Jacob W. Torbeck
@jacobtorbeck.bsky.social
Professor of Theology, Religions, Philosophy, and Ethics | Mysticism & Spirituality | Attention, Memory, and the Divine Ideas
October 31, 2025 at 6:23 PM
I know that MtGsky is very happy about ninja turtles today, but I’m very happy about this #dragonquest closed beta!
October 10, 2025 at 6:01 PM
I know that MtGsky is very happy about ninja turtles today, but I’m very happy about this #dragonquest closed beta!
timeline cleanse: nerdy mail day!
#DragonQuest Illustrations by Mitsumi Inomata (1994),
Dragon Quest is known for art by Akira Toriyama, but the Japanese novelizations had covers and art by Inomata, who offered a softer, more romantic visual take on the series.
@dragonquest.bsky.social
#DragonQuest Illustrations by Mitsumi Inomata (1994),
Dragon Quest is known for art by Akira Toriyama, but the Japanese novelizations had covers and art by Inomata, who offered a softer, more romantic visual take on the series.
@dragonquest.bsky.social
October 2, 2025 at 9:46 PM
timeline cleanse: nerdy mail day!
#DragonQuest Illustrations by Mitsumi Inomata (1994),
Dragon Quest is known for art by Akira Toriyama, but the Japanese novelizations had covers and art by Inomata, who offered a softer, more romantic visual take on the series.
@dragonquest.bsky.social
#DragonQuest Illustrations by Mitsumi Inomata (1994),
Dragon Quest is known for art by Akira Toriyama, but the Japanese novelizations had covers and art by Inomata, who offered a softer, more romantic visual take on the series.
@dragonquest.bsky.social
Goated #dragonquest mail day.
@dragonquest.bsky.social / @jaasherman.bsky.social :
This volume really is gorgeous! (A translation of the Fujiwara artbooks into English would be a welcome addition!)
@dragonquest.bsky.social / @jaasherman.bsky.social :
This volume really is gorgeous! (A translation of the Fujiwara artbooks into English would be a welcome addition!)
September 23, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Goated #dragonquest mail day.
@dragonquest.bsky.social / @jaasherman.bsky.social :
This volume really is gorgeous! (A translation of the Fujiwara artbooks into English would be a welcome addition!)
@dragonquest.bsky.social / @jaasherman.bsky.social :
This volume really is gorgeous! (A translation of the Fujiwara artbooks into English would be a welcome addition!)
…This was being pushed by the diocese of Springfield, IL.
September 15, 2025 at 4:27 AM
…This was being pushed by the diocese of Springfield, IL.
Something a bit lighter: periodically, @dragonquest.bsky.social / @square-enix-games.com has released little models of towns and landforms from the #dragonquest games, which I think are the coolest things ever.
These came out around 2009, but I just recently learned about them. So neat!
These came out around 2009, but I just recently learned about them. So neat!
September 12, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Something a bit lighter: periodically, @dragonquest.bsky.social / @square-enix-games.com has released little models of towns and landforms from the #dragonquest games, which I think are the coolest things ever.
These came out around 2009, but I just recently learned about them. So neat!
These came out around 2009, but I just recently learned about them. So neat!
Show me an image on your phone that has your energy but is not a selfie.
September 5, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Show me an image on your phone that has your energy but is not a selfie.
And like most of my favorite sci-fi media, it offers us encouragement that hope and love persist even where things are most inhospitable. That’s a message I greatly appreciate. Perhaps Carl Sagan said it best, “For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love.” 8/8
September 3, 2025 at 5:26 PM
And like most of my favorite sci-fi media, it offers us encouragement that hope and love persist even where things are most inhospitable. That’s a message I greatly appreciate. Perhaps Carl Sagan said it best, “For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love.” 8/8
Cut content:
Final Exam: Sami and Mirri, Personhood and Responsibility
The final question is about the nature of our responsibility. In episode 8, Tannuk and Sami ponder the nature of their motivations. They’re helping Tezzeret, ultimately, because Sami wants to find their cat, Mirri. 1/8
Final Exam: Sami and Mirri, Personhood and Responsibility
The final question is about the nature of our responsibility. In episode 8, Tannuk and Sami ponder the nature of their motivations. They’re helping Tezzeret, ultimately, because Sami wants to find their cat, Mirri. 1/8
September 3, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Cut content:
Final Exam: Sami and Mirri, Personhood and Responsibility
The final question is about the nature of our responsibility. In episode 8, Tannuk and Sami ponder the nature of their motivations. They’re helping Tezzeret, ultimately, because Sami wants to find their cat, Mirri. 1/8
Final Exam: Sami and Mirri, Personhood and Responsibility
The final question is about the nature of our responsibility. In episode 8, Tannuk and Sami ponder the nature of their motivations. They’re helping Tezzeret, ultimately, because Sami wants to find their cat, Mirri. 1/8
You’ll never escape
July 26, 2025 at 4:25 AM
You’ll never escape
This boba place just won this religion prof over.
June 1, 2025 at 8:46 PM
This boba place just won this religion prof over.
Made my morning.
May 23, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Made my morning.
Redwall helping to educate my children about current events….
