Related Recs

✝️

god: an anatomy by Francesca Stavrakopoulou

the origins of christianity are unlikely to be what you'd initially think. the ancient israelites used to conceive of god as a physical, embodied, emotional deity - who originally belonged to a larger pantheon of gods who ruled over separate areas and engaged in competition with one another. this book is super readable, but it doesn't sacrifice technicality for the sake of its wider scope of appeal. if you're interested in the origins and evolution of abrahamic religion, i can think of no better place to start. big up my academic crush i love u francesca

@eyelid

Mar 27, 2024

😇

Reviewing the vast theories inside my head while researching saint isidora of tabenna and many others on wikipedia

learning Studying understanding

@justatecheese

Mar 24, 2025

✝️

nicholas of cusa: selected works

i’m not a religious person but it is fascinating to dive into the mind of someone who seemed to be so ahead of the curve of agnosticism and faith. so much of this book is scientifically and mathematically dense that it is mindboggling to think this guy wrote it in the 1400’s. a supremely difficult but greatly intriguing read. “Not-other is not other; nor is it other than other; nor is it other in an other. [These points are true] for no other reason than that [Not-other is] Not-other, which cannot in any way be an other— as if something were lacking to it, as to an other. Because other is other than something, it lacks that than which it is other. But because Not-other is not other than anything, it does not lack anything, nor can anything exist outside of it. Hence, without Not-other no thing can be spoken of or thought of, because it would not be spoken of or thought of through that without which, since it precedes all things, no thing can exist or be known. Accordingly, in itself Not-other is seen antecedently and as absolutely no other than itself; and in an other it is seen as not other than this other.” love ya!

@Ares

Feb 7, 2025

Top Recs from @joepeters

😃

This photograph of anthony bourdain

so much to talk about, the sunglasses, the scarf, the fresh baguette and coffee, the always lovely cafe setting. I think this is the most swag ever captured on camera I aspire to be at this level

@joepeters

Feb 11, 2024

😃

Espresso tonics

alright hear me out: carbonation and coffee with a squeeze of orange shouldn’t work, but it does. Been making them daily and i feel a lot better in the morning each time i do

@joepeters

Mar 7, 2024

🎵

Maps - yeah yeah yeahs

the greatest love song of the 21st century??? wait…. They don’t love you like I love you

@joepeters

Feb 25, 2024