general time of His coming." H Lindsey, The Late Great Planet Earth (Zondervan, 1970), p. 144.
Been a minute since I read it, but I recall part of O'Leary's point re: the transition from Millerite-style date-setting to rapture rhetoric was to create/sustain that imminent expectation while avoiding date-setting. It will be instructive to observe the obligatory post-failure rationalization(s).
September 23, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Been a minute since I read it, but I recall part of O'Leary's point re: the transition from Millerite-style date-setting to rapture rhetoric was to create/sustain that imminent expectation while avoiding date-setting. It will be instructive to observe the obligatory post-failure rationalization(s).
I'm sure you know it, but my favorite is still Stephen D. O’Leary, Arguing the Apocalypse: A Theory of Millennial Rhetoric. Oxford University Press, 1994.
September 23, 2025 at 12:16 AM
I'm sure you know it, but my favorite is still Stephen D. O’Leary, Arguing the Apocalypse: A Theory of Millennial Rhetoric. Oxford University Press, 1994.
September 18, 2025 at 11:31 PM
One source adds: "If someone offers an argument, a fact, or a theory you don’t like, you just find out which tribe they belong to and boom—problem solved. That’s what tribalism does: it makes complex ideas simple and easy to dismiss." @volts.wtf Could you confirm this addition? I can't document it.
September 8, 2025 at 2:01 AM
One source adds: "If someone offers an argument, a fact, or a theory you don’t like, you just find out which tribe they belong to and boom—problem solved. That’s what tribalism does: it makes complex ideas simple and easy to dismiss." @volts.wtf Could you confirm this addition? I can't document it.
"Moral cowardice"
September 4, 2025 at 1:47 PM
"Moral cowardice"