Scott Turner
@scottturner.bsky.social
Psychoanalyst, FIPA. Retired attorney. MA, Biblical Studies.
"Whenever you hear the phrase zero tolerance, remember, someone is bullshitting you."
Carlin, G. (2004). When will Jesus bring the pork chops? (Kindle edition). Comedy Concepts.
Little David Records. (1975). George Carlin publicity photo.
Carlin, G. (2004). When will Jesus bring the pork chops? (Kindle edition). Comedy Concepts.
Little David Records. (1975). George Carlin publicity photo.
November 27, 2025 at 2:00 PM
"Whenever you hear the phrase zero tolerance, remember, someone is bullshitting you."
Carlin, G. (2004). When will Jesus bring the pork chops? (Kindle edition). Comedy Concepts.
Little David Records. (1975). George Carlin publicity photo.
Carlin, G. (2004). When will Jesus bring the pork chops? (Kindle edition). Comedy Concepts.
Little David Records. (1975). George Carlin publicity photo.
"The paradigm for the Christian is the conscience of Christ. And that conscience was for others. Everything He taught or did was for others - the way of God that He taught, the healings, His building of community, His resistance to the Jewish and Roman satraps - all for others."
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November 23, 2025 at 1:28 PM
"The paradigm for the Christian is the conscience of Christ. And that conscience was for others. Everything He taught or did was for others - the way of God that He taught, the healings, His building of community, His resistance to the Jewish and Roman satraps - all for others."
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Alyosha: “I think that if the devil doesn’t exist and is therefore man’s creation, man has made him in his own image."
Ivan: “Just as he has created God, in that case.”
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Ivan: “Just as he has created God, in that case.”
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November 23, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Alyosha: “I think that if the devil doesn’t exist and is therefore man’s creation, man has made him in his own image."
Ivan: “Just as he has created God, in that case.”
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Ivan: “Just as he has created God, in that case.”
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"Williams’ observations and his grounding in common law, which he well knew linked the law itself to property, pushed him toward an inevitable conclusion: the Indians used the land and therefore they owned the land."
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November 22, 2025 at 1:33 PM
"Williams’ observations and his grounding in common law, which he well knew linked the law itself to property, pushed him toward an inevitable conclusion: the Indians used the land and therefore they owned the land."
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"He would walk, begging for work, until he was exhausted...
There is one kind of prison where the man is behind bars, and everything that he desires is outside; and there is another kind where the things are behind the bars, and the man is outside."
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There is one kind of prison where the man is behind bars, and everything that he desires is outside; and there is another kind where the things are behind the bars, and the man is outside."
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November 21, 2025 at 1:54 PM
"He would walk, begging for work, until he was exhausted...
There is one kind of prison where the man is behind bars, and everything that he desires is outside; and there is another kind where the things are behind the bars, and the man is outside."
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There is one kind of prison where the man is behind bars, and everything that he desires is outside; and there is another kind where the things are behind the bars, and the man is outside."
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the soul of the world
November 19, 2025 at 2:17 PM
the soul of the world
De Chergé was the abbot of a Catholic monastery (Trappist) in Tibhirine, Algeria. He and six monks were kidnapped and murdered by Muslim radicals in May 1996. He left this love letter for his killers that was opened after his death:
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November 16, 2025 at 2:26 PM
De Chergé was the abbot of a Catholic monastery (Trappist) in Tibhirine, Algeria. He and six monks were kidnapped and murdered by Muslim radicals in May 1996. He left this love letter for his killers that was opened after his death:
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"I fail to see how a society can be thrown into revolution except through massive civil disobedience, which in the case of America means that domestic and foreign business is rendered unprofitable, and hence inoperable.
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November 15, 2025 at 1:16 PM
"I fail to see how a society can be thrown into revolution except through massive civil disobedience, which in the case of America means that domestic and foreign business is rendered unprofitable, and hence inoperable.
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“...character is not cut in marble - it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.”
Eliot, G. (1874). Middlemarch (Kindle edition). Amazon.
Turner S. (2022). Turning autumn [Photo]. Hayward, California.
Eliot, G. (1874). Middlemarch (Kindle edition). Amazon.