May 21, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Redwall helping to educate my children about current events….
Hotdogs that are a pleasing sight unto the LORD look something like this:
May 8, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Hotdogs that are a pleasing sight unto the LORD look something like this:
That’s how they get us…
…and soon enough there’s more of them, and they’re begging to see the Minecraft movie.
Beware! :)
…and soon enough there’s more of them, and they’re begging to see the Minecraft movie.
Beware! :)
April 22, 2025 at 11:32 PM
That’s how they get us…
…and soon enough there’s more of them, and they’re begging to see the Minecraft movie.
Beware! :)
…and soon enough there’s more of them, and they’re begging to see the Minecraft movie.
Beware! :)
“…if you have no good sense then no training can help you… we are far from ourselves and don’t much want to know ourselves better.”
— The Way of a Pilgrim (the fourth tale)
— The Way of a Pilgrim (the fourth tale)
April 3, 2025 at 2:48 PM
“…if you have no good sense then no training can help you… we are far from ourselves and don’t much want to know ourselves better.”
— The Way of a Pilgrim (the fourth tale)
— The Way of a Pilgrim (the fourth tale)
There’s a lot to lament and worry over… but I saw this today and it made my nerd brain happy:
Baldur’s Gate 2 portraits from the creator of Dungeon Meshi!
www.reddit.com/r/baldursgat...
#baldursgate #dungeonmeshi #deliciousindungeon
Baldur’s Gate 2 portraits from the creator of Dungeon Meshi!
www.reddit.com/r/baldursgat...
#baldursgate #dungeonmeshi #deliciousindungeon
March 6, 2025 at 12:54 AM
There’s a lot to lament and worry over… but I saw this today and it made my nerd brain happy:
Baldur’s Gate 2 portraits from the creator of Dungeon Meshi!
www.reddit.com/r/baldursgat...
#baldursgate #dungeonmeshi #deliciousindungeon
Baldur’s Gate 2 portraits from the creator of Dungeon Meshi!
www.reddit.com/r/baldursgat...
#baldursgate #dungeonmeshi #deliciousindungeon
I’m deep into dragon quest xi for much the same reason.
February 11, 2025 at 11:59 PM
I’m deep into dragon quest xi for much the same reason.
Karl Rahner, smoking toward the universal horizon.
February 10, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Karl Rahner, smoking toward the universal horizon.
#MyDragonQuestVocation ? Sage. Happy to get the mysterious, contemplative vocation.
❓ sqex.link/mydragonquestvocation
#dragonquest
❓ sqex.link/mydragonquestvocation
#dragonquest
December 31, 2024 at 7:56 PM
#MyDragonQuestVocation ? Sage. Happy to get the mysterious, contemplative vocation.
❓ sqex.link/mydragonquestvocation
#dragonquest
❓ sqex.link/mydragonquestvocation
#dragonquest
Today we had our “at home” Christmas gifting because we travel over the holiday…
Pictured: my daughter and I sorting and assembling Lego-style bricks & the inside of my youngest son’s fort
(Some clear favorites from today’s gifts!)
Playing alongside the kids is a blast!
Pictured: my daughter and I sorting and assembling Lego-style bricks & the inside of my youngest son’s fort
(Some clear favorites from today’s gifts!)
Playing alongside the kids is a blast!
December 22, 2024 at 12:50 AM
Today we had our “at home” Christmas gifting because we travel over the holiday…
Pictured: my daughter and I sorting and assembling Lego-style bricks & the inside of my youngest son’s fort
(Some clear favorites from today’s gifts!)
Playing alongside the kids is a blast!
Pictured: my daughter and I sorting and assembling Lego-style bricks & the inside of my youngest son’s fort
(Some clear favorites from today’s gifts!)
Playing alongside the kids is a blast!
Last night I was playing a video game, and the chapter plot was “work with a priest to convert a derelict chapel into a spaceship using parts made from the body of a demon to save the monsters that live nearby from Doomsday,” and wow, I loved that.
#dragonquest #religion
One of the other clergy:
#dragonquest #religion
One of the other clergy:
December 18, 2024 at 1:20 PM
Last night I was playing a video game, and the chapter plot was “work with a priest to convert a derelict chapel into a spaceship using parts made from the body of a demon to save the monsters that live nearby from Doomsday,” and wow, I loved that.
#dragonquest #religion
One of the other clergy:
#dragonquest #religion
One of the other clergy:
A happy feast of St. Nicholas to all who celebrate. And a happy day anyway to everyone else!
December 6, 2024 at 2:02 PM
A happy feast of St. Nicholas to all who celebrate. And a happy day anyway to everyone else!
Post Thanksgiving brunch shopping was helping me out this morning:
November 29, 2024 at 11:55 PM
Post Thanksgiving brunch shopping was helping me out this morning:
Very fun news. A paper I’m putting together on Bonaventure, Cusanus, and mystical space has been accepted for IMC Leeds.
#imc2025 #mysticism
#imc2025 #mysticism
November 29, 2024 at 8:42 PM
Very fun news. A paper I’m putting together on Bonaventure, Cusanus, and mystical space has been accepted for IMC Leeds.
#imc2025 #mysticism
#imc2025 #mysticism