Turner S. (2022). Turning autumn [Photo]. Hayward, California.
November 13, 2025 at 1:57 PM
“...character is not cut in marble - it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.”
Eliot, G. (1874). Middlemarch (Kindle edition). Amazon.
Turner S. (2022). Turning autumn [Photo]. Hayward, California.
Eliot, G. (1874). Middlemarch (Kindle edition). Amazon.
Turner S. (2022). Turning autumn [Photo]. Hayward, California.
"The inequality of power and consumption that empires achieve abroad is ultimately enforced at home."
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November 11, 2025 at 1:41 PM
"The inequality of power and consumption that empires achieve abroad is ultimately enforced at home."
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"We are responsible for the world in which we find ourselves, if only because we are the only sentient force which can change it. We have not yet learned to understand: if I am starving, you are in danger."
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November 9, 2025 at 3:06 PM
"We are responsible for the world in which we find ourselves, if only because we are the only sentient force which can change it. We have not yet learned to understand: if I am starving, you are in danger."
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"In some countries, a concept of popular and national unity influenced by various ideologies is creating new forms of selfishness and a loss of the social sense under the guise of defending national interests."
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November 9, 2025 at 2:07 PM
"In some countries, a concept of popular and national unity influenced by various ideologies is creating new forms of selfishness and a loss of the social sense under the guise of defending national interests."
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Happy birthday, Dorothy Day. 08 November 1897.
November 8, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Happy birthday, Dorothy Day. 08 November 1897.
"...the data on primitive hunters demonstrates that qualities often attributed to human nature, such as destructiveness, cruelty, asociability—in short, those of Hobbes’s 'natural man,' are remarkably missing in the least 'civilized' men!"
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November 8, 2025 at 2:16 PM
"...the data on primitive hunters demonstrates that qualities often attributed to human nature, such as destructiveness, cruelty, asociability—in short, those of Hobbes’s 'natural man,' are remarkably missing in the least 'civilized' men!"
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"The current attacks on Islam and on Muslims in general are a case in point where Western media, political pundits, and academics often totalize religio-cultural extremists and generalize the extremism to all Muslims, framing them all as potential terrorists.
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November 2, 2025 at 1:50 PM
"The current attacks on Islam and on Muslims in general are a case in point where Western media, political pundits, and academics often totalize religio-cultural extremists and generalize the extremism to all Muslims, framing them all as potential terrorists.
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"Just Wages.
If through necessity or fear of a worse evil, the workman accepts harder conditions because an employer or contractor will give him no better, he is the victim of force and injustice."
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If through necessity or fear of a worse evil, the workman accepts harder conditions because an employer or contractor will give him no better, he is the victim of force and injustice."
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November 2, 2025 at 1:26 PM
"Just Wages.
If through necessity or fear of a worse evil, the workman accepts harder conditions because an employer or contractor will give him no better, he is the victim of force and injustice."
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If through necessity or fear of a worse evil, the workman accepts harder conditions because an employer or contractor will give him no better, he is the victim of force and injustice."
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"You know...anger, sadness, and longing are cousins."
Durban, J. (2021). The pipe child and the cork child: Infantile vulnerability and malignant symbiosis. Psychoanalytic Perspectives, 18(1), 43–67.
Turner, S. (2020). Together in different directions [Photo]. Lake Merritt, Oakland, CA.
Durban, J. (2021). The pipe child and the cork child: Infantile vulnerability and malignant symbiosis. Psychoanalytic Perspectives, 18(1), 43–67.
Turner, S. (2020). Together in different directions [Photo]. Lake Merritt, Oakland, CA.
November 1, 2025 at 1:10 PM
"You know...anger, sadness, and longing are cousins."
Durban, J. (2021). The pipe child and the cork child: Infantile vulnerability and malignant symbiosis. Psychoanalytic Perspectives, 18(1), 43–67.
Turner, S. (2020). Together in different directions [Photo]. Lake Merritt, Oakland, CA.
Durban, J. (2021). The pipe child and the cork child: Infantile vulnerability and malignant symbiosis. Psychoanalytic Perspectives, 18(1), 43–67.
Turner, S. (2020). Together in different directions [Photo]. Lake Merritt, Oakland, CA.
